OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Fertilization by short-term stored sperm alters DNA methylation patterns at single-base resolution in common carp (Cyprinus carpio) embryos	134
A global functional analysis of fish-estuary associations and selected environmental factors	74
Recreational angling and spearfishing on social media: insights on harvesting patterns, social engagement and sentiments related to the distributional range shift of a marine invasive species	70
Characterizing the development of Sea ranching in China	56
The UK’s expanding global reach for seafood over 120-years	55
Indigenous fishers’ knowledge on fish behavior, fishing practices and climatic conditions in a conservation priority coastal ecosystem in the Caspian Sea	46
Chitosan-based delivery of fish codon-optimised Caenorhabditis elegans FAT-1 and FAT-2 boosts EPA and DHA biosynthesis in Sparus aurata	45
Making the most of aquatic animal tracking: a review of complementary methods to bolster acoustic telemetry	44
Seven decades of transformation: evaluating the dynamics of coral reef fish communities in the Xisha Islands, South China Sea	38
Long non-coding RNAs in the physiology of aquaculture animals: a perspective update	37
Exploring temporal patterns in fish feeding ecology: Are ontogenetic dietary shifts stable over time?	36
Caught in the middle: bottom-up and top-down processes impacting recruitment in a small pelagic fish	32
A global review of the biology and ecology of the European perch, Perca fluviatilis	29
Predicting and assessing the impacts of COVID-19 disruption on marine science and sectors in Australia	28
Ontogenetic and evolutionary trends on cephalopod digestive systems	27
Life-history traits of batoids (Superorder Batoidea) in the Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean	27
Cytogenetics and DNA barcode in Hoplias gr. malabaricus (Characiformes, Erythrinidae) reveals correlation between karyomorphs and valid species	27
Jeffery A. Hutchings: A primer of life histories: ecology, evolution, and application	27
It’s a shark-eat-shark world, but does that make for bigger pups? A comparison between oophagous and non-oophagous viviparous sharks	24
The 8th World Fisheries Congress: sharing our oceans and rivers, a vision for the world’s fisheries	22
Spirulina in fish immunity development: find the black box	22
The piscine arsenal: an updated review of venomous fishes	22
Odontocete cetaceans foraging behind trawlers, worldwide	21
Research progress on whether mangroves and seagrass beds serve as nursery habitats for coral reef fish	20
Climate change impacts on China’s marine ecosystems	19

A quantitative inventory of global soniferous fish diversity	19
The functional roles of surgeonfishes on coral reefs: past, present and future	19
Implications of utilization shifts of marine fish in India: a macro-level empirical analysis	18
Essential spawning grounds of Scottish herring: current knowledge and future challenges	18
Management strategy evaluation operating model conditioning: a swordfish case study	18
Genes involved in sex differentiation, epigenetic reprogramming, and cell fate regulate sex change in a wrasse	18
A Century of Ichthyoplankton Research in Indonesian waters: lessons from the past, challenges for the future	18
Initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australian fisheries production, research organisations and assessment: shocks, responses and implications for decision support and resilience	18
A meta-analytical review of turbidity effects on fish mobility	17
Swimming performance of sharks and rays under climate change	16
Exploring the adaptive behaviour and environmental acclimation of artificially-bred Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis) in semi-open marine environment: insights for endangered species conservation	15
Applying a sequential evidence hierarchy, with caveats, to support prudent fisheries bycatch policy	15
Optimising the review of electronic monitoring information for management of commercial fisheries	15
Has the displacement of the capelin Mallotus villosus (Müller, 1776) feeding grounds induced a phenotypic response?	15
Blue economy: industrialisation and coastal fishing livelihoods in Ghana	14
A global review of the critical link between river flows and productivity in marine fisheries	14
Initial recovery of demersal fish communities in coastal waters of Hong Kong, South China, following a trawl ban	14
A tangled web: global review of fishing interactions with rhino rays	13
Research status of the Lancang-Mekong River Basin: fish and environmental stressors	13
Enhancing our understanding of fish movement ecology through interdisciplinary and cross-boundary research	13
A review of iteroparity in anadromous salmonids: biology, threats and implications	13
Anadromous trout from opposite sides of the globe: biology, ocean ecology, and management of anadromous brown and cutthroat trout	12
Octopuses in the south-west Pacific region: a review of fisheries, ecology, cultural importance and management	12
DNA barcoding of traded shark fins in Peninsular Malaysia	12
