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Article Tier 2

Digitally enabled business models for a circular plastic economy in Africa

Researchers explored how digital technologies are enabling circular economy business models for plastic waste management across African retailing and distribution systems. Drawing on focus group discussions and interviews with frontline organizations, the study examined the impact of digital innovations on plastic waste collection, sorting, and recycling. The findings highlight how digital tools can complement ecological goals by creating economic incentives for managing plastic waste in developing economies.

2024 Environmental Technology & Innovation 18 citations
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An Integrated Analysis of Plastic Packaging Value Chain: Identifying Barriers and Enablers for a Circular Economy

Researchers analyzed the full plastic packaging value chain to identify barriers and enablers for transitioning to a circular economy, tracing the evolution of circular economy concepts and quantifying the environmental impacts associated with exponential plastic waste growth. The study provides an integrated framework mapping opportunities for intervention across production, use, collection, and recycling stages.

2025 Journal of Green Economy and Low-Carbon Development
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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
Review Tier 2

Technology integration to promote circular economy transformation of the garment industry: a systematic literature review

This systematic literature review examines how Industry 4.0 technologies can help transform the garment industry from a linear to a circular economy model. Researchers found that digital technologies can address environmental pollution and excess supply issues while enabling market digitization, consumer personalization, and supply chain transparency. The study highlights both the advantages and remaining challenges of integrating technology for sustainable garment industry development.

2023 Autex Research Journal 8 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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A Bibliometric perspective on the evolution of research in sludge management: Opportunities and challenges

A bibliometric analysis traced the evolution of research on a specific topic related to microplastics, mapping publication trends, leading authors, and emerging themes over time. Bibliometric studies help identify where the field is growing and where knowledge gaps remain to be filled.

2025 International Journal of Innovative Research and Scientific Studies 1 citations
Meta Analysis Tier 1

Developing Traceability Systems for Effective Circular Economy of Plastic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

This meta-analysis pools data from multiple studies on traceability systems that track plastic through its lifecycle, from production to recycling. Better tracking of plastics could reduce waste and microplastic pollution by improving recycling quality and keeping more plastic out of the environment.

2024 Sustainability 25 citations
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Digital Innovations for a Circular Plastic Economy in Africa

This paper is not about microplastics; it is a book examining digital innovations and circular economy approaches to plastic waste management in sub-Saharan Africa.

2023 11 citations
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Peran Teknologi bagi Perubahan Organisasi: Studi Bibliometrik

Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature on the role of technology in organizational change, mapping publication trends, key authors, journals, and thematic clusters using quantitative methods. The study found growing interdisciplinary interest in how digital and information technologies drive organizational transformation strategies, with a concentration of output in management and information systems journals.

2022 JEBA (Journal of Economics and Business Aseanomics) 1 citations
Review Tier 2

Exploring Food Supply Chain Trends in the COVID-19 Era: A Bibliometric Review

A bibliometric analysis reviewed the COVID-19 pandemic's disruption to global food supply chains, mapping key research themes, author networks, and publication trends in the literature from 2020 to 2022. The analysis found rapid growth in publications on supply chain resilience, cold chain management, and e-commerce food distribution as responses to pandemic disruptions.

2022 Sustainability 48 citations
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Management of plastic waste: A bibliometric mapping and analysis

A bibliometric analysis of plastic waste management research over five years identified key themes including recycling, biodegradable alternatives, and policy instruments, with rapidly growing attention to microplastics as a distinct subfield.

2021 Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy 78 citations
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Plastic packaging flows in Europe: A hybrid input‐output approach

Researchers modeled plastic packaging material flows across the EU using a hybrid input-output approach, mapping supply chains by polymer type, packaging form, and application category to reveal that packaging represents a major fraction of plastic consumption with significant gaps in end-of-life recycling infrastructure.

2021 Journal of Industrial Ecology 49 citations
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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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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
Systematic Review Tier 1

Recycling of Plastic Waste: A Systematic Review Using Bibliometric Analysis

This systematic review uses bibliometric analysis to map trends in plastic recycling research across over 35,000 studies. Key emerging topics include biodegradable plastics, life cycle assessment, and electronic waste recycling. Better plastic recycling is one of the most important ways to reduce the flow of microplastics into our environment and ultimately our bodies.

2022 Sustainability 55 citations
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Digital Economy in Indonesia: Trends and Future Research

This bibliometric study examined trends in digital economy research in Indonesia to identify dominant themes and future research directions. The paper focuses on digital business development and has no direct connection to microplastics or environmental health.

2023 Journal of Science Technology and Innovation Policy 2 citations
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Efficient Plastic Recycling and Remolding Circular Economy Using the Technology of Trust–Blockchain

This paper proposed integrating blockchain technology into plastic waste recycling supply chains to improve collection efficiency, tracking, and stakeholder coordination, arguing that unique digital identifiers assigned to plastic items can enable transparent, automated sorting and accountability throughout the plastic lifecycle from manufacturer to recycler.

2021 Sustainability 95 citations
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Exploring the EU plastic value chain: A material flow analysis

Researchers conducted a material flow analysis of the EU27 plastic value chain, finding that only 19% of plastics were recycled in 2019, with total losses amounting to 4% of production and significant variation across sectors and polymer types.

2023 Resources Conservation and Recycling 36 citations
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Valuing Modern Technologies to Boost the Circular Economy in the Fashion Industry

This study examines how modern technologies can support circular economy principles in the fashion industry, focusing on reuse, repair, reconditioning, and recycling strategies to reduce plastic and textile pollution.

2024 Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Business Excellence
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Mapping the Plastic Waste Research Landscape: A bibliometric analysis of the interdisciplinary nature of plastic waste research

A bibliometric analysis of 2,735 papers on plastic waste published between 2011 and 2022 found that India and China were the most productive countries in this research field. The analysis identifies research networks, trends, and gaps to guide future work and policymakers.

2023 Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 1 citations
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Reviewing a Decade of Zero Waste Research: Bibliometric Analysis

A bibliometric analysis reviewed ten years of zero waste research (2013-2022), mapping key publication trends, influential authors, and emerging research themes. Zero waste strategies are directly relevant to reducing plastic waste and the microplastics generated when plastics degrade in the environment.

2023 Jurnal Penelitian Pendidikan IPA
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Bibliometric Analysis of Articles on Project Management Research

This bibliometric analysis reviewed 40 years of academic publications on project management to identify trends in research output, collaboration patterns, and key topics. It is a research methods paper not related to microplastics.

2020 Periodica Polytechnica Social and Management Sciences 29 citations
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Research Progress and Hotspots on Disposalof Landfill Leachate: A Bibliometric AnalysisUsing Knowledge Mapping Method

Not relevant to microplastics — this is a bibliometric analysis of landfill leachate treatment research from 1996–2022, tracking publication trends and identifying dominant themes such as membrane bioreactors and advanced oxidation.

2024 Polish Journal of Environmental Studies 2 citations
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A Plan to Secure Environmental Sustainability Through Digital Transformation of the Fashion Industry: Focusing on Fashion Design and Smartization of the Manufacturing Process

This study examines how digital transformation and smart manufacturing technologies in the fashion industry can reduce environmental pollution, proposing a framework for integrating digital design tools and process optimization to improve sustainability across the fashion clothing supply chain.

2022 Academic Society for Appropriate Technology 6 citations