OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Coral Reefs is 19. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Using commercial high‑resolution satellite imagery to monitor a nuisance macroalga in the largest marine protected area in the USA	68
Combination of hermaphroditic and gonochoric sexual modes in the coral Porites cylindrica	56
Nowhere to hide: massive corals’ mortality after cumulative heat stress in a putative climate change refugium	52
Telomere dynamics in the Pacific crown-of-thorns seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris): effect of age, diet, and tissue type	34
Colour pattern has no influence on the visual recognition of conspecifics by coral reef fish juveniles	32
Natural products from Caribbean octocorals demonstrate bioactivity against Vibrio coralliilyticus strains	28
Highly repetitive space-use dynamics in parrotfishes	27
Mapping monumental corals through citizen science	26
DNA metabarcoding confirms primary targets and breadth of diet for coral reef butterflyfishes	25
Remote video surveys unveil the diurnal variability of trophic-based processes by fishes on coral reefs	23
Comparing anesthetic stations and environmental DNA sampling to determine community composition of cryptobenthic coral reef fishes of Vava’u, Kingdom of Tonga	22
Demographic recovery of corals at a wave-exposed reef following catastrophic disturbance	22
Correction to: Biogeophysical drivers of abundance for habitat-shifting reef fishes on stepping-stone coral patch reefs	21
Acute heat stress and the extirpation of a threatened coral species from a remote, subtropical reef system	20
Symbiodiniaceae diversity in Pocillopora corals in different environments of the Colombian Eastern Pacific: symbiont specificity in spite of coral-host flexibility	19
Correction to: Seasonal variation in reef fish assemblages in the environmentally extreme southern Persian/Arabian Gulf	19
A carbon cycling model shows strong control of seasonality and importance of sponges on the functioning of a northern Red Sea coral reef	19
Conservation priorities for reef-building coral biodiversity across multiple dimensions in the South China Sea	19
Re(de)fining degree-heating week: coral bleaching variability necessitates regional and temporal optimization of global forecast model stress metrics	19
Did the historic overharvesting of sea cucumbers make coral more susceptible to pathogens?	19