OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of African Journal of Marine Science 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The effects of suspended bivalve culture on benthic community structure and sediment fluxes in Saldanha Bay, South Africa	40
A decade of surf-zone linefish monitoring in the Dwesa-Cwebe Marine Protected Area, with a preliminary assessment of the effects of rezoning and resource use	26
Diet and condition of juvenile deep-water hake Merluccius paradoxus on the west coast of southern Africa	21
Value-chain analysis of Kenya’s artisanal tuna fishery focusing on skipjack tuna Katsuwonus pelamis and kawakawa Euthynnus affinis	18
Comparison of the particle size distributions of sediment collected from sandy seafloor using a Van Veen grab and cone dredge	16
Are there long-term temporal trends of size composition and the length– weight relationship? Results for chokka squid Loligo reynaudii during the peak spawning season off the south coast of Sou	14
Maturity length, fecundity and spawning season of Atlantic chub mackerel Scomber colias in the coastal waters of Ghana (west-central Gulf of Guinea)	12
Rainfall-driven nutrient loading affects coastal phytoplankton in the southwestern Indian Ocean: a lagoon at Mauritius Island	12
Book review: ‘ The African marine litter outlook ’	11
Salt marsh erosion in a microtidal estuary	8
Understanding the effects of climate change on Southern Ocean ecosystems	7
Characterising epibenthic diversity and physical drivers in unconsolidated marine habitats of Algoa Bay, South Africa	7
Heavy metal profiles in limpets and algae on the Eastern Cape coast of South Africa	6
Predation on the St Joseph Callorhinchus capensis by Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus in Namibia	6
Exploratory characterisation of recreational fishing for skipjack tuna Katsuwonus pelamis and eastern little tuna Euthynnus affinis in Sou	5
Size structure and reproductive biology of skipjack tuna Katsuwonus pelamis and kawakawa Euthynnus affinis in the western Indian Ocean	5
Biometry, hatching efficiency, growth performance and survival of the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana from Tanzania	5
Assessing the socio-economic value of shark diving in the Protea Banks Marine Protected Area, South Africa	4
Supporting marine spatial planning with an ecosystem model of Algoa Bay, South Africa	4
Impact of interactions between common bottlenose dolphins and purse-seiners in the Moroccan Mediterranean region: case study in the Al Hoceima fishing grounds	4
Wind- and eddy-driven upwelling over submarine canyons inshore of the northern Agulhas Current	4
Winter storms: a potential threat to African oystercatchers Haematopus moquini	4
Thermal tolerances of littorinid snails from temperate and subtropical South Africa	4
Social and economic effects of marine protected areas in South Africa, with recommendations for future assessments	4
Coastal topography and rates of mussel recruitment: a comparison of bay versus open-coast sites	3

When the flathead mullet left St Lucia	3
Dropping plates to pick up aliens: towards a standardised approach for monitoring alien fouling species	3
Determining the post-herbivore-exclusion effect on an intertidal community by the recovery response of a known dominant herbivore	3
The ecology of coastal wetland ponds created by diamond mining in southern Namibia. 2. Saltmarsh vegetation	3
Sensitivity simulation of sea surface temperature variability in coastal waters off East Africa in relation to the Indian Ocean Dipole	2
Partitioning the sources of sediment organic carbon in South African seagrass meadows	2
Eelgrass Zostera capensis populations in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, harbour distinct genomic signals despite limited geographical distance	2
Movement patterns of Natal seacatfish Galeichthys troworum (Ariidae) tagged in the Pondoland Marine Protected Area, Eastern Cape, South Africa	2
The ecology of coastal wetland ponds created by diamond mining in southern Namibia. 1. Physical conditions	2
A baseline assessment of coastal pH variability in a temperate South African embayment: implications for biological ocean acidification research	2
Evaluating the evidence for ecological effectiveness of South Africa’s marine protected areas	2
A natural terminal Pleistocene decline of African penguin populations enhances their anthropogenic extinction risk	2
Further insights into killer whales Orcinus orca preying on white sharks Carcharodon carcharias in South Africa	2
Aspects of the reproductive biology of the common Octopus vulgaris from landings in the coastal trawl and artisanal fleets in the Atlantic waters of southern Morocco	2
