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Fig. 5 Development of world shares in the field environmental engineering in Brazil, India, China, and
South Africa. Source: Calculations of Fraunhofer ISI based on SCI-Data
& In Brazil, the growth of publications from environmental engineering equals the
growth in overall publications; thus, the importance of the topic (and the value of
the RLA) within Brazil has not been changing much.
& The share of publications in all fields from South Africa constantly holds a share
of 0.5% of all SCI publications over the years. The share at environmental
engineering publications was higher than that in the past, but has been declining.
Thus, a declining of positive RLA values results indicating that the importance of
environmental engineering among publications is just below average now.
Fig. 6 Development of specialization of publications in the field environmental engineering in Brazil,
India, China, and South Africa. Source: Calculations of Fraunhofer ISI based on SCI-Data