OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Marine Biology Research is 1. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
A temperate whelk overcomes winter cold spells but not summer heatwaves	16
Trophic ecology of the clingfish Gobiesox marmoratus (Gobiesocidae): experimental evaluation of constraints to foraging behaviour	14
New records and observations of marine algae from Morocco (Eastern Atlantic Ocean)	11
Brewed in the African pot: the phylogeography of the toothed barnacle Chthamalus dentatus (Chthamaloidea: Chthamalidae)	10
Age-based growth and mortality estimates of Indian halibut in Iranian waters	9
Revealing the variety in phytoplankton communities in waters near the Antarctic Peninsula by high-throughput sequencing	8
Comparative transcriptomic analysis of large yellow croaker with different flow resistance abilities	8
Isolation and identification of marine microalgae from Egyptian coasts as potential source of biodiesel: morphology and sequence-based screening	8
Phylogeny and genetic diversity of Echinometra sea urchin in Taiwan	6
Temporal and inter-specific population genetics analyses of Sebastiscus marmoratus and S. tertius provide novel implications for fishery m	6
Exploring global cephalopod parasites and their ecological dynamics: a perspective from waters of the Indian subcontinent	5
Correction	5
Advances in population monitoring of the mangrove ‘uçá’-crab (Ucides cordatus): reduction of body size variance for better evaluation of population structure and extractive potential	5
Annual variation in leaf canopy across a seagrass distribution range is modulated by local environmental variation	5
Effects of temperature and irradiance on the growth of regenerated juveniles from Sargassum fusiforme holdfasts	5
First record of the genus Harpinia Boeck, 1876 (Amphipoda: Phoxocephalidae: Harpiniinae) from the southern hemisphere, with description of three new species	5
Planktonic and benthic invertebrate composition of the uMdlotane Estuary (South Africa) during contrasting seasonal flow states	5
A deep abyssal natural wood fall in the Northwestern Pacific and its associated fauna	5
Seasonal differences in the phytoplankton community between the inshore and offshore areas in Northern Beibu Gulf, South China Sea	5
Genetic homogeneity in soldier crab Mictyris guinotae populations across their geographic distribution in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan	4
Aggregation patterns in juvenile southern king crab Lithodes santolla (Molina, 1782). Are the aggregations related to moulting activity?	4
The interspecific abundance–occupancy relationship in rocky intertidal communities	4
Notes on the occurrence of ectoparasites on cetaceans off the northeastern coast of Brazil	4
Have Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) adequately addressed key needs to monitor and mitigate fishery impacts on endangered, threatened, and protected (ETP) species? A review, with recommendations t	4
Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from Mauritania	4

Seasonal biomass and composition of mesozooplankton communities in Sea of Oman and Arabian Sea	4
Exposure at low tide leads to a different microbial abundance of intertidal coral Acropora pulchra	4
Microbiota in Ariake bay tidal mud and the guts of indigenous mud skipper and eel goby	4
Effects of elevated pCO₂ on the response of coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi to prolonged darkness	4
Diversity of ctenophores from the Cuban Exclusive Economic Zone	4
Morphometric analyses of Mithraculus forceps (Brachyura: Mithracidae): linear and geometric approaches in a no-take marine reserve population	3
Relationships between environmental heterogeneity and fish beta diversity in a tropical bay	3
Under pressure: Cassiopea andromeda jellyfish exposed to increasing water temperature or lead, cadmium and anthropogenic gadolinium contamination	3
Variations in seaweed-associated and planktonic bacterial communities along the coast of Ghana	3
Phase shift from a stony-coral to a soft-coral community on a coral reef: a case study of an alternative state	3
Spirulina- a marine miracle for sustainable food system	3
Cymothoa excisa Perty, 1833 and Rocinela signata Schioedte & Meinert, 1879 (Crustacea: Isopoda) parasitizing commercial snappers (Teleostei: Lutja	3
Long-term changes and causes of biota assemblages in the southern Black Sea coasts	3
