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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
First record of the Atlantic soft pout Melanostigma atlanticum (Teleostei, Zoarcidae) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea	14
A southernmost record of the Pacific black scabbardfish Aphanopus arigato (Scombriformes, Trichiuridae) from the South China Sea	12
First record of Phymactis papillosa (Lesson, 1830), a Pacific south sea anemone in European shores	11
Mobile habitats for the unseen passengers: the brachyuran crabs on the loggerhead sea turtles	11
Escape from troubled shores: finding of a shallow-water boreal gastropod Onoba aculeus on the high Arctic shelf	11
Notable Crustacea (Mysida, Amphipoda and Decapoda) from England's deepest and most remote Marine Conservation Zone	11
Two new species of Haliclona (Demospongiae: Haplosclerida: Chalinidae) from north-eastern Brazilian coastal waters and oceanic islands	10
Study of the growth of Octopus vulgaris in the Moroccan Mediterranean Sea by direct age estimation through the analysis of upper beaks	10
Eight new records of marine fishes (Teleostei: Perciformes and Tetraodontiformes) from the Philippines	10
Preliminary observations on abundance and distribution of fish fauna in a canyon of the Bay of Biscay (ICES Division 8c)	10
MBI volume 101 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	9
MBI volume 101 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	9
New records of invasive tubeworms (Ficopomatus, Serpulidae) in Mexico – CORRIGENDUM	9
MBI volume 101 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	9
Feeding ecology of the shortfin mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, in the Ecuadorian Pacific Ocean	8
Sea turtle strandings along a semiarid coast in the western equatorial Atlantic	8
First record of sharksucker Echeneis naucrates (Perciformes, Echeneidae) associated with a young Guiana dolphin Sotalia guianensis (Cetartiodactyla, Delphinidae) in north-eastern Brazil	7
First record of the brachiopod Argyrotheca cuneata from a nearshore habitat at the southern coast of Türkiye	7
Bayesian occupancy modelling of benthic Crustacea and the recovery of the European spiny lobster, Palinurus elephas	7
Growth assessment of the sea urchin Pseudechinus magellanicus (Temnopleuridae) in coastal habitats of central Patagonia, Argentina	6
Reproductive strategies under different environmental conditions: total output vs investment per egg in the slipper lobster Scyllarus arctus	6
First record of the exotic Eualetes tulipa from Bahia State, Brazil, co-occurring with Tubastraea corals (Scleractinia, Dendrophylliidae)	6
Description of two new species, Microlaimus paraaffinis sp. nov. and Pseudomicrolaimus major sp. nov. (Nematoda: Microlaimidae), from Yangma Island, the Yellow Sea, China	6
Species composition and distribution of Alcyonacea (Octocorallia) in the northern Persian Gulf	6
Population differentiation in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman: insights from the ghost shrimp's associated copepods, Clausidium iranensis and Clausidium persiaensis	6

An individual based model of female brown crab movements in the western English channel: modelling migration behaviour	5
Studies of Non-indigenous species	5
First records of the ornate eagle ray Aetomylaeus vespertilio from the Inhambane Province, Mozambique	5
An updated checklist of Stomiiformes from Indian waters with nine new records	5
Integrating molecular and morphological evidence revives the blubber jellyfish, Catostylus purpurus (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae; Catostylidae) of the Indo-Pacific (Philippines)	5
Comparative analysis of the complete mitochondrial genomes of two species of Clupeiformes and the phylogenetic implications for Clupeiformes	5
First record of Diapterus brevirostris (Teleostei: Gerridae) in Atlantic European waters: a case of introduced species	5
First mesophotic Ecklonia radiata (Laminariales) records within the iSimangaliso Wetland Park marine-protected area, east coast, South Africa	5
First record of the phyllosoma larva of the pygmy locust lobster Scyllarus pygmaeus (Crustacea, Decapoda) in the eastern Mediterranean sea	5
Food habits of fishes in a subtropical seagrass bed in Nagura Bay, Ishigaki Island, southern Japan	4
Gymnocranius indicus, a new large-eye seabream from the Indian Ocean	4
