OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Marine and Freshwater Research is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Remote sensing and geostatistics in urban water-resource monitoring: a review	120
Impact of dam construction on precipitation: a regional perspective	79
A trickle, not a flood: environmental watering in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	37
Evaluation and empirical study of Happy River on the basis of AHP: a case study of Shaoxing City (Zhejiang, China)	22
Wetland ecological character and wise use: towards a new framing	21
Towards a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands	19
Extensive coral reef decline in Nha Trang Bay, Vietnam: Acanthaster planci outbreak: the final event in a sequence of chronic disturbances	18
Ten key issues from the Global Wetland Outlook for decision makers	17
Recurrent coral bleaching in north-western Australia and associated declines in coral cover	16
Assessment of the causes and solutions to the significant 2018–19 fish deaths in the Lower Darling River, New South Wales, Australia	16
Policy changes in dam construction and biodiversity conservation in the Yangtze River Basin, China	15
Population structure of the chub mackerel (Scomber colias) in the North-east Atlantic inferred from otolith shape and body morphometrics	14
Spatio-temporal variability of amphipod assemblages associated with rhodolith seabeds	13
Reconstructing Kenya’s total freshwater fisheries catches: 1950–2017	13
Contrasting natal origin and movement history informs recovery pathways for three lowland river species following a mass fish kill	11
Development of a 16S metabarcoding assay for the environmental DNA (eDNA) detection of aquatic reptiles across northern Australia	11
Lacking character? A policy analysis of environmental watering of Ramsar wetlands in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	11
Spatial and temporal variations in particulate organic carbon in Indonesian waters over two decades	10
How fish kills affected traditional (Baakandji) and non-traditional communities on the Lower Darling–	10
Key steps to improve the assessment, evaluation and management of fish kills: lessons from the Murray–Darling River system, Australia	10
The ‘ecological character’ of wetlands: a foundational concept in the Ramsar Convention, yet still cause for debate 50 years later	10
Australian forested wetlands under climate change: collapse or proliferation?	10
Morphological and genetic characterisation of the introduced copepod Lernaea cyprinacea Linnaeus (Cyclopoida: Lernaeidae) occurring in the Murrumbidgee catchment, Australia	10
Spatial variation of ostracod (Crustacea, Ostracoda) egg banks in temporary lakes of a tropical flood plain	10
Flow to nowhere: the disconnect between environmental watering and the conservation of threatened species in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	10

Development of the text of the Ramsar Convention: 1965–1971	9
Ecohydraulic model for designing environmental flows supports recovery of imperilled Murray cod (	9
Otolith chemistry delineates the influence of natal origin, dispersal and flow on the population dynamics of golden perch (	8
Rewilding watersheds: using nature’s algorithms to fix our broken rivers	8
Water quality dynamics of floodplain lakes in relation to river flooding and cattle grazing	8
Preliminary investigation of reproductive hormone profiles in the blacktip shark (	8
Ecosystem structure and resilience of the Florida Bay Estuary: an original ecosystem model with implications for everglades restoration	8
Continuing the discussion about ecological futures for the lower Murray River (Australia) in the Anthropocene	8
Kills in the Darling: assessing the impact of the 2018–20 mass fish kills on the fish communities of the Lower Darling–	8
Intraspecific variation in diel patterns of rocky reef use suggests temporal partitioning in Port Jackson sharks	8
New South Wales rocky reefs are under threat	8
Comparison of an extracellular v. total DNA extraction approach for environmental DNA-based monitoring of sediment biota	8
Abundance, distribution and reproduction of the Data-Deficient species (Squalus blainville) around Sardinia Island (central western Mediterranean Sea) as a contribution to its conservation	8
Performance of acoustic telemetry in relation to submerged aquatic vegetation in a nearshore freshwater habitat	8
Reproductive biology of female blue swimmer crabs in the temperate estuaries of south-eastern Australia	8
