• Knisz, Judit
• Eyduran, Sadiye Peral
• Akin, Meleksen
• Skovhus, Torben Lund

Abstract

A bibliometric analysis on Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) of oil and gas industry was performed utilizing Scopus and Web of Science. The documents published on the topic until May, 2023 were extracted from both databases and merged, which resulted in 603 documents after removing duplicates. Bibliometrix package and Biblioshiny interface in R studio were used for the bibliometric <br/>analysis. The first document on the topic was released in 1982 and there was about 9.5% annual growth of publications until 2023 year. The core group consisted of 14 out of 277 sources with NACE International Corrosion Conference Series as the most active in the field (98 documents). The highest number of documents was from the USA (146 documents), China (87 documents) and Canada (48 documents). The most active countries in the field published mainly single country documents and demonstrated very low to no international collaboration on the domain. The Sankey plot projected that besides MIC authors from the USA, China and Canada were also publishing on sulfate reducing <br/>bacteria, biofilm and biocide as sub-topics. The most used author keywords mapped after MIC were biofilm, sulfate reducing bacteria, biocide, carbon steel and pitting corrosion which also represent the current direction of the research field. Collaboration network analysis resulted in only ten unique authors <br/>and six institution sub-networks with at least two collaborative papers. This study sheds light on the evolutionary nuances of the area while displaying trend topics and research gaps, as well as hidden collaboration networks among the actors. Keywords: co-word analysis, science mapping, thematic evaluation, network analysis, bibliometric study, oil and gas Acknowledgement This article/publication is based upon work from COST Action “CA20130 Euro-MIC” (https://www.euro-mic.org), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation.

Topics

• impedance spectroscopy
• Carbon
• pitting corrosion
• steel