OLISAH, Chijioke, Alhadji MALLOUM, Kayode A. ADEGOKE, Joshua O. IGHALO, Jeanet CONRADIE, Chinemerem R. OHORO, James F. AMAKU, Kabir O. OYEDOTUN, Nobanathi W. MAXAKATO, Kovo G. AKPOMIE and Emmanuel Sunday OKEKE. Scientometric trends and knowledge maps of global polychlorinated naphthalenes research over the past four decades. Environmental Pollution. OXFORD, OXON, ENGLAND: ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2024, vol. 357, September 2024, p. 1-13. ISSN 0269-7491. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124407.
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Original name Scientometric trends and knowledge maps of global polychlorinated naphthalenes research over the past four decades
Authors OLISAH, Chijioke (566 Nigeria, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Alhadji MALLOUM, Kayode A. ADEGOKE, Joshua O. IGHALO, Jeanet CONRADIE, Chinemerem R. OHORO, James F. AMAKU, Kabir O. OYEDOTUN, Nobanathi W. MAXAKATO, Kovo G. AKPOMIE and Emmanuel Sunday OKEKE.
Edition Environmental Pollution, OXFORD, OXON, ENGLAND, ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2024, 0269-7491.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10511 Environmental sciences
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 8.900 in 2022
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124407
UT WoS 001261305700001
Keywords in English Bibliometric; Persistent organic pollutants; Toxicity; Human health; Chlorinated compounds
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Michaela Hylsová, Ph.D., učo 211937. Changed: 5/8/2024 08:26.
Abstract
Polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) were included in the banned list of the Stockholm Convention due to their potential to provoke a wide range of adverse effects on living organisms and the environment. Many reviews have been written to clarify the state of knowledge and identify the research needs of this pollutant class. However, studies have yet to analyse the scientometric complexities of PCN literature. In this study, we used bibliometric R and vosviewer programs as a scientometric tool to fill this gap by focusing on articles indexed on Web of Science and Scopus databases and those published between 1973 and 2022. A total of 707 articles were published within this period with a publication/author, author/publication, and co-authors/publication ratios of 0.45, 2.19, and 4.86, respectively. Developed countries dominated most scientometric indices (number of publications, citations, and collaboration networks) in the survey period. Lotka's inverse square rule of author productivity showed that Lotka's laws do not fit PCN literature. An annual percentage growth rate of 7.46% and a Kolmogorov-Smirnoff goodness-of-fit of 0.88 suggests that more output on PCNs is likely in years to come. More research is needed from scholars from developing countries to measure the supremacy of the developed nations and to effectively comply with the Stockholm Convention agreement.
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