OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Marine and Freshwater Research 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Influence of calcium on the toxicity of saline solutions to the mayfly,	159
From Australia to the World: Advancing Aquatic Science through Marine and Freshwater Research	89
An archaeological example of Aboriginal management of a hydro-ecological system in the Murray River valley, South Australia	27
A step-by-step guide to ageing octopus	21
Early life-history characteristics of Conger leptocephali in the western South Pacific	20
Reproductive phenology and the influence of temperature in two sympatric New Zealand freshwater mussel species	18
Age and growth of Pomatomus saltatrix in the south-western Pacific Ocean (eastern Australia), with a global comparison	16
Effects of common carp on water quality and submerged vegetation: results from a short-term mesocosm experiment in an artificial wetland	15
Abrupt historical change in the nature of a Ramsar Wetland: Seaford Swamp, greater Melbourne, Australia	14
Source diagnostic assessment of dissolved black carbon in selected lacustrine systems of northern Pakistan	14
Genome-wide evaluation of Scylla serrata (giant mud crab) population structure between and within two continental shelf regions of northern Australia	13
A grey nurse shark from the Northern Territory of Australia shares a mitochondrial haplotype only recorded from the western Australian population	13
Mapping knowledge structure and research frontiers of underwater acoustic tomography: a scientometric study	13
Beyond darkness: environmental drivers of a cave-restricted sponge’s distribution in Brazil	13
Baseline assessment of microplastics and biochemical response of Anadara antiquata as a sentinel species for biomonitoring in Fiji	12
Lobster predation on barren-forming sea urchins is more prevalent in habitats where small urchins are common: a multi-method diet analysis	12
Leaf morphology affects microplastic entrapment efficiency in freshwater macrophytes	12
Evaluation and analysis of water-regulation value of ecosystem in Qinghai area of Qilian Mountain National Park, China	11
Residency and movement patterns of juvenile yellowfin bream Acanthopagrus australis, stocked on estuarine artificial reefs	11
Spatial and temporal variation of fish eggs and larvae in a cascade of small hydropower plants in south-eastern Brazil	11
Corrigendum to: Unravelling a specialised diet of an Amazonian catfish in a controlled flood-pulse area by combining stomach-content and stable-isotope analyses	11
Corrigendum to: Evaluating management effectiveness of the Moulouya River Estuary Ramsar Site in Morocco: an application of the R-METT tool and implications for conservation	10
Enhancing river flows v. environmental engineering as contrasting approaches to wetland conservation in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	10
Trophic ecology of sympatric juvenile stingrays within a nursery area	9
When and how much a non-native tree species changes the temporal patterns and biomass of litterfall input in subtropical streams	9

Species-specific trophic enrichment factor of stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes in fish otolith organic matter	9
Dietary overlap of carcharhinid sharks in the Gulf of Papua	9
Contributions of nano- and picophytoplankton to the phytoplankton biomass in Saudi Arabian waters of the Arabian Gulf	8
Closing the driver–response loop for halting and reversing wetland degradation and loss from agriculture	8
Genomic population structure of great hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna mokarran) across the Indo-Pacific	8
Shallow but striking genetic structure in the highly connected New Zealand sand dollar (Fellaster zelandiae)	8
Lipid composition of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis from the Black Sea: fatty acid-based indices as environmental biomarkers	8
Knowledge of macrophyte requirements and tolerances holds the key to successful shallow lake restoration – a New Zealand perspective	8
Mahseer conservation in Asia: trends and insights from scientometric analysis	7
An analysis of tomistoma (Tomistoma schlegelii) attacks on humans	7
Is the Paraíba do Sul River colourful? Prevalence of microplastics in freshwater, south-eastern Brazil	7
Unravelling a specialised diet of an Amazonian catfish in a controlled flood-pulse area by combining stomach-content and stable-isotope analyses	7
Spatial patterns in the cover and composition of macroalgal assemblages on fringing and nearshore coral reefs	7
Using integrative taxonomy to distinguish cryptic halfbeak species and interpret distribution patterns, fisheries landings, and speciation	7
Stability and change in a changing environment: soft-bottom benthic molluscs in the Peel–Harvey Estuary over 42 years	7
Community-level effects of ivermectin and moxidectin from cattle dung: zooplankton as study case	7
