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Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies

Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies is a research topic within Global and Planetary Change. Science Explorer counts 38k 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 impact of aquaculture, particularly oyster farming, on marine ecosystems, food supply, and sustainability. It covers topics such as the role of aquaculture in global seafood production, environmental effects of shellfish farming, ecosystem services provided by oyster reefs, and the potential for integrating seaweed biofiltration in mariculture. The cluster also addresses issues related to food security, ecological engineering in aquaculture, and the influence of aquaculture on marine infectious diseases.

  • Aquaculture
  • Oyster Reefs
  • Ecosystem Services
  • Marine Environment
  • Sustainability
  • Bivalve Molluscs
  • Food Security
  • Environmental Impact
  • Shellfish Farming
  • Global Fisheries
Research works
38k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies

Which countries lead Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.5k and 1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 United States 1k works
  3. 3 France 283 works
  4. 4 Spain 260 works
  5. 5 Australia 235 works
  6. 6 India 232 works
  7. 7 Japan 230 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 221 works
  9. 9 Italy 207 works
  10. 10 Canada 202 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.

China: 33.9%United States: 23.1%France: 6.5%Spain: 6.0%6 others listed: 30.5%34%largest
China1,474 · 33.9%United States1,007 · 23.1%France283 · 6.5%Spain260 · 6.0%6 others listed1,326 · 30.5%

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

Which institutions lead Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Ocean University of China publishes the most Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ocean University of ChinaChina 129 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 121 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 112 works
  4. 4 National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationUnited States 93 works
  5. 5 Shanghai Ocean UniversityChina 91 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of Fishery SciencesChina 80 works
  7. 7 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 74 works
  8. 8 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 72 works
  9. 9 Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and TechnologyChina 70 works
  10. 10 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 67 works

Who are the leading researchers in Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies include Walter Churchill Willett, Jun Wang and Huanming Yang.

  1. 1 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  2. 2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  3. 3 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  4. 4 Irving L. Weissman United States 196k 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 Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies?

The most cited paper in Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies is "Table 1 in A new Gammarus species from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (China) with a key to Xinjiang freshwater gammarids (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae)" (Zhang, Kui, Wang, Jun, Ge, Yihao et al., 2022), with 15,805 citations. Next come "Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems" (6,683) and "A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems" (6,637).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Table 1 in A new Gammarus species from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (China) with a key to Xinjiang freshwater gammarids (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae) Zhang, Kui, Wang, Jun, Ge, Yihao et al. · PubMed Open access 25 Mar 2022 15,805
2 Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Michael Xavier Kirby, Wolfgang Berger et al. · Science 27 Jul 2001 6,683
3 A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems Benjamin S. Halpern, Shaun Walbridge, Kimberly A. Selkoe et al. · Science Open access 14 Feb 2008 6,637
4 USING STABLE ISOTOPES TO ESTIMATE TROPHIC POSITION: MODELS, METHODS, AND ASSUMPTIONS David M. Post · Ecology Mar 2002 6,472
5 Influence of diet on the distribution of carbon isotopes in animals Michael J. DeNiro, Samuel Abraham Epstein · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta May 1978 4,882
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Where is Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies research done?

The largest centres of Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Qingdao (China), Shanghai (China) and Dalian (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 279 works
  2. 2 QingdaoChina 274 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 127 works
  4. 4 DalianChina 95 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 83 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 71 works
  7. 7 XiamenChina 64 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 63 works
  9. 9 Mexico CityMexico 52 works
  10. 10 ZhoushanChina 52 works
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Where is the best place to study Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Stavanger, Ocean University of China and Wageningen University & Research 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.

0%20%40%mean 18.69%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Stavan…Wageningen Universit…Ocean University of …Shanghai Ocean Unive…
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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 StavangerNorway 68.630.5%11.7×11 +21.2%
2Ocean University of ChinaChina 64.412.0%42.1×129 +93.4%
3Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 61.716.2%9.9×22 +13.6%
4Shanghai Ocean UniversityChina 59.311.6%66.0×91 +72.8%
5University of TasmaniaAustralia 58.518.4%15.4×22 +13.5%
6University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States 55.823.3%7.0×14 -14.1%
7Guangdong Ocean UniversityChina 54.017.2%39.6×38 +114.8%
8University of StirlingUnited Kingdom 54.029.6%17.6×10 -16.9%
9Shantou UniversityChina 53.417.0%9.2×13 +30.4%
10Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 53.011.1%6.4×22 +34.2%

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 Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, country by country

Is Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture 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 Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies0.032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture 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 Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies10.0% 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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