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Coastal and Marine Dynamics

Coastal and Marine Dynamics is a research topic within Earth-Surface Processes. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses a wide range of topics related to coastal dynamics, including sea-level rise, shoreline change, wave modeling, coastal vulnerability, beach erosion, sediment transport, climate change impacts, coastal management, and remote sensing techniques. The papers collectively aim to understand and address the complex interactions between natural processes and human activities in coastal environments.

  • Coastal Dynamics
  • Sea-Level Rise
  • Shoreline Change
  • Wave Modeling
  • Coastal Vulnerability
  • Beach Erosion
  • Sediment Transport
  • Climate Change Impacts
  • Coastal Management
  • Remote Sensing
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Coastal and Marine Dynamics

Which countries lead Coastal and Marine Dynamics research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.5k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 United States 1.1k works
  3. 3 India 464 works
  4. 4 France 294 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 283 works
  6. 6 Italy 248 works
  7. 7 Spain 212 works
  8. 8 Australia 210 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 192 works
  10. 10 Japan 182 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.

China: 32.8%United States: 22.9%India: 9.9%France: 6.2%6 others listed: 28.1%33%largest
China1,548 · 32.8%United States1,082 · 22.9%India464 · 9.9%France294 · 6.2%6 others listed1,327 · 28.1%

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

Which institutions lead Coastal and Marine Dynamics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Coastal and Marine Dynamics research, followed by Ocean University of China and Hohai University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 112 works
  2. 2 Ocean University of ChinaChina 95 works
  3. 3 Hohai UniversityChina 76 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 72 works
  5. 5 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 68 works
  6. 6 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 63 works
  7. 7 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 52 works
  8. 8 Ministry of Natural ResourcesChina 52 works
  9. 9 United States Geological SurveyUnited States 48 works
  10. 10 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 47 works

Who are the leading researchers in Coastal and Marine Dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Coastal and Marine Dynamics include Kai You Wang, J. Mueller and Josep Peñuelas.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 J. Mueller France 178k citations
  3. 3 Josep Peñuelas Spain 160k citations
  4. 4 Carlos Manuel Duarte Saudi Arabia 152k citations
  5. 5 Markku Kulmala Finland 145k citations
  6. 6 Subir Sarkar Germany 143k 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 Coastal and Marine Dynamics?

The most cited paper in Coastal and Marine Dynamics is "Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics" (Daniel C. Donato, J. Boone Kauffman, Daniel Murdiyarso et al., 2011), with 3,410 citations. Next come "Future Coastal Population Growth and Exposure to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Flooding - A Global Assessment" (2,906) and "Wave energy utilization: A review of the technologies" (2,726).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics Daniel C. Donato, J. Boone Kauffman, Daniel Murdiyarso et al. · Nature Geoscience Open access 3 Apr 2011 3,410
2 Future Coastal Population Growth and Exposure to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Flooding - A Global Assessment Barbara Neumann, Athanasios Thomas Vafeidis, Juliane T. Zimmermann et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 11 Mar 2015 2,906
3 Wave energy utilization: A review of the technologies António F.O. Falcão · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 27 Nov 2009 2,726
4 The rising tide: assessing the risks of climate change and human settlements in low elevation coastal zones Gordon McGranahan, Deborah L. Balk, Bridget Anderson · Environment and Urbanization Apr 2007 2,653
5 Measurement of the Roughness of the Sea Surface from Photographs of the Sun’s Glitter Charles L. Cox, Walter Heinrich Munk · Journal of the Optical Society of America Nov 1954 2,606
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Coastal and Marine Dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Coastal and Marine Dynamics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Qingdao (China), Nanjing (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vicksburg, Falmouth and Zhoushan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 244 works
  2. 2 QingdaoChina 164 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 147 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 136 works
  5. 5 DelftNetherlands 105 works
  6. 6 DalianChina 92 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 90 works
  8. 8 ChennaiIndia 70 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 68 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 64 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VicksburgUS · 25.4 works119×
  2. FalmouthUS · 21.3 works48×
  3. ZhoushanCN · 36.2 works27×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Coastal and Marine Dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Coastal and Marine Dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, Ocean University of China, Delft University of Technology and UNSW Sydney 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%20%40%mean 20.81%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →UNSW SydneyEast China Normal Un…Ocean University of …Delft University of …
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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
1Ocean University of ChinaChina 71.114.5%31.9×95 +33.1%
2Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 68.011.7%15.9×63 +0.5%
3UNSW SydneyAustralia 66.521.4%3.6×20 +3.6%
4East China Normal UniversityChina 66.316.6%11.2×32 +20.2%
5University of StrathclydeUnited Kingdom 64.230.1%7.0×11 +10.1%
6Jiangsu University of Science and TechnologyChina 63.921.0%11.0×20 +28.6%
7Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 63.419.3%5.1×11 +40.4%
8California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 61.233.1%4.0×8 +20.7%
9University of LisbonPortugal 60.923.7%5.7×27 -32.0%
10Dalian University of TechnologyChina 60.816.7%12.2×68 -6.4%

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 Coastal and Marine Dynamics, country by country

Is Coastal and Marine Dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Coastal and Marine Dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Coastal and Marine Dynamics0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Coastal and Marine Dynamics 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%Coastal and Marine Dynamics9.9% 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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