Reconciling blue spaces: evaluating social equity and justice in state-led Indigenous marine development programs	6
Spatio-temporal variations of habitat quality in the Greater Bay Area around Hangzhou Bay, based on LUCC and simulation	6
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands	6
Incentive for farmers to save water by confirming the rights to agricultural water in the Yellow River Basin	6
Status and trends in wetland conservation policy under climate change in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	6
Estimation of soil loss and sediment yield by using the modified RUSLE model in the Indus River basin, including the quantification of error and uncertainty in remote-sensing images	6
The aquatic ecological health-state assessment and the influencing mechanism of Poyang Lake	6
Widespread exposure of marine parks, whales, and whale sharks to shipping	6
Fractional composition and level of oxidised proteins in the muscles of red mullet, Mullus ponticus Essipov, 1927, from two fishing areas of the Black Sea	6
Spatial resolution of shell microchemistry for tracking dispersing pelagic mussels in a large open embayment in northern New Zealand	6
Shell lesions and associated fauna of the Omani abalone Haliotis mariae (Mollusca: Archaeogastropoda)	6
Braiding Indigenous oral histories and habitat mapping to understand urchin barrens in southern New South Wales	6
Early warning and monitoring of the safety risk of coastal nuclear power plant cold source under the stress from Phaeocystis globosa blooms	6
Presence and abundance of microplastics in edible freshwater mussel (Batissa violacea) on Fiji’s main island of Viti Levu	6
Aquatic detoxification: The role of herbal supplements in mitigating paint industry effluents	6
Interspecific variation in cyanobacteria–temperature interaction on life history and gut microbiota of water fleas	6
Age and growth of the endangered Maugean skate (Zearaja maugeana) by using microchemical analysis	6
Assessing the aquatic metabolic-balance response to future condition in a Mediterranean site: from an experimental-design perspective	6
Trophic resources use pathways between two coexisting freshwater shrimp (Palaemon argentinus and Macrobrachium borellii)	5
Otolith parameters and body size relationships of Boops boops Linnaeus, 1875 and Nemipterus randalli Russel, 1986 from the Antalya Bay, Mediterranean coast of Türkiye	5
Variation in shell morphology and life-history traits of Potamopyrgus antipodarum, a highly invasive freshwater snail in Chile	5
Assessing the use of environmental flows and stocking for the persistence of a flow-dependent spawner in a drying climate	5
Decadal monitoring shows seagrass decline and community shifts following environmental disturbance in Moreton Bay, south-eastern Queensland, Australia	5
Sewage-derived nitrogen dispersal and N-fixation in Port Phillip Bay in south-eastern Australia	5
Drying climate associated with improvements in water quality over four decades for a marine embayment in south-eastern Australia	5
Benthic macroinvertebrates in rivers of agricultural lands in Argentina: the functional diversity response to environmental stress	5
Mismatch between shape changes, early growth, and condition for a temperate reef fish from an oceanic island	5
Introducing the ‘Science in Sea Country’ collection	5
Corrigendum to: Monitoring tropical freshwater fish with underwater videography and deep learning	5
Repairing Australia’s inland river and groundwater systems: nine priority actions, benefits and the finance gap	5
Recognising the importance of shellfish to First Nations peoples, Indigenous and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in aquaculture and coastal management in Australia	5
Comment on Finlayson et al. ‘Continuing the discussion about ecological futures for the lower Murray river (Australia) in the Anthropocene’	5
Decomposed cadaver tissue provides insight into genetic variation in a freshwater turtle (Chelodina oblonga Gray, 1841) population at Bibra Lake, south-western Australia	5
Fish biodiversity and inferred abundance in a highly valued coastal temperate environment: the inner Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand	5

Assessment of multiple paternity in spinner shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna) litters from eastern Australian waters	5
Recognising diversity in wetlands and farming systems to support sustainable agriculture and conserve wetlands	5
Geographical variations in genetic group composition, life-history traits, and statolith shape for Sepioteuthis spp. in the Northwest Pacific	5
Improving the size selectivity of crayfish fyke-net codend, applying the hexagonal mesh and sorting grid	5
Hierarchical population genetic structure and signatures of adaptation in Lates calcarifer	5
