OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bioinvasions Records 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Invasion of Patchiella reaumuri (Kaltenbach, 1843) on taro roots in Asia: a biosecurity concern and new threat to indigenous taro landraces	28
First spontaneous occurrence of Centaurea macrocephala (Asteraceae) in Poland	25
First record of the American clawed lobster, Homarus americanus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837), in the southeastern Mediterranean	18
Invasive fishes negatively impact ghost frog tadpole abundance	17
New record of bristlenose catfish, Ancistrus chagresi Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889 and Ancistrus sp., in Ciliwung Watershed, Indonesia	15
Non-native Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774) (Bivalvia, Veneroidea) in Central Italy: do the waters pumped by Reclaimed Agencies may have a role in spreading through translocation?	12
Marisa cornuarietis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae): a new addition to the freshwater malacofauna of Jamaica with health and economic implications	11
First record of the brown bullhead Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819) in the Neman River basin in Belarus	11
The edge of crisis: discovery of young of year black carp Mylopharyngodon piceus (Richardson, 1846) in the Lower Mississippi River	11
Rapid spread of the invasive pentastome Raillietiella orientalis (Hett, 1915) in 14 new Florida counties and in pet trade snakes	10
First record of American skunk-cabbage Lysichiton americanus Hultén & H. St. John (Araceae) in Poland	10
Austrocylindropuntia subulata (Muehlenpf.) Backeb. (Cactaceae - Opuntioideae): an invasive new cactus record to the flora of Saudi Arabia	10
The wandering snaggletooth snail, Gastrocopta servilis (Gould, 1843) – a new record of an alien non-marine mollusc in South Africa (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Gastrocoptidae)	10
First records of the fishhook waterflea Cercopagis pengoi Ostroumov, 1891 in the Mississippi River Basin, Illinois Waterway, USA	10
First Czech record of the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax) and a climatic prediction of its spread in the Czech Republic	10
Checklist of aquatic non-native and invasive species in lakes Mead and Mohave	9
A worrying arrival: the first record of brown macroalga Rugulopteryx okamurae in Madeira Island and its invasive risk	9
Range expansion of the Asian green mussel Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758) to São Paulo, Brazil	9
Fanwort, Cabomba caroliniana A. Gray (Cabombaceae) in China: introduction, current status, ecological impacts and managementy	8
First record of Leucanthemum vulgare (Lam. 1778) (Asterales: Asteraceae), ox-eye daisy in Limpopo province of South Africa	8
The first documented occurrence and life history characteristics of the Chinese mystery snail, Cipangopaludina chinensis (Gray, 1834) (Mollusca: Viviparidae), in Alberta, Canada	8
Hydrocleys nymphoides (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Buchenau (Alismataceae): a naturalized aquatic plant in China	7
An emerging weed: rapid spread of Solanum carolinense in Austria	7
The first UK records of the purple fan-worm, Bispira polyomma Giangrande & Faasse, 2012 (Annelida: Sabellidae)	7
Quietly invading the Balkans: Economidichthys pygmaeus (Holly, 1929) (Gobiidae) established in Northeastern Greece	7

First record of Naso annulatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) and further records of Scatophagus argus (Linnaeus, 1766) and Charybdis (Charybdis) natator (Herbst, 1794) in the Mediterranean Sea	6
Plants along roads in Slovakia: current spread of Amorpha fruticosa L. around motorways and expressways	6
New alien vascular plants of Slovakia: records from 2008–2021	6
First record of the Asian freshwater fish Pseudorasbora parva (Temminck and Schlegel, 1846) from Lake Bracciano (Central Italy)	6
Non-native anadromous salmonids in the La Plata Basin: long distance colonization?	6
The distribution of Ageratina altissima (L.) R. M. King & H. Rob. in Austria	6
Crops gone wild – weedy Helianthus annuus L. in Austria	6
An overlooked invader? Integrative analysis reveals the common wolf snake Lycodon capucinus Boie, 1827 is an introduced species to Hong Kong	6
The first wild record of invasive redhead cichlid, Vieja melanura (Günther, 1862), in Hainan Island, China	5
