OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Oceanography is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Experimental study of the effect of slope topography on the optical remote sensing imaging characteristics of the depression internal solitary waves	16
Decadal sea surface height modes in the low-latitude northwestern Pacific and their contribution to the North Equatorial Current transport variation	15
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	12
Performance evaluation of optical dissolved oxygen sensor, ARO-FT	12
Distributions of tritium and 137Cs in coastal seawater and biota off Aomori and Iwate prefectures, Japan	11
Northeast Pacific marine heatwaves link climate modes in a coupled model simulation	11
Dominant modes of winter SST variability in the Japan Sea and their influences on atmosphere	11
Backward-tracking simulations of sea ice in the Sea of Okhotsk toward understanding of material transport through sea ice	11
Reviewers of manuscripts	9
Kuroshio surface water intrusion into the eastern part of the transition domain: its pathways and decadal variations	9
Disentangling mechanisms behind emerged sea surface temperature anomalies in Indonesian seas during El Niño years: insights from closed heat budget analysis	9
Use of AERONET-OC for validation of SGLI/GCOM-C products in Ariake Sea, Japan	9
Subtropical Mode Water in a recent persisting Kuroshio large-meander period: part II—formation and temporal evolution in the Kuroshio recirculation gyre off Shikoku	9
Effects of cyanate enrichment on growth of natural phytoplankton populations in the subtropical Pacific	8
Preface: scientific researches conducted by the training vessel Seiyo-Maru	7
Seasonal variation in alkaline phosphatase activity in the central part of Tokyo Bay, 2013	7
Impact of Eighteen Degree Water thickness variation on the thermal and biogeochemical structure in the euphotic layer	7
Oceanic cool spot formed off Boso Peninsula in the late June 2022	7
On anomalously high sub-surface dissolved oxygen in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean	7
Temporal variation of particulate organic carbon flux at the mouth of Tokyo Bay	6
Satellite features of river plumes over the Lobos–Tuxpan reef system	6
Identification of Kuroshio meanderings south of Japan via a topological data analysis for sea surface height	6
Correction to: Projected climate change in the western North Pacific at the end of the 21st century from ensemble simulations with a high-resolution regional ocean model	6
Correction to: Estimate of turbulent energy dissipation rate using free-fall and CTD-attached fast-response thermistors in weak ocean turbulence	6
Rapid increase of surface water pCO2 revealed by settling particulate organic matter carbon isotope time series during 2001–2009 in Sagami Bay, Japan	5

Diurnal coastal trapped waves propagating along the east coast of the Shimokita Peninsula, Japan	5
Seasonal variation in metabolic rate of plankton community in the inner part of Tokyo Bay	5
Abyssal current and water mass in the Main Gap and an adjacent Small Gap of the Emperor Seamount Chain	5
Distribution characteristics of pycnocline in the northern South China Sea based on an improved vertical gradient method	5
Phytoplankton and ice-algal communities in the seasonal ice zone during January (Southern Ocean, Indian sector)	5
Spatial structure of rain pool observed on the Kuroshio and Baiu fronts in the East China Sea	5
Southern Ocean marine heatwaves: variability, hotspots and teleconnections	5
Correction to: Distributions of tritium and 137Cs in coastal seawater and biota off Aomori and Iwate prefectures, Japan	5
Relationship between temperature and volume variations of the North Pacific Central Mode Water contrasting with Subtropical Mode Water	5
Combined effects of climate change and interannual climate variability on the overturning circulation and deep-water properties in a semi-enclosed marginal sea	4
Spatial variability in wave characteristics along the eastern Arabian Sea	4
Performance of primary production algorithm using absorption coefficient of phytoplankton in the Pacific Arctic	4
Photosynthetic carbon fixation capability of diatom communities in the southern Sea of Okhotsk from winter to spring as estimated using their rbcL genes	4
Detailing secondary frontal bore of internal tides breaking above deep-ocean topography	3
Particle-tracking experiments of coastal-origin sea ice that could induce high biological productivity in the Sea of Okhotsk	3
