OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Oceanography is 1. 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
Performance of JAXA’s SGLI standard ocean color products for oceanic to coastal waters: chlorophyll a concentration and light absorption coefficients of colored dissolved organic matter	29
Backward-tracking simulations of sea ice in the Sea of Okhotsk toward understanding of material transport through sea ice	26
Experimental study of the effect of slope topography on the optical remote sensing imaging characteristics of the depression internal solitary waves	15
Decadal sea surface height modes in the low-latitude northwestern Pacific and their contribution to the North Equatorial Current transport variation	13
Long-term observation of the Soya Warm Current using HF ocean radars: relationship between the Soya Warm Current variability and the sea level anomalies in the Soya/La Perouse Strait	11
Northeast Pacific marine heatwaves link climate modes in a coupled model simulation	10
Use of AERONET-OC for validation of SGLI/GCOM-C products in Ariake Sea, Japan	9
Dominant modes of winter SST variability in the Japan Sea and their influences on atmosphere	9
Evidence of bottom-up effects of climate on Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonicus) in the western North Pacific	8
Distributions of tritium and 137Cs in coastal seawater and biota off Aomori and Iwate prefectures, Japan	8
Impact of mesoscale eddies on particulate organic carbon flux in the western subarctic North Pacific	8
Effects of cyanate enrichment on growth of natural phytoplankton populations in the subtropical Pacific	8
Disentangling mechanisms behind emerged sea surface temperature anomalies in Indonesian seas during El Niño years: insights from closed heat budget analysis	8
Subtropical Mode Water in a recent persisting Kuroshio large-meander period: part II—formation and temporal evolution in the Kuroshio recirculation gyre off Shikoku	8
Seasonal variation in alkaline phosphatase activity in the central part of Tokyo Bay, 2013	7
Impact of Eighteen Degree Water thickness variation on the thermal and biogeochemical structure in the euphotic layer	7
Preface: scientific researches conducted by the training vessel Seiyo-Maru	7
Abyssal current and water mass in the Main Gap and an adjacent Small Gap of the Emperor Seamount Chain	6
Correction to: Projected climate change in the western North Pacific at the end of the 21st century from ensemble simulations with a high-resolution regional ocean model	6
On anomalously high sub-surface dissolved oxygen in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean	6
Satellite features of river plumes over the Lobos–Tuxpan reef system	6
Correction to: Distributions of tritium and 137Cs in coastal seawater and biota off Aomori and Iwate prefectures, Japan	5
Temporal variation of particulate organic carbon flux at the mouth of Tokyo Bay	5
Diurnal coastal trapped waves propagating along the east coast of the Shimokita Peninsula, Japan	5
Internal waves with high vertical wavenumber structure generated by diurnal tidal flow over the eastern ridge of Luzon Strait	5

Rapid increase of surface water pCO2 revealed by settling particulate organic matter carbon isotope time series during 2001–2009 in Sagami Bay, Japan	5
Correction to: Estimate of turbulent energy dissipation rate using free-fall and CTD-attached fast-response thermistors in weak ocean turbulence	5
Seasonal and vertical variations in phytoplankton photosynthetic parameters and primary production in Suruga Bay, Japan	5
Identification of Kuroshio meanderings south of Japan via a topological data analysis for sea surface height	5
Distribution characteristics of pycnocline in the northern South China Sea based on an improved vertical gradient method	4
Performance of primary production algorithm using absorption coefficient of phytoplankton in the Pacific Arctic	4
Phytoplankton and ice-algal communities in the seasonal ice zone during January (Southern Ocean, Indian sector)	4
Spatial variability in wave characteristics along the eastern Arabian Sea	4
Seasonal variation in metabolic rate of plankton community in the inner part of Tokyo Bay	4
Hydrographic structures of Tokyo Bay between 1992 and 2019 and evidence of temperature increase; observational results by the training vessel Seiyo-Maru	3
Primary productivity impacts community structure of euphausiids in the low-latitude Indian and Pacific Oceans	3
Temporal changes of the Oyashio water distribution east of Japan under the changing climate: development of an objective evaluation method and its application	3
The island mass effect: a study of wind-driven nutrient upwelling around reef islands	3
Evaluation of retrieving chlorophyll a concentration and colored dissolved organic matter absorption from satellite ocean color remote sensing in the coastal waters of Hokkaido, Japan	3
Average coastal residence time distribution estimated by a 2-km resolution Japanese coastal model	3
Cross-shelf overturning in geostrophic-stress-dominant coastal fronts	3
Correction to: High-resolution surface salinity maps in coastal oceans based on geostationary ocean color images: quantitative analysis of river plume dynamics	3
High-turbidity bottom mixed-layer water on the shelf off Hokkaido in the Okhotsk Sea: distribution, seasonal variations, and spreading	3
