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Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies

Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies is a research topic within Ocean Engineering. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the environmental, economic, and regulatory aspects of ship recycling and offshore decommissioning, with a particular emphasis on the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh and India. It addresses issues such as marine pollution, heavy metal contamination, ecological conflicts, waste management, legal regulations, and sustainability challenges. The cluster also delves into the economic analysis of end-of-life ships and the offshore oil and gas industry.

  • Ship Recycling
  • Offshore Decommissioning
  • Environmental Impact
  • Marine Pollution
  • Regulations
  • Bangladesh
  • India
  • Oil and Gas Industry
  • Sustainability
  • Economic Analysis
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
22% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies

Which countries lead Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (329 and 290 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 329 works
  2. 2 Brazil 290 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 171 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 168 works
  5. 5 China 165 works
  6. 6 Australia 101 works
  7. 7 France 85 works
  8. 8 Norway 68 works
  9. 9 Malaysia 66 works
  10. 10 India 47 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: 22.1%Brazil: 19.5%Indonesia: 11.5%United Kingdom: 11.3%6 others listed: 35.7%22%largest
United States329 · 22.1%Brazil290 · 19.5%Indonesia171 · 11.5%United Kingdom168 · 11.3%6 others listed532 · 35.7%

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

Which institutions lead Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Petrobras (Brazil) publishes the most Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies research, followed by Petronas (Malaysia) and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Petrobras (Brazil)Brazil 45 works
  2. 2 Petronas (Malaysia)Malaysia 32 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 27 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 24 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 23 works
  6. 6 Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 17 works
  7. 7 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 15 works
  8. 8 University of StrathclydeUnited Kingdom 15 works
  9. 9 Abu Dhabi National Oil (United Arab Emirates)United Arab Emirates 14 works
  10. 10 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies include Wei Huang and David F. Larcker.

  1. 1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  2. 2 David F. Larcker United States 197k 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 Offshore Engineering Studies?

The most cited paper in Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies is "Environmental impact and impact assessment of seawater desalination" (Sabine Lattemann, Thomas Höpner, 2008), with 1,051 citations. Next come "On some physical and dynamical properties of microplastic particles in marine environment" (664) and "Deposit- and suspension-feeding sea cucumbers (Echinodermata) ingest plastic fragments" (626).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Environmental impact and impact assessment of seawater desalination Sabine Lattemann, Thomas Höpner · Desalination 21 Jan 2008 1,051
2 On some physical and dynamical properties of microplastic particles in marine environment Irina P. Chubarenko, Андрей Владимирович Багаев, Mikhail Zobkov et al. · Marine Pollution Bulletin 13 May 2016 664
3 Deposit- and suspension-feeding sea cucumbers (Echinodermata) ingest plastic fragments Erin R. Graham, Joseph T. Thompson · Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 17 Oct 2008 626
4 Levelised cost of energy for offshore floating wind turbines in a life cycle perspective Anders Myhr, Catho Bjerkseter, Anders Ågotnes et al. · Renewable Energy Open access 12 Feb 2014 586
5 The economics of wave energy: A review Sharay Astariz, Gregório Iglesias · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 14 Feb 2015 512
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies research done?

The largest centres of Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies research in 2022-now are Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Houston (United States) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro and Perth.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 108 works
  2. 2 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 42 works
  3. 3 HoustonUnited States 41 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 39 works
  5. 5 JakartaIndonesia 36 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 35 works
  7. 7 SurabayaIndonesia 35 works
  8. 8 PerthAustralia 33 works
  9. 9 São PauloBrazil 33 works
  10. 10 NiteróiBrazil 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NiteróiBR · 23.4 works23×
  2. Rio de JaneiroBR · 108.0 works17×
  3. PerthAU · 33.4 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Strathclyde, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Tianjin 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 13.24%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Strath…Tianjin UniversityNorwegian University…Universidade Federal…
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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
1University of StrathclydeUnited Kingdom 83.731.0%30.1×15 +33.7%
2Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 62.812.4%18.9×27 +3.8%
3Tianjin UniversityChina 57.329.0%4.8×11 +19.3%
4Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 56.316.2%8.6×9 +42.8%
5Technical University of DenmarkDenmark 53.719.8%8.7×8 +80.0%
6Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom 48.511.0%11.8×10 +145.0%
7Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 46.51.3%26.1×23 +8.3%
8Universidade de São PauloBrazil 31.98.2%4.0×15 -22.4%
9Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 28.30.8%21.0×17 -26.2%
10University of IndonesiaIndonesia 24.72.7%5.5×12 +32.3%

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 Offshore Engineering Studies, country by country

Is Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Marine and Offshore Engineering 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0093% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Marine and Offshore Engineering 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 Offshore Engineering Studies10.7% 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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