Natural Hazards Review

Natural Hazards Review is published by the American Society of Civil Engineers and addresses what happens when natural hazards meet the physical, social, economic and engineered dimensions of a community.《自然灾害评论》由美国土木工程师学会出版，关注自然灾害与社区的物质、社会、经济及工程层面相遇时所发生的一切。

The journal works from an interdisciplinary standpoint that joins the social to the technical, and it is read by engineers, planners and those who carry responsibility for risk.该刊立足跨学科的立场，把社会与技术两方面结合起来，读者包括工程师、规划者以及承担风险责任的人。

In the 2025 edition of the journal citation report it holds an impact factor of 3.3 and stands in the second quartile of the multidisciplinary geosciences.在 2025 年版期刊引证报告中，该刊的影响因子为 3.3，在多学科地球科学类目中列第二区。

Scope

• The journal takes in the events, processes and consequences that arise when a natural hazard meets a community and the people who live in it.该刊收载自然灾害与社区及其居民相遇时出现的各种事件、过程与后果。

• Losses from a natural disaster are understood to spring from the interaction of the physical world, the built environment and the character of the society that occupies the ground.自然灾害造成的损失被理解为源自物质世界、建成环境与占据那片土地的社会特征之间的相互作用。

• An interdisciplinary standpoint is required of the work the journal takes, and the social and the technical sides are held to be inseparable.该刊所收工作须持跨学科立场，社会层面与技术层面被视为不可分割。

• The physical sciences are brought in, and studies of the hazard itself are admitted where they bear on what happens to a community.物质科学被引入，关于灾害本身的研究在关系到社区所遭际遇时受到收载。

• The social and behavioural sciences are treated as equal partners, and work on how people and institutions act under threat is admitted.社会与行为科学被视为平等的伙伴，关于人与机构在威胁之下如何行动的工作也在接纳之列。

• Engineering appears in the list, and studies of the built environment and of infrastructure under a hazard are taken.工程学见于这一名单，关于灾害之下的建成环境与基础设施的研究受到收载。

• The regulatory and policy environment forms part of the ground the journal works over, and work on the rules that shape land use and construction is admitted.监管与政策环境是该刊工作范围的一部分，关于塑造土地利用与建设的规则的研究也在接纳之列。

• Decision makers are named among the readers, and the journal addresses the difficulty of managing hazards whose timing, scale and level of disruption cannot be known in advance.决策者被点名为读者之一，该刊处理管理那些发生时间、影响规模与扰乱程度都无从预知的灾害所固有的困难。

• Limited resources are taken seriously, and the journal carries work that weighs what a community with modest means can realistically do.有限的资源受到认真对待，该刊刊载权衡财力平常的社区实际能够做到哪些事情的工作。

• Risk to people and to property is a standing subject, and papers that set out how loss may be estimated are taken.对人命与财产的风险是常设题目，说明损失如何估算的论文也在收载之列。

• Work spanning more than one field is favoured, and a study that draws on several disciplines is treated as the kind of contribution the journal looks for.跨越一个以上领域的工作受到青睐，借助数个学科的研究被视为该刊所寻求的那类贡献。

• Practitioners are addressed beside researchers, and the journal seeks work that can be used by those who plan for a hazard and by those who answer when it arrives.该刊在研究者之外也面向实务人员，寻找既可供防灾规划者使用、也可供灾害来临时应对者使用的工作。

• Communities are studied at the scale at which they actually exist, and the journal keeps in view the uneven way in which a single event is felt across a region.社区在它们实际存在的尺度上受到研究，该刊始终留意同一场事件在一片区域内被感受到的不均衡方式。

• The interaction of the physical, the economic and the institutional is treated as the substance of the subject rather than as background.物质、经济与制度三者的相互作用被视为这一选题的实质，而非背景。

History

• The journal was founded in 2000, and the first volume was issued in that year by the American Society of Civil Engineers.该刊创办于 2000 年，第 1 卷当年由美国土木工程师学会发行。

• The society has published the title throughout, working from its headquarters at Reston in Virginia.该刊自始至终由该学会出版，办公地点在其位于弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿的总部。

• The journal remains a quarterly, and four issues are gathered into each volume.该刊至今仍是季刊，每卷汇集四期。

