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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
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	20
Backward-tracking simulations of sea ice in the Sea of Okhotsk toward understanding of material transport through sea ice	17
Oscillation and the resulting bait loss observed in pelagic longline hooks	9
Volume transport of the Kuroshio south of Japan estimated from repeated full-depth hydrographic surveys and current measurements	8
Marine heatwave in the Oyashio region in 2022/23 and its impact on subsurface dissolved oxygen	8
Experimental study of the effect of slope topography on the optical remote sensing imaging characteristics of the depression internal solitary waves	8
Diagnostic evaluation of effects of vertical mixing on meridional overturning circulation in an idealized ocean	7
Reviewers of manuscripts	7
Organic complexation of copper in Japanese estuarine waters using reverse titration method	7
Hypoxia in the Upper Gulf of Thailand: Hydrographic observations and modeling	7
Decadal sea surface height modes in the low-latitude northwestern Pacific and their contribution to the North Equatorial Current transport variation	7
Luzon strait mesoscale eddy characteristics in HYCOM reanalysis, simulation, and forecasts	7
Seasonal and vertical variations in phytoplankton photosynthetic parameters and primary production in Suruga Bay, Japan	7
Occurrence patterns of larval mesopelagic fishes in the mouth of highly eutrophic Tokyo Bay, central Japan	7
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	6
Seasonal variation in metabolic rate of plankton community in the inner part of Tokyo Bay	6
Internal waves with high vertical wavenumber structure generated by diurnal tidal flow over the eastern ridge of Luzon Strait	6
Succession of three dominant diatoms, Skeletonema, Thalassiosira, and Pseudo-nitzschia in the inner area of Tokyo Bay from 2003 to 2017	6
Near-inertial wave propagation between stratified and homogeneous layers	5
Future changes in marine heatwaves based on high-resolution ensemble projections for the northwestern Pacific Ocean	5
Inverse estimation of diffusivity coefficients from salinity distributions on isopycnal surfaces using Argo float array data	4
Correction to: Coastal upwelling events along the southern coast of Java during the 2008 positive Indian Ocean Dipole	4
The behaviour of aluminium, manganese, iron, cobalt, and lead in the subarctic Pacific Ocean: boundary scavenging and temporal changes	4
Long-term sea-level variability along the coast of Japan during the 20th century revealed by a 1/10$$^{\circ }$$ OGCM	4
Correction to: Synchronized interdecadal variations behind regime shifts in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation	4

Phylogeny of prokaryotes involved in mercury speciation in free-living and particulate-attached fractions in Minamata Bay, Japan	4
Synchronized interdecadal variations behind regime shifts in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation	4
Seasonal changes in the vertical distribution and population structure of Calanus sinicus and Calanus jashnovi (Copepoda: Calanoida) in Sagami Bay, Japan	4
The origin and characteristics of dissolved organic carbon in the highly urbanized coastal waters of Tokyo Bay	4
Correction to: Distributions of tritium and 137Cs in coastal seawater and biota off Aomori and Iwate prefectures, Japan	4
Projected future changes in the contribution of Indo-Pacific sea surface height variability to the Indonesian throughflow	4
Evidence of bottom-up effects of climate on Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonicus) in the western North Pacific	4
Reviewers of manuscripts	4
Global mapping of 10-day differences of temperature and salinity in the intermediate layer observed with Argo floats	3
Message from the new Editor-in-chief	3
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	3
Dominant modes of winter SST variability in the Japan Sea and their influences on atmosphere	3
Journal of oceanography most cited paper award 2024	3
Effect of a current trapped by a continental slope on the pathway of a coastal current crossing Toyama Trough, Japan	3
Simulation of global distribution of rare earth elements in the ocean using an ocean general circulation model	3
The potential role of thermohaline–shear instability in turbulence production in the Bering Sea and the subarctic North Pacific	3
Subsurface sound channel and seasonal variation of its characteristics in the mid-latitude of Northwest Pacific	3
Phytoplankton and ice-algal communities in the seasonal ice zone during January (Southern Ocean, Indian sector)	3
Comparison of surface and lateral boundary conditions controlled by pseudo-altimeter data assimilation for a regional Kuroshio model	3
Influence of North Pacific subtropical mode water variability on the surface mixed layer through the heaving of the upper thermocline on decadal timescales	3
Spatial variability in wave characteristics along the eastern Arabian Sea	3
