OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Molluscan Studies is 1. 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
Ceratal autotomy as a defensive mechanism of the sacoglossan sea slug Placida kingstoni against a generalist crustacean predator	71
Analysis, classification and identification of gastropod locomotive mucus by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy	17
First insight into the whole genome shotgun sequence of the endangered noble pen shell Pinna nobilis: a giant bivalve undergoing a mass mortality event	15
Molecular survey of Cryptoplax japonica (Polyplacophora: Cryptoplacidae) reveals cryptic lineages in the northwestern Pacific	14
Response of optic gland pathways to thermal stress in the reproductive phase of female Octopus maya	13
Prey utilization by Neptunea arthritica (Caenogastropoda: Buccinidae): predation on gastropods and size-related variation	11
Genetic evidence for multiple mating and mixing of sperm from multiple males in the seminal receptacles of female Japanese flying squid (Todarodes pacificus)	10
Aestivation duration and plasticity in the rocky-shore littorinid snail, Echinolittorina malaccana	10
Radula packing and storage facilitated by tooth morphology in selected taenioglossan Gastropoda	9
Characterization of the hidden break in giant clam 28S ribosomal RNA	8
The mitochondrial genome ofIsognomon nucleusand mitogenomics of pteriomorphia (Bivalvia: Autobranchia)	8
A time-lapse observational study of the activity patterns and feeding behaviour of urban terrestrial gastropods on carcasses of the Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus)	7
Fine-scale genetic structure of the freshwater snail Promenetus exacuous in the New York State region: the influences of historical colonization, habitat connectivity and dispersal ability	7
Description of a new Late Cretaceous species ofBulimulusLeach, 1814 (Orthalicoidea: Bulimulidae) using geometric morphometric analysis	7
Osmoregulatory physiology of the angel wing bivalve Cyrtopleura costata (Pholadidae), an estuarine intertidal burrowing mollusc	6
Recruitment of hard coral communities on giant clam shells (Cardiidae: Tridacna) differ from surrounding reef habitats at a tourist destination in the Gulf of Thailand	6
Revision of the British Lower Jurassic Astartinae (Bivalvia)	6
Molecular and morphological evidence for a unified, inclusiveSinotaia quadrata(Caenogastropoda: Viviparidae: Bellamyinae)	6
Overlooked shell features: asymmetrical columellar folds in volutid gastropods	5
Illumination can change the periodic variation of the oxygen consumption rate ofCrassostrea gigas	5
Land snail assemblages along altitudinal gradients on Mount Semeru, the highest montane forest in Java, Indonesia	5
Levels and distribution of tetrodotoxin in the blue-lined octopusHapalochlaena fasciatain Japan, with special reference to within-body allocation	5
The polymorphic top-shell puzzle: iterative taxonomy of Calliostoma Swainson, 1840 (Gastropoda: Calliostomatidae), in the Mediterranean Sea	5
The hollow newel state in gastropods: when snail shells are open-axis	4
Comparative sperm morphology of 15 species of limpet (Mollusca: Patellogastropoda: Lottioidea) and correlation with current systematics and phylogenies	4

Differentiation of European invasive clams of the genusCorbicula(Cyrenidae) using shell shape analysis	4
Ontogenetic variability in the diel activity pattern of the marine gastropodCassis cornuta(Mollusca: Cassidae)	4
Marking the shells of juvenile and adult eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica, with the fluorochrome dye calcein and measuring growth and mortality after marking	4
Population size and movement ecology of intertidal gastropods on rocky shores and seawalls in Singapore	4
Did Captain Beechey see a living Mandarina luhuana, an extinct land snail species?	3
Left–right asymmetry of the visual system in the scallop Nodipecten nodosus (Bivalvia: Pectinidae)	3
A new species of Sakuraeolis from Mozambique, described using 3D reconstruction of anatomy and phylogenetic analysis	3
Testing ecological function in the carving of anomalodesmatan morphospace (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Anomalodesmata)	3
Conservation ecology of land snails: a synthesis for Estonia	3
Egg masses and larval development of the Antarctic cephalaspidean snail Waegelea antarctica (Cephalaspidea: Antarctophilinidae), with notes on egg masses of the related Antarctophiline alata	3
Sexual dimorphism in the East Asian freshwater snail Semisulcospira libertina	3
First and oldest record of Seebachia bronni, type species of Seebachia (Bivalvia: Astartidae), from the late Tithonian (Jurassic) of Kutch, India, and its palaeobiogeographic and evoluti	3
Long-term relationships between the abundance of pest molluscs and weather in agricultural fields in South Australia	3
Geographic differences in the diet and isotopic niche of Octopus hubbsorum (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) in the Mexican Pacific	3
Comparative analysis of three families of hygrophilid snails shows that the egg mass fluid protein haemocyanin-like 1 (Hcl-1) is unique to planorbids	3
Long-term fluctuations and recent decline of mussel populations in an Irish sea lough	3
Portraits of Galeommatoidea	3
First record of bipedal locomotion in Callistoctopus furvus	3
Effect of culture depth on the shell thickness of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis: a practical case study comparing direct and indirect methods of measurement	3
