Visualization Network Analysis of Studies on Agricultural Drainage Water Treatment

Abstract

Excessive chemical substances in agricultural drainage water have serious adverse effects on the ecological environment of the watershed into which they are discharged. Therefore, it has attracted widespread attention from scholars worldwide. In this paper, 282 scientific articles related to agricultural drainage water treatment are selected from the Web of Science Core Collection database, and CiteSpace was used to visualize and analyze the knowledge map of this field. The most productive authors, institutions, and countries in agricultural drainage water research are graphically presented in this paper. Developing countries are becoming the core force in this realm of inquiry. In addition, this paper explains the changes in research topics in this field over time and reveals current research hotspots, including “desalination”, “denitrification”, and “phosphorus removal”. Future research endeavors in using bioreactors and agricultural drainage water ditches for treating agricultural drainage water are implied to become a research focus in this field. This paper also emphasizes that future environmental protection research should increase case studies in developing countries and develop corresponding solutions based on the actual situation of agriculture in rural areas of developing countries.

Advances in Environmental Biotechnology with CRISPR/Cas9: Bibliometric Review and Cutting-Edge Applications

“…Intermediate node centrality analysis is a measure used in network analysis, such as cooperation networks in scientific research [40]. The value provided by the intermediate centrality is interpreted as the total number of paths passing through the node [146].…”

“…Using CiteSpace (6.1.R6. ), the base data for our study was imported since it is an open-access software and one of those recommended for bibliometric analysis by Dr. Chen Chaomei [40]. CiteSpace allowed us to obtain a visualization of scientific contributions, collaboration networks, and distribution among countries and institutions in developing research on CRISPR/Cas9 and Environmental Biotechnology [213,214].…”

“…CiteSpace allowed us to obtain a visualization of scientific contributions, collaboration networks, and distribution among countries and institutions in developing research on CRISPR/Cas9 and Environmental Biotechnology [213,214]. For this purpose, the presentation of information was configured in the software using nodes for "country," "institution," "journals," and "authors" with the respective correlation lines between each analyzed topic [40]. For the correlation with the years of publication, the program configuration was modified to incorporate the data into a timeline structure, thereby determining the highest scores.…”

“…This study conducted a scientometric analysis: bibliometric tools focused on applying CRISPR-CAS9 in environmental biotechnology. Bibliometrics and scientometrics are considered quantitative tools commonly used in scientific research [39][40][41], applying mathematical and statistical methods to books and other research media. Scientometrics, a field examining bibliometric data, seeks patterns and causalities in science through numerical correlations [42].…”