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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Non-native Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774) (Bivalvia, Veneroidea) in Central Italy: do the waters pumped by Reclaimed Agencies may have a role in spreading through translocation?	47
New record of bristlenose catfish, Ancistrus chagresi Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889 and Ancistrus sp., in Ciliwung Watershed, Indonesia	23
First record of the American clawed lobster, Homarus americanus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837), in the southeastern Mediterranean	18
Artemisia verlotiorum Lamotte as an emerging weed in agricultural fields in Austria	17
First record of the brown bullhead Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819) in the Neman River basin in Belarus	16
First record of the introduced species big-belly seahorse Hippocampus abdominalis Lesson, 1827 in South Korea	14
The lark daisy Centratherum punctatum Cass, an emerging invader in South Africa	14
Invasive fishes negatively impact ghost frog tadpole abundance	10
A new threat to fig trees in Turkiye: the first record of Aclees taiwanensis Kȏno, 1933 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)	10
First record of American skunk-cabbage Lysichiton americanus Hultén & H. St. John (Araceae) in Poland	10
An update on the diversity and distribution of alien plant species along the Lower Danube River in Romania	9
The edge of crisis: discovery of young of year black carp Mylopharyngodon piceus (Richardson, 1846) in the Lower Mississippi River	9
First records of the fishhook waterflea Cercopagis pengoi Ostroumov, 1891 in the Mississippi River Basin, Illinois Waterway, USA	9
First Czech record of the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax) and a climatic prediction of its spread in the Czech Republic	8
Quietly invading the Balkans: Economidichthys pygmaeus (Holly, 1929) (Gobiidae) established in Northeastern Greece	7
Rapid spread of the invasive pentastome Raillietiella orientalis (Hett, 1915) in 14 new Florida counties and in pet trade snakes	7
The distribution of Ageratina altissima (L.) R. M. King & H. Rob. in Austria	7
The first UK records of the purple fan-worm, Bispira polyomma Giangrande & Faasse, 2012 (Annelida: Sabellidae)	7
Report of the non-native tortoise Stigmochelys pardalis (Bell, 1828) in the wild from the Republic of Korea	7
Range expansion of the Asian green mussel Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758) to São Paulo, Brazil	7
An emerging weed: rapid spread of Solanum carolinense in Austria	7
Crops gone wild – weedy Helianthus annuus L. in Austria	6
Syzygium australe (J.C.Wendl. ex Link) B. Hyland (Myrtaceae) in South Africa: current distribution and invasion potential	6
Rapid assessment survey of non-indigenous and cryptogenic species in Tunisian marinas	6
Plants along roads in Slovakia: current spread of Amorpha fruticosa L. around motorways and expressways	6

Present status and distribution of naturalized plants in the island regions of the South Korea	6
First record of invasive Oriental river prawn Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849) (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae) in Serbian waters	6
First record of the introduced land planarian Obama nungara (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) in Austria	6
First populations of invasive red swamp crayfish flourish in Slovakia	6
First record of the Asian freshwater fish Pseudorasbora parva (Temminck and Schlegel, 1846) from Lake Bracciano (Central Italy)	6
Non-native anadromous salmonids in the La Plata Basin: long distance colonization?	6
An overlooked invader? Integrative analysis reveals the common wolf snake Lycodon capucinus Boie, 1827 is an introduced species to Hong Kong	6
New alien vascular plants of Slovakia: records from 2008–2021	6
First record of the Monrovia doctorfish Acanthurus monroviae Steindachner, 1876 (Perciformes: Acanthuridae) in the Adriatic Sea (Croatian waters)	5
The first record of the non-indigenous Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835 (Actinopterygii: Acanthuridae) in Sicilian waters suggests a rapid westward dispersal in the Mediterranean	5
Updated distribution of the brown anole in continental Ecuador: a case of urban spaces favoring the establishment of an opportunistic exotic species	5
First record of the North American freshwater sponge Heteromeyenia latitenta (Potts, 1881) found in Japan (Spongillida: Spongillidae)	5
The first report of the bighead goby Ponticola kessleri (Gunther, 1861) and its parasites from the Czech Republic: evidence for spread through non-navigable river	5
First record of the trumpet snail Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda: Thiaridae), in culture ponds for shrimp and the Pacific fat sleeper fish	5
Classroom citizen scientists discover red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) from northern Idaho, United States	5
First records of the alien species Solanum elaeagnifolium Cav. in Romania with updated insights into European distribution	5
New records and range expansions of invasive fish species in Georgia	5
First record of the non-indigenous crayfish, Procambarus virginalis Lyko, 2017, in Nova Scotia, Canada	5
Morphological and molecular data confirm the first European record of Sagina maxima (Caryophyllaceae) in Bassano del Grappa (Veneto region, northeastern Italy)	5
