OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 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
Fertilization by short-term stored sperm alters DNA methylation patterns at single-base resolution in common carp (Cyprinus carpio) embryos	129
A global functional analysis of fish-estuary associations and selected environmental factors	73
Characterizing the development of Sea ranching in China	67
Recreational angling and spearfishing on social media: insights on harvesting patterns, social engagement and sentiments related to the distributional range shift of a marine invasive species	55
The UK’s expanding global reach for seafood over 120-years	54
Long non-coding RNAs in the physiology of aquaculture animals: a perspective update	51
Exploring temporal patterns in fish feeding ecology: Are ontogenetic dietary shifts stable over time?	44
Chitosan-based delivery of fish codon-optimised Caenorhabditis elegans FAT-1 and FAT-2 boosts EPA and DHA biosynthesis in Sparus aurata	43
Indigenous fishers’ knowledge on fish behavior, fishing practices and climatic conditions in a conservation priority coastal ecosystem in the Caspian Sea	43
Seven decades of transformation: evaluating the dynamics of coral reef fish communities in the Xisha Islands, South China Sea	36
Making the most of aquatic animal tracking: a review of complementary methods to bolster acoustic telemetry	35
The piscine arsenal: an updated review of venomous fishes	33
A global review of the biology and ecology of the European perch, Perca fluviatilis	30
Predicting and assessing the impacts of COVID-19 disruption on marine science and sectors in Australia	29
Spirulina in fish immunity development: find the black box	28
Life-history traits of batoids (Superorder Batoidea) in the Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean	28
Jeffery A. Hutchings: A primer of life histories: ecology, evolution, and application	27
Cytogenetics and DNA barcode in Hoplias gr. malabaricus (Characiformes, Erythrinidae) reveals correlation between karyomorphs and valid species	27
Ontogenetic and evolutionary trends on cephalopod digestive systems	26
It’s a shark-eat-shark world, but does that make for bigger pups? A comparison between oophagous and non-oophagous viviparous sharks	26
Caught in the middle: bottom-up and top-down processes impacting recruitment in a small pelagic fish	25
The 8th World Fisheries Congress: sharing our oceans and rivers, a vision for the world’s fisheries	24
Odontocete cetaceans foraging behind trawlers, worldwide	22
Research progress on whether mangroves and seagrass beds serve as nursery habitats for coral reef fish	22
A quantitative inventory of global soniferous fish diversity	21

The functional roles of surgeonfishes on coral reefs: past, present and future	21
Food for all: designing sustainable and secure future seafood systems	19
Climate change impacts on China’s marine ecosystems	19
Implications of utilization shifts of marine fish in India: a macro-level empirical analysis	18
A Century of Ichthyoplankton Research in Indonesian waters: lessons from the past, challenges for the future	18
Essential spawning grounds of Scottish herring: current knowledge and future challenges	18
Management strategy evaluation operating model conditioning: a swordfish case study	18
Initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australian fisheries production, research organisations and assessment: shocks, responses and implications for decision support and resilience	17
A meta-analytical review of turbidity effects on fish mobility	17
Genes involved in sex differentiation, epigenetic reprogramming, and cell fate regulate sex change in a wrasse	17
Swimming performance of sharks and rays under climate change	16
Applying a sequential evidence hierarchy, with caveats, to support prudent fisheries bycatch policy	16
Exploring the adaptive behaviour and environmental acclimation of artificially-bred Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis) in semi-open marine environment: insights for endangered species conservation	15
Initial recovery of demersal fish communities in coastal waters of Hong Kong, South China, following a trawl ban	14
Optimising the review of electronic monitoring information for management of commercial fisheries	14
A global review of the critical link between river flows and productivity in marine fisheries	14
Has the displacement of the capelin Mallotus villosus (Müller, 1776) feeding grounds induced a phenotypic response?	14
A tangled web: global review of fishing interactions with rhino rays	13
Enhancing our understanding of fish movement ecology through interdisciplinary and cross-boundary research	13
Blue economy: industrialisation and coastal fishing livelihoods in Ghana	13
Research status of the Lancang-Mekong River Basin: fish and environmental stressors	12
DNA barcoding of traded shark fins in Peninsular Malaysia	12
A review of iteroparity in anadromous salmonids: biology, threats and implications	12
Rising temperatures, falling fisheries: causes and consequences of crossing the tipping point in a small-pelagic community	11
