OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Freshwater Ecology 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Distribution pattern of the Zebra Mussel ( Dreissena polymorpha ) in White Bear Lake, Minnesota: a spatial scale analysis	23
Optimization of the Korean river macroinvertebrate prediction and assessment System (KRIMPAS) for the biological assessment of rivers	17
Factors associated with extirpation of the last Northern Sunfish ( Lepomis peltastes Cope, 1870) population in western New York State, USA	15
Water environment quality of Dongyu River and estuary area of Nansi lake (Shandong Province, China) based on the characteristics of diatom community	13
Ecological benefits of consistent expression of posterolateral spines in Brachionus calyciflorus	13
Modelling the effect of tourism disturbance on hatching rate of the Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) by using artificial neural network	12
Chloride and phosphorus retention and release in soils surrounding a salt-contaminated lake in West Michigan	9
Study on the quality and symbiotic microbial composition of Artemia nauplii in three main producing areas	8
The effect of physicochemical parameters on the abundance of zooplankton of River Adada, Enugu, Nigeria	8
eDNA metabarcoding revealed the seasonal and spatial variation of phytoplankton functional groups in the Chai river and their relationship with environmental factors	8
Modeling accumulated degree-days for the invasive aquatic plant Oxycaryum cubense in the southeastern United States	8
Status of phytoplankton biomass and physico-chemical parameters of water during fish cage culture fallowing: a case study of Southeast Arm of Lake Malawi	7
Hyporheic exchange due to in-stream geomorphic structures	6
Zooplankton community and its environmental driving factors in Ulungur Lake, China	6
Community structure and diversity of plankton and fish in the Dazhangxi River	6
Evaluating the potential role of predation by native fish regulating the abundance of invasive spiny water flea	6
Research of characteristics of spatial and temporal variations of CH ₄ emission at the water-gas interface of the Inner Mongolia section of the Yellow River and its	5
Study on the effect of water level on phenotypic plasticity of Artemisia selengensis	5
Seasonal variation of fatty acid compositions in freshwater crayfish ( Pontastacus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823)	5
Effects of drawdown on growth and reproduction of submerged macrophyte Vallisneria spinulosa	4
Enrichment and geo-accumulation of trace and heavy metals in surface sediments along urbanised Austral wetlands	4
Bosmina fatalis adapting to ammonia through oxidative stress and ribosome increase	4
Zooplankton as ecosystem indicators and their effects on eutrophication in Lake Arekit (Ethiopia) – implication for freshwater habitat management	4
Predicting phytoplankton assemblages growth and estimating critical N: P ratios with experimental nutrient additions in a drinking water reservoir of central China	3
Comparison of three functional classification approaches to characterize phytoplankton response to environmental heterogeneity: a case study in NE China wetlands	3

Dietary comparison of age-0 sturgeon ( Scaphirhynchus sp. ) between upper and lower Missouri River basins	3
Taxonomic and functional groups of phytoplankton in the Northern Gulf of Lake Tana, Ethiopia	3
Fluorescence spectral characteristics of DOM and its effects on the bacterial community structure in Bosten Lake, China	3
Testing the effect of the submerged macrophyte Ceratophyllum demersum (L.) on heterotrophic bacterioplankton densities under different levels of nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in shallo	3
Ecological niche modeling of diploid flowering rush ( Butomus umbellatus L.) in the United States	3
Hatch timing of largemouth bass: implications for recruitment at the Northern edge of their native range	3
Combined effects of temperature and algal density on the life history characteristics in Brachionus angularis and Keratella Valga	3
Spatial-temporal variation of the ecosystem services value (ESV) in the Yellow River Delta wetland and its response to land use/land cover changes (lu/lc)	3
Flow discharge impacts competition for food and shelter between two overlapping species of crayfish	3
Composition of epilithic diatom and soft-algal assemblages in infralittoral zones of Tennessee reservoirs and correlations of composition to trophic state	3
Effects of water level changes on the morphological and physiology of the submerged macrophyte Vallisneria natans	2
Effect of sewerage development on water quality and invertebrate assemblages in a Japanese river over the long term	2
Astacus leptodactylus is collecting microplastics in dam reservoir: a new record for Türkiye	2
Differential photosynthetic yield across a wide range of temperatures for Northern and invasive Watermilfoils	2
Deterministic niche dynamics drive zooplankton community assembly in megacity river networks: biotic interactions outweigh environmental filtering in winter	2
Groundwater impacts on stream biodiversity and communities: a review	2
Taxon-specific effects of seasonal variation and water connectivity on the diversity of phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthic organisms in urban wetland	2
Long-term changes in unionid community in Kentucky Lake: Implications for understanding the effects of impoundment on river systems	2
Assessment of exurban expansion on water quality in Rock Creek of the Yellowstone River in southcentral Montana, USA	2
Lake regime evaluation based on similarity evaluation method, taking Poyang Lake as an example	2
Role of environmental variables and seasonal mixing in dynamics of the phytoplankton community in a Tropical Highland Lake Ardibo, Ethiopia	2
Environmental DNA metabarcoding for whole community inventories of vertebrates in rivers of the midwestern United States	2
Differential response patterns of soil fungal and bacterial communities to typical vegetation types in the Yellow River floodplain ecosystem	2
Invasive Round goby Neogobius melanostomus distribution, relative abundance, and establishment in pools of the Illinois Waterway following 30 years of invasion	2
Population dynamics of non-native Yellow Bass in Iowa’s natural lakes region	2
Potential vulnerability of black bullheads to multiple predators in small impoundments: implications for biological control	2