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Review
. 2023 Mar 11;9(3):e14457.
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14457. eCollection 2023 Mar.

A scientometric analysis approach on the plastic sand

Bawar Iftikhar  1 , Sophia C Alih  2 , Mohammadreza Vafaei  1 , Raid Alrowais  3 , Muhammad Tariq Bashir  4 , Alamgir Khalil  5 , Muhammad Rizwan  6 , Muhammad Faisal Javed  7 , Muhammad Faisal Rehman  8 , Abdullah Mohamed  9
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Review

A scientometric analysis approach on the plastic sand

Bawar Iftikhar et al. Heliyon. .

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to conduct a scientometric evaluation of the literature pertaining to plastic sand in order to evaluate its many aspects. Conventional review studies have several limitations when it comes to their capacity to completely and properly link different sections of the published research. Some of the more complicated features of advanced research are co-occurrence analysis, science mapping and co-citation analysis. During the study, the most inventive authors/researchers renowned for citations, the sources with the largest number of publications, the actively involved domains, and co-occurrences of keywords in the research on plastic sand are investigated. This study is limited to scientometric analysis of the available literature data on plastic sand. The VOSviewer application (version 1.6.18) was used to perform the analysis after bibliometric data for 4512 publications were extracted from the Scopus database and utilised in the extraction process from the year 2021 to June 2022. With the support of a statistical and graphical description of researchers and nations that are contributing, this study will aid researchers in the establishment of collaborative ventures and the exchange of fresh techniques and ideas with one another.

Keywords: Plastic waste; Sand; Scientometric analysis; Sustainable material; Waste management; Waste material.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

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Generation of global plastic waste from 1950 to 2019 [3].
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Scientometric strategy's flowchart.
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Articles by subject areas.
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Type of document related to study field.
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Annual article publishing trend.
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Scientific visualisation of publishing sources that has at least 15 associated articles.
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Keyword analysis (scientific visualisation).
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Keyword analysis (density visualisation).
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Visualisation of writers who have published publications in the relevant study field.
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Scientific mapping of published papers in the relevant subject field till June 2022 that are connected in terms of citations.
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Density visualisation of published papers in the relevant subject field till June 2022 that are connected in terms of citations.
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Network visualisation of nations having a minimum of 15 publications in the relevant study field until June 2022.
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Density visualisation of nations having a minimum of 15 publications in the relevant study field until June 2022.
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