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Marine animal studies overview

Marine animal studies overview is a research topic within Ecology. Science Explorer counts 36k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the ecology, behavior, and conservation of marine mammals, with a focus on the impacts of anthropogenic noise, habitat change, and climate change on cetaceans. It also delves into predator-prey interactions, acoustic communication, and the role of marine mammals as indicators of ecosystem health. The research emphasizes the need for conservation efforts to mitigate human-induced threats to these animals.

  • Marine Mammals
  • Anthropogenic Noise
  • Habitat Change
  • Cetaceans
  • Predator-Prey Interactions
  • Climate Change
  • Acoustic Communication
  • Ecosystem Sentinels
  • Conservation
  • Population Dynamics
Research works
36k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Marine animal studies overview

Which countries lead Marine animal studies overview research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.9k and 536 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.9k works
  2. 2 China 536 works
  3. 3 Canada 421 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 399 works
  5. 5 Australia 373 works
  6. 6 France 276 works
  7. 7 Brazil 268 works
  8. 8 Japan 212 works
  9. 9 Germany 197 works
  10. 10 Spain 185 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: 39.6%China: 11.3%Canada: 8.9%United Kingdom: 8.4%6 others listed: 31.8%40%largest
United States1,883 · 39.6%China536 · 11.3%Canada421 · 8.9%United Kingdom399 · 8.4%6 others listed1,511 · 31.8%

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

Which institutions lead Marine animal studies overview research?

By volume in 2022-now, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publishes the most Marine animal studies overview research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationUnited States 148 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 127 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 71 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 67 works
  5. 5 Fisheries and Oceans CanadaCanada 59 works
  6. 6 University of WashingtonUnited States 58 works
  7. 7 University of California San DiegoUnited States 49 works
  8. 8 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 48 works
  9. 9 University of St AndrewsUnited Kingdom 47 works
  10. 10 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 47 works

Who are the leading researchers in Marine animal studies overview?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Marine animal studies overview include Rob Knight, Jun Wang and Richard A. Gibbs.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  4. 4 Yann LeCun United States 256k citations
  5. 5 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  6. 6 Ronald Klein United States 214k citations
  7. 7 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k citations
  8. 8 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k 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 animal studies overview?

The most cited paper in Marine animal studies overview is "Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs" (Terry P. Hughes, Andrew H. Baird, David R. Bellwood et al., 2003), with 3,973 citations. Next come "BORIS : a free, versatile open‐source event‐logging software for video/audio coding and live observations" (3,591) and "Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals" (3,495).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs Terry P. Hughes, Andrew H. Baird, David R. Bellwood et al. · Science 14 Aug 2003 3,973
2 BORIS : a free, versatile open‐source event‐logging software for video/audio coding and live observations Olivier Friard, Marco Gamba · Methods in Ecology and Evolution Open access 4 May 2016 3,591
3 Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals Terry P. Hughes et al. · Nature Open access Mar 2017 3,495
4 The bottlenose dolphin community of Doubtful Sound features a large proportion of long-lasting associations David Lusseau, Karsten Schneider, Oliver J. Boisseau et al. · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Sep 2003 2,310
5 Coral reefs in the Anthropocene Terry P. Hughes, Michele L. Barnes, David R. Bellwood et al. · Nature Open access 30 May 2017 2,179
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Where is Marine animal studies overview research done?

The largest centres of Marine animal studies overview research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Seattle (United States), Ottawa (Canada) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Falmouth.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 126 works
  2. 2 SeattleUnited States 106 works
  3. 3 OttawaCanada 101 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 100 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 95 works
  6. 6 San DiegoUnited States 64 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 62 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 59 works
  9. 9 PerthAustralia 55 works
  10. 10 FalmouthUnited States 54 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FalmouthUS · 54.0 works123×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Marine animal studies overview than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Marine animal studies overview?

Among universities, judged by research, University of St Andrews, University of Exeter and University of Washington score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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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.

Citation 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 St AndrewsUnited Kingdom 73.915.8%37.3×47 -2.7%
2University of ExeterUnited Kingdom 73.914.3%9.9×24 +40.8%
3University of WashingtonUnited States 70.112.4%8.7×58 +5.2%
4Curtin UniversityAustralia 69.816.2%13.0×24 +60.6%
5University of California, Santa CruzUnited States 67.515.7%33.1×35 -3.9%
6Dalhousie UniversityCanada 67.313.4%16.0×34 +10.5%
7Aarhus UniversityDenmark 66.118.0%6.5×33 -10.8%
8University of California San DiegoUnited States 65.911.1%8.6×49 +2.2%
9James Cook UniversityAustralia 65.417.8%23.9×21 -25.0%
10Oregon State UniversityUnited States 65.117.7%14.2×24 +33.7%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 animal studies overview, country by country

Is Marine animal studies overview research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Marine animal studies overview.

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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 animal studies overview as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Marine animal studies overview0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Marine animal studies overview 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.

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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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