Closing a cycle: first record of a larva of the invasive lionfish Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) from the Amazon Continental Shelf	4
Invasive alien plant species of Union concern in the Lower Siret Floodplain Natura 2000 site (Romania)	4
Distribution of the invasive giant hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum in Italy	4
First record of black bullhead (Ameiurus melas Lesueur, 1819) and the occurrence of hybridization with brown bullhead (A. nebulosus Rafinesque, 1820) in Belgium	4
Occurrence of the eastern mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859 (Poeciliidae, Cyprinodontiformes) in the Madeira Archipelago (NE Atlantic)	4
First record of a Budgerigar Melopsittacus undulatus (Shaw, 1805) in the wild on Jeju Island, South Korea	4
First record of the occurrence of the larger grain borer, Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) in Botswana	4
First record of the invasive Asian earthworm Amynthas tokioensis (Beddard, 1892) in the province of Québec, Canada	4
First record of the non-native Badumna longinqua (L. Koch, 1867) (Araneae: Desidae) from South Korea	4
First genetically confirmed report of the Japanese mystery snail, Heterogen japonica (Martens, 1861) from California more than a century after its first introduction	4
Broadened occurrence and affected host species of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis including the Global Panzootic Linage(Bd-GPL) in Norway	4
Genetic evidence for the presence and single introduction event of European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus (Linnaeus, 1758) on Beomseom Islet, Jeju Island	4
Is the Drosophila montium species group knocking on the doors of Europe? The case of the Asian fruit fly, Drosophila triauraria Bock & Wheeler, 1972	4
Fecundity, growth and body condition of invasive black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) in eutrophic oxbow lakes of River-Körös (Hungary)	4
Records of alien plants new for the Flora of The Balearic Islands (West-Mediterranean)	4
First record of Thalamita oculea Alcock, 1899 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae) in the Mediterranean Sea	4
First records of the Asian seed beetles Megabruchidius tonkineus (Pic, 1904) and M. dorsalis (Fåhræus, 1839) in Turkey	3
Aeonium haworthii Webb & Berthel. and Crassula ovata (Mill.) Druce (Crassulaceae): New records for the Algerian alien flora	3
The continuous spreading of Mytilopsis cf. sallei (Bivalvia, Dreissenidae) across the estuaries of northeastern Brazil: new record to the Bahia state	3
First record of three alien termite species in Belgium	3
Morphological and molecular data confirm the first record of Dysphania cristata (Dysphanieae, Chenopodioideae, Amaranthaceae) in the Mediterranean basin	3
Predicting the potential distribution of Ranunculus sardous (Ranunculaceae), a new alien species in the flora of Uzbekistan and Central Asia	3
Beyond BOLD: using DNA barcoding to identify Prussian carp (Carassius gibelio Bloch, 1782) in southern Alberta, Canada	3
Morphological evidence and DNA barcoding reveals the presence of widespread leeches Helobdella europaea Kutschera, 1985 and Barbronia weberi (Blanchard, 1897) in the Western Amazon of Peru	3
First record of adventive species Monoxia obesula Blake, 1939 in Greece	3
The French benthic newcomers: new records of Ampithoe valida S.I. Smith, 1873 and Polydora colonia Moore, 1907 in Brittany, first record of Bispira polyomma Giangrande & Faasse, 2012 in the North-	3
The blue swimming crab Portunus segnis (Forskål, 1775) reaches the Adriatic Sea: a distant and disjointed occurrence	3
Evidence of an established population of Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens, 1868) in south Texas, USA	3
Ragweed leaf beetle Ophraella communa LeSage, 1986 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) successfully crossing the Slovenian–Austrian border	3
First record of rotifers Kellicottia bostoniensis (Rousselet, 1908) and Notholca bipalium (Müller, 1786) in a large Central European river	3
Multiple perspectives on the emergence of the invasive colonial tunicate Didemnum vexillum Kott, 2002 in the western Bay of Fundy, Atlantic Canada	3

The first wild record of invasive redhead cichlid, Vieja melanura (Günther, 1862), in Hainan Island, China	3
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Tarenaya spinosa (Jacq.) Raf. (Cleomaceae): a new addition to the naturalized alien flora of Iran	3
First observation of the non-indigenous mysid Neomysis americana (S.I. Smith, 1873) in the Loire estuary	3
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Discovery of a new non-native aquatic plant in the Kolkheti Lowland, Georgia: implications for biodiversity	3
The successful invasion of Amur minnow Rhynchocypris lagowskii (Dybowski, 1869) in the Yarlung Tsangpo River with no lag time	3
First records of the Australian invasive weed Atriplex semilunaris Aellen (Amaranthaceae s.l.) in Gran Canaria and Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain)	3
Confirmation of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Papua New Guinea by molecular diagnostics of mitochondrial DNA COI gene	3
Complete western expansion of topmouth gudgeon Pseudorasbora parva (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) across Europe: first record in Portugal	3