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Marine and environmental studies

Marine and environmental studies is a research topic within Oceanography. Science Explorer counts 36k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the paleoceanography, geology, and environmental history of the Black Sea and its connections with the Mediterranean and Caspian Seas. It covers topics such as sea level changes, sedimentation history, Holocene transgressions, and paleoenvironmental evolution during the late glacial to Holocene periods.

  • Black Sea
  • Holocene
  • paleoceanography
  • sea level
  • Mediterranean
  • Caspian Sea
  • glacial
  • sedimentation
  • transgression
  • paleoenvironmental
Research works
36k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Marine and environmental studies

Which countries lead Marine and environmental studies research?

By volume, Russia and the United States publish the most (1.8k and 680 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 1.8k works
  2. 2 United States 680 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 346 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 293 works
  5. 5 Romania 227 works
  6. 6 China 214 works
  7. 7 Iraq 189 works
  8. 8 Germany 168 works
  9. 9 Bulgaria 160 works
  10. 10 France 150 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.

Russia: 43.0%United States: 16.0%Türkiye: 8.1%Ukraine: 6.9%6 others listed: 26.0%43%largest
Russia1,833 · 43.0%United States680 · 16.0%Türkiye346 · 8.1%Ukraine293 · 6.9%6 others listed1,107 · 26.0%

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

Which institutions lead Marine and environmental studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Marine and environmental studies research, followed by National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Lomonosov Moscow State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 947 works
  2. 2 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 119 works
  3. 3 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 113 works
  4. 4 Bulgarian Academy of SciencesBulgaria 81 works
  5. 5 All-Russian Research Institute Fisheries and OceanographyRussia 78 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 69 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 52 works
  8. 8 University of BasrahIraq 47 works
  9. 9 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 35 works
  10. 10 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 33 works

Who are the leading researchers in Marine and environmental studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Marine and environmental studies include F. Stuart Chapin, Josep Peñuelas and Carlos Manuel Duarte.

  1. 1 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  2. 2 Josep Peñuelas Spain 160k citations
  3. 3 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 Marine and environmental studies?

The most cited paper in Marine and environmental studies is "The chemical basis of morphogenesis" (Alan Mathison Turing, 1952), with 11,847 citations. Next come "Persistent Solar Influence on North Atlantic Climate During the Holocene" (3,504) and "REPRODUCTIVE and LARVAL ECOLOGY OF MARINE BOTTOM INVERTEBRATES" (2,408).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The chemical basis of morphogenesis Alan Mathison Turing · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 14 Aug 1952 11,847
2 Persistent Solar Influence on North Atlantic Climate During the Holocene Gérard C. Bond, Bernd Kromer, J. Beer et al. · Science 7 Dec 2001 3,504
3 REPRODUCTIVE and LARVAL ECOLOGY OF MARINE BOTTOM INVERTEBRATES Gunnar Thorson · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Review 1950 2,408
4 POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF ORGANISMS AS PHYSICAL ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERS Clive G. Jones, John Hartley Lawton, Moshe Shachak · Ecology Oct 1997 2,344
5 Mesozoic and Cenozoic Chronostratigraphy and Cycles of Sea-Level Change Bilal Ul Haq, Jan Hardenbol, Peter R. Vail et al. · SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) eBooks Book chapter 1988 2,129
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Where is Marine and environmental studies research done?

The largest centres of Marine and environmental studies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Kyiv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sevastopol', Borok and Sebastopol.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 785 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 130 works
  3. 3 SofiaBulgaria 127 works
  4. 4 KyivUkraine 125 works
  5. 5 BakuAzerbaijan 121 works
  6. 6 VladivostokRussia 106 works
  7. 7 BucharestRomania 91 works
  8. 8 BudapestHungary 84 works
  9. 9 TbilisiGeorgia 83 works
  10. 10 Rostov-on-DonRussia 77 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Sevastopol'RU · 73.9 works288×
  2. BorokRU · 22.1 works153×
  3. SebastopolUA · 38.6 works122×
  4. MurmanskRU · 23.9 works87×
  5. ConstanțaRO · 45.5 works72×
  6. VladivostokRU · 106.3 works53×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Marine and environmental studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Marine and environmental studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Middle East Technical University, Lomonosov Moscow State University and Istanbul Technical 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%20%40%mean 15.13%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National and Kapodis…Middle East Technica…Istanbul Technical U…Lomonosov Moscow Sta…
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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
1Middle East Technical UniversityTürkiye 62.022.2%8.1×8 +33.0%
2Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 56.15.4%23.3×113 -5.5%
3Istanbul Technical UniversityTürkiye 54.116.8%9.1×18 -26.3%
4National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGreece 51.630.5%4.9×14 -50.4%
5University of BucharestRomania 48.09.5%22.0×24 +14.9%
6University of TehranIran 47.226.0%4.7×16 -47.1%
7University of HaifaIsrael 46.612.5%8.0×10 +16.1%
8University of BasrahIraq 46.13.5%36.2×47 +187.7%
9Weatherford CollegeUnited States 45.48.6%4.3×33 +17.7%
10Southern Federal UniversityRussia 45.416.3%26.0×26 -20.7%

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 environmental studies, country by country

Is Marine and environmental studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% 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 Marine and environmental studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Marine and environmental studies0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Marine and environmental 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%Marine and environmental studies9.8% 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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