OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Marine Policy is 42. 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
Roles for advisory science in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)	133
The French procurement transformations: A historical perspective over sovereignty and innovation	103
Passive acoustic monitoring for assessing marine mammals population in European waters: Workshop conclusions and perspectives	80
Scalar politics in transboundary fisheries management: The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission as an eco-scalar fix for South Pacific albacore tuna management	77
Legal assessment of BIMCO’s infectious or contagious diseases (IOCD) clauses for voyage and time charter parties	74
Faroe Islands Fisheries in the Northeast Atlantic: Brexit, Russia, and economic incoherence	70
Irregular migration and its impact on the marine environment: Legal aspects	67
Operational oceanography as a distinct activity from marine scientific research under UNCLOS? – An analysis of WMO Resolution 45 (Cg-18)	66
Evolution of support policies for the development of distant-water fishing bases in China: Review, performance, challenges and prospects	61
An Analysis of Policy Options Available to the International Maritime Organization to Protect the Costa Rica Thermal Dome: Building the Case for a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area	60
Financing decarbonization through wind-powered vessels	58
Japan’s law enforcement issues to combat illegal fisheries	57
Be careful what you wish (fish) for: Actioning distributive equity principles when determining catch limits in transboundary fisheries	54
A new cold war at sea: Fishing rights vs. the proliferation of military activities in the EEZ	54
Harvest strategies and allocation – A chicken and egg scenario?	53
Integrating cultural and natural heritage approaches to Marine Protected Areas in the MENA region	52
Towards a combined human-natural system approach in the Northern Red Sea Region: Ecological challenges, sustainable development, and community engagement	51
Mapping fisheries value chains to facilitate their sustainability assessment: Case studies in The Gambia and Mali	51
The ecological and socioeconomic implications of future total allowable catch decisions and illegal fishing scenarios for South Africa’s West Coast rock lobster fishery	49
Equitable pathways for sustainable tuna fisheries management in the Indian Ocean	49
UNCLOS and its contributions to the development of international law: An editorial note	48
A social cost-benefit analysis of shellfish beds on the Dutch coast as a nature-based measure against climate change	47
On the provisions of the BBNJ Agreement addressing the impacts of climate change	47
Understanding the link between climate change adaptation and household food security among shrimp farmers in Indonesia	47
Fisheries in flux: Bridging science and policy for climate-resilient management of US fisheries under distributional change	46

Regulation of the Caribbean red snapper fishery on the Amazon continental shelf: 60 years of conflict between conservation and exploitation	46
Management of spatial data integrity including stakeholder feedback in Maritime Spatial Planning	46
Is Maritime Spatial Planning a tool to mitigate the impacts of underwater noise? A review of adopted and upcoming maritime spatial plans in Europe	46
Local ecological knowledge of fisheries charts decline of sharks in data-poor regions	45
Understanding core determinants in LNG bunkering port selection: Policy implications for the maritime industry	45
Marine reserves and resilience in the era of COVID-19	45
Short and long-term solutions for mitigating black carbon emissions in Arctic shipping: Implications for stakeholders	45
Policy impacts of intellectual property and academic research trends in marine-derived collagen and chitin/chitosan value chains	45
A review of migrant labour rights protection in distant water fishing in Taiwan: From laissez-faire to regulation and challenges behind	44
An evaluation of coastal resilience policies in Anglophone West Africa through a regional comparative analysis	44
Who is likely to have illegal eel products after the market regulations? A best-worst scaling approach	44
The implications of the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) in the South China Sea: A Chinese perspective	44
Beyond bluewashing: A critical examination of labeling blue bonds	44
COVID-19 border closures cause humanitarian crew change crisis at sea	43
Human rights at sea: The limits of inter-state cooperation in addressing forced labour on fishing vessels	43
Illegal fishing threatens the sustainability of future tuna commodities in Indonesia	43
Towards non-entangling and biodegradable drifting fish aggregating devices – Baselines and transition in the world’s largest tuna purse seine fishery	42
Digital transformation of Egyptian marine fisheries: A pathway to sustainable fisheries management	42
Biodegradable drifting fish aggregating devices: Current status and future prospects	42