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Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies

Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies is a research topic within General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Science Explorer counts 4.9k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to sustainable agricultural development, resource management, and rural livelihoods. It includes discussions on water management, food security, fisheries, watershed management, smallholder farming, technology adoption, and environmental impact in the context of developing countries. The papers emphasize the challenges and opportunities for improving agricultural productivity, ensuring water sustainability, and enhancing the livelihoods of rural communities.

  • Agriculture
  • Water Management
  • Resource Sustainability
  • Food Security
  • Rural Livelihoods
  • Fisheries
  • Watershed Management
  • Smallholder Farming
  • Technology Adoption
  • Environmental Impact
Research works
4.9k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
492
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+74%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies

Which countries lead Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies research?

By volume, Indonesia and India publish the most (650 and 648 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 650 works
  2. 2 India 648 works
  3. 3 Bangladesh 166 works
  4. 4 Philippines 83 works
  5. 5 United States 82 works
  6. 6 Nigeria 74 works
  7. 7 Malaysia 42 works
  8. 8 China 35 works
  9. 9 Egypt 29 works
  10. 10 Thailand 29 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: 35.4%India: 35.3%Bangladesh: 9.0%Philippines: 4.5%6 others listed: 15.8%35%largest
Indonesia650 · 35.4%India648 · 35.3%Bangladesh166 · 9.0%Philippines83 · 4.5%6 others listed291 · 15.8%

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

Which institutions lead Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies research, followed by Bangladesh Agricultural University and Padjadjaran University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 99 works
  2. 2 Bangladesh Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 22 works
  3. 3 Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 20 works
  4. 4 IPB UniversityIndonesia 20 works
  5. 5 Universitas Halu OleoIndonesia 17 works
  6. 6 Hasanuddin UniversityIndonesia 14 works
  7. 7 Khulna UniversityBangladesh 14 works
  8. 8 University of MataramIndonesia 14 works
  9. 9 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 14 works
  10. 10 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies include Paul M. Thompson, Johan Rockström and Daniel F Pauly.

  1. 1 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k citations
  2. 2 Johan Rockström Sweden 128k citations
  3. 3 Daniel F Pauly Canada 91k 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 Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies?

The most cited paper in Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies is "Agriculture, Fisheries and Food" (Bernard Augustus Keen, 1962), with 477 citations. Next come "Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries" (395) and "Fisheries resources of Bangladesh: Present status and future direction" (286).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Bernard Augustus Keen · Nature 8 Dec 1962 477
2 Inland fishes of India and adjacent countries Walter J. Rainboth · Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries Mar 1994 395
3 Fisheries resources of Bangladesh: Present status and future direction Md. Mostafa Shamsuzzaman, Mohammad Mahmudul Islam, Nusrat Jahan Tania et al. · Aquaculture and Fisheries Open access 23 May 2017 286
4 A review of biodiversity-related issues and challenges in megadiverse Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries Kristina von Rintelen, Evy Ayu Arida, Christoph L. Häuser · Research Ideas and Outcomes Open access 11 Sep 2017 234
5 WATER QUALITY AND SOIL CONDITION OF FISH PONDS IN SOME STATES OF INDIA IN RELATION TO FISH PRODUCTION Santimoy Banerjea Open access 1967 232
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies research done?

The largest centres of Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies research in 2022-now are Dhaka (Bangladesh), Jakarta (Indonesia), Makassar (Indonesia) and Bandung (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mymensingh, Ernakulam and Chittagong.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 DhakaBangladesh 56 works
  2. 2 JakartaIndonesia 55 works
  3. 3 MakassarIndonesia 42 works
  4. 4 BandungIndonesia 37 works
  5. 5 SurabayaIndonesia 36 works
  6. 6 KolkataIndia 34 works
  7. 7 MymensinghBangladesh 33 works
  8. 8 MumbaiIndia 33 works
  9. 9 ErnakulamIndia 29 works
  10. 10 BogorIndonesia 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MymensinghBD · 33.2 works118×
  2. ErnakulamIN · 28.9 works34×
  3. ChittagongBD · 20.8 works27×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies than the world average.

See Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies on the map

Where is the best place to study Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Sylhet Agricultural University and Khulna University score highest, combining citation 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 13.23%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sylhet Agricultural …Bangladesh Agricultu…Khulna UniversityPadjadjaran University
above the meannear itbelow it

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.

Citation 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
1Bangladesh Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 81.518.2%125.6×22 -39.9%
2Sylhet Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 72.021.2%188.6×10 +14.3%
3Khulna UniversityBangladesh 65.411.9%91.4×14 +203.9%
4Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 61.94.7%12.2×20 +75.2%
5University of DhakaBangladesh 59.921.6%12.8×9 -19.3%
6IPB UniversityIndonesia 59.15.6%18.4×20 +129.8%
7Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 51.810.0%7.2×13 +64.5%
8Universitas Halu OleoIndonesia 50.84.8%28.0×18 +356.2%
9University of IndonesiaIndonesia 50.723.8%3.7×8 +69.2%
10University of RajshahiBangladesh 48.710.5%39.9×9 +17.3%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies, country by country

Is Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 74% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies.

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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 Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0070% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies 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%Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies10.0% 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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