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 Con-vention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships. To do this, all the article-type publications thatappear in the Web of Science and Scopus databases until 2017 have been searched using the keywordMARPOL. Subsequently, the abstracts of all the articles are grouped together and a record for each ofthese references. With the data obtained, analyzes are carried out, both quantitative and qualitative. Allthis in order to obtain a global vision of the way in which the scientific literature deals with maritimeenvironmental problems. The work shows the direct relationship between the entry into force of thedifferent Annexes and the increase in scientific production and that the most numerous works are thosethat deal with legal and prevention aspects.