OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Fish and Fisheries is 12. 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
Temporal patterns and regional comparisons of recruitment rates of United States fish stocks	75
Declining Marine Survival of Steelhead Trout Linked to Climate and Ecosystem Change	74
Effects of early life mass mortality events on fish populations	68
Eponym Dictionary of Fishes by BoBeolens, MichaelGrayson and MichaelWatkins 2023. Whittles Publishing. xiv, 1463 pp	64
The relative influence of temperature and ontogeny on groundfish distribution varies across life stages	52
Accounting for Salmon Body Size Declines in Fishery Management Can Reduce Conservation Risks	45
The FishPath approach for fisheries management in a data‐ and capacity‐limited world	44
Probability ogives for trends in stock biomass and fishing mortality from landings time series	44
The status of climate change adaptation in fisheries management: Policy, legislation and implementation	42
Movescapes and eco‐evolutionary movement strategies in marine fish: Assessing a connectivity hotspot	41
Vertical ambush corridors: Intriguing multi‐mechanism ecological structures embedded in the kinetic fluid architectures of ocean living resource production systems	40
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The King's aquatic desires: 16th‐century fish and crayfish introductions into Spain	38
Neglected fishery data sources as indicators of pre‐industrial ecological properties of Mediterranean swordfish (Xiphias gladius, Xiphiidae)	38
The universal imprint of oxygen isotopes can track the origins of seafood	36
A unifying hypothesis for the spawning migrations of temperate anguillid eels	36
Why do some fish grow faster than others?	36
‘Destructive fishing’—A ubiquitously used but vague term? Usage and impacts across academic research, media and policy	36
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A Comparison of Fleet Dynamics Models for Predicting Fisher Location Choice	34
Using an EBFM lens to guide the management of marine biological resources under changing conditions	34
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Hidden in the ocean: The importance of detecting hybridisation in pelagic and deep‐water fishes	32

Biological life‐history and farming scenarios of marine aquaculture to help reduce wild marine fishing pressure	31
Can small‐scale fisheries survive market‐based management? Nordic evidence	30
Putting the fish into inland fisheries – A global allocation of historic inland fish catch	30
A field guide to coastal fishes of Bermuda, Bahamas and the Caribbean Sea. ValKells, Luiz A.Rocha, Carole C.Baldwin, Baltimore, MA: John Hopkins University Press. 2022	29
Reviving the unique potential of recreational fishers as environmental stewards of aquatic ecosystems	29
Considerations for management strategy evaluation for small pelagic fishes	27
The puzzle of the anchovy–sardine inverse fishery at the south‐eastern coast of the Arabian Sea and climate variability	26
The Benefits of Hierarchical Ecosystem Models: Demonstration Using EcoState, a New State‐Space Mass‐Balance Model	26
A Global Synthesis of Environmental Enrichment Effect on Fish Stress	25
Reproductive resilience or sweepstakes recruitment? Assessing drivers of lifetime reproductive success in exploited marine fish	25
Corrigendum to ‘Fecundity trends of Chinook salmon in the Pacific Northwest’	25
Depredation: An old conflict with the sea	24
Multi‐specific small‐scale fisheries rely on few, locally essential, species: Evidence from a multi‐area study in the Mediterranean	24
Recruitment regime shifts and nonstationarity are widespread phenomena in harvestable stocks experiencing pronounced climate fluctuations	24
A synthetic control approach to estimate the effect of total allowable catches in the high seas	24
Focusing on what matters most: Evaluating multiple challenges to stability in recreational fisheries	23
Global assessment of shark strandings	23
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Dissecting co‐management: Fisher participation across management components and implications for governance	22
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Ecological vulnerability of the chondrichthyan fauna of southern Australia to the stressors of climate change, fishing and other anthropogenic hazards	22
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Alaska Herring History: The story of Alaska's herring fisheries and industryJamesMackovjak	21
Guiding principles for integrating stakeholder‐based data into marine fisheries decision‐making with a focus on USA fisheries management	21
Linking observed changes in pelagic catches to temperature and oxygen in the Eastern Tropical Pacific	20
