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World Maritime University

In research, World Maritime University stands highest in Physical Sciences (#2,125 of 10,670 worldwide), Environmental Science (#1,189 of 3,334 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#4,853 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ocean Engineering and Environmental Engineering (Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law is 27.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#5,274
of 22,385 · #5,299 all time
Rank in Sweden
#36
of 107
Research works
1k
▲ 43% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.7k
8.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.14×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
60%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
World Maritime University

What is World 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
Physical SciencesDomain #2,125 of 10,670 18.3%188 #2852
Environmental ScienceField #1,189 of 3,334 15.9%97 #2610
Social SciencesDomain #4,853 of 9,585 15.6%83 #4282
EngineeringField #3,528 of 5,901 22.6%65 #5196

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where World 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. Physical Sciences#2,852 #2,125
  2. Environmental Science#2,610 #1,189
  3. Social Sciences#4,282 #4,853
  4. Engineering#5,196 #3,528
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 World Maritime University work in?

In 2022-now, 67% of research at World Maritime University is in Physical Sciences, 30% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (34%), Engineering (23%), Social Sciences (17%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 200 fractional works · 66.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 103 fractional works · 34.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 48 fractional works · 16.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 25 fractional works · 8.2% of its workPollution: 10 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEcology: 7 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 6 fractional works · 2.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 70 fractional works · 23.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 34 fractional works · 11.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 23 fractional works · 7.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 9 fractional works · 3.1% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Energy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9 fractional works · 3.0% of its workOceanography: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCatalysis: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 90 fractional works · 30.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 51 fractional works · 17.1% of its workTransportation: 20 fractional works · 6.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 16 fractional works · 5.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 14 fractional works · 4.7% of its workAccounting: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychology: 7 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedical Terminology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKWorld MaritimeUniversity299fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences67%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences30%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science10334.3%
    2. Engineering7023.5%
    3. Energy93.1%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences93.0%
    5. Computer Science31.1%
    6. Chemical Engineering20.6%
    7. Physics and Astronomy20.6%
    8. Materials Science10.4%
    9. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Social Sciences5117.1%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting144.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance72.5%
    4. Psychology72.5%
    5. Decision Sciences51.8%
    6. Arts and Humanities51.6%
    1. Health Professions41.5%
    2. Medicine20.6%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences30.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does World Maritime University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law takes 27.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawSubfield · 48.4 works28×
  2. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 33.6 works22×
  3. Environmental EngineeringSubfield · 24.6 works15×
  4. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 23.4 works15×
← 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: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Chemical Engineering: 1.81× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringComputer Science: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.90× its world share, 9 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 3.37× its world share, 9 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.56× its world share, 70 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 6.91× its world share, 103 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.57× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.03× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.54× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.45× its world share, 14 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.86× its world share, 5 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.16× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.81× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.35× its world share, 51 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 6.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science6.91×103 works
  2. Energy3.37×9 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.90×9 works
  4. Decision Sciences1.86×5 works
  5. Chemical Engineering1.81×2 works
  6. Engineering1.56×70 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting1.45×14 works
  8. Social Sciences1.35×51 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.16×7 works
  10. Psychology0.81×7 works
  11. Health Professions0.57×4 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.54×5 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.27×2 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.18×2 works
  15. Nursing0.17×0 works
  16. Computer Science0.14×3 works
  17. Materials Science0.13×1 works
  18. Mathematics0.03×0 works
  19. Medicine0.03×2 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.02×0 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at World Maritime University?

Ranked on the quality score, Aykut I. Ölçer, Anas S. Alamoush and Fabio Berzaghi lead among researchers whose main affiliation is World Maritime University.

  1. 1 Aykut I. Ölçer Sweden · #73,731 worldwide 5.3k citations · 136 works
  2. 2 Anas S. Alamoush Sweden · #227,448 worldwide 982 citations · 31 works
  3. 3 Fabio Berzaghi Sweden · #318,892 worldwide 858 citations · 46 works
  4. 4 Dong‐Wook Song Sweden · #319,193 worldwide 4.3k citations · 111 works
  5. 5 Momoko Kitada Sweden · #521,310 worldwide 1.2k citations · 91 works
  6. 6 Seyedvahid Vakili Sweden · #522,839 worldwide 602 citations · 34 works
  7. 7 Fabio Ballini Sweden · #723,320 worldwide 1.8k citations · 84 works
  8. 8 Kahlil Hassanali Sweden · #802,421 worldwide 296 citations · 23 works
  9. 9 Alessandro Schönborn Sweden · #944,378 worldwide 1.5k citations · 66 works
  10. 10 Anastasia Christodoulou Sweden · #1,074,436 worldwide 1.3k citations · 71 works
All ranked researchers at World Maritime University

What are the most cited papers from World Maritime University?

