Municipal Solid Waste Management
Municipal Solid Waste Management is a research topic within Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Science Explorer counts 26k research works in it since 1951. 22.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the challenges and practices in solid waste management, particularly in developing countries. It covers topics such as municipal solid waste, recycling, landfill, life cycle assessment, renewable energy, waste-to-energy, environmental impact, and sustainability.
- Municipal Solid Waste
- Waste Management
- Developing Countries
- Recycling
- Landfill
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Renewable Energy
- Waste-to-Energy
- Environmental Impact
- Sustainability
- Research works
- 26k fractional, since 1951
- In the world top 10%
- 5.8k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 22.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +102% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Municipal Solid Waste Management research?
By volume, India and China publish the most (1.2k and 1.1k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 India 1.2k works
- 2 China 1.1k works
- 3 Indonesia 634 works
- 4 Brazil 466 works
- 5 United States 423 works
- 6 Nigeria 351 works
- 7 Türkiye 281 works
- 8 Malaysia 252 works
- 9 United Kingdom 222 works
- 10 Italy 199 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 Municipal Solid Waste Management research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Universiti Teknologi MARA publishes the most Municipal Solid Waste Management research, followed by Tongji University and University of Indonesia.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 38 works
- 2 Tongji UniversityChina 31 works
- 3 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 26 works
- 4 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 25 works
- 5 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 23 works
- 6 Beijing University of TechnologyChina 23 works
- 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 22 works
- 8 Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 22 works
- 9 Sebelas Maret UniversityIndonesia 21 works
- 10 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 21 works
Who are the leading researchers in Municipal Solid Waste Management?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Municipal Solid Waste Management include Seeram Ramakrishna, Yong Sik Ok and Gordon McKay.
- 1 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 5.1k citations
- 2 Yong Sik Ok South Korea 3.3k citations
- 3 Gordon McKay Qatar 2.4k citations
- 4 Ki‐Hyun Kim South Korea 2.3k citations
- 5 Chi Sun Poon Hong Kong 2.3k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Municipal Solid Waste Management research done?
The largest centres of Municipal Solid Waste Management research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Chennai (India) and New Delhi (India).
Where is the best place to study Municipal Solid Waste Management?
Among universities, judged by research, University of Regina, Central Queensland University and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology 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 | University of ReginaCanada | 69.6 | 33.6% | 15.4× | 14 | +461.9% |
| 2 | Central Queensland UniversityAustralia | 66.0 | 58.0% | 9.3× | 9 | +76.7% |
| 3 | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana | 65.8 | 25.5% | 9.7× | 17 | +166.9% |
| 4 | Midlands State UniversityZimbabwe | 59.2 | 46.5% | 18.1× | 8 | — |
| 5 | Lappeenranta-Lahti University of TechnologyFinland | 58.6 | 14.6% | 13.7× | 12 | +187.1% |
| 6 | Khulna University of Engineering and TechnologyBangladesh | 57.8 | 25.3% | 16.7× | 14 | +104.7% |
| 7 | RMIT UniversityAustralia | 55.6 | 32.1% | 4.2× | 13 | +436.3% |
| 8 | Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong | 55.0 | 50.9% | 2.0× | 16 | +61.3% |
| 9 | Parthenope University of NaplesItaly | 54.6 | 38.6% | 11.5× | 8 | — |
| 10 | Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia | 54.0 | 4.7% | 5.6× | 38 | +199.8% |
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 Municipal Solid Waste Management research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 102% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Municipal Solid Waste Management.
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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.