Very short mountings are enough for sperm transfer inLittorina saxatilis	2
A forgotten subspecies of the land snail speciesArianta arbustorumfrom a Pleistocene refuge in the Western Alps	2
Mitogenomic phylogeny of Nassariidae (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea)	2
Bivalves 2023—Where are we going? An overview of an international meeting	2
Population genetics and conservation of recently discovered springsnails in Arizona	2
Kleptoplasts are continuously digested during feeding in the plastid-bearing sea slug Elysia viridis	2
Richness, abundance and spatial heterogeneity of gastropods and bivalves in coral ecosystems across the Mexican Tropical Pacific	2
A ‘big data’ approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species	2
Phylogenetic position of the deep-sea snail family Haloceratidae and new insights into caenogastropod relationships	2
Insight into the adaptive evolution of mitochondrial genomes in intertidal chitons	2
Light and shade of citizen science for less charismatic invertebrate groups: quality assessment of iNaturalist nonmarine mollusc observations in central Italy	2
Host attraction behaviour: the red exhalent aperture extension of the Neotropical freshwater mussel Castalia ambigua	2
Using two- and three-dimensional landmark data to examine the shape variation of Elliptio complanata from two heavily impounded rivers in northern New York (USA)	2
Shedding light on a species complex within the genus Goniodoridella Pruvot-Fol, 1933 (Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae), with the description of three new species	2
More than meets the eye: characterizing the cryptic species complex and Symbiodiniaceae communities in the reef-dwelling nudibranch Pteraeolidia ‘semperi’ (Nudibranchia: Aeolidioidea) fr	1
Biomineralization and biomechanical trade-offs under heterogeneous environments in the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica	1
Parents living in water, embryos developing in air: respiratory adaptations to use both environments in the freshwater gastropod Pomacea figulina (Gastropoda, Ampullariidae)	1
Ancestral morphology and taxonomic utility of squid statoliths (Cephalopoda: Loliginidae)	1
Exceptional among the exceptional: a new species of Stenogyropsis Möllendorff, 1899 (Eupulmonata: Camaenidae), with a review of the free last whorl in terrestrial gastropods	1
The faecal microbiome of the Pacific banana slug, Ariolimax columbianus, displays seasonal variation	1
Mating roles, copulation duration and reproductive output in the hermaphroditic freshwater snail Planorbella trivolvis	1
Erratum	1
Tightening the girdle: phylotranscriptomics of Polyplacophora	1
Generic revision of the Recent Turridae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea)	1
A preliminary investigation of the response ofOctopus vulgaristo experimental stimuli in the wild	1
The mitogenome of the sunken wood limpetNotocrater youngi: insights into mitogenome evolution in Lepetellida (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda)	1
Dwarf males of the seven-arm octopus,Haliphron atlanticus:morphology and adaptations	1
Development observed in the field of the Antarctic bivalve mollusc Aequiyoldia eightsii at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands	1
Capture of conspecific planktonic larvae by the suspension-feeding gastropodCrepipatella peruviana: association between adult and larval size	1
Population dynamics of Ruditapes philippinarum (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) after the major ecological crisis of 2018 of the Berre lagoon, southern France	1
Statocyst content in Aeolidida (Nudibranchia) is an uninformative character for phylogenetic studies	1

Towards automatic detection and classification of swimming pectinids behaviour: first developments on great scallops (Pecten maximus)	1
Transcriptomic analysis identifies candidate genes for shell colour formation in the Venus clamCyclina sinensis	1
When a genus must become two: resurrection of Pelagella Gray, 1850 with the description of six new species	1
Is there more than one species in the genusSpirula(Cephalopoda: Decabrachia): evidence for an Atlantic–Pacific divide	1
Insights into sex-related size and shape dimorphism in Semisulcospira niponica (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea: Semisulcospiridae)	1
Stable oxygen isotopes reveal different thermal regimes during the Early Pliocene in the southern North Sea Basin: a multi-species approach	1
Testing for allocation strategies and evolutionary tradeoffs in the bivalve shell	1
Integrating morphological and genetic data at different climate and geographic scales in an endangered freshwater musselUnio durieui(Bivalvia: Unionidae) endemic to northern Tunisia	1
Holocene molluscan successions from southeastern Spain (Galera, Andalusia): a palaeoenvironmental framework and a palaeobiogeographic resource of the Granada UNESCO Geopark	1
Substrate specificity of phenoloxidase-like activity in an ecoimmunological model speciesLymnaea stagnalis	1
A method of culturing and breeding slugs through several generations	1
Molecular delimitation of cryptic Australian squid species of the genus Uroteuthis Rehder, 1945 (Cephalopoda: Loliginidae), provides a baseline of diversity to resolve classification challenges	1
Predatory suspension feeders: an unusual feeding mode switch in Olivella columellaris (Caenogastropoda: Olividae) and its possible ecological effects	1
Genetic analysis is compatible with recent human-mediated range expansion of Filopaludina from India into the Mesopotamian Plain	1