{"title":"Application of artificial intelligence in fish information identification: a scientometric perspective","authors":"Liguo Ou, Linlin Lu, Weiguo Qian, Bilin Liu","doi":"10.3389/fmars.2025.1575523","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In the context of the growing demand for the sustainable development and conservation of fish stocks, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are essential for supporting scientific fish stock management. Artificial intelligence technology provides an effective solution for the intelligent recognition of fish information. This study used bibliometric analysis to review a sample of 719 scientific articles from the WoSCC (Web of Science Core Collection) database from 2014-2024. The results revealed a significant increase in the number of publications from 2014-2024, with publications mainly from China, the USA (the United States) and other developed countries. The top three impactful journals are Ecological Informatics, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture and the ICES Journal of Marine Science. The most frequent keyword co-occurrence analysis was deep learning, and the best keyword clustering effect was computer vision. The findings indicate that this bibliometric evaluation provides a holistic visualization of the research frontier of AI in fish information identification, and our findings underscore the growing global importance of AI in fish information identification research and highlight publication trends, hotspots, and future research directions in this area. In conclusion, our findings provide valuable insights into the emerging frontiers of AI-based fish information identification.","PeriodicalId":12479,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Marine Science","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Frontiers in Marine Science","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1575523","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In the context of the growing demand for the sustainable development and conservation of fish stocks, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are essential for supporting scientific fish stock management. Artificial intelligence technology provides an effective solution for the intelligent recognition of fish information. This study used bibliometric analysis to review a sample of 719 scientific articles from the WoSCC (Web of Science Core Collection) database from 2014-2024. The results revealed a significant increase in the number of publications from 2014-2024, with publications mainly from China, the USA (the United States) and other developed countries. The top three impactful journals are Ecological Informatics, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture and the ICES Journal of Marine Science. The most frequent keyword co-occurrence analysis was deep learning, and the best keyword clustering effect was computer vision. The findings indicate that this bibliometric evaluation provides a holistic visualization of the research frontier of AI in fish information identification, and our findings underscore the growing global importance of AI in fish information identification research and highlight publication trends, hotspots, and future research directions in this area. In conclusion, our findings provide valuable insights into the emerging frontiers of AI-based fish information identification.
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Frontiers in Marine Science publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research that advances our understanding of all aspects of the environment, biology, ecosystem functioning and human interactions with the oceans. Field Chief Editor Carlos M. Duarte at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Thuwal is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, policy makers and the public worldwide.
With the human population predicted to reach 9 billion people by 2050, it is clear that traditional land resources will not suffice to meet the demand for food or energy, required to support high-quality livelihoods. As a result, the oceans are emerging as a source of untapped assets, with new innovative industries, such as aquaculture, marine biotechnology, marine energy and deep-sea mining growing rapidly under a new era characterized by rapid growth of a blue, ocean-based economy. The sustainability of the blue economy is closely dependent on our knowledge about how to mitigate the impacts of the multiple pressures on the ocean ecosystem associated with the increased scale and diversification of industry operations in the ocean and global human pressures on the environment. Therefore, Frontiers in Marine Science particularly welcomes the communication of research outcomes addressing ocean-based solutions for the emerging challenges, including improved forecasting and observational capacities, understanding biodiversity and ecosystem problems, locally and globally, effective management strategies to maintain ocean health, and an improved capacity to sustainably derive resources from the oceans.