OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Diatom Research 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Morphological variability and genetic marker stability of 16 monoclonal pennate diatom strains under medium-term culture	149
Three new cymbelloid species in the genera Cymbella , Cymbopleura and Delicatophycus from the mineral sprin	8
Plate tectonics, long-distance dispersals and chance introductions can explain many trans-Pacific disjunctions	7
Morphology of Amphora lunulata A.H. Wachnicka & E.E. Gaiser and its transfer to Seminavis D.G. Mann	6
Cyclotella (Bacillariophyceae) species present in sediments dating to Marine Isotope Stage 5 from Lake Chalco, central Mexico, with special reference to two new species: Cyclotella poyeka	6
Paralia flatoniana sp. nov., a new species from the late Eocene of Texas with discussion on ecology and initial valves	5
Valve and ‘Stigma’ Structure and Phylogeny of an Enigmatic Cymbelloid DiatomKarthickia verestigmataGlushchenko, Kulikovskiy & Kociolek	5
Four newOrthoseiraThwaites species from Maui, Hawaii, and the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon, with comments on frustular morphology in the genus	5
Introduction: papers for ‘Progress in diatom biogeography’	5
Phylogeny of Actinella punctata (Bacilllariophyta) and comments on the taxonomy of the family Eunotiaceae	4
The type species of the diatom genus Chaetoceros	4
New taxa of the Rhaphoneidaceae Forti (Bacillariophyta) from the middle Eocene	4
A new species of Climaconeis Grunow (Bacillariophyceae: Bacillariophyta): Climaconeis heteropolaris sp. nov. from the southwestern coast o	4
Filling reference libraries with diatom environmental sequences: strengths and weaknesses	3
A new fossil species of Rhopalodia O. Müller (Bacillariophyceae, Rhopalodiales) from Mexico	3
Diatoms.org: supporting taxonomists, connecting communities	3
Notes on the type specimens of Palmerina hardmaniana (Greville) Hasle [= Palmeria hardmaniana Greville], with comments on its relationship	3
Diversity of the genusOrthoseiraThwaites (Bacillariophyceae) from Southeast Asia and Rapa Nui Island with descriptions of four new taxa	3
Reinstatement of the genus Coenobiodiscus for the distinctive colonial diatom Planktoniella muriformis (Bacillariophyta)	3
Liuyania gen. nov. – a new freshwater diatom genus described from Lake Baikal	3
Gomphotheca marciae (Bacillariophyceae: Bacillariaceae), a new species in a rarely seen genus	3
Tropical South America Diatom Database: a tool for studying the macroecology of microorganisms	2
Determination of water quality and trophic level by using epilithic diatoms in Büyükçekmece Reservoir	2
Stauroneis terryi D.B. Ward ex T.C. Palmer: a forgotten diatom from northeastern North America	2
Winter diatom assemblage composition to track shrinking seasonal sea ice cover in a coastal subarctic bay (Quebec, Canada)	2

Morphological and molecular characterization of two potentially toxigenic species of the genus Pseudo-nitzschia (Bacillariophyceae) in Luzon Island, Philippines	2
Moss-associated diatoms from Malaysian montane cloud forest with a description of two new species	2
Davidharwoodia megaspina gen. et sp. nov. (Corethrales), a new fossil marine diatom genus from Mors, Jutland (early Eocene)	2
The conspecificity of Aulacoseira konstantinovii and Praecyclostephanos boengchhmariensis with comments on the genus Praecy	2
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Amphora baotuensis sp. nov., a new freshwater benthic diatom from a karst spring in China	2
Diatom assemblages from an Eemian palaeolake in Northern Europe with morphological observations of rare Aulacoseira sp. resting spores	2
Morphology, phylogeny and chloroplast genome of Liparogyra sinensis sp. nov. (Liparogyraceae), a new species from Yunnan, China	2
Entomoneis grisslehamnensis, a New Diatom (Bacillariophyceae) from the Baltic Coast of Sweden with taxonomic and ecological notes on Entomoneis paludosa (W. Smith) Reimer	2
Studies on type material from Kützing’s diatom collection VIII. Species assigned to the genera Epithemia Brébisson ex Kützing and Rhopalodia	2
Updated distribution of the diatom Didymosphenia geminata (Lyngbye) Schmidt in Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia	2
Systematic reappraisal of the diminutive Amphora thumensis and the transfer of Halamphora parathumensis to the genus Amphor	2