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Marine and Coastal Research

Marine and Coastal Research is a research topic within Ocean Engineering. Science Explorer counts 5.6k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% 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 marine safety, industrial risk management, and accident prevention in various industries such as shipbuilding, nuclear power plants, and aquaculture. It includes studies on fire resistance design, human error analysis, wireless sensor networks, and the application of augmented reality in education. The focus is on enhancing safety measures and preventing accidents in marine and industrial environments.

  • Marine Safety
  • Industrial Risk Management
  • Chemical Accidents Prevention
  • Shipbuilding Industry
  • Fire Resistance Design
  • Nuclear Power Plants
  • Aquaculture Production Efficiency
  • Human Error Analysis
  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Augmented Reality Education
Research works
5.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
578
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+56%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Marine and Coastal Research

Which countries lead Marine and Coastal Research research?

By volume, China and South Korea publish the most (444 and 308 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 444 works
  2. 2 South Korea 308 works
  3. 3 Japan 113 works
  4. 4 United States 74 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 64 works
  6. 6 India 45 works
  7. 7 Russia 29 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 27 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 24 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 17 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: 38.8%South Korea: 26.9%Japan: 9.8%United States: 6.4%6 others listed: 18.1%39%largest
China444 · 38.8%South Korea308 · 26.9%Japan113 · 9.8%United States74 · 6.4%6 others listed207 · 18.1%

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

Which institutions lead Marine and Coastal Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Dalian Maritime University publishes the most Marine and Coastal Research research, followed by Shanghai Maritime University and Wuhan University of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 30 works
  2. 2 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 26 works
  3. 3 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 20 works
  4. 4 Korea Institute of Ocean Science and TechnologySouth Korea 20 works
  5. 5 Korea Maritime and Ocean UniversitySouth Korea 17 works
  6. 6 China General Nuclear Power Corporation (China)China 15 works
  7. 7 National Institute of Child HealthHungary 13 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 10 works
  9. 9 Pukyong National UniversitySouth Korea 10 works
  10. 10 Beijing Language and Culture UniversityChina 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Marine and Coastal Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Marine and Coastal Research include Young‐Ho Khang, Muhammad Aziz Rahman and Seok‐Jun Yoon.

  1. 1 Young‐Ho Khang South Korea 231k citations
  2. 2 Muhammad Aziz Rahman Australia 160k citations
  3. 3 Seok‐Jun Yoon South Korea 142k citations
  4. 4 Ki‐Hyun Kim South Korea 108k 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 Marine and Coastal Research?

The most cited paper in Marine and Coastal Research is "Effects of Varying the Vehicle for OsO4 in Tissue Fixation" (James Caulfield, 1957), with 1,126 citations. Next come "A Study on Information Extraction of Water Body with the Modified Normalized Difference Water Index （MNDWI）" (732) and "Ship trajectory uncertainty prediction based on a Gaussian Process model" (312).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Effects of Varying the Vehicle for OsO4 in Tissue Fixation James Caulfield · The Journal of Cell Biology Open access 25 Sep 1957 1,126
2 A Study on Information Extraction of Water Body with the Modified Normalized Difference Water Index （MNDWI） Hanqiu Xu · National Remote Sensing Bulletin Open access 2005 732
3 Ship trajectory uncertainty prediction based on a Gaussian Process model Hao Rong, Angelo Palos Teixeira, Carlos Guedes Soares · Ocean Engineering 8 May 2019 312
4 Use of HFACS and fault tree model for collision risk factors analysis of icebreaker assistance in ice-covered waters Mingyang Zhang, Di Zhang, Floris Goerlandt et al. · Safety Science Open access 11 Jul 2018 267
5 A root cause analysis for Arctic Marine accidents from 1993 to 2011 Serdar Kum, Bekir Şahin · Safety Science 5 Feb 2015 230
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Marine and Coastal Research research done?

The largest centres of Marine and Coastal Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Busan (South Korea) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Busan, Daejeon and Dalian.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 94 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 77 works
  3. 3 BusanSouth Korea 72 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 51 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 40 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 38 works
  7. 7 DaejeonSouth Korea 37 works
  8. 8 DalianChina 36 works
  9. 9 ShenzhenChina 19 works
  10. 10 BudapestHungary 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BusanKR · 71.8 works60×
  2. DaejeonKR · 36.6 works15×
  3. DalianCN · 35.8 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Marine and Coastal Research than the world average.

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

Among universities, judged by research, Shanghai Maritime University, Dalian Maritime University and Korea Maritime and 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%10%20%30%mean 19.7286%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Korea Maritime and O…Dalian Maritime Univ…Shanghai Maritime Un…Wuhan 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
1Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 78.124.6%88.0×26 +672.2%
2Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 72.024.7%69.6×30 +398.9%
3Korea Maritime and Ocean UniversitySouth Korea 65.527.0%325.1×17 +29.4%
4Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 49.217.2%21.4×20 +80.1%
5Pukyong National UniversitySouth Korea 40.219.4%52.8×10 +18.1%
6Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 26.615.1%15.2×9 +57.3%
7Beijing Language and Culture UniversityChina 5.310.1%68.9×9 -

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 Marine and Coastal Research, country by country

Is Marine and Coastal Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 56% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Marine and Coastal Research.

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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 Marine and Coastal Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0083% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Marine and Coastal Research 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%Marine and Coastal Research10.5% 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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