OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Oceanography is 3. 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
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
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
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
Near-inertial wave propagation between stratified and homogeneous layers	6
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
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
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
Seasonal dynamics of dinoflagellates with special emphasis on potentially harmful species in a tropical estuarine system along the southwest coast of India	4
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
Distributions of tritium and 137Cs in coastal seawater and biota off Aomori and Iwate prefectures, Japan	3