REVIEW article
Front. Chem. Eng.
Sec. Environmental Chemical Engineering
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fceng.2025.1605037
This article is part of the Research TopicTrends and Developments in Algal Biofuels, Biorefinery and BioremediationView all articles
Environmental Sustainability Indicators Applied to Bioprocesses: A Bibliometric Analysis (2005-2024)
Provisionally accepted
- 1University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia
- 2Cesar Vallejo University, Herrera, Peru
Select one of your emails
You have multiple emails registered with Frontiers:
Notify me on publication
Please enter your email address:
If you already have an account, please login
You don't have a Frontiers account ? You can register here
This study analyzes, quantifies, and maps, from a bibliometric perspective, the scientific production around environmental sustainability indicators used in bioprocesses covering the timeframe 2005-2024 in Scopus. Biblioshiny software in RStudio was used to categorize and evaluate the contributions of authors, countries, institutions, and journals. Their collaborative networks were also visualized using VOSviewer. The need to incorporate quantitative, qualitative, and descriptive indicators that comprehensively capture the environmental impacts of biotechnological processes led us to compile thirty diversified indices. The relevance of life cycle analysis as a fundamental tool is highlighted and triggered by integrating multicriteria analysis methods, optimization algorithms, and artificial intelligence. This combination of approaches allows for addressing the inherent complexity of evaluating systems that involve technical, environmental, economic, and social dimensions. Emerging trends point to a paradigm oriented towards the circular bioeconomy, where the diversification of flows in biorefineries and microalgae use are presented as key strategies to maximize efficiency and minimize environmental impacts. The synergy between traditional methodologies and advanced computational approaches constitutes the ideal framework to optimize the sustainability of bioprocesses, establishing a solid base for future research in this field.
Keywords: environmental indicators, Biorefinery, bioprocesses, Scopus, Bibliometrix, VOSviewer
Received: 02 Apr 2025; Accepted: 08 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Alviz-Meza, Rojas-Flores and González-Delgado. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Angel Darío González-Delgado, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia
Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.