The most cited paper from World Maritime University is "Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on the global energy system and the shift progress to renewable energy: Opportunities, challenges, and policy implications" (Anh Tuan Hoang, Sandro Nižetić, Aykut I. Ölçer et al., 2021), with 485 citations. Next come "Berth allocation in a container port: using a continuous location space approach" (372) and "Energy-related approach for reduction of CO2 emissions: A critical strategy on the port-to-ship pathway" (322).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on the global energy system and the shift progress to renewable energy: Opportunities, challenges, and policy implications Anh Tuan Hoang, Sandro Nižetić, Aykut I. Ölçer et al. · Energy Policy Open access 28 Apr 2021 485
2 Berth allocation in a container port: using a continuous location space approach Akio Imai, Xin Sun, Etsuko Nishimura et al. · Transportation Research Part B Methodological Open access 11 Jun 2004 372
3 Energy-related approach for reduction of CO2 emissions: A critical strategy on the port-to-ship pathway Anh Tuan Hoang, Aoife M Foley, Sandro Nižetić et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production 18 Apr 2022 322
4 Berth allocation with service priority Akio Imai, Etsuko Nishimura, Stratos Papadimitriou · Transportation Research Part B Methodological Open access 25 Mar 2003 321
5 Rice bran oil-based biodiesel as a promising renewable fuel alternative to petrodiesel: A review Anh Tuan Hoang, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo et al. · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 10 Aug 2020 279
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at World Maritime University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Environmental Impact, Climate Change, Maritime Transportation, International Law, Shipping, Supply Chain Management, Sustainability and Human Factors.

▲ 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. Climate Change54▲ 6.7×30 topics
  2. Environmental Impact54▲ 11×16 topics
  3. Maritime Transportation50▲ 305×2 topics
  4. International Law38▲ 40×9 topics
  5. Sustainability36▲ 5.0×25 topics
  6. Shipping32▲ 217×2 topics
  7. Supply Chain Management30▲ 11×5 topics
  8. Human Factors30▲ 124×3 topics
  9. Risk Assessment27▲ 14×2 topics
  10. Collision Avoidance26▲ 49×1 topic
  11. Unmanned Surface Vehicles26▲ 283×1 topic
  12. Emissions26▲ 44×5 topics
  13. Fuel Consumption26▲ 120×2 topics
  14. Air Quality25▲ 44×2 topics
  15. Emission Control Areas24▲ 334×1 topic
  16. Ship Propulsion24▲ 334×1 topic
  17. Logistics23▲ 51×2 topics
  18. Biodiversity Conservation23▲ 20×5 topics
  19. Environmental Protection23▲ 151×2 topics
  20. Access and Benefit Sharing23▲ 562×1 topic
  21. Marine Genetic Resources23▲ 562×1 topic
  22. Container Terminals22▲ 288×1 topic
  23. Operations Research22▲ 46×1 topic
  24. Stakeholder Engagement19▲ 71×2 topics
  25. Ecosystem-Based Management19▲ 196×1 topic
  26. Marine Spatial Planning19▲ 196×1 topic
  27. Global Trade17▲ 29×7 topics
  28. Renewable Energy13▲ 3.1×17 topics
  29. Diplomacy13▲ 46×2 topics
  30. Maritime Security13▲ 478×1 topic
  31. Piracy13▲ 478×1 topic
  32. International Relations10▲ 14×4 topics
  33. Recycling10▲ 8.5×3 topics
  34. Waste Management10▲ 8.1×3 topics
  35. Geopolitics9▲ 20×2 topics
  36. Oil and Gas9▲ 87×2 topics
  37. Arctic9▲ 27×3 topics
  38. Governance9▲ 9.4×2 topics
  39. Marine Environment9▲ 21×3 topics
  40. Maritime Transport8▲ 110×1 topic

Which research topics does World Maritime University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Maritime Navigation and Safety, Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency, International Maritime Law Issues and Maritime Ports and Logistics.

Maritime Navigation and Safety: 26 fractional worksMaritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency: 24 fractional worksInternational Maritime L…23International Maritime Law Issues: 23 fractional worksMaritime Ports and Logis…22Maritime Ports and Logistics: 22 fractional worksCoastal and Marine Manag…19Coastal and Marine Management: 19 fractional worksMaritime Security and Hi…13Maritime Security and History: 13 fractional worksArctic and Russian Policy Studies: 8 fractional worksMicroplastics and Plastic Pollution: 7 fractional worksCruise Tourism Development and Management: 6 fractional worksLaw, logistics, and international trade: 5 fractional works
Ocean EngineeringEnvironmental EngineeringManagement, Monitoring, Policy and LawIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Maritime Navigation and Safety Ocean Engineering 26 works
  2. 2 Maritime Transport Emissions and Efficiency Environmental Engineering 24 works
  3. 3 International Maritime Law Issues Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 23 works
  4. 4 Maritime Ports and Logistics Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 22 works
  5. 5 Coastal and Marine Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 19 works
  6. 6 Maritime Security and History Transportation 13 works
  7. 7 Arctic and Russian Policy Studies Sociology and Political Science 8 works
  8. 8 Microplastics and Plastic Pollution Pollution 7 works
  9. 9 Cruise Tourism Development and Management Transportation 6 works
  10. 10 Law, logistics, and international trade Accounting 5 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 available60.1%not open39.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.2%domestic only79.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has World Maritime University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 43% 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 World Maritime University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0013% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%World Maritime University0.0018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of World 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%30%World Maritime University15.9% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 24.2% in 2021.

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