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 2021-02-01 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
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
Volume transport of the Kuroshio south of Japan estimated from repeated full-depth hydrographic surveys and current measurements	8
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
Diagnostic evaluation of effects of vertical mixing on meridional overturning circulation in an idealized ocean	7
Reviewers of manuscripts	7
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
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
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
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
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
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
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