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Bibliometrics and visualization analysis regarding research on the development of microplastics

Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2021 56 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count. Score: 55 ? 0–100 AI score estimating relevance to the microplastics field. Papers below 30 are filtered from public browse.

Mengjiao Zhou, Mengjiao Zhou, Rou Wang, Lingwei Kong, Lingwei Kong, Rou Wang, Rou Wang, Rou Wang, Shuiping Cheng Shuiping Cheng Lingwei Kong, Lingwei Kong, Yingfeng Xu, Yingfeng Xu, Sha Luo, Shuiping Cheng Sha Luo, Yi Zhang, Shuiping Cheng Yi Zhang, Lingwei Kong, Shuiping Cheng Shuiping Cheng Shuiping Cheng

Summary

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of microplastic research published from 2009 to 2019 using visualization software. The study found that publications grew exponentially during this period, with research hotspots shifting from zooplankton ingestion and surface water surveys toward adsorption, biodegradation, and toxicity analysis, and predicts that constructed wetlands, biotechnology, and photocatalysis for microplastic removal will become emerging research areas.

Microplastics have caused considerable harm to the environment and threatened human health due to their strong adsorption and hard biodegradation. Therefore, the research of microplastic received increasing attention recently, producing numbers of related achievements. To comprehensively grasp the quantitative information of published papers on "microplastics," we analyzed the research progress and hotspots of "microplastics" through visualization software "VOSviewer." The results show that the number of literature on microplastics published from 2009 to 2019 increased exponentially (R = 0.9873). The top 10 cited references are mainly in "zooplankton ingesting microplastics," "microplastics in artificially cultivated bivalve," "microplastics in surface waters such as lakes," etc. The cutting-edge microplastics research is adsorption, biodegradation, ingestion and accumulation model, and toxicity analysis. In addition, the results predict that the combination of constructed wetland, biotechnology, and photocatalysis to remove microplastics will become new hotspots. The study provides researchers in microplastics with an overview of existing research and directional guidance for future research.

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