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Papers

(The median citation count of Aquacultural Engineering is 3. 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
Self-cleaning performance of three bottom drain modes in circular culture tank: Experimental and numerical study	51
Assessing sensing techniques for detecting markers of approaching ecdysis in juvenile tropical rock lobsters, Panulirus ornatus	44
Editorial Board	30
Estimating oxygen consumption of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in a raceway: A Precision Fish Farming approach	25
Hydrodynamic implications in and around a caged finfish farm and its implications on the dispersal of farm debris	25
Evaluation of an anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) – downflow hanging sponge (DHS) system in treatment of black wastewater from a closed recirculating aquaculture system	24
Normal hatching rate estimation for bulk samples of Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) eggs using deep learning	23
On the application of current blockage model to steady drag force on fish net	23
Foam fractionation and ozonation in freshwater recirculation aquaculture systems	22
Underwater scallop recognition algorithm using improved YOLOv5	22
Effects of scaled-down dissolved air flotation system on suspended solids removal from Penaeus vannamei culture under biofloc conditions	21
Shrimp egg counting with fully convolutional regression network and generative adversarial network	21
Conveying characteristics of shrimp feed pellets in pneumatic conveying system and minimum power consumption dissipation factor	20
Transitioning from wild seed fishery to Seed Mussel Collectors (SMCs): Reviewing the efficiency of collectors for seed provisioning in mussel bottom culture	19
Editorial Board	19
Underwater fish mass estimation using pattern matching based on binocular system	19
Effects of microbubble aeration on water quality and growth performance of Litopenaeus vannamei in biofloc system	19
Appling machine learning for estimating total suspended solids in BFT aquaculture system	19
Editorial Board	19
Deep learning applied in fish reproduction for counting larvae in images captured by smartphone	18
Comparison between horizontal and vertical substrate in shrimp super-intensive culture in bioflocs system.	17
Method for layout optimization of coastal cage aquaculture systems in Southeast Asia	17
Observability-based sensor selection in fish ponds: Application to pond aquaculture in Indonesia	17
Robust detection of farmed fish by fusing YOLOv5 with DCM and ATM	17
The impact of shade net use on total nitrogen removal by duckweed (Lemna perpusilla) at different levels of catfish farming effluent	16

Analysis of an optical imaging system prototype for autonomously monitoring zooplankton in an aquaculture facility	16
Experimental study on hydrodynamic performance of the semi-submersible vessel-shaped fish cage	16
The coupled vibrations of a rectangular frame and a flexible net subjected to waves and currents	15
Hydrogen sulphide dynamics in recirculating aquaculture systems with moving or fixed bed biofilters: A case study in two commercial salmon smolt producing farms in Norway	15
Optimal aquarium shape for rearing male Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens)	15
Nonlinear vertical accelerations and mooring loads of a semi-submersible offshore fish farm under extreme conditions	14
MSIF-MobileNetV3: An improved MobileNetV3 based on multi-scale information fusion for fish feeding behavior analysis	14
Research progress of computer vision technology in abnormal fish detection	14
Mechanistic model based optimization of feeding practices in aquaculture	13
Fish feeding intensity quantification using machine vision and a lightweight 3D ResNet-GloRe network	13
An IoT based smart water quality assessment framework for aqua-ponds management using Dilated Spatial-temporal Convolution Neural Network (DSTCNN)	13
Design evaluation of a fish cage mooring system with different bridle line connections using model experiments and simulations	13
Automatic length estimation of free-swimming fish using an underwater 3D range-gated camera	13
Effect of biocarrier material on nitrification performance during start-up in freshwater RAS	13
Metal leaching and toxicity of denitrifying woodchip bioreactor outflow—Potential reuse application	12
Coagulation of phosphorous and organic matter from marine, land-based recirculating aquaculture system effluents	12
Waste characterization and biofilter sizing criteria for oligotrophic RAS egg incubators	12
Vision-based dual network using spatial-temporal geometric features for effective resolution of fish behavior recognition with fish overlap	12
Editorial Board	12
Assessment of standard aeration efficiency of different aerators and its relation to the overall economics in shrimp culture	12
