OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Rocky shores as tractable test systems for experimental ecology	22
Endocrine disruption and altered sexual development in aquatic organisms: an invertebrate perspective	16
Integrative taxonomy reveals a cryptic species of the nudibranch genus Polycera (Polyceridae) in European waters	15
Energizing the plasmalemma of marine photosynthetic organisms: the role of primary active transport	13
Biogeography of intertidal and subtidal native and invasive barnacles in Korea in relation to oceanographic current ecoregions and global climatic changes	12
Otolith fluctuating asymmetry inBoops boops(Actinopterygii, Sparidae) from two marine stations (Bizerte and Kelibia) in Tunisian waters	12
Population dynamics ofArctica islandicaat Georges Bank (USA): an analysis of sex-based demographics	12
Long-term insights into marine turtle sightings, strandings and captures around the UK and Ireland (1910–2018)	11
Discrimination of Diplodus vulgaris (Actinopterygii, Sparidae) stock from two Tunisian lagoons using otolith shape analysis	11
Moonshine worms (Diopatra aciculata: Onuphidae, Annelida) in the Knysna Estuary, South Africa; taxonomy and distribution	10
New non-native ornamental octocorals threatening a South-west Atlantic reef	9
Complex photobiont diversity in the marine lichen Lichina pygmaea	9
Molecular and phylogenetic analysis reveals new diversity of Dunaliella salina from hypersaline environments	9
Prey preferences of invasive (Hemigrapsus sanguineus, H. takanoi) and native (Carcinus maenas) intertidal crabs in the European Wadden Sea	9
Spatial environmental variability of natural markers and habitat use ofCathorops spixiiin a neotropical estuary from otolith chemistry	9
Effects of vehicle traffic and trampling on the macrobenthic community of Amazonian macrotidal sandy beaches	8
Naticid drilling predation from tidal flats in northern Patagonia, SW Atlantic	8
Limpet larvae (Patella aspera Röding, 1798), obtained by gonad dissection and fecundation in vitro, settled and metamorphosed on crustose coralline algae	8
Bioeroding (boring) polychaete species (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Aegean Sea (eastern Mediterranean)	8
Unravelling the taxonomic identity ofOphiothelaVerrill, 1867 (Ophiuroidea) along the Brazilian coast	8
The growth and population dynamics ofOctopus insularistargeted by a pot longline fishery in north-eastern Brazil	8
Lithology could affect benthic communities living below boulders	7
A review of cephalopods (Phylum: Mollusca) of the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem (Central-East Atlantic, African coast)	7
A bio-physicochemical perspective of the Bay of Bengal	7
Distribution of antifouling biocides in a coastal area of Tanabe Bay, Japan	7

Intrapopulation variation in the diet of franciscana dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei) off southern Brazil	7
Review of some Perinereis Kinberg, 1865 (Annelida: Nereididae) species of Group 2 sensu Hutchings, Reid & Wilson, 1991 from the Eastern and South-eastern Asian seas	7
Impact of mechanized clam dredging on the discarded megabenthic fauna on the Catalan coast (NW Mediterranean)	7
Redescription of the enigmatic jellyfish,Crambionella annandalei(Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from Indian waters	6
Dirivultidae (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) from hydrothermal vent fields in the Okinawa Trough, North Pacific Ocean, with description of one new species	6
Introduction of macroalgae as a source of biodiesel in Iran: analysis of total lipid content, fatty acid and biodiesel indices	6
Nutritional composition of Patagonian marine gastropods during reproductive seasonality	6
Abundance, placement and sexual identity of the epizoic barnacle Chelonibia testudinaria relative to the size and species of host turtles in Mabul Island, Malaysia	6
Diet composition and some observations on the feeding ecology of the rhizostome Rhopilema nomadica in Israeli coastal waters	6
Individual home ranges of Tursiops truncatus and their overlap with ranges of Stenella frontalis and fishermen in Aragua, Venezuela, South Caribbean	6
Diet composition and feeding habits of the pelagic thresher shark Alopias pelagicus in Eastern Central Pacific Ocean, Ecuadorian waters	6
When descriptive ecology meets physiology: a study in a South Atlantic rhodolith bed	6
