OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Oceanography is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Experimental study of the effect of slope topography on the optical remote sensing imaging characteristics of the depression internal solitary waves	27
HYCOM-ECOSMO for the Indian Ocean: a simulation of oxygen minimum zone variability over the last two decades	26
Organic complexation of copper in Japanese estuarine waters using reverse titration method	13
Reviewers of manuscripts	12
The behaviour of aluminium, manganese, iron, cobalt, and lead in the subarctic Pacific Ocean: boundary scavenging and temporal changes	11
Sensitivity of the Arctic sea ice representation to the ice thickness category resolution in an OGCM	9
Backward-tracking simulations of sea ice in the Sea of Okhotsk toward understanding of material transport through sea ice	9
Oscillation and the resulting bait loss observed in pelagic longline hooks	8
Correction to: Coastal upwelling events along the southern coast of Java during the 2008 positive Indian Ocean Dipole	8
Projected future changes in the contribution of Indo-Pacific sea surface height variability to the Indonesian throughflow	8
Marine heatwave in the Oyashio region in 2022/23 and its impact on subsurface dissolved oxygen	8
Luzon strait mesoscale eddy characteristics in HYCOM reanalysis, simulation, and forecasts	8
Hypoxia in the Upper Gulf of Thailand: Hydrographic observations and modeling	8
Decadal sea surface height modes in the low-latitude northwestern Pacific and their contribution to the North Equatorial Current transport variation	7
The origin and characteristics of dissolved organic carbon in the highly urbanized coastal waters of Tokyo Bay	7
Seasonal and vertical variations in phytoplankton photosynthetic parameters and primary production in Suruga Bay, Japan	7
Correction to: Synchronized interdecadal variations behind regime shifts in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation	7
Future changes in marine heatwaves based on high-resolution ensemble projections for the northwestern Pacific Ocean	7
Near-inertial wave propagation between stratified and homogeneous layers	6
Succession of three dominant diatoms, Skeletonema, Thalassiosira, and Pseudo-nitzschia in the inner area of Tokyo Bay from 2003 to 2017	6
Performance of JAXA’s SGLI standard ocean color products for oceanic to coastal waters: chlorophyll a concentration and light absorption coefficients of colored dissolved organic matter	6
Volume transport of the Kuroshio south of Japan estimated from repeated full-depth hydrographic surveys and current measurements	6
Occurrence patterns of larval mesopelagic fishes in the mouth of highly eutrophic Tokyo Bay, central Japan	5
Long-term observation of the Soya Warm Current using HF ocean radars: relationship between the Soya Warm Current variability and the sea level anomalies in the Soya/La Perouse Strait	5
Internal waves with high vertical wavenumber structure generated by diurnal tidal flow over the eastern ridge of Luzon Strait	5

Phylogeny of prokaryotes involved in mercury speciation in free-living and particulate-attached fractions in Minamata Bay, Japan	5
Correction to: Distributions of tritium and 137Cs in coastal seawater and biota off Aomori and Iwate prefectures, Japan	5
Reviewers of manuscripts	5
Seasonal dynamics of dinoflagellates with special emphasis on potentially harmful species in a tropical estuarine system along the southwest coast of India	4
Seasonal variation in metabolic rate of plankton community in the inner part of Tokyo Bay	4
Spatial distribution of the protist community in the southern part of the Okhotsk Sea off Hokkaido during summer	4
Temporal variations in the surface primary productivity and their causes at a station F3 in the inner Tokyo Bay	4
Message from the new Editor-in-chief	4
Journal of oceanography most cited paper award 2024	4
Effect of a current trapped by a continental slope on the pathway of a coastal current crossing Toyama Trough, Japan	4
Development of Eucampia zodiacus blooms associated with salinity stratification in Ariake Bay during winter	4
Dominant modes of winter SST variability in the Japan Sea and their influences on atmosphere	4
Distributions of tritium and 137Cs in coastal seawater and biota off Aomori and Iwate prefectures, Japan	3
Seasonal changes in the vertical distribution and population structure of Calanus sinicus and Calanus jashnovi (Copepoda: Calanoida) in Sagami Bay, Japan	3
Evidence of bottom-up effects of climate on Japanese anchovy (Engraulis japonicus) in the western North Pacific	3
Subsurface sound channel and seasonal variation of its characteristics in the mid-latitude of Northwest Pacific	3
Spatiotemporal changes in chlorophyll a concentration in the inner area of Tokyo Bay from 2016 to 2020	3
Global mapping of 10-day differences of temperature and salinity in the intermediate layer observed with Argo floats	3
Wave setup at the Minamitorishima tide gauge	3
Near-surface dynamic structure in the northern South China Sea and Northwest Pacific revealed using Lagrangian data	3
