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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A temperate whelk overcomes winter cold spells but not summer heatwaves	16
Comparative transcriptomic analysis of large yellow croaker with different flow resistance abilities	13
Trophic ecology of the clingfish Gobiesox marmoratus (Gobiesocidae): experimental evaluation of constraints to foraging behaviour	11
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
Temporal and inter-specific population genetics analyses of Sebastiscus marmoratus and S. tertius provide novel implications for fishery m	8
Isolation and identification of marine microalgae from Egyptian coasts as potential source of biodiesel: morphology and sequence-based screening	8
Revealing the variety in phytoplankton communities in waters near the Antarctic Peninsula by high-throughput sequencing	8
Hand dredging for the wedge clam (Donax trunculus) in the Algarve coast (southern Portugal): fishing yield, bycatch, discards and damage rates	6
Annual variation in leaf canopy across a seagrass distribution range is modulated by local environmental variation	6
Phylogeny and genetic diversity of Echinometra sea urchin in Taiwan	6
Exploring global cephalopod parasites and their ecological dynamics: a perspective from waters of the Indian subcontinent	6
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
Effects of temperature and irradiance on the growth of regenerated juveniles from Sargassum fusiforme holdfasts	5
Seasonal differences in the phytoplankton community between the inshore and offshore areas in Northern Beibu Gulf, South China Sea	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
Correction	5
The diet of juvenile Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) feeding in new northern nursery areas along the Norwegian coast	4
First record of the genus Harpinia Boeck, 1876 (Amphipoda: Phoxocephalidae: Harpiniinae) from the southern hemisphere, with description of three new species	4
Notes on the occurrence of ectoparasites on cetaceans off the northeastern coast of Brazil	4
Conserve immatures and rebound the potential: stock status and reproduction of whiting (Merlangius merlangus [Linnaeus, 1758]) in the Western Black Sea	4
Aggregation patterns in juvenile southern king crab Lithodes santolla (Molina, 1782). Are the aggregations related to moulting activity?	4
Effects of elevated pCO₂ on the response of coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi to prolonged darkness	4

Genetic homogeneity in soldier crab Mictyris guinotae populations across their geographic distribution in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan	4
Exposure at low tide leads to a different microbial abundance of intertidal coral Acropora pulchra	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
The interspecific abundance–occupancy relationship in rocky intertidal communities	4
Diversity of ctenophores from the Cuban Exclusive Economic Zone	4
Seasonal biomass and composition of mesozooplankton communities in Sea of Oman and Arabian Sea	4
Microbiota in Ariake bay tidal mud and the guts of indigenous mud skipper and eel goby	4
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
Morphometric analyses of Mithraculus forceps (Brachyura: Mithracidae): linear and geometric approaches in a no-take marine reserve population	3
Long-term changes and causes of biota assemblages in the southern Black Sea coasts	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
Age and growth of the crocodile shark, Pseudocarcharias kamoharai , in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean	3
Growth parameters and stock assessment of Carangoides bajad Forsskal, 1775 (Carangiformes: Carangidae) in Jeddah fisheries	3
Unveiling the first steps of juvenile Atlantic goliath grouper Epinephelus itajara (Perciformes: Epinephelidae) in a tropical estuary at the southwestern Atlantic coast	3
Cymothoa excisa Perty, 1833 and Rocinela signata Schioedte & Meinert, 1879 (Crustacea: Isopoda) parasitizing commercial snappers (Teleostei: Lutja	3
Under pressure: Cassiopea andromeda jellyfish exposed to increasing water temperature or lead, cadmium and anthropogenic gadolinium contamination	3
Spatial and temporal patterns of scyphozoan jellyfish abundance and growth in Icelandic coastal waters – a climate change perspective	3
