OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Coral Reefs is 23. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Thirty years of coral heat-stress experiments: a review of methods	87
Insights from extreme coral reefs in a changing world	72
Resolving resource partitioning in parrotfishes (Scarini) using microhistology of feeding substrata	56
Coral community resilience to successive years of bleaching in Kāne‘ohe Bay, Hawai‘i	52
Reef-scale impacts of the stony coral tissue loss disease outbreak	49
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	46
Annual outbreaks of coral disease coincide with extreme seasonal warming	45
A global coral reef probability map generated using convolutional neural networks	42
Ecological consequences of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in the Turks and Caicos Islands	37
Towards a rigorous species delimitation framework for scleractinian corals based on RAD sequencing: the case study of Leptastrea from the Indo-Pacific	36
Contrasting shifts in coral assemblages with increasing disturbances	36
Cold-water coral reefs thriving under hypoxia	35
The biology and ecology of coral rubble and implications for the future of coral reefs	34
Localized outbreaks of coral disease on Arabian reefs are linked to extreme temperatures and environmental stressors	30
Symbiont shuffling across environmental gradients aligns with changes in carbon uptake and translocation in the reef-building coral Pocillopora acuta	29
Habitat maps to enhance monitoring and management of the Great Barrier Reef	29
Assessment of bacterial community composition within and among Acropora loripes colonies in the wild and in captivity	28
Principles for estimating fish productivity on coral reefs	28
Structure-from-Motion on shallow reefs and beaches: potential and limitations of consumer-grade drones to reconstruct topography and bathymetry	27
Empirically derived thermal thresholds of four coral species along the Red Sea using a portable and standardized experimental approach	26
Thermal stress-related spatiotemporal variations in high-latitude coral reef benthic communities	26
Crustose coralline algae that promote coral larval settlement harbor distinct surface bacterial communities	23
Reef-associated fishes have more maneuverable body shapes at a macroevolutionary scale	23