Print Email Facebook Twitter Bibliometric Analysis of Accidental Oil Spills in Ice-Infested Waters Title Bibliometric Analysis of Accidental Oil Spills in Ice-Infested Waters Author Kabyl, Almat (Nazarbayev University) Yang, M. (TU Delft Safety and Security Science; Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; University of Tasmania) Shah, Dhawal (Nazarbayev University) Ahmad, Arshad (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) Date 2022 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. Subject oil spillsice-infested watersharsh environmentresponserisk management To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ffbc5bb5-0be8-4c4b-abe2-0d53adeac521 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192215190 ISSN 1660-4601 Source International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (22) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2022 Almat Kabyl, M. Yang, Dhawal Shah, Arshad Ahmad Files PDF ijerph_19_15190.pdf 973.28 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ffbc5bb5-0be8-4c4b-abe2-0d53adeac521/datastream/OBJ/view