OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bioinvasions Records 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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?	38
Invasive fishes negatively impact ghost frog tadpole abundance	21
New record of bristlenose catfish, Ancistrus chagresi Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889 and Ancistrus sp., in Ciliwung Watershed, Indonesia	18
Artemisia verlotiorum Lamotte as an emerging weed in agricultural fields in Austria	15
First record of the American clawed lobster, Homarus americanus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837), in the southeastern Mediterranean	15
First record of the brown bullhead Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819) in the Neman River basin in Belarus	11
The lark daisy Centratherum punctatum Cass, an emerging invader in South Africa	11
First record of American skunk-cabbage Lysichiton americanus Hultén & H. St. John (Araceae) in Poland	9
A new threat to fig trees in Turkiye: the first record of Aclees taiwanensis Kȏno, 1933 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)	9
The edge of crisis: discovery of young of year black carp Mylopharyngodon piceus (Richardson, 1846) in the Lower Mississippi River	9
An update on the diversity and distribution of alien plant species along the Lower Danube River in Romania	8
Range expansion of the Asian green mussel Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758) to São Paulo, Brazil	8
Rapid spread of the invasive pentastome Raillietiella orientalis (Hett, 1915) in 14 new Florida counties and in pet trade snakes	8
First records of the fishhook waterflea Cercopagis pengoi Ostroumov, 1891 in the Mississippi River Basin, Illinois Waterway, USA	8
Quietly invading the Balkans: Economidichthys pygmaeus (Holly, 1929) (Gobiidae) established in Northeastern Greece	7
First Czech record of the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax) and a climatic prediction of its spread in the Czech Republic	7
The first UK records of the purple fan-worm, Bispira polyomma Giangrande & Faasse, 2012 (Annelida: Sabellidae)	7
Present status and distribution of naturalized plants in the island regions of the South Korea	6
First record of the Asian freshwater fish Pseudorasbora parva (Temminck and Schlegel, 1846) from Lake Bracciano (Central Italy)	6
The distribution of Ageratina altissima (L.) R. M. King & H. Rob. in Austria	6
Plants along roads in Slovakia: current spread of Amorpha fruticosa L. around motorways and expressways	6
An emerging weed: rapid spread of Solanum carolinense in Austria	6
Non-native anadromous salmonids in the La Plata Basin: long distance colonization?	6
Crops gone wild – weedy Helianthus annuus L. in Austria	6
Report of the non-native tortoise Stigmochelys pardalis (Bell, 1828) in the wild from the Republic of Korea	6

New alien vascular plants of Slovakia: records from 2008–2021	5
First record of the Monrovia doctorfish Acanthurus monroviae Steindachner, 1876 (Perciformes: Acanthuridae) in the Adriatic Sea (Croatian waters)	5
New records and range expansions of invasive fish species in Georgia	5
Rapid assessment survey of non-indigenous and cryptogenic species in Tunisian marinas	5
First populations of invasive red swamp crayfish flourish in Slovakia	5
First records of the alien species Solanum elaeagnifolium Cav. in Romania with updated insights into European distribution	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 introduced land planarian Obama nungara (Platyhelminthes: Geoplanidae) in Austria	5
An overlooked invader? Integrative analysis reveals the common wolf snake Lycodon capucinus Boie, 1827 is an introduced species to Hong Kong	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
First record of the trumpet snail Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda: Thiaridae), in culture ponds for shrimp and the Pacific fat sleeper fish	5
Syzygium australe (J.C.Wendl. ex Link) B. Hyland (Myrtaceae) in South Africa: current distribution and invasion potential	5
Morphological and molecular data confirm the first European record of Sagina maxima (Caryophyllaceae) in Bassano del Grappa (Veneto region, northeastern Italy)	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
First record of the occurrence of the larger grain borer, Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) in Botswana	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
