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Shanghai Maritime University

In research, Shanghai Maritime University stands highest in Engineering (#244 of 6,636 worldwide), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (#17 of 290 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#763 of 12,888 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Energy Engineering and Power Technology — Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering is 12.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#1,093
of 28,054 · #2,599 all time
Rank in China
#346
of 3,058
Research works
14k
▲ 74% vs 2013–17
Citations
124k
8.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
29%
world 28%

What is Shanghai Maritime University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
EngineeringField #244 of 6,636 18.5%2,391 #724
Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield #17 of 290 20.4%337 #95
Physical SciencesDomain #763 of 12,888 18.6%4,032 #1974
Strategy and ManagementSubfield #38 of 635 27.8%128 #348
Social SciencesDomain #785 of 10,521 26.4%865 #1660
Ocean EngineeringSubfield #26 of 286 19.6%339 #116
Business, Management and AccountingField #253 of 2,578 26.3%338 #724
Mechanical EngineeringSubfield #148 of 1,351 22.9%248 #608
Computer ScienceField #519 of 4,667 17.7%878 #1149
Aerospace EngineeringSubfield #113 of 795 36.2%197 #827

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Shanghai Maritime University sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Engineering#724 #244
  2. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering#95 #17
  3. Physical Sciences#1,974 #763
  4. Strategy and Management#348 #38
  5. Social Sciences#1,660 #785
  6. Ocean Engineering#116 #26
  7. Business, Management and Accounting#724 #253
  8. Mechanical Engineering#608 #148
  9. Computer Science#1,149 #519
  10. Aerospace Engineering#827 #113
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Shanghai Maritime University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering takes 12.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 337.5 works13×
  2. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 338.8 works13×
  3. Energy Engineering and Power TechnologySubfield · 35.9 works6.5×
  4. Environmental EngineeringSubfield · 170.3 works6.2×
  5. Control and Systems EngineeringSubfield · 316.5 works5.7×
  6. Business and International ManagementSubfield · 29.1 works5.4×
  7. TransportationSubfield · 84.3 works4.9×
  8. Automotive EngineeringSubfield · 128.7 works4.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.12× its world share, 30 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.20× its world share, 54 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.51× its world share, 43 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.43× its world share, 26 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.20× its world share, 16 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.20× its world share, 878 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.04× its world share, 83 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.22× its world share, 105 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.11× its world share, 2,391 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.26× its world share, 320 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.56× its world share, 100 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.66× its world share, 40 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.63× its world share, 72 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.19× its world share, 25 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.08× its world share, 74 worksMedicineNursing: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.28× its world share, 42 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.05× its world share, 338 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.80× its world share, 89 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.01× its world share, 111 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.31× its world share, 48 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.37× its world share, 237 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 3.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Shanghai Maritime University?

Ranked on the composite score, Junliang He, Daqi Zhu and Jian Wu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Shanghai Maritime University.

  1. 1 Junliang He China · #77,272 worldwide 171 citations · 34 works
  2. 2 Daqi Zhu China · #78,084 worldwide 266 citations · 65 works
  3. 3 Jian Wu China · #114,118 worldwide 431 citations · 40 works
  4. 4 Jihong Chen China · #115,258 worldwide 322 citations · 53 works
  5. 5 Tianhao Tang China · #123,610 worldwide 220 citations · 42 works
  6. 6 Daofang Chang China · #187,158 worldwide 112 citations · 25 works
  7. 7 Xinqiang Chen China · #204,083 worldwide 169 citations · 33 works
  8. 8 Zheng Wan China · #217,012 worldwide 193 citations · 19 works
  9. 9 Dezhi Han China · #219,436 worldwide 296 citations · 72 works
  10. 10 Liu Yuan China · #222,051 worldwide 0 citations · 49 works
All ranked researchers at Shanghai Maritime University

Which keywords describe research at Shanghai Maritime University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Maritime Transportation, Collision Avoidance, Path Planning, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Risk Assessment and Neural Networks.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Deep Learning582▲ 3.3×80 topics
  2. Machine Learning324▲ 1.93×82 topics
  3. Maritime Transportation313▲ 116×2 topics
  4. Neural Networks282▲ 3.6×38 topics
  5. Environmental Impact274▲ 3.1×39 topics
  6. Supply Chain Management258▲ 5.4×19 topics
  7. Collision Avoidance235▲ 25×4 topics
  8. Path Planning230▲ 35×3 topics
  9. Risk Assessment218▲ 6.3×12 topics
  10. Climate Change215▲ 1.56×54 topics
  11. Logistics204▲ 25×7 topics
  12. Renewable Energy190▲ 2.6×39 topics
  13. Fuel Consumption179▲ 47×2 topics
  14. Human Factors179▲ 45×2 topics
  15. Autonomous Ships174▲ 112×1 topic
  16. Unmanned Surface Vehicles174▲ 112×1 topic
  17. Emissions169▲ 17×6 topics
  18. Operations Research168▲ 19×2 topics
  19. Container Terminals168▲ 126×1 topic
  20. Port Development168▲ 126×1 topic
  21. Air Quality161▲ 17×6 topics
  22. Wireless Sensor Networks158▲ 6.8×22 topics
  23. Shipping150▲ 58×2 topics
  24. Convolutional Neural Networks142▲ 3.8×14 topics
  25. Internet of Things141▲ 3.2×24 topics
  26. Alternative Fuels140▲ 75×2 topics
  27. Emission Control Areas139▲ 120×1 topic
  28. Ship Propulsion139▲ 120×1 topic
  29. Energy Efficiency129▲ 2.7×31 topics
  30. Power Electronics118▲ 6.9×8 topics
  31. Renewable Energy Integration114▲ 6.6×6 topics
  32. Smart Grid91▲ 4.7×10 topics
  33. Computer Vision80▲ 5.7×4 topics
  34. Multi-Agent Systems77▲ 7.9×6 topics
  35. Fault Diagnosis77▲ 10×7 topics
  36. Vibration Analysis77▲ 5.5×7 topics
  37. Neural Network75▲ 7.6×9 topics
  38. Supply Chain73▲ 6.8×10 topics
  39. Autonomous Vehicles72▲ 6.8×4 topics
  40. CO2 Emissions67▲ 7.0×4 topics

Which research topics does Shanghai Maritime University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Maritime Navigation and Safety, Maritime Ports and Logistics, Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency and Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems.

Maritime Navigation and …174Maritime Navigation and Safety: 174 fractional worksMaritime Ports and Logis…168Maritime Ports and Logistics: 168 fractional worksMaritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency: 139 fractional worksUnderwater Vehicles and Communication Systems: 54 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network Applications: 51 fractional worksAdvanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization: 48 fractional worksRobotic Path Planning Algorithms: 47 fractional worksVehicle emissions and performance: 40 fractional worksMachine Fault Diagnosis Techniques: 39 fractional worksShip Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability: 39 fractional works
Ocean EngineeringIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringEnvironmental EngineeringComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition2 others

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

  1. 1 Maritime Navigation and Safety Ocean Engineering 174 works
  2. 2 Maritime Ports and Logistics Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 168 works
  3. 3 Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency Environmental Engineering 139 works
  4. 4 Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems Ocean Engineering 54 works
  5. 5 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 51 works
  6. 6 Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 48 works
  7. 7 Robotic Path Planning Algorithms Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 47 works
  8. 8 Vehicle emissions and performance Automotive Engineering 40 works
  9. 9 Machine Fault Diagnosis Techniques Control and Systems Engineering 39 works
  10. 10 Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability Ocean Engineering 39 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 available29.4%not open70.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.7%domestic only89.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Shanghai Maritime University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 74% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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