OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Limnology and Oceanography Letters is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-11-01 to 2023-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Micro‐by‐micro interactions: How microorganisms influence the fate of marine microplastics	159
Trophic transfer of microplastics in an estuarine food chain and the effects of a sorbed legacy pollutant	93
Effects of environmentally relevant concentrations of microplastic fibers on Pacific mole crab (Emerita analoga) mortality and reproduction	85
Microbial colonization of microplastics in the Caribbean Sea	78
Microplastic concentrations in two Oregon bivalve species: Spatial, temporal, and species variability	75
Patterns of suspended and salp‐ingested microplastic debris in the North Pacific investigated with epifluorescence microscopy	72
Microplastic ingestion and diet composition of planktivorous fish	59
Microplastic prevalence in two fish species in two U.S. reservoirs	56
Diel temperature and pH variability scale with depth across diverse coral reef habitats	50
Microplastics in aquatic organisms: Improving understanding and identifying research directions for the next decade	48
Paired O₂–CO₂ measurements provide emergent insights into aquatic ecosystem function	46
Microplastic contamination in Corpus Christi Bay blue crabs,Callinectes sapidus	45
Feeding behavior is the main driver for microparticle intake in mangrove crabs	44
Ultra‐small and abundant: Candidate phyla radiation bacteria are potential catalysts of carbon transformation in a thermokarst lake ecosystem	37
Microplastic occurrence and effects in commercially harvested North American finfish and shellfish: Current knowledge and future directions	34
The effect of urban point source contamination on microplastic levels in water and organisms in a cold‐water stream	33
Prochlorococcus,Synechococcus, and picoeukaryotic phytoplankton abundances in the global ocean	32
Total alkalinity production in a mangrove ecosystem reveals an overlooked Blue Carbon component	26
Vertical stratification of environmental DNA in the open ocean captures ecological patterns and behavior of deep‐sea fishes	25
Effects of lake warming on the seasonal risk of toxic cyanobacteria exposure	23
Snowpack determines relative importance of climate factors driving summer lake warming	22
Cascading effects of freshwater salinization on plankton communities in the Sierra Nevada	22
Reconciling models and measurements of marsh vulnerability to sea level rise	21
Impact of salinization on lake stratification and spring mixing	20
Stochastic dynamics of Cyanobacteria in long‐term high‐frequency observations of a eutrophic lake	20

Bottom trawling reduces benthic denitrification and has the potential to influence the global nitrogen cycle	20
Thinking like a consumer: Linking aquatic basal metabolism and consumer dynamics	20
Dissolved organic matter regulates nutrient limitation and growth of benthic algae in northern lakes through interacting effects on nutrient and light availability	20
Methanogenesis exceeds CH₄ consumption in eutrophic lake sediments	20
LAGOS‐US LOCUS v1.0: Data module of location, identifiers, and physical characteristics of lakes and their watersheds in the conterminous U.S.	19
Carbon and alkalinity outwelling across the groundwater‐creek‐shelf continuum off Amazonian mangroves	19
Sea‐level rise drives wastewater leakage to coastal waters and storm drains	19
Taxonomic and nutrient controls on phytoplankton iron quotas in the ocean	19
Lake salinization drives consistent losses of zooplankton abundance and diversity across coordinated mesocosm experiments	18
Internal loading in stormwater ponds as a phosphorus source to downstream waters	18
Foraging strategy impacts plastic ingestion risk in seabirds	18
Nutrient co‐limitation in the subtropical Northwest Pacific	18
Nitrogen fixation: A poorly understood process along the freshwater‐marine continuum	17
Do diatoms dominate benthic production in shallow systems? A case study from a mixed seagrass bed	16
Elevated organic carbon pulses persist in estuarine environment after major storm events	16
Giant kelp microbiome altered in the presence of epiphytes	16
Effects of chloride and nutrients on freshwater plankton communities	16
Low snowpack reduces thermal response diversity among streams across a landscape	15
Effects of freshwater salinization on a salt‐naïve planktonic eukaryote community	15
Pore‐water exchange flushes blue carbon from intertidal saltmarsh sediments into the sea	15
Ocean sediments as the global sink for marine micro‐ and mesoplastics	15
Five state factors control progressive stages of freshwater salinization syndrome	14
Whole‐ecosystem oxygenation experiments reveal substantially greater hypolimnetic methane concentrations in reservoirs during anoxia	14
Methane emission offsets carbon dioxide uptake in a small productive lake	14
Arctic seals as tracers of environmental and ecological change	14
Should we be sampling zooplankton at night?	14
Synthesizing 35 years of seagrass spatial data from the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia	13
Highest rates of gross primary productivity maintained despite CO₂ depletion in a temperate river network	13
Density‐dependent mechanisms regulate spore formation in the diatom Chaetoceros socialis	13
Body size, trophic position, and the coupling of different energy pathways across a saltmarsh landscape	12
Dityrosine formation via reactive oxygen consumption yields increasingly recalcitrant humic‐like fluorescent organic matter in the ocean	12
Winter inverse lake stratification under historic and future climate change	12
Thicker shells reduce copepod grazing on diatoms	12
Lake browning generates a spatiotemporal mismatch between dissolved organic carbon and limiting nutrients	12
Light fluctuations are key in modulating plankton trophic dynamics and their impact on primary production	11
The slow and steady salinization of Sparkling Lake, Wisconsin	11
Diverse impacts of day and night temperature on spring phenology in freshwater marshes of the Tibetan Plateau	11
Interactive effects of iron and temperature on the growth of Fragilariopsis cylindrus	11
Simple rules for concise scientific writing	10
Reconsideration of the phytoplankton seasonality in the open Black Sea	10
Salty sensors, fresh ideas: The use of molecular and imaging sensors in understanding plankton dynamics across marine and freshwater ecosystems	10
Beyond the trends: The need to understand multiannual dynamics in aquatic ecosystems	10
Microbial methane oxidation efficiency and robustness during lake overturn	10
Storm‐induced turbulence alters shelf sea vertical fluxes	10