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).
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.
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.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Institute of Oceanology. PP Shirshov Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 133 works
- 2 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 109 works
- 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 98 works
- 4 All-Russian Research Institute Fisheries and OceanographyRussia 76 works
- 5 Marine Hydrophysical InstituteRussia 65 works
- 6 University of BasrahIraq 46 works
- 7 Bulgarian Academy of SciencesBulgaria 40 works
- 8 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 34 works
- 9 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart ÜniversitesiTürkiye 31 works
- 10 Institute of GeographyRussia 31 works
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 Carlos M. Duarte Saudi Arabia 4.1k citations
- 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 Moscow Russia 755 works
- 2 Saint Petersburg Russia 125 works
- 3 Kyiv Ukraine 111 works
- 4 Sofia Bulgaria 111 works
- 5 Vladivostok Russia 104 works
- 6 Baku Azerbaijan 102 works
- 7 Bucharest Romania 85 works
- 8 Budapest Hungary 82 works
- 9 Tbilisi Georgia 75 works
- 10 Rostov-on-Don Russia 74 works
Where it is the local speciality
- Sevastopol'RU · 72.4 works279×
- BorokRU · 22.1 works149×
- SebastopolUA · 35.3 works116×
- MurmanskRU · 22.3 works84×
- ConstanțaRO · 42.6 works69×
- VladivostokRU · 104.1 works51×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Marine and environmental studies than the world average.
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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of MontenegroMontenegro | 63.5 | 20.8% | 24.9× | 11 | +305.8% |
| 2 | National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGreece | 56.5 | 31.1% | 4.6× | 14 | +176.7% |
| 3 | Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia | 55.3 | 2.5% | 20.8× | 109 | +55.5% |
| 4 | Southern Federal UniversityRussia | 54.2 | 6.4% | 22.6× | 24 | +197.2% |
| 5 | University of BasrahIraq | 53.5 | 0.0% | 33.1× | 46 | +522.2% |
| 6 | Tbilisi State UniversityGeorgia | 52.5 | 4.1% | 40.0× | 24 | +227.4% |
| 7 | "Dunarea de Jos" University of GalatiRomania | 51.9 | 7.7% | 20.0× | 16 | +281.6% |
| 8 | University of BucharestRomania | 50.7 | 10.6% | 18.4× | 22 | +84.8% |
| 9 | Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine | 50.2 | 8.6% | 8.9× | 15 | +354.1% |
| 10 | Moscow State UniversityTajikistan | 47.7 | 2.6% | 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.
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.