Abstract
Corrosion had aroused extensive concern and attention because it was an unavoidable problem for marine equipment and facilities in service. However, the current status and development trend of marine environment corrosion research had seldom been systematically studied. Therefore, it was encouraged to use bibliometrics and information visualization analysis methods to conduct bibliometric analysis of related publications in the field of marine environment corrosion based on HistCite, CiteSpace, and VOSviewer software programs. Compared with the traditional comments of researchers in this field, this research provided a direction for the development of quantitative analysis and visualization of marine environment corrosion on a large scale. The results showed that the overall focus of research in the field of marine environment corrosion continued to increase from 1900 to 2019. China had the highest publication productivity, the USA had the highest h-index value and the second highest average citations per item value, Materials Science was the most popular subject category, Corrosion Science was the main journal and Melchers RE was the author with the most output contributions. This research also exhibited four hot spots in this field. In addition, this work could help new researchers to find research directions and identify research trends and frontiers in the field of marine environment corrosion by tracing the research hotspots of topic categories, countries, institutions, journals, authors, and publications in recent years.
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ZiYang Zhou, Dan Yang, Yong Xu, and Jie Ren participated in the data collection of this manuscript. Lihui Yang and Weichen Xu participated in the data analysis. Yantao Li, participated in the provision of ideas of this manuscript. Zhengquan Wang was primarily responsible for writing original draft and process of this manuscript. Yanliang Huang was responsible for the resources, formal analysis, review, and editing. All authors contributed to drafting and critically revising of the paper, gave final approval of the version to be published, and agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
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Wang, Z., Zhou, Z., Xu, W. et al. Research status and development trends in the field of marine environment corrosion: a new perspective. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 54403–54428 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15974-0
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