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Keeping in view the main objective of the chapter – to identify, evaluate, and interpret the work of researchers, scholars, and practitioners for developing insights into the technologies used for the removal of selenium from water – the following methodologies have been implemented:

1 To begin with, some free searches were done on Google Scholar to find “remediation, treatment technologies for selenium‐contaminated waters,” and by studying suitable references, a string was developed. The Web of Science database was used for extraction of data. The string applied was “selenium” with further search in “treatment OR remediation OR contamination OR removal” AND “Water.” The number of publications which appeared was 3840, which were analyzed. Extraction of data based on countries revealed that the USA leads in publishing papers in this domain, followed by China and Canada, India and Japan.

2 The authors selected papers with significant influence on technologies for selenium removal in the form of published articles, research papers, white papers and review reports on the said domain. The literature comprises material, notions, data, and evidence inscribed from a precise perspective to accomplish confident objectives or express convinced interpretations on the landscape of the technologies to be developed and the way they are to be investigated. The authors further wish to evaluate effectively this literature in the context of the research being proposed.

3 Thereafter, authors began by mapping a number of key strategies for selenium removal from waste and drinking waters. This research suggests mapping of the concepts, opinions, and thoughts from a volume of quality literature. The authors followed a reputable technique for expressing facts and intelligent processes. The mapping presented in this chapter is a description as a “visual outline,” a “pictorial depiction,” and a “topographical allegory” of the research in the domain of water purification. Mapping in this research presents a “perceptible indication” of a researcher's thoughts and clarification of the research domain which can be delivered to both policy makers and scientists.

The present study evaluates the performance of selenium treatment technologies based on several parameters such as, country, city of publication, and Web of Science Core Collection Times Cited Count (which measures the technological impact of literature). The most influential literature is studied for the Multidisciplinary Sciences research. The authorship outline, cooperative catalogue, joint factor, adapted collaborative quantity and research profile. The study also examines international publications output and impact in terms of citations per paper and usage counts in various journals.

This study analyzes the evolution outline of literature related to selenium removal in water and soil in India during 1987–2020 (33 years). The Web of Science is a multidisciplinary international bibliographic archive. The Web of Science international multidisciplinary bibliographical database was used in order to classify the publications reported internationally on the basis of specific scientific field.