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Table 3 The top ten ranking of subject categories for published articles associated with solid waste

From: The Arab world’s contribution to solid waste literature: a bibliometric analysis

SCRa

Subject categories

n (%)b

1st

Environmental sciences

175 (45.8)

2nd

Environmental engineering

111 (29.1)

3rd

Energy fuels

45 (11.8)

4th

Applied microbiology and biotechnology

44 (11.5)

5th

Chemical engineering

35 (9.2)

6th

Civil engineering

32 (8.4)

7th

Water resources

31 (8.1)

8th

Agricultural engineering

24 (6.3)

9th

Applied chemistry

14 (3.7)

9th

Soil science

14 (3.7)

  1. SCR Standard Competition Ranking
  2. aEqual areas of interest have the same ranking number, which leaves a gap in the ranking numbers
  3. bTotal exceeds 100 % as data are overlapping due to multidiscipline interactions