Multivariate Statistical Analysis for Water Quality Assessment: A Review of Research Published between 2001 and 2020
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Results
3.1. Publications Outputs and WoS Subject Categories
3.2. Key Journals and Most Cited Publications
3.3. Countries/Territories and Water Sample Types
3.4. Keywords Co-Occurrence
3.5. Multivariate Statistical Analysis (MSA) for Water Quality Assessment
3.6. MSA Limitations
4. Conclusions
- The number of publications has increased considerably in the last 20 years, confirming a growing application of MSA in water quality studies. In the last of four analyzed periods (2016–2020), more than half of the studies were published.
- The three WoS subject categories in which the studies most fit were “Environmental Sciences”, “Water Resources” and “Multidisciplinary Geosciences”. The “Environmental Sciences” subject category covers several areas of the environment, and therefore included in 1590 of 2889 analyzed publications.
- A total of 604 journals published studies related to water quality research and the use of MSA in the analyzed period. The five most influential journals, in descending order of JIF, that published papers on the topic were: Water Research, Science of the Total Environment, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Ecological Indicators and Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
- All 15 most cited publications are open access and 9 of them were published in Water Research. The two most cited publications used four types of MSA to analyze large datasets.
- The studies were carried out on water samples from 134 different countries or territories, and the most active countries in the research domain were discussed in the review. The review showed that developing countries have carried out more studies using MSA in water quality research.
- River, groundwater and lake were the water sample types most evaluated in the studies. Only one study analyzed the water quality in a navigation channel.
- China, India and the USA were the countries that most used MSA in river water quality research. India, Iran and Pakistan had the highest number of groundwater studies.
- More than 5000 keywords were listed, with the terms water quality, groundwater and principal component analysis having the highest occurrences.
- The most used MSAs were principal component analysis, hierarchical cluster analysis, factor analysis and discriminant analysis.
Author Contributions
Funding
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Journal | JIFA | JIFB | TP (%) |
---|---|---|---|
Water Research | 11.263 | 10.177 | 44 (1.52) |
Science of the Total Environment | 7.963 | 6.938 | 74 (2.56) |
Marine Pollution Bulletin | 5.553 | 4.568 | 49 (1.70) |
Ecological Indicators | 4.958 | 4.424 | 61 (2.11) |
Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 4.223 | 3.509 | 89 (3.08) |
Water | 3.103 | 2.390 | 67 (2.32) |
Environmental Earth Sciences | 2.784 | 2.660 | 142 (4.91) |
Hydrobiologia | 2.694 | 2.414 | 52 (1.80) |
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment | 2.513 | 2.346 | 234 (8.10) |
Arabian Journal of Geosciences | 1.827 | 1.563 | 51 (1.71) |
Authors | Title | Year | Citations * | Journal | Open Access | MSA | Water Sample Type |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Shrestha and Kazama [37] | Assessment of surface water quality using multivariate statistical techniques: A case study of the Fuji river basin, Japan | 2007 | 1129 | Environmental Modelling & Software | Yes | HCA/PCA-FA/DA | River |
Singh et al. [32] | Multivariate statistical techniques for the evaluation of spatial and temporal variations in water quality of Gomti River (India)—a case study | 2004 | 1078 | Water Research | Yes | HCA/PCA-FA/DA | River |
Simeonov et al. [33] | Assessment of the surface water quality in Northern Greece | 2003 | 870 | Water Research | Yes | HCA/PCA | River |
Güler et al. [35] | Evaluation of graphical and multivariate statistical methods for classification of water chemistry data | 2002 | 682 | Hydrogeology Journal | Yes | HCA/NHCA/PCA | River and Groundwater |
Singh et al. [34] | Water quality assessment and apportionment of pollution sources of Gomti river (India) using multivariate statistical techniques—a case study | 2005 | 658 | Analytica Chimica Acta | Yes | HCA/PCA | River |
Cloutier et al. [38] | Multivariate statistical analysis of geochemical data as indicative of the hydrogeochemical evolution of groundwater in a sedimentary rock aquifer system | 2008 | 489 | Journal of Hydrology | Yes | HCA/PCA | Groundwater |
Kazi et al. [40] | Assessment of water quality of polluted lake using multivariate statistical techniques: A case study | 2008 | 423 | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety | Yes | HCA/PCA | Lake |
Borsuk et al. [57] | A Bayesian network of eutrophication models for synthesis, prediction, and uncertainty analysis | 2004 | 349 | Ecological Modelling | Yes | MR | Seawater |
