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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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	24
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
First record of the brown bullhead Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819) in the Neman River basin in Belarus	11
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 Czech record of the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax) and a climatic prediction of its spread in the Czech Republic	10
Marisa cornuarietis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae): a new addition to the freshwater malacofauna of Jamaica with health and economic implications	10
A worrying arrival: the first record of brown macroalga Rugulopteryx okamurae in Madeira Island and its invasive risk	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 edge of crisis: discovery of young of year black carp Mylopharyngodon piceus (Richardson, 1846) in the Lower Mississippi River	10
Checklist of aquatic non-native and invasive species in lakes Mead and Mohave	9
First records of the fishhook waterflea Cercopagis pengoi Ostroumov, 1891 in the Mississippi River Basin, Illinois Waterway, USA	9
Rapid spread of the invasive pentastome Raillietiella orientalis (Hett, 1915) in 14 new Florida counties and in pet trade snakes	9
Range expansion of the Asian green mussel Perna viridis (Linnaeus, 1758) to São Paulo, Brazil	8
The first documented occurrence and life history characteristics of the Chinese mystery snail, Cipangopaludina chinensis (Gray, 1834) (Mollusca: Viviparidae), in Alberta, Canada	8
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
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

New alien vascular plants of Slovakia: records from 2008–2021	6
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
Non-native anadromous salmonids in the La Plata Basin: long distance colonization?	6
Crops gone wild – weedy Helianthus annuus L. in Austria	6
The distribution of Ageratina altissima (L.) R. M. King & H. Rob. 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
First record of the Asian freshwater fish Pseudorasbora parva (Temminck and Schlegel, 1846) from Lake Bracciano (Central Italy)	6
Plants along roads in Slovakia: current spread of Amorpha fruticosa L. around motorways and expressways	6
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
Classroom citizen scientists discover red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) from northern Idaho, United States	5
Present status and distribution of naturalized plants in the island regions of the South Korea	5
First populations of invasive red swamp crayfish flourish in Slovakia	5
First record of the Monrovia doctorfish Acanthurus monroviae Steindachner, 1876 (Perciformes: Acanthuridae) in the Adriatic Sea (Croatian waters)	5
The Indo-Pacific nudibranch Baeolidia moebii Bergh, 1888 in Greece, with the first documented spawning aggregation in the Mediterranean Sea	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
Updated distribution of the brown anole in continental Ecuador: a case of urban spaces favoring the establishment of an opportunistic exotic species	5
The first wild record of invasive redhead cichlid, Vieja melanura (Günther, 1862), in Hainan Island, China	5
First records of seed beetles Megabruchidius dorsalis (Fåhræus, 1839) and M. tonkineus (Pic, 1904) from three Balkan countries	5
The Yucatan molly Poecilia velifera (Regan, 1914) (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae): an invasive species in the Mediterranean lagoon of Ayn Zayanah (Benghazi, Libya)	4
Notes on the occurrence of Phytolacca americana L. in crop fields and its potential agricultural impact	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
The occurrence and harmfulness of box tree moth Cydalima perspectalis (Walker, 1859) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) in the Podkarpackie Province (SE Poland)	4
Records of alien plants new for the Flora of The Balearic Islands (West-Mediterranean)	4
First record of the invasive Asian earthworm Amynthas tokioensis (Beddard, 1892) in the province of Québec, Canada	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
Record of naturalized Ipomoea hederifolia (Linnaeus 1759) (Convolvulaceae), Scarlet morning-glory in South Africa	4
Broadened occurrence and affected host species of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis including the Global Panzootic Linage(Bd-GPL) in Norway	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
Verbena brasiliensis Vell.: a new record of an invasive alien species in the flora of Turkey	4
Invasive alien plant species of Union concern in the Lower Siret Floodplain Natura 2000 site (Romania)	4
First record of the North American freshwater sponge Heteromeyenia latitenta (Potts, 1881) found in Japan (Spongillida: Spongillidae)	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
First finds in North and South America of Pentacoelum kazukolinda (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida), a worldwide invasive flatworm	4
Aeonium haworthii Webb & Berthel. and Crassula ovata (Mill.) Druce (Crassulaceae): New records for the Algerian alien flora	4
First record of Thalamita oculea Alcock, 1899 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae) in the Mediterranean Sea	4
Anisandrus maiche Kurentzov (Curculionidae: Scolytinae), an Asian species recently introduced and now widely established in Northern Italy	4
Morphological and molecular data confirm the first European record of Sagina maxima (Caryophyllaceae) in Bassano del Grappa (Veneto region, northeastern Italy)	4
Fecundity, growth and body condition of invasive black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) in eutrophic oxbow lakes of River-Körös (Hungary)	4
Gleditsia triacanthos L. (honeylocust, Leguminosae): first record as an invader of riparian woodland in Southern Spain	4
Morphological and molecular identification of Diceratocephala boschmai Baer, 1953 and Decadidymus sp. Cannon, 1991 on wild and cultured environment of Cherax quadricarinatus in Malaysia	3
First record of adventive species Monoxia obesula Blake, 1939 in Greece	3
Beyond BOLD: using DNA barcoding to identify Prussian carp (Carassius gibelio Bloch, 1782) in southern Alberta, Canada	3
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
Tarenaya spinosa (Jacq.) Raf. (Cleomaceae): a new addition to the naturalized alien flora of Iran	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

Morphological and molecular data confirm the first record of Dysphania cristata (Dysphanieae, Chenopodioideae, Amaranthaceae) in the Mediterranean basin	3
First record of Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica (Lam.) Backeb. and first data about the naturalization of Austrocylindropuntia subulata (Muehlenpf.) Backeb. in Algeria	3
First records of the Australian invasive weed Atriplex semilunaris Aellen (Amaranthaceae s.l.) in Gran Canaria and Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain)	3
Non-native and invasive fish species of Lake Batur in Bali, Indonesia	3
First observation of the non-indigenous mysid Neomysis americana (S.I. Smith, 1873) in the Loire estuary	3
First record of three alien termite species in Belgium	3
First report of the Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877 in the Drava River, Croatia	3
First record of the calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinus Sato, 1913 in the North Aegean Sea, in Thessaloniki Bay, Greece	3
Evidence of an established population of Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens, 1868) in south Texas, USA	3
Predicting the potential distribution of Ranunculus sardous (Ranunculaceae), a new alien species in the flora of Uzbekistan and Central Asia	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
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Confirmation of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Papua New Guinea by molecular diagnostics of mitochondrial DNA COI gene	3
First records of the Asian seed beetles Megabruchidius tonkineus (Pic, 1904) and M. dorsalis (Fåhræus, 1839) in Turkey	3
The blue swimming crab Portunus segnis (Forskål, 1775) reaches the Adriatic Sea: a distant and disjointed occurrence	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 cedar bark aphid, Cinara cedri cedri Mimeur, 1936 (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea) in Japan, and identification of infecting Wolbachia strains	3
A voyage into the Levant: the first record of a marbled crayfish Procambarus virginalis (Lyko, 2017) population in Israel	3
First record of rotifers Kellicottia bostoniensis (Rousselet, 1908) and Notholca bipalium (Müller, 1786) in a large Central European river	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 invasive ant Nylanderia fulva (Mayr, 1862) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Panama	3