The first wild record of invasive redhead cichlid, Vieja melanura (Günther, 1862), in Hainan Island, China	4
First record of the invasive Asian earthworm Amynthas tokioensis (Beddard, 1892) in the province of Québec, Canada	4
First record of the North American freshwater sponge Heteromeyenia latitenta (Potts, 1881) found in Japan (Spongillida: Spongillidae)	4
Invasive alien plant species of Union concern in the Lower Siret Floodplain Natura 2000 site (Romania)	4
First record of the non-native Badumna longinqua (L. Koch, 1867) (Araneae: Desidae) from South Korea	4
First record of Thalamita oculea Alcock, 1899 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae) in the Mediterranean Sea	4
Occurrence of the eastern mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859 (Poeciliidae, Cyprinodontiformes) in the Madeira Archipelago (NE Atlantic)	4
Classroom citizen scientists discover red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) from northern Idaho, United States	4
Records of alien plants new for the Flora of The Balearic Islands (West-Mediterranean)	4
Distribution of the invasive giant hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum in Italy	4
Fecundity, growth and body condition of invasive black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) in eutrophic oxbow lakes of River-Körös (Hungary)	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
Aeonium haworthii Webb & Berthel. and Crassula ovata (Mill.) Druce (Crassulaceae): New records for the Algerian alien flora	4
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Complete western expansion of topmouth gudgeon Pseudorasbora parva (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) across Europe: first record in Portugal	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
First records of the Asian seed beetles Megabruchidius tonkineus (Pic, 1904) and M. dorsalis (Fåhræus, 1839) in Turkey	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
First record of adventive species Monoxia obesula Blake, 1939 in Greece	3
Multiple perspectives on the emergence of the invasive colonial tunicate Didemnum vexillum Kott, 2002 in the western Bay of Fundy, Atlantic Canada	3
First record of three alien termite species in Belgium	3
The continuous spreading of Mytilopsis cf. sallei (Bivalvia, Dreissenidae) across the estuaries of northeastern Brazil: new record to the Bahia state	3
Closing a cycle: first record of a larva of the invasive lionfish Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) from the Amazon Continental Shelf	3
Broadened occurrence and affected host species of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis including the Global Panzootic Linage(Bd-GPL) in Norway	3
First observation of the non-indigenous mysid Neomysis americana (S.I. Smith, 1873) in the Loire estuary	3
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Evidence of an established population of Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens, 1868) in south Texas, USA	3
The blue swimming crab Portunus segnis (Forskål, 1775) reaches the Adriatic Sea: a distant and disjointed occurrence	3
First record of a Budgerigar Melopsittacus undulatus (Shaw, 1805) in the wild on Jeju Island, South Korea	3
Tarenaya spinosa (Jacq.) Raf. (Cleomaceae): a new addition to the naturalized alien flora of Iran	3
The establishment of a trap-jaw ant, Odontomachus ruginodis, in Hawai‘i	2
An assessment of the invasiveness of Ipomoea quamoclit L. in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa	2
New to the party: non-native cnidarians discovered throughout the Ohio River Basin, USA	2

First report of Greenidea ficicola Takahashi and G. psidii van der Goot (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Chile	2
Reeves’ muntjac Muntiacus reveesi (Ogilby, 1839) in Austria	2
Aethusa cynapium L. (Apiaceae), a new invasive alien plant in the Republic of Korea	2
A new invader in freshwater ecosystems in France: the rusty crayfish Faxonius rusticus	2
First record of the non-native fish Rhinogobius cliffordpopei (Nichols, 1925) (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae) in Tibet, China	2
Invasion along the French Atlantic coast by the non-native, carnivorous planktonic comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi: can an impact on shellfish farming be expected?	2
A rather unfruitful relationship? Fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the alien invasive Ficus microcarpa in Cyprus	2
First records of the introduced sailfin catfish Pterygoplichthys in the United Kingdom	2
