BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ACCIDENTAL OIL SPILLS IN ICE-INFESTEDWATERS
Date
2022
Authors
Kabyl, Almat
Yang, Ming
Shah, Dhawal
Ahmad, Arshad
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Abstract
Oil spills are environmental pollution events that occur due to natural disasters or human
activities, resulting in a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon release in the environment, especially into the
marine ecosystem. Once oil spills happen, they cause detrimental consequences to the environment,
living organisms, and humans. Although there are increasing oil and gas activities in the Arctic region,
which is abundant with undiscovered oil and gas resources, the harsh environmental conditions of
the region, such as the ice coverage, cold temperatures, long periods of darkness, and its remoteness,
pose significant challenges to managing the risk of accidental oil spills in ice-infested waters. In
this paper, a bibliometric analysis has been applied to study the global work on oil spill research in
ice-infested waters. The paper aims to present an overview of the available oil spill response methods
in ice-infested waters, identify the current trends of the research on oil spills in ice-infested waters,
and determine the challenges with the future research directions based on the bibliometric analysis.
The analysis includes a total number of 77 articles that have been published in this research field
which were available in the Scopus database, involving 193 authors from 17 countries dating from
1960 to September 2022. During the bibliometric analysis, the top five most productive authors and
countries as well as the most cited publications on oil spills in ice-infested waters have been identified;
the authors’ cooperation network and the cooperation network between the countries in oil spills
research in ice-infested waters have been created; a co-citation analysis and a terms analysis have
been performed to identify the popular terms and topics. For future directions, it is recommended
for researchers (1) to study real oil spills as much as possible to obtain a good overview through
replication under different situations; (2) to develop a new technique for the careful examination and
management of the potential risks; (3) to study oil separation from the recovered oil–ice mixture.
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Type of access: Open Access, oil spills, ice-infested waters, harsh environment, response, risk management
Citation
Kabyl, A., Yang, M., Shah, D., & Ahmad, A. (2022). Bibliometric Analysis of Accidental Oil Spills in Ice-Infested Waters. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(22), 15190. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192215190