Occurrence patterns of larval mesopelagic fishes in the mouth of highly eutrophic Tokyo Bay, central Japan	3
The island mass effect: a study of wind-driven nutrient upwelling around reef islands	3
Long-term variability in larval recruitment rates of a callianassid shrimp population on an intertidal sandflat in an estuary-to-coastal ocean interface area in relation to river discharge and shelf w	3
High-turbidity bottom mixed-layer water on the shelf off Hokkaido in the Okhotsk Sea: distribution, seasonal variations, and spreading	3
Spatial distribution of turbulent diapycnal mixing along the Mindanao current inferred from rapid-sampling Argo floats	3
Dependence of drag coefficient on the spectral width of ocean waves	3
Sensitivity of the Arctic sea ice representation to the ice thickness category resolution in an OGCM	3
Hydrographic structures of Tokyo Bay between 1992 and 2019 and evidence of temperature increase; observational results by the training vessel Seiyo-Maru	3
Evaluation of retrieving chlorophyll a concentration and colored dissolved organic matter absorption from satellite ocean color remote sensing in the coastal waters of Hokkaido, Japan	3
Wave and current in extratropical versus tropical cyclones	3
Primary productivity impacts community structure of euphausiids in the low-latitude Indian and Pacific Oceans	3
Seasonal variation in pore water nutrients and their fluxes from the bottom sediments in Harima Nada, Seto Inland Sea	3
Near-inertial wave propagation between stratified and homogeneous layers	3
Cross-shelf overturning in geostrophic-stress-dominant coastal fronts	3
Eastward propagation of mid-latitude near-surface thermohaline anomaly and link to marine heat waves in the eastern North Pacific	3
Average coastal residence time distribution estimated by a 2-km resolution Japanese coastal model	3
Temporal changes of the Oyashio water distribution east of Japan under the changing climate: development of an objective evaluation method and its application	3
Wave setup at the Minamitorishima tide gauge	2
Patterns in marine surface fish biodiversity and community composition detected by different eDNA metabarcoding sampling methods	2
Luzon strait mesoscale eddy characteristics in HYCOM reanalysis, simulation, and forecasts	2
Variations in the Central Mode Water in the North Pacific as a manifestation of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation	2
The Kuroshio large meander and its various impacts: a review	2
Intercomparison of bias of global sea surface temperature products associated with tropical cyclone passages in the western North Pacific	2
System vicarious calibration of GCOM-C/SGLI visible and near-infrared channels	2
Spatial distribution of the protist community in the southern part of the Okhotsk Sea off Hokkaido during summer	2
Impact of sea surface temperature anomalies in the East China Sea and western subtropical pacific on the august 2021 Northern Kyushu heavy precipitation	2
Near-surface dynamic structure in the northern South China Sea and Northwest Pacific revealed using Lagrangian data	2
Development of Eucampia zodiacus blooms associated with salinity stratification in Ariake Bay during winter	2
Influences of meso-scale and submeso-scale variability on simulated subtropical mode water formation: comparing two different grid-resolutions	2
Energy transmission pathways of equatorial waves within the Maritime Continent: a view with the wave energy flux	2
Phytoplankton blooms in summer and autumn in the northwestern subarctic Pacific detected by the mooring and float systems	2
The variation of environmental profiles during harmful algal bloom in Sepanggar Bay, Sabah, Malaysia	2
Decadal changes in the basin-wide heat budget of the mid-latitude North Pacific Ocean	2
Nutrient and phytoplankton variability in the tropical and subtropical western North Pacific simulated using OFES2	2
Seasonal changes in the vertical distribution and population structure of Calanus sinicus and Calanus jashnovi (Copepoda: Calanoida) in Sagami Bay, Japan	2

Special section for second-generation global imager (SGLI)	2
Journal of Oceanography Most Cited Paper Award 2025	2
Temporal insights into deep chlorophyll maxima dynamics in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean: a Bio-Argo float study	2
High sensitivity of sea surface temperature in the northwestern Pacific to atmospheric wind in the mid-latitude North Pacific in an eddying ocean model	2