scholarly journals Bibliometric Analysis of Research on Diesel Pollution in Antarctica and a Review on Remediation Techniques

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1123
Author(s):  
Zheng Syuen Lim ◽  
Rasidnie Razin Wong ◽  
Chiew-Yen Wong ◽  
Azham Zulkharnain ◽  
Noor Azmi Shaharuddin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fuel Demand ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Annual Publication

Diesel is a fuel commonly used in Antarctica to supply vessels and domestic applications on site. The increasing human activities in the continent consequently have generated high fuel demand, which in turn has increased the occurrence of oil pollution due to accidental events during refueling. A related study received growing interest as more detrimental effects have been reported on Antarctic ecosystems. By adopting the bibliometric analysis, the research on diesel pollution in Antarctica collected in the Scopus database was systematically analysed. An increment in annual publication growth from 1980 to 2019 was observed and two research clusters were illustrated with “hydrocarbons” as the core keyword. Several attempts have been conducted over the past decades to remove anthropogenic hydrocarbon from previous abandoned whaling sites as well as recent oil spill incidents. However, the remote and polar conditions of Antarctica constrained the installation and operation of clean-up infrastructure. This review also briefly encompasses the approaches from past to present on the management of fuel pollution in Antarctica and highlights the potential of phytoremediation as a new bioremediation prospect.

scholarly journals Research Trends of Biodegradation of Cooking Oil in Antarctica from 2001 to 2021: A Bibliometric Analysis Based on the Scopus Database

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 2050
Author(s):  
Khadijah Nabilah Mohd Zahri ◽  
Azham Zulkharnain ◽  
Suriana Sabri ◽  
Claudio Gomez-Fuentes ◽  
Siti Aqlima Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Waste Cooking Oil ◽  
Oil Degradation ◽  
Carcinogenic Effect ◽  
Cooking Oil ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scopus Database

In the present age, environmental pollution is multiplying due to various anthropogenic activities. Pollution from waste cooking oil is one of the main issues facing the current human population. Scientists and researchers are seriously concerned about the oils released from various activities, including the blockage of the urban drainage system and odor issues. In addition, cooking oil is known to be harmful and may have a carcinogenic effect. It was found that current research studies and publications are growing on these topics due to environmental problems. A bibliometric analysis of studies published from 2001 to 2021 on cooking oil degradation was carried out using the Scopus database. Primarily, this analysis identified the reliability of the topic for the present-day and explored the past and present progresses of publications on various aspects, including the contributing countries, journals and keywords co-occurrence. The links and interactions between the selected subjects (journals and keywords) were further visualised using the VOSviewer software. The analysis showed that the productivity of the publications is still developing, with the most contributing country being the United States, followed by China and India with 635, 359 and 320 publications, respectively. From a total of 1915 publications, 85 publications were published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Meanwhile, the second and third of the most influential journals were Bioresource Technology and Industrial Crops and Products with 76 and 70 total publications, respectively. Most importantly, the co-occurrence of the author’s keywords revealed “biodegradation”, “bioremediation”, “vegetable oil” and “Antarctic” as the popular topics in this study area, especially from 2011 to 2015. In conclusion, this bibliometric analysis on the degradation of cooking oil may serve as guide for future avenues of research in this area of research.

scholarly journals The Bibliometric Analysis of Czech Geography in the Scopus Database

Geografie ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Bajerski ◽  
Tadeusz Siwek
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Restricted Range ◽  
Geographical Research ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Regional Basis ◽  
Scopus Database

The analysis focuses on two journals: Geografie (published by the Czech Geographical Society in Czech and English) and Moravian Geographical Reports (only in English). The analysis demonstrates that the scope of both journals is only regional, due to their relatively restricted range of authors and citations: the first periodical functions mainly within Bohemia, with some overlap into other Czech regions, while the second is active primarily in Moravia, overlapping somewhat into Slovakia and Poland. Despite their status as premier Czech geographical periodicals, both journals serve mainly as conduits for the exchange of information among academics on a regional basis. Important papers presenting the results of Czech geographical research to a wide international audience are rarely featured in these journals; such research is usually published as monographs, as has been the case in the past. This paper lists the most frequently cited Czech geographers and interdisciplinary citations – especially in and from sociology and economics papers.

scholarly journals Analysis on Port and Maritime Transport System Researches

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lingshan Chen ◽  
Xiang Xu ◽  
Ping Zhang ◽  
Xiaotian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Maritime Transport ◽  
Container Port ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Collaboration Patterns

This paper examines the past and current research in the container port and maritime field. Using rigorous bibliometric analysis, the paper identifies the core authors/affiliations, their rankings, and collaboration patterns. The analysis of the paper will enable new researchers to quickly build an understanding of the container port and maritime field by reading core authors’ papers published in specific journals.

