Despite its political, regulatory, technical, and environmental challenges , the recent trend of ice melting in the Arctic region has caused the increase in international shipping activities. Accordingly, this is supported by research focusing on a wide variety of shipping issues in the Arctic. Surprisingly, this is not the case in Arctic port research. That being said, considering the role of ports in the development of maritime transportation and recent activities in the Arctic, it was critical to map academic and managerial implications of the research in such a terrain. In doing so, this study focused on research articles which addressed the subject since 1980. Through a systematic analysis, the spatial scale (i.e., foreland and maritime space (global), hinterland (regional/national), and port (local) scales), and functional perspective (i.e., space- related (locational), activity-related (operational) and consequence-related (impact) perspectives) of 38 representative articles were extracted and used. The findings suggest that, despite the historic similarity between Arctic shipping and Arctic port research, there was a widening gap between such trends in the last ten years, and at the same time, the contribution of Arctic port articles was very limited. Over the past years, the order of impact of Arctic port research was that the consequence-related global scale issues were highest followed by regional/national and local scales respectively. This was in contrast to port research, in which activity- related local scale research ranked the highest. Also, a comparison of research between Northern Sea Route (NSR) and the North West Passage (NWP) was carried out to understand the attitude of infrastructure holders along those routes. Investigation revealed that more than 70% of research was conducted on the NSR. Unlike the NWP, the research direction for the NSR followed a particular trend over the past four decades with the 2010-June 2019, dominated by consequence-related global scale research.

尽管存在政治，法规，技术和环境方面的挑战，但北极地区冰融化的最新趋势已引起国际航运活动的增加。因此，这一点得到了针对北极地区各种运输问题的研究的支持。令人惊讶的是，北极港口研究并非如此。话虽如此，考虑到港口在海上交通发展中的作用以及北极地区近期的活动，在这样的地形上绘制研究的学术和管理意义至关重要。为此，本研究着重于1980年以来针对该主题的研究文章。通过系统分析，空间尺度（即前陆和海洋空间（全球），腹地（区域/国家）和港口（局部）尺度）以及功能角度（即 提取并使用了38篇代表性文章的空间相关（位置），活动相关（运营）和结果相关（影响）的观点。研究结果表明，尽管北极航运与北极港口研究在历史上有相似之处，但在过去十年间，这种趋势之间的差距仍在扩大，同时，北极港口文章的贡献非常有限。在过去的几年中，北极港口研究的影响顺序是与后果相关的全球规模问题最高，其次是地区/国家和地方规模。这与港口研究相反，在港口研究中，与活动有关的地方规模研究排名最高。也，进行了北海航线（NSR）和西北通道（NWP）之间的研究比较，以了解沿途的基础设施所有者的态度。调查显示，超过70％的研究是针对NSR进行的。与NWP不同的是，NSR的研究方向在过去的四个十年中一直处于一个特定的趋势，即2010年至2019年6月，以与结果相关的全球规模研究为主导。