SynthesisWaste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA2024
Does medical waste research during COVID-19 meet the challenge induced by the pandemic to waste management?
Synthesis in Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Occupational Hazard Among Biomedical Waste Handlers in Low-Resource Settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Health science reports · 2026Review
- The evolutionary path of medical waste management research: Insights from co-citation and co-word analysis.Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA · 2025Review
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented amount of medical waste, presenting significant challenges for the safe disposal of hazardous waste. A systematic review of existing research on COVID-19 and medical waste can help address these challenges by providing insights and recommendations for effective management of the massive medical waste generated during the pandemic. This study utilized bibliometric and text mining methods to survey the scientific outcomes related to COVID-19 and medical waste, drawing on data from the Scopus database. The results show that the spatial distribution of medical waste research is unbalanced. Surprisingly, developing countries rather than developed countries lead research in this area. Especially, China, a major contributor to the field, has the highest number of publications and citations, and is also a centre of international cooperation. The main study authors and research institutions are also mainly from China. And the research on medical waste is a multidisciplinary field. Text mining analysis shows that COVID-19 and medical waste research is mainly organized around four themes: (i) medical waste from personal protective equipment; (ii) research on medical waste in Wuhan, China; (iii) threats of medical waste to the environment and (iv) disposal and management of medical waste. This would serve to better understand the current state of medical waste research and to provide some implications for future research.
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