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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Variation in abundance, diversity and composition of coral reef fishes with increasing depth at a submerged shoal in the northern Great Barrier Reef	122
An approach to assess data-less small-scale fisheries: examples from Congo rivers	71
DNA barcoding of traded shark fins in Peninsular Malaysia	67
Fertilization by short-term stored sperm alters DNA methylation patterns at single-base resolution in common carp (Cyprinus carpio) embryos	51
Review of the life history, fisheries, and stock assessment for small tunas in the Atlantic Ocean	48
Current methods and best practice recommendations for skate and ray (Batoidea) research: capture, handling, anaesthesia, euthanasia, and tag attachment	48
A review of catfish (Siluriformes) hybridization	42
Resurrecting failed environment-recruitment relationships: Revisiting cod recruitment in light of the poor-recruitment paradigm	41
Characterizing the development of Sea ranching in China	41
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Unveiling the batoid plight: insights from global stranding data and future directions	34
Distribution, hosts and long-term decline in abundance of the Patagonian lamprey inferred from diet assessment of albatrosses	33
Reviewing the genetic evidence for sex-biased dispersal in elasmobranchs	31
Enhancing our understanding of fish movement ecology through interdisciplinary and cross-boundary research	30
Fishing as a livelihood, a way of life, or just a job: considering the complexity of “fishing communities” in research and policy	30
Adaptive factors and strategies in small-scale fisheries economies	28
The stock assessment theory of relativity: deconstructing the term “data-limited” fisheries into components and guiding principles to support the science of fisheries management	28
Fishing historical sources: a snapshot of 19th-century freshwater fauna in Spain	27
Octopuses in the south-west Pacific region: a review of fisheries, ecology, cultural importance and management	27
A tangled web: global review of fishing interactions with rhino rays	26
Distinct resource utilization by introduced man-made grouper hybrid: an overlooked anthropogenic impact from a longstanding religious practice	25
General patterns of sexual dimorphism in graylings (Thymallus), with a comparison to other salmonid species	25
Unveiling the batoid plight: insights from global stranding data and future directions	25
Riverine communities and management systems for anadromous fisheries in the Iberian Peninsula: global strategy, local realities	24
Research status of the Lancang-Mekong River Basin: fish and environmental stressors	22
Nonstationary response of commercially pelagic species in the Humboldt current ecosystem to climate variability	20

Surplus production models: a practical review of recent approaches	19
Partially protected areas as a management tool on inshore reefs	19
A systematic review of sensory deterrents for bycatch mitigation of marine megafauna	19
The current knowledge status of the genetic population structure of the European sardine (Sardina pilchardus): uncertainties to be solved for an appropriate fishery management	18
Assessing the conservation status of Chinese freshwater fish using deep learning	17
Fluctuations in abundance of the striped venus clam Chamelea gallina in the southern Adriatic Sea (Central Mediterranean Sea): knowledge, gaps and insights for ecosystem-based fishery management	17
Distribution shifts in Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins and the co-occurrence of marine heatwaves	17
Distribution patterns and biological aspects of Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis (Echinoidea: Echinoida) in Russian waters of the Barents Sea: implications for commercial exploration	17
Assessing current knowledge and future challenges of age determination, life span and growth performance in notothenioid fishes: a review	17
Well-intentioned initiatives hinder understanding biodiversity conservation: an essay on a recent deep-learning image classifier for Amazonian fishes	16
The seasonal rate of discharge change as the primary trigger synchronizing freshwater fish reproduction in an Amazonian River	16
Smartphone application use in commercial wild capture fisheries	15
Links between behaviour and metabolic physiology in fishes in the Anthropocene	15
Spatial management of estuarine fisheries resources: Do recreational-only fished estuaries provide conservation to harvested species?	14
Recovery after exploitation of stalked barnacles is facilitated by the presence of conspecifics: a study of post-harvest gap recolonization dynamics in SW Europe	13
Innovating transcriptomics for practitioners in freshwater fish management and conservation: best practices across diverse resource-sector users	13
Correction to: Who is the ocean? Preface to the future seas 2030 special issue	13
A review of iteroparity in anadromous salmonids: biology, threats and implications	13
A global functional analysis of fish-estuary associations and selected environmental factors	13
Transcriptional responses to changing environments: insights from salmonids	12
Performance of length-based assessment in predicting small-scale multispecies fishery sustainability	12
Approaches to regulating recreational fisheries: balancing biology with angler satisfaction	12
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	12
Microplastic in fish – A global synthesis	12
What about the meat: uncovering the unseen trade in meat from endangered sharks in Singapore and Malaysia	11
Making the most of aquatic animal tracking: a review of complementary methods to bolster acoustic telemetry	11
Diversity of chromatin condensation patterns, nuclear reorganization, evolution and phylogenetic distribution of sperm nuclear basic proteins in fish	11
Rab proteins in fish and crustaceans: an overview	11
Anadromous trout from opposite sides of the globe: biology, ocean ecology, and management of anadromous brown and cutthroat trout	11
Seasonal effects on the potential spatial distribution of Amazonian migratory catfishes	11
Unravelling fish community assembly in shallow lakes: Insights from functional and phylogenetic diversity	11
Correction: Long‑Term Passive Acoustic Monitoring to Support Adaptive Management in a Sciaenid Fishery (Tagus Estuary, Portugal)	10
Spatial disparity of fishing activities overlapping the abrupt shifts for marine net primary production	9
Uninvited guests and permanent residents: long-term changes in the distribution and abundance of the five most common sharks in the northwestern Pacific	9
Octopus diet during the settlement period using DNA metabarcoding	9
Are the taste preferences similar in closely related fish of the same trophic category? A case of Nile and Mozambique tilapias	9
Individual and fleetwide bycatch thresholds in regional fisheries management frameworks	9
Correction to: An enigma: how can freshwater eels (Anguilla spp.) be such a successful genus yet be universally threatened?	8
Assessing discards in an illegal small-scale fishery using fisher-led reporting	8
Cryopreservation of pufferfish sperm in small and large volumes: the effect on kinetic parameters, and fertilization and hatching rates	8
Indigenous fishers’ knowledge on fish behavior, fishing practices and climatic conditions in a conservation priority coastal ecosystem in the Caspian Sea	8
Diel activity of littoral and epipelagic teleost fishes in the Mediterranean Sea	8
Environmental fluctuation influences the ontogenetic dispersal and distribution of two ommastrephid squids in the Pacific Ocean	8
Chitosan-based delivery of fish codon-optimised Caenorhabditis elegans FAT-1 and FAT-2 boosts EPA and DHA biosynthesis in Sparus aurata	8
Exploring temporal patterns in fish feeding ecology: Are ontogenetic dietary shifts stable over time?	8
Correction: Blue shark vertical movement patterns in the Central Mediterranean: bycatch mitigation windows revealed from pop-up satellite archival tag data	8
A global trophic analysis of estuary-associated fishes	8
Seven decades of transformation: evaluating the dynamics of coral reef fish communities in the Xisha Islands, South China Sea	8