OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Marine Biology 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
On Caretta caretta’s shell: first spatial analysis of micro- and macro-epibionts on the Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtle carapace	12
A new genus and species of fish parasitic cymothoid isopod (Crustacea) from Indian waters, with a key to the branchial-attaching cymothoid genera	12
Review of jellyfish trophic interactions in the Baltic Sea	10
Temperature-related timing of the spring bloom and match between phytoplankton and zooplankton	10
Kinorhynch communities from Alabama coastal waters	9
Phylogenetic position of the hemiuroid genus Paraccacladium Bray & Gibson, 1977 (Trematoda: Hemiuroidea) and the status of the subfamily Paraccacladiinae Bray & Gibson, 1977	8
Baleen whale distribution, behaviour and overlap with anthropogenic activity in coastal regions of the New York Bight	8
A comparison of bacterial communities from OMZ sediments in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal reveals major differences in nitrogen turnover and carbon recycling potential	8
Phylogenetic affiliation of the lepocreadiid trematodes parasitizing some marine fishes in the North-western Pacific	8
Using growth rates and otolith shape to identify the population structure ofUmbrina canosai(Sciaenidae) from the Southwestern Atlantic	8
Taxonomy of the Brazilian Apodida (Holothuroidea), with the description of two new genera	8
Hypoxia exerts oxidative stress and changes in expression of antioxidant enzyme genes in gills of Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lamarck, 1819)	7
A histology-free description of Tetrastemma cupido sp. nov. (Nemertea: Eumonostilfera) from Sagami Bay, Japan	7
A new species of Renocila Miers, 1880 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae), a fish parasitic isopod from Andaman Island, India	7
Effects of salinity on haemolymph osmolality, gill Na⁺/K⁺ ATPase and antioxidant enzyme activities in the male mud crab Scylla olivacea (Herbst, 1796)	7
Deep-sea smelts, pencil smelts, and barreleyes (Teleostei: Argentiniformes) from oceanic islands and seamounts off northeastern Brazil	7
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	6
Biodiversity of caridean shrimps on rocky bottoms of two preserved islands on the southeastern Brazilian coast	6
Reproductive cycle of the red sea cucumber, Parastichopus tremulus (Gunnerus, 1767), from western Norway	6
Under pressure: Cassiopea andromeda jellyfish exposed to increasing water temperature or lead, cadmium and anthropogenic gadolinium contamination	6
Phylogenetic conservatism of abiotic niche in sympatric Southwestern Atlantic skates	6
A new species of parasitic copepod of the genus Lernaeenicus Lesueur, 1824 (Siphonostomatoida: Pennellidae) from the torpedo scad Megalaspis cordyla (Linnaeus) off Kerala coast of Arabia	6
Scyphozoan jellyfish blooms and their relationship with environmental factors along the South-eastern Arabian Sea	6
Epizoic barnacle (Xenobalanus globicipitis) infestations in several cetacean species in south-eastern Brazil	6
Biological invasions in artificial habitats: factors that determine the presence of native and exotic peracarid Crustacea species in Southwestern Atlantic	5

Damage assessment and survival estimates in the wedge clam (Donax trunculus) caught by mechanical dredging in the northern Alboran Sea	5
A trans-isthmus survey of marine tardigrades from Costa Rica (Central America) with descriptions of seven new species	5
Environmental influence on the inter-annual demographic variation of the narrownose smooth-hound shark (Mustelus schmitti, Springer 1939) in the Northern Argentine Coastal System (El Rincón, 38	5
A new species of Zeuxo (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from Japan, with remarks on carapace pigmentation as a potentially useful taxonomic character	5
Recombinase polymerase amplification combined with lateral flow dipstick for the rapid detection of Prorocentrum donghaiense	5
Encounters with the rare genus Helicosalpa (Chordata, Thaliacea, Salpida), using citizen science data	5
Chaotic genetic patchiness in the pelagic teleost fish Sardina pilchardus across the Siculo-Tunisian Strait	5
Fluorescence signatures of persistent photosystem damage in the staghorn coral Acropora cf. pulchra (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) during bleaching and recovery	5
A new species of branchial fish parasitic isopod, Norileca Bruce, 1990 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae), from the Andaman Islands, India	5
Reproductive biology of the bopyrid isopod Robinione overstreeti, a branchial parasite of the ghost shrimp Callichirus islagrande (Decapoda: Callichiridae) in the Gulf of Mexico	4
Behavioural responses in the sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) to permanent magnets and pulsed magnetic fields	4
Microplastics – an emerging threat in the Indian waterbodies	4
Diet composition and biomass consumption of harbour seals in Telemark and Aust-Agder, Norwegian Skagerrak	4
Influence of fragment size on post transplantation growth and survival of domed scleractinian corals	4
Phragmope discrepans,gen. & comb. nov. (Mesophyllaceae, Corallinales, Rhodophyta), the species known as ‘Mesophyllum engelhartii’from South Africa	4
Reproductive biology of the dart squid,Lolliguncula diomedeae(Cephalopoda: Loliginidae) from Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico	4
Spatial patterns and key drivers of zooplankton in the north central Indian Ocean	3
Local movements and site-tenacity of minke whale in Iceland in relation to feeding and a northward distribution shift	3
A comparison of the prokaryotic communities associated with seven seaweed species, sediment, and seawater from the Penghu archipelago, Taiwan	3
Invertebrates found on floating Sargassum horneri (Fucales, Sargassaceae) under the Kuroshio Current in the Pacific Ocean	3
Sabellariid (Polychaeta: Annelida) reefs as nursery ground for the hermit crab Clibanarius symmetricus (Randall, 1840) on the Amazonian coast of Brazil	3
Scraping and grazing herbivorous/detritivorous fish display opposite feeding behaviours under different protection regulations	3
A new species of Pantopipetta (Pycnogonida: Austrodecidae) from the North Pacific, with a note on the palp articulation	3
Trophic resource partitioning among four sympatric lutjanid species in the southern Mexican Caribbean Sea	3
Two new species of the marine flatworm Pericelis (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from southwestern Japan with an amendment of the generic diagnosis based on phylogenetic inference	3
Swimbladder filling in herring larvae: effects of food oil on the water surface	3
Differences in the concentrations of trace elements among different hard structures and their potential application in species identification: a case study on Loliginidae cryptic species	3
Night underwater rides: the activity of a sandy beach gastropod is affected by interactive effects of light availability and water level	3
Feeding biology of the brittlestarOphioderma appressum(Say, 1825) (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) in a tropical shallow reef from the Brazilian coast	3
Presence of microplastics and antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in sea cucumbers under different anthropogenic influences in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)	3
Can shell shape be used to find the origin of South American mussels?	3
Reproductive timing and synchronized reproduction of the sea urchinPseudechinus magellanicus(Echinoidea: Temnopleuridae) in central Patagonia, Argentina	3
A comparison of spring body condition, maturation status, and diet in the European sardine, Sardina pilchardus (Teleostei: Clupeidae) from contrasting environments off the Moroccan Atlantic coa	3
Zoogeographic patterns of Red Sea fishes – are they correlated to success in colonization of the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal?	3
Bioluminescence of greenNoctiluca scintillansfrom the coastal waters of Kochi (southwest coast of India) andin vivoexperiments on bioluminescence in response to mechanical stimuli and it	3