Abstract
Wastewater is featured as a polluting source because it holds large amounts of organic load. It is essential to find more sustainable ways to produce and generate less harmful waste. Thus the use of microalgae to treat wastewater stands out as an ecological process capable of removing most of its organic loading. A systematic review was carried out at Web of Science’s (WoS) core collection, evidencing state of the art in scientific knowledge about this issue. Data were extracted from WoS and processed in CiteSpace, Excel, and Statistica software. The refined dataset resulted in 863 publications, which received 7485 citations. Each study recorded 8.67 citations, on average, and H-index equals 33. China was the country with the most significant number of studies about wastewater treatment with microalgae (28.74% of publications), followed by India (11.01%), the United States (8.57%), and Brazil (7.53%). The current review presents a global panorama of research about the use of microalgae as a wastewater bioremediation resource. It also highlights that this topic has impact factors and is the scientific community’s object of interest.
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