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<p>The world’s oceans and seas are dominant planetary features that call for interdisciplinary research at the international scale. This study constructs and maps a global database of seven major ocean topics (climate, maps, geology, pollution, marine life, economy and satellite images) using Google Scholar hyperlinks for 114 features (bays, straits, seas). The results reveal vast geographic and scholarly unevenness in what earth and social scientists have studied. The most prominent topics were climate, maps and geology. Some of the features had similar rankings across all topics, while others had peaks and troughs. The constructed maps and tables provide challenges for future disciplinary and interdisciplinary research on surface and subsurface features and for mapping teams exploring new topics as well as regions, especially below-surface geologies and biologies in the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and Antarctic waters. Political/territorial/legal issues are also certain to become major topics for contemporary and ongoing research in the sciences and humanities.</p>

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Constructing, analyzing and mapping a global knowledge base of the earth’s oceans and seas using google scholar hyperlinks

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    2026年4月8日

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  • Stanley D. Brunn,
  • Donna Gilbreath

摘要

The world’s oceans and seas are dominant planetary features that call for interdisciplinary research at the international scale. This study constructs and maps a global database of seven major ocean topics (climate, maps, geology, pollution, marine life, economy and satellite images) using Google Scholar hyperlinks for 114 features (bays, straits, seas). The results reveal vast geographic and scholarly unevenness in what earth and social scientists have studied. The most prominent topics were climate, maps and geology. Some of the features had similar rankings across all topics, while others had peaks and troughs. The constructed maps and tables provide challenges for future disciplinary and interdisciplinary research on surface and subsurface features and for mapping teams exploring new topics as well as regions, especially below-surface geologies and biologies in the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and Antarctic waters. Political/territorial/legal issues are also certain to become major topics for contemporary and ongoing research in the sciences and humanities.