Environmental conditions on the Pacific halibut fishing grounds obtained from a decade of coastwide oceanographic monitoring, and the potential application of these data in stock analyses	5
Amphipod assemblages associated with native habitat-forming seaweeds of the Alboran Sea: influence by environmental protection and biogeographical patterns	5
Downstream migration of telemetry-tagged adult common galaxias (Galaxias maculatus) in a coastal river system	4
Monitoring tropical freshwater fish with underwater videography and deep learning	4
Emigration mediates fishing mortality on spawning females in an estuarine crab fishery	4
Abundance, distribution and behaviour of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) along the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, Central America	4
The role of environmental factors on beta diversity of periphytic algae in a tropical reservoir	4
Variation in boldness behaviour across individuals, sexes and strains of the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)	4
Evaluating Ecological Quality in the Subtidal Zone off Jindo Island, South Korea Using Multiple Benthic Indices	4
Assessing the impact of microplastics and nanoplastics on shrimp growth, physiology, antioxidant, immune responses and gut microbiota	4
Connecting young people to Country through marine turtle conservation: exploring three case studies in Western Australia’s Pilbara region	4
Fine-scale variability in catch and growth rates of western rock lobsters (Panulirus cygnus) show heterogeneous life-history parameters	4
Movement patterns of Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii) and golden perch (Macquaria ambigua) in a northern Murray–Darling Basin dryland river	4
An unexpected source of CO2 and CH4 emissions: a case of littoral zones of small wetlands during the growing season	4
Thirty-five years of mangrove planting leads to measurable increases in blue carbon stocks in the Arabian Gulf	4
The seafloor character of the Roman Rock area in False Bay, South Africa	4
A consistent vegetation classification for wetland conservation and management in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	4
Trends in Indian Ocean marine fisheries since 1950: synthesis of reconstructed catch and effort data	4
The distribution and significance of stingray feeding pits in Quandamooka (Moreton Bay), Australia	4
First insights into the vertical habitat use of young porbeagles in the north-western Atlantic with implications for bycatch reduction strategies	4
Stream position shapes functional composition of aquatic insect metacommunities	4
Multifaceted effects of bycatch mitigation measures on target or non-target species for pelagic longline fisheries and consideration for bycatch management	4
Investigating microplastic contamination and biomagnification in a remote area of South Australia	4
Climate extreme triggers cold-water community rescue	4
Ecological monitoring and assessment of freshwater ecosystems: new trends and future challenges	4
Response of turtle hatchlings to light emitting diodes at sea	4
Biodiversity patterns of macrofauna associated with Halodule wrightii (Ascherson) in meadows of north-eastern Brazil	4
Environmental considerations related to floating offshore wind farms: a case study from waters around New South Wales, Australia	4
Wetlands as social ecological systems, and relationality in the policy domain	4
Evaluation and empirical study of Happy River on the basis of AHP: a case study of Shaoxing City (Zhejiang, China)	4
First evidence of multiple paternity and hybridisation in Australian sawsharks	4
SARAS: a tool for the assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services in semiarid dam reservoirs	4
The revelry of plastic! Quali-quantitative variation of microplastics in freshwater before and after Carnival in south-eastern Brazil	4
No effects of abiotic and anthropogenic factors on reef-associated neonate shark abundance within a shark nursery-area system	4
Ramsar on repeat: quantifying US policy action by political party	4
Molecular ecology of the Javanese ricefish, Oryzias javanicus (Bleeker): genetic divergence along the Indonesian Archipelago	4
New South Wales rocky reefs are under threat	4
Effects of age composition of Pacific bluefin tuna on their spatiotemporal distribution of active breeding in the south-western North Pacific and on its recruitment strength	4
Co-design and Traditional Owner participation in an assessment of abundance and size of Donax deltoides (garlaany, pipi) in Ngambaa Country, New South Wales, Australia	4
The recent challenges encountered in water resources and management in Pakistan: how does legal framework exist in water governance and environmental policy to a sustainable approach to socio-economic	4
Species delineation, phylogeography and conservation of temperate perches (Actinopterygii: Percichthyidae) from an endemism and climate change hotspot	4