OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bioinvasions Records 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 range expansion of recreational non-native fishes in Portuguese freshwaters using scientific and citizen science data	21
Predicting the potential distribution of Ranunculus sardous (Ranunculaceae), a new alien species in the flora of Uzbekistan and Central Asia	17
Anisandrus maiche Kurentzov (Curculionidae: Scolytinae), an Asian species recently introduced and now widely established in Northern Italy	15
First incidence of the invasive fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith, 1797) attacking maize in Malaysia	14
Introduction, dispersal, establishment and societal impact of the long-tailed silverfish Ctenolepisma longicaudata (Escherich, 1905) in Norway	14
On the occurrence of three exotic decapods, Callinectes sapidus (Portunidae), Portunus segnis (Portunidae), and Trachysalambria palaestinensis (Penaeidae), in northern Tunisia, with updates on the dis	14
Unpublished Mediterranean and Black Sea records of marine alien, cryptogenic, and neonative species	13
Macrobenthic success of non-indigenous species related to substrate features in the Mar Grande of Taranto, Italy (Mediterranean Sea)	13
A worrying arrival: the first record of brown macroalga Rugulopteryx okamurae in Madeira Island and its invasive risk	12
First records of the alien amphipod Dikerogammarus haemobaphes (Eichwald, 1841) in the Neman River basin (Belarus)	11
The invasive Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 expands its distributional range southward to Atlantic African shores: first records along the Atlantic coast of Morocco	11
Non-indigenous species in marine and brackish waters along the Normandy coast	10
First record of the invasive biofouling mussel Mytella strigata (Hanley, 1843) (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from clam ponds in Taiwan	10
Invasion of synanthropic silverfish continues: first established populations of Ctenolepisma calvum (Ritter, 1910) revealed in the Czech Republic	10
First record of the non-indigenous freshwater snail Galba humilis (Say, 1822) (Mollusca: Hygrophila: Lymnaeidae) in Japan	8
Range expansion of the alien red-eared slider Trachemys scripta (Thunberg in Schoepff, 1792) (Reptilia, Testudines) in Eastern Europe, with special reference to Latvia and Ukraine	8
First report of the Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877 in the Drava River, Croatia	8
On the occurrence of Abudefduf spp. (Pisces: Pomacentridae) in the Mediterranean Sea: a critical review with new records	7
First confirmed occurrence of the invasive mussel Mytella strigata (Hanley, 1843) in Guangdong and Hainan, China, and its rapid spread in Indo-West Pacific regions	7
New report of an alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii Troost, 1835) introduced into the wild in the Republic of Korea	7
Expansion of invasive Adenocaulon adhaerescens Maxim. (Asteraceae) in Moscow Region	7
Additional records of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 in the Moroccan Sea, Africa	7
Continued eastward spread of the invasive ambrosia beetle Cyclorhipidion bodoanum (Reitter, 1913) in Europe and its distribution in the world	7
Utilization of citizen science data to monitor alien species: the box tree moth Cydalima perspectalis (Walker, 1859) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) invades natural vegetation in Greece	7
First record of a marbled crayfish Procambarus virginalis (Lyko, 2017) population in France	7

Additional records of the bivalves Mytilopsis leucophaeata (Conrad, 1831) (Dreissenidae) and Arcuatula senhousia (Benson, 1842) (Mytilidae)in the Ponto-Caspian region	7
First wild record of Australian redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens, 1868) in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia	7
An update of the known distribution and status of Cherax spp. in Italy (Crustacea, Parastacidae)	7
New records of digenetic trematodes infecting Melanoides tuberculata (O.F. Müller, 1774) in Florida, USA	7
Alborán Island, a small meeting point for three invasive lizards, whose geographic origin is uncovered by molecular analysis	7
First successful reproduction of the Chinese striped-necked turtle Mauremys sinensis (Gray, 1834) in a European wetland	6
Species list and distribution of non-native freshwater turtles in Hong Kong	6
The invasive parthenogenetic marbled crayfish Procambarus virginalis Lyko, 2017 gets foothold in Belgium	6
Expansion of the invasive alga Rugulopteryx okamurae (Dictyotaceae, Ochrophyta) in the Mediterranean Sea: first evidence as epiphyte of the cold-water coral Dendrophyllia ramea (Cnidaria: Scleractinia	6
First records of Amaranthus palmeri, a new emerging weed in southern Africa with further notes on other poorly known alien amaranths in the continent	6
The increased occurrence of Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Walbaum, 1792) in the Faroe Islands	6
Distribution and impacts of invasive parrot’s feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum) in China	6
Invasive portunid crabs in Libyan waters: first record of the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 and range expansion of the swimming blue crab Portunus segnis (Forskål, 1775)	5
