Transboundary E-waste Main Menu Introduction: a map of the map. An introductory page for users after the landing page. Defining a starting point for the controversy map. A description of how we obtained a floating statement for the controversy map. Mapping the controversy on the web. A path containing the movements through the web corpus. Key findings. A short summary of key findings with links to appropriate parts of the map. Procedures for mapping the wild web. A path through the procedures we used to map the wild web. Procedures for mapping the scholarly web. A path through the procedures used to map the scholarly web. References, further reading, and tools. A page offering a list of suggested further reading and descriptions of main tools used in this controversy map.

Mapping the controversy on the scholarly web.

6826 Introduction: a map of the map. An introductory page for users after the landing page.
The number of scholarly papers published on e-waste has grown dramatically over time. A recent search using the Scopus database identified over 3,000 references with the words "electronic waste" or "e-waste" in their title, abstract, or keywords.

To develop a corpus of scholarly documents for this controversy map we accessed the Scopus database and created title, abstract, and keyword search queries for the following combinations of terms that matched those we used to build the corpus of URLs in our search of the web:
These search queries resulted in a corpus comprise of 456 distinct references comprised of titles, abstracts, and keywords. The number of publications per year matching these searches mirror the overall growth of the e-waste literature (see figure below).


The corpus 456 distinct references in this controversy map comprises over 159,000 words. This path traces a synopsis through these references.

This page has paths:

  1. Defining a starting point for the controversy map. Josh Lepawsky
  2. Introduction: a map of the map. Josh Lepawsky

Contents of this path:

  1. Main authors, keywords, and journals.
  2. The landscape of keywords.
  3. The landscape of authors and keywords.
  4. The landscape of coauthors and places of publication.
  5. Debates in the scholarly literature.
  6. Scholarly debates over time.

This page has replies:

  1. Key Words Josh Lepawsky Hi, I am Selin from IWF, TU Braunschweig. First of all, thank you for this wonderful research. I have a little comment on the definition process of key words. How did you define the necessary key words not to miss any which may be highly relevant. For example, during my researches, I realised that, there are many articles published regarding WEEE directive -which is not included in this section. A small brief that explains the key word selection process would be helpful for readers, to keep in track.

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