OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Freshwater Science is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Front Matter	42
Macrophyte-mediated fluctuations in stream ecosystem function	34
Nutrient limitation of periphytic algal assemblages in agricultural streams across grassland to boreal landscapes	33
Multiplex qPCR assays for detection of 2 imperiled anuran species, Anaxyrus californicus and Spea hammondii, from environmental DNA	26
Highlighting assumptions of community engagement in urban stream restoration	22
Front Matter	22
Urbanization and stream ecology: Moving the bar on multidisciplinary solutions to wicked urban stream problems	18
Including equity in urban stream restoration: From historical wrongs to new paradigms	17
Stream metabolism response to storm flow in urban watersheds near Cleveland, Ohio, and Denver, Colorado	16
Community-powered urban stream restoration: A vision for sustainable and resilient urban ecosystems	16
Influence of urbanization on organic matter processing and nutrient immobilization in wadeable streams (southeastern USA)	15
Hydrogeomorphology creates heterogeneous landscapes—But do fish care?	12
Leaf species, mixtures, and microbial preconditioning shape fine particulate organic matter production by shredding invertebrates	11
Buried particulate organic C fuels heterotrophic metabolism in the hyporheic zone of a montane headwater stream	9
Short-term changes in ecosystem functioning after a wildfire in a tropical headwater stream	8
Primary production modeling identifies restoration targets for shifting shallow, eutrophic lakes to clear-water regimes	7
Influence of increased carbon availability on nitrogen processing in Arctic headwater streams	7
Environmental DNA detection range for Hydrilla verticillata, a prolific invasive plant	7
Front Cover	7
Floodwater monitoring and soil incubations reveal complementary nutrient retention patterns in a reconnected floodplain wetland	7
Front Cover	7
Debris dams retain trash, mostly plastic, in urban streams	6
Concentration–discharge relationships of chlorophyll describe the origin and fluxes of river algae across ecoregions	6
Hydrochemical effects of degrading freshwater mussel shells	6
Front Matter	6

Three decades of mussel assemblage recovery dynamics following a harvest moratorium and water-quality improvements	6
Referees for 2024	5
Understanding temporality in the lives of rivers and riverine human communities through seasonal calendars	5
Macroinvertebrates incorporate ancient carbon through use of chemoautotrophic and photoautotrophic resources in a model floodplain setting	5
Spatial and temporal variation in dissolved organic matter in urban streams in metropolitan Boston, Massachusetts (USA)	5
Differential responses of fish assemblages to environmental and spatial factors are mediated by dispersal-related traits in Neotropical streams	5
Using DNA barcoding to evaluate freshwater mussel and fish-host relationships in the Flint River (Georgia, USA)	5
Predicting potential distributions of freshwater invasive species in novel environments	5
Front Matter	5
Q_cthreshold departs from theoreticalQ_cin urban watersheds: The role of streambed mobility data in managing the urban disturbance regime	5
Front Cover	5
Effects of leaf-litter species and chemistry on aquatic insect habitat selection	5
Front Cover	4
Benthic metabolism and nutrient uptake vary with geomorphology and season in a lowland river	4
Forest management perspective on riparian areas in the face of invasive forest insect pest outbreaks	4
Salting behaviors influence urban stream conductivity in Boston, Massachusetts (USA)	4
Surprising improvements in stream biotic integrity despite increased urban development and warming temperatures	4
Stream health shows indirect and threshold responses to implementation of agricultural conservation practices	4
Restoration of urban salmon habitat has limited effects on a key ecosystem function in British Columbia, Canada	4
Re-oligotrophy in the Upper Mississippi River, USA, occurred in just a few years	4
An aquatic invasive plant affects foodweb structure in the Copper River Delta of Alaska, USA	4
Microplastics in fish relative to point-source proximity and trophic level in an urban river	4
Practical pathways for protecting headwater streams in urbanizing areas	3
Predator-permanence hypothesis in time: Community dynamics in a seasonally flooded wetland	3
Interactions between microplastics and benthic biofilms in fluvial ecosystems: Knowledge gaps and future trends	3
Lessons learned from 20 y of monitoring suburban development with distributed stormwater management in Clarksburg, Maryland, USA	3
Identifying invertebrate indicators for streamflow duration assessments in forested headwater streams	3
Referees for 2022	3
