Bibliometric Analysis of Accidental Oil Spills in Ice-Infested Waters

Almat Kabyl, Ming Yang (), Dhawal Shah and Arshad Ahmad
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Almat Kabyl: Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Astana 01000, Kazakhstan
Ming Yang: Safety and Security Science Section, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands
Dhawal Shah: Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Astana 01000, Kazakhstan
Arshad Ahmad: Centre of Hydrogen Energy, Institute of Future Energy, UTM Johor Bahru, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor 81310, Malaysia

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 22, 1-17

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.

Keywords: oil spills; ice-infested waters; harsh environment; response; risk management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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