The rise of the worm: Bibliometric insights into the growing significance of vermicomposting for sustainable agriculture and environmental management
Purpose: This paper presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of vermicomposting research over the past decade, focusing on its several advantages to sustainable agriculture and waste management. Method: The study encompasses 3259 papers published during the last decade (2013-2022), with a...
| Published in: | International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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OICC Press
2025-02-01
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| Online Access: | https://oiccpress.com/ijrowa/article/view/8661 |
| Summary: | Purpose: This paper presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of vermicomposting research over the past decade, focusing on its several advantages to sustainable agriculture and waste management.
Method: The study encompasses 3259 papers published during the last decade (2013-2022), with a focus on the last five years to identify emerging trends.
Results: A substantial growth in vermicomposting research is observed, with an annual publication output doubling from 2013 to 2022. Subject area analysis reveals prominence in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. International collaboration has increased over the decade, with India leading in quantity but displaying a Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) below the global average. Other countries, including China, Spain, USA, and Malaysia, exhibit higher FWCI scores. Academic-corporate collaboration is limited, with only 9 papers resulting from such partnerships. Patent analysis indicates a growing interest in vermicomposting-related innovations, with 35 patents published since 2015, emphasizing sustainable practices in agriculture and waste management.
Conclusion: Emerging trends encompass the development of methods for assessing vermicompost maturity and investigating its integration with other waste treatment technologies, optimization of vermicomposting through feedstock diversification, process fine-tuning, and innovative reactor designs, and environmental applications, involving the removal of heavy metals, degradation of microplastics, and wastewater treatment.
Research Highlights
• A bibliometric analysis was conducted using Scopus, VOSviewer and SciVal
• A steady increase in annual publications with a particular uptick since 2019
• 3259 research articles and 35 patents were published during 2013-2022
• India is the most prolific country, followed by Iran and China
• Emerging trends: innovative reactor designs, and new environmental applications
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| ISSN: | 2195-3228 2251-7715 |