A decade-long study on mayfly emergence patterns	8
Humpback whale (	8
Identifying physiological and environmental influences on otolith chemistry in a coastal fishery species	8
Climate change and cyanobacteria harmful algae blooms: adaptation practices for developing countries	7
The more the merrier: using environmental flows to improve floodplain vegetation condition	7
Fifty years of criteria development for selecting wetlands of international importance	7
Tidal–diel patterns of movement, activity and habitat use by juvenile mangrove whiprays using towed-float GPS telemetry	7
Biology and conservation of the unique and diverse halophilic macroinvertebrates of Australian salt lakes	7
Effect of climate variability on water quality trends in New Zealand rivers	7
Dietary analysis and mesocosm feeding trials confirm the eastern rock lobster (	7
What’s wrong with the Australian River Assessment System (AUSRIVAS)?	7
Field trials to determine the efficacy of aerators to mitigate hypoxia in inland waterways	7
The effect of environmental conditions on seasonal and inter-annual abundance of two species in the Yangtze River estuary	7
Individual variation influences avoidance behaviour of invasive common carp (	7
Succession of marine fouling community influences the associated mobile fauna via physical complexity increment	7
Shifting baselines and political expediency in New Zealand	7
Implications of water quality policy on land use: a case study of the approach in New Zealand	6
Cross-jurisdictional larval supply essential for eastern Australian spanner crabs (	6
Shape variation of the prawn Macrobrachium jelskii (Palaemonidae: Decapoda) in the Neotropical semiarid drainages: an intra- and inter-basin investigation	6
Blue, green and in-between: objectives and approaches for evaluating wetland flow regimes based on vegetation outcomes	6
Use of voluntary environmental contracts for wetland governance in the European Mediterranean region	6
Elevation and land use as drivers of macroinvertebrate functional composition in Afromontane headwater streams	6
Drivers restricting biodiversity in Australian saline lakes: a review	6
Resilience of a native soil seed bank in a floodplain lake subjected to cropping, grazing and extended drought	6
Population demographics of golden perch (	6
Reproductive biology of the finetooth shark (Carcharhinus isodon) in the northern Gulf of Mexico, with evidence of both annual and biennial reproduction	6
Friend or foe? Development of odour detection, differentiation and antipredator response in an embryonic elasmobranch	6
Microplastics in commercial bivalves harvested from intertidal seagrasses and sandbanks in the Ria Formosa lagoon, Portugal	6
Conventional tagging of sharks in Western Australia: the main commercial species exhibit contrasting movement patterns	6
Review of options for creating and maintaining oxygen refuges for fish during destratification-driven hypoxia in rivers	6
Long-lived life history for onaga Etelis coruscans in the Hawaiian Islands	6
Hybridisation experiments between freshwater prawns Macrobrachium amazonicum and M. pantanalense (Decapoda: Palaemonidae), and the effects of geographical isolation	6
Attribution of river water-quality trends to agricultural land use and climate variability in New Zealand	6
What eats a cauliflower coral? An assessment of predation on the endangered temperate soft coral,	6
Hydra vulgaris assay as environmental assessment tool for ecotoxicology in freshwaters: a review	6

Reframing the human–wetlands relationship through a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands	6
Historical abundance and distribution of the native flat oyster (	5
Bioenergetics of blue swimmer crab (	5
Potential fluctuation of δ	5
Sea-level rise, marine storms and the resilience of Mediterranean coastal wetlands: lessons learned from the Ebro Delta	5
Host-associated microbiota of yellow stingrays (Urobatis jamaicensis) is shaped by their environment and life history	5
Is the Paraíba do Sul River colourful? Prevalence of microplastics in freshwater, south-eastern Brazil	5
Assessment of microplastic accumulation in aquatic insects of different feeding guilds collected from wastewater in Sohag Governorate, Egypt	5
Is acidification of samples for isotopic analysis of carbon and nitrogen necessary for shoreline marine species?	5
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
Potential water pollution from recycled concrete aggregate material	5
