OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Freshwater Ecology 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Factors associated with extirpation of the last Northern Sunfish ( Lepomis peltastes Cope, 1870) population in western New York State, USA	26
Optimization of the Korean river macroinvertebrate prediction and assessment System (KRIMPAS) for the biological assessment of rivers	20
Distribution pattern of the Zebra Mussel ( Dreissena polymorpha ) in White Bear Lake, Minnesota: a spatial scale analysis	17
The effect of physicochemical parameters on the abundance of zooplankton of River Adada, Enugu, Nigeria	14
Modelling the effect of tourism disturbance on hatching rate of the Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) by using artificial neural network	14
Ecological benefits of consistent expression of posterolateral spines in Brachionus calyciflorus	12
Modeling accumulated degree-days for the invasive aquatic plant Oxycaryum cubense in the southeastern United States	12
Chloride and phosphorus retention and release in soils surrounding a salt-contaminated lake in West Michigan	9
Water environment quality of Dongyu River and estuary area of Nansi lake (Shandong Province, China) based on the characteristics of diatom community	9
Evaluating the potential role of predation by native fish regulating the abundance of invasive spiny water flea	8
eDNA metabarcoding revealed the seasonal and spatial variation of phytoplankton functional groups in the Chai river and their relationship with environmental factors	8
Zooplankton community and its environmental driving factors in Ulungur Lake, China	8
Status of phytoplankton biomass and physico-chemical parameters of water during fish cage culture fallowing: a case study of Southeast Arm of Lake Malawi	8
Hyporheic exchange due to in-stream geomorphic structures	7
Study on the quality and symbiotic microbial composition of Artemia nauplii in three main producing areas	7
Study on the effect of water level on phenotypic plasticity of Artemisia selengensis	7
Enrichment and geo-accumulation of trace and heavy metals in surface sediments along urbanised Austral wetlands	6
Seasonal variation of fatty acid compositions in freshwater crayfish ( Pontastacus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823)	6
Research of characteristics of spatial and temporal variations of CH ₄ emission at the water-gas interface of the Inner Mongolia section of the Yellow River and its	6
Community structure and diversity of plankton and fish in the Dazhangxi River	6
Invasive water lettuce ( Pistia Stratiotes ) increase CO ₂ /CH ₄ emissions from a subtropical lake	5
Diversity and abundance of zooplankton in the Omo Gibe III Reservoir, Southern Ethiopia	5
Bosmina fatalis adapting to ammonia through oxidative stress and ribosome increase	5
Effects of drawdown on growth and reproduction of submerged macrophyte Vallisneria spinulosa	5
Zooplankton as ecosystem indicators and their effects on eutrophication in Lake Arekit (Ethiopia) – implication for freshwater habitat management	5

Evaluating eDNA metabarcoding for fish biodiversity assessment in Nigerian aquatic ecosystems: potential, limitations, and comparisons with traditional methods	4
Predicting phytoplankton assemblages growth and estimating critical N: P ratios with experimental nutrient additions in a drinking water reservoir of central China	4
Fluorescence spectral characteristics of DOM and its effects on the bacterial community structure in Bosten Lake, China	4
Comparison of three functional classification approaches to characterize phytoplankton response to environmental heterogeneity: a case study in NE China wetlands	4
Spatial-temporal variation of the ecosystem services value (ESV) in the Yellow River Delta wetland and its response to land use/land cover changes (lu/lc)	4
Testing the effect of the submerged macrophyte Ceratophyllum demersum (L.) on heterotrophic bacterioplankton densities under different levels of nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in shallo	3
Hatch timing of largemouth bass: implications for recruitment at the Northern edge of their native range	3
Flow discharge impacts competition for food and shelter between two overlapping species of crayfish	3
Evidence of nearshore in-lake spawning Walleye in the central basin of Lake Erie	3
Effects of water level changes on the morphological and physiology of the submerged macrophyte Vallisneria natans	3
Differences in habitat suitability for Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) according to survey method using probability distribution models	3
Taxonomic and functional groups of phytoplankton in the Northern Gulf of Lake Tana, Ethiopia	3
Dietary comparison of age-0 sturgeon ( Scaphirhynchus sp. ) between upper and lower Missouri River basins	3
Taxon-specific effects of seasonal variation and water connectivity on the diversity of phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthic organisms in urban wetland	3
Environmental DNA metabarcoding for whole community inventories of vertebrates in rivers of the midwestern United States	3
Combined effects of temperature and algal density on the life history characteristics in Brachionus angularis and Keratella Valga	3
Contrasting responses of Arctic charr and brown trout to compensatory nutrient enrichment in an oligotrophicated reservoir	3
Ecological niche modeling of diploid flowering rush ( Butomus umbellatus L.) in the United States	3
Long-term changes in unionid community in Kentucky Lake: Implications for understanding the effects of impoundment on river systems	3
Composition of epilithic diatom and soft-algal assemblages in infralittoral zones of Tennessee reservoirs and correlations of composition to trophic state	3