OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Coral Reefs is 19. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Host genotype and stable differences in algal symbiont communities explain patterns of thermal stress response of Montipora capitata following thermal pre-exposure and across multiple bleaching events	47
The biology and ecology of coral rubble and implications for the future of coral reefs	46
Ecological consequences of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in the Turks and Caicos Islands	42
Empirically derived thermal thresholds of four coral species along the Red Sea using a portable and standardized experimental approach	33
Structure-from-Motion on shallow reefs and beaches: potential and limitations of consumer-grade drones to reconstruct topography and bathymetry	30
Symbiont shuffling across environmental gradients aligns with changes in carbon uptake and translocation in the reef-building coral Pocillopora acuta	30
Mono- and multispecies biofilms from a crustose coralline alga induce settlement in the scleractinian coral Leptastrea purpurea	25
Diversity, distribution, and environmental drivers of coralline red algae: the major reef builders in the Southwestern Atlantic	24
Pre-exposure to a variable temperature treatment improves the response of Acropora cervicornis to acute thermal stress	23
Upper-mesophotic and shallow reef corals exhibit similar thermal tolerance, sensitivity and optima	23
Implications of 2D versus 3D surveys to measure the abundance and composition of benthic coral reef communities	22
Physiological and ecological consequences of the water optical properties degradation on reef corals	22
Putting sea cucumbers on the map: projected holothurian bioturbation rates on a coral reef scale	22
Multiple techniques point to oxygenic phototrophs dominating the Isopora palifera skeletal microbiome	21
Unusual shallow water Devonian coral community from Queensland and its recent analogues from the inshore Great Barrier Reef	21
Growth impacts in a changing ocean: insights from two coral reef fishes in an extreme environment	20
Different responses of scleractinian coral Acropora pruinosa from Weizhou Island during extreme high temperature events	20
Niche differences in co-occurring cryptic coral species (Pocillopora spp.)	20
No evidence for tropicalization of coral assemblages in a subtropical climate change hot spot	19
Mapping cold-water coral biomass: an approach to derive ecosystem functions	19
The mass coral bleaching event of inshore corals form South China Sea witnessed in 2020: insight into the causes, process and consequence	19
Linking population size structure, heat stress and bleaching responses in a subtropical endemic coral	19