OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Marine Policy is 41. 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
The implications of the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) in the South China Sea: A Chinese perspective	121
Understanding vulnerability and sustainable livelihood factors from coastal residents in Taiwan	99
Roles for advisory science in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)	78
The French procurement transformations: A historical perspective over sovereignty and innovation	77
Passive acoustic monitoring for assessing marine mammals population in European waters: Workshop conclusions and perspectives	69
Scalar politics in transboundary fisheries management: The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission as an eco-scalar fix for South Pacific albacore tuna management	68
Legal assessment of BIMCO’s infectious or contagious diseases (IOCD) clauses for voyage and time charter parties	67
Faroe Islands Fisheries in the Northeast Atlantic: Brexit, Russia, and economic incoherence	63
Irregular migration and its impact on the marine environment: Legal aspects	59
Operational oceanography as a distinct activity from marine scientific research under UNCLOS? – An analysis of WMO Resolution 45 (Cg-18)	59
Evolution of support policies for the development of distant-water fishing bases in China: Review, performance, challenges and prospects	58
Towards non-entangling and biodegradable drifting fish aggregating devices – Baselines and transition in the world’s largest tuna purse seine fishery	54
Small-scale low-tropic ocean farming and coastal rural landscapes: Why the logistics of seaweed matter? Insights from Ireland for collaborative planning	53
COVID-19 border closures cause humanitarian crew change crisis at sea	51
Policy impacts of intellectual property and academic research trends in marine-derived collagen and chitin/chitosan value chains	51
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on fish trade and the coping strategies: An initial assessment from China’s perspective	51
Equitable pathways for sustainable tuna fisheries management in the Indian Ocean	50
Illegal fishing threatens the sustainability of future tuna commodities in Indonesia	49
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
Towards a combined human-natural system approach in the Northern Red Sea Region: Ecological challenges, sustainable development, and community engagement	48
Integrating cultural and natural heritage approaches to Marine Protected Areas in the MENA region	48
Mapping fisheries value chains to facilitate their sustainability assessment: Case studies in The Gambia and Mali	48
How blue financing can sustain ocean conservation and development: A proposed conceptual framework for blue financing mechanism	47
Fisheries in flux: Bridging science and policy for climate-resilient management of US fisheries under distributional change	47
Harvest strategies and allocation – A chicken and egg scenario?	45

Internationalization of EIA rules in the BBNJ Agreement: Impediments and possible solutions	45
The current developments and impact of land reclamation control in China	45
Regulation of the Caribbean red snapper fishery on the Amazon continental shelf: 60 years of conflict between conservation and exploitation	45
A new cold war at sea: Fishing rights vs. the proliferation of military activities in the EEZ	45
Pescatourism’s contribution to the management effectiveness of the Marine Protected Area (MPA) of “Taza” (Algeria, Southwestern Mediterranean)	44
Breaking Blue: Establishing comprehensive policy for a just and inclusive transition for the Blue Economy	44
Financing decarbonization through wind-powered vessels	44
Mapping the nautical carrying capacity of anchoring areas of the Balearic Islands’ coast	44
UNCLOS and its contributions to the development of international law: An editorial note	44
Understanding the link between climate change adaptation and household food security among shrimp farmers in Indonesia	44
On the provisions of the BBNJ Agreement addressing the impacts of climate change	43
Potential determinants affecting the growth of China’s ocean economy: An input-output structural decomposition analysis	42
Is Maritime Spatial Planning a tool to mitigate the impacts of underwater noise? A review of adopted and upcoming maritime spatial plans in Europe	42
An evaluation of coastal resilience policies in Anglophone West Africa through a regional comparative analysis	42
Encouraging proactive governance of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction through Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)	42
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	42
International law-making process of combating plastic pollution: Status Quo, debates and prospects	41
Human rights at sea: The limits of inter-state cooperation in addressing forced labour on fishing vessels	41
A social cost-benefit analysis of shellfish beds on the Dutch coast as a nature-based measure against climate change	41
The necessity of justice for a fair, legitimate, and effective treaty on plastic pollution	41
Seafarers in fishing: A year into the COVID-19 pandemic	41