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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Review of jellyfish trophic interactions in the Baltic Sea	13
On Caretta caretta’s shell: first spatial analysis of micro- and macro-epibionts on the Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtle carapace	13
Using growth rates and otolith shape to identify the population structure ofUmbrina canosai(Sciaenidae) from the Southwestern Atlantic	12
Hypoxia exerts oxidative stress and changes in expression of antioxidant enzyme genes in gills of Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lamarck, 1819)	11
Baleen whale distribution, behaviour and overlap with anthropogenic activity in coastal regions of the New York Bight	11
Phylogenetic position of the hemiuroid genus Paraccacladium Bray & Gibson, 1977 (Trematoda: Hemiuroidea) and the status of the subfamily Paraccacladiinae Bray & Gibson, 1977	9
Under pressure: Cassiopea andromeda jellyfish exposed to increasing water temperature or lead, cadmium and anthropogenic gadolinium contamination	8
A trans-isthmus survey of marine tardigrades from Costa Rica (Central America) with descriptions of seven new species	7
Population genetics of the hound needlefish Tylosurus crocodilus (Belonidae) indicate high connectivity in Tanzanian coastal waters	7
Deep-sea smelts, pencil smelts, and barreleyes (Teleostei: Argentiniformes) from oceanic islands and seamounts off northeastern Brazil	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
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	7
A histology-free description of Tetrastemma cupido sp. nov. (Nemertea: Eumonostilfera) from Sagami Bay, Japan	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	7
Damage assessment and survival estimates in the wedge clam (Donax trunculus) caught by mechanical dredging in the northern Alboran Sea	6
Microplastics – an emerging threat in the Indian waterbodies	6
Short-term microplastic exposure triggers cellular damage through oxidative stress in the soft coralCoelogorgia palmosa	6
A new species of branchial fish parasitic isopod, Norileca Bruce, 1990 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae), from the Andaman Islands, India	6
Scyphozoan jellyfish blooms and their relationship with environmental factors along the South-eastern Arabian Sea	6
Age and growth of Ceratoscopelus warmingii (Myctophidae) in the South China Sea based on sagittal otolith microstructure	5
Recombinase polymerase amplification combined with lateral flow dipstick for the rapid detection of Prorocentrum donghaiense	5
First record of the mating system in the grey smoothhound shark (Mustelus californicus)	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	5
Sabellariid (Polychaeta: Annelida) reefs as nursery ground for the hermit crab Clibanarius symmetricus (Randall, 1840) on the Amazonian coast of Brazil	5
Behavioural responses in the sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) to permanent magnets and pulsed magnetic fields	5

Phylogeographic analysis of Thyrsites atun (Perciformes: Gempylidae) reveals connectivity between fish from South Africa and Chile	5
Reproductive cycle of sea urchin Echinometra vanbrunti (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) from the Gulf of California	4
Stock characterization of Greater Lizardfish, Saurida tumbil (Bloch, 1795) along the west coast of India using morphological and molecular markers	4
A comparison of the prokaryotic communities associated with seven seaweed species, sediment, and seawater from the Penghu archipelago, Taiwan	4
Local movements and site-tenacity of minke whale in Iceland in relation to feeding and a northward distribution shift	4
Two new species of the marine flatwormPericelis(Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from southwestern Japan with an amendment of the generic diagnosis based on phylogenetic inference	4
Influence of fragment size on post transplantation growth and survival of domed scleractinian corals	4
Presence of microplastics and antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in sea cucumbers under different anthropogenic influences in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)	4
Can shell shape be used to find the origin of South American mussels?	4
Effects of tropical cyclone Amphan on the copepods of the Ganges estuary	4
Sea pens and bamboo corals in Skagerrak and the Norwegian trench	3
Brewed in the African pot: the phylogeography of the toothed barnacle Chthamalus dentatus (Chthamaloidea: Chthamalidae)	3
Spatial patterns and key drivers of zooplankton in the north central Indian Ocean	3
Filling in data gaps on the phaeton dragonet [Synchiropus phaeton (Günther, 1861)]: a study on biological characteristics in the eastern Mediterranean (Aegean Sea, Greece)	3
Inferring ecological strategies of Psenopsis spp. (Teleostei: Centrolophidae) inhabiting Indian waters from morphological features	3
Growth and biochemical profiling of marine microalgae Chlorella salina with response to nitrogen starvation	3
Underwater photo-identification of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) off Mauritius	3
Intertidal burrowing shrimps (Axiidea: Callianassidae, Callichiridae; Gebiidea: Axiannassidae, Upogebiidae) collected along the Brazilian coast	3
Zoogeographic patterns of Red Sea fishes – are they correlated to success in colonization of the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal?	3
Characterization of hydrological features and plankton during neap tides in a subtropical lagoon south of the California Current	3
Spatial and temporal characteristics of harmful algal blooms in Zhejiang Province waters during 1933–2018	3
Spatio-temporal variations in culturable bacterial community associated with denitrification in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone	3
Night underwater rides: the activity of a sandy beach gastropod is affected by interactive effects of light availability and water level	3
Spirulina- a marine miracle for sustainable food system	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
Feeding biology of the brittlestarOphioderma appressum(Say, 1825) (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) in a tropical shallow reef from the Brazilian coast	3
Mito-nuclear discordance in West African mangrove crab species (Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) suggests uni-directional mitochondrial introgression, despite prolonged evolutionary independence	3
Trophic resource partitioning among four sympatric lutjanid species in the southern Mexican Caribbean Sea	3
Invertebrates found on floating Sargassum horneri (Fucales, Sargassaceae) under the Kuroshio Current in the Pacific Ocean	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