Activated carbon adsorption has been widely used as an alternative environmental treatment to reduce metal ions, but it is less effective against heavy metals and other pollutants, including organic and inorganic compounds. Surface modification is required to increase the adsorption of activated carbon. To build up the information related to adsorption power of activated carbon modification, this study evaluated the theme relevant to adsorption of activated carbon modification using keywords "activated carbon" and "surface modification" as the data input. The database utilized for bibliometric analysis in this study was from Scopus with the help of VOSviewer software for network visualization of authorship, countries, citations, affiliations, and keywords. The analysis was carried out on February 3, 2022. The author limited the data by its year from 2013 to 2020 and the result was 262 documents. The results portrayed that the publication of activated carbon modification has been highly rocketing in the last eight years, specifically from 2019 to 2021. China is the leading country in activated carbon modification research, which results in the highest publications, most cited authors, and affiliations. Additionally, Elsevier is a publisher with the most top publications in producing activated carbon modification research articles. The keyword analysis showed that the studies related to activated carbon modification were mostly concentrated on characteristics of activated carbon, surface characteristics, adsorption, and environmental treatment. This bibliometric analysis study presented the relevant information on the surface modification of activated carbon to boost dangerous pollutant adsorption in the direction of environmental treatment.
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Bambang Cholis Su'udi
