OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Coral Reefs is 20. 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
Natural products from Caribbean octocorals demonstrate bioactivity against Vibrio coralliilyticus strains	100
Correction to: Using commercial high‑resolution satellite imagery to monitor a nuisance macroalga in the largest marine protected area in the USA	61
Colour pattern has no influence on the visual recognition of conspecifics by coral reef fish juveniles	37
DNA metabarcoding confirms primary targets and breadth of diet for coral reef butterflyfishes	34
Mapping monumental corals through citizen science	34
Telomere dynamics in the Pacific crown-of-thorns seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris): effect of age, diet, and tissue type	32
Highly repetitive space-use dynamics in parrotfishes	29
Nowhere to hide: massive corals’ mortality after cumulative heat stress in a putative climate change refugium	25
Demographic recovery of corals at a wave-exposed reef following catastrophic disturbance	25
Comparing anesthetic stations and environmental DNA sampling to determine community composition of cryptobenthic coral reef fishes of Vava’u, Kingdom of Tonga	24
Did the historic overharvesting of sea cucumbers make coral more susceptible to pathogens?	24
Acute heat stress and the extirpation of a threatened coral species from a remote, subtropical reef system	23
Exploring seasonal dynamics in Palythoa caribaeorum-dominated habitats using photogrammetry	22
Remote video surveys unveil the diurnal variability of trophic-based processes by fishes on coral reefs	22
A carbon cycling model shows strong control of seasonality and importance of sponges on the functioning of a northern Red Sea coral reef	22
Combination of hermaphroditic and gonochoric sexual modes in the coral Porites cylindrica	21
Correction to: Biogeophysical drivers of abundance for habitat-shifting reef fishes on stepping-stone coral patch reefs	21
Spawning times and breeding trials suggest no inbreeding occurs between Porites aff. lutea and P. cf cylindrica	21
Symbiodiniaceae diversity in Pocillopora corals in different environments of the Colombian Eastern Pacific: symbiont specificity in spite of coral-host flexibility	20
Re(de)fining degree-heating week: coral bleaching variability necessitates regional and temporal optimization of global forecast model stress metrics	20
Selecting response traits that reveal ecological strategies of tropical seaweeds on reefs in Mo’orea, French Polynesia	20