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Shanghai Maritime University

In research, Shanghai Maritime University stands highest in Engineering (#631 of 5,901 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#1,211 of 10,670 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#2,414 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ocean Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Environmental Engineering (Ocean Engineering is 12.7× its share of world research).

World rank, 2022-now
#2,161
of 22,385 · #2,248 all time
Rank in China
#399
of 2,481
Research works
14k
▲ 109% vs 2018-21
Citations
124k
8.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.85×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
29%
world 40%
International
11%
world 18%

What is Shanghai Maritime University known for in research?

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

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
EngineeringField #631 of 5,901 12.5%2,391 #953
Physical SciencesDomain #1,211 of 10,670 12.1%4,032 #1317
Social SciencesDomain #2,414 of 9,585 14.7%865 #2825
Business, Management and AccountingField #755 of 2,581 13.0%338 #1052
Computer ScienceField #1,370 of 4,417 10.6%878 #1502
Mechanical EngineeringSubfield #455 of 1,319 15.2%248 #827
Environmental ScienceField #1,217 of 3,334 12.0%320 #1506
Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield #116 of 316 16.2%337 #297
Ocean EngineeringSubfield #133 of 301 14.2%339 #325
Control and Systems EngineeringSubfield #398 of 804 8.6%316 #648

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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

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

  1. Engineering#953 #631
  2. Physical Sciences#1,317 #1,211
  3. Social Sciences#2,825 #2,414
  4. Business, Management and Accounting#1,052 #755
  5. Computer Science#1,502 #1,370
  6. Mechanical Engineering#827 #455
  7. Environmental Science#1,506 #1,217
  8. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering#297 #116
  9. Ocean Engineering#325 #133
  10. Control and Systems Engineering#648 #398
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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

Which fields of science does Shanghai Maritime University work in?

In 2022-now, 79% of research at Shanghai Maritime University is in Physical Sciences, 16% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (46%), Computer Science (18%), Environmental Science (6%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 4,563 fractional works · 79.2% of its workEngineering: 2,675 fractional works · 46.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 416 fractional works · 7.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 381 fractional works · 6.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 373 fractional works · 6.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 352 fractional works · 6.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 274 fractional works · 4.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 231 fractional works · 4.0% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 139 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 111 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 90 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 79 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 67 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 67 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 52 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMedia Technology: 41 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 1,011 fractional works · 17.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 351 fractional works · 6.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 330 fractional works · 5.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 132 fractional works · 2.3% of its workInformation Systems: 72 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 49 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSignal Processing: 45 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 33 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 369 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 201 fractional works · 3.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 31 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 28 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 119 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 72 fractional works · 1.2% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 116 fractional works · 2.0% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 71 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 39 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 97 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 39 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOceanography: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 81 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 42 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 28 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 47 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics and Probability: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 35 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemical Engineering: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 943 fractional works · 16.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 361 fractional works · 6.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 140 fractional works · 2.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 47 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMarketing: 45 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAccounting: 42 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 40 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness and International Management: 30 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 257 fractional works · 4.5% of its workTransportation: 89 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 65 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 36 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEducation: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 119 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 80 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 101 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 58 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 36 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 56 fractional works · 1.0% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 49 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 146 fractional works · 2.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 60 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 44 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 49 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 33 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 33 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 113 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMedicine: 83 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 48 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 27 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKShanghai MaritimeUniversity5,764fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences79%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences16%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering2,67546.4%
    2. Computer Science1,01117.5%
    3. Environmental Science3696.4%
    4. Materials Science1192.1%
    5. Energy1162.0%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences971.7%
    7. Physics and Astronomy811.4%
    8. Mathematics470.8%
    9. Chemical Engineering290.5%
    10. Chemistry190.3%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting3616.3%
    2. Social Sciences2574.5%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1192.1%
    4. Decision Sciences1011.8%
    5. Psychology561.0%
    6. Arts and Humanities490.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology601.0%
    2. Neuroscience490.9%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences330.6%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics20.0%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology10.0%
    1. Medicine831.4%
    2. Health Professions270.5%
    3. Dentistry20.0%
    4. Nursing10.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Shanghai Maritime University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ocean Engineering takes 12.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 381.3 works13×
  2. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 372.9 works13×
  3. Environmental EngineeringSubfield · 200.7 works6.5×
  4. Energy Engineering and Power TechnologySubfield · 38.7 works6.2×
  5. Control and Systems EngineeringSubfield · 352.2 works5.7×
  6. Business and International ManagementSubfield · 29.6 works4.9×
  7. TransportationSubfield · 88.9 works4.6×
  8. Fluid Flow and Transfer ProcessesSubfield · 20.6 works4.6×
← 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, 33 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.20× its world share, 60 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.53× its world share, 49 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.45× its world share, 29 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.21× its world share, 19 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.26× its world share, 1,011 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.08× its world share, 97 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.19× its world share, 116 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.09× its world share, 2,675 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.29× its world share, 369 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.59× its world share, 118 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.69× its world share, 47 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.63× its world share, 81 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.18× its world share, 27 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.07× its world share, 82 worksMedicineNursing: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.29× its world share, 49 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.94× its world share, 361 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.81× its world share, 101 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.97× its world share, 119 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.32× its world share, 56 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.35× its world share, 257 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.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering3.09×2,675 works
  2. Computer Science2.26×1,011 works
  3. Energy2.19×116 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting1.94×361 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.81×101 works
  6. Chemical Engineering1.45×29 works
  7. Environmental Science1.29×369 works
  8. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.08×97 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.97×119 works
  10. Mathematics0.69×47 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.63×81 works
  12. Materials Science0.59×118 works
  13. Neuroscience0.53×49 works
  14. Social Sciences0.35×257 works
  15. Psychology0.32×56 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.29×49 works
  17. Chemistry0.21×19 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.20×60 works
  19. Health Professions0.18×27 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.12×33 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.09×2 works
  22. Medicine0.07×82 works
  23. Dentistry0.06×2 works
  24. Nursing0.03×1 works
  25. Immunology and Microbiology0.02×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Shanghai Maritime University?

