The MARPOL Convention in scientific literature. Bibliographic review.

Abstract

The objective of this work is to carry out a bibliographic review, in the field of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships. To do this, all the article-type publications that appear in the Web of Science and Scopus databases until 2017 have been searched using the keyword MARPOL. Subsequently, the abstracts of all the articles are grouped together and a record for each of these references. With the data obtained, analyzes are carried out, both quantitative and qualitative. All this in order to obtain a global vision of the way in which the scientific literature deals with maritime environmental problems. The work shows the direct relationship between the entry into force of the different Annexes and the increase in scientific production and that the most numerous works are those that deal with legal and prevention aspects.