Opportunistic observation effort and seasonal-spatial fidelity: a qualitative approach, applied to an Orcinus orca first record	4
More than local adaptation: high diversity of response to seawater acidification in seven coral species from the same assemblage in French Polynesia	4
Do eco-geospatial differences induce otolith morphological variations? Assessment in Chelon auratus (Mugiliformes, Mugilidae) populations collected from Tunisian and Mauritanian waters	4
The influence of invasive ascidian diets on the growth of the sea star Henricia sanguinolenta	4
Reproductive biology and sperm storage characters in two bobtail squid species (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae)	4
Impact of historic sediment characterisation on predicting polychaete distributions: a case study of so-called muddy habitat shovelhead worms (Annelida: Magelonidae)	4
Competition relations between selected microalgae and bloom-forming Ulva prolifera	3
Exploring the diversity of the deep-sea shrimp in the ‘Glyphocrangon spinicauda A. Milne-Edwards, 1881’ species group (Decapoda, Crustacea, Glyphocrangonidae) off Taiwan and Dongsha	3
Elasmobranch diversity around the southern Caribbean island of Tobago: opportunities for conservation in a regional trade hub	3
First record of sand crab, Jonas kalpakkamensis Barathkumar, Das & Satpathy, 2016 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Corystidae) from the Western Indian Ocean with a key to the genus Jonas	3
DNA barcoding of commercially relevant marine fish species in Tunisian waters	3
Pelagic Sargassum and some associated mobile fauna: new records for the archipelago of Madeira (subtropical eastern Atlantic)	3
Evidence of distribution overlap between Atlantic and Baltic grey seals	3
Insights on the fish assemblages of seamounts and banks in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea (western Mediterranean Sea): implications for the conservation of deep-sea environments	3
Size-related, seasonal and interdecadal changes in the diet of the Patagonian longfin squid Doryteuthis gahi in the South-western Atlantic	3
Discriminant inter and intrapopulation variation in sagittal otolith shape and morphometry inChelon ramada(Actinopterygii, Mugilidae) from the Boughrara and El Bibane lagoons in Tunisian waters	3
New non-native ornamental octocorals threatening a South-west Atlantic reef	3
Spatial variation in the structure of overwintering, remnant Saccorhiza polyschides sporophytes and their associated assemblages	3
Chirostyloid and galatheoid anomurans (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Indian waters, with descriptions of three new species	3
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	3
Inferring ecological connectivity between populations of Opsanus beta (Goode & Bean, 1880) from the southern Gulf of Mexico and the South-western Atlantic coast	3
Evaluation of species-specificity in barnacle waterborne settlement pheromones	3
Reproductive biology of the sea cucumber Holothuria arguinensis (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) and its relationship with the environment in the coastal waters of Morocco	3
Macroalgae from two coastal lagoons of the Gulf of California as indicators of heavy metal contamination by anthropogenic activities	3
Opening Pandora's box: diagnostics characters for the confuse taxonomy of the BrazilianCardiomya(Bivalvia: Cuspidariidae)	3
Use of otolith morphology and morphometry for species discrimination of megrims Lepidorhombus spp. in the Central Eastern Adriatic Sea	3
Life history parameters of the crocodile shark,Pseudocarcharias kamoharai, in the tropical Atlantic Ocean	3
A new record of a white humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Papeete, Tahiti	3
Nutritional vulnerability of early zoeal stages of the ornamental shrimp Lysmata ankeri (Decapoda: Caridea)	3
Simple harpacticoid composition observed at deep hydrothermal vent sites on sea knoll calderas in the North-west Pacific	3
Panulirus stimpsoni and checklist of Panulirus lobsters in Malaysian waters: morphological and molecular insights	3
DNA barcoding and taxonomic validation ofCaranxspp. larvae	3
Genetic diversity of marbled goby populations in the Anatolian coasts of the north-eastern Mediterranean	3
Northernmost record of the Chilean torpedo Tetronarce tremens from tropical coastal waters of the Mexican Pacific	2