Feeding of the crab Eriphia gonagra (Fabricius, 1781) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Eriphiidae) as a tool to assess the impacts of oil spills	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
Record ofCrambionella annandaleiRao, 1931 from Bangladesh, with a review of the geographic distribution of the genusCrambionella(Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)	3
Swallowers (Chiasmodontidae, Scombriformes) of The Gully Marine Protected Area, in the northwest Atlantic	3
Spirulina- a marine miracle for sustainable food system	3
On some cryptic sponges associated with Lessonia trabeculata holdfasts in the South-eastern Pacific	3
Relationships between environmental heterogeneity and fish beta diversity in a tropical bay	3
Effect of water trophic status on bio-optical properties and productive characteristics of phytoplankton of the Black Sea coastal waters near Sevastopol	3
Variations in seaweed-associated and planktonic bacterial communities along the coast of Ghana	3
Elucidating the bacterial communities and their hydrolytic enzyme activities during the southwest monsoon season, along the west coast of India	3
Ceratothoa nipaluna sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from Hobart Bay, southeastern Tasmania, a buccal parasite of the Little Weed Whiting, Neoodax balteatus	3
Phase shift from a stony-coral to a soft-coral community on a coral reef: a case study of an alternative state	3
Growth, mortality, and exploitation rates of the mantis shrimp Erugosquilla massavensis ( Kossman , 1880 )	2
Notes on the reproduction and otoliths of Neoscopelus cf. microchir (Myctophiformes: Neoscopelidae) in the Galicia Bank, NE Atlantic.	2
Early life stages of the snapping shrimp Alpheus cf . packardii : morphological description of the first three zoeal stages	2
Genetic diversity of Dotilla myctiroides (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dotillidae) based on mitochondrial cox 1 gene marker in Peninsular Malaysi	2
A case study on the function of turf algae as suitable habitat for peracarid crustaceans in disturbed environments from SW Mediterranean Sea	2
A comparative study of epibionts and age structure of two east coast populations of American horseshoe crabs	2
Impacts of anthropogenic contaminants and elevated temperature on prevalence and proliferation of Escherichia coli in the wild-caught American oyster, Crassostrea virginica in the southe	2
Sertularioidea (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME)	2
Preferential prey and attacking strategy of the purple dye murex (Bolinus brandaris) on three common bivalve species from Tunisia (Central Mediterranean Sea)	2
Growth and biochemical profiling of marine microalgae Chlorella salina with response to nitrogen starvation	2
Effects of tropical cyclone Amphan on the copepods of the Ganges estuary	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
Summer diet and feeding strategy of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) inhabiting the southern coast of Hokkaido, Japan	2
First report on chemistry of a red seaweed Croisettea sp. from the coastal area of Yogyakarta, Indonesia	2
Community structure of megabenthos of Perdido Fold Belt (Tamaulipas, Mexico) and its relationship with the oceanographic and sediment parameters including potential pollutants	2
Distributional patterns of two sympatric blue crabs (Callinectes) and the implications for conservation management at the South-west Atlantic subtropical shelf	2
Kinorhynch communities of Mobile Bay, Alabama	2
On the biology of the alien Red Sea goatfish, Parupeneus forsskali (Fourmanoir & Guézé, 1976) in the Aegean Sea, eastern Mediterranean	2
Grid-net design that successfully reduces discarded catch and damage to benthic species in the veined rapa whelk beam trawl fishery	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 genetic divergence in Randall’s threadfin bream Nemipterus randalli Russell, 1986 population from northern Bay of Bengal inferred by mtDNA sequences	2
Genomic attributes and recent advances in detection of white spot syndrome virus in shrimp: a review	2
Taxa specific grazing-induced phytoplankton chlorophyll breakdown pathway: implication in algal bloom monitoring and mitigation programs	2
Symbiodiniaceae in and ex hospite have differential physiological responses under different heat stress scenarios	2
