Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Astana 01000, Kazakhstan.
Safety and Security Science Section, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 17;19(22):15190. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192215190.
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.
溢油是由于自然灾害或人类活动导致的环境污染事件，导致环境中释放出液态石油碳氢化合物，特别是进入海洋生态系统。一旦发生溢油事件，它们会对环境、生物和人类造成有害后果。尽管北极地区的石油和天然气活动日益增加，该地区蕴藏着未开发的石油和天然气资源，但该地区恶劣的环境条件，如冰盖、寒冷的温度、长时间的黑暗和偏远，给管理冰区水域意外溢油风险带来了重大挑战。在本文中，应用文献计量分析研究了冰区水域溢油研究的全球工作。本文旨在概述冰区水域可用的溢油应急方法，确定冰区水域溢油研究的当前趋势，并根据文献计量分析确定未来研究方向的挑战。分析包括在 Scopus 数据库中可获得的该研究领域中发表的 77 篇文章，涉及 193 名来自 17 个国家的作者，时间跨度为 1960 年至 2022 年 9 月。在文献计量分析中，确定了最具生产力的前 5 名作者和国家，以及最具影响力的关于冰区水域溢油的出版物；创建了作者合作网络和冰区水域溢油研究国家间的合作网络；进行了共被引分析和术语分析，以确定热门术语和主题。对于未来的方向，建议研究人员：(1)尽可能研究真实的溢油事件，以便通过不同情况下的复制获得良好的概述；(2)开发新的技术，用于仔细检查和管理潜在风险；(3)研究从回收的油冰混合物中分离油的方法。
