OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries is 8. 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
Indigenous fishers’ knowledge on fish behavior, fishing practices and climatic conditions in a conservation priority coastal ecosystem in the Caspian Sea	43
Chitosan-based delivery of fish codon-optimised Caenorhabditis elegans FAT-1 and FAT-2 boosts EPA and DHA biosynthesis in Sparus aurata	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
Cytogenetics and DNA barcode in Hoplias gr. malabaricus (Characiformes, Erythrinidae) reveals correlation between karyomorphs and valid species	27
Jeffery A. Hutchings: A primer of life histories: ecology, evolution, and application	27
It’s a shark-eat-shark world, but does that make for bigger pups? A comparison between oophagous and non-oophagous viviparous sharks	26
Ontogenetic and evolutionary trends on cephalopod digestive systems	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
Research progress on whether mangroves and seagrass beds serve as nursery habitats for coral reef fish	22
Odontocete cetaceans foraging behind trawlers, worldwide	22
A quantitative inventory of global soniferous fish diversity	21

The functional roles of surgeonfishes on coral reefs: past, present and future	21
Climate change impacts on China’s marine ecosystems	19
Food for all: designing sustainable and secure future seafood systems	19
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
Implications of utilization shifts of marine fish in India: a macro-level empirical analysis	18
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
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
Applying a sequential evidence hierarchy, with caveats, to support prudent fisheries bycatch policy	16
Swimming performance of sharks and rays under climate change	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
Has the displacement of the capelin Mallotus villosus (Müller, 1776) feeding grounds induced a phenotypic response?	14
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
Blue economy: industrialisation and coastal fishing livelihoods in Ghana	13
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
A review of iteroparity in anadromous salmonids: biology, threats and implications	12
Research status of the Lancang-Mekong River Basin: fish and environmental stressors	12
DNA barcoding of traded shark fins in Peninsular Malaysia	12
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
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
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 trophic analysis of estuary-associated fishes	10
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 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
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
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