Table 4.
Number of scientific articles wrote by the leading countries throughout the world regarding wastewater treatment of each pharmaceutical group between 1998 to 2020 in Scopus using wastewater or water as keywords and English as a language limitation.
| Country | Number of Scientific Articles | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-Infectives | Anti-Inflammatories | Anti-Cancer | Cardiovascular System | Psychiatric—Neurological | Metabolic Disorder | Hematological | Respiratory System | Alimentary Tract and Metabolism | Total Scientific Articles per Country | |
| China | 1760 | 114 | 17 | 47 | 49 | 89 | 2 | 32 | 0 | 2110 |
| United States | 518 | 93 | 14 | 52 | 72 | 100 | 17 | 86 | 0 | 952 |
| Spain | 284 | 129 | 11 | 49 | 35 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 528 |
| India | 219 | 44 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 21 | 1 | 347 |
| Germany | 143 | 49 | 6 | 20 | 22 | 28 | 2 | 24 | 1 | 294 |
| Iran | 233 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 285 |
| Brazil | 164 | 54 | 6 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 269 |
| United Kingdom | 143 | 20 | 6 | 21 | 11 | 45 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 268 |
| Italy | 135 | 53 | 7 | 23 | 11 | 20 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 266 |
| Canada | 118 | 29 | 1 | 19 | 15 | 33 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 238 |
| Australia | 116 | 36 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 209 |
| Japan | 116 | 27 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 195 |
| South Korea | 131 | 32 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 194 |
| Poland | 90 | 28 | 6 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 165 |
| Turkey | 108 | 37 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154 |
| France | 32 | 42 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 136 |
| Mexico | 51 | 30 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 112 |
| Greece | 52 | 18 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 97 |
| Belgium | 42 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 76 |
| Finland | 43 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 72 |
| Israel | 31 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 49 |
| Total articles per pharmaceutical group | 4529 | 892 | 121 | 349 | 322 | 475 | 67 | 261 | ||
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