Experimentally induced low flows indicate climate change may shrink trophic niches of mountain-stream predators	3
Front Matter	3
Zoogeochemical impacts of freshwater mussels on stream metabolism are mediated by their ecophysiological and behavioral traits	3
CO₂ and acidification effects on larval frog immune function, growth, and survival	3
Heat and smoke from wildfires influence water temperature and dissolved oxygen levels in headwater streams	3
Distribution and parthenogenetic fecundity of obligate and facultative parthenogenetic strains of the mayfly Ephoron shigae	3
Subsidies of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, not energy subsidies, strengthen immune responses in a terrestrial predator	3
Front Cover	3
A framework for integrating stream ecosystem theories into spatial modeling of fish richness and assemblage structure	3
Dispersal ability and biogeographic gradients influence gene flow of 3 aquatic insects in Laurentian Great Lakes interdunal wetlands	3
Functional insights into succession in a phyllospheric microbial community across a full period of aquatic plant litter decomposition	2
A broadly applicable, objective freshwater mussel assemblage health index (MAHI)	2
Relationships between surface water abstraction and aquatic macroinvertebrates	2
Front Matter	2
Development of local pollution tolerance and multimetric indices responsive to urbanization in central Texas, USA	2
Resource limitation of autotrophs and heterotrophs in boreal forest headwater streams	2
Biogeochemical patterns vary with hydrogeomorphology in riparian soils along a boreal headwater stream	2
Long-term responses of benthic diatom assemblages to phosphorus fertilization in an Arctic stream	2
Community structure and metals concentration together determine aquatic-to-terrestrial metal subsidies in urban and forested streams	2
Parochlus Enderlein, 1912 (Chironomidae, Podonominae) in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, evidences dispersal via continental America	2
Front Matter	2
Dissolved free amino acids could be odorants for imprinting and homing by Atlantic Salmon	2

Referees for 2025	2
Front Matter	2
Headwater-stream salamander movements and home-range size increased under drought	2
Effects of an annular solar eclipse on montane streamwater quality in New Mexico, USA	2
Snail distribution may influence parasite–host interactions along a spring-fed stream gradient in Idaho, USA	1
Front Matter	1
Using a BACI design to assess stream ecology and chemistry response after wildfire	1
Differentiating physical and biological storage of N along an intermittent Antarctic stream corridor	1
Environmental drivers and spatial patterns of antibiotic-resistant, enteric coliforms across a forest–urban riverscape	1
Distribution of water chemistry, trace metals, and Chironomidae in coastal freshwater rock pools	1
Front Cover	1
Freshwater salinization syndrome alters retention and release of chemical cocktails along flowpaths: From stormwater management to urban streams	1
Freshwater mussel (family: Unionidae) species vary in response to dewatering simulation	1
Joint species distribution models reveal taxon-specific sensitivities to potential anthropogenic alteration	1
Isotopic niches of Silver Carp and two native planktivores in a large reservoir	1
Geology and habitat features drive energetic functions in streams	1
Hydrology has stronger effects than periphyton stoichiometry on lotic invertebrate functional diversity across North America	1
Muskrat disturbances and their analogues reduce invasive plant dominance within a Great Lakes coastal wetland	1
Comparative vulnerability of riverine benthic and aquifer stoneflies as the climate warms	1
Substantial pulses of aquatic insects emerge from tidal freshwaters along the James River Estuary, Virginia, USA	1
Biotic interactions could control colonization success during stream restoration	1
Museum records provide unique information about the distribution of the Yellow Lampmussel Lampsilis cariosa (Unionidae)	1
Effects of mayfly metamorphosis on foodweb tracers: Stable isotopes, body composition, and fatty acids	1
How extreme drought events, introduced species, and disease interact to influence threatened amphibian populations	1
Using models of local environmental conditions for biological assessment	1
Thermal history mediates the ecological role of body size in a freshwater fish	1
Response of dissolved organic matter to variation in nutrient availability and phytoplankton community composition in a mesotrophic, temperate-zone reservoir	1
Predictors of zoobenthos communities in a large shallow lake vary depending on temporal scale	1
Sulfur stable isotopes as a tracer of insect migration and consumption by fish predators	1
Implications of forest insect pest outbreaks for riparian–stream ecosystems	1