A critical deliberation of the ‘species complex’ status of the globally spread colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri	6
Movements and habitat use of bottlenose dolphins,Tursiops truncatus, in south-eastern Brazil	6
First record of the Lessepsian fishParexocoetus mentoin Italian waters and GIS-based spatial and temporal distribution in Mediterranean Sea	6
Zooplankton summer composition in the southern Gulf of Mexico with emphasis on salp and hyperiid amphipod assemblages	6
Spatial variation in the structure of overwintering, remnant Saccorhiza polyschides sporophytes and their associated assemblages	6
Age, growth and reproduction of the golden grey mullet, Chelon auratus (Risso, 1810) in the Golden Horn Estuary, Istanbul	5
First record of swimming speed of the Pacific sleeper shark Somniosus pacificus using a baited camera array	5
Trophic niches and diet shifts of juvenile mullet species coexisting in marine and estuarine habitats	5
First discovery of the sessile barnacle Eochionelasmus (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha) from a hydrothermal vent field in the Indian Ocean	5
Reproductive biology of the scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) in the central-eastern Pacific Ocean	5
Three new meiobenthic species from a submarine cave in Japan: Echinoderes gama, E. kajiharai and E. uozumii (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida)	5
Distribution of Gymnodinium catenatum Graham cysts and its relation to harmful algae blooms in the northern Gulf of California	5
Influence of some physico-chemical variables on wild fish richness beneath sea-cage fish farms in the Aegean Sea, Turkey	5
Feeding strategies and body condition of juvenile European flounder Platichthys flesus in a nursery habitat	5
Poorly known sponges in the Mediterranean with the detection of some taxonomic inconsistencies	5
Design and implementation of two surveys targeted at describing fouling communities and identifying non-native species within active ports	5
Differences in the morphological body condition index of sea turtles between species and size classes	5
Opsanus beta (Goode & Bean, 1880) (Acanthopterygii: Batrachoididae), a non-indigenous toadfish in Sepetiba Bay, south-eastern Brazil	5
Seawater warming favours the northward range expansion of Lessepsian species in the Mediterranean Sea: the cephalaspidean Lamprohaminoea ovalis	5
When prey becomes killer: does a double lethal attack on a blue shark reveal a precise defensive strategy in young swordfish?	5
Impact of temperature and growth phases on lipid composition and fatty acid profile of a thermophilic Bacillariophyta strain related to the genus Halamphora from north-eastern Tunisia	5
A new record of a cryptogenic Dipolydora species (Annelida: Spionidae) in South Africa	4
Reproductive biology and diet of the longtail butterfly ray Gymnura poecilura (Shaw, 1804) along western Bay of Bengal	4
The genetic structure of the marine flatwormStylochoplana pusilla(Rhabditophora: Polycladida) and its use of intertidal snails	4
Cetacean strandings along the German North Sea coastline 1604–2017	4
Stress responses of the green microalga, Dunaliella salina to PEG-induced drought	4
DNA barcoding of commercially relevant marine fish species in Tunisian waters	4
Reproductive seasonality and the gonadal maturation of silver pomfret Pampus argenteus in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh	4
First zoeal stage morphology ofAlpheus carlaeandA. intrinsecus(Decapoda, Caridea, Alpheidae) obtained in the laboratory	4
Morphometric analysis of the shell of the intertidal gastropod Echinolittorina lineolata (d'Orbigny, 1840) at different latitudes along the Brazilian coast	4
Paratectonatica tigrina (Gastropoda: Naticidae) adjusts its predation tactics depending on the chosen prey and their shell weight relative to its own	4
Horizontal and vertical distribution of cephalopod paralarvae in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System	4
Effects of habitat structure on the mollusc assemblage in Mussismilia corals: evaluation of the influence of different coral growth morphology	4
Use of otolith morphology and morphometry for species discrimination of megrims Lepidorhombus spp. in the Central Eastern Adriatic Sea	4
Morphological and molecular characterization of a new species of black coral from Elvers Bank, north-western Gulf of Mexico (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Antipatharia: Aphanipathidae: Distichopat	4
