Floods are the natural hazards that have the greatest socioeconomic impact worldwide, given that 23% of the global population lives in urban areas at risk of flooding. In the UN Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), both Working Group I and Working Group II confirmed what previous reports had already indicated: climate change means that floods are expected to become more severe as a result of the increase in the frequency of extreme rainfall events. In this field of research, the analysis of flood risk has traditionally been studied based mainly on approaches specific to civil engineering such as hydraulics and hydrology. However, these patterns of approaching the problem in research seem to be changing in recent years. During the last few years, a growing trend has been observed towards the use of methodologies-based approaches oriented towards urban planning and land use management. In this context, this study analyzes the evolution of these research patterns in the field by developing a bibliometric meta-analysis of 2,694 scientific publications on this topic published in recent decades. Evaluating keyword co-occurrence using VOSviewer software, it is analyzed how phenomena such as climate change have modified the way of addressing the study of this problem, giving growing weight to the use of approaches based on improved territorial planning or adaptive strategies, as opposed to the traditional construction of hydraulic infrastructures for flood control.