OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Aquacultural Engineering is 4. 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
Automatic length estimation of free-swimming fish using an underwater 3D range-gated camera	75
Experimental study on hydrodynamic performance of the semi-submersible vessel-shaped fish cage	66
The coupled vibrations of a rectangular frame and a flexible net subjected to waves and currents	42
Shrimp egg counting with fully convolutional regression network and generative adversarial network	41
Editorial Board	37
Prawn morphometrics and weight estimation from images using deep learning for landmark localization	36
Anomalous white shrimp detection in intensive farming based on improved YOLOv8	35
Physical filtration of nutrients utilizing gravel-based and lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LECA) as growing media in aquaponic recirculation system (ARS)	33
Detection of a stress related acoustic signature by passive acoustic monitoring in Atlantic salmon farming	33
Environmental performance of Penaeus vannamei shrimp production in intensive and super-intensive biofloc systems	32
Collection rates of detached mobile sea lice according to net mesh and body size: A benchtop model	31
Design considerations for a continuous mussel farm in New England Offshore waters. Part I: Development of environmental conditions for engineering design	31
MusselCF, a user-friendly toolbox to estimate the physiological carbon footprint of mussels in suspended aquaculture	30
Editorial Board	29
Effect of ozone and hydrogen peroxide on off-flavor compounds and water quality in a recirculating aquaculture system	28
Numerical study on hydrodynamic responses of a single-point moored vessel-shaped floating aquaculture platform in waves	27
Real-time ammonia estimation in recirculating aquaculture systems: A data assimilation approach	27
Robust automatic net damage detection and tracking on real aquaculture environment using computer vision	27
Aqua3DNet: Real-time 3D pose estimation of livestock in aquaculture by monocular machine vision	26
Smart headset, computer vision and machine learning for efficient prawn farm management	24
Editorial Board	23
Simulation of future dissolved oxygen distribution in pond culture based on sliding window-temporal convolutional network and trend surface analysis	22
Ultrasonic monitoring of early larval development of fish in tanks. Case study: Gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata)	21
Numerical study on hydrodynamic behaviors of and flow field around UHMWPE plane nets	21
Insights into different marine aquaculture infrastructures from a life cycle perspective	21

Impact evaluation of deep learning on image segmentation for automatic bluefin tuna sizing	20
Identification and counting of Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas larvae by object detection using deep learning	19
UV treatment in RAS influences the rearing water microbiota and reduces the survival of European lobster larvae (Homarus gammarus)	19
Research on intelligent damage detection of far-sea cage based on machine vision and deep learning	19
Drag force and reconfiguration of cultivated Saccharina latissima in current	19
Dynamic analysis of an array of semi-rigid “sea station” fish cages subjected to waves	19
Monitoring shrimp growth with control charts in aquaculture	19
Editorial Board	18
Effect of coconut waste and its biochar as hydroponics substrates on system performance and nitrogen transformation in aquaponics	18
Effects of feed, carbohydrate addition and stocking density on Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) production	18
Editorial Board	17
Influence of dietary phosphorus on orthophosphate accumulation in recirculating aquaculture systems with rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)	17
Sedimentation of Crassostrea gigas and Perna perna biodeposits in the South Atlantic	17
Numerical and experimental study of two common types of fouled net panels in the ocean	17
Nitrogen metabolism potential in biofilm microbial communities: potential applications in the mariculture wastewater treatment	17
Optimal aquarium shape for rearing male Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens)	16
An IoT based smart water quality assessment framework for aqua-ponds management using Dilated Spatial-temporal Convolution Neural Network (DSTCNN)	15
Method for layout optimization of coastal cage aquaculture systems in Southeast Asia	15
Robust detection of farmed fish by fusing YOLOv5 with DCM and ATM	15
Editorial Board	15
Preconditioner influence on twin-screw extrusion cooking of starch-based feed pellets: The example of Fish Feed	15
