Uma análise bibliométrica sobre os líquidos iônicos na engenharia química: aplicação da metodologia ProKnow-C em conjunto com software VosViewer

Abstract

The study of ionic liquids has become increasingly growing and vast, covering several areas of application due to their particularities. Aiming to find possible areas of application in Chemical Engineering, a bibliometric analysis of the theme was carried out with the application of the ProKnown-C methodology (Process Knowledge Development - Constructivist), which consists of making a selection of articles in sequential steps in order to present a portfolio final bibliographic report, together with the VosViewer software, responsible for the creation of bibliometric networks and heat map present in the work. The publication of articles from ionic liquids has shown a great growth in several areas in the last decades therefore using the structured methodology in the work, a laborious process, however, simple and effective that approaches the collection of data of previously published articles was presented the researches with greater relation to the subject of the work, authors most cited and with greater contribution and, finally, areas of application. The data collection carried out in this work takes into account only articles published in Brazil and began in March 2022 and covered the years from 2018 to 2022. The final portfolio consisting of 32 articles was developed using the ProKnown-C methodology together with the software VosViewer pointing out areas of possible potential for growth and evolution of ionic liquids in engineering, such as: nanostructures, proteins, among others addressed in the development of the work.