3 Abstract: The main object of this study is to investigate the research trend in removal of dyes from waste water by using adsorption technology for the past 16 years. Data are based on the online version of Science Citation Index (SCI), Web of Science from 1993 to 2008 that covers all the articles published for the past 16 years in SCI journals. Articles referring to dye adsorption were assessed by many aspects including model fitting the trend of publication outputs during 1993-2008, distribution of author keywords and keyword plus analysis. Distribution of articles based on subject categories and journals along with the country wise publications were also studied. From the analysis of words appeared in the title and keywords, it can be concluded that activated carbon, biosorption, kinetics, Methylene blue, and isotherms could be more popular words and the new words like photocatalytic degradation, photocatalysis, titanium dioxide, and oxidation appeared to be the new advanced techniques that are going to be adopted more in future studies. This method of bibliometric analysis can help the relevant researchers to realize the panorama of globalized way of dye removal from wastewater and establish the further research direction.
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