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Trends in Green Chemistry Research

Leonardo Victor Marcelino (PG),1* Carlos Alberto Marques (PQ)2
leovmarcelino@gmail.com
1 Pós-Graduação em Educação Científica e Tecnológica, UFSC; 2Departamento de Metodologia de Ensino, UFSC

Palavras Chave: Green Chemistry, Bibliometry, Cocitation Analysis, Literature Review.

Highlights
We investigate over 14,000 papers on Green Chemistry and their references by cocitation analysis,
generating a panorama of trends in Green Chemistry research from 1990 until 2017.

Resumo/Abstract
Green Chemistry (GC) is a growing field with huge peaked between 2010-2014. Deep Eutectic Solvents
accumulated publications, hampering qualitative and Lignin Valorization are very fresh trends. This
descriptions of its trends. We recurred to cocitaion kind of research is important to assess the history and
analysis1 to address a large amount of data, evolution of GC and ongoing investigation will deepen
presenting a panorama of GC research. The the analysis of the trends presented.
technique relies on the co-occurrence of citations to a
set of references to investigate research fronts2 (a Figure 1: Data retrieval information.
joint of fresh, highly cited papers around a same
theme) associated to an intellectual base (a group of
cocited documents that supports the knowledge in the
front). We selected 14,142 documents (Fig. 1) and
used the CiteSpace2 software to perform the analysis,
generating a network of publications in GC, finding 16
trends in GC research of which we present the 9 most
relevant in Table 1. The oldest and biggest trends
arose in 1999 until recent years: Characterization of
GC; Metallic and Microwave assisted Catalysis;
Organic Reaction in Aqueous Media, and; CO2 as
Substrate. Solid Acid Catalysis and Ionic Liquids are Source: the authors.
trends influent until 2010. Biomass Transformation

Table 1: Trends of Green Chemistry research and their sizes and periods of action.
Intellectual Base Research Front
Trends
Size Mean Year Period Size Mean Year Period
Lignin Valorization 10 2013 2010-2016 7 2017 2017
Deep Eutetic Solvents 6 2012 2003-2016 10 2015 2014-2017
Solid Acids Catalysis 12 2004 2002-2017 10 2010 2010
Ionic Liquids 55 2000 1982-2011 17 2004 2002-2010
CO2 as Substrate 28 2002 1981-2015 18 2012 1999-2017
Organic Reactions in Aqueous Media 31 2002 1980-2014 30 2009 1999-2017
Metallic- and Microwave Assis. Cataly. 38 2000 1986-2013 30 2008 1999-2014
Biomass Transformation 33 2009 2002-2014 34 2011 2010-2014
Characterization of GC 45 2004 1991-2016 56 2010 1999-2017

Source: the authors.

Acknowledgement: This research was supported by Capes/PDSE/Process n. 88881.189651/2018-0 and

CNPq. We thank to Adilson L. Pinto (UFSC/Brazil), Dr., and Chaomei Chen (Drexel Uni., USA), Dr., for the
technical aid.

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