OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Protist 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The Vampyrellid Amoebae (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria)	24
Parasitic Chytrids Upgrade and Convey Primary Produced Carbon During Inedible Algae Proliferation	20
Diplonemids – A Review on "New" Flagellates on the Oceanic Block	17
Range-wide Phylogeography of a Nivicolous Protist Didymium nivicola Meyl. (Myxomycetes, Amoebozoa): Striking Contrasts Between the Northern and the Southern Hemisphere	15
Erection of a New Genus and Species for the Pathogen of Hard Clams ‘Quahog Parasite Unknown’ (QPX): Mucochytrium quahogii gen. nov., sp. nov.	13
A Morpho-molecular Perspective on the Diversity and Evolution of Spumellaria (Radiolaria)	12
Taxonomy and Molecular Phylogenetics of Ensiculiferaceae, fam. nov. (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae), with Consideration of their Life-history	11
Multigene Phylogeny, Morphological Observation and Re-examination of the Literature Lead to the Description of the Phaeosacciophyceae Classis Nova and Four New Species of the Heterokontophyta SI Clade	10
Diatom Genus Hyalosira (Rhabdonematales emend.) and Resolution of its Polyphyly in Grammatophoraceae and Rhabdonemataceae with a New Genus, Placosira, and Five New Hyalosira Species	10
Phylogenetic Position of Three Well-known Ciliates from the Controversial Order Loxocephalida Jankowski, 1980 (Scuticociliatia, Oligohymenophorea) and Urozona buetschlii (Schewiakoff, 1889) with Impro	10
Ecology, Morphology, Phylogeny and Taxonomic Revision of Giant Radiolarians, Orodaria ord. nov. (Radiolaria; Rhizaria; SAR)	10
Prevalence and Subtype Distribution of Blastocystis in Tibetan Sheep in Qinghai Province, Northwestern China	10
Seasonal Patterns of Phytoplankton Taxon Richness in Lakes: Effects of Temperature, Turnover and Abundance	10
Integrative Studies on Three Epibiotic Epistylis Species (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Peritrichia) in Lake Weishan Wetland, Northern China, Including the Establishment of a New Species	9
The Molecular Diversity of Phagotrophic Euglenids Examined Using Single-cell Methods	9
Opinion: Iron, Climate Change and the ‘Brain Eating Amoeba’ Naegleria fowleri	9
What Drives the Assembly of Plant-associated Protist Microbiomes? Investigating the Effects of Crop Species, Soil Type and Bacterial Microbiomes	9
Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Three Species of Dysteria (Ciliophora, Phyllopharyngea) Including the Description of Dysteria ozakii nom. nov.	9
Free-living Trichomonads are Unexpectedly Diverse	8
Diversity and Phylogenetic Position of Bothrostoma Stokes, 1887 (Ciliophora: Metopida), with Description of Four New Species	8
Biomineralization Capacities of Chlorodendrophyceae: Correlation Between Chloroplast Morphology and the Distribution of Micropearls in the Cell	7
Characterisation and Cultivation of New Lineages of Colponemids, a Critical Assemblage for Inferring Alveolate Evolution	7
A Needle in the Haystack – Mapping Sequences to Morphology Exemplified by the Loricate Choanoflagellate Enibas thessalia sp. nov. (Acanthoecida, Acanthoecidae)	7
Five Groups in the Genus Allovahlkampfia and the Description of the New Species Vahlkampfia bulbosis n.sp.	7
The Draft Genome of the Centric Diatom Conticribra weissflogii (Coscinodiscophyceae, Ochrophyta)	6

The Effect of pH and Salinity on the Toxicity and Growth of the Golden Alga, Prymnesium parvum	6
First Molecular Characterization of the Elusive Marine Protist Meteora sporadica	6
Haemogregarines of the Genera Haemogregarina, Hemolivia, and Hepatozoon Infecting Vietnamese Freshwater Turtles, with Additional Notes on Primer Specificity and Primer-template Mismatches Affecting Di	6
Morphology and Ecology of Two New Amoebae, Isolated From a Thalassohaline Lake, Dziani Dzaha	6
Development of the Myzozoan Aquatic Parasite Perkinsus marinus as A Versatile Experimental Genetic Model Organism	6
A High Throughput Viability Screening Method for the Marine Ectoparasite Neoparamoeba perurans	6
Hemiselmis aquamarina sp. nov. (Cryptomonadales, Cryptophyceae), A Cryptophyte with A Novel Phycobiliprotein Type (Cr-PC 564)	5
Molecular Epidemiology and Characterization of Theileria in Goats	5
New Approach to the Ultrastructure of the Capillitium in the Order Trichiales (Myxomycetes, Amoebozoa) and its Phylogenetic Implications	4
Molecular Phylogenetic Position of Microjoenia (Parabasalia: Spirotrichonymphea) from Reticulitermes and Hodotermopsis Termite Hosts	4
Dictyostelid Cellular Slime Molds from the Russian Far East	4
On the Biology, Diversity and Evolution of Nucleariid Amoebae (Amorphea, Obazoa, Opisthokonta1	4
Effects of Glacial Flour on Marine Micro-plankton: Evidences from Natural Communities of Greenlandic Fjords and Experimental Studies	4
Morphogenesis of an anaerobic ciliate Heterometopus palaeformis (Kahl, 1927) Foissner, 2016 (Ciliophora, Armophorea) with notes on its morphological and molecular characterization	4