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Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation

Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation is a research topic within Water Science and Technology. Science Explorer counts 7.5k research works in it since 1962. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to water quality and pollution, including the impact of heavy metals, xylitol toxicity in dogs, methods for sampling bioecology, wastewater management techniques, and the biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems. It also delves into the fields of marine biology, environmental management, and toxicology.

  • Water Quality
  • Pollution
  • Heavy Metals
  • Xylitol Toxicity
  • Environmental Management
  • Aquatic Ecosystems
  • Wastewater Treatment
  • Bioecology Sampling
  • Marine Biology
  • Toxicology
Research works
7.5k
fractional, since 1962
In the world top 10%
739
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+36%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
94% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation research?

By volume, Indonesia and ?? publish the most (3.1k and 82 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 3.1k works
  2. 2 ?? 82 works
  3. 3 United States 28 works
  4. 4 Malaysia 27 works
  5. 5 Canada 13 works
  6. 6 China 13 works
  7. 7 India 10 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 10 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 9 works
  10. 10 Iraq 9 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.

Indonesia: 93.8%??: 2.5%United States: 0.9%Malaysia: 0.8%6 others listed: 2.0%94%largest
Indonesia3,071 · 93.8%??82 · 2.5%United States28 · 0.9%Malaysia27 · 0.8%6 others listed64 · 2.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Diponegoro University publishes the most Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation research, followed by University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa Timur and Tanjungpura University.

What are the most cited papers in Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation?

The most cited paper in Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation is "Spatial variation of heavy metals in surface sediments of Hong Kong mangrove swamps" (N.F.Y. Tam, Yau Shu Wong, 2000), with 658 citations. Next come "Activated carbon from coconut coirpith as metal adsorbent: adsorption of Cd(II) from aqueous solution" (471) and "Crab shell for the removal of heavy metals from aqueous solution" (358).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Spatial variation of heavy metals in surface sediments of Hong Kong mangrove swamps N.F.Y. Tam, Yau Shu Wong · Environmental Pollution Nov 2000 658
2 Activated carbon from coconut coirpith as metal adsorbent: adsorption of Cd(II) from aqueous solution Krishna Kadirvelu, Chinnaiya Namasivayam · Advances in Environmental Research 2003 471
3 Crab shell for the removal of heavy metals from aqueous solution H. An · Water Research Oct 2001 358
4 Toxicity, growth and accumulation relationships of copper, lead and zinc in the grey mangrove Avicennia marina (Forsk.) Vierh Geoff R. MacFarlane, Margaret D. Burchett · Marine Environmental Research Jul 2002 306
5 Novel approach for effective removal of methylene blue dye from water using fava bean peel waste Omar S. Bayomie, Haitham Kandeel, Tamer Shoeib et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 8 May 2020 285
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation research done?

The largest centres of Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation research in 2022-now are Surabaya (Indonesia), Semarang (Indonesia), Jakarta (Indonesia) and Malang (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sleman, Pangkalpinang and Samarinda.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SurabayaIndonesia 228 works
  2. 2 SemarangIndonesia 217 works
  3. 3 JakartaIndonesia 211 works
  4. 4 MalangIndonesia 133 works
  5. 5 MedanIndonesia 120 works
  6. 6 MakassarIndonesia 119 works
  7. 7 BandungIndonesia 109 works
  8. 8 PadangIndonesia 107 works
  9. 9 YogyakartaIndonesia 89 works
  10. 10 PalembangIndonesia 85 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SlemanID · 53.4 works47×
  2. PangkalpinangID · 23.3 works45×
  3. SamarindaID · 65.3 works40×
  4. BalikpapanID · 22.1 works39×
  5. ReuleuetID · 29.2 works36×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation?

Among universities, judged by research, Diponegoro University, Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji and University of Mataram 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.

0%10%20%30%mean 14.66%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universitas Maritim …Jenderal Soedirman U…University of MataramDiponegoro University
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 73.212.9%52.3×116 +11.0%
2Universitas Maritim Raja Ali HajiIndonesia 69.728.0%46.2×14 +62.1%
3University of MataramIndonesia 65.114.3%24.5×56 +149.6%
4Jenderal Soedirman UniversityIndonesia 64.717.5%34.0×28 +56.3%
5IPB UniversityIndonesia 64.113.3%27.0×43 +12.9%
6Sumatera Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 61.816.6%73.7×21 +225.1%
7University of BengkuluIndonesia 60.416.2%23.6×24 +31.7%
8Sriwijaya UniversityIndonesia 59.210.2%34.0×54 +53.6%
9State University of MalangIndonesia 58.47.2%19.5×52 +96.0%
10Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 58.110.4%21.9×26 +25.1%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation, country by country

Is Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Heavy Metal Pollution Remediation9.7% in 202520102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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.

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