OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Coral Reefs is 20. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Insights from extreme coral reefs in a changing world	74
Resolving resource partitioning in parrotfishes (Scarini) using microhistology of feeding substrata	58
Coral community resilience to successive years of bleaching in Kāne‘ohe Bay, Hawai‘i	53
Reef-scale impacts of the stony coral tissue loss disease outbreak	50
Host genotype and stable differences in algal symbiont communities explain patterns of thermal stress response of Montipora capitata following thermal pre-exposure and across multiple bleaching events	46
Annual outbreaks of coral disease coincide with extreme seasonal warming	45
A global coral reef probability map generated using convolutional neural networks	42
Ecological consequences of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in the Turks and Caicos Islands	37
The biology and ecology of coral rubble and implications for the future of coral reefs	34
Symbiont shuffling across environmental gradients aligns with changes in carbon uptake and translocation in the reef-building coral Pocillopora acuta	30
Principles for estimating fish productivity on coral reefs	29
Assessment of bacterial community composition within and among Acropora loripes colonies in the wild and in captivity	28
Structure-from-Motion on shallow reefs and beaches: potential and limitations of consumer-grade drones to reconstruct topography and bathymetry	28
Thermal stress-related spatiotemporal variations in high-latitude coral reef benthic communities	27
Empirically derived thermal thresholds of four coral species along the Red Sea using a portable and standardized experimental approach	27
Crustose coralline algae that promote coral larval settlement harbor distinct surface bacterial communities	24
Reef-associated fishes have more maneuverable body shapes at a macroevolutionary scale	23
Multiple techniques point to oxygenic phototrophs dominating the Isopora palifera skeletal microbiome	21
Accreting coral reefs in a highly urbanized environment	21
Diversity, distribution, and environmental drivers of coralline red algae: the major reef builders in the Southwestern Atlantic	20
Algal turf consumption by sea urchins and fishes is mediated by fisheries management on coral reefs in Kenya	20
Implications of 2D versus 3D surveys to measure the abundance and composition of benthic coral reef communities	20
Metabolite pools of the reef building coral Montipora capitata are unaffected by Symbiodiniaceae community composition	20
Upper-mesophotic and shallow reef corals exhibit similar thermal tolerance, sensitivity and optima	20