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April 11, 2024
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Evaluation of the Implementation of the Dimensions of the Blue Economy in Spanish Ports

Publicated to: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 12 (2): 222- - 2024-02-01 12(2), DOI: 10.3390/jmse12020222

Authors:

Cabrero, Javier Vaca; Garach, Cesar Pablo Gomez; Orive, Alberto Camarero; Gonzalez-Cancelas, Nicoletta
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Affiliations

Tech Univ Madrid, Dept Transport Terr & Urban Planning Engn - Author

Abstract

The Blue Economy is a relatively new concept. In 2010, Gunter Pauli coined this term to refer to an economic development where a waste is raw material for a process, using the cycles of the natural world as an example. Currently, the Blue Economy is a much more broad and transversal concept and is strongly related to maritime economic sectors, from maritime transport to off-shore renewable energies through port operations. In short, the Blue Economy encompasses classic sectors such as shipbuilding together with more innovative concepts in the ports, such as digitalization, innovation, or energy transition. In this research, a new tool is developed which, as its main objective, can obtain a degree of implementation of the dimensions of the Blue Economy in Spanish ports through the evaluation of each of the economic sectors that constitute the B.E. in the 28 Spanish port authorities. To this end, a Delphi panel has been used to determine the importance of each economic dimension, a database has also been generated to determine the state of development of these dimensions in each port, and some equations have been developed to determine in base 100 how developed each port is. The results obtained show a notable development in the average of Spanish ports, highlighting Las Palmas as the port that has most developed the Blue Economy.
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Keywords

B.eB.e.Grade development toolSpanish ports

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Journal of Marine Science and Engineering due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position 7/25, thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Engineering, Marine. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q2 para la agencia Scopus (SJR) en la categoría Ocean Engineering.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-25:

  • Google Scholar: 15
  • WoS: 8
  • Scopus: 10
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-25:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 62.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 62 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 4.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/90656/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 130
  • Downloads: 33
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (VACA CABRERO, JAVIER) and Last Author (GONZALEZ CANCELAS, MARIA NICOLETA).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Orive, AC.

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