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The research trends of metal-organic frameworks in environmental science: a review based on bibliometric analysis

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Metal-organic frameworks, an emerging class of porous material, have developed rapidly in recent years. In order to clarify the application of metal-organic frameworks in the field of environmental science, 1386 articles over the last 20 years were obtained from Scopus and analysed by the bibliometric method. And the collaboration between countries, institutions and authors and the co-occurrence of keywords were also conducted using VOSviewer. The results indicated that this area of research has entered a fast-developing stage. The number of articles published has grown from 7 articles in 1999 to 378 articles in 2018. The most productive country was China with 626 articles published. The most productive institution was the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the most productive author was Jhung SH from Kyungpook National University of South Korea. Although metal-organic frameworks have been widely used in adsorption and catalytic degradation of pollutants from the environment, the removal mechanism of pollutants by MOFs, the stability improvement and the cost reduction of metal-organic frameworks are still the main challenges for their practical applications.

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This work was financially supported by the National Major Scientific and Technological Projects for Water Pollution Control and Management (2017ZX07402003), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019M650798), and the Central Public Welfare Scientific Research Project of Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (2016YSKY-027).

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    Juan Li, Liangjie Wang, Yonghui Song & Ping Zeng

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  3. Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A & F University, No.3 Taicheng Road, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China

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Li, J., Wang, L., Liu, Y. et al. The research trends of metal-organic frameworks in environmental science: a review based on bibliometric analysis. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 19265–19284 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08241-1

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