滑坡、泥石流是山区地区的主要地质灾害之一，往往伴随地震、高强度降雨等发生。随着人口数量的增加、人类经济活动规模的扩大和财产积累的增加以及全球气候变化和极端天气事件的增加，近年来，滑坡、泥石流地质灾害的发生呈上升态势，对所在地区的人民生命和财产造成严重威胁，滑坡、泥石流研究得到国际科学界的高度关注。科技文献能够反映科学研究的发展动态，利用Thomson Data Analyzer（TDA）和Ucinet对SCIE文献数据库中收录的1902—2010年间的滑坡、泥石流研究论文进行数据挖掘和分析。结果表明，国际滑坡、泥石流领域的大量研究开始于1991年，美国、英国、意大利、加拿大、法国等发达国家具有很大的优势，滑坡、泥石流、地理信息系统、地震、边坡稳定性、灾害、侵蚀、崩塌、海啸、地貌等方面是该领域的主要研究主题，建模是该领域研究的主要方法。地理信息系统、海啸、数值模拟、海底滑坡等是近10年新出现的研究热点。

In recent years, geological disasters of landslide dramatically increased in many countries of the world, and they have seriously threatened people's lives and properties. Research on landslide attracts great attention from international scientific communities. The tendency of scientific research could be reflected by bibliometrical analysis. Thomson Data Analyzer and Ucinet were used to do data mining and analysis of SCIE database papers about international landslide research in many interrelated fields from 1902 to 2010. A great deal of research work started from 1991. Landslide, debris flow, earthquake, slope stability, hazard, GIS, tsunami, landslip, etc. are the major research contents. Modeling is the major research method. GIS, tsunami, numerical simulation, seabed landslide are hot research topics emerging in the recent 10 years.