Are the issues involving acephate already resolved? A scientometric review

Thaís Fernandes Mendonça Mota; Wesley Lima Oliveira; Sandrieli Gonçalves; Marina Wust Vasconcelos; Karina Silvia Beatriz Miglioranza; Nédia Castilhos Ghisi

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2023.117034

Are the issues involving acephate already resolved? A scientometric review

Environ Res. 2023 Nov 15;237(Pt 2):117034. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117034. Epub 2023 Sep 4.

Authors

Thaís Fernandes Mendonça Mota¹, Wesley Lima Oliveira², Sandrieli Gonçalves³, Marina Wust Vasconcelos³, Karina Silvia Beatriz Miglioranza⁴, Nédia Castilhos Ghisi⁵

Affiliations

¹ Graduate Program in Biotechnology (PPGBIOTEC), Universidade Tecnológica Federal Do Paraná (UTFPR), Campus Dois Vizinhos, Estrada para Boa Esperança S/n, km 04, Comunidade São Cristóvão, P.O. Box 157, 85660-000, Dois Vizinhos, Paraná, Brazil; Collegiate of Biological Sciences, Universidade Estadual Do Paraná (UNESPAR), Campus Paranavaí, Avenida Gabriel Esperidião, S/n, Jardim Morumbi, 87703-000, Paranavaí, Paraná, Brazil.
² Multiuser Core Laboratory of Biological Analysis and Molecular Biology (BioMol) at Universidade Tecnológica Federal Do Paraná (UTFPR), Campus Dois Vizinhos, Estrada para Boa Esperança S/n, km 04, Comunidade São Cristóvão, P.O. Box 157, 85660-000 Dois Vizinhos, Paraná, Brazil; Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
³ Graduate Program in Biotechnology (PPGBIOTEC), Universidade Tecnológica Federal Do Paraná (UTFPR), Campus Dois Vizinhos, Estrada para Boa Esperança S/n, km 04, Comunidade São Cristóvão, P.O. Box 157, 85660-000, Dois Vizinhos, Paraná, Brazil; Multiuser Core Laboratory of Biological Analysis and Molecular Biology (BioMol) at Universidade Tecnológica Federal Do Paraná (UTFPR), Campus Dois Vizinhos, Estrada para Boa Esperança S/n, km 04, Comunidade São Cristóvão, P.O. Box 157, 85660-000 Dois Vizinhos, Paraná, Brazil.
⁴ Laboratorio de Ecotoxicología y Contaminación Ambiental. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), FCEyN, UNMDP-CONICET. Funes 3350, 7600, Mar Del Plata, Argentina.
⁵ Graduate Program in Biotechnology (PPGBIOTEC), Universidade Tecnológica Federal Do Paraná (UTFPR), Campus Dois Vizinhos, Estrada para Boa Esperança S/n, km 04, Comunidade São Cristóvão, P.O. Box 157, 85660-000, Dois Vizinhos, Paraná, Brazil; Multiuser Core Laboratory of Biological Analysis and Molecular Biology (BioMol) at Universidade Tecnológica Federal Do Paraná (UTFPR), Campus Dois Vizinhos, Estrada para Boa Esperança S/n, km 04, Comunidade São Cristóvão, P.O. Box 157, 85660-000 Dois Vizinhos, Paraná, Brazil. Electronic address: nediaghisi@gmail.com.

PMID: 37673123
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117034

Abstract

Acephate is a pesticide classified as moderately toxic, and its metabolite methamidophos is highly toxic for mammals and birds; even so, it is one of the most used insecticides in pest control for agricultural and domestic use. Acephate toxicity affects both target and non-target organisms and causes serious damage to the environment. There are several studies on different perspectives of acephate, such as monitoring, toxicity, and modeling. In this sense, this research aims to identify the structure of intellectual production on acephate and analyze the gaps and trends of scientific production on acephate through a scientometric analysis. The data was obtained from the Web of Science database, and after the refinement, 1.085 documents were used. A temporal pattern of the main research objectives is displayed. Most selected studies evaluated acephate efficiency, followed by toxicity and residue detection methods. The USA, China, India, Brazil, and Japan had the highest number of publications on acephate. The keywords most utilized were pesticides, toxicity, insecticide resistance, and residue. Research involving acephate requires greater attention from areas such as ecotoxicology, biochemistry, genetics, and biotechnology. There needed to be more discussions on chronic toxicity, genotoxicity, and cytotoxicity. Moreover, few studies about metabolic and biochemical pathways and genes related to acephate action and biodegradation were scarce.

Keywords: Agroecosystems sustainability; Degradation; Organophosphate; Resistance; Toxicity.

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Review