OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Molluscan Studies is 4. 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
A ‘big data’ approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species	60
Effects of water temperature on glochidium viability of Unio crassus and Sinanodonta woodiana: implications for conservation, management and captive breeding	13
Light and shade of citizen science for less charismatic invertebrate groups: quality assessment of iNaturalist nonmarine mollusc observations in central Italy	11
Stable hooks: biomechanics of heteromorph ammonoids with U-shaped body chambers	11
A ‘big data’ approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species	11
Digestive gland microbiome of Pleurobema cordatum: mesocosms induce dysbiosis	10
Levels and distribution of tetrodotoxin in the blue-lined octopusHapalochlaena fasciatain Japan, with special reference to within-body allocation	10
Indication of interference competition between the EU-protected Kerry slug Geomalacus maculosus and the native tree slug Lehmannia marginata in Ireland	9
Assessing the diet of octopuses: traditional techniques and the stable isotopes approach	9
Genetic evidence illuminates the origin and global spread of the slug Deroceras invadens	8
Radula packing and storage facilitated by tooth morphology in selected taenioglossan Gastropoda	8
Differentiation of European invasive clams of the genus Corbicula (Cyrenidae) using shell shape analysis	8
Interspecific competition among terrestrial slugs	8
In vivo magnetic resonance imaging to assess the sexual maturity of the endangered limpet Patella ferruginea	8
New observations on the corallivorous nudibranchPhestilla melanobrachia: morphology, dietary spectrum and early development	7
Disappearing apple snails (Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae) of Thailand: a comprehensive update of their taxonomic status and distribution	7
Community succession in phototrophic shell-degrading endoliths attacking intertidal mussels	7
First record of striking sexual dimorphism in two terrestrial caenogastropods	7
Full stomachs at empty tides: tidal cycle affects feeding activity and diet of the sandy beach gastropod Olivella minuta	7
Systematic revision of the Indo-West Pacific mangrove-associated snails of the genus Bakawan (Cephalaspidea: Haminoeidae)	6
The genusJorunna(Nudibranchia: Discodorididae) in Europe: a new species and a possible case of incipient speciation	6
Assessing the systematics of Tylodinidae in the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Atlantic Ocean: resurrectingTylodina rafinesquiiPhilippi, 1836 (Heterobranchia: Umbraculida)	6
Tightening the girdle: phylotranscriptomics of Polyplacophora	6
Phylogenetic relationship and habitat both impact the gut microbiome in two microendemic gastropods	5
Evidence for stage-based larval vulnerability and resilience to acidification in Crassostrea virginica	5

The complete mitochondrial genomes of four Baikal molluscs from the endemic family Baicaliidae (Caenogastropoda: Truncatelloida)	5
The mitogenome of the sunken wood limpetNotocrater youngi: insights into mitogenome evolution in Lepetellida (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda)	5
Low abundance but high land snail diversity in montane rainforest on the western slope of the Andes in Ecuador	5
Phylogenetic position of the deep-sea snail family Haloceratidae and new insights into caenogastropod relationships	5
Plasticity in reproductive traits of an intertidal rocky shore chiton (Polyplacophora: Chitonida) under pre-ENSO and ENSO events	4
Insights into sex-related size and shape dimorphism in Semisulcospira niponica (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea: Semisulcospiridae)	4
A new species of Sakuraeolis from Mozambique, described using 3D reconstruction of anatomy and phylogenetic analysis	4
First insight into the whole genome shotgun sequence of the endangered noble pen shell Pinna nobilis: a giant bivalve undergoing a mass mortality event	4
Detection of hybrid Pyganodon grandis and P. lacustris (Bivalvia: Unionidae) using F- and M-type mitochondrial DNA sequences and geometric morphometrics	4
High cryptic diversity in the kleptoparasitic genus Hyalorisia Dall, 1889 (Littorinimorpha: Capulidae) with the description of nine new species from the Indo-West Pacific	4
Feeding and digestion periodicity of Manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum in natural intertidal and subtidal zones estimated from the morphological condition of the crystalline style	4
Preliminary evidence of fluorescence in Mediterranean heterobranchs	4
A preliminary investigation of the response ofOctopus vulgaristo experimental stimuli in the wild	4
Insight into the adaptive evolution of mitochondrial genomes in intertidal chitons	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