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Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)

In research, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#516 of 12,888 worldwide), Environmental Science (#153 of 3,551 worldwide) and Earth and Planetary Sciences (#56 of 1,209 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences — Oceanography is 28.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#713
of 28,054 · #2,437 all time
Rank in China
#237
of 3,058
Research works
4.4k
▲ 14223% vs 2013–17
Citations
67k
15.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
26.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
47%
world 28%

What is Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) 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
Physical SciencesDomain #516 of 12,888 26.0%2,235 #1942
Environmental ScienceField #153 of 3,551 28.7%764 #780
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #56 of 1,209 24.1%701 #517
OceanographySubfield #13 of 156 24.3%223 #280
EcologySubfield #49 of 578 29.8%185 #497
Life SciencesDomain #822 of 7,800 24.7%446 #2585
EngineeringField #755 of 6,636 25.4%515 #2477
Atmospheric ScienceSubfield #40 of 301 22.6%256 #432
Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield #85 of 535 25.1%222 #510
GeophysicsSubfield #48 of 237 25.2%123 #409

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) 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. Physical Sciences#1,942 #516
  2. Environmental Science#780 #153
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences#517 #56
  4. Oceanography#280 #13
  5. Ecology#497 #49
  6. Life Sciences#2,585 #822
  7. Engineering#2,477 #755
  8. Atmospheric Science#432 #40
  9. Global and Planetary Change#510 #85
  10. Geophysics#409 #48
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 Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oceanography takes 28.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OceanographySubfield · 222.9 works28×
  2. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 256.0 works20×
  3. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 700.7 works16×
  4. GeophysicsSubfield · 122.6 works12×
  5. Earth-Surface ProcessesSubfield · 37.6 works11×
  6. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 222.0 works10×
  7. Environmental ChemistrySubfield · 60.3 works9.8×
  8. Aquatic ScienceSubfield · 46.4 works9.0×
← 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: 0.86× its world share, 116 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.39× its world share, 209 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.65× its world share, 104 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.33× its world share, 15 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.86× its world share, 8 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.61× its world share, 27 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.33× its world share, 72 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 15.81× its world share, 701 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.92× its world share, 24 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.22× its world share, 515 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.44× its world share, 764 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.76× its world share, 75 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.21× its world share, 7 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.65× its world share, 41 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.05× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.14× its world share, 77 worksMedicineNursing: 0.29× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.07× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.22× its world share, 13 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.05× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 29 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 15.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)?

Ranked on the composite score, Xian‐Xiang Li, Danya Xu and Qingyun Yan lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou).

  1. 1 Xian‐Xiang Li China · #458,511 worldwide 168 citations · 16 works
  2. 2 Danya Xu China · #652,911 worldwide 52 citations · 19 works
  3. 3 Qingyun Yan China · #675,125 worldwide 153 citations · 33 works
  4. 4 Rui Deng China · #1,218,343 worldwide 33 citations · 48 works
  5. 5 Xiaohui Li China · #1,240,391 worldwide 42 citations · 18 works
  6. 6 Yuping Wu China · #1,243,486 worldwide 42 citations · 22 works
  7. 7 Wei Shangguan China · #1,372,957 worldwide 68 citations · 19 works
  8. 8 Danqi Lu China · #1,425,155 worldwide 14 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 Zhongwang Wei China · #1,470,386 worldwide 39 citations · 22 works
  10. 10 Shaofeng Liu China · #1,483,665 worldwide 19 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)

Which keywords describe research at Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Global Warming, Ocean Circulation, Remote Sensing, Data Assimilation, Aquaculture, Hydrological Cycle and Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

▲ 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. Climate Change536▲ 7.0×76 topics
  2. Global Warming215▲ 19×10 topics
  3. Remote Sensing203▲ 5.8×36 topics
  4. Ocean Circulation201▲ 55×3 topics
  5. Data Assimilation132▲ 30×4 topics
  6. Aquaculture128▲ 17×8 topics
  7. Environmental Impact113▲ 2.3×52 topics
  8. Hydrological Cycle104▲ 39×2 topics
  9. Greenhouse Gas Emissions101▲ 13×8 topics
  10. Extreme Events97▲ 40×2 topics
  11. Climate Modeling94▲ 47×1 topic
  12. Precipitation Extremes94▲ 47×1 topic
  13. Plate Tectonics88▲ 20×3 topics
  14. Tropical Cyclones86▲ 56×2 topics
  15. Sea Level Rise84▲ 23×3 topics
  16. Climate Change Impact77▲ 12×5 topics
  17. Ecosystem Services73▲ 6.7×8 topics
  18. Oceanic Modeling72▲ 78×1 topic
  19. Tidal Analysis72▲ 78×1 topic
  20. Innate Immunity72▲ 8.0×11 topics
  21. Microbial Communities71▲ 5.9×10 topics
  22. Boundary Layer65▲ 19×4 topics
  23. Gut Microbiota63▲ 6.4×6 topics
  24. Antibiotic Resistance63▲ 5.8×9 topics
  25. Eutrophication60▲ 21×5 topics
  26. Arctic59▲ 19×4 topics
  27. Harmful Algal Blooms59▲ 27×3 topics
  28. Microbial Ecology56▲ 11×5 topics
  29. Hydrology56▲ 16×4 topics
  30. Probiotics56▲ 8.4×5 topics
  31. Probabilistic Forecasting55▲ 10×3 topics
  32. Ensemble Kalman Filter55▲ 19×2 topics
  33. Wave Modeling54▲ 38×2 topics
  34. Nutrient Limitation54▲ 18×2 topics
  35. Marine Environment54▲ 13×3 topics
  36. Fish Immunology53▲ 41×1 topic
  37. Stress Response53▲ 33×1 topic
  38. Ocean Acidification53▲ 26×3 topics
  39. Convective Parameterization52▲ 34×1 topic
  40. Mesoscale Modeling52▲ 34×1 topic

Which research topics does Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Climate variability and models, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Aquaculture disease management and microbiota and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Climate variability and …94Climate variability and models: 94 fractional worksOceanographic and Atmosp…72Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes: 72 fractional worksAquaculture disease management and microbiota: 53 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 52 fractional worksMarine and coastal ecosystems: 52 fractional worksTropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 51 fractional worksMicrobial Community Ecol…49Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology: 49 fractional worksMethane Hydrates and Rel…42Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 42 fractional worksGeological and Geochemic…36Geological and Geochemical Analysis: 36 fractional worksOcean Waves and Remote S…35Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing: 35 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeOceanographyImmunologyAtmospheric Science3 others

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

  1. 1 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 94 works
  2. 2 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 72 works
  3. 3 Aquaculture disease management and microbiota Immunology 53 works
  4. 4 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 52 works
  5. 5 Marine and coastal ecosystems Oceanography 52 works
  6. 6 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 51 works
  7. 7 Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology Ecology 49 works
  8. 8 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 42 works
  9. 9 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 36 works
  10. 10 Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing Oceanography 35 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 available46.7%not open53.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors26.7%domestic only73.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)'s research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 14223% higher than in 2013–2017.

20002005201020152020
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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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