Correction to: A global review of white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) parturition	11
Correction: Blue shark vertical movement patterns in the Central Mediterranean: bycatch mitigation windows revealed from pop-up satellite archival tag data	11
Octopuses in the south-west Pacific region: a review of fisheries, ecology, cultural importance and management	11
Environmental fluctuation influences the ontogenetic dispersal and distribution of two ommastrephid squids in the Pacific Ocean	11
Anadromous trout from opposite sides of the globe: biology, ocean ecology, and management of anadromous brown and cutthroat trout	11
An approach to assess data-less small-scale fisheries: examples from Congo rivers	11
A global trophic analysis of estuary-associated fishes	10
Pigmentation enhancement techniques during ornamental fish production	10
Spatial disparity of fishing activities overlapping the abrupt shifts for marine net primary production	10
A global review of marine recreational spearfishing	9
The socio-ecological resilience and sustainability implications of seafood supply chain disruption	9
Trophic ecology of fishes in estuaries	9
Pots as alternative and sustainable fishing gears in the Mediterranean Sea: an overview	9
Quantifying fishing activity targeting subsea pipelines by commercial trap fishers	9
Sympatric species of coral trout (Plectropomus) show contrasting patterns of genomic structure across isolated atoll reefs	9
Evaluating loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) bycatch in the small-scale fisheries of Cabo Verde	9
A synthesis of women’s participation in small-scale fisheries management: why women’s voices matter	8
Overcapacity and dynamics of a tuna fleet facing catch limits and high efficiency: the case of the Indian Ocean tuna fishery	8
Status assessment of the Beibu Gulf coastal fishery ecosystem using a multispecies size-spectrum model	8
Future Seas 2030: pathways to sustainability for the UN Ocean Decade and beyond	8
Reading the biomineralized book of life: expanding otolith biogeochemical research and applications for fisheries and ecosystem-based management	8
The influence of marine protected areas on the patterns and processes in the life cycle of reef fishes	8
Traditional knowledge in special fisheries: the case of Puruvesi vendace and seining	8
Conservation and management of chondrichthyans in the Mediterranean Sea: gaps, overlaps, inconsistencies, and the way forward	8
Correction: Unveiling the batoid plight: insights from global stranding data and future directions	8
90 years of catch data reveal changes in catch composition in the Australian east coast recreational marlin fishery	8

Mitonuclear genetics reveals a novel perspective on the stock structure and fishery management of skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) in the Atlantic Ocean	8
Biogeography of Beringian fishes after the molecular revolution and into the post-genomics era	8
Arabian/Persian Gulf artisanal fisheries: magnitude, threats, and opportunities	8
Population structure and habitat assessment for two commercial clam species exploited in small-scale fisheries	7
Untangling multi-species fisheries data with species distribution models	7
Otolith biochronology for the long-term reconstruction of growth and stock dynamics of fish	7
A review of the life history and ecology of euryhaline and estuarine sharks and rays	7
Brachyuran crab fisheries in Chile: challenges and opportunities for rising demand	7
Umbrella effect of spotted seal conservation and achieving 30 × 30 targets in the Yellow Sea ecoregion	7
Long-Term Passive Acoustic Monitoring to Support Adaptive Management in a Sciaenid Fishery (Tagus Estuary, Portugal)	6
Resurrecting failed environment-recruitment relationships: Revisiting cod recruitment in light of the poor-recruitment paradigm	6
Smartphone application use in commercial wild capture fisheries	6
A systematic review of sensory deterrents for bycatch mitigation of marine megafauna	6
Temporally-scheduled ROV-based monitoring to detect behavioural rhythms of deep-sea megafauna	6
Latitudinal gradients in herbivorous and detritivorous reef fish productivity	6
Non-probabilistic surveys and sampling in the human dimensions of fisheries	6
Diet and habitat as determinants of intestine length in fishes	6
Riverine communities and management systems for anadromous fisheries in the Iberian Peninsula: global strategy, local realities	6
Empowering her guardians to nurture our Ocean’s future	6
Cleaner seas: reducing marine pollution	6
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Unveiling the batoid plight: insights from global stranding data and future directions	6
Assessing the conservation status of Chinese freshwater fish using deep learning	6
The current knowledge status of the genetic population structure of the European sardine (Sardina pilchardus): uncertainties to be solved for an appropriate fishery management	5
Reviewing and improving spatiotemporal modeling approaches for mackerel’s total annual egg production	5
