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Evaluating the performance and intellectual structure of construction and demolition waste research during 2000–2016

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Construction and demolition (C&D) waste diminishes scarce land resources and endangers human health and the surrounding environment. Quantitative and visualized analysis was conducted to evaluate worldwide scientific research output on C&D waste from 2000 to 2016. The related information of 857 publications was collected from SCI-Expanded database and statistically analyzed. The number of documents about C&D waste presented a general growth during the last 17 years. Construction and Building Materials publication ranked first in the most productive journals. China and Spain acted as dominated roles comparing to other countries, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University was the institution with the largest amount of C&D waste research. Recycled aggregates, sustainable C&D waste management, and the rewarding program and commerce system were the hottest topics during 2000–2016 and in the near future according to the intellectual structure analysis.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51508430) and the Open Research fund from Hubei Key Laboratory of Mine Environmental Pollutional Control & Remediation (No. 2016101).

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    Yanli Liu, Tiantian Sun & Lie Yang

  2. Hubei Key Laboratory of Mine Environmental Pollutional Control & Remediation, 435003, Huangshi, People’s Republic of China

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Liu, Y., Sun, T. & Yang, L. Evaluating the performance and intellectual structure of construction and demolition waste research during 2000–2016. Environ Sci Pollut Res 24, 19259–19266 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-9598-9

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