30 years of rubberized concrete investigations (1990-2020). A bibliometric analysis

William Rosado Martinez,Maritza Chan Juarez,Blandy Berenice Pamplona Solis,Ricardo Enrique Vega Azamar,Zakaryaa Zarhri,Jose Antonio Dominguez Lepe

doi:10.21041/ra.v12i1.554

Abstract

This work presents a bibliometric study of the literature on the use of caucho in the construction to promote the interest of using rubber as a prime material to reduce pollution at a global level. Published papers in the period 1999-2020 in both databases, Scopus and Web of Science (WoS), are taken into account using the Methodi Ordinatio and the VOSviewer software. A total of 967 documents on the use of rubber in structural and non-structural concrete have been published in this period and 1182 authors have contributed on the subject. Since 2010, the interest of researchers in introducing rubber in construction has increased. China, USA and Australia are the countries with the greatest interest in investigating about rubber-concrete.

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Inadequate management and disposal of solid waste is one of the activities most affecting the environment
A database in Comma Separated Values (CSV) and Text File (TXT) formats was subsequently generated for further analysis in a software tool for the construction and visualization of bibliometric networks called VOSviewer
The use of rubber in concrete was chosen as the main topic for the analysis, so the first search for articles was carried out considering the inclusion of the initial keyword ‘rubberized concrete’

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Inadequate management and disposal of solid waste is one of the activities most affecting the environment. The scientific community has recognized the problem this represents which is why different alternatives for the use of rubber from both waste and the recycling industry have been proposed and analyzed for its application in some engineering areas This entails economic development, job creation, as well as the fulfillment of a main objective: the reduction of pollutants in the environment (Al-Salem et al, 2009; Ghosh, 2019; Ruwona et al, 2019; Yang et al, 2018). This article is aimed at researchers and practitioners of the subject requiring an extensive analysis of the existing literature for future works

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