Syzygium australe (J.C.Wendl. ex Link) B. Hyland (Myrtaceae) in South Africa: current distribution and invasion potential	5
Naturalisation of Strict blue-eyed grass Sisyrinchium montanum Greene (Iridaceae) in Slovakia	5
Classroom citizen scientists discover red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) from northern Idaho, United States	5
First records of seed beetles Megabruchidius dorsalis (Fåhræus, 1839) and M. tonkineus (Pic, 1904) from three Balkan countries	5
The Indo-Pacific nudibranch Baeolidia moebii Bergh, 1888 in Greece, with the first documented spawning aggregation in the Mediterranean Sea	5
Rapid assessment survey of non-indigenous and cryptogenic species in Tunisian marinas	5
First reports of invasive pheretimoid earthworms (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) of Asian origin in Atlantic Canada	5
New records and range expansions of invasive fish species in Georgia	5
First record of the occurrence of the larger grain borer, Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) in Botswana	5
First populations of invasive red swamp crayfish flourish in Slovakia	5
Present status and distribution of naturalized plants in the island regions of the South Korea	5
Updated distribution of the brown anole in continental Ecuador: a case of urban spaces favoring the establishment of an opportunistic exotic species	5
First record of the Monrovia doctorfish Acanthurus monroviae Steindachner, 1876 (Perciformes: Acanthuridae) in the Adriatic Sea (Croatian waters)	5
Anisandrus maiche Kurentzov (Curculionidae: Scolytinae), an Asian species recently introduced and now widely established in Northern Italy	4
First record of the invasive Asian earthworm Amynthas tokioensis (Beddard, 1892) in the province of Québec, Canada	4
Records of alien plants new for the Flora of The Balearic Islands (West-Mediterranean)	4
First genetically confirmed report of the Japanese mystery snail, Heterogen japonica (Martens, 1861) from California more than a century after its first introduction	4
Record of naturalized Ipomoea hederifolia (Linnaeus 1759) (Convolvulaceae), Scarlet morning-glory in South Africa	4
Aeonium haworthii Webb & Berthel. and Crassula ovata (Mill.) Druce (Crassulaceae): New records for the Algerian alien flora	4
Gleditsia triacanthos L. (honeylocust, Leguminosae): first record as an invader of riparian woodland in Southern Spain	4
The occurrence and harmfulness of box tree moth Cydalima perspectalis (Walker, 1859) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) in the Podkarpackie Province (SE Poland)	4
Morphological and molecular data confirm the first European record of Sagina maxima (Caryophyllaceae) in Bassano del Grappa (Veneto region, northeastern Italy)	4
First record of the North American freshwater sponge Heteromeyenia latitenta (Potts, 1881) found in Japan (Spongillida: Spongillidae)	4
First finds in North and South America of Pentacoelum kazukolinda (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida), a worldwide invasive flatworm	4
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Morphological and molecular identification of Diceratocephala boschmai Baer, 1953 and Decadidymus sp. Cannon, 1991 on wild and cultured environment of Cherax quadricarinatus in Malaysia	4
The Yucatan molly Poecilia velifera (Regan, 1914) (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae): an invasive species in the Mediterranean lagoon of Ayn Zayanah (Benghazi, Libya)	4
Broadened occurrence and affected host species of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis including the Global Panzootic Linage(Bd-GPL) in Norway	4
Is the Drosophila montium species group knocking on the doors of Europe? The case of the Asian fruit fly, Drosophila triauraria Bock & Wheeler, 1972	4
Verbena brasiliensis Vell.: a new record of an invasive alien species in the flora of Turkey	4
First record of the invasive Asian date mussel Arcuatula senhousia (Benson, 1842) in El Mellah Lagoon (Southern coast of Algerian Basin, Western Mediterranean)	4
Fecundity, growth and body condition of invasive black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) in eutrophic oxbow lakes of River-Körös (Hungary)	4
First record of black bullhead (Ameiurus melas Lesueur, 1819) and the occurrence of hybridization with brown bullhead (A. nebulosus Rafinesque, 1820) in Belgium	4
The first wild record of invasive redhead cichlid, Vieja melanura (Günther, 1862), in Hainan Island, China	4
