SDG 14: Life below water
Papers in the tracked journals on UN Sustainable Development Goal 14, Life below water. OpenAlex assigns a paper to each UN Sustainable Development Goal that its classifier scores above 0.4 from the paper's text; a paper can belong to several goals or to none. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), SDG 14 (Life below water) was addressed by 486 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (256), AI (115) and operations research (41).
- It is #17 of the 17 goals by papers from 2023 to 2025 (155).
- 62 of them were published in 2025, against 38 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Ocean University of China (15), China Agricultural University (10) and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (10).
- The journals publishing most of them were Ecological Economics (43), Expert Systems with Applications (43) and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (6).
- The most-cited of them is “Underwater image enhancement: a comprehensive review, recent trends, challenges and applications” (Artificial Intelligence Review, 2021), with 312 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 27 | 29 | 21 | 43 | 19 | 37 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 20 |
| AI | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 18 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 9 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 3 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| Statistics | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Finance | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Management | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 38 | 44 | 36 | 52 | 43 | 61 | 41 | 52 | 62 | 57 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ecological Economics | 43 |
| 2 | Expert Systems with Applications | 43 |
| 3 | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 6 |
| 4 | Information Fusion | 6 |
| 5 | Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism | 6 |
| 6 | Pattern Recognition | 5 |
| 7 | Neural Computing and Applications | 5 |
| 8 | World Development | 4 |
| 9 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 4 |
| 10 | European Journal of Operational Research | 4 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ocean University of China | 15 |
| 2 | China Agricultural University | 10 |
| 3 | Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs | 10 |
| 4 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 6 |
| 5 | Dalian Maritime University | 6 |
| 6 | University of Florida | 5 |
| 7 | University of Tasmania | 5 |
| 8 | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas | 4 |
| 9 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 4 |
| 10 | NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service | 4 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 75 |
| 2 | United States | 28 |
| 3 | Australia | 17 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 16 |
| 5 | Spain | 12 |
| 6 | Italy | 12 |
| 7 | Norway | 11 |
| 8 | France | 10 |
| 9 | Canada | 8 |
| 10 | Germany | 7 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | sustainable fisheries | 12 |
| 2 | fisheries management | 11 |
| 3 | aquaculture | 10 |
| 4 | convolutional neural networks | 8 |
| 5 | marine protected areas | 8 |
| 6 | attention mechanism | 7 |
| 7 | blue economy | 6 |
| 8 | fish taxonomy | 6 |
| 9 | fish counting | 5 |
| 10 | fisheries | 5 |
Most-cited papers#
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). SDG 14: Life below water. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/14-life-below-water
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author = {{Scholar4AI}},
title = {SDG 14: Life below water},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/sdgs/14-life-below-water}},
urldate = {2026-10-31},
note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}