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. 13.8% 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%
- 3k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 13.8% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +55% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Maritime Navigation and Safety research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.6k and 418 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 2.6k works
- 2 United States 418 works
- 3 Indonesia 243 works
- 4 Türkiye 235 works
- 5 India 223 works
- 6 South Korea 193 works
- 7 United Kingdom 183 works
- 8 Norway 155 works
- 9 Italy 141 works
- 10 Germany 141 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Maritime Navigation and Safety research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Dalian Maritime University publishes the most Maritime Navigation and Safety research, followed by Wuhan University of Technology and Shanghai Maritime University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 270 works
- 2 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 197 works
- 3 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 174 works
- 4 Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 93 works
- 5 Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 77 works
- 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 45 works
- 7 Jimei UniversityChina 40 works
- 8 Istanbul Technical UniversityTürkiye 40 works
- 9 Naval University of EngineeringChina 36 works
- 10 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 35 works
Who are the leading researchers in Maritime Navigation and Safety?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Maritime Navigation and Safety include Y. Arai, Shuo Li and C. Guedes Soares.
- 1 Y. Arai Japan 6k citations
- 2 Shuo Li Canada 2.8k citations
- 3 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 Maritime Navigation and Safety research done?
The largest centres of Maritime Navigation and Safety research in 2022–2025 are Shanghai (China), Beijing (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, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- GdyniaPL · 45.7 works133×
- VallejoUS · 20.1 works78×
- MalmoSE · 23.8 works38×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Maritime Navigation and Safety than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Maritime Navigation and Safety?
Among universities, judged by research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Liverpool John Moores University and Aalto 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway | 73.9 | 29.6% | 22.9× | 77 | +355.7% |
| 2 | Liverpool John Moores UniversityUnited Kingdom | 70.8 | 60.7% | 26.8× | 25 | -5.3% |
| 3 | Aalto UniversityFinland | 65.2 | 57.3% | 8.8× | 17 | +16.5% |
| 4 | Dalian Maritime UniversityChina | 62.7 | 26.7% | 118.6× | 270 | +1.9% |
| 5 | Australian Maritime CollegeAustralia | 62.1 | 30.1% | 283.3× | 10 | +184.0% |
| 6 | Wuhan University of TechnologyChina | 60.5 | 22.3% | 39.3× | 197 | +23.3% |
| 7 | University of StrathclydeUnited Kingdom | 59.3 | 36.3% | 9.7× | 16 | +71.7% |
| 8 | University of LisbonPortugal | 59.0 | 55.1% | 4.2× | 16 | +170.6% |
| 9 | Istanbul Technical UniversityTürkiye | 55.9 | 20.1% | 17.9× | 40 | +97.6% |
| 10 | Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina | 54.4 | 20.8% | 112.4× | 174 | -64.1% |
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 Maritime Navigation and Safety research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 55% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Maritime Navigation and Safety.
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.