An approach to assess data-less small-scale fisheries: examples from Congo rivers	12
A global trophic analysis of estuary-associated fishes	11
Correction to: A global review of white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) parturition	11
Correction: Blue shark vertical movement patterns in the Central Mediterranean: bycatch mitigation windows revealed from pop-up satellite archival tag data	11
Environmental fluctuation influences the ontogenetic dispersal and distribution of two ommastrephid squids in the Pacific Ocean	11
Spatial disparity of fishing activities overlapping the abrupt shifts for marine net primary production	11
A global review of marine recreational spearfishing	11
Rising temperatures, falling fisheries: causes and consequences of crossing the tipping point in a small-pelagic community	10
Pigmentation enhancement techniques during ornamental fish production	9
The socio-ecological resilience and sustainability implications of seafood supply chain disruption	9
Reading the biomineralized book of life: expanding otolith biogeochemical research and applications for fisheries and ecosystem-based management	9
Pots as alternative and sustainable fishing gears in the Mediterranean Sea: an overview	9
Evaluating loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) bycatch in the small-scale fisheries of Cabo Verde	9
Quantifying fishing activity targeting subsea pipelines by commercial trap fishers	9
Sympatric species of coral trout (Plectropomus) show contrasting patterns of genomic structure across isolated atoll reefs	9
Trophic ecology of fishes in estuaries	9
90 years of catch data reveal changes in catch composition in the Australian east coast recreational marlin fishery	8
A synthesis of women’s participation in small-scale fisheries management: why women’s voices matter	8
Status assessment of the Beibu Gulf coastal fishery ecosystem using a multispecies size-spectrum model	8
Arabian/Persian Gulf artisanal fisheries: magnitude, threats, and opportunities	8
The influence of marine protected areas on the patterns and processes in the life cycle of reef fishes	8
Mitonuclear genetics reveals a novel perspective on the stock structure and fishery management of skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) in the Atlantic Ocean	8
Correction: Unveiling the batoid plight: insights from global stranding data and future directions	8
Future Seas 2030: pathways to sustainability for the UN Ocean Decade and beyond	8
Traditional knowledge in special fisheries: the case of Puruvesi vendace and seining	8
Overcapacity and dynamics of a tuna fleet facing catch limits and high efficiency: the case of the Indian Ocean tuna fishery	8

Evolution and objectives of diverse Australian recreational fisheries monitoring programs	8
Biogeography of Beringian fishes after the molecular revolution and into the post-genomics era	8
Conservation and management of chondrichthyans in the Mediterranean Sea: gaps, overlaps, inconsistencies, and the way forward	8
Umbrella effect of spotted seal conservation and achieving 30 × 30 targets in the Yellow Sea ecoregion	7
Untangling multi-species fisheries data with species distribution models	7
Population structure and habitat assessment for two commercial clam species exploited in small-scale fisheries	7
Latitudinal gradients in herbivorous and detritivorous reef fish productivity	7
Otolith biochronology for the long-term reconstruction of growth and stock dynamics of fish	7
Brachyuran crab fisheries in Chile: challenges and opportunities for rising demand	7
The current knowledge status of the genetic population structure of the European sardine (Sardina pilchardus): uncertainties to be solved for an appropriate fishery management	6
Non-probabilistic surveys and sampling in the human dimensions of fisheries	6
Assessing the conservation status of Chinese freshwater fish using deep learning	6
Long-Term Passive Acoustic Monitoring to Support Adaptive Management in a Sciaenid Fishery (Tagus Estuary, Portugal)	6
Resurrecting failed environment-recruitment relationships: Revisiting cod recruitment in light of the poor-recruitment paradigm	6
Temporally-scheduled ROV-based monitoring to detect behavioural rhythms of deep-sea megafauna	6
Empowering her guardians to nurture our Ocean’s future	6
Review of the life history, fisheries, and stock assessment for small tunas in the Atlantic Ocean	6
A review of the life history and ecology of euryhaline and estuarine sharks and rays	6
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Unveiling the batoid plight: insights from global stranding data and future directions	6
Distribution, hosts and long-term decline in abundance of the Patagonian lamprey inferred from diet assessment of albatrosses	6
Smartphone application use in commercial wild capture fisheries	6
Diet and habitat as determinants of intestine length in fishes	6
Reviewing the genetic evidence for sex-biased dispersal in elasmobranchs	6
Cleaner seas: reducing marine pollution	6
A systematic review of sensory deterrents for bycatch mitigation of marine megafauna	6
