OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Plankton & Benthos Research is 2. 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
Changes in benthic macro-invertebrate assemblages in an estuary in southern Thailand after invasion by non-native bivalves <i>Mytilopsis sallei</i> and <i>Mytella strigata</i>	9
<i>Duobrachium sparksae (incertae sedis</i> Ctenophora Tentaculata Cydippida)<i>:</i> A new genus and species of benthopelagic ctenophore seen at 3,910 m depth off the coast of	8
Use of environmental DNA to survey the distribution of the invasive mussel <i>Limnoperna fortunei</i> in farm ponds	8
Ingestion of microplastics by free-living marine nematodes, especially <i>Enoplolaimus</i> spp., in Mallipo Beach, South Korea	7
Impacts of coastal armouring on rubble mobile cryptofauna at shallow coral reefs in Okinawa, Japan	7
Evolutionary History and Diversity of Unionoid Mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the Japanese Archipelago	7
Trophic segregation in a burrow: the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of the burrowing shrimp <i>Upogebia major</i> and its commensal bivalve <i>Cryptomya busoensis</i>	6
Widening the host range of the ectosymbiotic scale-worm <i>Asterophilia culcitae</i> (Annelida: Polynoidae) to three echinoderm classes, with data on its body color variation	6
Back to the roots, Part 2—Rhopaliophora (Scyphozoa, Cubozoa and Staurozoa) reborn based on early life cycle data	5
Environmental and seasonal dynamics altering the primary productivity in Bingo-Nada (Bingo Sound) of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan	5
Males display “inverse rapping” as a mating behavior to receptive females in the hermit crab <i>Pagurus nigrofascia</i>	4
Back to the roots, Part 1—early life cycle data of Rhopaliophora (Scyphozoa, Cubozoa and Staurozoa)	4
A sea pen field in shallow water in the Amakusa Islands, southern Japan	4
Life history characteristics and burrow structure of the mud shrimp (Decapoda: Upogebiidae)	3
Diversity of <i>Heterocapsa</i> (Dinophyceae) and the algal bloom event in the mariculture areas of Johor Strait, Malaysia	3
Gelatinous zooplankton community around a hydrothermally active deep-sea caldera: results from ROV video records	3
Estimation of the feeding pressure of a sea urchin (<i>Diadema setosum</i>) population on a barren ground in a temperate region of Japan	3
A preliminary evaluation of the distribution pattern of sea cucumbers in the semi-closed waters of the Amami Islands	3
A new species of box jellyfish, <i>Carybdea wayamba</i> sp. nov. (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Cubomedusae: Carybdeidae) from Sri Lanka	3
Holothurian assemblages before the harvest-boom era in inner reefs of Ishigaki Island, focusing on population dynamics of lollyfish <i>Holothuria atra</i> Jäger, 1833	3
Cryptic diversity of the tube-dwelling polychaete <i>Phyllochaetopterus</i> in the Shinkai Seep Field, Mariana Trench	3
Seasonal changes in the community structure of chaetognaths and the life cycle of the dominant chaetognath <i>Eukrohnia hamata</i> in the Oyashio region, western subarctic Pacific	3
Primary production and plankton assemblages in the fisheries ground around San Jorge Gulf (Patagonia) during spring and summer	3
Use of crustacean burrows as habitat by the marine snail <i>Circulus cinguliferus</i> (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea: Vitrinellidae)	3
Records and distribution of the coral-killing sponge <i>Chalinula nematifera</i> in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan	3

Pupillary response to light in three species of Cubozoa (box jellyfish)	3
Morphological and molecular analyses of <i>Blackfordia</i> sp. (Hydrozoa: Leptothecata) newly discovered in Vietnam	2
Seasonal growth, organ indices and food consumption of the Japanese scallop <i>Patinopecten</i> <i>yessoensis</i> (Jay, 1857) in relation to food availability in Tokoro seabed,	2
Early life history of <i>Ilisha elongata</i> (Pristigasteridae, Clupeiformes, Pisces) in Ariake Sound, Shimabara Bay, Japan	2
The response of bacterial communities to organic matter in the surface sediment of the Pearl River estuary	2
A description of a novel swimming behavior in a dioecious population of <i>Craspedacusta sowerbii</i>, the rediscovery of the elusive <i>Astrohydra japonica</i> and the first g	2
Bloom of a freshwater green alga <i>Botryococcus braunii</i> (Botryococcaceae, Trebouxiophyceae) and the associated mass fish mortality in a man-made lake, Sarawak, Malaysia	2
Umbrella of <i>Mastigias papua</i> (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Mastigiidae): hardness and cytomorphology with remarks on colors	2
Settlement patterns of two sesarmid megalopae in the Sai River Estuary, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan	2
Potential kleptoparasitism-scavenging interactions between crabs and shell-boring gastropods feeding on bivalve prey: a global survey	2
Records of four mantis shrimp species (Crustacea: Stomatopoda) from the Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands, Japan	2
Estimation of production of the copepod <i>Calanus sinicus</i> during spring in the northern East China Sea	2
Densities of cyanobacterial cells, spicules, and particles in the coral-killing sponge <i>Terpios hoshinota</i> in Sesoko Island, Okinawa, Japan	2
Bioluminescence of the polychaete <i>Tharyx</i> sp. (Annelida: Cirratulidae) in deep-seawater from Toyama Bay, Japan	2
Impact of seasonal hypoxia on benthic copepod communities in Omura Bay, a highly enclosed coastal sea in southwestern Japan	2
Downstream drifting of <i>Macrobrachium</i> (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) larvae in the Shimanto River, Japan	2