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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Three new cymbelloid species in the genera Cymbella , Cymbopleura and Delicatophycus from the mineral sprin	117
Morphological variability and genetic marker stability of 16 monoclonal pennate diatom strains under medium-term culture	8
Plate tectonics, long-distance dispersals and chance introductions can explain many trans-Pacific disjunctions	7
Valve and ‘Stigma’ Structure and Phylogeny of an Enigmatic Cymbelloid DiatomKarthickia verestigmataGlushchenko, Kulikovskiy & Kociolek	7
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
Morphology of Amphora lunulata A.H. Wachnicka & E.E. Gaiser and its transfer to Seminavis D.G. Mann	6
Introduction: papers for ‘Progress in diatom biogeography’	5
Four newOrthoseiraThwaites species from Maui, Hawaii, and the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon, with comments on frustular morphology in the genus	4
The type species of the diatom genus Chaetoceros	4
Filling reference libraries with diatom environmental sequences: strengths and weaknesses	4
Paralia flatoniana sp. nov., a new species from the late Eocene of Texas with discussion on ecology and initial valves	4
Phylogeny of Actinella punctata (Bacilllariophyta) and comments on the taxonomy of the family Eunotiaceae	4
The diatom flora of the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia: Centrobacillariophycidae – inventory and description of five new taxa including Praecyclostephanos gen. nov.	4
New taxa of the Rhaphoneidaceae Forti (Bacillariophyta) from the middle Eocene	4
Reinstatement of the genus Coenobiodiscus for the distinctive colonial diatom Planktoniella muriformis (Bacillariophyta)	4
Liuyania gen. nov. – a new freshwater diatom genus described from Lake Baikal	4
Diatoms.org: supporting taxonomists, connecting communities	3
Diversity of the genusOrthoseiraThwaites (Bacillariophyceae) from Southeast Asia and Rapa Nui Island with descriptions of four new taxa	3
Entomoneis grisslehamnensis, a New Diatom (Bacillariophyceae) from the Baltic Coast of Sweden with taxonomic and ecological notes on Entomoneis paludosa (W. Smith) Reimer	2
The conspecificity of Aulacoseira konstantinovii and Praecyclostephanos boengchhmariensis with comments on the genus Praecy	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
Gomphotheca marciae (Bacillariophyceae: Bacillariaceae), a new species in a rarely seen genus	2
Determination of water quality and trophic level by using epilithic diatoms in Büyükçekmece Reservoir	2
A new fossil species of Rhopalodia O. Müller (Bacillariophyceae, Rhopalodiales) from Mexico	2

Diatom assemblages from an Eemian palaeolake in Northern Europe with morphological observations of rare Aulacoseira sp. resting spores	2
Stauroneis terryi D.B. Ward ex T.C. Palmer: a forgotten diatom from northeastern North America	2
Davidharwoodia megaspina gen. et sp. nov. (Corethrales), a new fossil marine diatom genus from Mors, Jutland (early Eocene)	2
Studies on type material from Kützing’s diatom collection VIII. Species assigned to the genera Epithemia Brébisson ex Kützing and Rhopalodia	2
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Amphora baotuensis sp. nov., a new freshwater benthic diatom from a karst spring in China	2
A note on the two species of Ulnaria (Bacillariophyta) first described in the Erbario Crittogamico Italiano (1858–1885)	2