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Echinoderm biology and ecology

Echinoderm biology and ecology is a research topic within Aquatic Science. Science Explorer counts 9.1k 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 explores the high-value components, bioactives, aquaculture, and pharmacological potential of sea cucumbers, focusing on triterpene glycosides and their biological activities. It also delves into regeneration, sustainable management, and the use of sea cucumbers in functional foods.

  • Sea Cucumbers
  • Functional Foods
  • Aquaculture
  • Triterpene Glycosides
  • Regeneration
  • Echinodermata
  • Biological Activities
  • Pharmacological Potential
  • Holothuroidea
  • Sustainable Management
Research works
9.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
917
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Echinoderm biology and ecology

Which countries lead Echinoderm biology and ecology research?

By volume, China and Indonesia publish the most (469 and 177 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 469 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 177 works
  3. 3 United States 160 works
  4. 4 India 76 works
  5. 5 Japan 69 works
  6. 6 France 63 works
  7. 7 Russia 63 works
  8. 8 Australia 56 works
  9. 9 Italy 50 works
  10. 10 Spain 49 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: 38.1%Indonesia: 14.4%United States: 13.0%India: 6.2%6 others listed: 28.4%38%largest
China469 · 38.1%Indonesia177 · 14.4%United States160 · 13.0%India76 · 6.2%6 others listed349 · 28.4%

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

Which institutions lead Echinoderm biology and ecology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Echinoderm biology and ecology research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Dalian Ocean University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 48 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 41 works
  3. 3 Dalian Ocean UniversityChina 37 works
  4. 4 Ocean University of ChinaChina 33 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 30 works
  6. 6 Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and TechnologyChina 21 works
  7. 7 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 20 works
  8. 8 Ningbo UniversityChina 18 works
  9. 9 Dalian Polytechnic UniversityChina 16 works
  10. 10 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Echinoderm biology and ecology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Echinoderm biology and ecology include Richard A. Gibbs, David M. Pereira and Carlos Manuel Duarte.

  1. 1 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  2. 2 David M. Pereira Portugal 183k citations
  3. 3 Carlos Manuel Duarte Saudi Arabia 152k citations
  4. 4 Hans R. Lehrach Germany 148k 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 Echinoderm biology and ecology?

The most cited paper in Echinoderm biology and ecology is "Table 1 in A new Gammarus species from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (China) with a key to Xinjiang freshwater gammarids (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae)" (Zhang, Kui, Wang, Jun, Ge, Yihao et al., 2022), with 15,805 citations. Next come "Bioactive compounds in seaweed: functional food applications and legislation" (2,116) and "Tunicates and not cephalochordates are the closest living relatives of vertebrates" (1,681).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Table 1 in A new Gammarus species from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (China) with a key to Xinjiang freshwater gammarids (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae) Zhang, Kui, Wang, Jun, Ge, Yihao et al. · PubMed Open access 25 Mar 2022 15,805
2 Bioactive compounds in seaweed: functional food applications and legislation Susan Løvstad Holdt, Stefan Kraan · Journal of Applied Phycology Open access 7 Feb 2011 2,116
3 Tunicates and not cephalochordates are the closest living relatives of vertebrates Frédéric Delsuc, Henner Brinkmann, Daniel M. Chourrout et al. · Nature Feb 2006 1,681
4 Proneural genes and the specification of neural cell types Nicolas Bertrand, Diogo S. Castro, François Guillemot · Nature reviews. Neuroscience Review Jul 2002 1,513
5 Fucoidan: Structure and Bioactivity Bo Li, Felice Chrismary Lu, Wei Xinjun et al. · Molecules Open access 12 Aug 2008 1,390
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Echinoderm biology and ecology research done?

The largest centres of Echinoderm biology and ecology research in 2022-now are Qingdao (China), Dalian (China), Beijing (China) and Vladivostok (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vladivostok, Qingdao and Dalian.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 QingdaoChina 89 works
  2. 2 DalianChina 68 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 64 works
  4. 4 VladivostokRussia 35 works
  5. 5 JakartaIndonesia 26 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 25 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 23 works
  8. 8 NingboChina 21 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 18 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 17 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VladivostokRU · 35.3 works60×
  2. QingdaoCN · 89.3 works14×
  3. DalianCN · 68.1 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Echinoderm biology and ecology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Echinoderm biology and ecology?

Among universities, judged by research, Ocean University of China, Dalian Polytechnic University and Memorial University of Newfoundland 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%10%20%mean 8.45%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Dalian Polytechnic U…Memorial University …Ocean University of …Dalian Ocean Univers…
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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 81.214.2%39.8×33 +110.2%
2Dalian Polytechnic UniversityChina 74.019.5%53.6×16 +121.6%
3Memorial University of NewfoundlandCanada 71.717.5%30.2×10 +13.7%
4Dalian Ocean UniversityChina 65.58.8%285.3×36 +44.2%
5Ningbo UniversityChina 55.05.2%18.0×18 +53.4%
6Hainan UniversityChina 51.310.9%13.8×10 +404.8%
7University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 31.17.5%3.1×9 +0.4%
8National Pingtung UniversityTaiwan 24.90.0%420.1×11 -
9Diponegoro UniversityIndonesia 15.10.9%7.6×10 -51.0%
10Universitas Hang TuahIndonesia 10.00.0%45.9×8 -32.3%

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 Echinoderm biology and ecology, country by country

Is Echinoderm biology and ecology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Echinoderm biology and ecology.

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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 Echinoderm biology and ecology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0069% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Echinoderm biology and ecology0.0084% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Echinoderm biology and ecology 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%Echinoderm biology and ecology10.0% 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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