First record of the ascidian Ascidiella aspersa (Mϋller, 1776) in southern California	5
First record of naturalization of Scaevola taccada (Gaertn.) Roxb. (Goodeniaceae) in southeastern Mexico	5
Filling gaps via citizen science: Phyllorhiza punctata von Lendenfeld, 1884 (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Mastigiidae) in Cyprus (eastern Mediterranean Sea)	5
Genetic evidence for the invasion of Cymbella janischii (A. Schmidt) De Toni, 1891 in Japan	5
Microsporidia are coming: Cucumispora ornata and Dictyocoela berillonum invade Northern Britain	5
New occurrence of Pinctada imbricata radiata (Leach, 1814) in the Balearic Archipelago (NW Mediterranean Sea)	5
New records of two invasive ambrosia beetles (Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini) to mainland China	5
First record of mass occurrence of the tubeworm Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923) (Serpulidae: Polychaeta) in coastal waters of the Baltic Sea	5
First Canadian record (Ladysmith Harbour, British Columbia) of the non-native European sponge Hymeniacidon perlevis (Montagu, 1814) (Porifera, Demospongiae)	5
Spiders newly observed in Czechia in recent years – overlooked or invasive species?	5
Invasive red alga Kappaphycus alvarezii on the reefs of the Gulf of Mannar, India – a persistent threat to the corals	5
First records of three new lizard species and a range expansion of a fourth lizard species introduced to Aruba	5
Occurrence in Mexico of two European invasive slug species: Arion vulgaris Moquin-Tandon, 1855 and Arion intermedius (Norman, 1852)	5
Alien plant species of Haenertsburg Village, Limpopo Province, South Africa	5
Records of new and rare alien fish in North African waters: the burrowing goby Trypauchen vagina (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) and the bartail flathead Platycephalus indicus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Egypt an	4
The first confirmed record of the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 (Decapoda, Brachyura) from Maltese waters	4
The blue swimming crab Portunus segnis (Forskål, 1775) reaches the Adriatic Sea: a distant and disjointed occurrence	4
Fanwort, Cabomba caroliniana A. Gray (Cabombaceae) in China: introduction, current status, ecological impacts and managementy	4
2019 Rapid Assessment Survey of marine bioinvasions of southern New England and New York, USA, with an overview of new records and range expansions	4
Distribution of Aphanomyces astaci Schikora, 1906, the causative agent of crayfish plague, in the Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia	4
Population dynamics of invasive Argentine ant Linepithema humile Mayr, 1868 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) haplotypes in Kobe Port, Japan, and implications for the prediction of future dispersal and effect	4
The alien vascular flora of the Pantelleria Island National Park (Sicily Channel, Italy): new insights into the distribution of some potentially invasive species	4
From classical collections to citizen science: change in the distribution of the invasive blowfly Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann, 1819) in Chile	4
Invading Europe: the tropical aquatic worm Branchiodrilus hortensis (Stephenson, 1910) (Clitellata, Naididae) extends its range	4
The brown shrimp Penaeus aztecus Ives, 1891 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Penaeidae) spreading northern in the Adriatic Sea: a first record from Croatia	4
Origin of introduced Italian wall lizards, Podarcis siculus (Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1810) (Squamata: Lacertidae), in North America	4
New reports on Pseudopolydora (Annelida: Spionidae) from the East Coast of Florida, including the non-native species P. paucibranchiata	4
The Ponto-Caspian quagga mussel, Dreissena rostriformis bugensis Andrusov, 1897, is established in Ireland	4
Asclepias syriaca L. (Apocynaceae) and its invasiveness in the southern part of the Boreal region of Europe – evidence from Lithuania	4
An American in the Aegean: first record of the American lobster Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837 from the eastern Mediterranean Sea	4
First record of the northern brown shrimp Penaeus aztecus Ives, 1891 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeidae) from Libyan waters	4
New records of alien monkey goby, Neogobius fluviatilis (Pallas, 1814), in the waters of the Great Masurian Lakes system (north-eastern Poland)	4
Invasions of the non-indigenous red alga Lophocladia lallemandii (Montagne) F. Schmitz off the Island of Ischia (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)	4
Confirmation of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Papua New Guinea by molecular diagnostics of mitochondrial DNA COI gene	4
Temporal abundance and population parameters of the invasive medusa Blackfordia virginica Mayer, 1910 (Hydroidomedusae: Blackfordiidae) in Pueblo Viejo lagoon, Mexico	4
First report of the South American tomato pinworm Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) and its damage in the Democratic Republic of Congo	4
Tapping into hard-to-get information: the contribution of citizen science campaigns for updating knowledge on range-expanding, introduced and rare native marine species in the Malta-Sicily Channel	4

