Research highlights from Regional Studies in Marine Science

The fifth anniversary of Regional Studies in Marine Science

“…Kenneth M. Y. Leung, Gunnar G. Lauenstein, Jinyu Sheng During the first five years, our journal Regional Studies in Marine Science has been growing rapidly and healthily (Hall-Spencer et al 2016;Leung et al, 2018), and has handled over 2100 manuscripts. The number of manuscripts received sharply increased from 180 in 2016 to 928 in 2019 ( Figure 1a; the data of 2015 were not included in the figure due to some uncertainty that existed in that year's dataset), while the number of published articles jumped from 43 papers in 2015 to 225 in 2019 ( Figure 1b).…”