OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Diving behavior and energetic strategy of leatherback sea turtles during internesting intervals on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands	29
Editorial Board	28
The ecological effects of hard-bottom habitat degradation on the Florida stone crab	23
Effects of sediment type and light availability on the burying behaviour of small sandeel (Ammodytes tobianus)	18
Biodiversity patterns of epibiotic invertebrates occupying an edible polyplacophoran across a latitudinal gradient of the Mexican Pacific	16
Mangrove macroalgae increase their growth under ocean acidification: A study with Bostrychia (Rhodophyta) haplotypes from different biogeographic provinces	16
Unravelling the secret life of MultiAnnual delayed gametophytes in the order of the Laminariales	16
Diving behavior, foraging strategies, and energetics of female Steller sea lions during early lactation	16
Incubation duration and predicted hatchling sex ratios of leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean (1988–2021)	16
Empirical measurements of ammonium excretion in kelp forest fishes: Effects of body size, taxonomy and trophic guild	16
Editorial Board	16
A preliminary analysis of ingestion and egestion of microplastic fibres in the acorn barnacle Balanus glandula	15
Prey composition and nutritional strategies in two sympatric pinnipeds	15
Sublethal behavioral and physiological effects of claw removal on Jonah crabs (Cancer borealis)	14
Burrowing behaviour of soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria) following human disturbance	14
Limited population genetic structure in the littoral gastropod Nerita tessellata (Neritimorpha, Neritidae) suggests high dispersal across the Caribbean Sea	14
How close can we get to seeing the private lives of fur seals and sea lions? Experimental UAV flights on the Southern Brazilian coast	14
Diver presence increases egg predation on a nesting damselfish	13
Factors affecting DNA barcoding classification accuracy for piscine prey: An experimental assessment with invasive lionfish	13
Male acoustic display in the sand goby – Essential cue in female choice, but unaffected by supplemental feeding	13
Physiological responses of the upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Cassiopeidae) to temperature and implications for their range expansion along the east coast of Australia	12
Macroalgal canopies provide corals limited protection from bleaching and impede post-bleaching recovery	12
Variability in the degree of euryhalinity of neotropical estuarine annelids	12
Effects of predator density on the predation efficiency of the dogwhelk (Reishia clavigera)	12
Interacting effects of local and global stressors on mussel beds and ecosystem functioning	12

Survival and recovery of planktonic organisms in prolonged darkness and their implications on ballast water management	11
Thermal fluctuations independently modulate physiological plasticity and the dynamics of the gut microbiome in a tropical rocky shore oyster	11
Burrowing crabs' influence on tidal marsh vegetation species composition and abundance in a temperate back-barrier marsh, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA	11
Differences in larval acidification tolerance among populations of the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica	11
Assessment of the impact of anthropogenic airborne noise on the behaviour of Cape fur seals during the breeding season in Namibia	11
Editorial Board	11
Thermal stress and availability of potential mates drive decisions related to thermoregulatory burrow retreat and emergence in fiddler crabs	11
Environmental constraints on the photosynthetic rate of the marine flatworm Symsagittifera roscoffensis	10
Photographic application of the Coral Health Chart in turbid environments: The efficiency of image enhancement and restoration methods	10
Moderately elevated temperatures increase macroalgal food consumption in two sea urchin species from coastal waters of Madeira	10
Reduced predator avoidance behavior and higher exposure to thermal stress for prey during heat wave events	10
Prey interactions in tiger sharks: Accounting for visual perception in animal-borne cameras	9
Growth stimulation of toxic dinoflagellate Prorocentrum cordatum with herbicide glyphosate	9
Evaluating the effectiveness of baited video and traps for quantifying the mobile fauna on artificial reefs in northern China	9
Unexpected biotic homogenization masks the effect of a pollution gradient on local variability of community structure in a marine urban environment	9
Ghost crab predation of loggerhead turtle eggs across thermal habitats	9
Response of estuarine fishes to elevated temperatures within temperate Australia: Implications of climate change on fish growth and foraging performance	9
Medetomidine promotes settlement but inhibits recruitment of the introduced colonial ascidian (Botrylloides violaceus)	9
Biofouling assemblages on anthropogenic structures reflect seafloor access for benthic predators	9
