OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Limnology and Oceanography Letters is 9. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Diverse impacts of day and night temperature on spring phenology in freshwater marshes of the Tibetan Plateau	61
Biogeochemical‐Argo floats show that chlorophyll increases before carbon in the high‐latitude Southern Ocean spring bloom	59
Always ready? Primary production of Arctic phytoplankton at the end of the polar night	52
Ice‐melt period dominates annual carbon dioxide evasion from clear‐water Arctic lakes	51
Cross‐contamination risks in sediment‐based resurrection studies of phytoplankton	45
Eutrophication triggers diel and seasonal shifts of carbon dioxide and oxygen in tropical urban coastal waters	43
Effects of freshwater salinization on a salt‐naïve planktonic eukaryote community	42
Tried and true vs. shiny and new: Method switching in long‐term aquatic datasets	38
Lagging spawning and increasing phenological extremes jeopardize walleye (Sander vitreus) in north‐temperate lakes	38
Methanogenesis exceeds CH₄ consumption in eutrophic lake sediments	37
Validity of the Landsat surface reflectance archive for aquatic science: Implications for cloud‐based analysis	37
Grazer‐induced changes on mechanical properties of diatoms frustule: A new proof for a watery arms race	36
Exploring the mismatch between the theory and application of photosynthetic quotients in aquatic ecosystems	33
Unveiling differential thermal sensitivities in marine phytoplankton within the China Seas	32
Vertical stratification of environmental DNA in the open ocean captures ecological patterns and behavior of deep‐sea fishes	31
A global review of pyrosomes: Shedding light on the ocean's elusive gelatinous “fire‐bodies”	31
Blooms also like it cold	29
Recent warming of the Kuroshio Current has promoted offshore sediment transport in the Yellow Sea	26
Increased anoxia following species invasion of a eutrophic lake	26
Key bacterial groups maintain stream multifunctionality in response to episodic drying	26
Remote silicate supply regulates spring phytoplankton bloom magnitude in the Gulf of Maine	26
Seasonal patterns of microbial diversity across the world oceans	25
Clarifying water clarity: A call to use metrics best suited to corresponding research and management goals in aquatic ecosystems	25
Taxonomic identity, biodiversity, and antecedent disturbances shape the dimensional stability of stream invertebrates	23
Biotic and thermal drivers alter zooplankton phenology in western Lake Erie	22

Show and tell: approaches for effective figures	22
Biologically driven isotope fractionation in ultrastructurally different shell portions of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera): Implications for stream water δ¹⁸O	22
Arctic fishes reveal patterns in radiocarbon age across habitats and with recent climate change	21
Calcium carbonate and phosphorus interactions in inland waters	20
Brachiopods as archives of intrannual, annual, and interannual environmental variations	20
Taking steps to address inequities in open‐access publishing through an early career publication honor	18
Enhanced stream greenhouse gas emissions at night and during flood events	18
Lake browning generates a spatiotemporal mismatch between dissolved organic carbon and limiting nutrients	18
Energy inputs imprint seasonality and fractal structure on river metabolic regimes	17
Widespread synchrony in phosphorus concentrations in northern lakes linked to winter temperature and summer precipitation	17
Variability‐based constraint on ocean primary production models	16
LAGOS‐US RESERVOIR: A database classifying conterminous U.S. lakes 4 ha and larger as natural lakes or reservoir lakes	16
Diazotrophy in the Indian Ocean: Current understanding and future perspectives	16
Shedding light on cobalamin photodegradation in the ocean	16
A dataset of individual wet weights of benthic macroinvertebrates	15
Extreme plasticity in the photosystem composition of a low‐light Prochlorococcus ecotype in response to iron and light	15
Impacts of riverine heatwaves on rates of ecosystem metabolism in the United States	15
Rapid phytoplankton response to wind forcing influences productivity in upwelling bays	15
Oyster shells as archives of present and past environmental variability and life history traits: A multi‐disciplinary review of sclerochronology methods and applications	15
Changes in phytoplankton and biomineral content of particles during episodic fluxes to abyssal depth	14
Extent, patterns, and drivers of hypoxia in the world's streams and rivers	14
DOC, grazers, and resilience of phytoplankton to enrichment	13
Anthropogenic nutrient inputs affect productivity–biodiversity relationships in marine tintinnid assemblages	13
Combining genetic and isotope frameworks improves reconstruction of fish provenance across riverscapes	13
Sulfate enrichment in estuaries of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico: The potential effect of sulfide oxidation on carbonate chemistry under a changing climate	13
Predictable shifts in diversity and ecosystem function in phytoplankton communities along coastal salinity continua	13
Diverse arsenic‐containing lipids in the surface ocean	13
Prochlorococcus,Synechococcus, and picoeukaryotic phytoplankton abundances in the global ocean	13
A rationale for higher ratios of CH₄ to CO₂ production in warmer anoxic freshwater sediments and soils	12
Does salinization impact long‐term Daphnia assemblage dynamics? Evidence from the sediment egg bank in a small hard‐water lake	12
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Qualitative and quantitative changes in phenology of chlorophyll a concentrations during the transition from eutrophy to oligotrophy	12
Thermal sensitivity in dual‐breathing ectotherms: Embryos and mothers determine species' vulnerability to climate change	11
Hiding in plain sight: The secret contribution of the solitary ascidian Herdmania grandis to temperate reef nitrous oxide production	11
Species richness and intraspecific variation interactively shape marine diatom community functioning	11
Decadal warming has intensified Microcystis‐dominated cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie	11
Interactive effects of increasing chloride concentration and warming on freshwater plankton communities	11
Contrasting impacts of warming and browning on periphyton	11
Reconstructing life‐time reproductive histories using steroid hormones in cephalopod beaks	11
Nutrient co‐limitation in the subtropical Northwest Pacific	11
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Direct contribution of invertebrate holobionts to methane release from coastal sediments	11
Toward a consensus framework to evaluate air–sea CO₂ equilibration for marine CO₂ removal	10
A model of near‐sea ice phytoplankton blooms	10
Lake networks and connectivity metrics for the conterminous U.S. (LAGOS‐US NETWORKS v1)	10
Dissolved organic matter offsets the detrimental effects of climate change in the nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera	10
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Earlier ice melt increases hypolimnetic oxygen despite regional warming in small Arctic lakes	10
Mud in the city: Effects of freshwater salinization on inland urban wetland nitrogen and phosphorus availability and export	10

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Bifurcate responses of tidal range to sea‐level rise in estuaries with marsh evolution	10
Tagging of water masses with covariance of trace metals and prokaryotic taxa in the Southern Ocean	9
Effects of seagrass overgrazing on sediment erosion and carbon sink capacity: Current understanding and future priorities	9
Extreme value distributions describe interannual variability in the seasonal North Atlantic phytoplankton bloom	9
Polyphosphate phosphorus in the Great Lakes	9
Climate‐influenced phenology of larval fish transport in a large lake	9