Spatiotemporal dynamics of mangrove forest and association with strandings of Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus) calves in Paraíba, Brazil	4
Impacts of alien polychaete species in marine ecosystems: a systematic review	4
Trophic ecology and foraging areas of cetaceans sampled in the coastal waters of south-eastern Brazil assessed through skin δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N	4

Modelling fine-scale distribution and relative abundance of harbour porpoises in the Southern Bight of the North Sea using platform-of-opportunity data	4
Simple harpacticoid composition observed at deep hydrothermal vent sites on sea knoll calderas in the North-west Pacific	4
Length at maturity and relationship between weight and total length of five deep-sea fishes from the, Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India, North-eastern Indian Ocean	4
Toxicity of petroleum hydrocarbons to Brachyuran crabs: a review of deleterious effects of oil-related xenobiotics on life stages	3
Genetic evidence for cryptic species in the vulnerable spiny butterfly ray Gymnura altavela (Rajiformes: Gymnuridae)	3
Behavioural strategy of the ectosymbiotic crab (Sestrostomasp.) during ecdysis of the crab and its upogebiid shrimp host	3
New records of Ericthonius didymus Krapp-Schickel, 2013 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ischyroceridae) in European waters with a focus in Arcachon Bay, France and key to Ericthonius species	3
Contribution to some biological aspects of invasive marbled spinefoot (Siganus rivulatus, Forsskål 1775) from the Turkish coast of southern Aegean Sea	3
Morphological description of six species of Suberitida (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the unexplored north-eastern coast of Brazil, with emphasis on two new species	3
DNA barcoding and taxonomic validation of Caranx spp. larvae	3
First live sighting of an Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) in the Yellow Sea, the northern-most record of the species range	3
Species composition and habitat preferences of benthic ostracod and foraminifera in seagrass and non-seagrass systems within a tropical estuary	3
Morphometry of the shell in Scaphopoda (Mollusca): a tool for the discrimination of taxa	3
Warning of warming limpets: sea temperature effects upon intertidal rocky assemblages	3
Comparative efficiency of Mytilus edulis as engineering species for shallow-water fouling communities on artificial structures in the White Sea	3
Apprehending novel biodiversity redux – thirteen new genera and three new families of Zealandian Bryozoa, with the first living species of the Eocene‒Miocene genus Vincularia (Vinculariidae)	3
Changes in phytoplankton composition of the Golden Horn Estuary (Sea of Marmara) following remediation	3
Genetic diversity of marbled goby populations in the Anatolian coasts of the north-eastern Mediterranean	3
Population structure and reproductive performance in the sea anemone associated shrimp Ancylocaris brevicarpalis (Caridea: Palaemonidae)	3
Factors affecting the seasonal variability of planktonic shrimps (Dendrobranchiata) along an estuary–ocean gradient on the Amazon continental shelf	3
Site fidelity, population identity and demographic characteristics of humpback whales in the New York Bight apex	3
Nutritional vulnerability of early zoeal stages of the invasive shrimp Lysmata vittata (Decapoda: Caridea) in the Atlantic Ocean	3
New record of smalltooth sand tiger Odontaspis ferox (Risso, 1810) in the Mediterranean	3
Chirostyloid and galatheoid anomurans (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Indian waters, with descriptions of three new species	3
Fishes collected during the 2017 MarineGEO assessment of Kāne‘ohe Bay, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i	3
The new distribution records of recently described gobies: Aegean Sea records for Pomatoschistus nanus Engin & Seyhan Öztürk, 2017 and easternmost records of Buenia massutii Kovačić,	2
More than local adaptation: high diversity of response to seawater acidification in seven coral species from the same assemblage in French Polynesia	2
Effects of season and mesh size on the selection of narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson in the Persian Gulf artisanal gillnet fishery	2
Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new genus of Planoceridae (Polycladida, Acotylea) from Shimoda, Japan	2
