Litter reduction in the coastal and marine environment represents a major challenge but must be prioritized topreserve biodiversity and ecosystems, as well as the goods and services that humans derive from seas and oceans.This paper reviews the available global scientific literature focusing on marine beach litter and tracks its evolutionand trends by combining social network analysis and bibliometrics. The relationships and co-occurrencesamong authors, countries and keywords retrieved from the Scopus abstract and citation database are presented.A total of 1765 publications are analysed: the majority being journal articles. Results reveal the notableworldwide increase in scientific interest in beach litter in the last decade, as well as its multidisciplinary perspectives.This information could be beneficial for the processes that support the improvement of internationalefforts for beach litter monitoring, removal, and management activities.

Scientific knowledge on marine beach litter: A bibliometric analysis / Cesarano, Cinzia; Aulicino, Giuseppe; Cerrano, Carlo; Ponti, Massimo; Puce, Stefania. - In: MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN. - ISSN 0025-326X. - 173:(2021). [10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.113102]

Scientific knowledge on marine beach litter: A bibliometric analysis

Cesarano, Cinzia;Cerrano, Carlo;Puce, Stefania
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2021-01-01

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Litter reduction in the coastal and marine environment represents a major challenge but must be prioritized topreserve biodiversity and ecosystems, as well as the goods and services that humans derive from seas and oceans.This paper reviews the available global scientific literature focusing on marine beach litter and tracks its evolutionand trends by combining social network analysis and bibliometrics. The relationships and co-occurrencesamong authors, countries and keywords retrieved from the Scopus abstract and citation database are presented.A total of 1765 publications are analysed: the majority being journal articles. Results reveal the notableworldwide increase in scientific interest in beach litter in the last decade, as well as its multidisciplinary perspectives.This information could be beneficial for the processes that support the improvement of internationalefforts for beach litter monitoring, removal, and management activities.
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