Ranked on the quality score, Jihong Chen, Lang Xu and Zheng Wan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Shanghai Maritime University.

  1. 1 Jihong Chen China · #26,926 worldwide 8.2k citations · 255 works
  2. 2 Lang Xu China · #27,444 worldwide 3.8k citations · 101 works
  3. 3 Zheng Wan China · #61,012 worldwide 4.3k citations · 101 works
  4. 4 Guangnian Xiao China · #82,982 worldwide 2.3k citations · 85 works
  5. 5 Boyang Liu China · #102,247 worldwide 7.1k citations · 67 works
  6. 6 Yingchang Jiang China · #107,047 worldwide 2.8k citations · 54 works
  7. 7 Yuan Zhang China · #108,919 worldwide 3.2k citations · 94 works
  8. 8 Runhua Fan China · #113,783 worldwide 16k citations · 342 works
  9. 9 Jian Wu China · #124,237 worldwide 7.9k citations · 185 works
  10. 10 Xinqiang Chen China · #138,010 worldwide 4.8k citations · 185 works
All ranked researchers at Shanghai Maritime University

What are the most cited papers from Shanghai Maritime University?

The most cited paper from Shanghai Maritime University is "Microgrids energy management systems: A critical review on methods, solutions, and prospects" (Muhammad Fahad Zia, Elhoussin Elbouchikhi, Mohamed Benbouzid, 2018), with 995 citations. Next come "Green Innovation Strategy and Green Innovation: The Roles of Green Creativity and Green Organizational Identity" (805) and "Modeling and Analysis of Harmonic Stability in an AC Power-Electronics-Based Power System" (787).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Microgrids energy management systems: A critical review on methods, solutions, and prospects Muhammad Fahad Zia, Elhoussin Elbouchikhi, Mohamed Benbouzid · Applied Energy 5 May 2018 995
2 Green Innovation Strategy and Green Innovation: The Roles of Green Creativity and Green Organizational Identity Wenhao Song, Hongyan Yu · Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management 17 Aug 2017 805
3 Modeling and Analysis of Harmonic Stability in an AC Power-Electronics-Based Power System Xiongfei Wang, Frede Blaabjerg, Weimin Wu · IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Open access 14 Feb 2014 787
4 Industry 4.0 based sustainable circular economy approach for smart waste management system to achieve sustainable development goals: A case study of Indonesia Yun Arifatul Fatimah, Kannan Govindan, Rochiyati Murniningsih et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production Open access 23 May 2020 734
5 A decision support system for demand management in healthcare supply chains considering the epidemic outbreaks: A case study of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Kannan Govindan, Hassan Mina, Behrouz Alavi · Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review Open access 6 May 2020 644
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Which keywords describe research at Shanghai Maritime University?

