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Papers

(The median citation count of Aquacultural Engineering is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Self-cleaning performance of three bottom drain modes in circular culture tank: Experimental and numerical study	65
Editorial Board	57
Evaluation of an anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) – downflow hanging sponge (DHS) system in treatment of black wastewater from a closed recirculating aquaculture system	36
Underwater scallop recognition algorithm using improved YOLOv5	34
Foam fractionation and ozonation in freshwater recirculation aquaculture systems	29
Underwater fish mass estimation using pattern matching based on binocular system	28
Effects of scaled-down dissolved air flotation system on suspended solids removal from Penaeus vannamei culture under biofloc conditions	28
The coupled vibrations of a rectangular frame and a flexible net subjected to waves and currents	25
Effects of microbubble aeration on water quality and growth performance of Litopenaeus vannamei in biofloc system	25
Metal leaching and toxicity of denitrifying woodchip bioreactor outflow—Potential reuse application	24
Transitioning from wild seed fishery to Seed Mussel Collectors (SMCs): Reviewing the efficiency of collectors for seed provisioning in mussel bottom culture	24
Mechanistic model based optimization of feeding practices in aquaculture	23
Deep learning applied in fish reproduction for counting larvae in images captured by smartphone	23
Editorial Board	23
Editorial Board	23
Method for layout optimization of coastal cage aquaculture systems in Southeast Asia	22
Robust detection of farmed fish by fusing YOLOv5 with DCM and ATM	22
Observability-based sensor selection in fish ponds: Application to pond aquaculture in Indonesia	22
Conveying characteristics of shrimp feed pellets in pneumatic conveying system and minimum power consumption dissipation factor	21
The impact of shade net use on total nitrogen removal by duckweed (Lemna perpusilla) at different levels of catfish farming effluent	21
Hydrodynamic implications in and around a caged finfish farm and its implications on the dispersal of farm debris	20
Comparison between horizontal and vertical substrate in shrimp super-intensive culture in bioflocs system.	19
Analysis of an optical imaging system prototype for autonomously monitoring zooplankton in an aquaculture facility	19
Hydrogen sulphide dynamics in recirculating aquaculture systems with moving or fixed bed biofilters: A case study in two commercial salmon smolt producing farms in Norway	19
Hydrodynamic responses of a large flexible net swinging in waves	19

Shrimp egg counting with fully convolutional regression network and generative adversarial network	18
Normal hatching rate estimation for bulk samples of Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) eggs using deep learning	18
Optimal aquarium shape for rearing male Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens)	17
Vision-based dual network using spatial-temporal geometric features for effective resolution of fish behavior recognition with fish overlap	17
On the application of current blockage model to steady drag force on fish net	17
Experimental study on hydrodynamic performance of the semi-submersible vessel-shaped fish cage	17
Design evaluation of a fish cage mooring system with different bridle line connections using model experiments and simulations	17
Effect of biocarrier material on nitrification performance during start-up in freshwater RAS	17
Aquaculture fish counting and mass estimation method via vibration signal processing	16
Appling machine learning for estimating total suspended solids in BFT aquaculture system	16
Nonlinear vertical accelerations and mooring loads of a semi-submersible offshore fish farm under extreme conditions	16
Research progress of computer vision technology in abnormal fish detection	15
Automatic length estimation of free-swimming fish using an underwater 3D range-gated camera	15
MSIF-MobileNetV3: An improved MobileNetV3 based on multi-scale information fusion for fish feeding behavior analysis	15
Fish feeding intensity quantification using machine vision and a lightweight 3D ResNet-GloRe network	15
An IoT based smart water quality assessment framework for aqua-ponds management using Dilated Spatial-temporal Convolution Neural Network (DSTCNN)	14
Fish behavior recognition based on an audio-visual multimodal interactive fusion network	14
Assessing sensing techniques for detecting markers of approaching ecdysis in juvenile tropical rock lobsters, Panulirus ornatus	14
Microalgae cultivation in offshore floating photobioreactor: State-of-the-art, opportunities and challenges	14
Effect of feed pellet buoyancy and stocking ratio of tilapia on fish and natural food in carp-tilapia polyculture ponds	14
Editorial Board	13
Anomalous white shrimp detection in intensive farming based on improved YOLOv8	13
Editorial Board	12
Editorial Board	12
