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Seafish

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Research works
97
▼ 25% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.4k
24.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
19%
world 40%
International
21%
world 18%
Seafish

Not ranked overall: Seafish 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 Seafish work in?

In all years, 66% of research at Seafish is in Physical Sciences, 23% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (49%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11%), Engineering (10%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 64 fractional works · 66.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 48 fractional works · 49.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 22 fractional works · 23.2% of its workEcology: 10 fractional works · 10.1% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 6 fractional works · 6.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 fractional works · 4.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEngineering: 10 fractional works · 10.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 6 fractional works · 6.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 4.0% of its workOceanography: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 22 fractional works · 22.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 fractional works · 10.6% of its workAquatic Science: 7 fractional works · 7.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 8 fractional works · 7.9% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 3.7% of its workImmunology: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 9.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKSeafish97fractional works, all years
Life Sciences23%Physical Sciences66%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences9%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science4849.3%
    2. Engineering1010.0%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences44.0%
    4. Materials Science21.6%
    5. Computer Science11.2%
    6. Mathematics00.2%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1010.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology87.9%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology43.7%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.3%
    5. Neuroscience00.1%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance22.4%
    2. Social Sciences22.2%
    3. Psychology22.1%
    4. Arts and Humanities11.3%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.9%
    6. Decision Sciences00.3%
    1. Medicine21.6%
    2. Veterinary00.2%
    3. Health Professions00.0%
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: 1.75× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.91× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Earth and Planetary Sciences: 7.84× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.95× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 9.45× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.84× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 9.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 11 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science9.45×4 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences7.84×1 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.91×1 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.75×1 works
  5. Engineering0.95×1 works
  6. Arts and Humanities0.84×0 works
  7. Immunology and Microbiology0.36×0 works
  8. Physics and Astronomy0.30×0 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.27×0 works
  10. Medicine0.14×0 works
  11. Social Sciences0.10×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Seafish?

Ranked on the quality score, Robert J. Shields, Arina Motova and Hazel Curtis lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Seafish.

  1. 1 Robert J. Shields United Kingdom · #1,696,834 worldwide 2.2k citations · 33 works
  2. 2 Arina Motova United Kingdom · #2,442,477 worldwide 301 citations · 58 works
  3. 3 Hazel Curtis United Kingdom · #3,033,932 worldwide 84 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Seafish

What are the most cited papers from Seafish?

The most cited paper from Seafish is "Natural Copepods Are Superior to Enriched Artemia Nauplii as Feed for Halibut Larvae (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) in Terms of Survival, Pigmentation and Retinal Morphology: Relation to Dietary Essential Fatty Acids" (Robin J. Shields, J. Gordon Bell, F. Luizi et al., 1999), with 299 citations. Next come "Dietary nucleotides: a novel supplement in fish feeds" (237) and "Expression of immune genes in turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) fed a nucleotide-supplemented diet" (226).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Natural Copepods Are Superior to Enriched Artemia Nauplii as Feed for Halibut Larvae (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) in Terms of Survival, Pigmentation and Retinal Morphology: Relation to Dietary Essential Fatty Acids Robin J. Shields, J. Gordon Bell, F. Luizi et al. · Journal of Nutrition Open access Jun 1999 299
2 Dietary nucleotides: a novel supplement in fish feeds C. Burrells, Paul D. Williams, P. J. Southgate et al. · Aquaculture Jul 2001 237
3 Expression of immune genes in turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) fed a nucleotide-supplemented diet C. J. Low, Simon Wadsworth, C. Burrells et al. · Aquaculture 7 Apr 2003 226
4 The Scallop Industry in Japan R.F. Ventilla · Advances in marine biology Book chapter 1982 175
5 Blastomere morphology as a predictive measure of fish egg viability Robert J. Shields, Nick Brown, Niall Bromage · Aquaculture Sep 1997 171
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Seafish?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Aquaculture, Fisheries Sustainability, Trophic Cascades, Ecosystem Management, Marine Fisheries, Sustainability and Environmental Impact.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change27▲ 10×18 topics
  2. Aquaculture19▲ 78×6 topics
  3. Fisheries Sustainability18▲ 150×2 topics
  4. Trophic Cascades13▲ 112×2 topics
  5. Ecosystem Management13▲ 159×1 topic
  6. Marine Fisheries13▲ 229×1 topic
  7. Sustainability12▲ 7.1×8 topics
  8. Environmental Impact12▲ 8.9×7 topics
  9. Ecosystem Services11▲ 32×4 topics
  10. Food Security10▲ 25×3 topics
  11. Marine Environment10▲ 100×2 topics
  12. Bivalve Molluscs9▲ 264×1 topic
  13. Oyster Reefs9▲ 264×1 topic
  14. Invasive Species7▲ 13×3 topics
  15. Fish Feed6▲ 108×1 topic
  16. Nutrition6▲ 15×1 topic
  17. Habitat Fragmentation6▲ 21×2 topics
  18. Conservation Challenges6▲ 85×1 topic
  19. Freshwater Biodiversity6▲ 69×1 topic
  20. Biodiversity5▲ 6.7×6 topics
  21. Conservation4▲ 9.8×6 topics
  22. Sustainable Development Goals4▲ 31×2 topics
  23. Ocean Acidification3▲ 42×3 topics
  24. Ecosystem-Based Management3▲ 127×1 topic
  25. Marine Spatial Planning3▲ 127×1 topic
  26. Gut Microbiota3▲ 9.3×2 topics
  27. Molecular Phylogeny3▲ 15×4 topics
  28. Probiotics3▲ 12×2 topics
  29. Fish Immunology3▲ 66×1 topic
  30. Innate Immunity3▲ 8.6×1 topic
  31. Marine Ecosystems3▲ 53×2 topics
  32. Gonadal Development3▲ 63×2 topics
  33. Biodiversity Conservation2▲ 9.3×4 topics
  34. Bleaching2▲ 75×1 topic
  35. Coral Reefs2▲ 75×1 topic
  36. Freshwater2▲ 40×2 topics
  37. Oogenesis2▲ 116×1 topic
  38. Spermatogenesis2▲ 116×1 topic
  39. Population Dynamics2▲ 7.7×6 topics
  40. Physiological Adaptation2▲ 40×2 topics

Which research topics does Seafish publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Marine and fisheries research, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies: 1 fractional worksMarine and fisheries research: 1 fractional worksCoral and Marine Ecosyst…0Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies: 0 fractional worksLand Use and Ecosystem S…0Land Use and Ecosystem Services: 0 fractional worksHydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis: 0 fractional worksGenetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities: 0 fractional worksDrilling and Well Engine…0Drilling and Well Engineering: 0 fractional worksReproductive biology and…0Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species: 0 fractional worksReservoir Engineering an…0Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods: 0 fractional worksGeological formations an…0Geological formations and processes: 0 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeEcologyMechanical EngineeringGenetics3 others

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

  1. 1 Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  2. 2 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  3. 3 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 0 works
  4. 4 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  5. 5 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities Genetics 0 works
  7. 7 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species Physiology 0 works
  9. 9 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Geological formations and processes Earth-Surface Processes 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 available18.7%not open81.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.0%domestic only79.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Seafish's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 Seafish as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000031% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Seafish0.000044% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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