Reproductive seasonality and environmental effects in green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nesting at Penang Island, Malaysia	2
Sexual traits and reproductive strategy of the leucosiid crabPyrhila pisum	2
Movements of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Gulf of California: integrating satellite telemetry and remotely sensed environmental variables	2
Compositional and functional features of the gut microbiota of the intertidal snail Nerita yoldii along China's coast	2
Contrasting drivers of sponge and seagrass assemblage composition in an Indo-Pacific seagrass meadow	2
Two new Pseudoceros (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida: Pseudocerotidae) from Agatti Island, India and a species checklist from Indian waters	2
First record of the rare deep-sea polychaete Rhamphobrachium (Rhamphobrachium) agassizii (Annelida: Onuphidae) in European waters	2
Investigating food assimilation in a carnivorous teleost by stable isotopes analysis: the case of ribbonfish off south-east Brazil	2
First mitochondrial genome of a lugworm (Annelida: Arenicolidae) and its phylogenetic position	2
Interannual variability and decadal stability of benthic organisms on an Indonesian coral reef	2
Macroalgae from two coastal lagoons of the Gulf of California as indicators of heavy metal contamination by anthropogenic activities	2
Temporal variation in the recruitment of calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) in Todos os Santos Bay, tropical Brazilian coast	2
Assessing fish communities in a multiple-use marine protected area using an underwater drone (Aegean Sea, Greece)	2
Size-related, seasonal and interdecadal changes in the diet of the Patagonian longfin squid Doryteuthis gahi in the South-western Atlantic	2
Descriptions of Deontolaimus holovachovi sp. nov. and Campylaimus zhoui sp. nov. from Chinese sea areas	2
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the surrounding waters of Isabel Island in western-central Mexico: unveiling a little-known wintering area	2
Larval development of the Caribbean king crab Maguimithrax spinosissimus (Lamarck, 1818), the largest brachyuran in the western Atlantic (Crustacea: Decapoda: Majoidea)	2
Bottlenose dolphins in the Netherlands come from two sides: across the North Sea and through the English Channel	2
Concentrations of organotin compounds in aquatic biota in coastal waters of Johor, Malaysia	2
First report on the diet and reproductive biology of red-toothed triggerfishOdonus niger(Ruppell, 1836) from the south-eastern Arabian Sea	2
Encountering the morphological and molecular complexity in the bramble shark Echinorhinus cf. E. brucus (Bonnaterre 1788) from the Oman Sea	2
Osedax (Siboglinidae: Annelida) utilizes shark teeth for nutrition	2
Variation in size distribution of juvenile pink shrimps Farfantepenaeus brasiliensis and F. paulensis in the estuarine-adjacent ocean area of Cananéia, south-eastern coast of Brazil	2
Bayesian occupancy modelling of benthic Crustacea and the recovery of the European spiny lobster, Palinurus elephas	2
Quantifying use of kelp forest habitat by commercially important crustaceans in the United Kingdom	2
The influence of invasive ascidian diets on the growth of the sea star Henricia sanguinolenta	2
Reproductive variables of Hypleurochilus fissicornis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (Pisces: Blenniidae) on rocky intertidal zones in the South-western Atlantic	2
DNA barcoding reveals deep divergent molecular units inPomatomus saltatrix(Perciformes: Pomatomidae): implications for management and global conservation	2
Effect of food availability on the growth and age determination of European sardine (Sardina pilchardus Walbaum, 1792) larvae	2
Characterization of the lesser known Korean seerfishScomberomorus koreanus(Kishinouye, 1915) (Scombriformes: Scombridae) in Indian waters	2
Increased potential for shell competition among hermit crabs (Pagurus beringanus and Pagurus granosimanus) in the rocky intertidal	2
Record of three specimens of megamouth sharks – Megachasma pelagios – in tropical tuna purse seine fisheries in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans	2
New records of invasive tubeworms (Ficopomatus, Serpulidae) in Mexico	2
Integrative taxonomy confirms the presence of the enigmaticLysmata olavoiFransen, 1991 (Decapoda: Lysmatidae) in the Mediterranean Sea	2