OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Marine Policy is 40. 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
Over 30 years of monitoring and implementing the Bern Convention's recommendations for the protection of Mediterranean sea turtles	110
The implications of the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) in the South China Sea: A Chinese perspective	89
Towards a combined human-natural system approach in the Northern Red Sea Region: Ecological challenges, sustainable development, and community engagement	87
Understanding vulnerability and sustainable livelihood factors from coastal residents in Taiwan	83
Roles for advisory science in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)	75
The French procurement transformations: A historical perspective over sovereignty and innovation	68
Who is likely to have illegal eel products after the market regulations? A best-worst scaling approach	67
Local ecological knowledge of fisheries charts decline of sharks in data-poor regions	66
Marine reserves and resilience in the era of COVID-19	61
Sea of possibilities: Old and new uses of remote sensing data for the enforcement of the Ascension Island marine protected area	61
Human rights at sea: The limits of inter-state cooperation in addressing forced labour on fishing vessels	57
Encouraging proactive governance of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction through Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)	55
Passive acoustic monitoring for assessing marine mammals population in European waters: Workshop conclusions and perspectives	52
Pescatourism’s contribution to the management effectiveness of the Marine Protected Area (MPA) of “Taza” (Algeria, Southwestern Mediterranean)	51
Short and long-term solutions for mitigating black carbon emissions in Arctic shipping: Implications for stakeholders	51
Scalar politics in transboundary fisheries management: The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission as an eco-scalar fix for South Pacific albacore tuna management	51
Legal assessment of BIMCO’s infectious or contagious diseases (IOCD) clauses for voyage and time charter parties	50
The ecological and socioeconomic implications of future total allowable catch decisions and illegal fishing scenarios for South Africa’s West Coast rock lobster fishery	49
Faroe Islands Fisheries in the Northeast Atlantic: Brexit, Russia, and economic incoherence	49
Operational oceanography as a distinct activity from marine scientific research under UNCLOS? – An analysis of WMO Resolution 45 (Cg-18)	49
Irregular migration and its impact on the marine environment: Legal aspects	49
Biodegradable drifting fish aggregating devices: Current status and future prospects	47
Shipyard site selection by raster calculation method and AHP in GIS environment, İskenderun, Turkey	47
Equitable pathways for sustainable tuna fisheries management in the Indian Ocean	46
UNCLOS and its contributions to the development of international law: An editorial note	44

Evolution of support policies for the development of distant-water fishing bases in China: Review, performance, challenges and prospects	44
Understanding the link between climate change adaptation and household food security among shrimp farmers in Indonesia	43
Mapping the nautical carrying capacity of anchoring areas of the Balearic Islands’ coast	43
COVID-19 border closures cause humanitarian crew change crisis at sea	42
Illegal fishing threatens the sustainability of future tuna commodities in Indonesia	42
A social cost-benefit analysis of shellfish beds on the Dutch coast as a nature-based measure against climate change	42
An Analysis of Policy Options Available to the International Maritime Organization to Protect the Costa Rica Thermal Dome: Building the Case for a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area	42
Policy impacts of intellectual property and academic research trends in marine-derived collagen and chitin/chitosan value chains	42
Harvest strategies and allocation – A chicken and egg scenario?	41
Small-scale low-tropic ocean farming and coastal rural landscapes: Why the logistics of seaweed matter? Insights from Ireland for collaborative planning	41
The current developments and impact of land reclamation control in China	41
Internationalization of EIA rules in the BBNJ Agreement: Impediments and possible solutions	41
A new cold war at sea: Fishing rights vs. the proliferation of military activities in the EEZ	41
Seafarers in fishing: A year into the COVID-19 pandemic	40
A review of migrant labour rights protection in distant water fishing in Taiwan: From laissez-faire to regulation and challenges behind	40
Regulation of the Caribbean red snapper fishery on the Amazon continental shelf: 60 years of conflict between conservation and exploitation	40