---
title: "AIS vessel tracking data: research papers using this data"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 25 archived papers mentioned AIS vessel tracking data in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2024 (3)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ais-vessel-tracking-data
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ais-vessel-tracking-data.md
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share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 25 archived papers mentioned AIS vessel tracking data in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2024 (3). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# AIS vessel tracking data

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory.md)

Vessel and flight tracking, freight rate indices and data on firms' supplier and customer links.

- data category: Shipping, logistics and supply chain data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: automatic identification system data, AIS vessel, AIS ship, ship AIS, AIS trajectory, AIS trajectories

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Shipping, logistics and supply chain data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/shipping-logistics-and-supply-chain-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 25 archived papers mentioned AIS vessel tracking data in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2024 (3).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned AIS vessel tracking data in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), AIS vessel tracking data was mentioned in 30 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (16), AI (7) and economics (7).
- 7 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Liverpool John Moores University (6), Wuhan University of Technology (4) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (3).
- The journals publishing most of them were Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (8), Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (4) and Transport Policy (3).
- The most-cited of them is “Harnessing the power of Machine learning for AIS Data-Driven maritime Research: A comprehensive review” (Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review, 2024), with 144 citations.
- Papers use AIS vessel tracking data most often with Sentinel / Copernicus (3); it has 1 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 8 | 5 | 12 | 25 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| All categories | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 10 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 8 |
| 2 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 4 |
| 3 | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [Maritime Economics & Logistics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/maritime-economics-logistics.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [Networks and Spatial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/networks-and-spatial-economics.md) | 2 |
| 6 | [Journal of International Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-economics.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/data-mining-and-knowledge-discovery.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Liverpool John Moores University | 6 |
| 2 | [Wuhan University of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university-of-technology.md) | 4 |
| 3 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [Dalian Maritime University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/dalian-maritime-university.md) | 3 |
| 5 | [University of Southampton](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-southampton.md) | 3 |
| 6 | [University of Liverpool](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-liverpool.md) | 2 |
| 7 | Alfaisal University | 1 |
| 8 | Anglia Ruskin University | 1 |
| 9 | [Cardiff University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/cardiff-university.md) | 1 |
| 10 | Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 10 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 8 |
| 3 | France | 5 |
| 4 | Italy | 2 |
| 5 | Singapore | 2 |
| 6 | Australia | 1 |
| 7 | Germany | 1 |
| 8 | Denmark | 1 |
| 9 | Finland | 1 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | AIS data | 12 |
| 2 | Automatic Identification System | 4 |
| 3 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 3 |
| 4 | maritime decarbonization | 3 |
| 5 | AIS trajectories | 2 |
| 6 | Red Sea crisis | 2 |
| 7 | geopolitical disruption | 2 |
| 8 | maritime situational awareness | 2 |
| 9 | maritime transport | 2 |
| 10 | navigation safety | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 144 | 4.3 | [Harnessing the power of Machine learning for AIS Data-Driven maritime Research: A comprehensive review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2024.103426) | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 2024-01-27 | Ying Zhen Yang, Yang Liu, Yang Liu et al. |
| 2 | 111 | 0.9 | [A novel anomaly detection approach to identify intentional AIS on-off switching](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.02.011) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2017-02-04 | Fabio Mazzarella, Michele Vespe, Alfredo Alessandrini et al. |
| 3 | 98 | 1.5 | [The promises and perils of Automatic Identification System data](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.114975) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2021-04-02 | Ties Emmens, Chintan Amrit, Asad Abdi et al. |
| 4 | 64 | 2.2 | [Maritime traffic partitioning: An adaptive semi-supervised spectral regularization approach for leveraging multi-graph evolutionary traffic interactions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2024.104670) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2024-05-27 | Xuri Xin, Kezhong Liu, Huanhuan Li et al. |
| 5 | 44 | 1.6 | [A novel method for ship carbon emissions prediction under the influence of emergency events](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2024.104749) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 2024-07-13 | Yinwei Feng, Xinjian Wang, Jianlin Luan et al. |

## Used together with

Papers use AIS vessel tracking data most often with Sentinel / Copernicus (3); it has 1 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

*What papers use AIS vessel tracking data together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Sentinel / Copernicus](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/sentinel-copernicus.md) | Dataset | 3 | 17.3 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). AIS vessel tracking data. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ais-vessel-tracking-data

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@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-ais-vessel-tracking-data,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {AIS vessel tracking data},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/ais-vessel-tracking-data}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).