Spatial distribution of the protist community in the southern part of the Okhotsk Sea off Hokkaido during summer	3
Wave setup at the Minamitorishima tide gauge	3
Seasonal dynamics of dinoflagellates with special emphasis on potentially harmful species in a tropical estuarine system along the southwest coast of India	2
Temporal variations in the surface primary productivity and their causes at a station F3 in the inner Tokyo Bay	2
Correction: Variations in the Central Mode Water in the North Pacific as a manifestation of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation	2
Distributions of tritium and 137Cs in coastal seawater and biota off Aomori and Iwate prefectures, Japan	2
Coastal ecosystem change in Asia: hypoxia, eutrophication, and nutrient conditions	2
Decadal changes in the basin-wide heat budget of the mid-latitude North Pacific Ocean	2
Spatiotemporal changes in chlorophyll a concentration in the inner area of Tokyo Bay from 2016 to 2020	2
Distribution characteristics of pycnocline in the northern South China Sea based on an improved vertical gradient method	2
Near-surface dynamic structure in the northern South China Sea and Northwest Pacific revealed using Lagrangian data	2
Revisiting the connection between variations in the Tsushima Warm Current and winter rainfall along the coast of Japan	2
Winter bloom initiation with water column stabilization and improvement of light environment in a turbid shallow coastal water	2
Variabilities in the estimate of 100-year return period wave height in the Indian shelf seas	2
Use of AERONET-OC for validation of SGLI/GCOM-C products in Ariake Sea, Japan	2
Sea level variability along the Japanese coast forced by the Kuroshio and its extension	2
Marine heatwave off Tokai, Japan, attributed to the Kuroshio Large Meander Path, and an associated increase in summer rainfall over Japan	2
Performance of primary production algorithm using absorption coefficient of phytoplankton in the Pacific Arctic	2
Spatiotemporal evolution of submesoscale filaments at the periphery of an anticyclonic mesoscale eddy north of the Kuroshio Extension	2
Regional difference of sea surface salinity variations in the western tropical pacific	1
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	1
Analysis and validation of ocean color and aerosol properties over coastal regions from SGLI based on a simultaneous method	1
Seasonal variation in alkaline phosphatase activity in the central part of Tokyo Bay, 2013	1
Impact of mesoscale eddies on particulate organic carbon flux in the western subarctic North Pacific	1
Long-term change in the status of water pollution in Tokyo Bay: recent trend of increasing bottom-water dissolved oxygen concentrations	1
Seasonal pathways of the Tsugaru Warm Current revealed by high-frequency ocean radars	1
The island mass effect: a study of wind-driven nutrient upwelling around reef islands	1
Subtropical Mode Water in a recent persisting Kuroshio large-meander period: part I—formation and advection over the entire distribution region	1
Processes governing seasonal and interannual change of the Antarctic sea-ice area	1

Role of Japan Sea Throughflow in the spatial variability of the long-term sea surface temperature trend	1
Preface: scientific researches conducted by the training vessel Seiyo-Maru	1
Reviewers of manuscripts	1
Urea is a potentially important nitrogen source for phytoplankton during red tide formation in Isahaya Bay, Japan	1
Temporal variation in vitamin B12 concentration and their impact on phytoplankton composition of surface waters of a coastal ocean off Japan (Ariake Sea)	1
Long-term trends of oxygen concentration in the waters in bank and shelves of the Southern Japan Sea	1
Reviewers of manuscripts	1
Special section for second-generation global imager (SGLI)	1
Correction to: High-resolution surface salinity maps in coastal oceans based on geostationary ocean color images: quantitative analysis of river plume dynamics	1
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	1
Seasonal and spatial variations in the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in a eutrophic brackish lake, Lake Hamana, Japan	1
Eastward extension jet driven by vorticity anomaly at the western boundary: characteristics and the effects of southward background flow	1
Midlatitude ocean–atmosphere interactions and extreme events	1
Disentangling mechanisms behind emerged sea surface temperature anomalies in Indonesian seas during El Niño years: insights from closed heat budget analysis	1
Different responses of phytoplankton to Fe manipulation in Fe-limited waters with contrasting surface mixed layer depths in the western subarctic Pacific	1
Subtropical Mode Water in a recent persisting Kuroshio large-meander period: part II—formation and temporal evolution in the Kuroshio recirculation gyre off Shikoku	1
Sea ice-melt amount estimated from spring hydrography in the Sea of Okhotsk: spatial and interannual variabilities	1