Revisit of thorium-based dust fluxes and their implications for the iron fertilization hypothesis	3
Long-term variability in larval recruitment rates of a callianassid shrimp population on an intertidal sandflat in an estuary-to-coastal ocean interface area in relation to river discharge and shelf w	3
Eastward propagation of mid-latitude near-surface thermohaline anomaly and link to marine heat waves in the eastern North Pacific	3
Wave and current in extratropical versus tropical cyclones	2
Detailing secondary frontal bore of internal tides breaking above deep-ocean topography	2
Sensitivity of the Arctic sea ice representation to the ice thickness category resolution in an OGCM	2
Wave setup at the Minamitorishima tide gauge	2
Development of Eucampia zodiacus blooms associated with salinity stratification in Ariake Bay during winter	2
Special section for second-generation global imager (SGLI)	2
Particle-tracking experiments of coastal-origin sea ice that could induce high biological productivity in the Sea of Okhotsk	2
Seasonal variation in pore water nutrients and their fluxes from the bottom sediments in Harima Nada, Seto Inland Sea	2
Occurrence patterns of larval mesopelagic fishes in the mouth of highly eutrophic Tokyo Bay, central Japan	2
Seasonal changes in the vertical distribution and population structure of Calanus sinicus and Calanus jashnovi (Copepoda: Calanoida) in Sagami Bay, Japan	2
Impact of sea surface temperature anomalies in the East China Sea and western subtropical pacific on the august 2021 Northern Kyushu heavy precipitation	2
Intercomparison of bias of global sea surface temperature products associated with tropical cyclone passages in the western North Pacific	2
Near-inertial wave propagation between stratified and homogeneous layers	2
Dependence of drag coefficient on the spectral width of ocean waves	2
Spatial distribution of turbulent diapycnal mixing along the Mindanao current inferred from rapid-sampling Argo floats	2
Luzon strait mesoscale eddy characteristics in HYCOM reanalysis, simulation, and forecasts	2
Near-surface dynamic structure in the northern South China Sea and Northwest Pacific revealed using Lagrangian data	2
Spatial distribution of the protist community in the southern part of the Okhotsk Sea off Hokkaido during summer	2
Decadal changes in the basin-wide heat budget of the mid-latitude North Pacific Ocean	2
Urea is a potentially important nitrogen source for phytoplankton during red tide formation in Isahaya Bay, Japan	1
Influence of North Pacific subtropical mode water variability on the surface mixed layer through the heaving of the upper thermocline on decadal timescales	1
Spatiotemporal changes in chlorophyll a concentration in the inner area of Tokyo Bay from 2016 to 2020	1
Journal of Oceanography Most Cited Paper Award 2025	1
Eutrophication and hypoxia in the upper Gulf of Thailand	1
Energy transmission pathways of equatorial waves within the Maritime Continent: a view with the wave energy flux	1
System vicarious calibration of GCOM-C/SGLI visible and near-infrared channels	1
Succession of three dominant diatoms, Skeletonema, Thalassiosira, and Pseudo-nitzschia in the inner area of Tokyo Bay from 2003 to 2017	1
Reviewers of manuscripts	1
Midlatitude ocean–atmosphere interactions and extreme events	1

Winter bloom initiation with water column stabilization and improvement of light environment in a turbid shallow coastal water	1
Global mapping of 10-day differences of temperature and salinity in the intermediate layer observed with Argo floats	1
Correction: Variations in the Central Mode Water in the North Pacific as a manifestation of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation	1
The Kuroshio large meander and its various impacts: a review	1
The variation of environmental profiles during harmful algal bloom in Sepanggar Bay, Sabah, Malaysia	1
Phytoplankton blooms in summer and autumn in the northwestern subarctic Pacific detected by the mooring and float systems	1
Reviewers of manuscripts	1
The behaviour of aluminium, manganese, iron, cobalt, and lead in the subarctic Pacific Ocean: boundary scavenging and temporal changes	1
Temporal variation of the 2017 Kuroshio large meander based on repeated surveys along 138°E	1
Eastward extension jet driven by vorticity anomaly at the western boundary: characteristics and the effects of southward background flow	1
Kuroshio volume transport over the past 3 decades estimated from combined satellite altimetry and hydrography data	1
Variabilities in the estimate of 100-year return period wave height in the Indian shelf seas	1
Variations in the Central Mode Water in the North Pacific as a manifestation of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation	1
Reviewers of manuscripts	1
Temporal insights into deep chlorophyll maxima dynamics in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean: a Bio-Argo float study	1
A review: iron and nutrient supply in the subarctic Pacific and its impact on phytoplankton production	1
Deep current structure in the Toyama Deep-Sea Channel in the Japan Sea	1
Phylogeny of prokaryotes involved in mercury speciation in free-living and particulate-attached fractions in Minamata Bay, Japan	1
Intrusion of Coastal Oyashio water to Funka Bay and Tsugaru Strait occasionally disturbed by Kuroshio-originating warm core ring	1