New host–parasite associations of Cymothoidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) infesting elasmobranch fishes in Tunisian waters	2
Reproductive biology of the lesser African threadfinGaleoides decadactylusin Gabon, Gulf of Guinea	2
Effect of rotational harvesting on the size composition of Cape rock oysters Striostrea margaritacea on the east coast of South Africa	2
Site- and habitat-dependent variations in the diversity of polychaetes associated with golden kelp Ecklonia radiata holdfasts along the southeast coast of South Africa	2
When cooling is worse than warming: investigations into the thermal tolerance of an endemic reef fish, Boopsoidea inornata	2
Macrobenthic fauna of the Agulhas Bank shelf edge	2
Low hypoxia tolerance in larvae of the sardine Sardinops sagax and anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus may limit their stock recovery in the no	2
Day/night patterns of habitat use by dogfish sharks (Squalidae) at photic and subphotic warm-temperate reefs: evidence for diel movements and size- and sex-segregation	2
The first report of Naobranchia cygniformis Hesse, 1863 (Copepoda: Lernaeopodidae) off South Africa, with a redescription of the adult female	1
The influence of estuary eutrophication on the benthic diatom community: a molecular approach	1
Characteristics and sociocultural impacts of small pelagic fishing by migrant fishers in Benin, West Africa	1
South African marine citizen science – benefits, challenges and future directions	1
The changing status of important marine fishery species in selected South African estuaries	1
Acoustic telemetry reveals the drivers behind estuary–sea connectivity of an important estuarine-dependent fishery species, Pomadasys commersonnii , in the Breede Estuar	1
Comparisons of macrofaunal communities occupying shores across the full particle-size spectrum reveals pebble beaches to be a distinct coastal habitat type	1
Estimating the economic damage caused by jellyfish to fisheries in Morocco	1
Microplastics pollution in the sediments of creeks and estuaries of Kenya, western Indian Ocean	1
Estimating population changes in humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae migrating past Cape Vidal, South Africa	1
Reproductive biology of the blue swimming crabPortunus segnis(Forskål, 1775) (Brachyura: Portunidae) in the Gulf of Gabes (southeastern Tunisia, central Mediterranean Sea)	1
Patterns of fish distribution in tropical rock pools at Príncipe Island, Gulf of Guinea	1
Bull shark Carcharhinus leucas recruitment into the St Lucia Estuary, South Africa, after prolonged mouth closure, and the first observation of a neonate bull shark preyed on by a Nile crocodil	1
Fear at the top: killer whale predation drives white shark absence at South Africa’s largest aggregation site	1
Local knowledge, utilisation and consumption of seaweed in coastal communities of southwestern Madagascar	1
Movement and growth of the spotted gully shark Triakis megalopterus in South African waters	1
Movement patterns and catch trends of the diamond ray Gymnura natalensis (Dasyatidae) in South African waters	1
Trends in mussel cover, density and size at exploited and unexploited intertidal reefs in eastern South Africa	1
Predicted future changes in ocean temperature and pH do not affect prey selection by the girdled dogwhelk Trochia cingulata	1
Development of genetic tools for the redbait species Pyura herdmani and P. stolonifera, important bioengineers along African coastlines	1
Spatial patterns and environmental drivers of demersal fish assemblages in the Swartkops and Sundays estuarine to marine seascapes, South Africa	1
Movement patterns and growth rate of the whitespotted wedgefish Rhynchobatus djiddensis in southern Africa based on tag-recapture data	1
Reproduction, recruitment, growth and mortality of co-occurring species of the intertidal limpet Siphonaria with contrasting reproductive modes	1
An assessment of the impact of participation in the Oceanographic Research Institute’s Cooperative Fish Tagging Project on angler attitudes and behaviour	1
Contrast in larval sensitivity to low pH in sea urchins from neighbouring seagrass meadows at Inhaca Island, Mozambique	1
Geographical and seasonal patterns in the diet of Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus in Namibia, based on extensive scat analyses	1
Movement patterns and underestimation of the maximum age of a Vulnerable endemic guitarfish species inferred from mark-recapture studies	1
Magellan mussels Aulacomya atra from the South African coast show high diversity within populations but a lack of geographic differentiation	1