A novel advanced oxidation process (AOP) that rapidly removes geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol (MIB) from water and significantly reduces depuration times in Atlantic salmon Salmo salar RAS aquaculture	12
Waste characterization and biofilter sizing criteria for oligotrophic RAS egg incubators	12
Rapid detection of Penaeus vannamei diseases via an improved LeNet	12
Hydrodynamics of waste collection in a recirculating aquaculture tank with different flow-guide discs	11
Physical filtration of nutrients utilizing gravel-based and lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LECA) as growing media in aquaponic recirculation system (ARS)	11
Facilities pond aquaculture system construction and the ecological economy analyzed	11
A novel centerline extraction method for overlapping fish body length measurement in aquaculture images	10
Formaldehyde degradation in denitrifying woodchip bioreactors: Effects of temperature, concentration and hydraulic retention time	10
Precision biometrics data of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in commercial grow-out sea-cages: Manual sampling and infrared diode frames compared to processing plant	10
Computation of feed conversion ratio (FCRplant) and plant-fish mass ratio (PFRM) for aquaponic systems	10
An integrated framework of sensing, machine learning, and augmented reality for aquaculture prawn farm management	10
Unsteady flow dynamic response in the cylinder-netting structure for the design of offshore fish farm systems using an SST-IDDES turbulence model	9
Design and experiment of a new mode of mechanized harvesting of raft cultured kelp	9
Numerical study on the flow characteristics of an integrated fish cage based on the monopile offshore wind turbine foundation	9
Hydrodynamics of waste collection in a recirculating aquaculture tank with different numbers of inlet pipes	9
Prawn morphometrics and weight estimation from images using deep learning for landmark localization	9
Detection of a stress related acoustic signature by passive acoustic monitoring in Atlantic salmon farming	9
Experimental investigation on the convey performance and control strategy of a special annular jet pump for deep sea feeding	9
Heterotrophic versus mixed BFT system: Impacts on water use, suspended solids production and growth performance of Litopenaeus vannamei	9
Settling velocity distribution of bioflocules generated with different carbon sources during the rearing of the river shrimp Cryphiops caementarius with biofloc technology	8
Bottom culture is a promising strategy for final grow-out of the Portuguese oyster Crassostrea angulata	8
Effect of different C/N ratios and hydraulic retention times on denitrification in saline, recirculating aquaculture system effluents	8
Dissolved oxygen prediction using regularized extreme learning machine with clustering mechanism in a black bass aquaculture pond	8
Where engineering meets biology: The Computational Fluid Dynamic analysis of a stacked duckweed bioreactor	8
Simulating emergency response for large-scale fish welfare emergencies in sea-based salmon farming	8
Environmental performance of Penaeus vannamei shrimp production in intensive and super-intensive biofloc systems	8

Powering aquaculture operations at sea: Can hydrogen be a sustainable solution?	8
Experimental study of flow and mass transport in the near-wake region of a rigid planar metal net panel	8
Recognizing fish behavior in aquaculture with graph convolutional network	8
Experimental study of the behaviour of a circular gravity cage in linear waves	7
Comparative study of circular and square gravity-based fish cages with different dimensions under pure current conditions	7
Linear modelling of the mass balance and energy demand for a recirculating aquaculture system	7
Preconditioner influence on twin-screw extrusion cooking of starch-based feed pellets: The example of Fish Feed	7
An empirical simulation study of a salmon production line in southern Chile	7
MortCam: An Artificial Intelligence-aided fish mortality detection and alert system for recirculating aquaculture	7
The effects of stocking density and artifical substrate on production of pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei and water quality dynamics in greenhouse-based biofloc systems	7
Industry 4.0-based smart systems in aquaculture: A comprehensive review	7
CFD-based simulation assessment of an artificial upwelling antibloom system for a salmon farming site	6
Editorial Board	6
An extraction method of fish vector field for marine cage culture based on UAV vision	6
Food-based sizing criteria of bead filters with floating media in serial treatment with moving bed bioreactors	6
Editorial Board	6
Biological site suitability for exposed self-regulating cultivation of blue mussel (Mytilus edulis): A Belgian case study	5
Design considerations for a continuous mussel farm in New England Offshore waters. Part I: Development of environmental conditions for engineering design	5
Design of a low-cost pH-Stat to study effects of ocean acidification on growth and nutrient consumption of diatoms	5
