@article {8631,
	title = {An in-depth survey of the oil spill literature since 1968: Long term trends and changes since Deepwater Horizon },
	journal = {Marine Pollution Bulletin},
	volume = {113},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2016},
	month = {15 Dec 2016},
	pages = {371-379},
	abstract = {In order to characterize the state of oil spill research and describe how the field has changed since its inception in the 1960s and since the\&nbsp;Deepwater Horizon\&nbsp;spill in 2010, we examined approximately 10\% of oil spill literature (1255 of over 11,000 publications) published from 1968 to 2015. We find that, despite its episodic nature, oil spill research is a rapidly expanding field with a growth rate faster than that of science as a whole. There is a massive post-Deepwater Horizon\&nbsp;shift of research attention to the Gulf of Mexico, from 2\% of studies in 2004{\textendash}2008 to 61\% in 2014{\textendash}2015, thus ranking\&nbsp;Deepwater Horizon\&nbsp;as the most studied oil spill. There is, however, a longstanding gap in research in that only 1\% of studies deal with the effects of oil spills on human health. These results provide a better understanding of the current trends and gaps within the field.},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X1630844X},
	author = {Murphy, David and Gemmell, Brad and Vacarri, Liana and Li, Cheng and Bacosa, Hernando and Evans, Meredith and Gemmell, Colbi and Harvey, Tracy and Jalali, Maryam and Niepa, Tagbo H.R.}
}
