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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Feeding ecology and microbiome of the pteropod Limacina helicina antarctica	22
The microbiome of the seagrass Halophila ovalis: community structuring from plant parts to regional scales	15
Microbial diversity in marine sediments of two hydrocarbon reservoir areas in the eastern Atlantic Ocean	8
Determining growth rates of heterotrophic bacteria from 16S rRNA gene sequence-based analyses of dilution experiments	8
Influence of hydrogen peroxide on the heterotrophic community in ammonia-oxidizing enrichment cultures	7
Distinct bacterial communities associated with photosynthetic picoeukaryotes in Lake Dongting throughout the seasonal cycle as revealed by flow cytometry sorting	7
The microbiology of isoprene cycling in aquatic ecosystems	7
Near-benthic coral reef picoplankton vary at fine scales decoupled from benthic cover	7
Vertical and temporal variability of protist and prokaryotic summer plankton communities in a North Sea fjord	6
Seasonal and interannual variation in lower Columbia River phytoplankton (2005-2018): environmental variability and a decline in large bloom-forming diatoms	6
Microalgal characterization during a mucilaginous bloom on deep gorgonian forests of Tavolara Punta Coda Cavallo MPA	6
Diversity of taxon-specific traits of seasonally distinct unicellular eukaryotic assemblages in a eutrophic coastal area with marked plankton blooms	6
Carbon-nitrogen association influences response of the microplankton food web to enrichment	5
Spatial and temporal dynamics of coastal benthic microbial communities along a salinity gradient	5
High prokaryotic diversity in the oxygen minimum zone of the Bay of Bengal: implications for nutrient cycling	3
Unraveling the distribution patterns of bacterioplankton in a mesoscale cyclonic eddy confined to an oxygen-depleted basin	3
Microbial communities (bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes) in a temperate estuary during seasonal hypoxia	3
Interactions between bacteria and microalgae in microalgal-bacterial symbiotic wastewater treatment systems: mechanisms and influencing factors	2
Bacterioplankton composition as an indicator of environmental status: proof of principle using indicator value analysis of estuarine communities	2
Effects of nutrient enrichments on oligotrophic phytoplankton communities: a mesocosm experiment near Hawai‘i, USA	2
Biological mechanisms underlying priming of vascular plant material in the presence of diatoms	2
Human impact on symbioses between aquatic organisms and microbes	2
Impact of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on plankton ciliates from a saline lowland river in South America	1
Interaction between temperature and salinity stress on the physiology of Dinophysis spp. and Alexandrium minutum: implications for niche range and blooming patterns	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
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
Substrate diversity affects carbon utilization rate and threshold concentration for uptake by natural bacterioplankton communities	1
Shore and mid-channel surveys reveal distinct phytoplankton-bacterial population associations along an urban estuary	1
Differences in regulation of planktonic and epilithic biofilm bacterial production in the middle reaches of a temperate river	1