Bibliometric analysis of emerging contaminants and cytostatic compounds: understanding the current challenges
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00020711%3A_____%2F24%3A10155210" target="_blank" >RIV/00020711:_____/24:10155210 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazadv.2024.100538" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazadv.2024.100538</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hazadv.2024.100538" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.hazadv.2024.100538</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Bibliometric analysis of emerging contaminants and cytostatic compounds: understanding the current challenges
Original language description
Emerging contaminants (ECs) include a wide range of substances whose presence may pose a risk to the environment and human health. Research on cytostatic pollutants is increasing because the exponential growth of cancer treatments leads to higher discharge of cytostatic contaminants with wastewater treatment plant effluents. This systematic bibliometric review shows 4,166 publications on ECs and cytostatic drugs in water bodies since 1996, mainly in the category of Environmental Science. China, Spain, and the USA are the most productive countries nowadays and Europe has 41,6% of the publications. Research topics have shifted from identifying the presence of ECs, in the period 1996-2012, to understanding their fate, distribution, and long-term impacts as well as developing removal technologies, in the period 2012-2023. 29 main keywords have been identified and classified into four thematic groups: contaminants, analytical techniques, water bodies, and treatments. Principal component analysis has integrated them into two principal components (PC). PC1 includes keywords within the groups of water bodies and treatments, and it reflects 70% of the original data variance; while PC2 represents the analytical topic, and it represents 20 % of the variance. The co-occurrence networks of keywords, analyzed by VOSviewer, show four clusters in both periods, with "emerging contaminants", "pharmaceuticals", and "personal care products" as the most important. "Contaminants" that appear in the first period have been substituted by "treatment plants" in the last decade. The keyword "personal care products" shows the highest increase (14-fold), higher than "emerging contaminants" (13 times) and "cytostatic drugs" (10 times). In recent years, the research interest in the formation of transformation products during water treatments and their risks has increased as shown by the higher importance of keywords such as "transformation products", "risk assessment" and "toxicity", as a consequence of the development of advanced oxidation treatments.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10503 - Water resources
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/SS02030027" target="_blank" >SS02030027: Water systems and water management in the Czech Republic in conditions of climate change</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances
ISSN
2772-4166
e-ISSN
2772-4166
Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
23
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
100538
UT code for WoS article
001366938100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85209899631