Determination of early breeder in goldfish (Carassius auratus Linn.) with learning vector quantization, probabilistic and pattern recognition neural networks	5
In situ measurements and simulations of a net cage in currents	5
Early production of strawberry in aquaponic systems using commercial hydroponic bands	5
Sedimentation efficiency evaluation of an aquaculture tank through experimental floc characterization and CFD simulation	5
Evaluating the suitability of nitrate-nitrogen levels for post-smolt Atlantic salmon Salmo salar production in RAS with assistance from heart rate bio-loggers	5
Enhancing instance segmentation: Leveraging multiscale feature fusion and attention mechanisms for automated fish weight estimation	4
Effect of water velocity on ammonium and nitrite removal in pilot scale fixed bed biofilters	4
Underwater abnormal classification system based on deep learning: A case study on aquaculture fish farm in Taiwan	4
Influence of various carbon and nitrogen ratios in a jaggery-based biofloc rearing system on the Asian stinging catfish Heteropneustes fossilis	4
Numerical investigation of flow characteristics in a rearing tank aboard an aquaculture vessel	4
Numerical study on hydrodynamic responses of a single-point moored vessel-shaped floating aquaculture platform in waves	4
Temporal and small-scale spatial variation in spatfall of the mussel Mytilus edulis platensis: Basis for culture management at San Jorge Gulf, Patagonia Argentina	4
Effects of different types of air supplementation on rainbow trout confined underwater	4
Editorial Board	4
A robotic fish processing line enhanced by machine learning	4
A case study comparing the addition of two different carbon sources in pilot scale RAS with trout with and without biofilters	4
MusselCF, a user-friendly toolbox to estimate the physiological carbon footprint of mussels in suspended aquaculture	4
Robust automatic net damage detection and tracking on real aquaculture environment using computer vision	4
Design, deployment, and operation of an experimental offshore seaweed cultivation structure	4
In-water electric stunning as a humane commercial method for culling juvenile salmonids	4
Development of an image binarization software tool for net occlusion estimations	4
Single pass saltwater disinfection using low voltage electrolysis: Potential implications for aquaculture systems	4
Temporal dynamics of protist communities and environmental factors in the horizontal flow-polyculture pond aquaculture model of Sinonovacula constricta	4
Impact of the biological fouling on the hydrodynamic characteristics of nets under different current and attack angle conditions	3
Electrochemical ammonia removal and disinfection of aquaculture wastewater using batch and flow reactors incorporating PtRu/graphite anode and graphite cathode	3
Evaluating fish feeding intensity in aquaculture with convolutional neural networks	3
The quantity of artificial substrates influences the nitrogen cycle in the biofloc culture system of Litopenaeus vannamei	3
The influence of length–width ratio of an unconventional mobile finfish structure on the drag force and dissolved oxygen: laboratory experimentation and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)	3
Optimizing alkalinity control in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS): A dynamic modelling approach	3
Environmental impact of different Mediterranean technological systems for European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and Gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) farming	3
Behavioural response of farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) to artificial underwater lights: Wavelet analysis of acoustic telemetry data	3
Development of fish spatio-temporal identifying technology using SegNet in aquaculture net cages	3
Start-up of a “zero-discharge” recirculating aquaculture system using woodchip denitrification, constructed wetland, and sand infiltration	3
Optimizing flow uniformity and velocity fields in aquaculture tanks by modifying water inlets and nozzles arrangement: A computational fluid dynamics study	3
Dynamic modeling of recirculating aquaculture systems: Effect of management strategies and water quality parameters on fish performance	3
Growth performance of shrimp and water quality in a freshwater biofloc system with a salinity of 5.0‰: Effects on inputs, costs and wastes discharge during grow-out culture of Litopenaeus vannamei	3
A small boat for fish feeding	3
Ultrafiltration for the biosecurity of fish production: The case of a sturgeon nursery	3
Pond cascades as a tool for ecological aquaculture allowing natural zooplankton succession, nutrient retention, and multiple stocking–harvesting cycles	3
Effect of ozone and hydrogen peroxide on off-flavor compounds and water quality in a recirculating aquaculture system	3
Influence of carbon to phosphorus ratio on the performance of single-stage aerobic simultaneous nitrogen and phosphorus removal by bioflocs	3