Growth of science in activated sludge modelling – a critical bibliometric review

• Published in: Water science and technology Vol. 83; no. 12; pp. 2841 - 2862
• Main Authors: Ahnert, Markus, Krebs, Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England IWA Publishing 01.06.2021
• Subjects: Activated sludge; activated sludge modelling; Anaerobic digestion; Anaerobic processes; Anaerobic treatment; Analysis; Artificial intelligence; Benchmarking; bibliometric analysis; Bibliometrics; Citation indexes; Datasets; Documents; exponential growth; keyword analysis; Modelling; Phosphorus; Phosphorus removal; Research Design; Science; Sewage; Sludge; Trends; China

In this paper, the tool of bibliometric analysis is applied to the field of activated sludge modelling and its suitability as a first step of a literature analysis is assessed. The analysis is applied to the total dataset considered as well as a time-based classification. It can be shown that this t...