A bibliometric analysis of research on waste management, 2000-2019

Poor management of waste could lead to contamination of water, soil and atmosphere, and to a major impact on public health. Many researchers have been encouraged to study various aspects of waste management. However, few of them have summarized the related literature, resulted in a lack of overall progress understanding. This paper aimed to perform a bibliometric analysis of research on waste management during2000–2019. Various aspects including document types, languages, major journals, key countries, authors, and keywords were all systematically analyzed. The collaborations among authors and countries were comprehensively constructed, visualized, and evaluated through the application of social network analysis (SNA) based on co-authorship relations. Moreover, to discover the most leading topics onthe discussion, keyword clustering analysis was conducted using co-occurrences relations. The results showed that the number of related publications significantly increased during the period. Huang, G.H. wasmostthe productive author in terms of quantity and quality of publications. The United States was the most productive and collaborative country in the literature. Also, the keyword recycling had the most number of occurrences and also the highest link strength.

Keywords:

waste management , bibliometric analysis , social network analysis (SNA)