OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of African Journal of Marine Science 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluating the evidence for ecological effectiveness of South Africa’s marine protected areas	29
Social and economic effects of marine protected areas in South Africa, with recommendations for future assessments	17
Fear at the top: killer whale predation drives white shark absence at South Africa’s largest aggregation site	13
Application of a general methodology to understand vulnerability and adaptability of the fisheries for small pelagic species in the Benguela countries: Angola, Namibia and South Africa	13
South African marine citizen science – benefits, challenges and future directions	11
Revisiting ‘A monograph on the Polychaeta of southern Africa’: establishing taxonomic research priorities in southern Africa	11
Microplastics pollution in the sediments of creeks and estuaries of Kenya, western Indian Ocean	10
When the flathead mullet left St Lucia	10
Metabarcoding of marine zooplankton in South Africa	10
Presence of microplastics in benthic macroinvertebrates along the Kenyan coast	9
Movement patterns and growth rate of the whitespotted wedgefish Rhynchobatus djiddensis in southern Africa based on tag-recapture data	8
Trends in shore-based angling effort determined from aerial surveys: a case study from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	7
Editorial overview: recommendations for the promotion of a resilient linefishery in the Anthropocene	7
Colonisation of South African kelp-bed canopies by the alien mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis: extent and implications of a novel bioinvasion	7
Physiological stress response and recovery of an important estuarine fishery species, dusky kob Argyrosomus japonicus, after a simulated catch-and-release event	7
Age estimates of chokka squidLoligo reynaudiioff South Africa and their use to test the effectiveness of a closed season for conserving this resource	6
Accounting for linefish dependency in management of the South African small pelagic fishery	6
Evaluating Kenya’s coastal gillnet fishery: trade-offs in recommended mesh-size regulations	6
Time-course of the physiological-stress response in bronze breamPachymetopon grandefollowing a simulated catch-and-release angling event	5
A decade of surf-zone linefish monitoring in the Dwesa-Cwebe Marine Protected Area, with a preliminary assessment of the effects of rezoning and resource use	5
Bull shark Carcharhinus leucas recruitment into the St Lucia Estuary, South Africa, after prolonged mouth closure, and the first observation of a neonate bull shark preyed on by a Nile crocodil	5
The effect of fishmeal replacement with terrestrial protein sources on growth, body condition and intestinal microbiota of juvenile dusky kob Argyrosomus japonicus	5
Extending biodiversity conservation with functional and evolutionary diversity: a case study of South African sparid fishes	5
The influence of estuary eutrophication on the benthic diatom community: a molecular approach	5
An indicator-based approach for cross-realm coastal biodiversity assessments	4

Monitoring the effects of spatial protection on the reef fish communities of the Pondoland Marine Protected Area, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	4
Application of DNA mini-barcoding reveals illegal trade in endangered shark products in southern Africa	4
Movement patterns and catch trends of the diamond ray Gymnura natalensis (Dasyatidae) in South African waters	4
Dropping plates to pick up aliens: towards a standardised approach for monitoring alien fouling species	4
Heavy metal profiles in limpets and algae on the Eastern Cape coast of South Africa	4
Distribution patterns of intertidal oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from South African shores and their relationship to temperature	4
Life-history trade-offs among four sympatric seabreams	4
Spatial and ontogenetic variability in the diet and trophic ecology of two co-occurring catsharks (Scyliorhinidae) off South Africa	4
Status of a decennial marine invasion by the bisexual mussel Semimytilus algosus (Gould, 1850) in South Africa	4
Wave setup at Tristan da Cunha	4
Movements and growth rates of the broadnose sevengill shark Notorynchus cepedianus in southern Africa: results from a long-term cooperative tagging programme	4
Quantifying the impacts of abrasion and bacterial transfer when fish are exposed to sand during a catch-and-release event	4
Ecosystem service values of sediment generation and entrapment by marginal coral reefs at Sodwana Bay, South Africa	4
Composition, structure and diversity of fish assemblages across seascape types at Príncipe, an understudied tropical island in the Gulf of Guinea (eastern Atlantic Ocean)	4
Characterising the seasonal cycle of wind forcing, surface circulation and temperature around the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands	4