Conveying characteristics of shrimp feed pellets in pneumatic conveying system and minimum power consumption dissipation factor	15
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	14
Development of a novel sterilized thin-film photobioreactor for efficient microalgae cultivation by mixotrophic mode	14
Fish behavior recognition based on an audio-visual multimodal interactive fusion network	14
Single pass saltwater disinfection using low voltage electrolysis: Potential implications for aquaculture systems	14
Hydrodynamics of waste collection in a recirculating aquaculture tank with different numbers of inlet pipes	14
MortCam: An Artificial Intelligence-aided fish mortality detection and alert system for recirculating aquaculture	14
A robotic fish processing line enhanced by machine learning	13
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)	13
In-water electric stunning as a humane commercial method for culling juvenile salmonids	13
Effects of different types of air supplementation on rainbow trout confined underwater	13
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	13
Biological site suitability for exposed self-regulating cultivation of blue mussel (Mytilus edulis): A Belgian case study	13
Sedimentation efficiency evaluation of an aquaculture tank through experimental floc characterization and CFD simulation	13
Numerical investigation of flow characteristics in a rearing tank aboard an aquaculture vessel	13
An extraction method of fish vector field for marine cage culture based on UAV vision	13
Ultrafiltration for the biosecurity of fish production: The case of a sturgeon nursery	12
Optimizing flow uniformity and velocity fields in aquaculture tanks by modifying water inlets and nozzles arrangement: A computational fluid dynamics study	12
Characterization of solid wastes from sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) in intensive culture	11
Detection of residual feed in aquaculture using YOLO and Mask RCNN	11
Pesticide residues in aquatic products: sources, advances in detection technologies, and risk management	11
Can air nanobubbles improve the swim bladder inflation in developing European perch? A pilot study of advanced water treatment.	11
Sulphate removal by membrane filtration minimizes the risk of hydrogen sulphide formation in fixed bed biofilters	10
Performance in nitrogen, turbidity and phosphorus removal in a RAS using moving bed settler and membrane aerated biofilm reactor	10
Methodology for multidimensional approximation of current velocity fields around offshore aquaculture installations	10
Fish mass estimation method based on adaptive parameter tuning and disparity map restoration under binocular vision	10
Influence of inlet placement on the hydrodynamics of the dual-drain arc angle tank for fish growth	9
Energy budgeting and economic analysis of shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) production under different culture techniques in Tamil Nadu, India	9
Review and harmonization of the life cycle global warming impact of five United States aquaponics systems	9

Ebb and flow versus constant water level on the sweet banana chili pepper (Capsicum annuum) production in an aquaponic system	9
Editorial Board	9
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	8
Underwater scallop recognition algorithm using improved YOLOv5	8
Hydrodynamic responses of a large flexible net swinging in waves	8
The impact of shade net use on total nitrogen removal by duckweed (Lemna perpusilla) at different levels of catfish farming effluent	8
On the application of current blockage model to steady drag force on fish net	8
Evaluation of an anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) – downflow hanging sponge (DHS) system in treatment of black wastewater from a closed recirculating aquaculture system	8
Editorial Board	8
Effects of scaled-down dissolved air flotation system on suspended solids removal from Penaeus vannamei culture under biofloc conditions	8
Self-cleaning performance of three bottom drain modes in circular culture tank: Experimental and numerical study	8
Computation of feed conversion ratio (FCRplant) and plant-fish mass ratio (PFRM) for aquaponic systems	7
Waste characterization and biofilter sizing criteria for oligotrophic RAS egg incubators	7
Comparative study of circular and square gravity-based fish cages with different dimensions under pure current conditions	7
Experimental investigation on the convey performance and control strategy of a special annular jet pump for deep sea feeding	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
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	7
Editorial Board	7
