Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 14.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the challenges, opportunities, and innovations for effective medical waste management during and post the COVID-19 pandemic. It addresses issues related to the minimization, disinfection, and proper disposal of medical waste, as well as the environmental and health impacts of inadequate waste management practices.
- COVID-19
- medical waste
- solid waste management
- hospital waste
- waste disposal
- pandemic
- healthcare waste
- waste generation
- disinfection technology
- hazardous waste
- Research works
- 18k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 2.5k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 14.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +138% the tick is no change
This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.
Which countries lead Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management research?
By volume, India and Indonesia publish the most (961 and 661 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 India 961 works
- 2 Indonesia 661 works
- 3 Brazil 557 works
- 4 United States 372 works
- 5 China 298 works
- 6 Nigeria 255 works
- 7 Türkiye 178 works
- 8 United Kingdom 171 works
- 9 Iran 158 works
- 10 Malaysia 146 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
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Which institutions lead Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management research?
By volume in 2022–2025, University of Indonesia publishes the most Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management research, followed by Diponegoro University and Airlangga University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 31 works
- 2 Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 26 works
- 3 Airlangga UniversityIndonesia 21 works
- 4 University of BaghdadIraq 18 works
- 5 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 18 works
- 6 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 17 works
- 7 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 16 works
- 8 Politeknik Kesehatan Kemenkes SemarangIndonesia 16 works
- 9 Saveetha UniversityIndia 15 works
- 10 Rivers State UniversityNigeria 15 works
Who are the leading researchers in Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management include Meghdad Pirsaheb.
- 1 Meghdad Pirsaheb Iran 2.8k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management research done?
The largest centres of Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management research in 2022–2025 are Jakarta (Indonesia), São Paulo (Brazil), New Delhi (India) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Port Harcourt.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- Port HarcourtNG · 22.9 works10×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management?
Among universities, judged by research, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and University of Tehran score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khulna University of Engineering and TechnologyBangladesh | 60.1 | 30.7% | 16.1× | 9 | +82.1% |
| 2 | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana | 58.6 | 31.9% | 8.3× | 10 | — |
| 3 | University of TehranIran | 56.4 | 43.4% | 3.7× | 13 | +66.8% |
| 4 | Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia | 53.5 | 12.0% | 5.3× | 26 | +308.8% |
| 5 | Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia | 47.4 | 41.8% | 1.6× | 9 | +162.3% |
| 6 | University of IbadanNigeria | 45.4 | 17.8% | 5.5× | 8 | +317.2% |
| 7 | Tribhuvan UniversityNepal | 43.7 | 4.1% | 6.8× | 18 | +123.8% |
| 8 | Lovely Professional UniversityIndia | 43.3 | 38.6% | 3.0× | 9 | — |
| 9 | University of Technology MalaysiaMalaysia | 41.8 | 33.0% | 3.0× | 9 | +53.3% |
| 10 | University of BaghdadIraq | 41.5 | 5.9% | 4.2× | 18 | +211.1% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 138% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.