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Ichthyology and Marine Biology

Ichthyology and Marine Biology is a research topic within Nature and Landscape Conservation. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the conservation, ecology, and population dynamics of sharks and rays, including their phylogeny, habitat use, migration patterns, and the impact of fisheries on their populations. It also addresses the importance of marine ecosystems and the challenges in managing and protecting these apex predators.

  • Sharks
  • Rays
  • Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Fisheries
  • Phylogeny
  • Habitat Use
  • Migration
  • Population Dynamics
  • Marine Ecosystems
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ichthyology and Marine Biology

Which countries lead Ichthyology and Marine Biology research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (978 and 435 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 978 works
  2. 2 Brazil 435 works
  3. 3 China 341 works
  4. 4 Australia 289 works
  5. 5 Germany 258 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 243 works
  7. 7 India 220 works
  8. 8 Japan 185 works
  9. 9 Russia 183 works
  10. 10 France 171 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.

United States: 29.6%Brazil: 13.2%China: 10.3%Australia: 8.7%6 others listed: 38.1%30%largest
United States978 · 29.6%Brazil435 · 13.2%China341 · 10.3%Australia289 · 8.7%6 others listed1,260 · 38.1%

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

Which institutions lead Ichthyology and Marine Biology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart publishes the most Ichthyology and Marine Biology research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde StuttgartGermany 123 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 117 works
  3. 3 Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael 100 works
  4. 4 Universidad de IbaguéColombia 84 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 84 works
  6. 6 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 70 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 59 works
  8. 8 Smithsonian InstitutionUnited States 47 works
  9. 9 National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationUnited States 45 works
  10. 10 Leibniz AssociationGermany 41 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ichthyology and Marine Biology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ichthyology and Marine Biology include Richard M. Durbin, Jun Wang and Huanming Yang.

  1. 1 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  4. 4 Carlos Manuel Duarte Saudi Arabia 152k 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 Ichthyology and Marine Biology?

The most cited paper in Ichthyology and Marine Biology is "DNA barcoding Australia's fish species" (Robert DeC. Ward, Tyler Zemlak, Bronwyn H Innes et al., 2005), with 4,368 citations. Next come "ALLOMETRY AND SIZE IN ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY" (2,332) and "Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays" (2,066).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 DNA barcoding Australia's fish species Robert DeC. Ward, Tyler Zemlak, Bronwyn H Innes et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences Open access 15 Sep 2005 4,368
2 ALLOMETRY AND SIZE IN ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY Stephen Jay Gould · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Review Nov 1966 2,332
3 Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays Nicholas K. Dulvy et al. · eLife Open access 21 Jan 2014 2,066
4 The effects of fishing on sharks, rays, and chimaeras (chondrichthyans), and the implications for marine ecosystems John D. Stevens · ICES Journal of Marine Science Open access Jun 2000 1,730
5 Activating Mutations of the Stimulatory G Protein in the McCune–Albright Syndrome Lee Scott Weinstein, Andrew Shenker, Pablo V. Gejman et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 12 Dec 1991 1,716
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Where is Ichthyology and Marine Biology research done?

The largest centres of Ichthyology and Marine Biology research in 2022-now are Stuttgart (Germany), Jerusalem (Israel), Beijing (China) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ibagué, Keelung and Townsville.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 StuttgartGermany 126 works
  2. 2 JerusalemIsrael 101 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 91 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 90 works
  5. 5 IbaguéColombia 85 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 83 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 77 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C.United States 67 works
  9. 9 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 64 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 62 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IbaguéCO · 84.5 works150×
  2. KeelungTW · 34.6 works72×
  3. TownsvilleAU · 42.8 works44×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ichthyology and Marine Biology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ichthyology and Marine Biology?

Among universities, judged by research, James Cook University, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria and Flinders 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%20%40%mean 17.02%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal…James Cook UniversityFlinders UniversityUniversity of Exeter
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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.

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
1James Cook UniversityAustralia 72.825.6%47.5×33 -13.3%
2Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil 65.933.1%6.5×13 +41.2%
3Flinders UniversityAustralia 56.620.7%9.8×12 +18.9%
4University of ExeterUnited Kingdom 56.516.1%6.0×12 +14.9%
5King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 55.816.4%7.2×9 +35.7%
6Murdoch UniversityAustralia 53.317.3%18.1×9 +46.5%
7Florida International UniversityUnited States 51.712.9%8.1×11 +28.0%
8Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael 49.91.8%41.0×100 -14.2%
9The University of Western AustraliaAustralia 48.317.8%6.8×14 -36.5%
10Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 48.28.5%8.6×31 +15.0%

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 Ichthyology and Marine Biology, country by country

Is Ichthyology and Marine Biology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Ichthyology and Marine Biology.

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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 Ichthyology and Marine Biology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Ichthyology and Marine Biology0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ichthyology and Marine Biology 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%Ichthyology and Marine Biology9.3% 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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