• The print number is 1527-6988 and the electronic number is 1527-6996, and the abbreviation used in the indexes is NAT HAZARDS REV.印刷版编号为 1527-6988，电子版编号为 1527-6996，索引中使用的缩写是 NAT HAZARDS REV。

• The title is carried in both the science citation index and the social sciences citation index, which suits a journal that joins two families of enquiry.该刊同时被科学引文索引与社会科学引文索引收录，这与它连接两大探究领域的定位相称。

• The medical catalogue records only selected citations in PubMed, and the journal has no clinical readership to speak of.医学目录将该刊的 PubMed 收录标注为仅选录部分引文，该刊谈不上有什么临床读者。

• The impact indicator has moved from 3.169 and 4.2 to 1.8 and 2.2, and it stood at 3.3 in the 2025 edition.影响因子从 3.169 与 4.2 变为 1.8 与 2.2，在 2025 年版为 3.3。

• Editorial leadership passed to Nasim Uddin in 2013, and the journal has been edited from his base at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since then.编辑领导权于 2013 年交到（Nasim Uddin）手中，此后该刊一直在其所在的阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校组织编辑。

• An editorial board meeting in 2021 reviewed the development of the journal over the preceding year and set out its strategy for the year that followed.2021 年的一次编委会全体会议回顾了该刊前一年的发展，并确定了随后一年的策略。

• An associate editor from Nanjing University took part in that meeting, which reflects the spread of the journal's board beyond North America.南京大学的一位副主编参加了那次会议，这反映出该刊编委会的分布已超出北美。

• The journal is published on a hybrid basis, and authors may pay to make a paper open access while the rest of the content stays behind a subscription.该刊以混合模式出版，作者可付费让论文开放获取，其余内容仍置于订阅之后。

• Society journals such as this one share a single platform, and the title sits alongside the society's other engineering journals.此类学会期刊共用同一平台，该刊与该学会的其余工程类期刊并列。

• The journal is read by researchers who work on hazards and by the officials who must act on their findings, and it keeps both audiences in view.该刊的读者既有研究灾害的学者，也有必须依其发现行事的管理人员，刊物兼顾这两类受众。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Nasim Uddin, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a fellow of the society.主编是（Nasim Uddin），阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校教授，也是该学会的会士。

• The editor's own research bears on disaster resistant construction and on the safety of bridge infrastructure, which places the journal close to the engineering side of its subject.主编本人的研究涉及抗灾建筑与桥梁基础设施安全，这使该刊贴近其选题的工程一面。

• Uddin has taken the title through a period in which the journal has drawn in more work from the social sciences.（Nasim Uddin）主持该刊走过一个社会科学来稿渐增的时期。

• Associate editors support the editor, and they are drawn from universities in several countries.若干副编辑协助主编，他们来自数个国家的大学。

• The journal runs a peer review process, and a manuscript is sent to independent referees before a decision is reached.该刊实行同行评审，稿件在作出决定之前会送交独立审稿人。

• Manuscripts are submitted through the society's online system, and the journal sets out its expectations for authors in a published guide.稿件通过该学会的在线系统投递，该刊在公开的指南中写明对作者的要求。

• The journal welcomes papers that cross the boundary between disciplines, and it asks authors to make plain how their work speaks to more than one field.该刊欢迎跨越学科边界、并在篇幅中说明其工作如何面向一个以上领域的论文。

• Case studies of particular events are taken alongside general work, and the journal treats an account of one community as a contribution to the field.针对具体事件的案例研究与一般性工作一并收载，该刊把对某一社区的记述视为对该领域的一份贡献。

• Open access publication carries a charge, and the journal offers this option beside the subscription route.开放获取出版收取费用，该刊在订阅路径之外提供这一选项。

• The editorial office answers queries from authors and referees, and it guides a manuscript through submission and revision.编辑部答复作者与审稿人的查询，并引导稿件完成投稿与修回。

• Authors are expected to state their methods and their data clearly enough for another group to take the work further.作者须清楚交代方法与数据，使另一支团队足以把工作推向前去。

• The board is meant to cover both the natural and the social sides of the journal, so that a paper is judged by a reader who knows its subject.编委会力求覆盖该刊的自然科学与社会科学两面，使论文由通晓其题目的读者来评判。