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INDUSTRIAL WASTE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH: A QUANTITATIVE
BIBLIOMETRIC EXPLORATION
Gulayim Saburova Yedilbay qizi
Tashkent State University of Economics.
sabuurova@gmail.com.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15677908
Abstract.
The persistent generation and improper management of industrial waste,
coupled with resource depletion and environmental degradation, pose significant challenges to
achieving sustainability in human life. The burden associated with industrial waste intensifies
both ecological and public health risks. Effective industrial waste management requires a
thorough understanding of its sources and geographical distribution. In this study, we conducted
a bibliometric analysis of English-language publications from the past decade indexed in the
Dimensions database, using the keyword “industrial waste management.” The analysis focused
on publication trends, leading journals, academic impact metrics such as total citations, Field
Citation Ratio (FCR), and Relative Citation Ratio (RCR), as well as identifying the most cited
articles and their alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
INTRODUCTION
Waste is a material pertaining to the denied, declined, discarded mass and undesirable
extra volume, which is created by various human caused and/or natural processes [1]. It may be
classified into numerous groups based on their source of creation, harmful assets, management
approaches, and degrading features. Figure 1 illustrates waste types based on different
categories.
Figure 1
. Types of waste by categories
Many of industries produce waste in order to meet the technological growth and satisfy
human request. Industrial waste is defined as any solid, semisolid, or liquid that presents a
considerable danger to people and the environment owing to its acidity and dangerous elements
[2]. For instance, untreated garbage transfers poisonous and dangerous elements into the
environment, which acts as an ideal environment for pathogenic bacteria, posing serious health
risks [3]. Although, according to [4] industrial activities are extremely significant in view of
fundamental changes in the human actions of an economic system.
Waste types
Source of origin
Adversity on human health
Degradation
properties
Disposal techniques
Household waste
Institutional waste
Industrial waste
Agriculture waste
Construction waste
Hazardous waste
Non-hazardous waste
Bio degradable
Non-bio degradable
Municipal waste
Electronic waste
Bio-medical waste
Nuclear waste
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The fast expansion of industry has resulted to a rise in the production of contaminated
trash [5]. As an example, the electrical appliances production is known to generate enormous
volumes of trash containing heavy metals [6]. Additionally, [7] mentioned that sludge has been
considered as one of the most hard to manage due to its low solubility and high concentration of
hazardous heavy metals.
In recent years, industrial waste management has become increasingly urgent in emerging
countries due to economic growth, and the acceleration of consumption has caused an expansion
in waste generation [8]. Poor waste management has polluted the world's water bodies, clogged
sewers, caused flooding, and spread illnesses through vector breeding [9]. Also, it promotes
increases in breathing concerns through particles in the air arising from garbage combustion,
damage to species that feed waste unwittingly, and impacts on economic fall, such as lower
tourism [10].
Many studies have been conducted to identify sustainable decision-making models to
analyze industrial waste management solutions, such as life-cycle assessment (LCA), cost-
benefit analysis, and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) [11]. According to [12] life cycle
assessment (LCA) will help the decision-maker select a suitable control strategy that has the
least environmental impact. As [13] reported multi-criteria decision analyses was suitable for
assessing the sustainability industrial waste management system. Furthermore, the United
Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 11 and 12 emphasize the sustainable
management of industrial waste as well as recycling for the reuse of end-of-life (waste) materials
as possible secondary resources [14].
This study aims at examining the most popular journals and cited articles, scientific
production output, academic impacts of published papers.
MATERIAL AND METHOD
This paper aims to provide bibliometric and literature analyses in order to explore
industrial waste management research globally. To extract the articles on the subject offered
above, a keyword "industrial waste management" was searched from Dimensions database on
May, 30 of 2024. Article search period included 2015-2024 years and limited by language
“English”. Only open access and final published research articles were selected and database
consisting of 160 papers was exported to a CSV file for further analyses on industrial waste
management. Then, a database was categorized including the year of publication, academic
impacts, source title. Figure 2 demonstrates the flow of the selected methodology for the
research.
FIGURE 1.
Methodology flowchart for the research
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RESULTS
Scientific Production Analyses
A total of 160 articles on industrial waste management were published globally for the
last 10 years (Figure 2). 2015 and 2016 were recognized as lowest production periods in the
selected research contributing only 5 published papers each year. However, it was found that
2017 and 2019 had arisen almost three times with 14 articles, respectively. The highest point of
scientific research output was 2021 with 45 (28%) published articles. The trend is going down
from 2022 still today. As this analysis was carried out on May, 2024, it is possible to predict that
current year scientific production output will have higher results than previous two years.
