OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Oceanography is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Experimental study of the effect of slope topography on the optical remote sensing imaging characteristics of the depression internal solitary waves	15
Decadal sea surface height modes in the low-latitude northwestern Pacific and their contribution to the North Equatorial Current transport variation	14
Performance evaluation of optical dissolved oxygen sensor, ARO-FT	13
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	13
Backward-tracking simulations of sea ice in the Sea of Okhotsk toward understanding of material transport through sea ice	12
Distributions of tritium and 137Cs in coastal seawater and biota off Aomori and Iwate prefectures, Japan	10
Northeast Pacific marine heatwaves link climate modes in a coupled model simulation	10
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
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
Reviewers of manuscripts	9
Impact of Eighteen Degree Water thickness variation on the thermal and biogeochemical structure in the euphotic layer	8
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	8
Oceanic cool spot formed off Boso Peninsula in the late June 2022	8
On anomalously high sub-surface dissolved oxygen in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean	7
Rapid increase of surface water pCO2 revealed by settling particulate organic matter carbon isotope time series during 2001–2009 in Sagami Bay, Japan	7
Seasonal variation in alkaline phosphatase activity in the central part of Tokyo Bay, 2013	7
Satellite features of river plumes over the Lobos–Tuxpan reef system	7
Southern Ocean marine heatwaves: variability, hotspots and teleconnections	7
Temporal variation of particulate organic carbon flux at the mouth of Tokyo Bay	6
Vertical reflection and amplification of near-inertial internal waves near the pycnocline of mesoscale eddy in the Sea of Japan	6
Identification of Kuroshio meanderings south of Japan via a topological data analysis for sea surface height	6
Spatial structure of rain pool observed on the Kuroshio and Baiu fronts in the East China Sea	6
Correction to: Estimate of turbulent energy dissipation rate using free-fall and CTD-attached fast-response thermistors in weak ocean turbulence	6

Diurnal coastal trapped waves propagating along the east coast of the Shimokita Peninsula, Japan	6
Relationship between temperature and volume variations of the North Pacific Central Mode Water contrasting with Subtropical Mode Water	6
Phytoplankton and ice-algal communities in the seasonal ice zone during January (Southern Ocean, Indian sector)	5
Seasonal variation in metabolic rate of plankton community in the inner part of Tokyo Bay	5
An observational study of coastal trapped wave scattering in the deep ocean of the Suruga Trough: the role of internal lee waves	5
Distribution characteristics of pycnocline in the northern South China Sea based on an improved vertical gradient method	5
Correction to: Distributions of tritium and 137Cs in coastal seawater and biota off Aomori and Iwate prefectures, Japan	5
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
Eastward propagation of mid-latitude near-surface thermohaline anomaly and link to marine heat waves in the eastern North Pacific	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
Secular variation in the M2 tide, resonant amplification, and energy dissipation in a semi-enclosed sea (Ariake sea, Japan) connected to the East China sea	4
The island mass effect: a study of wind-driven nutrient upwelling around reef islands	4
Combined effects of climate change and interannual climate variability on the overturning circulation and deep-water properties in a semi-enclosed marginal sea	4
Hydrographic structures of Tokyo Bay between 1992 and 2019 and evidence of temperature increase; observational results by the training vessel Seiyo-Maru	4