OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Marine and Freshwater Research 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
Early life-history characteristics of Conger leptocephali in the western South Pacific	145
Age and growth of Pomatomus saltatrix in the south-western Pacific Ocean (eastern Australia), with a global comparison	85
An archaeological example of Aboriginal management of a hydro-ecological system in the Murray River valley, South Australia	27
Effects of common carp on water quality and submerged vegetation: results from a short-term mesocosm experiment in an artificial wetland	25
A grey nurse shark from the Northern Territory of Australia shares a mitochondrial haplotype only recorded from the western Australian population	19
Reproductive phenology and the influence of temperature in two sympatric New Zealand freshwater mussel species	19
Mapping knowledge structure and research frontiers of underwater acoustic tomography: a scientometric study	17
Influence of calcium on the toxicity of saline solutions to the mayfly,	16
A step-by-step guide to ageing octopus	15
Baseline assessment of microplastics and biochemical response of Anadara antiquata as a sentinel species for biomonitoring in Fiji	15
Leaf morphology affects microplastic entrapment efficiency in freshwater macrophytes	15
Lobster predation on barren-forming sea urchins is more prevalent in habitats where small urchins are common: a multi-method diet analysis	15
Corrigendum to: Evaluating management effectiveness of the Moulouya River Estuary Ramsar Site in Morocco: an application of the R-METT tool and implications for conservation	14
Corrigendum to: Unravelling a specialised diet of an Amazonian catfish in a controlled flood-pulse area by combining stomach-content and stable-isotope analyses	14
Dietary overlap of carcharhinid sharks in the Gulf of Papua	14
Closing the driver–response loop for halting and reversing wetland degradation and loss from agriculture	13
When and how much a non-native tree species changes the temporal patterns and biomass of litterfall input in subtropical streams	13
Species-specific trophic enrichment factor of stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes in fish otolith organic matter	12
Trophic ecology of sympatric juvenile stingrays within a nursery area	11
Evaluation and analysis of water-regulation value of ecosystem in Qinghai area of Qilian Mountain National Park, China	11
Determining the associated risk of beach-washed logs and their origin at Milman Island, a nesting ground for the endangered hawksbill turtle (	11
Simulating the potential effects of a carp virus fish kill on water quality and phytoplankton in lentic environments	11
Testing the waters to find the ‘goldilocks’ zone: fine-scale movement of	11
Residency and movement patterns of juvenile yellowfin bream Acanthopagrus australis, stocked on estuarine artificial reefs	11
Elevation and land use as drivers of macroinvertebrate functional composition in Afromontane headwater streams	10

Community-level effects of ivermectin and moxidectin from cattle dung: zooplankton as study case	10
Incentive for farmers to save water by confirming the rights to agricultural water in the Yellow River Basin	10
Field trials to determine the efficacy of aerators to mitigate hypoxia in inland waterways	10
Stability and change in a changing environment: soft-bottom benthic molluscs in the Peel–Harvey Estuary over 42 years	10
Knowledge of macrophyte requirements and tolerances holds the key to successful shallow lake restoration – a New Zealand perspective	10
Is the Paraíba do Sul River colourful? Prevalence of microplastics in freshwater, south-eastern Brazil	10
Using integrative taxonomy to distinguish cryptic halfbeak species and interpret distribution patterns, fisheries landings, and speciation	10
An analysis of tomistoma (	9
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands	9
Lipid composition of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis from the Black Sea: fatty acid-based indices as environmental biomarkers	9
Ecohydraulic model for designing environmental flows supports recovery of imperilled Murray cod (	9
Spatial patterns in the cover and composition of macroalgal assemblages on fringing and nearshore coral reefs	9
Mangrove mapping using Sentinel-1 data for improved decision support on sustainable conservation and restoration interventions in the Keta Lagoon Complex Ramsar Site, Ghana	9
Unravelling a specialised diet of an Amazonian catfish in a controlled flood-pulse area by combining stomach-content and stable-isotope analyses	8
Mahseer conservation in Asia: trends and insights from scientometric analysis	8
Trophic interactions between native and exotic cichlids in a shallow tropical estuary (Lake Vembanad, India)	8
Contributions of nano- and picophytoplankton to the phytoplankton biomass in Saudi Arabian waters of the Arabian Gulf	8
Assessing the aquatic metabolic-balance response to future condition in a Mediterranean site: from an experimental-design perspective	8
Genomic population structure of great hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna mokarran) across the Indo-Pacific	8
Spatial resolution of shell microchemistry for tracking dispersing pelagic mussels in a large open embayment in northern New Zealand	7
Age and growth of the endangered Maugean skate (Zearaja maugeana) by using microchemical analysis	7
Mismatch between shape changes, early growth, and condition for a temperate reef fish from an oceanic island	7
Presence and abundance of microplastics in edible freshwater mussel (	7