FIGURE. 2.
Annual scientific production
Most Relevant Journals On Industrial Waste Management
Choosing the correct publisher is essential during the publication process. Dimensions
based 160 papers on industrial waste management issue were distributed among 10 different
journals between 2015-2024 (Table 1).
Key journals on industrial waste management are “The
Science of Th Total Environment”, “Chemosphere” and “Journal of Cleaner Production” which
contributed almost half of total published papers.
TABLE 1
. List of the top journals on industrial waste management
Source title
Number
Source title
Number
The Science of The Total
Environment
35
Environmental Research
13
Chemosphere
20
Environmental Pollution
13
Journal of Cleaner Production
20
International Journal of Hydrogen
Production
10
Renewable and Sustainable
Energy Review
18
Energy
10
Journal of Hazardous Materials
15
Energy Conversion and Management
6
Academic impact of published papers on industrial waste management
Well-known that academic impact is an important topic in the research world. It is often
quantified using bibliometrics and citation counts, and it contributes to a researcher’s h
-index.
This study investigated citation count, field citation ratio and relative citation ratio.
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Total number of citations of 160 published papers on industrial waste management was
14431 having the top in 2023 (Fig. 3). The Field Citation Ratio (FCR) measures a publication's
relative citation effectiveness when compared to similarly dated publications related to its topic
area (Fig. 4). FCR for research period equals 12.72. The Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) measures
a publication's relative citation effectiveness as compared to other papers in the same field (Fig.
5). RCR is 6.27 for the last 10 years.
FIGURE 3.
Citation distribution by the years
FIGURE 4.
Field citation ratio
FIGURE 5.
Relative citation ratio
Top Cited Papers On Industrial Waste Management
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The number of citations indicates the quality and innovation of the research. Table 2 lists
the ten most referenced publications on industrial waste management, along with their citation
numbers, journals, year, relevance to Sustainable Development Goals.
TABLE 2.
List of top cited papers on industrial waste management
№
Title
Cita
tion
Journal
Year
Sustainable
development goals
1
Advances in stationary and
portable fuel cell applications 427
International
Journal of
Hydrogen
Energy
2016
11 Sustainable Cities and
Communities; 13 Climate
Action; 7 Affordable and
Clean Energy
2
Microplastics as pollutants in
agricultural soils
410
Environmental
Pollution
2020
2 Zero Hunger
3
Recent advances in carbon
dioxide utilization
407
Renewable and
Sustainable
Energy Reviews 2020
13 Climate Action; 15
Life on Land
4
Environmental fate, toxicity
and risk management
strategies of nanoplastics in
the environment: Current
status and future perspectives 376
Journal of
Hazardous
Materials
2020
14 Life Below Water
5
A critical review on effects,
tolerance mechanisms and
management of cadmium in
vegetables
364
Chemosphere
2017
2 Zero Hunger
6
Comprehensive investigation
on hydrogen and fuel cell
technology in the aviation and
aerospace sectors
348
Renewable and
Sustainable
Energy Reviews 2019
13 Climate Action; 7
Affordable and Clean
Energy
7
Developments of electric cars
and fuel cell hydrogen electric
cars
346
International
Journal of
Hydrogen
Energy
2017
13 Climate Action; 7
Affordable and Clean
Energy
8
Biorenewable hydrogen
production through biomass
gasification: A review and
future prospects
321
Environmental
Research
2020
7 Affordable and Clean
Energy
9
Cadmium phytoremediation
potential of Brassica crop
species: A review
296
The Science of
The Total
Environment
2018
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Outlook of carbon capture
technology and challenges
295
The Science of
The Total
Environment
2018
13 Climate Action
CONCLUSION
This study presents a bibliometric analysis of 160 scientific publications to evaluate the
current landscape of research in the field of industrial waste management. The findings indicate
that the volume of research output in this area remains relatively limited, reflecting its
developmental stage. Utilizing data from the Dimensions database, we examined publication
trends over the past decade and identified the leading journals publishing on this topic.
Furthermore, we assessed the academic influence of the selected works through key metrics,
including total citation count (14,331), Field Citation Ratio (12.72), and Relative Citation Ratio
(6.27). The most highly cited articles were further analyzed to determine their contribution and
relevance to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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