VESSEL RESPONSE PLANS: A TILE IN THE MOSAIC OF THE NATIONAL RESPONSE SYSTEM1

1995 ◽  
Vol 1995 (1) ◽  
pp. 926-926
Author(s):  
Duane Michael Smith
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
The Past ◽  
Response System ◽  
National Response ◽  
Vessel Response ◽  
Oil Spill Response

ABSTRACT With the implementation of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 came the requirement for vessels to develop plans for responding to oil spills from their vessels. While some companies had such plans in the past, the National Response System did not formally recognize their existence. Individual vessel response plans must now be viewed as an integral part of the National Response System. All of the parties that could be involved in an oil spill response must begin to view themselves as one tile of many that make up the mosaic known as the National Response System.

The best way to the protection of the marine environment from oil spills impacts is the strengthening of available oil spill liability and compensation regimes or the funding of oil spill preparedness and strengthening of oil spill combat capabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 2017108
Author(s):  
A J M Gunasekara
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Marine Environment ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Civil Liability ◽  
Economic Loss ◽  
The Past ◽  
Funding Mechanism ◽  
Coastal And Marine Environment

The total volume of oil spilled and the number of spills has declined significantly over the past forty years. However, oil spills are no longer considered as an unavoidable. The ship source oil pollution still remains a potentially important risk to the local economies and the marine environment which can cause major economic loss and severe damages to the coastal and marine environment. The international regulatory framework to deal with liability and compensation in the event of ship source oil pollution has evolved over the past three decades. The available international legal regime for oil pollution liability and compensation is playing a great role in governing a discharge of oil into the sea by ensuring liability for polluters and compensation for victims of pollution. Despite the fact that the total cost of the oil spill cannot be compensated through the available international civil liability regime and entire damages caused to the marine environment cannot be compensated or recovered. This paper examined the application and limitations of available liability and compensation mechanism for the protection marine pollution and compare the benefit of the establishment of a funding mechanism for the strengthening of the level of oil spill preparedness and the civil liability regime for the protection of the coastal and marine environment. In addition, this paper reviews the funding mechanism adopted by the countries to the strengthening the level of oil spill preparedness taken into account the polluter pays principle without a putting extra burden for the general taxpayers. The establishment of a system for the funding of oil spill preparedness using the polluter pay principle has immensely helped to improve the oil spill response capabilities and protection of the marine environment of coastal states which adopted a unique funding mechanism by applying the polluter pay principle. This paper recommends the among other thing review the available compensation and liability regime for the protection of the marine environment and recommend to adopt and apply a uniform funding mechanism for the strengthening of the level of oil spill preparedness taken into account the polluter pay principle for the protection of the marine environment and improve the status quo.

Continuing Long-Term Studies of the Tropics Panama Oil and Dispersed Oil Spill Sites

2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg A. Ward ◽  
Bart Baca ◽  
Wendy Cyriacks ◽  
Richard E. Dodge ◽  
Anthony Knap
Keyword(s):  
Crude Oil ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Tree Mortality ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Bocas Del Toro ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dispersed Oil ◽  
Present Information ◽  
The Tropics

ABSTRACT The TROPICS (Tropical Oil Pollution Investigations in Coastal Systems) oil spill experiment was conducted on the Caribbean coast of Panama, near Bocas del Toro. In November 1984, crude and dispersed crude oil were released in two separate boom-enclosed areas representative of intertidal mangrove and subtidal seagrass/coral ecosystems. The present information is based on site visits over the past two years, including 2002. Following the degradation of oil over the past 18 years, sheen identified from the spilled oil in 1994 is still visible in non-dispersed Oil Site sediments. In mangroves, previously denuded areas exposed to crude oil are currently occupied by new seedlings and saplings, which are growing rapidly but with morphological prop-root deformations. Tree mortality occurred in both the Dispersed Oil and Reference Sites, but was non-localized and appeared as natural mortality in aged trees. Recent data have revealed an invasion of seagrass beds by finger coral at the Oil Site. Since treatment, percent coverage of corals at this site has grown from a pretreatment value of 33.5% in March 1984 to 67.5% in June 2001.

scholarly journals Bibliometric Analysis of Telemedicine and E-Health Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 52-69
Author(s):  
Huma Sikandar ◽  
Yamunah Vaicondam ◽  
Shazia Parveen ◽  
Nohman Khan ◽  
Muhammad Imran Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Growth Trend ◽  
Vos Viewer ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Highly Cited Articles ◽  
Highly Cited

Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, the internet of things, cloud computing, and wearable gadgets have broadened the scope of telemedicine and eHealth in past years. This research aims to investigate the past patterns of telemedicine and eHealth research over the past ten years. Scopus database was used to extract the article information of the selected articles. The research is conducted on 1401 articles in which we investigated the top authors, journals, institutions, countries, and highly cited articles. Our research findings project the growth trend of publications and the pattern of authors and distribution of articles and the core journals. The top 10 authors in the selected field were identified so were the highly cited articles. Co-occurrence analyses of keywords, authors, and countries co-authors analysis and bibliographic coupling of VOS viewer documents were conducted. The limitations and directions for future researchers have also been discussed.

scholarly journals Combating of oil spills by funding of oil spill preparedness vs funding for compensation after the spill events

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A J M Gunasekara ◽  
W P J Sathyadith
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Marine Environment ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Civil Liability ◽  
The Past ◽  
Funding Mechanism ◽  
Compensation Mechanisms ◽  
Coastal And Marine Environment

• The total volume of oil spilled and the number of spills has declined significantly over the past forty years. However, oil spills are no longer considered as an unavoidable. The ship source oil pollution still remains a potentially important risk to the local economies and the marine environment which can cause major economic loss and severe damages to the coastal and marine environment. The international regulatory framework to deal with liability and compensation for ship source oil pollution has evolved over the past three decades. The available international legal regime for oil pollution liability and compensation is playing a great role in governing the discharge of oil into the sea by ensuring liability for polluters and compensation for victims of pollution. Despite the fact that the total cost of the oil spill cannot be compensated through the available international civil liability regime and entire damages caused to the marine environment cannot be compensated or recovered. This paper examined the application and limitations of available liability and compensation mechanisms for the protection of marine pollution and compares the benefit of the establishment of a funding mechanism for the strengthening of the level of oil spill preparedness and the civil liability regime for the protection of the coastal and marine environment. In addition, this paper reviews the funding mechanism adopted by the countries to strengthen a level of oil spill preparedness taken into account the polluter pays principle without putting the extra burden to general taxpayers. The establishment of a system for the funding of oil spill preparedness using the polluter pay principle has immensely helped to improve the oil spill response capabilities and protection of the marine environment of coastal states which adopted a unique funding mechanism by applying the polluter pay principle. This paper recommends among other things, review the available compensation and liability regime for the protection of the marine environment and recommend to adopt and apply a uniform funding mechanism for the strengthening of the level of oil spill preparedness taken into account the polluter pay principle for the protection of the marine environment and improve the status quo. • Liability, compensation, Preparedness, Polluters pay principle

scholarly journals Worldwide Research on Socio-Hydrology: A Bibliometric Analysis

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1283
Author(s):  
Gricelda Herrera-Franco ◽  
Néstor Montalván-Burbano ◽  
Paúl Carrión-Mero ◽  
Lady Bravo-Montero
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scopus Database

The technical and scientific analysis regarding studies of the water surface or groundwater has increasingly taken on a great social impact, which has led to the creation of the term socio-hydrology. Since decision making has a greater weight, considering the social perspective, its study has become more important in the past 20 years. This article aims to carry out a bibliometric analysis related to socio-hydrology using the Scopus database and the application of VOSviewer software for the evaluation of the intellectual structure of socio-hydrology, its conceptual evolution, and its tendencies. The methodology considers (i) search criteria of the research field, (ii) search and document selection, (iii) software and data extraction, and (iv) analysis of results and trends. The results show us the term socio-hydrology as a new scientific discipline that has traces in the Scopus database in the past two decades. However, its application stems from recognising ancestral knowledge alongside other forms of knowledge. Socio-hydrology practice requires participatory models, where the community has a great influence, and for the most part, it guarantees results for the common good. The trend of this topic is growing and open to the criteria of sustainability.

THE INTERNATIONAL OIL POLLUTION COMPENSATION FUND: TEN YEARS OF CLAIMS SETTLEMENT EXPERIENCE

1989 ◽  
Vol 1989 (1) ◽  
pp. 509-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Måns Jacobsson
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Careful Monitoring ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pollution Damage ◽  
Close Cooperation

ABSTRACT The International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (IOPC Fund) was established in October 1978, pursuant to the 1971 Fund Convention, with the task of providing compensation to victims of oil pollution damage in states party to that convention, to the extent that the victims do not receive adequate compensation from the shipowner and his insurer. During its 10 years of operation, the IOPC Fund has been involved in the settlement of claims arising out of 34 incidents. The fund has developed a reputation for quick settlement of claims. This is based on the fund's careful monitoring of incidents that may lead to claims against the fund, of its readiness to provide information on how to present claims, the well-defined procedures laid down for accepting claims, the discretion given the fund's director in paying compensation, and its close cooperation with shipowners’ protection and indemnity (P & I) clubs. The IOPC Fund's criteria for presentation, documentation, and admissibility of claims are described here, as well as its policies for negotiating with claimants and its definitions of oil pollution. The IOPC Fund's decisions in the past 10 years have contributed to the development and harmonization of international law regarding oil spill liability.

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