Assessing the stock status of Euthynnus alletteratus (Rafinesque 1810) exploited by tuna purse seiners in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean: implications of using the length-	3
Feeding of the crab Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Eriphiidae) as a tool to assess the impacts of oil spills	3
Elucidating the bacterial communities and their hydrolytic enzyme activities during the southwest monsoon season, along the west coast of India	3
Unveiling the first steps of juvenile Atlantic goliath grouper Epinephelus itajara (Perciformes: Epinephelidae) in a tropical estuary at the southwestern Atlantic coast	3
Ceratothoa nipaluna sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from Hobart Bay, southeastern Tasmania, a buccal parasite of the Little Weed Whiting, Neoodax balteatus	3
The diet of juvenile Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) feeding in new northern nursery areas along the Norwegian coast	3
On some cryptic sponges associated with Lessonia trabeculata holdfasts in the South-eastern Pacific	3
Effect of water trophic status on bio-optical properties and productive characteristics of phytoplankton of the Black Sea coastal waters near Sevastopol	3
Reef-associated palaemonid shrimp fauna of Lakshadweep islands: special focus on Cuapetes Clark, 1919 (Decapoda; Caridea) with a description of new species and phylogenetic notes	3
Understanding environmental drivers and trends in chlorophyll-a and related factors across equatorial Indian Ocean regions: implications for marine ecosystem dynamics and vulnerability	3
Swallowers (Chiasmodontidae, Scombriformes) of The Gully Marine Protected Area, in the northwest Atlantic	3
Spatial and temporal patterns of scyphozoan jellyfish abundance and growth in Icelandic coastal waters – a climate change perspective	3
Deep genetic divergence in Randall’s threadfin bream Nemipterus randalli Russell, 1986 population from northern Bay of Bengal inferred by mtDNA sequences	2
A case study on the function of turf algae as suitable habitat for peracarid crustaceans in disturbed environments from SW Mediterranean Sea	2
Preferential prey and attacking strategy of the purple dye murex (Bolinus brandaris) on three common bivalve species from Tunisia (Central Mediterranean Sea)	2
Early life stages of the snapping shrimp Alpheus cf . packardii : morphological description of the first three zoeal stages	2
On the biology of the alien Red Sea goatfish, Parupeneus forsskali (Fourmanoir & Guézé, 1976) in the Aegean Sea, eastern Mediterranean	2
Age and growth of the crocodile shark, Pseudocarcharias kamoharai , in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean	2
Grid-net design that successfully reduces discarded catch and damage to benthic species in the veined rapa whelk beam trawl fishery	2
Growth, mortality, and exploitation rates of the mantis shrimp Erugosquilla massavensis ( Kossman , 1880 )	2
Summer diet and feeding strategy of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) inhabiting the southern coast of Hokkaido, Japan	2
Taxa specific grazing-induced phytoplankton chlorophyll breakdown pathway: implication in algal bloom monitoring and mitigation programs	2
Notes on the reproduction and otoliths of Neoscopelus cf. microchir (Myctophiformes: Neoscopelidae) in the Galicia Bank, NE Atlantic.	2
Effects of tropical cyclone Amphan on the copepods of the Ganges estuary	2
Record ofCrambionella annandaleiRao, 1931 from Bangladesh, with a review of the geographic distribution of the genusCrambionella(Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)	2
Kinorhynch communities of Mobile Bay, Alabama	2
Can the Caribbean sharpnose shark Rhizoprionodon porosus Poey, 1861 be used as a ‘flagship umbrella species’ in an artificial reef complex to facilitate management actio	2
Deep otolith analysis of two large Atlantic goliath groupers found dead in hypersaline and regular marine habitats on the Brazilian coast	2
The phototactic behaviour of the kleptoplastic sea slug Elysia viridis (Montagu, 1804) is not connected to the photosynthetic activity of kleptoplasts	2
Growth and biochemical profiling of marine microalgae Chlorella salina with response to nitrogen starvation	2
Growth parameters and stock assessment of Carangoides bajad Forsskal, 1775 (Carangiformes: Carangidae) in Jeddah fisheries	2
Intra and interspecies discrimination of three teleost species collected from the Komo Estuary in Gabon in relation to living depth levels using otolith shape analysis	2
