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Recycling and Waste Management Techniques

Recycling and Waste Management Techniques is a research topic within Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Science Explorer counts 54k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the global production, environmental impacts, recycling techniques, management practices, and legislation related to electronic waste (e-waste). It covers topics such as metal recovery, hazardous substances, health consequences, and the challenges and opportunities in e-waste recycling.

  • E-Waste
  • Recycling
  • Environmental Impacts
  • Metal Recovery
  • Waste Management
  • Hazardous Substances
  • Electronic Equipment
  • Health Consequences
  • Legislation
  • Global Production
Research works
54k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+86%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Recycling and Waste Management Techniques

Which countries lead Recycling and Waste Management Techniques research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (4.8k and 2.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 4.8k works
  2. 2 India 2.1k works
  3. 3 United States 1.6k works
  4. 4 Germany 712 works
  5. 5 Brazil 656 works
  6. 6 Italy 642 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 623 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 535 works
  9. 9 South Korea 506 works
  10. 10 France 448 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.

China: 37.9%India: 16.9%United States: 12.5%Germany: 5.6%6 others listed: 27.0%38%largest
China4,786 · 37.9%India2,133 · 16.9%United States1,573 · 12.5%Germany712 · 5.6%6 others listed3,409 · 27.0%

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

Which institutions lead Recycling and Waste Management Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Recycling and Waste Management Techniques research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Central South University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 290 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 168 works
  3. 3 Central South UniversityChina 133 works
  4. 4 Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 102 works
  5. 5 Tongji UniversityChina 84 works
  6. 6 Tsinghua UniversityChina 77 works
  7. 7 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 67 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 66 works
  9. 9 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 65 works
  10. 10 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 64 works

Who are the leading researchers in Recycling and Waste Management Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Recycling and Waste Management Techniques include Zhong Lin Wang, Kostya S. Novoselov and Lídia Morawska.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  3. 3 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  6. 6 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  7. 7 John G.F. Cleland United Kingdom 198k citations
  8. 8 Hua Zhang Singapore 196k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Recycling and Waste Management Techniques?

The most cited paper in Recycling and Waste Management Techniques is "Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made" (Roland Geyer, Jenna Jambeck, Kara Lavender Law, 2017), with 18,485 citations. Next come "Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean" (13,155) and "Toxic Potential of Materials at the Nanolevel" (9,332).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made Roland Geyer, Jenna Jambeck, Kara Lavender Law · Science Advances Open access 7 Jul 2017 18,485
2 Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean Jenna Jambeck, Roland Geyer, Chris Wilcox et al. · Science 12 Feb 2015 13,155
3 Toxic Potential of Materials at the Nanolevel André E. Nel, Tian Xia, Lutz Mädler et al. · Science 2 Feb 2006 9,332
4 Microplastics in the marine environment Anthony L. Andrady · Marine Pollution Bulletin 14 Jul 2011 8,102
5 Lost at Sea: Where Is All the Plastic? Richard C. Thompson, Ylva S. Olsen, Richard P. Mitchell et al. · Science 6 May 2004 7,767
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Recycling and Waste Management Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Recycling and Waste Management Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Leoben and Lappeenranta.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 911 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 344 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 247 works
  4. 4 GuangzhouChina 223 works
  5. 5 ChangshaChina 196 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 191 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 176 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 171 works
  9. 9 ChennaiIndia 169 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 160 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LeobenAT · 24.9 works12×
  2. LappeenrantaFI · 22.1 works9.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Recycling and Waste Management Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Recycling and Waste Management Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, Rama Devi Women's University, Central South University and Wageningen University & Research score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%60%mean 23.24%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Rama Devi Women's Un…Wageningen Universit…Tongji UniversityCentral South Univer…
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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.

Citation 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
1Rama Devi Women's UniversityIndia 62.253.4%53.5×12 +270.5%
2Central South UniversityChina 57.712.9%3.9×133 +78.6%
3Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 55.922.5%4.0×26 +62.3%
4Tongji UniversityChina 54.515.6%3.1×84 +121.3%
5University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 53.922.0%2.0×57 +76.8%
6Northwest A&F UniversityChina 53.830.2%3.8×26 +79.9%
7National University of SingaporeSingapore 53.219.1%1.9×39 +133.9%
8Kunming University of Science and TechnologyChina 53.18.9%10.3×102 +151.5%
9University of Technology SydneyAustralia 52.331.4%2.5×20 +144.2%
10Tsinghua UniversityChina 52.016.4%1.9×77 +48.4%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, country by country

Is Recycling and Waste Management Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 86% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Recycling and Waste Management Techniques.

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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 Recycling and Waste Management Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.11% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Recycling and Waste Management Techniques0.092% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Recycling and Waste Management Techniques 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%Recycling and Waste Management Techniques10.0% in 2025200020102020

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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