Physical filtration of nutrients utilizing gravel-based and lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LECA) as growing media in aquaponic recirculation system (ARS)	12
Bottom culture is a promising strategy for final grow-out of the Portuguese oyster Crassostrea angulata	12
Editorial Board	11
Editorial Board	11
Formaldehyde degradation in denitrifying woodchip bioreactors: Effects of temperature, concentration and hydraulic retention time	11
Effect of different C/N ratios and hydraulic retention times on denitrification in saline, recirculating aquaculture system effluents	11
Where engineering meets biology: The Computational Fluid Dynamic analysis of a stacked duckweed bioreactor	11
Rapid detection of Penaeus vannamei diseases via an improved LeNet	11
Industry 4.0-based smart systems in aquaculture: A comprehensive review	11
Powering aquaculture operations at sea: Can hydrogen be a sustainable solution?	11
A novel advanced oxidation process (AOP) that rapidly removes geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol (MIB) from water and significantly reduces depuration times in Atlantic salmon Salmo salar RAS aquaculture	11
Prawn morphometrics and weight estimation from images using deep learning for landmark localization	10
Settling velocity distribution of bioflocules generated with different carbon sources during the rearing of the river shrimp Cryphiops caementarius with biofloc technology	10
Hydrodynamics of waste collection in a recirculating aquaculture tank with different flow-guide discs	10
Facilities pond aquaculture system construction and the ecological economy analyzed	10
Preconditioner influence on twin-screw extrusion cooking of starch-based feed pellets: The example of Fish Feed	10
Examination of net volume reduction of gravity-type open-net fish cages under sea currents	10
Hydrodynamics of waste collection in a recirculating aquaculture tank with different numbers of inlet pipes	9
Microalgae cultivation in offshore floating photobioreactor: State-of-the-art, opportunities and challenges	9
An integrated framework of sensing, machine learning, and augmented reality for aquaculture prawn farm management	9
Experimental study of flow and mass transport in the near-wake region of a rigid planar metal net panel	9
Environmental performance of Penaeus vannamei shrimp production in intensive and super-intensive biofloc systems	8
MortCam: An Artificial Intelligence-aided fish mortality detection and alert system for recirculating aquaculture	8
Experimental investigation on the convey performance and control strategy of a special annular jet pump for deep sea feeding	8
A novel centerline extraction method for overlapping fish body length measurement in aquaculture images	8
Detection of a stress related acoustic signature by passive acoustic monitoring in Atlantic salmon farming	8
Numerical study on the flow characteristics of an integrated fish cage based on the monopile offshore wind turbine foundation	8
Linear modelling of the mass balance and energy demand for a recirculating aquaculture system	8
Precision biometrics data of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in commercial grow-out sea-cages: Manual sampling and infrared diode frames compared to processing plant	8
Fish behavior recognition based on an audio-visual multimodal interactive fusion network	7

Dissolved oxygen prediction using regularized extreme learning machine with clustering mechanism in a black bass aquaculture pond	7
Simulating emergency response for large-scale fish welfare emergencies in sea-based salmon farming	7
Anomalous white shrimp detection in intensive farming based on improved YOLOv8	7
Heterotrophic versus mixed BFT system: Impacts on water use, suspended solids production and growth performance of Litopenaeus vannamei	7
Comparative study of circular and square gravity-based fish cages with different dimensions under pure current conditions	7
Computation of feed conversion ratio (FCRplant) and plant-fish mass ratio (PFRM) for aquaponic systems	7
Underwater abnormal classification system based on deep learning: A case study on aquaculture fish farm in Taiwan	6
Experimental study of the behaviour of a circular gravity cage in linear waves	6
Unsteady flow dynamic response in the cylinder-netting structure for the design of offshore fish farm systems using an SST-IDDES turbulence model	6
Design and experiment of a new mode of mechanized harvesting of raft cultured kelp	6
Pond cascades as a tool for ecological aquaculture allowing natural zooplankton succession, nutrient retention, and multiple stocking–harvesting cycles	6
Optimizing flow uniformity and velocity fields in aquaculture tanks by modifying water inlets and nozzles arrangement: A computational fluid dynamics study	6
