OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Molluscan Studies 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A ‘big data’ approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species	71
Effects of water temperature on glochidium viability of Unio crassus and Sinanodonta woodiana: implications for conservation, management and captive breeding	17
Light and shade of citizen science for less charismatic invertebrate groups: quality assessment of iNaturalist nonmarine mollusc observations in central Italy	15
A ‘big data’ approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species	14
Differentiation of European invasive clams of the genusCorbicula(Cyrenidae) using shell shape analysis	12
Levels and distribution of tetrodotoxin in the blue-lined octopusHapalochlaena fasciatain Japan, with special reference to within-body allocation	11
Radula packing and storage facilitated by tooth morphology in selected taenioglossan Gastropoda	10
Interspecific competition among terrestrial slugs	10
Community succession in phototrophic shell-degrading endoliths attacking intertidal mussels	9
Insights into sex-related size and shape dimorphism in Semisulcospira niponica (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea: Semisulcospiridae)	8
New observations on the corallivorous nudibranchPhestilla melanobrachia: morphology, dietary spectrum and early development	7
Tightening the girdle: phylotranscriptomics of Polyplacophora	7
Low abundance but high land snail diversity in montane rainforest on the western slope of the Andes in Ecuador	7
Assessing the systematics of Tylodinidae in the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Atlantic Ocean: resurrectingTylodina rafinesquiiPhilippi, 1836 (Heterobranchia: Umbraculida)	7
Preliminary evidence of fluorescence in Mediterranean heterobranchs	6
The mitogenome of the sunken wood limpetNotocrater youngi: insights into mitogenome evolution in Lepetellida (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda)	6
Plasticity in reproductive traits of an intertidal rocky shore chiton (Polyplacophora: Chitonida) under pre-ENSO and ENSO events	6
Marking the shells of juvenile and adult eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica, with the fluorochrome dye calcein and measuring growth and mortality after marking	6
The genusJorunna(Nudibranchia: Discodorididae) in Europe: a new species and a possible case of incipient speciation	6
Insight into the adaptive evolution of mitochondrial genomes in intertidal chitons	5
Phylogenetic relationship and habitat both impact the gut microbiome in two microendemic gastropods	5
Phylogenetic position of the deep-sea snail family Haloceratidae and new insights into caenogastropod relationships	5
A preliminary investigation of the response ofOctopus vulgaristo experimental stimuli in the wild	5
Prey utilization by Neptunea arthritica (Caenogastropoda: Buccinidae): predation on gastropods and size-related variation	5
Behavioural responses of Anodonta anatina and Unio pictorum to temperature and algal concentration	4

Kleptoplasts are continuously digested during feeding in the plastid-bearing sea slug Elysia viridis	4
Response of optic gland pathways to thermal stress in the reproductive phase of female Octopus maya	4
Taxonomic revision and conservation assessment of the Southeast Asian freshwater mussel genusChamberlainiaSimpson, 1900	4
A new species of Sakuraeolis from Mozambique, described using 3D reconstruction of anatomy and phylogenetic analysis	4
Richness, abundance and spatial heterogeneity of gastropods and bivalves in coral ecosystems across the Mexican Tropical Pacific	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
The neglected operculum: a revision of the opercular characters in river snails (Caenogastropoda: Viviparidae)	3
Phylogeny and biogeography of extant and extinct Fusulus (Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae)	3
Closing the gap: a new phylogeny and classification of the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae with molecular evidence for 73% of living genera	3
Trophic ecology of the Hubb's octopus Octopus hubbsorum (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) in the central Mexican Pacific	3
Host attraction behaviour: the red exhalent aperture extension of the Neotropical freshwater mussel Castalia ambigua	3
Molecular and morphological evidence for a unified, inclusiveSinotaia quadrata(Caenogastropoda: Viviparidae: Bellamyinae)	3
The shell phenotypic variability of the keyhole limpetFissurella latimarginata: insights from an experimental approach using a water flow flume	3
Assessing the morphological impacts of long-term harvesting in intertidal gastropods using historical data and morphometric tools	3
Is there more than one species in the genusSpirula(Cephalopoda: Decabrachia): evidence for an Atlantic–Pacific divide	3
When a genus must become two: resurrection of Pelagella Gray, 1850 with the description of six new species	3
Transitional spherulitic layer in the muricidNucella lapillus	3
Characterization of the hidden break in giant clam 28S ribosomal RNA	3
Assessment of spatiotemporal variability of giant clam populations (Cardiidae:Tridacna) from 11 years of monitoring at Koh Tao, Thailand	3
Regulation of mucosal lectins in the oyster Crassostrea virginica in response to food availability and environmental factors	3
Predicted changes in temperature, more than acidification, affect the shell morphology and survival of the girdled dogwhelk,Trochia cingulata(Linnaeus, 1771)	3
Interactions between the land snails Theba pisana and Cernuella virgata in the laboratory	3
Exceptional among the exceptional: a new species of Stenogyropsis Möllendorff, 1899 (Eupulmonata: Camaenidae), with a review of the free last whorl in terrestrial gastropods	3
Sexual dimorphism in the East Asian freshwater snail Semisulcospira libertina	3