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Maritime Security and History

Maritime Security and History is a research topic within Transportation. Science Explorer counts 7.3k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex issues surrounding maritime security and piracy in the Asia-Pacific region. It delves into topics such as diplomatic practices, international law, counter-piracy operations, the impact on global trade, and the connections to terrorism. The focus includes specific regional areas like Somalia and Southeast Asia.

  • Maritime Security
  • Piracy
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Diplomacy
  • International Law
  • Counter-Piracy Operations
  • Global Trade
  • Terrorism
  • Somalia
  • Southeast Asia
Research works
7.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
746
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+37%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Maritime Security and History

Which countries lead Maritime Security and History research?

By volume, Indonesia and the United States publish the most (350 and 224 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 350 works
  2. 2 United States 224 works
  3. 3 China 185 works
  4. 4 India 123 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 118 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 97 works
  7. 7 Nigeria 80 works
  8. 8 Australia 72 works
  9. 9 Malaysia 58 works
  10. 10 Germany 51 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.

Indonesia: 25.8%United States: 16.5%China: 13.6%India: 9.1%6 others listed: 34.9%26%largest
Indonesia350 · 25.8%United States224 · 16.5%China185 · 13.6%India123 · 9.1%6 others listed474 · 34.9%

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

Which institutions lead Maritime Security and History research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indonesia Defense University publishes the most Maritime Security and History research, followed by Dalian Maritime University and Hasanuddin University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia Defense UniversityIndonesia 57 works
  2. 2 Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 30 works
  3. 3 Hasanuddin UniversityIndonesia 16 works
  4. 4 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 15 works
  5. 5 World Maritime UniversitySweden 13 works
  6. 6 Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia 12 works
  7. 7 National University of SingaporeSingapore 11 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 11 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 11 works
  10. 10 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Maritime Security and History?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Maritime Security and History include Manoj Kumar Gupta.

  1. 1 Manoj Kumar Gupta Singapore 95k 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 Security and History?

The most cited paper in Maritime Security and History is "Unmanned surface vehicles: An overview of developments and challenges" (Zhixiang Liu, Youmin M. Zhang, Xiang Yang Yu et al., 2016), with 1,235 citations. Next come "International Maritime Organization" (855) and "Primary productivity in the sea" (528).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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
2 International Maritime Organization Jerneja Penca · The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 2009 855
3 Primary productivity in the sea Richard W. Eppley · Nature Jul 1980 528
4 A review on improving the autonomy of unmanned surface vehicles through intelligent collision avoidance manoeuvres Sean M. Campbell, Wasif Naeem, G.W. Irwin · Annual Reviews in Control 25 Oct 2012 479
5 Exploiting AIS Data for Intelligent Maritime Navigation: A Comprehensive Survey From Data to Methodology Enmei Tu, Guanghao Zhang, Lily Rachmawati et al. · IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 4 Sep 2017 447
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Maritime Security and History research done?

The largest centres of Maritime Security and History research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Bogor (Indonesia), Surabaya (Indonesia) and Dalian (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bogor.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 69 works
  2. 2 BogorIndonesia 62 works
  3. 3 SurabayaIndonesia 38 works
  4. 4 DalianChina 33 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 32 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 28 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 27 works
  8. 8 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 27 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 25 works
  10. 10 BeijingChina 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BogorID · 61.5 works19×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Maritime Security and History?

Among universities, judged by research, Dalian Maritime University, Wuhan University of Technology and Indonesia Defense 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%25%50%75%mean 19.26%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Wuhan University of …Dalian Maritime Univ…Australian National …Indonesia Defense 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
1Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 66.841.3%45.4×30 +67.6%
2Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 62.462.0%7.5×11 +48.5%
3Indonesia Defense UniversityIndonesia 51.51.9%248.5×57 +260.9%
4Australian National UniversityAustralia 43.022.7%10.5×10 +83.4%
5Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 41.726.0%24.4×11 +42.9%
6World Maritime UniversitySweden 35.511.7%511.5×13 -5.4%
7University of WollongongAustralia 35.55.8%17.4×9 +39.6%
8California Maritime AcademyUnited States 35.39.8%167.7×8 +15.8%
9Hasanuddin UniversityIndonesia 34.86.3%13.0×16 +575.9%
10UNSW SydneyAustralia 29.65.1%6.2×10 +21.7%

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 Security and History, country by country

Is Maritime Security and History research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Maritime Security and History.

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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 Security and History as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0086% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Maritime Security and History0.0099% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Maritime Security and History 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 Security and History10.3% 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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