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Bibliometric analysis of pentachlorophenol remediation methods during the period of 1994 to 2005

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A bibliometric analysis was performed to assess the quantitative trend of published pentachlorophenol (PCP) remediation studies, including both degradation and sorption. The documents studies were retrieved from the Science Citation Index (SCI) for the period from 1994 to 2005. The trends were analyzed with the retrieved results in publication language, document type, page count, publication output, publication pattern, authorship, citation analysis and country of publication. The results indicated that degradation was the emphasis for PCP remediation. The average impact factor of the journals was higher for publishing degradation studies in comparison to that publishing sorption studies. And there was a positive correlation between CPP and IF for journals published more than two papers. The publishing countries of both degradation and sorption denoted that most of these researches were done by USA and Canada. Two to four authors was the most popular level of co-authorship.

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    Yi Huang, Qing Yang & Xiaolan Ao

  2. Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, People’s Republic of China

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Huang, Y., Yang, Q. & Ao, X. Bibliometric analysis of pentachlorophenol remediation methods during the period of 1994 to 2005. Scientometrics 77, 177–186 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-1899-1

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