Untangling social–ecological interactions: A methods portfolio approach to tackling contemporary sustainability challenges in fisheries	20
Hearing in catfishes: 200 years of research	20
Gear restrictions create conservation and fisheries trade‐offs for management	20
Preference, avoidance, motivation and their importance to fish welfare	19
Basin‐scale approach needed for Yangtze River fisheries restoration	19
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Hope or Despair Revisited: Assessing Progress and New Challenges in Global Fisheries	19
Scale morphology is a promising, additional tool for exploring the taxonomy and ecology of freshwater fishes	18
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Global meta‐analysis of demersal fishing impacts on organic carbon and associated biogeochemistry	18
Trees for fishes: The neglected role for phylogenetic comparative methods in fisheries science	18
Quota use in mixed‐stock fisheries	18
Re‐imagining the precautionary approach to make collaborative fisheries management inclusive of Indigenous Knowledge Systems	18
Risk equivalence in data‐limited and data‐rich fisheries management: An example based on the ICES advice framework	17
A snapshot of the economic benefits from foreign bottom trawling in coastal West Africa: A mutually‐beneficial trade in services, no winners or extractivism?	17
Mapping small‐scale fisheries through a coordinated participatory strategy	16
Ocean Ecology. Marine life in the age of humansJ. EmmettDuffy. Princeton University Press. 2021. ISBN: 9780691161556 (Hbk). Pp vii—444. GBP62.00; USD80.00	16
Widespread Evidence for Rapid Recent Changes in Global Range and Abundance of Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)	16
Modelling the distribution of marine fishery resources: Where are we?	16
Moving reference point goalposts and implications for fisheries sustainability	15
Temporary Allee effects among non‐stationary recruitment dynamics in depleted gadid and flatfish populations	15
Improving estimates of the state of global fisheries depends on better data	15
A delay‐differential model for representing small pelagic fish stock dynamics and its application for assessing alternative management strategies under environmental uncertainty	15
A history and evaluation of catch‐only stock assessment models	15
Learning from positive deviants in fisheries	15

Metabolism, population growth, and the fast‐slow life history continuum of marine fishes	14
A commentary on the role of hatcheries and stocking programs in salmon conservation and adapting ourselves to less‐than‐wild futures	14
Dried fish at the intersection of food science, economy, and culture: A global survey	14
Climate change projections of commercial fish distribution and suitable habitat around north western Europe	14
Simulating benefits, costs and trade‐offs of spatial management in marine social‐ecological systems	14
How consistent is the advice from stock assessments? Empirical estimates of inter‐assessment bias and uncertainty for marine fish and invertebrate stocks	13
Racial capitalism and the sea: Development and change in Black maritime labour, and what it means for fisheries and a blue economy	13
Exploring the role of Northeast Atlantic cod in the Barents Sea food web using a multi‐model approach	13
The challenge of assessing the effects of drifting fish aggregating devices on the behaviour and biology of tropical tuna	13
Implementing the precautionary approach into fisheries management: Biomass reference points and uncertainty buffers	13
Fish weight reduction in response to intra‐ and interspecies competition under climate change	13
Collapse and recovery of seafood wholesale prices in time of COVID‐19	13
Ecosystem‐based fisheries management – Progress, importance and impacts in the United States.Jason S.Link and Anthony R.Marshak.Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2021. 712 pp.	13
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Impact of the 2014–2016 marine heatwave on US and Canada West Coast fisheries: Surprises and lessons from key case studies	13
Estimating fine‐scale movement rates and habitat preferences using multiple data sources	12
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Characterising a diversity of coastal community fisheries in Kiribati and Vanuatu	12
Mapping the Structure and Evolution of Fish Bio‐ and Ecoacoustics; From Single Species Studies to Biodiversity Monitoring	12
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Estimating intrinsic susceptibility to extinction when little ecological information is available: The case of Neotropical freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygoninae)	12
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