Reghunath et al. [36] | The utility of multivariate statistical techniques in hydrogeochemical studies: an example from Karnataka, India | 2002 | 349 | Water Research | Yes | HCA/FA | Groundwater |
Kumar et al. [39] | Identification and evaluation of hydrogeochemical processes in the groundwater environment of Delhi, India | 2006 | 304 | Environmental Geology | Yes | FA | Groundwater |
Li and Zhang [41] | Risk assessment and seasonal variations of dissolved trace elements and heavy metals in the Upper Han River, China | 2010 | 301 | Journal of Hazardous Materials | Yes | PCA/FA | River |
Potapova and Charles [58] | Benthic diatoms in USA rivers: distributions along spatial and environmental gradients | 2002 | 280 | Journal of Biogeography | Yes | CCA/DCA | River |
Hildebrant et al. [59] | Impact of pesticides used in agriculture and vineyards to surface and groundwater quality (North Spain) | 2008 | 259 | Water Research | Yes | PCA | Groundwater |
Kowalkowski et al. [60] | Application of chemometrics in river water classification | 2006 | 257 | Water Research | Yes | HCA/PCA | River |
Krishna et al. [61] | Assessment of heavy metal pollution in water using multivariate statistical techniques in an industrial area: A case study from Patancheru, Medak District, Andhra Pradesh, India | 2009 | 254 | Journal of Hazardous Materials | Yes | PCA-FA | River and Groundwater |
Country/Territory | Total Publications (%) | h-Index |
---|---|---|
China | 441 (15.3) | 1112 |
India | 371 (12.8) | 745 |
USA | 229 (7.9) | 2711 |
Turkey | 110 (3.8) | 535 |
Iran | 104 (3.6) | 416 |
Brazil | 101 (3.5) | 690 |
Australia | 73 (2.5) | 1193 |
Canada | 72 (2.5) | 1381 |
Malaysia | 70 (2.4) | 415 |
Spain | 62 (2.1) | 1073 |
Italy | 58 (2.0) | 1189 |
Pakistan | 56 (1.9) | 353 |
Portugal | 50 (1.7) | 599 |
Greece | 48 (1.7) | 610 |
South Africa | 47 (1.6) | 567 |
Water Sample Types | Analogous or Synonymous Terms |
---|---|
River | River, stream, creek, headwater, spring, watercourse, running water, waterbody, rivulet, streamflow |
Groundwater | Groundwater, well, aquifer, mine, geothermal spring, artesian well, underground water, borehole, tubewells |
Lake | Lake, lagoon, swamp, bog, lowland, boreal lake |
Seawater | Seawater, marine, estuary, bay, reef, sea, estuarine water, coastal water, shore, coastal lagoon, coastal lake, coastal wetland, ballast water |
Reservoir/Dam | Reservoir, dam, barrage, dike, penstock, weir, dyke, embankment, catchment |
Drinking water | Drinking water, water supply, tap water, bottled water, drinking water purification plant, water treatment plant, water treatment system, water systems, consumption water |
Wetland | Wetland, swamp, marsh, riverine |
Wastewater | Wastewater, drainage water, reuse water, mine drainage, agricultural effluents, produced water |
Pond | Pond, aquaculture lake, fish tank |
Rainwater | Rainwater, precipitation, stormwater, rainfall |
Meltwater | Meltwater, snow water |
Navigation canal | Navigation canal |
Analysis Type | Multivariate Statistical Analysis | Initials | Number of Publications |
---|---|---|---|
Principal component analysis and factor analysis | Principal component analysis | PCA | 1405 |
Factor analysis | FA | 248 | |
Parallel factor analysis | PARAFAC | 9 | |
Cluster analysis | Hierarchical cluster analysis | HCA | 1275 |
Nonhierarchical cluster analysis (k-means) | NHCA | 37 | |
Multiple regression and multiple correlation analysis | Multiple linear regression | MLR | 121 |
Partial least squares regression | PLS | 46 | |
Multivariate regression | MR | 36 | |
Multiple discriminant analysis | Discriminant analysis | DA | 246 |
Canonical discriminant analysis | CDA | 14 | |
Multivariate analysis of variance and covariance | Permutational multivariate Analysis of variance | PERMANOVA | 62 |
Multivariate analysis of variance | MANOVA | 19 | |
Multivariate analysis of covariance | MANCOVA | 3 | |
Canonical correlation analysis | Redundancy analysis | RDA | 82 |
Distance-based redundancy analysis | DBRDA | 6 | |
Canonical correlation analysis | CCorA | ||
Correspondence analysis | Canonical correspondence analysis | CCA | 207 |
Detrended correspondence analysis | DCA | 55 | |
Correspondence analysis | CA | 26 | |
Detrended canonical correspondence analysis | DCCA | 8 | |
Multidimensional scaling | Nonmetric multidimensional scaling | NMDS | 151 |
Multidimensional scaling (principal coordinate analysis) | MDS (PCoA) | 43 | |
Multiple analysis | Principal component analysis–factor analysis | PCA–FA | 244 |
Absolute principal component scores–multiple linear regression | APCS–MLR | 22 | |
Other multivariate statistical analyses | 302 |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleMuniz, Daphne H. F., and Eduardo C. Oliveira-Filho. 2023. "Multivariate Statistical Analysis for Water Quality Assessment: A Review of Research Published between 2001 and 2020" Hydrology 10, no. 10: 196. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology10100196