A scientometric analysis approach on the plastic sand
Bawar Iftikhar,
Sophia C. Alih,
Mohammadreza Vafaei,
Raid Alrowais,
Muhammad Tariq Bashir,
Alamgir Khalil,
Muhammad Rizwan,
Muhammad Faisal Javed,
Muhammad Faisal Rehman,
Abdullah Mohamed
Affiliations
Bawar Iftikhar
School of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
Sophia C. Alih
Institute of Noise and Vibration, School of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia; Corresponding author.
Mohammadreza Vafaei
School of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
Raid Alrowais
Department of Civil Engineering, Jouf University, Al-Jawf 72388, Saudi Arabia
Muhammad Tariq Bashir
Department of Civil Engineering, CECOS University of IT and Emerging Sciences, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan
Alamgir Khalil
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar 25120, Pakistan
Muhammad Rizwan
National Institute of Transportation Risalpur National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Faisal Javed
Department of Civil Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, 22060, Pakistan; Corresponding author.
Muhammad Faisal Rehman
Department of Architecture, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan
Abdullah Mohamed
Research Centre, Future University in Egypt, New Cairo 11835, Egypt
The purpose of this research was to conduct a scientometric evaluation of the literature pertaining to plastic sand in order to evaluate its many aspects. Conventional review studies have several limitations when it comes to their capacity to completely and properly link different sections of the published research. Some of the more complicated features of advanced research are co-occurrence analysis, science mapping and co-citation analysis. During the study, the most inventive authors/researchers renowned for citations, the sources with the largest number of publications, the actively involved domains, and co-occurrences of keywords in the research on plastic sand are investigated. This study is limited to scientometric analysis of the available literature data on plastic sand. The VOSviewer application (version 1.6.18) was used to perform the analysis after bibliometric data for 4512 publications were extracted from the Scopus database and utilised in the extraction process from the year 2021 to June 2022. With the support of a statistical and graphical description of researchers and nations that are contributing, this study will aid researchers in the establishment of collaborative ventures and the exchange of fresh techniques and ideas with one another.