Toxicity of iron-based nanoparticles to Nannochloropsis oculata: effects of Fe₂O₃-NPs on oxidative stress and fatty acid composition	1
Length–weight relationship and seasonal variations in diet composition of whiting (Merlangius merlangus) in the South-eastern Black Sea	1
Elthusa phoenix sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae), a branchial fish parasitic isopod, from the Sohachi flounder, Cleisthenes pinetorum Jordan	1
Recolonization behavior of rapa whelk ( Rapana venosa ) and common starfish ( Asterias rubens ) eradicated from mussel bed	1
Stock assessment and management recommendations of Indo-Pacific king Mackerel ( Scomberomorus guttatus ) in the upper Bay of Bengal	1
Efficiency of different collectors for spat settlement of Mediterranean mussel ( Mytilus galloprovincialis ) in the southeastern Marmara Sea, Türkiye	1
Age, growth, and feeding of boarfish, Capros aper (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Southwest of the Iberian Peninsula	1
Investigating the capture mechanism of scavenging gastropods in hanging-net fisheries	1
Spatiotemporal variability of phytoplankton in the Aglou-Sidi Ifni coastline (Moroccan Atlantic Coast)	1
Taxonomic revision of Sauranthura (Isopoda: Anthuroidea: Anthuridae), with the description of Sauranthura liangaensis sp. nov. from Suriga	1
Bycatch discard patterns in a tropical beach seine fishery across different monsoonal periods	1
Benthic community structure on offshore northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) grounds north of Iceland	1
First report of Wangiella dicollaria Nie, 1934 from the Eastern Arabian Sea with notes on the status of Stenosemella parvicollis (Marshall	1
Underwater photo-identification of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) off Mauritius	1
Latitudinal distribution of skeleton shrimps (Amphipoda, Caprellidae) in artificial habitats throughout the eastern South Pacific coast of Peru	1
Scraping and grazing herbivorous/detritivorous fish display opposite feeding behaviours under different protection regulations	1
Altered temperature and restricted food supply reduce pH tolerance in both young and adult ascidians	1
Grateloupia oligoclora (Halymeniaceae, Rhodophyta): a new species from China based on morphological observation, life history and rbcL gene sequence analysis	1
Microplastics – an emerging threat in the Indian waterbodies	1
Inferring ecological strategies of Psenopsis spp. (Teleostei: Centrolophidae) inhabiting Indian waters from morphological features	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
Morphological, phylogenetic and biogeographic characterizations of three heterotrophic nanoflagellates isolated from coastal areas of Korea	1
Intertidal burrowing shrimps (Axiidea: Callianassidae, Callichiridae; Gebiidea: Axiannassidae, Upogebiidae) collected along the Brazilian coast	1
Spatio-temporal variations in culturable bacterial community associated with denitrification in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone	1
Nutrient removal and nitrogen recovery from aquaculture effluents by the edible halophyte Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) in hydroponics and in sand substrate	1
Temperature and reduced pH regulate stress and biomineralization gene expression in larvae and post-larvae of the sand dollar Dendraster excentricus	1
Filling in data gaps on the phaeton dragonet [Synchiropus phaeton (Günther, 1861)]: a study on biological characteristics in the eastern Mediterranean (Aegean Sea, Greece)	1
Population variation and sexual dimorphism in the deep-sea crab Parilia alcocki (Brachyura, Leucosiidae)	1
South African Wild Coast Estuaries: spatiotemporal variations in the biochemical composition and the condition of the brown mussel Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1
Low genetic diversity and lack of genetic structure among populations of the sandfish Holothuria (Metriatyla) scabra on the Tanzanian coast	1
Potential energetic and oxygenic benefits to unstable photosymbiosis in the cladobranch slug, Berghia stephanieae (Nudibranchia, Aeolidiidae)	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
Systematic and biogeographical aspects of the first Antarctic discovery of Orthoplana bregazzii Karling, 1973 (Proseriata, Otoplanidae)	1
The African cryptic clades of the toothed barnacle Chthamalus dentatus (Chthamaloidea, Chthamalidae)	1