Bibliometric analysis of Rhodamine B degradation using cellulose-based materials: A review

Abstract

Environmental pollution is one of the serious problems. One of the biggest contributors to environmental pollution comes from factory waste. Factory waste generally contains harmful chemicals and microorganisms. Neurotoxic dyes are chemicals that can be contained in factory waste. Waste containing neurotoxic dyes in the form of Rhodamine B is very dangerous for living things because it causes infections in the eyes, skin, digestive tract, and respiratory tract. However, there is a Fe3O4 composite with cellulose that successfully regulates the decolorization process of Rhodamine B and it was found that almost 100% removal of Rhodamine B. Further exploration is needed regarding the degradation mechanism of Rhodamine B using cellulose-based materials. Therefore, bibliometric analysis is needed to present the relationship between Rhodamine B degradation and cellulose with data collection from 2008 to 2023. The database obtained from Scopus shows that there are a total of 124 documents. From the data obtained, the country with the highest number of publications is China with a total of 77 documents. Co-authorship mapping and network co-occurrence, keywords were analyzed using VOSviewer software. The results showed that the keyword “cellulose” ranked highest with 89 documents followed by the keywords “degradation” and “Rhodamine B”. The VOSviewers app illustrates the overall degradation of Rhodamine B using cellulose-based materials, it can help direct similar and relevant studies and predict future directions.

Keywords

• Bibliometric analysis
• Cellulose-based materials
• Degradation
• Rhodamine B
• VOSviewer