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Maritime Ports and Logistics

Maritime Ports and Logistics is a research topic within Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the optimization of container terminal operations and logistics, utilizing operations research methods to address challenges such as berth allocation, quay crane scheduling, port efficiency, and intermodal freight transport. The research also explores the role of container terminals in supply chain management and the development of port infrastructure.

  • Container Terminals
  • Operations Research
  • Port Development
  • Logistics
  • Intermodal Freight Transport
  • Berth Allocation
  • Quay Crane Scheduling
  • Port Efficiency
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Intermodal Transportation
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Maritime Ports and Logistics

Which countries lead Maritime Ports and Logistics research?

By volume, China and Indonesia publish the most (1.8k and 395 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.8k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 395 works
  3. 3 United States 317 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 302 works
  5. 5 Brazil 201 works
  6. 6 India 182 works
  7. 7 France 173 works
  8. 8 Italy 170 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 155 works
  10. 10 Spain 144 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: 46.6%Indonesia: 10.4%United States: 8.3%Türkiye: 7.9%6 others listed: 26.8%47%largest
China1,778 · 46.6%Indonesia395 · 10.4%United States317 · 8.3%Türkiye302 · 7.9%6 others listed1,024 · 26.8%

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

Which institutions lead Maritime Ports and Logistics research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 187 works
  2. 2 Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 161 works
  3. 3 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 90 works
  4. 4 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 54 works
  5. 5 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 54 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 49 works
  7. 7 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 35 works
  8. 8 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 33 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 33 works
  10. 10 Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 31 works

Who are the leading researchers in Maritime Ports and Logistics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Maritime Ports and Logistics include Koichiro Tamura, Gordon Brent Mills and Christian M. Ringle.

  1. 1 Koichiro Tamura Japan 268k citations
  2. 2 Gordon Brent Mills United States 265k citations
  3. 3 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
  4. 4 Josep Maria Guerrero Denmark 123k 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 Ports and Logistics?

The most cited paper in Maritime Ports and Logistics is "Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics" (Yannis M. Ioannides, 2003), with 1,536 citations. Next come "Container terminal operation and operations research - a classification and literature review" (1,270) and "Port regionalization: towards a new phase in port development" (1,241).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Yannis M. Ioannides · Regional Science and Urban Economics 2003 1,536
2 Container terminal operation and operations research - a classification and literature review Stefan Vo�, Robert Stahlbock, Dirk Steenken · OR Spectrum 2004 1,270
3 Port regionalization: towards a new phase in port development Theo Notteboom, Jean‐Paul Rodrigue · Maritime Policy & Management Open access Jul 2005 1,241
4 The selection of transport and handling resources in logistics centers using Multi-Attributive Border Approximation area Comparison (MABAC) Dragan Stevan Pamucar, Goran Ćirović · Expert Systems with Applications 4 Dec 2014 1,130
5 Operations research at container terminals: a literature update Robert Stahlbock, Stefan Voß · OR Spectrum 9 Oct 2007 1,073
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Maritime Ports and Logistics research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ShanghaiChina 328 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 256 works
  3. 3 DalianChina 216 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 140 works
  5. 5 JakartaIndonesia 89 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 85 works
  7. 7 Hong KongChina 71 works
  8. 8 SurabayaIndonesia 69 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 57 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 54 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PiraeusGR · 23.0 works37×
  2. MalmoSE · 22.6 works35×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Maritime Ports and Logistics?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Liverpool John Moores 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%mean 26.76%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Liverpool John Moore…Hong Kong Polytechni…Dalian Maritime Univ…Shanghai Maritime Un…
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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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 73.223.6%11.8×54 +64.2%
2Liverpool John Moores UniversityUnited Kingdom 71.837.1%17.7×14 +64.1%
3Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 66.219.7%82.8×162 +83.5%
4Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 65.416.7%141.6×187 +67.7%
5Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 64.641.0%4.1×18 -2.6%
6World Maritime UniversitySweden 64.530.2%308.4×22 +36.6%
7Shenzhen UniversityChina 59.037.8%4.0×16 +57.9%
8Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 58.216.1%20.9×90 +98.9%
9Shanghai UniversityChina 56.723.2%7.1×27 +77.5%
10Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 54.422.2%5.4×16 -0.6%

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 Ports and Logistics, country by country

Is Maritime Ports and Logistics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Maritime Ports and Logistics.

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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 Ports and Logistics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Maritime Ports and Logistics 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 Ports and Logistics10.4% 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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