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Research trends in the field of ambient air quality monitoring and management in South Africa: A bibliometric review
Air pollution is a leading environmental-health challenge facing the world today. Besides, the emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic has also put some spotlight on issues related to air pollution as both attack the same human respiratory organs. The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of r...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9767470/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37519332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2021.100263 |
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description | Air pollution is a leading environmental-health challenge facing the world today. Besides, the emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic has also put some spotlight on issues related to air pollution as both attack the same human respiratory organs. The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of research performance, trends and evolution in the field of ambient air quality monitoring and management in South Africa over the last decade (2010-2021) through the application of a bibliometric approach and a data mining software VOSViewer. Findings were that there has been a steady increase in the number of ambient air quality monitoring and management publications per year. Over the period under review, 2014 contributed 14 % while 2020 contributed 27 % of the total publications. Also, the study established that throughout the period South African scientist collaborated extensively with scientists from Finland, the United States of America, France, and Switzerland. Besides raising awareness levels in the field, the increase in studies can also assist policy formulation and development. In the meantime, the South African National government has also put in place several mitigation strategies to reduce emissions for example the enactment of ambient air quality guidelines. |
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spelling | pubmed-97674702022-12-21 Research trends in the field of ambient air quality monitoring and management in South Africa: A bibliometric review Matandirotya, Newton. R. Environmental Challenges Article Air pollution is a leading environmental-health challenge facing the world today. Besides, the emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic has also put some spotlight on issues related to air pollution as both attack the same human respiratory organs. The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of research performance, trends and evolution in the field of ambient air quality monitoring and management in South Africa over the last decade (2010-2021) through the application of a bibliometric approach and a data mining software VOSViewer. Findings were that there has been a steady increase in the number of ambient air quality monitoring and management publications per year. Over the period under review, 2014 contributed 14 % while 2020 contributed 27 % of the total publications. Also, the study established that throughout the period South African scientist collaborated extensively with scientists from Finland, the United States of America, France, and Switzerland. Besides raising awareness levels in the field, the increase in studies can also assist policy formulation and development. In the meantime, the South African National government has also put in place several mitigation strategies to reduce emissions for example the enactment of ambient air quality guidelines. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021-12 2021-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9767470/ /pubmed/37519332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2021.100263 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) 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 Matandirotya, Newton. R. Research trends in the field of ambient air quality monitoring and management in South Africa: A bibliometric review |
title | Research trends in the field of ambient air quality monitoring and management in South Africa: A bibliometric review |
title_full | Research trends in the field of ambient air quality monitoring and management in South Africa: A bibliometric review |
title_fullStr | Research trends in the field of ambient air quality monitoring and management in South Africa: A bibliometric review |
title_full_unstemmed | Research trends in the field of ambient air quality monitoring and management in South Africa: A bibliometric review |
title_short | Research trends in the field of ambient air quality monitoring and management in South Africa: A bibliometric review |
title_sort | research trends in the field of ambient air quality monitoring and management in south africa: a bibliometric review |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9767470/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37519332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2021.100263 |
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