New records and disappearance from old sites of narrow-clawed crayfish Pontastacus leptodactylus in northwestern Russia	3
First reports of invasive pheretimoid earthworms (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) of Asian origin in Atlantic Canada	3
Record of invasive Rana huanrenensis Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990 and Pelophylax nigromaculatus (Hallowell, 1861) on Ulleung Island, Republic of Korea	3
New alien vascular plants of Slovakia: records from 2008–2021	3
A baseline survey to document the distribution and abundance of native and non-native barnacle species in Port Canaveral, Florida	3
First report on the natural breeding of river cooter, Pseudemys concinna Le Conte (1830), in the Republic of Korea	3
Amblycerus robiniae (Fabricius, 1781) (Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae), an alien species established in Europe	3
Abundance and size structure of invasive brown bullhead, Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819), in a mesotrophic lake (north-eastern Poland)	3
Taxonomic requirements for better documenting and understanding biological invasions – the example of genetic weatherfish Misgurnus/Paramisgurnus sp. identification	3
The Yucatan molly Poecilia velifera (Regan, 1914) (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae): an invasive species in the Mediterranean lagoon of Ayn Zayanah (Benghazi, Libya)	3
First record of the invasive alien species Xylosandrus compactus (Eichhoff) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in Turkey	3
An alarming mariculture breach in a coral reef: alien barramundi Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1790) at the Northern Red Sea	3
The first record of the marbled spinefoot, Siganus rivulatus Forsskål & Niebuhr, 1775 and further records of the dusky spinefoot, Siganus luridus (Rüppell, 1829) from Malta	3
A new record of the rapidly spreading calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinus (Sato, 1913) in the Levantine Sea using multi-marker metabarcoding	3
New evidence supporting upstream pathways of Hypania invalida (Grube, 1860) invasion	3
A marine invasive benthic diatom species [Licmophora normaniana (Greville) Wahrer, 1985] in an inland oasis mineral spring in Egypt	3
The spread of the alien oriental river prawn Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849) (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) in the lower Danube, with the first record from Romania	3
First record of the globally invasive planarian Girardia tigrina (Girard, 1850) sensu lato in Morocco	3
Hidden in plain sight: first records of the alien earwig Euborellia femoralis (Dohrn, 1863) in Europe	3
Westward range expansion of the blue swimmer crab Portunus segnis (Forskål, 1775) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Portunidae) into Atlantic European waters	3
First record of quagga mussel, Dreissena bugensis Andrusov, 1897, in Italy: morphological and genetic evidence in Lake Garda	3
Record of naturalized Ipomoea hederifolia (Linnaeus 1759) (Convolvulaceae), Scarlet morning-glory in South Africa	3
Population ecology of a wild population of red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) in the Free State Province, South Africa and implications for eradication efforts	3
First records of the alien bush-crickets Rhacocleis annulata Fieber, 1853 and Yersinella raymondii (Yersin, 1860) (Orthoptera) in Slovakia	3
New record of the invasive red-eared slider Trachemys scripta elegans (Wied, 1838) on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China	3
A new invader in freshwater ecosystems in France: the rusty crayfish Faxonius rusticus	3
Verbena brasiliensis Vell.: a new record of an invasive alien species in the flora of Turkey	3
First record and spread of the long-wristed hermit crab Pagurus longicarpus Say, 1817 in the North Frisian Wadden Sea (Germany)	3
First record of Heptapleurum arboricola Hayata (Araliaceae) as a casual non-native woody plant in the Mediterranean area	3
New records of the Indo-Pacific shrimp Urocaridella pulchella Yokeş & Galil, 2006 from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea	3
First record of the northern spruce bark beetle, Ips duplicatus (Sahlberg, 1836), in Slovenia	3
An outbreak of Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Mytilidae) in the Eastern Mediterranean	3
First report of the Black-headed python (Aspidites melanocephalus Krefft, 1864) found in the wild in the Republic of Korea	3
First record of the invasive Chinese sleeper, Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877 (Gobiiformes: Odontobutidae) in the Black Sea	3
Peracarid crustaceans in the River Danube and its tributaries: results of the 4th Joint Danube Survey	3
Molecular identification of the Asian lady beetle Harmonia axyridis in Israel	3
The first record of oriental river prawn Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849 [in De Haan, 1833–1850]) (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) in the Ukrainian part of the Danube Delta	3
First record of the Asian seed beetle Megabruchidius dorsalis (Fåhræus, 1839) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Bruchinae) in Croatia	3