Notes on the occurrence of Phytolacca americana L. in crop fields and its potential agricultural impact	4
First record of Thalamita oculea Alcock, 1899 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae) in the Mediterranean Sea	4
Invasive alien plant species of Union concern in the Lower Siret Floodplain Natura 2000 site (Romania)	4
The French benthic newcomers: new records of Ampithoe valida S.I. Smith, 1873 and Polydora colonia Moore, 1907 in Brittany, first record of Bispira polyomma Giangrande & Faasse, 2012 in the North-	3
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First record of non-native Yoldia limatula (Say, 1831) in the United Kingdom: evidence of a newly established population (Bivalvia: Protobranchia)	3
Evidence of an established population of Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens, 1868) in south Texas, USA	3

Aethusa cynapium L. (Apiaceae), a new invasive alien plant in the Republic of Korea	3
Non-native and invasive fish species of Lake Batur in Bali, Indonesia	3
First record of Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica (Lam.) Backeb. and first data about the naturalization of Austrocylindropuntia subulata (Muehlenpf.) Backeb. in Algeria	3
First record of three alien termite species in Belgium	3
Expansion of the invasive alga Rugulopteryx okamurae (Dictyotaceae, Ochrophyta) in the Mediterranean Sea: first evidence as epiphyte of the cold-water coral Dendrophyllia ramea (Cnidaria: Scleractinia	3
First report of the Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877 in the Drava River, Croatia	3
Tarenaya spinosa (Jacq.) Raf. (Cleomaceae): a new addition to the naturalized alien flora of Iran	3
First records of the Australian invasive weed Atriplex semilunaris Aellen (Amaranthaceae s.l.) in Gran Canaria and Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain)	3
Current status of invasive alien plants in Ramsar wetlands on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea	3
Predicting the potential distribution of Ranunculus sardous (Ranunculaceae), a new alien species in the flora of Uzbekistan and Central Asia	3
Beyond BOLD: using DNA barcoding to identify Prussian carp (Carassius gibelio Bloch, 1782) in southern Alberta, Canada	3
Morphological and molecular data confirm the first record of Dysphania cristata (Dysphanieae, Chenopodioideae, Amaranthaceae) in the Mediterranean basin	3
Confirmation of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Papua New Guinea by molecular diagnostics of mitochondrial DNA COI gene	3
Range expansion of the alien red-eared slider Trachemys scripta (Thunberg in Schoepff, 1792) (Reptilia, Testudines) in Eastern Europe, with special reference to Latvia and Ukraine	3
First record of adventive species Monoxia obesula Blake, 1939 in Greece	3
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Multiple perspectives on the emergence of the invasive colonial tunicate Didemnum vexillum Kott, 2002 in the western Bay of Fundy, Atlantic Canada	3
First record of the calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinus Sato, 1913 in the North Aegean Sea, in Thessaloniki Bay, Greece	3
First record of Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877 (Gobiiformes: Odontobutidae) in Siverskyi Donets river basin	3
First record of the non-native fish Rhinogobius cliffordpopei (Nichols, 1925) (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae) in Tibet, China	3
First record of the cedar bark aphid, Cinara cedri cedri Mimeur, 1936 (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea) in Japan, and identification of infecting Wolbachia strains	3
First report of the invasive ant Nylanderia fulva (Mayr, 1862) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Panama	3
The first record of oriental river prawn Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849 [in De Haan, 1833–1850]) (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) in the Ukrainian part of the Danube Delta	3
The blue swimming crab Portunus segnis (Forskål, 1775) reaches the Adriatic Sea: a distant and disjointed occurrence	3
First record of rotifers Kellicottia bostoniensis (Rousselet, 1908) and Notholca bipalium (Müller, 1786) in a large Central European river	3
First observation of the non-indigenous mysid Neomysis americana (S.I. Smith, 1873) in the Loire estuary	3
First records of the Asian seed beetles Megabruchidius tonkineus (Pic, 1904) and M. dorsalis (Fåhræus, 1839) in Turkey	3