OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Aquatic Microbial Ecology 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Feeding ecology and microbiome of the pteropod Limacina helicina antarctica	24
Environmental factors driving epiphyton denitrification in Lake Taihu	9
The microbiome of the seagrass Halophila ovalis: community structuring from plant parts to regional scales	9
Microbial diversity in marine sediments of two hydrocarbon reservoir areas in the eastern Atlantic Ocean	8
Distinct bacterial communities associated with photosynthetic picoeukaryotes in Lake Dongting throughout the seasonal cycle as revealed by flow cytometry sorting	8
Near-benthic coral reef picoplankton vary at fine scales decoupled from benthic cover	8
Determining growth rates of heterotrophic bacteria from 16S rRNA gene sequence-based analyses of dilution experiments	8
Influence of hydrogen peroxide on heterotrophic communities in ammonia-oxidizing enrichment cultures	7
Diversity of taxon-specific traits of seasonally distinct unicellular eukaryotic assemblages in a eutrophic coastal area with marked plankton blooms	6
Vertical and temporal variability of protist and prokaryotic summer plankton communities in a North Sea fjord	6
Microalgal characterization during a mucilaginous bloom on deep gorgonian forests of Tavolara Punta Coda Cavallo MPA	5
Spatial and temporal dynamics of coastal benthic microbial communities along a salinity gradient	3
Carbon-nitrogen association influences response of the microplankton food web to enrichment	3
Microbial communities (bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes) in a temperate estuary during seasonal hypoxia	3
Biological mechanisms underlying priming of vascular plant material in the presence of diatoms	2
Unraveling the distribution patterns of bacterioplankton in a mesoscale cyclonic eddy confined to an oxygen-depleted basin	2
Interactions between bacteria and microalgae in microalgal-bacterial symbiotic wastewater treatment systems: mechanisms and influencing factors	2
Human impact on symbioses between aquatic organisms and microbes	2
Effects of nutrient enrichments on oligotrophic phytoplankton communities: a mesocosm experiment near Hawai‘i, USA	2
High prokaryotic diversity in the oxygen minimum zone of the Bay of Bengal: implications for nutrient cycling	2
Shore and mid-channel surveys reveal distinct phytoplankton-bacterial population associations along an urban estuary	1
Compositional responses of aquatic bacterial communities and their network interactions to phytoplankton-derived dissolved organic matter from freshwater ponds	1
Disturbed virus-bacteria dynamics in Otsuchi Bay (Japan) after the mega-earthquake and tsunami in March 2011	1
Bacterioplankton composition as an indicator of environmental status: proof of principle using indicator value analysis of estuarine communities	1
Biogeography of reef water microbes from within-reef to global scales	1

Widespread ciliate and dinoflagellate mixotrophy may contribute to ecosystem resilience in a subarctic sea: the northern Gulf of Alaska	1
Composition and diversity of fungal communities in lakes on the Ordos Plateau, China	1
Interaction between temperature and salinity stress on the physiology of Dinophysis spp. and Alexandrium minutum: implications for niche range and blooming patterns	1
Substrate diversity affects carbon utilization rate and threshold concentration for uptake by natural bacterioplankton communities	1