Genetic diversity of Dotilla myctiroides (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dotillidae) based on mitochondrial cox 1 gene marker in Peninsular Malaysi	2
Community structure of megabenthos of Perdido Fold Belt (Tamaulipas, Mexico) and its relationship with the oceanographic and sediment parameters including potential pollutants	1
Do static nets pose a threat to the seafloor? Comparing the effects of gillnets and trammel nets on a pillow coral Cladocora caespitosa bed	1
Spatio-temporal variations in culturable bacterial community associated with denitrification in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone	1
Elthusa phoenix sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae), a branchial fish parasitic isopod, from the Sohachi flounder, Cleisthenes pinetorum Jordan	1

Morphological, phylogenetic and biogeographic characterizations of three heterotrophic nanoflagellates isolated from coastal areas of Korea	1
The African cryptic clades of the toothed barnacle Chthamalus dentatus (Chthamaloidea, Chthamalidae)	1
Intertidal burrowing shrimps (Axiidea: Callianassidae, Callichiridae; Gebiidea: Axiannassidae, Upogebiidae) collected along the Brazilian coast	1
Efficiency of different collectors for spat settlement of Mediterranean mussel ( Mytilus galloprovincialis ) in the southeastern Marmara Sea, Türkiye	1
Altered temperature and restricted food supply reduce pH tolerance in both young and adult ascidians	1
First report on chemistry of a red seaweed Croisettea sp. from the coastal area of Yogyakarta, Indonesia	1
Distributional patterns of two sympatric blue crabs (Callinectes) and the implications for conservation management at the South-west Atlantic subtropical shelf	1
Benthic community structure on offshore northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) grounds north of Iceland	1
Spatiotemporal variability of phytoplankton in the Aglou-Sidi Ifni coastline (Moroccan Atlantic Coast)	1
Toxicity of iron-based nanoparticles to Nannochloropsis oculata: effects of Fe₂O₃-NPs on oxidative stress and fatty acid composition	1
Latitudinal distribution of skeleton shrimps (Amphipoda, Caprellidae) in artificial habitats throughout the eastern South Pacific coast of Peru	1
Population variation and sexual dimorphism in the deep-sea crab Parilia alcocki (Brachyura, Leucosiidae)	1
Taxonomic revision of Sauranthura (Isopoda: Anthuroidea: Anthuridae), with the description of Sauranthura liangaensis sp. nov. from Suriga	1
Nutrient removal and nitrogen recovery from aquaculture effluents by the edible halophyte Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) in hydroponics and in sand substrate	1
Recolonization behavior of rapa whelk ( Rapana venosa ) and common starfish ( Asterias rubens ) eradicated from mussel bed	1
Sertularioidea (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME)	1
Deep-sea ophiuroids (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the Spanish North Atlantic Marine Subdivision (Galician Bank), with five new records	1
South African Wild Coast Estuaries: spatiotemporal variations in the biochemical composition and the condition of the brown mussel Perna perna (Linnaeus,	1
Underwater photo-identification of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) off Mauritius	1
Systematic and biogeographical aspects of the first Antarctic discovery of Orthoplana bregazzii Karling, 1973 (Proseriata, Otoplanidae)	1
First report of Wangiella dicollaria Nie, 1934 from the Eastern Arabian Sea with notes on the status of Stenosemella parvicollis (Marshall	1
Temperature and reduced pH regulate stress and biomineralization gene expression in larvae and post-larvae of the sand dollar Dendraster excentricus	1
Length–weight relationship and seasonal variations in diet composition of whiting (Merlangius merlangus) in the South-eastern Black Sea	1
Age, growth, and feeding of boarfish, Capros aper (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Southwest of the Iberian Peninsula	1
First report of an epibiontic diatom Protoraphis hustedtiana R. Simonsen, 1970 (Protoraphidaceae) in association with copepod Pontella andersoni Sewell, 1912 from northern coastal waters	1
Stock assessment and management recommendations of Indo-Pacific king Mackerel ( Scomberomorus guttatus ) in the upper Bay of Bengal	1
A comparative study of epibionts and age structure of two east coast populations of American horseshoe crabs	1
Symbiodiniaceae in and ex hospite have differential physiological responses under different heat stress scenarios	1