A scientometric analysis approach on the plastic sand

Bawar Iftikhar; Sophia C Alih; Mohammadreza Vafaei; Raid Alrowais; Muhammad Tariq Bashir; Alamgir Khalil; Muhammad Rizwan; Muhammad Faisal Javed; Muhammad Faisal Rehman; Abdullah Mohamed

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14457

A scientometric analysis approach on the plastic sand

Heliyon. 2023 Mar 11;9(3):e14457. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14457. eCollection 2023 Mar.

Affiliations

¹ School of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.
² Institute of Noise and Vibration, School of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.
³ Department of Civil Engineering, Jouf University, Al-Jawf 72388, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Department of Civil Engineering, CECOS University of IT and Emerging Sciences, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan.
⁵ Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar 25120, Pakistan.
⁶ National Institute of Transportation Risalpur National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
⁷ Department of Civil Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, 22060, Pakistan.
⁸ Department of Architecture, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan.
⁹ Research Centre, Future University in Egypt, New Cairo 11835, Egypt.

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to conduct a scientometric evaluation of the literature pertaining to plastic sand in order to evaluate its many aspects. Conventional review studies have several limitations when it comes to their capacity to completely and properly link different sections of the published research. Some of the more complicated features of advanced research are co-occurrence analysis, science mapping and co-citation analysis. During the study, the most inventive authors/researchers renowned for citations, the sources with the largest number of publications, the actively involved domains, and co-occurrences of keywords in the research on plastic sand are investigated. This study is limited to scientometric analysis of the available literature data on plastic sand. The VOSviewer application (version 1.6.18) was used to perform the analysis after bibliometric data for 4512 publications were extracted from the Scopus database and utilised in the extraction process from the year 2021 to June 2022. With the support of a statistical and graphical description of researchers and nations that are contributing, this study will aid researchers in the establishment of collaborative ventures and the exchange of fresh techniques and ideas with one another.

Keywords: Plastic waste; Sand; Scientometric analysis; Sustainable material; Waste management; Waste material.

Publication types

Review