OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bulletin of Marine Science is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Artificial reefs in the Anthropocene: a review of geographical and historical trends in their design, purpose, and monitoring	34
Reared to become wild-like: addressing behavioral and cognitive deficits in cultured aquatic animals destined for stocking into natural environments—a critical review	25
Developing and integrating enhancement strategies to improve and restore fisheries	14
Using ecological evidence to refine approaches to deploying offshore artificial reefs for recreational fisheries	14
Morphological and molecular identification of Octopoda (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) paralarvae from the southern Gulf of Mexico	9
Characterization of fish assemblages in mesophotic reefs of Cuba	9
Invasive upside-down jellyfish tolerate organic eutrophication and warming	8
Crown-of-thorns starfish outbreak at Taiping Island (Itu Aba), Spratlys, South China Sea	7
Integrating climate change and management scenarios in population models to guide the conservation of marine turtles	7
Postnesting migration routes and fidelity to foraging sites among loggerhead turtles in the western North Atlantic	7
Phylogeography of two marine predators, giant trevally (Caranx ignobilis) and bluefin trevally (Caranx melampygus), across the Indo-Pacific	7
Recovery from finfish predation on newly outplanted boulder coral colonies on three reefs in the Florida Keys	6
No bundles beyond this point: the coral sterile zone	6
Nonlethal stable isotope analysis reveals consistent trophic growth of juvenile Atlantic goliath grouper Epinephelus itajara in Brazilian estuaries	5
Length at maturity of two pelagic sharks (Isurus paucus and Carcharhinus longimanus) found off northern Cuba	5
Using mollusks as indicators of restoration in nearshore zones of south Florida's estuaries	4
Prey capture kinematics of wild and hatchery juvenile common snook Centropomus undecimalis	4
Host-mediated dispersal shapes spatial distribution of genetic variability in marine symbionts	4
Western Atlantic invasion of sun corals: incongruence between morphology and genetic delimitation among morphotypes in the genus Tubastraea	4
Development of an individual-based tag recapture model to benchmark biomass and harvest rates in an iconic lobster fishery	4
Quality considerations and malformation surveillance in a marine stocking program	4
Diurnal Sheltering Behavior of Hatchery-propagated Long-spined Urchins (Diadema Antillarum): a Re-examination Following Husbandry Refinements	4
Marine stocking in Chile: a review of past progress and future opportunities for enhancing marine artisanal fisheries	4
Coral reefs of southeastern Dominican Republic hit by two simultaneous epizootic events	4
Genetic evaluation of the unknown contribution of stocked fish in angler catches: a case study using mulloway Argyrosomus japonicus	4

A quantitative assessment of the status of reef fish communities from a large-scale probability survey in southern Florida	4
Predation on a newly-stocked long-spined sea urchin (Diadema antillarum) by the batwing coral crab (Carpilius corallinus) on a coral reef restoration site	3
Damage caused by crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris) outbreak to restored corals in the southern Gulf of California, Mexico	3
Geographical differences in stable isotope ratios and fatty acid and lipid signatures of chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus, in waters around Japan	3
Low predation intensity on the stalked crinoid Democrinus sp. (Echinodermata), in Roatán, Honduras, reveals deep water as likely predation refuge	3
Short-term Habitat Use and Vertical Movements of the Pelagic Stingray Pteroplatytrygon Violacea in the Western North Atlantic Ocean Determined by Pop-up Archival Satellite Tags	3
Resampling 25 years later reveals fewer species but higher abundance of juvenile fishes in a Caribbean mangrove bay	3
Distribution of genus Jassa (Amphipoda, Ischyroceridae) in the Bay of Campeche, SW Gulf of Mexico, with a description of a new deepwater species	3
Dispersal of yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) from a coastal embayment following a recreational fisheries enhancement stocking program: attempts to integrate aquaculture and habitat-based	3
Mollusk death assemblages from the deep slope off northwestern Cuba (Gulf of Mexico)	3
A newly discovered Helicocranchia species (Cephalopoda: Cranchiidae: Taoniinae) in the northern Gulf of Mexico	2
Trophic guild structure and dietary patterns of a juvenile-dominated demersal fish community in a tropical mangrove estuarine system	2
Colonization of Marine Debris in the Florida Keys Coral Reef Ecosystem by Nonindigenous Sun Corals (Tubastraea Spp.)	2
Combined effect of burrowing mangrove crabs and tides on carbon fluxes	2
Impact of the development and utilization of coastal areas of Liaodong Bay on the environmental quality of seawater	2
A novel approach to estimate postrelease survival for estuarine fishes	2
Distribution and abundance of herbivorous reef fishes on a barrier reef system in the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas, Florida	2
Multispecies spawning of scleractinian corals in nonreefal coral communities of northern Taiwan (northwestern Pacific Ocean)	2
Hyperiid amphipod vertical distribution and community structure in the upper 100 m of the northwestern Caribbean Sea	2
Pacific-wide pH snapshots reveal that high coral cover correlates with low, but variable pH	2
Spatial and bathymetric trends in composition and taxonomic diversity of Polychaeta (Annelida) assemblages from the deep Southern Gulf of California	2
Geological faulting a possible trigger for brine-induced reef mortality at East Flower Garden Bank, NW Gulf of Mexico	2
Prediction of suitable habitats for the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) in the Beibu Gulf of China and Vietnam	2
Drifting bryozoans increase nekton diversity in the north- central Gulf of Mexico unvegetated muddy bottom seascape	2
Unprecedented densities of Gorgonia sea fans on coral reefs in St. John, US Virgin Islands?	2
Influence of intra- and interspecific competition on periphyton biomass and growth performance of Holothuria scabra juveniles	2
Revolutions in rearing barnacles: rotating flow and substratum for culturing larvae and adults	2
First report of in situ survival of laboratory-reared offspring of the threatened species Dendrogyra cylindrus in the Caribbean	2
Herpyllobius piotrowskiae sp. nov., a mesoparasitic copepod (Multicrustacea: Copepoda: Cyclopoida), on Iphione fustis Hoagland, 1920 (Annelida, Iphionidae) from Papua New Guinea	2
Expansion of an established fishery-independent survey into the US Virgin Islands' upper mesophotic zone: feasibility and management implications	2
Effects of climate change and water management on West Florida Shelf's dynamics	2
Effects of translocation on the asari clam Ruditapes philippinarum at small spatial scales in Matsukawaura, Japan	2