OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Limnology and Oceanography Letters is 9. 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
Cross‐contamination risks in sediment‐based resurrection studies of phytoplankton	93
Grazer‐induced changes on mechanical properties of diatoms frustule: A new proof for a watery arms race	78
Effects of freshwater salinization on a salt‐naïve planktonic eukaryote community	62
Biogeochemical‐Argo floats show that chlorophyll increases before carbon in the high‐latitude Southern Ocean spring bloom	58
Sequestration by the biological carbon pump: Do we really know what we are talking about?	52
Tried and true vs. shiny and new: Method switching in long‐term aquatic datasets	52
Ice‐melt period dominates annual carbon dioxide evasion from clear‐water Arctic lakes	43
Eutrophication triggers diel and seasonal shifts of carbon dioxide and oxygen in tropical urban coastal waters	42
Lagging spawning and increasing phenological extremes jeopardize walleye (Sander vitreus) in north‐temperate lakes	41
Diverse impacts of day and night temperature on spring phenology in freshwater marshes of the Tibetan Plateau	38
Exploring the mismatch between the theory and application of photosynthetic quotients in aquatic ecosystems	38
A global review of pyrosomes: Shedding light on the ocean's elusive gelatinous “fire‐bodies”	38
Unveiling differential thermal sensitivities in marine phytoplankton within the China Seas	34
Validity of the Landsat surface reflectance archive for aquatic science: Implications for cloud‐based analysis	33
Blooms also like it cold	33
	32
Recent warming of the Kuroshio Current has promoted offshore sediment transport in the Yellow Sea	31
Remote silicate supply regulates spring phytoplankton bloom magnitude in the Gulf of Maine	26
Coupling air–water CO ₂ flux and primary production dynamics under hydro	26
Seasonal patterns of microbial diversity across the world oceans	25
Increased anoxia following species invasion of a eutrophic lake	25
Taking steps to address inequities in open‐access publishing through an early career publication honor	23
Clarifying water clarity: A call to use metrics best suited to corresponding research and management goals in aquatic ecosystems	23
An ecological framework for microbial metabolites in the ocean ecosystem	23
Key bacterial groups maintain stream multifunctionality in response to episodic drying	23

Local water year values for the conterminous United States	21
Show and tell: approaches for effective figures	21
Taxonomic identity, biodiversity, and antecedent disturbances shape the dimensional stability of stream invertebrates	21
Energy inputs imprint seasonality and fractal structure on river metabolic regimes	21
Shedding light on cobalamin photodegradation in the ocean	21
Biotic and thermal drivers alter zooplankton phenology in western Lake Erie	20
Enhanced stream greenhouse gas emissions at night and during flood events	20
Brachiopods as archives of intrannual, annual, and interannual environmental variations	19
Biologically driven isotope fractionation in ultrastructurally different shell portions of freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera): Implications for stream water δ¹⁸O	19
The role of surface water waves on cyanobacterial blooms in lakes	19
The cycling of glycine betaine and homarine in marine microbial communities: Quantitative flux measurements and the role of competitive uptake inhibition	19
Arctic fishes reveal patterns in radiocarbon age across habitats and with recent climate change	19
Calcium carbonate and phosphorus interactions in inland waters	19
Widespread synchrony in phosphorus concentrations in northern lakes linked to winter temperature and summer precipitation	18
Confirming existing parameterizations for methane gas transfer velocity in lakes based on direct and high‐frequent methods	18
Changes in phytoplankton and biomineral content of particles during episodic fluxes to abyssal depth	18
Extreme plasticity in the photosystem composition of a low‐light Prochlorococcus ecotype in response to iron and light	18
Salinity is diagnostic of maximum potential chlorophyll and phytoplankton community structure in an Eastern Boundary Upwelling System	17
LAGOS‐US RESERVOIR: A database classifying conterminous U.S. lakes 4 ha and larger as natural lakes or reservoir lakes	17
Impacts of riverine heatwaves on rates of ecosystem metabolism in the United States	17
Harnessing nature's buffer: Assessing the role of bivalve shells in coastal alkalinity regeneration	17
Rapid phytoplankton response to wind forcing influences productivity in upwelling bays	16
Extent, patterns, and drivers of hypoxia in the world's streams and rivers	16
Contrasting greenhouse gas dynamics along a coastal‐to‐oligotrophic ocean continuum	15
Diazotrophy in the Indian Ocean: Current understanding and future perspectives	15
A dataset of individual wet weights of benthic macroinvertebrates	15
Oyster shells as archives of present and past environmental variability and life history traits: A multi‐disciplinary review of sclerochronology methods and applications	15
A matter of salt: Global assessment of the effect of salt ionic composition as a driver of aquatic bacterial diversity	14
Anthropogenic nutrient inputs affect productivity–biodiversity relationships in marine tintinnid assemblages	14
Sulfate enrichment in estuaries of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico: The potential effect of sulfide oxidation on carbonate chemistry under a changing climate	14
Oceanographic heterogeneity facilitates gelatinous zooplankton niche space and diversity	14
DOC, grazers, and resilience of phytoplankton to enrichment	14
Predictable shifts in diversity and ecosystem function in phytoplankton communities along coastal salinity continua	14
Qualitative and quantitative changes in phenology of chlorophyll a concentrations during the transition from eutrophy to oligotrophy	13
	13
Combining genetic and isotope frameworks improves reconstruction of fish provenance across riverscapes	13
Age‐based δ¹⁵N and δ¹³C values of otolith organic matter reveal trophic ecology in marine fishes	13
A rationale for higher ratios of CH₄ to CO₂ production in warmer anoxic freshwater sediments and soils	13
Efficient cobalamin uptake and cycling contribute to the lack of cobalamins in the surface cobalt‐binding ligand pool in the North Pacific	12
Interactive effects of increasing chloride concentration and warming on freshwater plankton communities	12
	12
Resolving the environmental factors that determine pond thermal refuge quality	12
Direct contribution of invertebrate holobionts to methane release from coastal sediments	12
Boat wakes enhance oyster reef mortality in a short‐fetch estuary	12
Issue Information	11
Decadal warming has intensified Microcystis‐dominated cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie	11
Contrasting impacts of warming and browning on periphyton	11
	11
Century‐scale resilience of stored seagrass blue carbon	11
Species richness and intraspecific variation interactively shape marine diatom community functioning	11

Reconstructing life‐time reproductive histories using steroid hormones in cephalopod beaks	11
Emerging patterns of CO ₂ :	11
	10
Issue Information	10
Earlier ice melt increases hypolimnetic oxygen despite regional warming in small Arctic lakes	10
Dissolved organic matter offsets the detrimental effects of climate change in the nitrogen‐fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera	10
Issue Information	10
Bifurcate responses of tidal range to sea‐level rise in estuaries with marsh evolution	10
A model of near‐sea ice phytoplankton blooms	10
Mud in the city: Effects of freshwater salinization on inland urban wetland nitrogen and phosphorus availability and export	10
Extreme value distributions describe interannual variability in the seasonal North Atlantic phytoplankton bloom	9
Tagging of water masses with covariance of trace metals and prokaryotic taxa in the Southern Ocean	9
Polyphosphate phosphorus in the Great Lakes	9
Concurrent global change and marine heatwaves disturb phototrophic more than heterotrophic protist diversity	9
Imprint of Indian Ocean Dipole on nitrous oxide dynamics	9
Climate‐influenced phenology of larval fish transport in a large lake	9
Five state factors control progressive stages of freshwater salinization syndrome	9
Toward a consensus framework to evaluate air–sea CO₂ equilibration for marine CO₂ removal	9