Predicting the potential distribution of Ranunculus sardous (Ranunculaceae), a new alien species in the flora of Uzbekistan and Central Asia	2
Establishment of an invasive snail Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) in a Sahelian urban reservoir in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso	2
The successful invasion of Amur minnow Rhynchocypris lagowskii (Dybowski, 1869) in the Yarlung Tsangpo River with no lag time	2
Morphological and molecular data confirm the first record of Dysphania cristata (Dysphanieae, Chenopodioideae, Amaranthaceae) in the Mediterranean basin	2
New records of Otala lactea (Müller, 1774) and Zachrysia provisoria (Pfeiffer, 1858) in Hawaii: using collaborative networks to combat invasive sleeper populations	2
First record of the invasive alien mussel Mytella strigata (Hanley, 1843) in Hong Kong	2
A first record of non-native Korean (black) rockfish Sebastes schlegelii Hilgendorf, 1880 from the Bulgarian Black Sea coast	2
New records of the spiny-cheek crayfish Faxonius limosus (Rafinesque, 1817): expansion in subalpine lakes in North-western Italy	2
First record of the invasive alien ant, Lepisiota frauenfeldi (Mayr, 1855) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from South Korea	2
A voyage into the Levant: the first record of a marbled crayfish Procambarus virginalis (Lyko, 2017) population in Israel	2
Unpublished Mediterranean and Black Sea records of marine alien, cryptogenic, and neonative species	2
First record of Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877 (Gobiiformes: Odontobutidae) in Siverskyi Donets river basin	2
First record of the non-native western mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis (Baird & Girard, 1853), in the Eastern Himalayas, China	2
The first Australian co-invasion of Euwallacea fornicatus, Fusarium sp. [AF18] and Graphium euwallaceae	2
Notes on the capture of the crucifix crab Charybdis feriata (Linnaeus, 1758) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae) in the Adriatic Sea	2
A channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818) in Grand Lake, New Brunswick: a first occurrence from Atlantic Canada	2
Ragweed leaf beetle Ophraella communa LeSage, 1986 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) successfully crossing the Slovenian–Austrian border	2
First record of rotifers Kellicottia bostoniensis (Rousselet, 1908) and Notholca bipalium (Müller, 1786) in a large Central European river	2
Non-native and invasive fish species of Lake Batur in Bali, Indonesia	2
An overview of recent introductions of non-native crayfish (Crustacea, Decapoda) into inland water systems in Israel	2
Discovery of Japanese gengorobuna Carassius cuvieri Temminck & Schlegel, 1846 in Ethiopia: implications for fisheries governance	2
First record and DNA barcoding of the fig gall wasp Josephiella microcarpae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) in Greece	2
First record of non-native Yoldia limatula (Say, 1831) in the United Kingdom: evidence of a newly established population (Bivalvia: Protobranchia)	2
First record of the large-scale loach Misgurnus dabryanus (Guichenot, 1872) (Teleostei, Cobitidae) in France	2
Current status of invasive alien plants in Ramsar wetlands on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea	2
Sourcing the geographic origin of the introduced Blue-crested lizard Calotes mystaceus Duméril & Bibron, 1837 (Squamata: Agamidae) in Hong Kong	2
Westward range expansion of the blue swimmer crab Portunus segnis (Forskål, 1775) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Portunidae) into Atlantic European waters	2
First report of an invasive Japanese beetle Popillia japonica Newman (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) in Slovenia	2
Rediscovery of introduced Korean Semisulcospira from Lake Sotonasakaura, Japan and implication for its identity (Mollusca: Gastropoda)	2
Yet another non-indigenous fish from Maltese waters, central Mediterranean: a first record of Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Ribeiro, 1915 (Tetraodontiformes, Tetraodontidae)	2
First report of the invasive ant Nylanderia fulva (Mayr, 1862) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Panama	2
Discovery of a new non-native aquatic plant in the Kolkheti Lowland, Georgia: implications for biodiversity	2
Beyond BOLD: using DNA barcoding to identify Prussian carp (Carassius gibelio Bloch, 1782) in southern Alberta, Canada	2