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Aquatic life and conservation

Aquatic life and conservation is a research topic within Aquatic Science. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1951. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the life history, ecology, conservation, and management of seahorses, including topics such as aquaculture, genome evolution, male pregnancy, habitat preferences, reproductive strategies, and the impact of trade on seahorse populations.

  • Seahorses
  • Syngnathidae
  • Conservation
  • Management
  • Aquaculture
  • Genome
  • Male Pregnancy
  • Habitat
  • Reproduction
  • Trade
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
82% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Aquatic life and conservation

Which countries lead Aquatic life and conservation research?

By volume, Indonesia and China publish the most (5.5k and 393 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 5.5k works
  2. 2 China 393 works
  3. 3 India 191 works
  4. 4 United States 139 works
  5. 5 Malaysia 98 works
  6. 6 ?? 96 works
  7. 7 Brazil 84 works
  8. 8 Egypt 71 works
  9. 9 Iran 57 works
  10. 10 Philippines 48 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Indonesia: 82.4%China: 5.9%India: 2.9%United States: 2.1%6 others listed: 6.8%82%largest
Indonesia5,521 · 82.4%China393 · 5.9%India191 · 2.9%United States139 · 2.1%6 others listed454 · 6.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Aquatic life and conservation research?

By volume in 2022-now, IPB University publishes the most Aquatic life and conservation research, followed by University of Mataram and Diponegoro University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 IPB UniversityIndonesia 221 works
  2. 2 University of MataramIndonesia 210 works
  3. 3 Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 193 works
  4. 4 Riau UniversityIndonesia 161 works
  5. 5 Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 150 works
  6. 6 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 146 works
  7. 7 Airlangga UniversityIndonesia 120 works
  8. 8 Politeknik Kesehatan Kemenkes SemarangIndonesia 102 works
  9. 9 Mulawarman UniversityIndonesia 94 works
  10. 10 Jenderal Soedirman UniversityIndonesia 92 works

Who are the leading researchers in Aquatic life and conservation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Aquatic life and conservation include Barry S. Taylor.

  1. 1 Barry S. Taylor United States 130k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Aquatic life and conservation?

The most cited paper in Aquatic life and conservation is "A 20-year retrospective review of global aquaculture" (Rosamond L. Naylor, Ronald W. Hardy, Alejandro H. Buschmann et al., 2021), with 2,262 citations. Next come "Carbon/nitrogen ratio as a control element in aquaculture systems" (1,307) and "Integrated aquaculture: rationale, evolution and state of the art emphasizing seaweed biofiltration in modern mariculture" (1,084).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A 20-year retrospective review of global aquaculture Rosamond L. Naylor, Ronald W. Hardy, Alejandro H. Buschmann et al. · Nature Open access 24 Mar 2021 2,262
2 Carbon/nitrogen ratio as a control element in aquaculture systems Yoram Avnimelech · Aquaculture Jun 1999 1,307
3 Integrated aquaculture: rationale, evolution and state of the art emphasizing seaweed biofiltration in modern mariculture Amir Neori, Thierry Chopin, Max Fredrik Troell et al. · Aquaculture 12 Jan 2004 1,084
4 The current status and future focus of probiotic and prebiotic applications for salmonids Daniel Lee Merrifield, Arkadios Dimitroglou, Andrew Foey et al. · Aquaculture 17 Feb 2010 996
5 Beneficial roles of feed additives as immunostimulants in aquaculture: a review Mahmoud A.O. Dawood, Shunsuke Koshio, María Ángeles Esteban · Reviews in Aquaculture Open access 18 Aug 2017 915
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Aquatic life and conservation research done?

The largest centres of Aquatic life and conservation research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Semarang (Indonesia), Surabaya (Indonesia) and Bogor (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kupang, Langsa and Meulaboh.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 393 works
  2. 2 SemarangIndonesia 345 works
  3. 3 SurabayaIndonesia 292 works
  4. 4 BogorIndonesia 269 works
  5. 5 MataramIndonesia 245 works
  6. 6 MalangIndonesia 233 works
  7. 7 MakassarIndonesia 226 works
  8. 8 BandungIndonesia 216 works
  9. 9 PekanbaruIndonesia 184 works
  10. 10 MedanIndonesia 157 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Kupang20.1 works194×
  2. LangsaID · 55.0 works72×
  3. MeulabohID · 50.9 works57×
  4. ManokwariID · 25.2 works54×
  5. PangkalpinangID · 63.0 works54×
  6. TarakanID · 27.7 works52×
  7. Tanjung PinangID · 39.4 works51×
  8. TernateID · 44.6 works40×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Aquatic life and conservation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Aquatic life and conservation?

Among universities, judged by research, Guangdong Ocean University, Ningbo University and Zhejiang Ocean University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%25%50%75%mean 32.87%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Guangdong Ocean Univ…Ningbo UniversityZhejiang Ocean Unive…Shanghai Ocean Unive…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Guangdong Ocean UniversityChina 68.359.9%15.3×15 +114.9%
2Ningbo UniversityChina 59.555.2%3.5×13 +163.2%
3Zhejiang Ocean UniversityChina 58.652.2%9.1×9 +147.6%
4Shanghai Ocean UniversityChina 57.346.2%9.7×14 +70.4%
5Universiti Malaysia TerengganuMalaysia 53.823.7%19.3×17 +20.5%
6Ocean University of ChinaChina 52.547.7%4.0×13 +97.1%
7University of MataramIndonesia 52.12.7%40.5×210 +67.3%
8Riau UniversityIndonesia 48.80.6%46.9×161 +27.3%
9Dalian Ocean UniversityChina 48.635.8%31.9×16 +214.8%
10IPB UniversityIndonesia 45.94.7%61.5×221 -18.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Aquatic life and conservation, country by country

Is Aquatic life and conservation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Aquatic life and conservation.

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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 Aquatic life and conservation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Aquatic life and conservation0.023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Aquatic life and conservation 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.

still counting5%10%15%Aquatic life and conservation10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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