Powering aquaculture operations at sea: Can hydrogen be a sustainable solution?	7
CFD-based simulation assessment of an artificial upwelling antibloom system for a salmon farming site	6
An empirical simulation study of a salmon production line in southern Chile	6
Research verification of four commercial scale split-pond designs	6
Design and testing of a fully automatic aquatic plant combing machine for Eriocheir sinensis farming	6
Time-series growth estimation of sea cucumbers (Apostichopus japonicus) in co-cultivation with coho salmon using time-lapse cameras in field experiments	6
Steady-state and dynamic model for recirculating aquaculture systems with pH included	6
Development of an open hardware 3-D printed conveyor device for continuous cryopreservation of non-batched samples	6
Enhancing instance segmentation: Leveraging multiscale feature fusion and attention mechanisms for automated fish weight estimation	6
The quantity of artificial substrates influences the nitrogen cycle in the biofloc culture system of Litopenaeus vannamei	6
Açai palm, Euterpe oleracea, seed for aquaponic media and seedling production	6
Intelligent recognition and behavior tracking of sea cucumber infected with Vibrio alginolyticus based on machine vision	5
A method for counting fish based on improved YOLOv8	5
An innovative sludge removing system for intensive aquaculture ponds	5
Nascent application of aerobic granular sludge for recirculating aquaculture system effluent treatment: Performance, granule formation, and microbial community	5
A MobileNetV2-SENet-based method for identifying fish school feeding behavior	5
Polyculture production of vegetables and red hybrid tilapia for self-consumption by means of micro-scale aquaponic systems	5
Optimizing alkalinity control in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS): A dynamic modelling approach	5
Performance evaluation and mathematical model of pipeline diffused aeration for recirculating aquaculture system	5
Innovative aquaculture cage “Flow2Vortex” ensures a sustainable biomass delivery for low trophic level aquaculture	5
A multilevel lightweight fish respiratory frequency measurement method – Segmentation instead of detection	5
ficoEst – a tool to estimate the body composition of farmed fish	5
Storm damage risk assessment for offshore cage culture	5
A high-precision and lightweight underwater fish detection and recognition approach based on the improved YOLOX-nano algorithm	5
Influence of carbon to phosphorus ratio on the performance of single-stage aerobic simultaneous nitrogen and phosphorus removal by bioflocs	5
Using a passive solar greenhouse with water tanks in overwintering of juvenile sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus	5
Recent advances in intelligent recognition methods for fish stress behavior	5
Design and optimization of a head-to-tail orientation device for freshwater fry	5
Effect of biocarrier material on nitrification performance during start-up in freshwater RAS	4
Aeration level in HDPE-lined nursery ponds that optimizes yield and production cost of preadult redclaw crayfish, Cherax quadricarinatus	4
Cold atmospheric plasma and pulsed electric fields as alternative decontamination technologies in recirculating aquaculture systems	4
Practical use of response surface methodology for optimization of veterinary antibiotic removal using UV/H2O2 process	4
Effect of feed pellet buoyancy and stocking ratio of tilapia on fish and natural food in carp-tilapia polyculture ponds	4
MSIF-MobileNetV3: An improved MobileNetV3 based on multi-scale information fusion for fish feeding behavior analysis	4
Appling machine learning for estimating total suspended solids in BFT aquaculture system	4
Effect of drum filter mesh size on RAS water quality	4
A probabilistic framework for offshore aquaculture suitability assessment using bivariate copulas	4
Aquaculture fish counting and mass estimation method via vibration signal processing	4
Physical and numerical modeling of seaweed in oceanic waters	4
Vision-based dual network using spatial-temporal geometric features for effective resolution of fish behavior recognition with fish overlap	4
Rapid production bioflocs by inoculation and fertilized with different nitrogen and carbon sources	4
Novel and sustainable valorization of biogenic waste into microbial protein based fish dietary ingredient in bioreactor: Process optimization and sustainable utilization	4
Hydrodynamic characteristics of the aluminum alloy net panel in regular waves: An experimental study	4
Research progress of computer vision technology in abnormal fish detection	4
Factors influencing feed distribution uniformity in aquaculture vessels based on DEM	4