Global Web of Science-Based Bibliometric Analysis of Heavy Metals

Heavy metals are one of the major persistent environmental threats to both human health and environmental quality, so that the determination of baseline and background becomes an indispensable step before reliable risk evaluation. This paper provides a full bibliometric analysis of the Web of Science-indexed literature (2000–2025) to analyzed global and Armenia-contextualized research on heavy metals. Global findings show that the publication landscape is very concentrated, with a few countries contributing most of the output and focussing on baseline environmental characterisation. While, Armenia stands out as a topically specialized and highly productive contributor with most of its publication trends leaning toward contamination sources, ecological risk, and human health impacts.