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Bibliometric Analysis and Data Visualization: Life Cycle Assessment in Waste Management in the Textile Industry

This study conducted a bibliometric analysis of Life Cycle Assessment literature in textile waste management using the Scopus database for 2013-2024, mapping publication trends, keyword clusters, and authorship networks with VOSviewer. Publications grew substantially since 2014, peaking at 298 in 2024, with findings pointing to circular economy and sustainable design as dominant research themes.

2025 Jurnal Sains dan Teknologi Industri
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Trends and Gaps in Sustainable Fashion Research: a Bibliometric Analysis

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of 764 sustainable and fast fashion articles published between 2007 and March 2025 using Web of Science, applying co-citation, co-occurrence, and clustering techniques to map thematic trends, finding rapid research growth after 2015 and accelerated output post-2020 across environmental science, business, consumer studies, and textile engineering.

2025 Fibres and Textiles
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Ocean Plastic Pollution Research: Trends and Future Directions

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of ocean plastic pollution research using Scopus data from 2000 to 2024, applying VOSviewer to map co-authorship networks, keyword co-occurrences, and thematic clusters to identify influential contributors and emerging research directions. The analysis revealed rapid growth in publication volume and identified microplastics, marine debris, and policy-related themes as dominant research foci.

2025 West Science Interdisciplinary Studies
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Plastic and sustainability: a bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer and CiteSpace

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of 1,933 research articles on plastic and sustainability published between 1995 and 2022. The study found that China and the USA lead global research in this field, with circular economy, bioplastics, and sustainable development emerging as highly discussed topics, and COVID-19 becoming a prominent theme in 2021 due to its impact on plastic pollution.

2023 Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research 62 citations
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Microplastic Impact on Plant: Review Paper Using VOSviewer

A bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer examined 380 Scopus-indexed papers on microplastic effects on plants published from 2011 to 2022, mapping the growth and expansion of this research area over time. The analysis identified key research clusters, prolific authors, and predicted future directions for this rapidly developing field.

2024 BIO Web of Conferences 5 citations
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Bibliometric and Co-Occurrence Study of Process System Engineering (PSE) Applied to the Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Production

Researchers conducted bibliometric and co-occurrence analyses using VOSviewer on SCOPUS data to map trends, gaps, and future directions in process systems engineering applied to polyvinyl chloride production, identifying five research clusters including modelling and simulation, process control, and sustainability topics.

2023 Materials 3 citations
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A Bibliometric and Visualized Overview for the Evolution of Process Safety and Environmental Protection

This study presents a bibliometric analysis of publications in the journal Process Safety and Environmental Protection from 1990 to 2020 using Web of Science data and VOSviewer mapping. Researchers identified evolving research clusters including waste treatment, microplastics, and environmental risk assessment as increasingly dominant themes.

2021 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 32 citations
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The Fashion Industry and its Problematic Consequences in the Green Marketing Era a Review

This narrative literature review examines the environmental and social consequences of the fast fashion industry and evaluates green marketing as a strategy for reducing negative impacts, drawing on Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar studies to assess how sustainability-driven consumer demand and corporate green practices can mitigate textile industry pollution.

2022 SHS Web of Conferences 9 citations
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Current trends in textile wastewater treatment—bibliometric review

Researchers analyzed 30 years of scientific publications on textile wastewater treatment and found that research interest has steadily grown, with nanomaterial-based adsorbents, membranes, and advanced filtration techniques emerging as the most promising future directions for removing dyes and pollutants from textile factory effluent. This matters because the textile industry is a major source of chemical pollution in waterways globally.

2024 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 22 citations
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Bibliometrics and visualization analysis of research in the field of sustainable development of the blue economy (2006–2021)

This bibliometric analysis of blue economy sustainable development research from 2006-2021 identified four major research themes and found that most research is conducted independently with limited inter-institutional collaboration.

2022 Frontiers in Marine Science 32 citations
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A Comparative Bibliometric Analysis on Plastic Waste Recycling

This bibliometric study maps ten years of global research on plastic waste recycling and circular economy using Scopus and Web of Science, identifying dominant themes, leading countries, and emerging directions. It is primarily a research-landscape analysis with minimal direct content on microplastic formation or health risks, making it only peripheral to microplastic science.

2023 International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 6 citations
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Visual analysis of Chinese and international green manure research based on bibliometrics

This paper is not about microplastics; it uses bibliometric analysis to map three decades of global research trends in green manure cultivation and its effects on soil and crops.

