Research must rise to meet challenges such as
microplastics pollution and climate change
LONDON, July 27,
2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing
trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of
innovation, today launched a new Global Research Report from the
Institute for Scientific Information™ analyzing ocean science
research over the last two decades. The report concludes that
research must rise to meet the challenges facing the marine
environment such as microplastic pollution and climate change.
Ocean science: sustainability concerns add urgency for
research observes that ocean science research output has
increased threefold from 2000 to 2020. The Institute for Scientific
Information identifies existing and emerging research fields,
across all ocean basins, as well as the current collaboration
pathways. The study examines gaps and trends in international ocean
science collaborations. This information is essential for the
effective growth of the ocean science community and ultimately the
achievement of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life
below water.
In the Web of Science Core Collection™, for publication years
2000 to 2020, about 150,000 items were assigned to the Web of
Science category Oceanography. However, as much research related to
ocean science is published in journals assigned to other Web of
Science categories or in multidisciplinary journals, the report
uses a hybrid approach to analyze bibliometric data across a range
of sources, evaluating ocean science research published between
2000 and 2020.
Key findings of the report include:
- There has been an astonishing growth of microplastics research,
an upsurge in output reminiscent of the excitement and activity of
high-temperature superconductivity in the late 1980s, or CRISPR
(i.e., gene editing) during the last decade. This growth,
pronounced since 2015, may be related to the introduction of the
United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015.
Growth in other Citation Topics such as Climate Change may also be
associated with the targets of SDGs.
- The U.S. share of ocean basins research is in line with its
overall world share. However, its dominance in the early 21st
century – as well as the contributions of other G7 members – has
been eroded by a rapid rise in research output from Mainland
China.
- Ocean research is globally connected and, crucially, also
includes significant collaboration with island nations and
territories at the literal forefront of ocean science (e.g.,
New Caledonia, Bermuda). However, sub-Saharan contributions,
apart from those of South Africa,
are minimal. External partnerships are likely required to build or
operate the necessary infrastructure for ocean science research.
Achieving the SDGs may drive such partnerships.
- Institutional output in all ocean basins is led by national
academies (e.g., Russian, Chinese) or research institutes (e.g.,
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA],
British Antarctic Survey), illustrating the highly specialized
nature of ocean science and likely reflecting its
infrastructure-reliant nature.
Dr. Gali Halevi, Director at the
Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate, said: "At
Clarivate we help our customers address some of the world's most
complex challenges. With the fate of the Earth tied so inextricably
to the oceans, and given the toll that humans have exacted on the
marine environment within a relative handful of decades, the need
for detailed scientific scrutiny of our ocean basins has never been
more acute. Research must rise to meet the challenges
presented by, for example, microplastic pollution and whatever
natural or human-made environmental crises might still await. Only
with concerted, global commitment will the UN SDGs for the
future – oceans that are clean, resilient, predictable,
sustainable, not to mention sustaining – stand a chance
of accomplishment."
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Media contact:
Rebecca
Krahenbuhl
External Communications Manager (Academia & Government)
newsroom@clarivate.com
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