Fig. 1: Publication trends on particulate matter and soot in cultural heritage research.
From: The reproduction of fire-born soot for comparative cleaning tests on heritage objects

Left: graph showing the chronological distribution of 159 WoS papers, published between 1997 and 2024, with topics in “particulate matter” AND “cultural heritage”. Right: graph showing 33 WoS articles published between 2002 and 2024 with topics in “soot” AND “cultural heritage”. Please note that half of these papers were published since 2018, whereas the dotted trend lines in both graphs illustrate an overall increasing interest in soot-related issues in heritage conservation.