Age and growth of tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) from Western Australia	5
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands	5
Effects of magnetic fields related to submarine power cables on the behaviour of larval rainbow trout (	5
A comparison of visual observation and DNA metabarcoding to assess the diet of juvenile sea turtle	5
Distribution of nitrogen-cycling genes in an oxygen-depleted cyclonic eddy in the Alfonso Basin, Gulf of California	5
Organic matter and metal loadings influence the spatial gradient of the benthic bacterial community in a temperate estuary	5
Contamination by antibiotics and their degradation and removal methods	5
Comment on Davies	5
Evaluation of a novel research trap for surveys of blue swimmer crab populations	5
Everyone has their limits: reproductive mode drives amphibian responses to land use in coastal areas	5
Climate change adaptation planning for an internationally important wetland, the Muir–Byenup System Ramsar Site in south-west Australia	5
Occurrence of emerging contaminants and analysis of oestrogenic activity in the water and sediments from two coastal lagoons in south-eastern Brazil	5
Drivers of zooplankton dynamics in a small tropical lowland river	5
Spatial variation and drivers of vegetation structure and composition in coastal freshwater wetlands of subtropical Australia	4
Oil and gas exploration and development in the Lake Eyre Basin: distribution and consequences for rivers and wetlands, including the Coongie Lakes Ramsar Site	4
Phenology and litter production in the mangrove genus Xylocarpus along rainfall and temperature gradients in tropical Australia	4
Forecasting water consumption on transboundary water resources for water resource management using the feed-forward neural network: a case study of the Nile River in Egypt and Kenya	4
Multi-decadal trends in large-bodied fish populations in the New South Wales Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	4
Carbon sources supporting Australia's most widely distributed freshwater fish, Nematalosa erebi (Günther) (Clupeidae: Dorosomatinae)	4
Characterising fish habitat use of fringing oyster reefs using acoustic imaging	4
Age estimation of barramundi (	4
A comparison of catch efficiency and bycatch reduction of tuna pole-and-line fisheries using Japan tuna hook (JT-hook) and circle-shaped hook (C-hook)	4
DNA metabarcoding reveals multiple co-occurring species in	4
Mapping the spatial distribution of wetlands in Argentina (South America) from a fusion of national databases	4
Rapid age estimation of longnose skate (	4
Multifaceted local action for the conservation of the transboundary Prespa lakes Ramsar sites in the Balkans	4
Coastal wetland rehabilitation first-pass prioritisation for blue carbon and associated co-benefits	4
DNA barcoding and metabarcoding of highly diverse aquatic mites (Acarina) can improve their use in routine biological monitoring	4
Anguillids in the upper Nu–Salween River, South-East Asia: species composition, distributions, natal sources and conservation implications	4
Molecular evidence reveals introduced populations of Eiseniella tetraedra (Savigny, 1826) (Annelida, Lumbricidae) with European origins from protected freshwater ecosystems of the southern Alborz Moun	4
Functional responses of mangrove fauna to forest degradation	4
Reproductive biology of a bamboo shark as a framework for better fisheries management	4
Feral horses (	4
Nuclear–follower foraging behaviour between Western Australian common octopus and brown-spotted wrasse	4
Socio-ecological impacts of industrial aquaculture and ways forward to sustainability	4
Corrigendum to: Identifying physiological and environmental influences on otolith chemistry in a coastal fishery species	4
Life history of two data-poor but commercially valuable tropical reef fishes, Parupeneus barberinus and Mulloidichthys flavolineatus, from the Saipan fishery, Northern Mariana Islands	4
Presence and abundance of microplastics in edible freshwater mussel (	4
Understanding salt-tolerance and biota–stressor interactions in freshwater invertebrate communities	4
Spatial heterogeneity of the seed bank at a peat lake in Australia	4
Life on the farm: are zooplankton communities in natural ponds and constructed dams the same?	4
Feeding ecology of juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna	4
Trends in Indian Ocean marine fisheries since 1950: synthesis of reconstructed catch and effort data	4