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Project Seagrass

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Research works
16
▲ 43% vs 2018-21
Citations
668
41.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
27.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
86%
world 40%
International
51%
world 18%
Project Seagrass

Not ranked overall: Project Seagrass is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Project Seagrass work in?

In all years, 95% of research at Project Seagrass is in Physical Sciences, 4% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (60%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (34%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (3%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 15 fractional works · 95.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 10 fractional works · 60.0% of its workEcology: 6 fractional works · 37.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 10.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 7.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 fractional works · 34.3% of its workOceanography: 6 fractional works · 34.3% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKProject Seagrass16fractional works, all years
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences95%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences0%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science1060.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences634.3%
    3. Engineering00.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.6%
    1. Health Professions00.6%
    1. Social Sciences00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Earth and Planetary Sciences: 22.35× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 11.44× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksHealth Professions1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 22.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences22.35×3 works
  2. Environmental Science11.44×5 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.69×0 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.45×0 works
  5. Health Professions0.40×0 works
  6. Engineering0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Project Seagrass?

Ranked on the quality score, Benjamin L. Jones and Lucy Coals lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Project Seagrass.

  1. 1 Benjamin L. Jones United Kingdom · #133,038 worldwide 2.2k citations · 68 works
  2. 2 Lucy Coals United Kingdom · #795,945 worldwide 126 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Project Seagrass

What are the most cited papers from Project Seagrass?

The most cited paper from Project Seagrass is "Seagrass meadows support global fisheries production" (Richard K. F. Unsworth, Lina Mtwana Nordlund, Leanne Claire Cullen-Unsworth, 2018), with 456 citations. Next come "The global distribution of seagrass meadows" (406) and "Global challenges for seagrass conservation" (372).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Seagrass meadows support global fisheries production Richard K. F. Unsworth, Lina Mtwana Nordlund, Leanne Claire Cullen-Unsworth · Conservation Letters Open access 21 May 2018 456
2 The global distribution of seagrass meadows Len McKenzie, Lina Mtwana Nordlund, Benjamin L. Jones et al. · Environmental Research Letters Open access 5 Mar 2020 406
3 Global challenges for seagrass conservation Richard K. F. Unsworth, Len McKenzie, Catherine J. Collier et al. · AMBIO Open access 19 Nov 2018 372
4 Global significance of seagrass fishery activity Lina Mtwana Nordlund, Richard K. F. Unsworth, Martin Gullström et al. · Fish and Fisheries Open access 17 Nov 2017 208
5 Indonesia's globally significant seagrass meadows are under widespread threat Richard K. F. Unsworth, Rohani Ambo‐Rappe, Benjamin L. Jones et al. · The Science of The Total Environment 6 Apr 2018 201
All 79 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Project Seagrass publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Marine and coastal plant biology, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies and Coastal and Marine Management.

Marine and coastal plant…2Marine and coastal plant biology: 2 fractional worksCoastal wetland ecosystem dynamics: 1 fractional worksCoral and Marine Ecosystems Studies: 1 fractional worksCoastal and Marine Manag…1Coastal and Marine Management: 1 fractional worksMarine Biology and Ecolo…1Marine Biology and Ecology Research: 1 fractional worksMarine and fisheries research: 1 fractional worksFish Ecology and Management Studies: 0 fractional worksReproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species: 0 fractional worksMarine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies: 0 fractional worksCrustacean biology and ecology: 0 fractional works
OceanographyEcologyManagement, Monitoring, Policy and LawGlobal and Planetary Change2 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Marine and coastal plant biology Oceanography 2 works
  2. 2 Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics Ecology 1 works
  3. 3 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 1 works
  4. 4 Coastal and Marine Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 1 works
  5. 5 Marine Biology and Ecology Research Oceanography 1 works
  6. 6 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  7. 7 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  8. 8 Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species Physiology 0 works
  9. 9 Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  10. 10 Crustacean biology and ecology Ecology 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available86.1%not open13.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors50.6%domestic only49.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Project Seagrass's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 43% higher than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Project Seagrass as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000033% in 2024.

still counting0.000020%0.000040%0.000060%Project Seagrass0.000045% in 20252020

Fractional works of Project Seagrass over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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