Marine heatwave off Tokai, Japan, attributed to the Kuroshio Large Meander Path, and an associated increase in summer rainfall over Japan	3
Comparison of surface and lateral boundary conditions controlled by pseudo-altimeter data assimilation for a regional Kuroshio model	3
Spatial variability in wave characteristics along the eastern Arabian Sea	3
The potential role of thermohaline–shear instability in turbulence production in the Bering Sea and the subarctic North Pacific	2
Long-term sea-level variability along the coast of Japan during the 20th century revealed by a 1/10$$^{\circ }$$ OGCM	2
Status and prospects of biogeochemical Argo observations of chlorophyll-a in the northwest Pacific	2
Subtropical Mode Water in a recent persisting Kuroshio large-meander period: part II—formation and temporal evolution in the Kuroshio recirculation gyre off Shikoku	2
Special section for second-generation global imager (SGLI)	2
Decadal changes in the basin-wide heat budget of the mid-latitude North Pacific Ocean	2
Distribution characteristics of pycnocline in the northern South China Sea based on an improved vertical gradient method	2
The island mass effect: a study of wind-driven nutrient upwelling around reef islands	2
Reviewers of manuscripts	2
Winter bloom initiation with water column stabilization and improvement of light environment in a turbid shallow coastal water	2
Sea level variability along the Japanese coast forced by the Kuroshio and its extension	2
Correction: Variations in the Central Mode Water in the North Pacific as a manifestation of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation	2
Use of AERONET-OC for validation of SGLI/GCOM-C products in Ariake Sea, Japan	2
Variabilities in the estimate of 100-year return period wave height in the Indian shelf seas	2
Revisiting the connection between variations in the Tsushima Warm Current and winter rainfall along the coast of Japan	2
Influence of North Pacific subtropical mode water variability on the surface mixed layer through the heaving of the upper thermocline on decadal timescales	2
Phytoplankton and ice-algal communities in the seasonal ice zone during January (Southern Ocean, Indian sector)	2
Subtropical Mode Water in a recent persisting Kuroshio large-meander period: part I—formation and advection over the entire distribution region	1
Impact of mesoscale eddies on particulate organic carbon flux in the western subarctic North Pacific	1
Performance of primary production algorithm using absorption coefficient of phytoplankton in the Pacific Arctic	1
Dominant contribution of Arctic sea ice cover to the bimodally interannual variation of the polar night jet in late November	1
Disentangling mechanisms behind emerged sea surface temperature anomalies in Indonesian seas during El Niño years: insights from closed heat budget analysis	1
Temporal variation in vitamin B12 concentration and their impact on phytoplankton composition of surface waters of a coastal ocean off Japan (Ariake Sea)	1
Comparison of the positive and negative Indian Ocean Dipole forcing on the Pacific interannual variability through the oceanic channel	1
Reviewers of manuscripts	1
Sources and dynamics of dissolved black carbon in the Pearl River Estuary and Shelf, Northern South China Sea	1
Different responses of phytoplankton to Fe manipulation in Fe-limited waters with contrasting surface mixed layer depths in the western subarctic Pacific	1

Urea is a potentially important nitrogen source for phytoplankton during red tide formation in Isahaya Bay, Japan	1
Processes governing seasonal and interannual change of the Antarctic sea-ice area	1
Spatiotemporal evolution of submesoscale filaments at the periphery of an anticyclonic mesoscale eddy north of the Kuroshio Extension	1
Midlatitude ocean–atmosphere interactions and extreme events	1
A review: iron and nutrient supply in the subarctic Pacific and its impact on phytoplankton production	1
Eddy–mean flow interactions in the Agulhas leakage region	1
Long-term change in the status of water pollution in Tokyo Bay: recent trend of increasing bottom-water dissolved oxygen concentrations	1
Correction to: High-resolution surface salinity maps in coastal oceans based on geostationary ocean color images: quantitative analysis of river plume dynamics	1
Eastward extension jet driven by vorticity anomaly at the western boundary: characteristics and the effects of southward background flow	1
Sea ice-melt amount estimated from spring hydrography in the Sea of Okhotsk: spatial and interannual variabilities	1
Seasonal pathways of the Tsugaru Warm Current revealed by high-frequency ocean radars	1
Coastal ecosystem change in Asia: hypoxia, eutrophication, and nutrient conditions	1
Analysis and validation of ocean color and aerosol properties over coastal regions from SGLI based on a simultaneous method	1
Hydrographic structures of Tokyo Bay between 1992 and 2019 and evidence of temperature increase; observational results by the training vessel Seiyo-Maru	1
Average coastal residence time distribution estimated by a 2-km resolution Japanese coastal model	1
The behaviour of nickel, copper, zinc, and cadmium in the subarctic Pacific Ocean: East–West differences	1