OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Freshwater Ecology 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Factors associated with extirpation of the last Northern Sunfish ( Lepomis peltastes Cope, 1870) population in western New York State, USA	26
Optimization of the Korean river macroinvertebrate prediction and assessment System (KRIMPAS) for the biological assessment of rivers	15
Distribution pattern of the Zebra Mussel ( Dreissena polymorpha ) in White Bear Lake, Minnesota: a spatial scale analysis	12
Reversal interaction of water temperature and Roundup® pollution on the survival and reproduction of Chaetogaster Limnaei Limnaei , symbiont of	11
Larval fish can be a freshwater mussel host	11
Heavy rainfall alters the underwater light-environment characteristics in typical urban lakes: evidence from Qingshan Lake in the middle Yangtze River	10
Correction	9
Water environment quality of Dongyu River and estuary area of Nansi lake (Shandong Province, China) based on the characteristics of diatom community	9
Modelling the effect of tourism disturbance on hatching rate of the Chinese giant salamander ( Andrias davidianus ) by using artificial neural network	9
Chloride and phosphorus retention and release in soils surrounding a salt-contaminated lake in West Michigan	9
Modeling accumulated degree-days for the invasive aquatic plant Oxycaryum cubense in the southeastern United States	9
Disturbance is the primary determinant of food chain length when the top predator is constant	8
Morphology and ecological studies of the Chlorophyta in relation with water quality parameters of the Dor River Abbottabad, Pakistan	8
Evaluating the potential role of predation by native fish regulating the abundance of invasive spiny water flea	8
Zooplankton community and its environmental driving factors in Ulungur Lake, China	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	8
Study on the quality and symbiotic microbial composition of Artemia nauplii in three main producing areas	8
eDNA metabarcoding revealed the seasonal and spatial variation of phytoplankton functional groups in the Chai river and their relationship with environmental factors	8
Diversity and abundance of zooplankton in the Omo Gibe III Reservoir, Southern Ethiopia	6
Study on the effect of water level on phenotypic plasticity of Artemisia selengensis	6
Community structure and diversity of plankton and fish in the Dazhangxi River	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 Yello	6
Zooplankton as ecosystem indicators and their effects on eutrophication in Lake Arekit (Ethiopia) – implication for freshwater habitat management	5
Suspended particulates decline along a dense mussel bed in a small Minnesota stream, U.S.A.	5
Evaluating eDNA metabarcoding for fish biodiversity assessment in Nigerian aquatic ecosystems: potential, limitations, and comparisons with traditional methods	5

Seasonal variation of fatty acid compositions in freshwater crayfish ( Pontastacus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823)	5
Invasive water lettuce ( Pistia Stratiotes ) increase CO ₂ /CH ₄	5
Disentangling small dam impacts: macroinvertebrate metrics reveal local stressors in degraded agricultural streams	5
Enrichment and geo-accumulation of trace and heavy metals in surface sediments along urbanised Austral wetlands	5
Occurrence and seasonal variations of heavy metal (loid)s in lake case: effects of climate and water source perspectives	5
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)	4
Combined effects of temperature and algal density on the life history characteristics in Brachionus angularis and Keratella Valga	4
Ecological niche modeling of diploid flowering rush ( Butomus umbellatus L.) in the United States	4
Flow discharge impacts competition for food and shelter between two overlapping species of crayfish	4
Predicting phytoplankton assemblages growth and estimating critical N: P ratios with experimental nutrient additions in a drinking water reservoir of central China	4
Testing the effect of the submerged macrophyte Ceratophyllum demersum (L.) on heterotrophic bacterioplankton densities under different levels of nitrogen and phosphorus	4
Dietary comparison of age-0 sturgeon ( Scaphirhynchus sp. ) between upper and lower Missouri River basins	4
Composition of epilithic diatom and soft-algal assemblages in infralittoral zones of Tennessee reservoirs and correlations of composition to trophic state	4
Fluorescence spectral characteristics of DOM and its effects on the bacterial community structure in Bosten Lake, China	4
The impact of the unharvested reeds on the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles in Lake Dongting	4
Differences in habitat suitability for Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) according to survey method using probability distribution models	4
Spatial dietary differentiation and trophic variation in Gymnocypris chilianensis across three watersheds of the Hexi Corridor	4
Contrasting responses of Arctic charr and brown trout to compensatory nutrient enrichment in an oligotrophicated reservoir	4
Lake health-status evaluation in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River based on the phytoplankton biological integrity index	3
Effect of sewerage development on water quality and invertebrate assemblages in a Japanese river over the long term	3
Population dynamics of non-native Yellow Bass in Iowa’s natural lakes region	3
Taxonomic and functional groups of phytoplankton in the Northern Gulf of Lake Tana, Ethiopia	3
Environmental DNA metabarcoding for whole community inventories of vertebrates in rivers of the midwestern United States	3
Differential response patterns of soil fungal and bacterial communities to typical vegetation types in the Yellow River floodplain ecosystem	3
Relationships between larval fish drift, time of day and discharge in an Ozark stream	3
Assessment of exurban expansion on water quality in Rock Creek of the Yellowstone River in southcentral Montana, USA	3
Invasive Round goby Neogobius melanostomus distribution, relative abundance, and establishment in pools of the Illinois Waterway following 30 years of invasion	3
Groundwater impacts on stream biodiversity and communities: a review	3
Effects of water level changes on the morphological and physiology of the submerged macrophyte Vallisneria natans	3
Taxon-specific effects of seasonal variation and water connectivity on the diversity of phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthic organisms in urban wetland	3
Hatch timing of largemouth bass: implications for recruitment at the Northern edge of their native range	3
Role of environmental variables and seasonal mixing in dynamics of the phytoplankton community in a Tropical Highland Lake Ardibo, Ethiopia	3
Astacus leptodactylus is collecting microplastics in dam reservoir: a new record for Türkiye	3
Morphological characterization and DNA barcoding of freshwater fishes collected from riverine ecosystem	3
Evidence of nearshore in-lake spawning Walleye in the central basin of Lake Erie	3
Long-term changes in unionid community in Kentucky Lake: Implications for understanding the effects of impoundment on river systems	3