2023 Ciência Rural 1 citations
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Scientometric analysis and scientific trends on microplastics research

Researchers performed a scientometric analysis of microplastics research using 2,872 publications from the Web of Science database spanning 2004 to 2020. The bibliometric analysis mapped contributing countries, institutions, key authors, trending keywords, and future research directions in the field. The study found that microplastics research has grown rapidly, with increasing attention to environmental pollution across various ecosystems.

2022 Chemosphere 73 citations
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Analisis Bibliometrik Perkembangan Penelitian Mikroplastik Pada Bivalvia

Researchers performed a bibliometric analysis of microplastics research on bivalves indexed in Science Direct from 2019 to 2024, finding publication growth peaked in 2023 with 240 articles (25.67% of the total) and that the journal Science of the Total Environment published 821 relevant papers. Co-word analysis using VOSviewer identified seven main research clusters in the field.

2024 Jurnal Biogenerasi
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A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends in Bacterial Degradation of Plastics: Emerging Themes and Future Directions

This bibliometric analysis examined research trends in bacterial plastic degradation from 1977 to 2024 using Scopus data analyzed through VOSviewer and RStudio. Publication output grew steadily, with accelerating interest since 2010 focusing on polyethylene, PET, and polystyrene degradation, and identifying key research clusters around enzyme engineering and soil microbiomes.

2025 Tropical Journal of Natural Product Research
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Sustainability trends and gaps in the textile, apparel and fashion industries

Researchers conducted a 20-year systematic review of sustainability in the fashion and textile industry, identifying consumer behavior, circular economy practices, and supply chain transparency as the three main research themes. The review highlights that synthetic textile fibers — a major source of microplastic pollution — are embedded in a complex industry that still lacks coherent sustainability standards across its global supply chains.

2023 Environment Development and Sustainability 223 citations
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Systematic Insights into a Textile Industry: Reviewing Life Cycle Assessment and Eco-Design

This systematic review of life cycle assessments for the textile industry identified key environmental impact hotspots across the supply chain, finding that fiber production and dyeing processes dominate environmental burdens and that eco-design strategies offer the greatest improvement potential.

2023 Sustainability 25 citations
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How Important is the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Study of Plastic Waste? Use of Bibliometric Analysis to Reveal Research Positions and Future Directions

This paper is not about microplastics — it presents a bibliometric analysis of life cycle assessment (LCA) research on plastic waste from 2013 to 2022, mapping publication trends, leading countries, and key research themes.

2024 Jurnal Teknologi Lingkungan 2 citations
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Visual Analysis of International Environmental Security Management Research (1997–2021) Based on VOSviewer and CiteSpace

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of environmental security management research from 1997 to 2021, identifying six main research clusters spanning personal health, agriculture, ecological environment, energy, and sustainable development themes.

2023 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 13 citations
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A bibliometric analysis on the current situation and hot trends of the impact of microplastics on soil based on CiteSpace

This bibliometric analysis used CiteSpace and VOSviewer to map soil microplastics research published from 2013–2024 in the Web of Science, identifying key research clusters, institutional contributors, and emerging themes including microplastic-antibiotic resistance interactions and soil food web effects.

2025 ArXiv.org
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Global research hotspots and trends on microplastics: a bibliometric analysis

A bibliometric analysis of microplastics publications from 1990 to 2022 found a 19-fold increase in publications and 35-fold increase in citations since 2015, with research clustering around distribution, toxicity, analytical methods, and adsorption of co-pollutants.

2023 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 26 citations
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Scientific Trends in Animal Waste and Environmental Sustainability: A Bibliometric Study

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of 33,887 academic studies on the environmental effects of animal waste to reveal trends in publication distribution, research collaborations, and emerging topics. The study mapped the global landscape of animal waste and environmental sustainability research, identifying leading countries, journals, and keyword clusters that reflect the field's evolution toward circular economy and pollution mitigation approaches.

2025
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Tracking the plastic footprint: a bibliometric mapping of microplastics research in Asia (2015–2025)

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of 3,797 Scopus-indexed Asian microplastics publications from 2015 to 2025, mapping research output, key contributors, and intellectual foundations. They found exponential growth since 2019 with China, India, and Indonesia leading, and identified four core research clusters—environmental occurrence, toxicology, food chain contamination, and remediation—as the field's intellectual pillars in Asia.

2025 Waste Management Bulletin
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Bibliometric Analysis of Micro/Nanoplastics

This chapter presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of micro- and nanoplastic pollution research using data from the Scopus database, finding a consistent upward trend in publication volume with the majority focused on marine environments. Thematic network analysis identified key research clusters around sources, distribution, ecological damage, and detection methods, confirming that the field is globally distributed rather than geographically concentrated.

2024 Advances in environmental engineering and green technologies book series