OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bulletin of Marine Science 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
An Indian Ocean macroalga new to the Atlantic: Halimeda macroloba (Chlorophyta, Halimedaceae) discovered and now established in Biscayne Bay, Florida	44
The genus Aspidosiphon Diesing, 1851 (Sipuncula: Aspidosiphonidae): Description of a New Shell Dwelling Species, Notes on Aspidosiphon (Paraspidosiphon) Laevis De Quatrefag	38
Public perception of coastal ecoengineering interventions in Singapore	18
Preface	17
Changes in the organic matter deposition in the Southeastern America mangrove limit occurrence area (Santo Antônio Lagoon, Brazil)	12
Shifts in mangrove ecosystem distribution along the Baja California Peninsula following the Early-Middle Holocene transition	11
Giant mobile coralliths from the Florida Keys, USA	8
Short-term Habitat Use and Vertical Movements of the Pelagic Stingray Pteroplatytrygon Violacea in the Western North Atlantic Ocean Determined by Pop-up Archival Satellite Tags	8
Stock-recruitment relationships in pocilloporid corals are likely disrupted by thermal stress	7
Antibacterial activity of bryozoan-associated bacteria from Tulamben, Bali	7
Fish community structure and diversity partitioning in the nearshore benthoscapes of San Salvador, The Bahamas	6
The roles of ocean law in the science-policy ballet on protection of the marine environment	6
Influence of intra- and interspecific competition on periphyton biomass and growth performance of Holothuria scabra juveniles	6
Integrating the US Caribbean Reef Fish Visual Census into fishery stock assessments	5
Regime shift in the northernmost coral ecosystem: decline of the threatened coral Acropora pruinosa due to grazing by Diadema setosum	5
Residency and Fine-scale Habitat Use of Juvenile Goliath Grouper (Epinephelus Itajara) in a Mangrove Nursery	5
Review of the Gnathiidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) of western Japan with a description of five new species, one redescription, and one new Japanese record	4
Recovery of a tropical coral reef in the aftermath of a cyclone: insights into postdisturbance dynamics and conservation strategies	4
Distribution and density of seabirds at sea around Cuba	4
Artificial reefs in the Anthropocene: a review of geographical and historical trends in their design, purpose, and monitoring	4
A Short History of Terpios Hoshinota in Maldives	4
The Identity of the Deepsea Caridean Shrimp Glyphocrangon Stenolepis and Description of Glyphocrangon Latens Sp. Nov. from Taiwan and Japan	4
Fish assemblages on shipwrecks versus natural reefs in Colombo, Sri Lanka	4
Associations between banded sea kraits (Laticuadinae) and trumpetfish (Aulostomidae) in the central Philippines	4
Larval presence and settlement of the American lobster (Homarus americanus) in a changing southern New England estuary	4

Abiotic drivers of mudflat colonization by mangroves in Indonesia: a knowledge base to support ecological restoration	4
Structural design influences biological community composition on a North Carolina jetty	4
Fish diversity declines with loss of sessile benthic invertebrate density on nearshore hardbottom communities in the Florida Keys, United States	3
Expansion of an established fishery-independent survey into the US Virgin Islands' upper mesophotic zone: feasibility and management implications	3
Tropicalization alert: new species of mat-forming zoantharian (Zoanthus pulchellus) arrives on Madeira Island (NE Atlantic)	3
Discovery of a new Muraenichthys eel (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the Bay of Bengal, India, with its molecular characterization	3
Benthic foraminifera as an environmental indicator of coral reefs in the Tambelan Islands, Riau, Indonesia	3
Distribution, abundance, and size structure of deepsea shrimps of the family Aristeidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) in the southern Gulf of Mexico	3
Presence of coral-killing sponges in Okinawan mesophotic coral ecosystems	3
Crown-of-thorns starfish outbreak at Taiping Island (Itu Aba), Spratlys, South China Sea	3
Moving towards local participation and comanagement of Tioman Island Marine Park	3
Development of an individual-based tag recapture model to benchmark biomass and harvest rates in an iconic lobster fishery	3
Host density and anthropogenic stress are drivers of variability in dark spot disease in Siderastrea siderea across the Florida Reef Tract	3
Mangrove browning trends in the semiarid southern Caribbean: spatial context matters	3
Territorial use rights for finfish fisheries: a case study in Baja California Sur, Mexico	3
Microscale vertical distribution of meiofauna in a coral reef protected area in northeastern Brazil	2
Horizontal and Vertical Distribution of Abralia Spp. Paralarvae in the Caribbean Sea with Morphological and Molecular Notes	2
Putative spawning aggregations of giant trevally in the Red Sea	2
Spatial Ecology and Habitat Partitioning of Two Sympatric Ophichthid Eel Species in the Gulf of Mexico	2
Comparing soil organic carbon and water relations among continental and island mangroves in the Colombian Caribbean	2
Mangrove ecosytems for human well-being in a changing planet	2
Goatfishes (Teleostei: Mullidae) of the Socotra Archipelago: diversity and distributional biogeography, with a new record of Parupeneus heptacantha	2
Analyzing the role of coastal geomorphology on heavy mineral distribution along a coastal tract of Kerala, southwest India	2
Effects of climate change and water management on West Florida Shelf's dynamics	2
Benthic macrofaunal habitat use of the alga Caulerpa prolifera compared to the seagrass Halodule wrightii	2
Nocturnal Infestation of Flounder (Bothidae: Pleuronectiformes) by Parasitic Gnathiid Isopods in the Central Philippines	2
Cephalopod paralarvae in a tropical Brazilian basin: distribution throughout oceanographic features and water masses	2
Information legacies of early ecological studies	2
Fish community characterization of mid-shelf and shelf- edge mesophotic coral ecosystems in the expanded Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary	2
Stronger enforcement enhances the status of coral reef fishes in Cuba	2
Quantification of “observer effect” in the United States Atlantic pelagic longline fishery	2
In-water photo-ID to estimate foraging movements of green turtles Chelonia mydas in Apo Island, Negros Oriental, Philippines	2
Spatial and temporal distribution of chlorophyll a concentration in the Sunda Shelf	2
Distribution and abundance of herbivorous reef fishes on a barrier reef system in the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas, Florida	2
A critical appraisal of occurrence data in OBIS and GBIF databases: a case study on true mangrove species	2
Spread of the invasive corals, Tubastraea coccinea and Tubastraea tagusensis, towards the lower intertidal zones of southeastern Brazil	2
Increasing risk of migrations through the Panama Canal	2
The Reef Visual Census: a review of an essential long- term data source for reef-fish management in Florida	2
First observations of filamentous cyanobacterial mats on whip black corals (Antipatharia: Stichopathes spp.) off Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile	2