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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. 9.1% 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%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+63%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Marine and environmental studies research?

By volume, Russia and the United States publish the most (1.8k and 661 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Russia 1.8k works
  2. 2 United States 661 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 323 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 266 works
  5. 5 Romania 210 works
  6. 6 China 202 works
  7. 7 Iraq 186 works
  8. 8 Germany 155 works
  9. 9 France 144 works
  10. 10 Hungary 143 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: 43.4%United States: 16.3%Türkiye: 8.0%Ukraine: 6.6%6 others listed: 25.7%43%largest
Russia1,753 · 43.4%United States661 · 16.3%Türkiye323 · 8.0%Ukraine266 · 6.6%6 others listed1,041 · 25.7%

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

Which institutions lead Marine and environmental studies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Institute of Oceanology. PP Shirshov Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Marine and environmental studies research, followed by Lomonosov Moscow State University and Russian Academy of Sciences.

Who are the leading researchers in Marine and environmental studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Marine and environmental studies include Carlos M. Duarte and Hai Cheng.

  1. 1 Carlos M. Duarte Saudi Arabia 4.1k citations
  2. 2 Hai Cheng China 2.9k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Marine and environmental studies research done?

The largest centres of Marine and environmental studies research in 2022–2025 are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Sofia (Bulgaria). 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Moscow Russia 755 works
  2. 2 Saint Petersburg Russia 125 works
  3. 3 Kyiv Ukraine 111 works
  4. 4 Sofia Bulgaria 111 works
  5. 5 Vladivostok Russia 104 works
  6. 6 Baku Azerbaijan 102 works
  7. 7 Bucharest Romania 85 works
  8. 8 Budapest Hungary 82 works
  9. 9 Tbilisi Georgia 75 works
  10. 10 Rostov-on-Don Russia 74 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Sevastopol'RU · 72.4 works279×
  2. BorokRU · 22.1 works149×
  3. SebastopolUA · 35.3 works116×
  4. MurmanskRU · 22.3 works84×
  5. ConstanțaRO · 42.6 works69×
  6. VladivostokRU · 104.1 works51×
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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, University of Montenegro, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Lomonosov Moscow State 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 9.44%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Montenegro: 11, 20.8%National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: 14, 31.1%Lomonosov Moscow State University: 109, 2.5%Southern Federal University: 24, 6.4%University of Basrah: 46, 0.0%Tbilisi State University: 24, 4.1%"Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati: 16, 7.7%University of Bucharest: 22, 10.6%Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv: 15, 8.6%Moscow State University: 34, 2.6%National and Kapodis…University of Monten…Southern Federal Uni…Lomonosov Moscow Sta…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of MontenegroMontenegro 63.520.8%24.9×11 +305.8%
2 National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGreece 56.531.1%4.6×14 +176.7%
3 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 55.32.5%20.8×109 +55.5%
4 Southern Federal UniversityRussia 54.26.4%22.6×24 +197.2%
5 University of BasrahIraq 53.50.0%33.1×46 +522.2%
6 Tbilisi State UniversityGeorgia 52.54.1%40.0×24 +227.4%
7 "Dunarea de Jos" University of GalatiRomania 51.97.7%20.0×16 +281.6%
8 University of BucharestRomania 50.710.6%18.4×22 +84.8%
9 Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 50.28.6%8.9×15 +354.1%
10 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 47.72.6%20.9×34 -37.0%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Marine and environmental studies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 63% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Marine and environmental 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.

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.