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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. 6.9% 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%
811
per year above
Top-10% rate
6.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+15%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (281 and 277 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 281 works
  2. 2 Brazil 277 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 157 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 152 works
  5. 5 China 126 works
  6. 6 Australia 86 works
  7. 7 France 79 works
  8. 8 Norway 60 works
  9. 9 Malaysia 60 works
  10. 10 Italy 39 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: 21.4%Brazil: 21.0%Indonesia: 11.9%United Kingdom: 11.5%6 others listed: 34.2%21%largest
United States281 · 21.4%Brazil277 · 21.0%Indonesia157 · 11.9%United Kingdom152 · 11.5%6 others listed450 · 34.2%

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

Which institutions lead Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Petrobras (Brazil) publishes the most Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies research, followed by Petronas (Malaysia) and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies include C. Guedes Soares.

  1. 1 C. Guedes Soares Portugal 2.7k citations

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

Where is Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies research done?

The largest centres of Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies research in 2022–2025 are Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Jakarta (Indonesia) 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 100 works
  2. 2 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 38 works
  3. 3 Jakarta Indonesia 32 works
  4. 4 Beijing China 32 works
  5. 5 Houston United States 31 works
  6. 6 Surabaya Indonesia 31 works
  7. 7 London United Kingdom 31 works
  8. 8 São Paulo Brazil 31 works
  9. 9 Perth Australia 29 works
  10. 10 Niterói Brazil 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NiteróiBR · 23.2 works25×
  2. Rio de JaneiroBR · 100.3 works17×
  3. PerthAU · 29.3 works14×
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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 Fluminense and Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology 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 8.24444%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Strathclyde: 14, 24.0%Universidade Federal Fluminense: 23, 5.8%Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology: 13, 8.8%Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro: 26, 7.7%Norwegian University of Science and Technology: 9, 10.8%Newcastle University: 9, 0.0%Tianjin University: 10, 10.9%Universidade de São Paulo: 13, 6.2%University of Indonesia: 11, 0.0%University of Strath…Sepuluh Nopember Ins…Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…
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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 StrathclydeUnited Kingdom 80.724.0%27.7×14 +129.6%
2 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 61.15.8%26.1×23 +422.3%
3 Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 57.08.8%16.6×13 +987.0%
4 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 56.37.7%18.6×26 +31.0%
5 Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 52.110.8%8.6×9 +109.7%
6 Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom 34.50.0%11.7×9 -74.0%
7 Tianjin UniversityChina 31.110.9%4.5×10 +130.6%
8 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 23.36.2%4.0×13 +41.4%
9 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 12.70.0%4.9×11

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 Offshore Engineering Studies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 15% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.