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

▲ 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-now 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 Learning678▲ 3.4×81 topics
  2. Machine Learning368▲ 1.91×83 topics
  3. Maritime Transportation358▲ 113×2 topics
  4. Neural Networks323▲ 3.6×38 topics
  5. Environmental Impact310▲ 3.2×40 topics
  6. Supply Chain Management283▲ 5.5×19 topics
  7. Collision Avoidance262▲ 25×4 topics
  8. Path Planning255▲ 36×3 topics
  9. Climate Change248▲ 1.58×56 topics
  10. Risk Assessment242▲ 6.3×14 topics
  11. Logistics224▲ 25×7 topics
  12. Renewable Energy216▲ 2.6×42 topics
  13. Fuel Consumption207▲ 50×2 topics
  14. Human Factors202▲ 44×2 topics
  15. Emissions196▲ 17×6 topics
  16. Autonomous Ships196▲ 108×1 topic
  17. Unmanned Surface Vehicles196▲ 108×1 topic
  18. Operations Research188▲ 20×2 topics
  19. Container Terminals187▲ 126×1 topic
  20. Port Development187▲ 126×1 topic
  21. Air Quality185▲ 17×6 topics
  22. Shipping174▲ 61×2 topics
  23. Wireless Sensor Networks170▲ 6.6×22 topics
  24. Convolutional Neural Networks166▲ 4.0×14 topics
  25. Alternative Fuels163▲ 73×2 topics
  26. Emission Control Areas162▲ 120×1 topic
  27. Ship Propulsion162▲ 120×1 topic
  28. Internet of Things154▲ 3.1×25 topics
  29. Energy Efficiency144▲ 2.7×31 topics
  30. Power Electronics132▲ 7.1×8 topics
  31. Renewable Energy Integration127▲ 6.7×6 topics
  32. Computer Vision98▲ 6.2×4 topics
  33. Smart Grid97▲ 4.7×10 topics
  34. Vibration Analysis90▲ 5.8×8 topics
  35. Fault Diagnosis86▲ 10×7 topics
  36. Multi-Agent Systems85▲ 7.7×6 topics
  37. Wavelet Transform81▲ 6.1×7 topics
  38. Neural Network80▲ 7.7×9 topics
  39. Autonomous Vehicles78▲ 6.5×4 topics
  40. Image Classification77▲ 7.1×3 topics

Which research topics does Shanghai Maritime University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Maritime Navigation and Safety, Maritime Ports and Logistics, Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency and Advanced Neural Network Applications.

  1. 1 Maritime Navigation and Safety Ocean Engineering 196 works
  2. 2 Maritime Ports and Logistics Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 187 works
  3. 3 Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency Environmental Engineering 162 works
  4. 4 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 66 works
  5. 5 Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems Ocean Engineering 61 works
  6. 6 Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 51 works
  7. 7 Robotic Path Planning Algorithms Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 50 works
  8. 8 Machine Fault Diagnosis Techniques Control and Systems Engineering 47 works
  9. 9 Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability Ocean Engineering 46 works
  10. 10 Vehicle emissions and performance Automotive Engineering 45 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: 40% of research is openly available.

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

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Shanghai Maritime University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 109% higher 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 Shanghai Maritime University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Shanghai Maritime University0.025% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Shanghai Maritime University over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%Shanghai Maritime University13.2% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.4% in 2020.

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