OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Molluscan Studies 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Genetic evidence for multiple mating and mixing of sperm from multiple males in the seminal receptacles of female Japanese flying squid (Todarodes pacificus)	16
The mitochondrial genome ofIsognomon nucleusand mitogenomics of pteriomorphia (Bivalvia: Autobranchia)	13
Revision of the British Lower Jurassic Astartinae (Bivalvia)	12
Sexual dimorphism and geographic polymorphism in Raphitoma purpurea (Neogastropoda: Raphitomidae)	9
Overlooked shell features: asymmetrical columellar folds in volutid gastropods	9
Geographic differences in the diet and isotopic niche of Octopus hubbsorum (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) in the Mexican Pacific	8
More than meets the eye: characterizing the cryptic species complex and Symbiodiniaceae communities in the reef-dwelling nudibranch Pteraeolidia ‘semperi’ (Nudibranchia: Aeolidioidea) fr	8
Mitogenomic phylogeny of Nassariidae (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea)	8
On reproduction in the Pacific boreal limpet Erginus (Problacmaea) puniceus Lindberg, 1988 (Patellogastropoda: Rhodopetalidae)	7
Shell drilling and gonad biopsies provide a rapid, nonlethal method for in situ assessment of reproductive periodicity in a turbinid gastropod	7
Seven new species of Macellomeniidae Salvini-Plawen, 1978 (Mollusca: Solenogastres) from the North Atlantic	7
Transcriptomic landscape of the kleptoplastic sea slug Elysia viridis	7
Predicted changes in temperature, more than acidification, affect the shell morphology and survival of the girdled dogwhelk,Trochia cingulata(Linnaeus, 1771)	7
Closing the gap: a new phylogeny and classification of the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae with molecular evidence for 73% of living genera	6
Reproductive activity of an androdioecious population of clams of the genus Corbicula	6
Highly biased sex ratios in the twelve species of the freshwater snail genus Semisulcospira in and around Lake Biwa	5
Reproductive cycle, fecundity and growth of the freshwater mussel Unio tumidus (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from Lake Viinijärvi, Finland	5
Estimating a length-at-age relationship for an invasive bivalve with density-determined plastic growth	4
Morphology and systematic position of Shaninopsis Isberg, 1934 (Bivalvia: Cryptodonta), from the Boda Limestone (Upper Ordovician), Sweden	4
A window into the effect of ocean acidification on molluscan larval shell development using a quantitative approach	4
Testing for allocation strategies and evolutionary tradeoffs in the bivalve shell	3
Molecular survey of Cryptoplax japonica (Polyplacophora: Cryptoplacidae) reveals cryptic lineages in the northwestern Pacific	3
Population size and movement ecology of intertidal gastropods on rocky shores and seawalls in Singapore	3
Genetic diversity, demography and connectivity in the marine snail Thaisella chocolata (Duclos, 1832): implications for sustainable fisheries management along the Peruvian coast	3
Towards automatic detection and classification of swimming pectinids behaviour: first developments on great scallops (Pecten maximus)	3

A time-lapse observational study of the activity patterns and feeding behaviour of urban terrestrial gastropods on carcasses of the Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus)	3
Long-term fluctuations and recent decline of mussel populations in an Irish sea lough	3
Exceptional among the exceptional: a new species of Stenogyropsis Möllendorff, 1899 (Eupulmonata: Camaenidae), with a review of the free last whorl in terrestrial gastropods	3
Dwarf males of the seven-arm octopus,Haliphron atlanticus:morphology and adaptations	3
Microbial communities associated with endangered West Texas springsnails and their potential roles in conservation	3
Evolution of ammoniacal buoyancy within oegopsid squids and its relationship with depth	3
A method of culturing and breeding slugs through several generations	3
The mitogenome of the sunken wood limpetNotocrater youngi: insights into mitogenome evolution in Lepetellida (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda)	2
Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the living Pleurotomariidae (Vetigastropoda), with the description of a new genus	2
Wnt activation causes shell malformation in lymnaeoidean gastropods	2
Guardians of the clams: a decadal monitoring effort of endangered giant clams by citizen scientists	2
Low abundance but high land snail diversity in montane rainforest on the western slope of the Andes in Ecuador	2
Land snail assemblages along altitudinal gradients on Mount Semeru, the highest montane forest in Java, Indonesia	2
Egg production in Arion vulgaris: density dependence in A. vulgaris and interspecific effects of Limax maximus	2
Mitogenomic analyses shed new light on phylogenetic relationships within the genus Ruditapes (Bivalvia: Veneridae)	2
Plant diets of land snail community members are similar in composition but differ in richness	2
DNA sequence data, multispecies coalescent and morphometrics shed new light on the systematics of Iberian islamiinae springsnails (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae)	2
Under-documented micro species and the end of Carolinian endemism: bivalves of the Waccamaw Formation (basal Pleistocene, S.E. USA)	2
Unravelling morphological overlap of the rock-dwelling snails Pyramidula saxatilis (Hartmann, 1842) and P. pusilla (Vallot, 1801)	2
Portraits of Galeommatoidea	2
Integrating morphological and genetic data at different climate and geographic scales in an endangered freshwater musselUnio durieui(Bivalvia: Unionidae) endemic to northern Tunisia	2
An observation confirming the geographic distribution of Noah’s giant clam Tridacna noae includes the Great Barrier Reef of Australia	2
Yunfuconcha new genus, a possible stem-archiheterodont bivalve from the Ordovician of Guangdong, South China	2
Genetic analysis is compatible with recent human-mediated range expansion of Filopaludina from India into the Mesopotamian Plain	2
Late Quaternary land snail faunas of the Desertas Islands (Madeira): high diversity and endemism followed by recent impoverishment and extinction	2
Identity of the enigmatic oyster Saccostrea cuccullata (Bivalvia: Ostreidae)	2
Taxonomic revision and conservation assessment of the Southeast Asian freshwater mussel genusChamberlainiaSimpson, 1900	2