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Maritime Studies
H-index 11

Maritime Studies

1872-7859

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/40152

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 503 17 15 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 42
Documents by Best Scientists*: 44
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 31
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.567
Impact Factor: 2.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Maritime Studies?

Maritime Studies covers a variety of subjects, including Fishery, Fishing, Environmental resource management, Law and Corporate governance. Fishery research featured in Maritime Studies incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Government, Sustainability and Scale (social sciences). It explores research in Fishing and the adjacent study of Livelihood.

The Law study tackling the subject of United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is the focus of it.

  • Fishery (18.09%)
  • Fishing (12.76%)
  • Environmental resource management (11.22%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Walking the talk: implementing the international voluntary guidelines for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries (88 citations)
  • Marine spatial planning: risk or opportunity for fisheries in the North Sea? (62 citations)
  • Migration of Senegalese fishers: a case for regional approach to management (49 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Maritime Studies:

Fishery, Fisheries management, Fishing, Scale (social sciences) and Corporate governance are the main subjects of interest in the published papers. The most cited publications hold forums on Fishery that merge themes from other disciplines such as Government, Incentive and Common-pool resource. Issues in Fishing were discussed in the most cited publications, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Socioeconomics and Subsistence agriculture.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • World War II
  • Law
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Corporate governance, Environmental planning, Fishery, Pandemic and Indigenous. Issues in Corporate governance were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Livelihood, Intervention (law), Sustainable development, Protected area and Order (exchange). The studies in Livelihood featured incorporate elements of Ecological resilience and Food systems.

Marine spatial planning studies in the realm of Environmental planning interact with fields like Dike. The Fishery research dealing mostly with Fishing industry is the focus of Maritime Studies. The studies on Indigenous discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Clan, Ethnology and State (polity).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • COVID-19, instability and migrant fish workers in Asia (11 citations)
  • Aquaculture-capture fisheries nexus under Covid-19: impacts, diversity, and social-ecological resilience (5 citations)
  • COVID-19 and European maritime futures: different pathways to deal with the pandemic (4 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Maritime Studies (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Sam Bateman (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Svein Jentoft (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Ratana Chuenpagdee (8 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Michael White (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Captain Dr Peter Heathcote (7 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Maritime Studies (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Norwegian College of Fishery Science (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wageningen University and Research Centre (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Wollongong (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Amsterdam (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Aalborg University (13 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 35.14% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 8.33% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.50% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 29.17% of all publications and 50.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Stakeholder engagement vs. social distancing—how does the Covid-19 pandemic affect participatory research in EU marine science projects?

    Vera Köpsel;Gabriel de Moura Kiipper;Myron A. Peck

    (2021)
    36 Citations
  • Sustainable small-scale fisheries markets in the Mediterranean: weaknesses and opportunities

    Jerneja Penca;Alicia Said;Marta Cavallé;Cristina Pita;Cristina Pita

    (2021)
    28 Citations
  • Perspectives on managing fisheries for community wellbeing in the face of climate change

    (2022)
    17 Citations
  • Participatory governance in Lake Victoria (Kenya) fisheries: whose voices are heard?

    Christine Adhiambo Etiegni;Kenneth Irvine;Michelle Kooy

    (2020)
    16 Citations
  • Responding to sea level rise: challenges and opportunities to govern coastal adaptation strategies in Indonesia

    (2022)
    12 Citations
  • What does gender have to do with the price of tuna? Social-ecological systems view of women, gender, and governance in Fiji’s tuna fishery

    (2022)
    9 Citations
  • A Diachronic Triangular Perspective on Landscapes: a Conceptual Tool for Research and Management Applied to Wadden Sea Salt Marshes

    Mans Schepers;Erik W. Meijles;Jan P. Bakker;Theo Spek

    (2021)
    9 Citations
  • Envisioning ocean governability transformations through network-based marine spatial planning

    (2022)
    7 Citations
  • History matters: societal acceptance of deep-sea mining and incipient conflicts in Papua New Guinea

    (2023)
    3 Citations
  • From good intentions to unexpected results — a cross-scale analysis of a fishery improvement project within the Indonesian blue swimming crab

    (2022)
    2 Citations

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