OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Molluscan Studies is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Revision of the British Lower Jurassic Astartinae (Bivalvia)	11
The mitochondrial genome ofIsognomon nucleusand mitogenomics of pteriomorphia (Bivalvia: Autobranchia)	10
Genetic evidence for multiple mating and mixing of sperm from multiple males in the seminal receptacles of female Japanese flying squid (Todarodes pacificus)	9
Overlooked shell features: asymmetrical columellar folds in volutid gastropods	9
Geographic differences in the diet and isotopic niche of Octopus hubbsorum (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) in the Mexican Pacific	8
Mitogenomic phylogeny of Nassariidae (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea)	7
Phylogeny and biogeography of the mountain semi-slugs genus Microparmarion (Gastropoda: Ariophantidae) in northern Borneo	7
Molluscan genome assemblies—problems and progress	7
More than meets the eye: characterizing the cryptic species complex and Symbiodiniaceae communities in the reef-dwelling nudibranch Pteraeolidia ‘semperi’ (Nudibranchia: Aeolidioidea) fr	7
Sexual dimorphism and geographic polymorphism in Raphitoma purpurea (Neogastropoda: Raphitomidae)	7
Contrasting body sizes in Nerita yoldii living on shores with different salinity regimes in South China	7
Transcriptomic landscape of the kleptoplastic sea slug Elysia viridis	5
Seven new species of Macellomeniidae Salvini-Plawen, 1978 (Mollusca: Solenogastres) from the North Atlantic	5
On reproduction in the Pacific boreal limpet Erginus (Problacmaea) puniceus Lindberg, 1988 (Patellogastropoda: Rhodopetalidae)	5
Shell drilling and gonad biopsies provide a rapid, nonlethal method for in situ assessment of reproductive periodicity in a turbinid gastropod	5
Scale and spicule morphogenesis in the Chitonida and the phylogenetic relationships in aculiferan molluscs	5
Environmental drivers and larval dynamics of Limnoperna fortunei (Dunker, 1857) in a Neotropical floodplain: towards a conceptual model for distribution	5
Congruence in annual energy input into reproduction in siphonariid limpets with planktonic and direct development	4
Morphology and systematic position of Shaninopsis Isberg, 1934 (Bivalvia: Cryptodonta), from the Boda Limestone (Upper Ordovician), Sweden	4
Closing the gap: a new phylogeny and classification of the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae with molecular evidence for 73% of living genera	4
The intertidal periwinkle Littorina littorea actively chooses endolith-infested mussel beds as thermally benign habitats under extreme heatwave condition	4
Highly biased sex ratios in the twelve species of the freshwater snail genus Semisulcospira in and around Lake Biwa	4
Reproductive activity of an androdioecious population of clams of the genus Corbicula	4
Estimating a length-at-age relationship for an invasive bivalve with density-determined plastic growth	4
Reproductive cycle, fecundity and growth of the freshwater mussel Unio tumidus (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from Lake Viinijärvi, Finland	4

Reassessment of phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of extant Argopecten Monterosato, 1889 species in the Eastern Pacific	4
A window into the effect of ocean acidification on molluscan larval shell development using a quantitative approach	3
Microbial communities associated with endangered West Texas springsnails and their potential roles in conservation	3
Modiolaria bourailensis T.D.A. Cockerell, 1929 is a New Caledonia endemic Arcuatula (Bivalvia: Mytilidae)	3
A confocal microscopy study of the gross morphology and musculature of the copulatory apparatus in Baikalian acroloxids (Mollusca: Hygrophila)	3
Starvation and dormancy in marine gastropods: taxonomic and ecological patterns, and energetic implications	3
First endoparasitic eulimid from Ophiuroidea and its implications for the ecological diversification of the family (Caenogastropoda: Vanikoroidea)	3
Population size and movement ecology of intertidal gastropods on rocky shores and seawalls in Singapore	3
Morphological and molecular analyses reveal an overlooked species within ‘ Siphonaria japonica (Donovan, 1824)’ (Gastropoda: Siphonariidae) in Korea	3
Genetic diversity, demography and connectivity in the marine snail Thaisella chocolata (Duclos, 1832): implications for sustainable fisheries management along the Peruvian coast	3
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)	3
The effect of sampling protocol on spatial patterns in marine bivalve diversity along the eastern coast of India	3
Long-term fluctuations and recent decline of mussel populations in an Irish sea lough	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	2
Land snail assemblages along altitudinal gradients on Mount Semeru, the highest montane forest in Java, Indonesia	2
Molluscs and Mollicutes: evidence of codiversification	2
Yunfuconcha new genus, a possible stem-archiheterodont bivalve from the Ordovician of Guangdong, South China	2
Ambigolimax, Lehmannia and other limacid slugs (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora); what their DNA tells us about phylogeny, taxonomy and phylogeography	2
Dwarf males of the seven-arm octopus,Haliphron atlanticus:morphology and adaptations	2
Towards automatic detection and classification of swimming pectinids behaviour: first developments on great scallops (Pecten maximus)	2
Guardians of the clams: a decadal monitoring effort of endangered giant clams by citizen scientists	2
Ecrobia ventrosa (Montagu, 1803) (Truncatelloidea: Hydrobiidae) in the interior of Central Germany: identification and faunal history	2
Long-term relationships between the abundance of pest molluscs and weather in agricultural fields in South Australia	2
Stress tolerance in neonates of two Pomacea apple snails with contrasting invasive histories	2
Egg production in Arion vulgaris: density dependence in A. vulgaris and interspecific effects of Limax maximus	2
An observation confirming the geographic distribution of Noah’s giant clam Tridacna noae includes the Great Barrier Reef of Australia	2
Testing for allocation strategies and evolutionary tradeoffs in the bivalve shell	2
Wnt activation causes shell malformation in lymnaeoidean gastropods	2
Under-documented micro species and the end of Carolinian endemism: bivalves of the Waccamaw Formation (basal Pleistocene, S.E. USA)	2
Unravelling morphological overlap of the rock-dwelling snails Pyramidula saxatilis (Hartmann, 1842) and P. pusilla (Vallot, 1801)	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
Identity of the enigmatic oyster Saccostrea cuccullata (Bivalvia: Ostreidae)	2
Portraits of Galeommatoidea	2
DNA sequence data, multispecies coalescent and morphometrics shed new light on the systematics of Iberian islamiinae springsnails (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae)	2
Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the living Pleurotomariidae (Vetigastropoda), with the description of a new genus	2
Genetic analysis is compatible with recent human-mediated range expansion of Filopaludina from India into the Mesopotamian Plain	2
Size at maturity is spatially and temporally modulated by thermal phases in an intertidal mollusc of fisheries interest	2
Evolution of ammoniacal buoyancy within oegopsid squids and its relationship with depth	2
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	2