OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Oceanography is 3. 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
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
Evidence of bottom-up effects of climate on Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonicus) in the western North Pacific	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
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
Distribution characteristics of pycnocline in the northern South China Sea based on an improved vertical gradient method	4
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
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