OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Marine Ecology Progress Series is 25. 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
Population comparison of right whale body condition reveals poor state of the North Atlantic right whale	71
Seascape ecology: identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science	57
Trophic structure of southern marine ecosystems: a comparative isotopic analysis from the Beagle Channel to the oceanic Burdwood Bank area under a wasp-waist assumption	44
Poor body condition associated with an unusual mortality event in gray whales	40
Predicting changes in distribution of a large coastal shark in the face of the strengthening East Australian Current	38
Variation in the diet of beluga whales in response to changes in prey availability: insights on changes in the Beaufort Sea ecosystem	37
Multi-decadal decline in cover of giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera at the southern limit of its Australian range	37
Disclosing the truth: Are models better than observations?	37
Highly variable taxa-specific coral bleaching responses to thermal stresses	35
Carbon sequestration potential increased by incomplete anaerobic decomposition of kelp detritus	35
Climate alters the migration phenology of coastal marine species	34
When sharks are away, rays will play: effects of top predator removal in coral reef ecosystems	34
Half a century of monitoring macrobenthic animals on tidal flats in the Dutch Wadden Sea	32
Individual variation in residency and regional movements of reef manta rays Mobula alfredi in a large marine protected area	30
Littoral habitats as major nursery areas for fish species in estuaries: a reinforcement of the reduced predation paradigm	30
Ecosystem-level effects of large-scale disturbance in kelp forests	29
MPA network design based on graph theory and emergent properties of larval dispersal	29
Breeding seabirds increase foraging range in response to an extreme marine heatwave	28
Prevalence of microplastics and anthropogenic debris within a deep-sea food web	28
Antarctic krill Euphausia superba: spatial distribution, abundance, and management of fisheries in a changing climate	28
Links in the trophic chain: modeling functional relationships between in situ oceanography, krill, and blue whale distribution under different oceanographic regimes	28
Environmental conditions are poor predictors of immature white shark Carcharodon carcharias occurrences on coastal beaches of eastern Australia	28
Relationships between temperature and Pacific hake distribution vary across latitude and life-history stage	27
Flexibility in Antarctic krill Euphausia superba decouples diet and recruitment from overwinter sea-ice conditions in the northern Antarctic Peninsula	27
Seasonal diving and foraging behaviour of Eastern Canada-West Greenland bowhead whales	25

Water masses constrain the distribution of deep-sea sponges in the North Atlantic Ocean and Nordic Seas	25
Rimicaris exoculata: biology and ecology of a shrimp from deep-sea hydrothermal vents associated with ectosymbiotic bacteria	25