The effects of stocking density and artifical substrate on production of pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei and water quality dynamics in greenhouse-based biofloc systems	6
Recognizing fish behavior in aquaculture with graph convolutional network	6
Effects of different types of air supplementation on rainbow trout confined underwater	5
Biological site suitability for exposed self-regulating cultivation of blue mussel (Mytilus edulis): A Belgian case study	5
Development of fish spatio-temporal identifying technology using SegNet in aquaculture net cages	5
Sedimentation efficiency evaluation of an aquaculture tank through experimental floc characterization and CFD simulation	5
Growth performance of shrimp and water quality in a freshwater biofloc system with a salinity of 5.0‰: Effects on inputs, costs and wastes discharge during grow-out culture of Litopenaeus vannamei	5
Early production of strawberry in aquaponic systems using commercial hydroponic bands	5
Design, deployment, and operation of an experimental offshore seaweed cultivation structure	5
Numerical study on hydrodynamic responses of a single-point moored vessel-shaped floating aquaculture platform in waves	5
In-water electric stunning as a humane commercial method for culling juvenile salmonids	5
Impact of the biological fouling on the hydrodynamic characteristics of nets under different current and attack angle conditions	4
Editorial Board	4
CFD-based simulation assessment of an artificial upwelling antibloom system for a salmon farming site	4
Ultrafiltration for the biosecurity of fish production: The case of a sturgeon nursery	4
Enhancing instance segmentation: Leveraging multiscale feature fusion and attention mechanisms for automated fish weight estimation	4
Temporal and small-scale spatial variation in spatfall of the mussel Mytilus edulis platensis: Basis for culture management at San Jorge Gulf, Patagonia Argentina	4
Design of a low-cost pH-Stat to study effects of ocean acidification on growth and nutrient consumption of diatoms	4
Editorial Board	4
Larviculture of the painted river prawn Macrobrachium carcinus in different culture systems	4
Determination of early breeder in goldfish (Carassius auratus Linn.) with learning vector quantization, probabilistic and pattern recognition neural networks	4
MusselCF, a user-friendly toolbox to estimate the physiological carbon footprint of mussels in suspended aquaculture	4
Food-based sizing criteria of bead filters with floating media in serial treatment with moving bed bioreactors	4
An empirical simulation study of a salmon production line in southern Chile	4
A small boat for fish feeding	4
In situ measurements and simulations of a net cage in currents	4
The quantity of artificial substrates influences the nitrogen cycle in the biofloc culture system of Litopenaeus vannamei	4
Evaluating the suitability of nitrate-nitrogen levels for post-smolt Atlantic salmon Salmo salar production in RAS with assistance from heart rate bio-loggers	3
Behavioural response of farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) to artificial underwater lights: Wavelet analysis of acoustic telemetry data	3
Editorial Board	3
Influence of various carbon and nitrogen ratios in a jaggery-based biofloc rearing system on the Asian stinging catfish Heteropneustes fossilis	3
Robust automatic net damage detection and tracking on real aquaculture environment using computer vision	3
Electrochemical ammonia removal and disinfection of aquaculture wastewater using batch and flow reactors incorporating PtRu/graphite anode and graphite cathode	3
Production of market-size European strain Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in land-based freshwater closed containment aquaculture systems	3
Environmental impact of different Mediterranean technological systems for European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and Gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) farming	3
An extraction method of fish vector field for marine cage culture based on UAV vision	3
Hydrogen peroxide oxygenation and disinfection capacity in recirculating aquaculture systems	3
Design considerations for a continuous mussel farm in New England Offshore waters. Part I: Development of environmental conditions for engineering design	3
Temporal dynamics of protist communities and environmental factors in the horizontal flow-polyculture pond aquaculture model of Sinonovacula constricta	3
Start-up of a “zero-discharge” recirculating aquaculture system using woodchip denitrification, constructed wetland, and sand infiltration	3
Development of an image binarization software tool for net occlusion estimations	3
Dynamic modeling of recirculating aquaculture systems: Effect of management strategies and water quality parameters on fish performance	3
Effect of ozone and hydrogen peroxide on off-flavor compounds and water quality in a recirculating aquaculture system	3