The aquatic ecological health-state assessment and the influencing mechanism of Poyang Lake	7
Estimation of soil loss and sediment yield by using the modified RUSLE model in the Indus River basin, including the quantification of error and uncertainty in remote-sensing images	7
Spatial and temporal variations in particulate organic carbon in Indonesian waters over two decades	7
Spatio-temporal variations of habitat quality in the Greater Bay Area around Hangzhou Bay, based on LUCC and simulation	7
Assessing trap bias in the endemic Australian genus of freshwater crayfish,	6
Braiding Indigenous oral histories and habitat mapping to understand urchin barrens in southern New South Wales	6
Widespread exposure of marine parks, whales, and whale sharks to shipping	6
Fish biodiversity and inferred abundance in a highly valued coastal temperate environment: the inner Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand	6
Morphological and phylogenetic analysis of a non-toxic	6
Comment on Finlayson	6
Amphipod assemblages associated with native habitat-forming seaweeds of the Alboran Sea: influence by environmental protection and biogeographical patterns	6
Benthic macroinvertebrates in rivers of agricultural lands in Argentina: the functional diversity response to environmental stress	6
Trophic resources use pathways between two coexisting freshwater shrimp (Palaemon argentinus and Macrobrachium borellii)	6
Early warning and monitoring of the safety risk of coastal nuclear power plant cold source under the stress from Phaeocystis globosa blooms	6
Sewage-derived nitrogen dispersal and N-fixation in Port Phillip Bay in south-eastern Australia	6
Hierarchical population genetic structure and signatures of adaptation in Lates calcarifer	6
Repairing Australia’s inland river and groundwater systems: nine priority actions, benefits and the finance gap	6
Corrigendum to: Monitoring tropical freshwater fish with underwater videography and deep learning	6
Recognising diversity in wetlands and farming systems to support sustainable agriculture and conserve wetlands	6
A 6-year survey of plastic ingestion by aquatic birds in southern Portugal	6
Assessing the use of environmental flows and stocking for the persistence of a flow-dependent spawner in a drying climate	6
Environmental conditions on the Pacific halibut fishing grounds obtained from a decade of coastwide oceanographic monitoring, and the potential application of these data in stock analyses	6
Improving the size selectivity of crayfish fyke-net codend, applying the hexagonal mesh and sorting grid	6
An investigation of genetic connectivity shines a light on the relative roles of isolation by distance and oceanic currents in three diadromous fish species	5
Fifty years of criteria development for selecting wetlands of international importance	5
Multifaceted effects of bycatch mitigation measures on target or non-target species for pelagic longline fisheries and consideration for bycatch management	5
Variation in shell morphology and life-history traits of	5

The revelry of plastic! Quali-quantitative variation of microplastics in freshwater before and after Carnival in south-eastern Brazil	5
Trends in Indian Ocean marine fisheries since 1950: synthesis of reconstructed catch and effort data	5
Recognising the importance of shellfish to First Nations peoples, Indigenous and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in aquaculture and coastal management in Australia	5
Geographical variations in genetic group composition, life-history traits, and statolith shape for	5
Abundance, distribution and behaviour of humpback whales (	5
The distribution and significance of stingray feeding pits in Quandamooka (Moreton Bay), Australia	5
A consistent vegetation classification for wetland conservation and management in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	4
Co-design and Traditional Owner participation in an assessment of abundance and size of Donax deltoides (garlaany, pipi) in Ngambaa Country, New South Wales, Australia	4
Understanding salt-tolerance and biota–stressor interactions in freshwater invertebrate communities	4
Climate extreme triggers cold-water community rescue	4
Monitoring tropical freshwater fish with underwater videography and deep learning	4
Downstream migration of telemetry-tagged adult common galaxias (	4
Wetlands as social ecological systems, and relationality in the policy domain	4
Contrasting population structures of freshwater atyid shrimps in Hong Kong and their conservation implications	4
Do temperature and water depth influence microcrustacean hatching responses from floodplain wetland sediments?	4
Evaluation and empirical study of Happy River on the basis of AHP: a case study of Shaoxing City (Zhejiang, China)	4
Conventional tagging of sharks in Western Australia: the main commercial species exhibit contrasting movement patterns	4
Fine-scale variability in catch and growth rates of western rock lobsters (	4
Response of turtle hatchlings to light emitting diodes at sea	4
Connecting young people to Country through marine turtle conservation: exploring three case studies in Western Australia’s Pilbara region	4
Efficacy of estradiol in feminising the eastern mosquitofish,	4
Effect of climate variability on water quality trends in New Zealand rivers	4
The role of environmental factors on beta diversity of periphytic algae in a tropical reservoir	4
No effects of abiotic and anthropogenic factors on reef-associated neonate shark abundance within a shark nursery-area system	4
Investigating microplastic contamination and biomagnification in a remote area of South Australia	4
