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Maritime Navigation and Safety

Maritime Navigation and Safety is a research topic within Ocean Engineering. Science Explorer counts 22k 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 focuses on the safety and risk analysis in maritime transportation, with a particular emphasis on collision avoidance, unmanned surface vehicles, human factors, and the use of AIS data for risk assessment. It covers topics such as autonomous ships, Bayesian network modeling, vessel traffic patterns, and path planning algorithms for collision avoidance.

  • Maritime Transportation
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Unmanned Surface Vehicles
  • Risk Assessment
  • Human Factors
  • Autonomous Ships
  • AIS Data
  • Bayesian Network
  • Vessel Traffic
  • Path Planning
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+68%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
58% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Maritime Navigation and Safety

Which countries lead Maritime Navigation and Safety research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.1k and 506 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.1k works
  2. 2 United States 506 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 309 works
  4. 4 India 284 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 262 works
  6. 6 South Korea 225 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 215 works
  8. 8 Norway 171 works
  9. 9 Germany 170 works
  10. 10 Italy 158 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: 57.6%United States: 9.3%Indonesia: 5.7%India: 5.2%6 others listed: 22.1%58%largest
China3,130 · 57.6%United States506 · 9.3%Indonesia309 · 5.7%India284 · 5.2%6 others listed1,201 · 22.1%

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

Which institutions lead Maritime Navigation and Safety research?

By volume in 2022-now, Dalian Maritime University publishes the most Maritime Navigation and Safety research, followed by Wuhan University of Technology and Shanghai Maritime University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 322 works
  2. 2 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 224 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 196 works
  4. 4 Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 108 works
  5. 5 Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 84 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 66 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 56 works
  8. 8 Jimei UniversityChina 47 works
  9. 9 Naval University of EngineeringChina 43 works
  10. 10 Istanbul Technical UniversityTürkiye 43 works

Who are the leading researchers in Maritime Navigation and Safety?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Maritime Navigation and Safety include Kai You Wang, Mostafa Qorbani and Yuming Guo.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Mostafa Qorbani Iran 184k citations
  3. 3 Yuming Guo Australia 175k citations
  4. 4 Carlos Manuel Duarte Saudi Arabia 152k citations
  5. 5 Huan Liu Australia 148k 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 Maritime Navigation and Safety?

The most cited paper in Maritime Navigation and Safety is "Design and Evaluation for Situation Awareness Enhancement" (Mica Robertson Endsley, 1988), with 1,923 citations. Next come "Unmanned surface vehicles: An overview of developments and challenges" (1,235) and "Seaglider: a long-range autonomous underwater vehicle for oceanographic research" (1,086).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Design and Evaluation for Situation Awareness Enhancement Mica Robertson Endsley · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Oct 1988 1,923
2 Unmanned surface vehicles: An overview of developments and challenges Zhixiang Liu, Youmin M. Zhang, Xiang Yang Yu et al. · Annual Reviews in Control 2016 1,235
3 Seaglider: a long-range autonomous underwater vehicle for oceanographic research Charles Curtis Eriksen, T. James Osse, R.D. Light et al. · IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 2001 1,086
4 Interpreting qualitative data: Methods for analysing talk, text and interaction Janice M. Morse · Journal of Psychosomatic Research Sep 1996 1,004
5 An Overview of Recent Advances in Coordinated Control of Multiple Autonomous Surface Vehicles Zhouhua Peng, Jun Wang, Dan Wang et al. · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 23 Jun 2020 758
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Maritime Navigation and Safety research done?

The largest centres of Maritime Navigation and Safety research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Wuhan (China) and Dalian (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Gdynia, Vallejo and Malmo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 401 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 398 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 387 works
  4. 4 DalianChina 378 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 156 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 151 works
  7. 7 TrondheimNorway 104 works
  8. 8 QingdaoChina 98 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 96 works
  10. 10 Xi'anChina 87 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GdyniaPL · 50.2 works128×
  2. VallejoUS · 24.6 works80×
  3. MalmoSE · 26.7 works34×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Maritime Navigation and Safety than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Maritime Navigation and Safety?

Among universities, judged by research, Liverpool John Moores University, Aalto University and Dalian Maritime 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%60%mean 26.28%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Liverpool John Moore…Nanyang Technologica…Aalto UniversityDalian Maritime Univ…
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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
1Liverpool John Moores UniversityUnited Kingdom 77.350.2%30.7×30 +152.4%
2Aalto UniversityFinland 66.038.6%9.5×18 +44.4%
3Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 63.417.7%136.1×322 +106.2%
4Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 62.240.7%3.9×20 +187.3%
5Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 59.315.0%42.8×224 +49.8%
6Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 58.614.2%22.6×84 +64.8%
7University of LisbonPortugal 58.538.1%3.9×20 +9.7%
8Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 58.220.6%5.8×32 +105.1%
9Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 56.813.6%121.8×196 +225.7%
10Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 52.414.1%32.0×108 +72.6%

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 Maritime Navigation and Safety, country by country

Is Maritime Navigation and Safety research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 68% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Maritime Navigation and Safety.

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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 Maritime Navigation and Safety as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Maritime Navigation and Safety0.037% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Maritime Navigation and Safety 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%Maritime Navigation and Safety9.9% 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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