OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of African Journal of Marine Science 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
Evaluating the evidence for ecological effectiveness of South Africa’s marine protected areas	34
Fear at the top: killer whale predation drives white shark absence at South Africa’s largest aggregation site	23
Social and economic effects of marine protected areas in South Africa, with recommendations for future assessments	18
Revisiting ‘A monograph on the Polychaeta of southern Africa’: establishing taxonomic research priorities in southern Africa	16
South African marine citizen science – benefits, challenges and future directions	14
Metabarcoding of marine zooplankton in South Africa	12
Microplastics pollution in the sediments of creeks and estuaries of Kenya, western Indian Ocean	12
Movement patterns and growth rate of the whitespotted wedgefish Rhynchobatus djiddensis in southern Africa based on tag-recapture data	11
When the flathead mullet left St Lucia	11
Evaluating Kenya’s coastal gillnet fishery: trade-offs in recommended mesh-size regulations	7
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	7
Application of DNA mini-barcoding reveals illegal trade in endangered shark products in southern Africa	6
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	6
The influence of estuary eutrophication on the benthic diatom community: a molecular approach	6
The road towards effective governance and management of marine protected areas in South Africa: evolving policies, paradigms and processes	6
The effect of fishmeal replacement with terrestrial protein sources on growth, body condition and intestinal microbiota of juvenile dusky kob Argyrosomus japonicus	6
Monitoring the effects of spatial protection on the reef fish communities of the Pondoland Marine Protected Area, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	5
Movement patterns and catch trends of the diamond ray Gymnura natalensis (Dasyatidae) in South African waters	5
An indicator-based approach for cross-realm coastal biodiversity assessments	4
Dropping plates to pick up aliens: towards a standardised approach for monitoring alien fouling species	4
Mobilisation and dynamics of energy reserves in different tissues of Donax trunculus (Bivalvia: Donacidae) in the Gulf of Tunis (eastern Mediterranean Sea, Tunisia)	4
Metabarcoding of zooplankton confirms southwards dispersal of decapod crustacean species in the western Indian Ocean	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
‘Flash Mobula’: first observations of courtship behaviour of the shortfin devil ray Mobula kuhlii	4

Characterising the seasonal cycle of wind forcing, surface circulation and temperature around the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands	4
Abundance and distribution of Antarctic blue whalesBalaenoptera musculus intermediaoff the Queen Maud Land coast of Antarctica	3
Distribution and community structure of at-risk and Data Deficient elasmobranchs in Zavora Bay, Mozambique	3
A baseline assessment of coastal pH variability in a temperate South African embayment: implications for biological ocean acidification research	3
Variation of the relationships between lengths and weights applied to 123 fish species observed at Réunion Island (Indian Ocean)	3
Large-scale movements and site fidelity of two bull sharksCarcharhinus leucasestimated from a double-tagging experiment at Réunion Island (southwest Indian Ocean)	3
The ecology of coastal wetland ponds created by diamond mining in southern Namibia. 2. Saltmarsh vegetation	3
Long-term variation in the breeding diets of macaroni and eastern rockhopper penguins at Marion Island (1994–2018)	3
Potential impact of marine heatwaves on selected phytoplankton adapted to the Gulf of Guinea during stable hydrographic periods	3