OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Marine Policy is 41. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The French procurement transformations: A historical perspective over sovereignty and innovation	148
Assessing the blue economy's impact on carbon mitigation growth levels: Evidence from North and Latin America	85
An evaluation of coastal resilience policies in Anglophone West Africa through a regional comparative analysis	82
Who is likely to have illegal eel products after the market regulations? A best-worst scaling approach	78
Policy impacts of intellectual property and academic research trends in marine-derived collagen and chitin/chitosan value chains	71
Understanding the link between climate change adaptation and household food security among shrimp farmers in Indonesia	70
The implications of the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) in the South China Sea: A Chinese perspective	65
Digital transformation of Egyptian marine fisheries: A pathway to sustainable fisheries management	64
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on fish trade and the coping strategies: An initial assessment from China’s perspective	62
Potential determinants affecting the growth of China’s ocean economy: An input-output structural decomposition analysis	62
International law-making process of combating plastic pollution: Status Quo, debates and prospects	61
Improved traceability in seafood supply chains is achievable by minimising vulnerable nodes in processing and distribution networks	59
Towards non-entangling and biodegradable drifting fish aggregating devices – Baselines and transition in the world’s largest tuna purse seine fishery	55
Biodegradable drifting fish aggregating devices: Current status and future prospects	55
Seafarers in fishing: A year into the COVID-19 pandemic	53
How blue financing can sustain ocean conservation and development: A proposed conceptual framework for blue financing mechanism	53
Port competitiveness: Do container terminal operators and liner shipping companies see eye to eye?	53
The necessity of justice for a fair, legitimate, and effective treaty on plastic pollution	52
Regulation of the Caribbean red snapper fishery on the Amazon continental shelf: 60 years of conflict between conservation and exploitation	51
Internationalization of EIA rules in the BBNJ Agreement: Impediments and possible solutions	50
Roles for advisory science in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)	49
On the provisions of the BBNJ Agreement addressing the impacts of climate change	49
Marine reserves and resilience in the era of COVID-19	49
Small-scale low-tropic ocean farming and coastal rural landscapes: Why the logistics of seaweed matter? Insights from Ireland for collaborative planning	49
Be careful what you wish (fish) for: Actioning distributive equity principles when determining catch limits in transboundary fisheries	48

Japan’s law enforcement issues to combat illegal fisheries	48
Financing decarbonization through wind-powered vessels	48
Pescatourism’s contribution to the management effectiveness of the Marine Protected Area (MPA) of “Taza” (Algeria, Southwestern Mediterranean)	47
Equitable pathways for sustainable tuna fisheries management in the Indian Ocean	47
Legal assessment of BIMCO’s infectious or contagious diseases (IOCD) clauses for voyage and time charter parties	46
UNCLOS and its contributions to the development of international law: An editorial note	46
Operational oceanography as a distinct activity from marine scientific research under UNCLOS? – An analysis of WMO Resolution 45 (Cg-18)	46
Mapping fisheries value chains to facilitate their sustainability assessment: Case studies in The Gambia and Mali	45
Irregular migration and its impact on the marine environment: Legal aspects	45
Faroe Islands Fisheries in the Northeast Atlantic: Brexit, Russia, and economic incoherence	45
Is Maritime Spatial Planning a tool to mitigate the impacts of underwater noise? A review of adopted and upcoming maritime spatial plans in Europe	44
Passive acoustic monitoring for assessing marine mammals population in European waters: Workshop conclusions and perspectives	43
A review of migrant labour rights protection in distant water fishing in Taiwan: From laissez-faire to regulation and challenges behind	42
Human rights at sea: The limits of inter-state cooperation in addressing forced labour on fishing vessels	42
Hazard and catch composition of ghost fishing gear revealed by a citizen science clean-up initiative	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
Management of spatial data integrity including stakeholder feedback in Maritime Spatial Planning	41
Mapping the nautical carrying capacity of anchoring areas of the Balearic Islands’ coast	41
Harvest strategies and allocation – A chicken and egg scenario?	41
Scalar politics in transboundary fisheries management: The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission as an eco-scalar fix for South Pacific albacore tuna management	41