Octopus diet during the settlement period using DNA metabarcoding	5
Contrasting tropical marine herbivorous fish catches between the Indo-Pacific and Western Atlantic	5
Lunar cycle effects on pelagic predators and fisheries: insights into tuna, billfish, sharks, and rays	5
Distribution, hosts and long-term decline in abundance of the Patagonian lamprey inferred from diet assessment of albatrosses	5
Review of the life history, fisheries, and stock assessment for small tunas in the Atlantic Ocean	5
Can pots be an alternative fishing gear to gillnets? A Mediterranean case study	5
The limited role of herbivorous fishes and turf-based trophic pathways in the functioning of turbid coral reefs	5
Advancing knowledge about great small-scale fisheries	5
Trying to collapse a population for conservation: commercial trade of a marine invasive species by artisanal fishers	5
Variation in abundance, diversity and composition of coral reef fishes with increasing depth at a submerged shoal in the northern Great Barrier Reef	5
Reviewing the genetic evidence for sex-biased dispersal in elasmobranchs	5
What about the meat: uncovering the unseen trade in meat from endangered sharks in Singapore and Malaysia	5
Rab proteins in fish and crustaceans: an overview	5
Contrasting environmental and demographic influences on growth variability in two tropical snappers spanning the equator in the Indo-West Pacific	5
Cryopreservation of pufferfish sperm in small and large volumes: the effect on kinetic parameters, and fertilization and hatching rates	5
Unveiling the fishing history of threatened Brazilian parrotfishes through local ecological knowledge	4
Population niche breadth and individual trophic specialisation of fish along a climate-productivity gradient	4
An enigma: how can freshwater eels (Anguilla spp.) be such a successful genus yet be universally threatened?	4
The effect of bottom trawling time on mortality, physical damage and oxidative stress in two Sciaenidae species	4
Correction: Exploring predators of Pacific salmon throughout their life history: the case of Japanese chum, pink, and masu salmon	4
Equity of our future oceans: practices and outcomes in marine science research	4
Predicting and contextualizing sensitivity to overfishing in Neotropical freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae)	4
Burrow emergence rhythms of deep-water Mediterranean Norway lobsters (Nephrops norvegicus) revealed by acoustic telemetry	4
Influence of a changing wave climate on the quality and morphometry of the stalked barnacle Pollicipes pollicipes (Gmelin, 1789), along the coasts of NW Iberia	4
The potential impacts of climate change on the life history and habitat of jumbo flying squid in the southeast Pacific Ocean: overview and implications for fisheries management	4
Widening mismatch between UK seafood production and consumer demand: a 120-year perspective	4
Correction to: Intracohort cannibalism and methods for its mitigation in cultured freshwater fish	4
Exploring predators of Pacific salmon throughout their life history: the case of Japanese chum, pink, and masu salmon	4
Innovation to limit seafood fraud post-COVID-19	4
Contextualising credit transactions in artisanal marine fishing: insights from Kerala, India	3
Underwater hyperspectral imaging technology has potential to differentiate and monitor scallop populations	3
Safeguarding marine life: conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems	3
Socio-economic impacts and responses of the fishing industry and fishery managers to changes in small pelagic fish distribution and abundance	3
Roles and sources of B vitamins in the marine ecosystem	3
Muscle growth and plasticity in teleost fish: the significance of evolutionarily diverse sarcomeric proteins	3
Contribution of area-based fisheries management measures to fisheries sustainability and marine conservation: a global scoping review	3
Life-history traits, capture dynamics, and conservation status of key species landed by the artisanal gillnet fleet in the southwest Atlantic Ocean	3
Navigating post-pandemic tilapia farming: a systematic review and meta-analysis of probiotic as a strategy for sustainable production	3
Comparative demography of surgeonfishes from the tropical western Pacific	3
The ten steps to responsible Inland fisheries in practice: reflections from diverse regional case studies around the globe	3
Compliance in small-scale fisheries is linked to fisher-trader relations: not fishers alone (Southeast Asian case study)	3
Anguillids: widely studied yet poorly understood—a literature review of the current state of Anguilla eel research	3
Observing fish behavior in towed fishing gear—is there an influence of artificial light?	3
The environmental impact of hydropower: a systematic review of the ecological effects of sub-daily flow variability on riverine fish	3
Ecological uniqueness of fish assemblages and species contributions to beta diversity are affected by river-lake disconnection	3
Deep learning algorithm as a strategy for detection an invasive species in uncontrolled environment	3