Half a century of Environment Protection Engineering. A review

This paper provides a bibliometric and scientometric analysis of the Environment Protection Engineering (EPE) journal over the past 50 years. Using archived printed editions of EPE issues, the journal’s website, and the Web of Science Core Collection, the number of publications was analyzed, including those written by foreign authors, for each year of EPE’s publishing activity. The number of citations of EPE’s articles each year was also assessed, and the most frequently cited works were listed. The research areas most frequently addressed in EPE articles were also identified. It was emphasized that the number of articles in the last 25 years has doubled compared to the number of articles in the first 25 years of EPE’s activity. A systematic increase in the share of publications by foreign authors (relative to the total number of publications) was noted, up to 88% in recent years. Analysis of the research topics covered in the articles revealed the emergence of new aspects related to renewable energy and the circular economy.