Reproductive and feeding biology of unicorn leatherjacket, Aluterus monoceros from the Bay of Bengal, Northern Indian Ocean	2
The growth and population dynamics ofOctopus insularistargeted by a pot longline fishery in north-eastern Brazil	2
First record of the epiphyte sea anemone Bunodeopsis pelagica in the Mexican Atlantic	2
The distribution of the red-throated ascidian Herdmania momus shifts northwards in association with ocean warming in the Korean Peninsula	2
Distribution of growth lines in the tube wall of serpulids (Polychaeta, Annelida)	2

A new species of Hourstonius (Amphipoda: Amphilochidae) from Todos-os-Santos Bay, Bahia State, Brazil, with an overview of the genus across the globe	2
A transoceanic journey: Melanochlamys diomedea's first report in the North Atlantic	2
Comparative efficiency of Mytilus edulis as engineering species for shallow-water fouling communities on artificial structures in the White Sea	2
First mitochondrial genome of a lugworm (Annelida: Arenicolidae) and its phylogenetic position	2
Effects of habitat structure on the mollusc assemblage in Mussismilia corals: evaluation of the influence of different coral growth morphology	2
Recolonisation of former habitat by harbour seals in southern Denmark despite intense anthropogenic activity	2
Climate change impacts on the coral reefs of the UK Overseas Territory of the Pitcairn Islands: resilience and adaptation considerations	2
A new record of the hermit crab Dardanus callichela Cook, 1989 (Paguroidea: Calcinidae) from the Visayan Sea, Philippines	2
Determination of seasonal changes in phytoplankton community of the coastal waters of Burgaz Island (the Sea of Marmara)	2
Shell growth and age determined from annual lines in the southern warm-water limpet Patella depressa at its poleward geographic boundaries	2
First records of two rays and three bony fishes for the Galapagos Islands	2
Pea crabs (Pinnotheres pisum) colonisation of five commercial bivalve species from southern Portugal	2
Tonic immobility in a marine isopod: the effects of body size, sex, and colour morph	2
First record of Stygiomedusa gigantea (Discomedusae: Ulmaridae) from Southern Africa, with a comment on scyphozoan distribution	2
Molecular genetic biodiversity assessment of the Wallis Island sponge fauna in the Tropical Pacific	2
Cetacean strandings along the German North Sea coastline 1604–2017	2
The first validated record of Epinephelus areolatus (Forsskål, 1775) (Perciformes: Serranidae) from Syrian marine waters	2
First parasitic bopyrid isopod of the genus Ionella (Epicaridea: Pseudioninae) in the Atlantic	2
Marine bivalves voucher DNA barcoding from Eastern Mediterranean, with evidence for Ostrea stentina invasion	2
New contributions to the subfamily Polycerinae (Nudibranchia, Polyceridae): description of three new species and one new genus – CORRIGENDUM	2
A new species of Pisione (Annelida, Sigalionidae) from Palk Bay, India	2
Well-known mesophotic kelp populations in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park marine-protected area, east coast, South Africa	2
Fatty acid composition in common deep-water shrimps of the Arabian Sea and its importance to human nutrition	2
MBI volume 101 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	2
MBI volume 101 issue 8 Cover and Back matter	2
First sightings of mimic octopus Thaumoctopus mimicus (Cephalopoda: Octopodidia) from the Southwest Indian Ocean with photographic records from the Inhambane Province of southern Mozambique	2
Guess who arrived in the western tropical Atlantic? Microcosmus squamiger (Ascidiacea: Pyuridae) records on the Brazilian coast	2
Responses of the temperate calcareous sponge Grantia sp. to ocean acidification	2
The thermophilic sea anemone Telmatactis cricoides (Cnidaria, Hexacorallia) in the western Mediterranean: filling gaps in the knowledge of the distribution	2
New data on South American fur seals and sea lions' occupation of the Wildlife Refuge of Ilha dos Lobos, southern Brazil	2
Encountering the morphological and molecular complexity in the bramble shark Echinorhinus cf. E. brucus (Bonnaterre 1788) from the Oman Sea	2
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
New records and range extension of two deep-sea skate genera,AmblyrajaandNotoraja(Elasmobranchii: Rajiformes), in the southeastern Pacific Ocean	2