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Global trends in the research and development of medical/pharmaceutical wastewater treatment over the half-century
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted public health and the worldwide economy. The overstretched operation of health systems around the world is accompanied by potential and ongoing environmental threats. At present, comprehensive scientific assessments of research on temporal changes in medic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10123381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37100249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138775 |
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author | Wang, Ling Xu, Yixia Qin, Tian Wu, Mengting Chen, Zhiqin Zhang, Yalan Liu, Wei Xie, Xianchuan |
author_facet | Wang, Ling Xu, Yixia Qin, Tian Wu, Mengting Chen, Zhiqin Zhang, Yalan Liu, Wei Xie, Xianchuan |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted public health and the worldwide economy. The overstretched operation of health systems around the world is accompanied by potential and ongoing environmental threats. At present, comprehensive scientific assessments of research on temporal changes in medical/pharmaceutical wastewater (MPWW), as well as estimations of researcher networks and scientific productivity are lacking. Therefore, we conducted a thorough literature study, using bibliometrics to reproduce research on medical wastewater over nearly half a century. Our primary goal is systematically to map the evolution of keyword clusters over time, and to obtain the structure and credibility of clusters. Our secondary objective was to measure research network performance (country, institution, and author) using CiteSpace and VOSviewer. We extracted 2306 papers published between 1981 and 2022. The co-cited reference network identified 16 clusters with well-structured networks (Q = 0.7716, S = 0.896). The main trends were as follows: 1) Early MPWW research prioritized sources of wastewater, and this cluster was considered to be the mainstream research frontier and direction, representing an important source and priority research area. 2) Mid-term research focused on characteristic contaminants and detection technologies. Particularly during 2000–2010, a period of rapid developments in global medical systems, pharmaceutical compounds (PhCs) in MPWW were recognized as a major threat to human health and the environment. 3) Recent research has focused on novel degradation technologies for PhC-containing MPWW, with high scores for research on biological methods. Wastewater-based epidemiology has emerged as being consistent with or predictive of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. Therefore, the application of MPWW in COVID-19 tracing will be of great interest to environmentalists. These results could guide the future direction of funding agencies and research groups. |
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spelling | pubmed-101233812023-04-24 Global trends in the research and development of medical/pharmaceutical wastewater treatment over the half-century Wang, Ling Xu, Yixia Qin, Tian Wu, Mengting Chen, Zhiqin Zhang, Yalan Liu, Wei Xie, Xianchuan Chemosphere Article The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted public health and the worldwide economy. The overstretched operation of health systems around the world is accompanied by potential and ongoing environmental threats. At present, comprehensive scientific assessments of research on temporal changes in medical/pharmaceutical wastewater (MPWW), as well as estimations of researcher networks and scientific productivity are lacking. Therefore, we conducted a thorough literature study, using bibliometrics to reproduce research on medical wastewater over nearly half a century. Our primary goal is systematically to map the evolution of keyword clusters over time, and to obtain the structure and credibility of clusters. Our secondary objective was to measure research network performance (country, institution, and author) using CiteSpace and VOSviewer. We extracted 2306 papers published between 1981 and 2022. The co-cited reference network identified 16 clusters with well-structured networks (Q = 0.7716, S = 0.896). The main trends were as follows: 1) Early MPWW research prioritized sources of wastewater, and this cluster was considered to be the mainstream research frontier and direction, representing an important source and priority research area. 2) Mid-term research focused on characteristic contaminants and detection technologies. Particularly during 2000–2010, a period of rapid developments in global medical systems, pharmaceutical compounds (PhCs) in MPWW were recognized as a major threat to human health and the environment. 3) Recent research has focused on novel degradation technologies for PhC-containing MPWW, with high scores for research on biological methods. Wastewater-based epidemiology has emerged as being consistent with or predictive of the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. Therefore, the application of MPWW in COVID-19 tracing will be of great interest to environmentalists. These results could guide the future direction of funding agencies and research groups. Elsevier Ltd. 2023-08 2023-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10123381/ /pubmed/37100249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138775 Text en © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Wang, Ling Xu, Yixia Qin, Tian Wu, Mengting Chen, Zhiqin Zhang, Yalan Liu, Wei Xie, Xianchuan Global trends in the research and development of medical/pharmaceutical wastewater treatment over the half-century |
title | Global trends in the research and development of medical/pharmaceutical wastewater treatment over the half-century |
title_full | Global trends in the research and development of medical/pharmaceutical wastewater treatment over the half-century |
title_fullStr | Global trends in the research and development of medical/pharmaceutical wastewater treatment over the half-century |
title_full_unstemmed | Global trends in the research and development of medical/pharmaceutical wastewater treatment over the half-century |
title_short | Global trends in the research and development of medical/pharmaceutical wastewater treatment over the half-century |
title_sort | global trends in the research and development of medical/pharmaceutical wastewater treatment over the half-century |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10123381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37100249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138775 |
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