Biology and conservation of the unique and diverse halophilic macroinvertebrates of Australian salt lakes	4
Biodiversity patterns of macrofauna associated with Halodule wrightii (Ascherson) in meadows of north-eastern Brazil	4
Molecular ecology of the Javanese ricefish, Oryzias javanicus (Bleeker): genetic divergence along the Indonesian Archipelago	4
First evidence of multiple paternity and hybridisation in Australian sawsharks	4
Effects of age composition of Pacific bluefin tuna on their spatiotemporal distribution of active breeding in the south-western North Pacific and on its recruitment strength	4
First insights into the vertical habitat use of young porbeagles in the north-western Atlantic with implications for bycatch reduction strategies	4
Variation in boldness behaviour across individuals, sexes and strains of the guppy (	4
Succession of marine fouling community influences the associated mobile fauna via physical complexity increment	3
Genetic assessment of the rare freshwater shrimp	3
Snowy River environmental flows post-2002: lessons to be learnt	3
Use of voluntary environmental contracts for wetland governance in the European Mediterranean region	3
Holdfast coalescence between buoyant and non-buoyant seaweeds	3
Using life-history traits to predict the vulnerability to overexploitation in soldier striped shrimps	3
The life (history), diet and death of the blackspot shark (Carcharhinus sealei) from South-east Asia	3
Organophosphate-based flame retardant (tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate) reduces fecundity and impairs embryonic development in marine invertebrates	3
Microprotozooplankton as eutrophication bioindicator for tropical coastal lagoons	3
Search for the vulnerable giants: the presence of giant guitarfish and wedgefish in the Karimunjawa National Park and adjacent waters	3
Murray cod and modern fish screens: influence of water velocity and screen design on the entrainment and impingement of larval and young-of-year fish at water offtakes	3
Reservoir water-quality simulation using simplified mathematical models (case study: Seymareh Reservoir)	3
The ‘ecological character’ of wetlands: a foundational concept in the Ramsar Convention, yet still cause for debate 50 years later	3
Multifaceted local action for the conservation of the transboundary Prespa lakes Ramsar sites in the Balkans	3
Male mating tactics and secondary sexual traits: insights from the Mediterranean killifish, Aphanius fasciatus	3
Review of options for creating and maintaining oxygen refuges for fish during destratification-driven hypoxia in rivers	3
Demographics and reproductive characteristics of threatened Malabar pufferfish (Carinotetraodon travancoricus) from Western Ghats hotspot, India	3
Managing flows for frogs: wetland inundation extent and duration promote wetland-dependent amphibian breeding success	3
Soft-bottom polychaetes in a chronic eutrophic bay on the coast of Alexandria	3
Effect of climate change on habitat suitability and recruitment dynamics of swimming crabs in the Taiwan Strait	3
Life-history characteristics of the eastern shovelnose ray,	3
Diel vertical movements of a coastal predator, the roosterfish (	3
Australians’ perceptions of species diversity of, and threats to, the Great Barrier Reef	3
Can the introduction of non-native fish induce variation in life-history traits of a native species in a neotropical lake?	3
A tale of two key species in a subtropical mudflat: four-fold density increases produce minimal ecological response in macrofauna	3
Mapping the spatial distribution of wetlands in Argentina (South America) from a fusion of national databases	3
Disturbed by pH? Nacre tablet thickness of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera) is a poor temperature proxy	3
Exploring the interplay of biotic interactions and salinity stress in freshwater invertebrate assemblages: reply to Chessman (2022)	3
Sources and trophic transfer of trace metals in wild fish from coastal areas in the South China Sea	3
Slow recovery of stream invertebrates on subantarctic Macquarie Island after eradication of introduced rabbits and regrowth of vegetation	3
The implications of brief floodplain inundation for local and landscape-scale ecosystem function in an intermittent Australian river	3
Public perceptions of wetlands and preferences for on-site visitor facilities and communication media: a case study from an Australian Ramsar wetland	3
Can eDNA be an indicator of tree groundwater use? A perspective	3
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Growth, mortality, and reproduction of the oblique-banded snapper (<i>Pristipomoides zonatus</i>) in Guam	3
Realising the benefits of modern fish-protection screening in Australia	3
Variations in wetland conditions within the Fitzroy Basin, north-eastern Australia: a palaeoecological approach	3
Contamination by antibiotics and their degradation and removal methods	3
New South Wales rocky reefs are under threat	3
Alligator gar as a centenarian species: extending lifespan estimates using bomb radiocarbon and laser ablation–accelerator mass spectrometry	3
Influence of hydroperiod on aquatic food-web structure and energy production in a floodplain wetland: implications for environmental flow management	3
The impact of community water ecological design on promoting health behaviours among the elderly	3
Movement patterns of Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii) and golden perch (Macquaria ambigua) in a northern Murray–Darling Basin dryland river	3
Evidence of long-distance movement of green sawfish (Pristis zijsron) in Western Australia	3