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Waste Management and Recycling

Waste Management and Recycling is a research topic within Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1969. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on various aspects of waste management, including community participation, plastic waste, environmental impact, recycling, household waste, social empowerment, sustainable development, local wisdom, and composting. The papers explore strategies for reducing, reusing, and recycling waste to promote environmental sustainability.

  • Waste Management
  • Community Participation
  • Plastic Waste
  • Environmental Impact
  • Recycling
  • Household Waste
  • Social Empowerment
  • Sustainable Development
  • Local Wisdom
  • Composting
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1969
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+96%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
94% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Waste Management and Recycling

Which countries lead Waste Management and Recycling research?

By volume, Indonesia and ?? publish the most (8.5k and 244 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 8.5k works
  2. 2 ?? 244 works
  3. 3 China 78 works
  4. 4 United States 55 works
  5. 5 India 54 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 40 works
  7. 7 Canada 21 works
  8. 8 Philippines 19 works
  9. 9 Japan 17 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 15 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: 94.0%??: 2.7%China: 0.9%United States: 0.6%6 others listed: 1.8%94%largest
Indonesia8,532 · 94.0%??244 · 2.7%China78 · 0.9%United States55 · 0.6%6 others listed166 · 1.8%

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

Which institutions lead Waste Management and Recycling research?

By volume in 2022-now, Sebelas Maret University publishes the most Waste Management and Recycling research, followed by University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa Timur and University of Mataram.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Sebelas Maret UniversityIndonesia 157 works
  2. 2 University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa TimurIndonesia 156 works
  3. 3 University of MataramIndonesia 156 works
  4. 4 State University of MalangIndonesia 133 works
  5. 5 Universitas JemberIndonesia 122 works
  6. 6 State University of MakassarIndonesia 99 works
  7. 7 State University of SemarangIndonesia 95 works
  8. 8 State University of PadangIndonesia 94 works
  9. 9 Riau UniversityIndonesia 91 works
  10. 10 Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia 89 works

Who are the leading researchers in Waste Management and Recycling?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Waste Management and Recycling include Guangming Zeng, Ashok D. Pandey and Meghdad Pirsaheb.

  1. 1 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  2. 2 Ashok D. Pandey India 78k citations
  3. 3 Meghdad Pirsaheb Iran 74k citations
  4. 4 Min Jae Yang China 73k citations
  5. 5 Qirong Shen China 61k citations
  6. 6 Tim Angus McAllister Canada 53k 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 Waste Management and Recycling?

The most cited paper in Waste Management and Recycling is "Composting of animal manures and chemical criteria for compost maturity assessment. A review" (M.P. Bernal, José Antonio Alburquerque, Raúl Moral, 2009), with 2,523 citations. Next come "Maturity and stability parameters of composts prepared with a wide range of organic wastes" (864) and "Effect of aeration rate, C/N ratio and moisture content on the stability and maturity of compost" (709).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Composting of animal manures and chemical criteria for compost maturity assessment. A review M.P. Bernal, José Antonio Alburquerque, Raúl Moral · Bioresource Technology 2 Jan 2009 2,523
2 Maturity and stability parameters of composts prepared with a wide range of organic wastes M.P. Bernai, C. Paredes, Miguel Angel Sanchez-Monedero et al. · Bioresource Technology 1998 864
3 Effect of aeration rate, C/N ratio and moisture content on the stability and maturity of compost Rui Feng Guo, Guoxue Li, Tao Jiang et al. · Bioresource Technology 5 Mar 2012 709
4 MEWUJUDKAN GOOD GOVERNANCE MELALUI PELAYANAN PUBLIK Engkus, Ainyna Rachmadianty Azan, Alliadzar Hanif et al. · Jurnal Abdimas Peradaban Open access 5 Apr 2021 583
5 Use of biochar as bulking agent for the composting of poultry manure: Effect on organic matter degradation and humification Bruno Oliveira Dias, Carlos Alberto Silva, Fábio Satoshi Higashikawa et al. · Bioresource Technology Open access Oct 2009 507
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Waste Management and Recycling research done?

The largest centres of Waste Management and Recycling research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Surabaya (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia) and Semarang (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Balikpapan, Jakarta and Tanjung Pinang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 803 works
  2. 2 SurabayaIndonesia 558 works
  3. 3 BandungIndonesia 442 works
  4. 4 SemarangIndonesia 425 works
  5. 5 MedanIndonesia 367 works
  6. 6 YogyakartaIndonesia 366 works
  7. 7 MalangIndonesia 362 works
  8. 8 MakassarIndonesia 347 works
  9. 9 SurakartaIndonesia 247 works
  10. 10 DenpasarIndonesia 228 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BalikpapanID · 63.5 works40×
  2. Jakarta23.3 works37×
  3. Tanjung PinangID · 32.0 works34×
  4. MagelangID · 57.7 works31×
  5. SorongID · 24.7 works30×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 Semarang, University of Indonesia and Sebelas Maret University 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%20%40%mean 15.2%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universitas 17 Agust…University of Indone…Indonesia University…Sebelas Maret Univer…
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
1Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 SemarangIndonesia 66.734.0%21.9×13 +262.1%
2University of IndonesiaIndonesia 64.320.1%7.3×67 +24.5%
3Sebelas Maret UniversityIndonesia 62.89.7%21.6×157 +100.5%
4Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 62.715.7%10.6×82 +159.0%
5Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 60.714.5%10.5×72 +25.0%
6Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 60.514.1%9.1×68 +76.6%
7State University of MalangIndonesia 60.48.5%17.9×133 +115.1%
8University of National EducationIndonesia 59.613.7%68.4×70 +827.0%
9IPB UniversityIndonesia 58.315.2%13.1×58 +54.6%
10University of MataramIndonesia 58.26.5%24.6×156 +114.8%

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 Waste Management and Recycling, country by country

Is Waste Management and Recycling research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 96% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Waste Management and Recycling.

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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 Waste Management and Recycling as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.041% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Waste Management and Recycling0.040% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Waste Management and Recycling 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%Waste Management and Recycling9.3% 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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