Global trends in the research and development of medical/pharmaceutical wastewater treatment over the half-century.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted public health and the worldwide economy. The overstretched operation of health systems around the world is accompanied by potential and ongoing environmental threats. At present, comprehensive scientific assessments of research on temporal changes in medical/pharmaceutical wastewater (MPWW), as well as estimations of researcher networks and scientific productivity are lacking. Therefore, we conducted a thorough literature study, using bibliometrics to reproduce research on medical wastewater over nearly half a century. Our primary goal is systematically to map the evolution of keyword clusters over time, and to obtain the structure and credibility of clusters. Our secondary objective was to measure research network performance (country, instituti

SUBMITTER: Wang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10123381 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature