Marine Digital Twin (DT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) research spans maritime engineering, environmental monitoring, and governance contexts. This study provides a Scopus-based bibliometric and scientometric mapping of 289 English-language documents published from 2020 through April 10, 2026. VOSviewer and the Bibliometrix R-package were used for keyword co-occurrence mapping and descriptive analysis. Annual output was 4, 9, 24, 37, 50, 108, and 57 documents for 2020-2026, respectively; 2026 is a partial-year observation. China (n = 78), the United Kingdom (n = 31), and the United States (n = 27) were the leading countries. University College London (n = 10), Ningbo University (n = 8), and Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Technology (n = 7) had the highest affiliation counts. Three clusters were identified consistently: Industrial Maritime Applications, AI and Algorithmic Methods, and Environmental Monitoring and Earth Systems. The corpus remains dominated by engineering and offshore infrastructure, while the smaller environmental cluster does not by itself demonstrate a transition toward conservation. The Information Systems contribution is framed through data governance, semantic interoperability, platform ecosystems, and decision-support systems.
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