Kelp-bed dynamics across scales: Expanding distributional analysis capacity with spatial pattern metrics and modelling	8
Intergenerational effects of ocean acidification on reproductive traits of an estuarine copepod	8
Influence of seasonality and sex on the behavioral thermoregulation of the crab Neohelice granulata	8
Editorial Board	8
Biomarker responses of Mediterranean mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis, Lamarck 1819) regarding marine mucilage in the Sea of Marmara	8
Red king crab larval survival and development are resilient to ocean acidification	8
Valve gaping behaviour in the European oyster (Ostrea edulis) in response to changes in light intensity when combined with variations in salinity and seawater temperature	8
Fisheries restrictions and their cascading effects on herbivore abundance and macroalgae removal at Kenyan coral reefs	8
Effects of sediment and water column acidification on growth, survival, burrowing behaviour, and GABAA receptor function of benthic invertebrates	7
Editorial Board	7
Comparison of two calcein administration techniques for marking the shell of the blue mussels (Mytilus spp.) infected with pathogenic microalgae Coccomyxa	7
Effect of prolonged seawater warming on Zostera marina ecotypes of the northeast Pacific	7
Seasonal and site-specific differences in biofouling communities on Pacific oyster Mariculture farms	7
Fussy eaters, bait loss and escapees: How reliable are baited-hook assessments of shark abundance in shallow, coastal waters?	7
Contrasting decadal recruitment patterns in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis in the Gulf of Maine	7
Editorial Board	7
A rockling's choice: The trade-off between thermal preference and physical structure in the five bearded rockling, Ciliata mustela	7
Investigating leatherback surface behavior using a novel tag design and machine learning	7
Photo identification for sea turtles: Flipper scales more accurate than head scales using APHIS	7
Establishment of oxidative stress biomarkers in oocytes from healthy and bleached scleractinian corals	6
Juvenile Dungeness crab foraging behavior and lipid composition is altered more by food quantity than seawater pH in a multi-stressor experiment	6
Hypersalinity effects on O2 flux across the diffusive boundary layer of leaves in the tropical seagrass Thalassia testudinum	6
Marker pigments and carbon biomass of phytoplankton on the northeastern Mediterranean Sea coast	6
Microphytobenthic responses to endobenthic bioturbator density, temperature and eutrophication in a global change mesocosm experiment	6
Estimation and comparison of connectivity measures for the dispersal of Lepeophtheirus salmonis sea lice among Atlantic salmon farms in new Brunswick, Canada	6
Summer heatwaves affect coastal Antarctic plankton metabolism and community structure	6
Latent effects of winter warming on Olympia oyster reproduction and larval viability	6
Exploring chemical stimuli guiding the pea crab Dissodactylus primitivus towards its echinoid host Meoma ventricosa	6
Modeling growth of multiple recruitment cohorts of Dungeness crab co-occurring within the central Salish Sea	6
High sclerobiont calcification in marginal reefs of the eastern tropical Pacific	6
Selective pressure on ontogenic stages of blue mussels (Mytilus edulis, L.)	6

eDNA metabarcoding detection of nearshore juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) and prey fish communities	6
Variability in site characteristics linked to bay scallop abundance but not tethered survival: Implications for restoration	6
Editorial Board	6
Effects of UV radiation on photosynthesis of Sargassum muticum	6
Divergent mechanisms for crushing shelled prey in parallel lineages of durophagous stingrays (Myliobatoidei)	6
Antagonistic impacts of benthic bioturbator species: Interconnected effects on sedimentary properties, biogeochemical variables, and microbial dynamics	6
Editorial Board	5
Effects of semidiurnal water column acidification and sediment presence on growth and survival of the bivalve Mya arenaria	5
Editorial Board	5
Conditions that promote oyster settlement coincide with areas of high boating activity in a developed coastal habitat	5
Editorial Board	5
Spatial and temporal variation in the diversity and structure of understorey macrofaunal assemblages within Laminaria hyperborea forests in the northeast Atlantic	5
Effects of experimental manipulations of the density of a key grazer Cymbula granatina on rocky-shore community composition in the Benguela ecosystem, South Africa	5
Effects of ocean acidification and warming on the specific dynamic action of California Grunion (Leuresthes tenuis) larvae	5
Carryover effects and feeding behavior of Atlantic surfclams in response to climate change	5
Effects of temperature on the performance of Palaemon serratus (Pennant, 1777) larvae from winter and summer laying	5
Thermal sensitivity of gill Na+/K+ ATPase activity in juvenile red drum	5
Merging technologies and supervised classification methods to quantify capture behavior on hook-and-line	5
Body colourations affect predation risk from fish in fiddler crabs	5