Variation in abundance, diversity and composition of coral reef fishes with increasing depth at a submerged shoal in the northern Great Barrier Reef	6
Rab proteins in fish and crustaceans: an overview	5
Advancing knowledge about great small-scale fisheries	5
Predicting and contextualizing sensitivity to overfishing in Neotropical freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae)	5
The limited role of herbivorous fishes and turf-based trophic pathways in the functioning of turbid coral reefs	5
Riverine communities and management systems for anadromous fisheries in the Iberian Peninsula: global strategy, local realities	5
What about the meat: uncovering the unseen trade in meat from endangered sharks in Singapore and Malaysia	5
Contrasting tropical marine herbivorous fish catches between the Indo-Pacific and Western Atlantic	5
Lunar cycle effects on pelagic predators and fisheries: insights into tuna, billfish, sharks, and rays	5
The potential impacts of climate change on the life history and habitat of jumbo flying squid in the southeast Pacific Ocean: overview and implications for fisheries management	5
Reviewing and improving spatiotemporal modeling approaches for mackerel’s total annual egg production	5
Cryopreservation of pufferfish sperm in small and large volumes: the effect on kinetic parameters, and fertilization and hatching rates	5
Can pots be an alternative fishing gear to gillnets? A Mediterranean case study	5
Widening mismatch between UK seafood production and consumer demand: a 120-year perspective	5
Contrasting environmental and demographic influences on growth variability in two tropical snappers spanning the equator in the Indo-West Pacific	5
Octopus diet during the settlement period using DNA metabarcoding	5
Unveiling the fishing history of threatened Brazilian parrotfishes through local ecological knowledge	4
Exploring predators of Pacific salmon throughout their life history: the case of Japanese chum, pink, and masu salmon	4
Innovation to limit seafood fraud post-COVID-19	4
Life-history traits, capture dynamics, and conservation status of key species landed by the artisanal gillnet fleet in the southwest Atlantic Ocean	4
Correction to: Intracohort cannibalism and methods for its mitigation in cultured freshwater fish	4
The effect of bottom trawling time on mortality, physical damage and oxidative stress in two Sciaenidae species	4
Correction: Exploring predators of Pacific salmon throughout their life history: the case of Japanese chum, pink, and masu salmon	4
The functional traits behind fish rarity in an impounded river basin	4
Population niche breadth and individual trophic specialisation of fish along a climate-productivity gradient	4
Anguillids: widely studied yet poorly understood—a literature review of the current state of Anguilla eel research	4
Influence of a changing wave climate on the quality and morphometry of the stalked barnacle Pollicipes pollicipes (Gmelin, 1789), along the coasts of NW Iberia	4
Observing fish behavior in towed fishing gear—is there an influence of artificial light?	4
Safeguarding marine life: conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems	4
Compliance in small-scale fisheries is linked to fisher-trader relations: not fishers alone (Southeast Asian case study)	3
Comparative demography of surgeonfishes from the tropical western Pacific	3
Deep learning algorithm as a strategy for detection an invasive species in uncontrolled environment	3
Informing the spatial management of Silky Shark (Carcharhinus falciformis) in the Eastern Pacific Ocean	3
Identifying sustainability priorities among value chain actors in artisanal common octopus fisheries	3
Contribution of area-based fisheries management measures to fisheries sustainability and marine conservation: a global scoping review	3
Underwater hyperspectral imaging technology has potential to differentiate and monitor scallop populations	3
Roles and sources of B vitamins in the marine ecosystem	3
Passive drifting and high mortality rate of released subadult Chinese sturgeons in the Yangtze River	3
The environmental impact of hydropower: a systematic review of the ecological effects of sub-daily flow variability on riverine fish	3
The ten steps to responsible Inland fisheries in practice: reflections from diverse regional case studies around the globe	3
Socio-economic impacts and responses of the fishing industry and fishery managers to changes in small pelagic fish distribution and abundance	3
Contextualising credit transactions in artisanal marine fishing: insights from Kerala, India	3
Navigating post-pandemic tilapia farming: a systematic review and meta-analysis of probiotic as a strategy for sustainable production	3
More than one way to be a planktivore: the vast morphospace of plankton-feeding reef fishes	3
Muscle growth and plasticity in teleost fish: the significance of evolutionarily diverse sarcomeric proteins	3
Ecological uniqueness of fish assemblages and species contributions to beta diversity are affected by river-lake disconnection	3
Burrow emergence rhythms of deep-water Mediterranean Norway lobsters (Nephrops norvegicus) revealed by acoustic telemetry	3