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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Prochlorococcus,Synechococcus, and picoeukaryotic phytoplankton abundances in the global ocean	40
Vertical stratification of environmental DNA in the open ocean captures ecological patterns and behavior of deep‐sea fishes	32
Total alkalinity production in a mangrove ecosystem reveals an overlooked Blue Carbon component	31
Carbon and alkalinity outwelling across the groundwater‐creek‐shelf continuum off Amazonian mangroves	27
Reconciling models and measurements of marsh vulnerability to sea level rise	26
Impact of salinization on lake stratification and spring mixing	25
Effects of lake warming on the seasonal risk of toxic cyanobacteria exposure	25
Blooms also like it cold	25
Nutrient co‐limitation in the subtropical Northwest Pacific	24
Dissolved organic matter regulates nutrient limitation and growth of benthic algae in northern lakes through interacting effects on nutrient and light availability	24
Methanogenesis exceeds CH₄ consumption in eutrophic lake sediments	24
LAGOS‐US LOCUS v1.0: Data module of location, identifiers, and physical characteristics of lakes and their watersheds in the conterminous U.S.	23
Ocean sediments as the global sink for marine micro‐ and mesoplastics	23
Sea‐level rise drives wastewater leakage to coastal waters and storm drains	23
Taxonomic and nutrient controls on phytoplankton iron quotas in the ocean	23
Nitrogen fixation: A poorly understood process along the freshwater‐marine continuum	22
Thinking like a consumer: Linking aquatic basal metabolism and consumer dynamics	22
Lake salinization drives consistent losses of zooplankton abundance and diversity across coordinated mesocosm experiments	22
Pore‐water exchange flushes blue carbon from intertidal saltmarsh sediments into the sea	21
Cascading effects of freshwater salinization on plankton communities in the Sierra Nevada	21
Internal loading in stormwater ponds as a phosphorus source to downstream waters	20
Do diatoms dominate benthic production in shallow systems? A case study from a mixed seagrass bed	19
Extent, patterns, and drivers of hypoxia in the world's streams and rivers	18
Elevated organic carbon pulses persist in estuarine environment after major storm events	17
Lake browning generates a spatiotemporal mismatch between dissolved organic carbon and limiting nutrients	17

Whole‐ecosystem oxygenation experiments reveal substantially greater hypolimnetic methane concentrations in reservoirs during anoxia	17
Giant kelp microbiome altered in the presence of epiphytes	17
Effects of chloride and nutrients on freshwater plankton communities	16
Interactive effects of iron and temperature on the growth of Fragilariopsis cylindrus	16
Effects of freshwater salinization on a salt‐naïve planktonic eukaryote community	16
Body size, trophic position, and the coupling of different energy pathways across a saltmarsh landscape	16
Five state factors control progressive stages of freshwater salinization syndrome	15
Methane emission offsets carbon dioxide uptake in a small productive lake	15
Variability in marsh migration potential determined by topographic rather than anthropogenic constraints in the Chesapeake Bay region	15
Density‐dependent mechanisms regulate spore formation in the diatom Chaetoceros socialis	14
Augmentation of global marine sedimentary carbon storage in the age of plastic	14
Thicker shells reduce copepod grazing on diatoms	14
Winter inverse lake stratification under historic and future climate change	14
Diverse impacts of day and night temperature on spring phenology in freshwater marshes of the Tibetan Plateau	14
Arctic seals as tracers of environmental and ecological change	14
Highest rates of gross primary productivity maintained despite CO₂ depletion in a temperate river network	14
Synthesizing 35 years of seagrass spatial data from the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia	14
Integrating siphonophores into marine food‐web ecology	13
Increasing heatwave frequency in streams and rivers of the United States	13
Microbial methane oxidation efficiency and robustness during lake overturn	12
Flow intermittence alters carbon processing in rivers through chemical diversification of leaf litter	12
Light fluctuations are key in modulating plankton trophic dynamics and their impact on primary production	12
Biogeochemical control points of connectivity between a tidal creek and its floodplain	12
Reconsideration of the phytoplankton seasonality in the open Black Sea	12
The slow and steady salinization of Sparkling Lake, Wisconsin	12
Climate warming amplifies the frequency of fish mass mortality events across north temperate lakes	12
Daily surface temperatures for 185,549 lakes in the conterminous United States estimated using deep learning (1980–2020)	11
Risk to native marine macroalgae from land‐use and climate change‐related modifications to groundwater discharge in Hawaiʻi	11
Environmental variability in aquatic ecosystems: Avenues for future multifactorial experiments	11
Microplastics alter feeding strategies of a coral reef organism	11
Simple rules for concise scientific writing	11
Mud in the city: Effects of freshwater salinization on inland urban wetland nitrogen and phosphorus availability and export	11
Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community‐level salt tolerance	11
Worms and submersed macrophytes reduce methane release and increase nutrient removal in organic sediments	11
Toward a consensus framework to evaluate air–sea CO₂ equilibration for marine CO₂ removal	11
Deep zooplankton rely on small particles when particle fluxes are low	10
Constraining growth rates and the ratio of living to nonliving particulate carbon using beam attenuation and adenosine‐5′‐triphosphate at Station ALOHA	10
Ocean warming reduces gastropod survival despite maintenance of feeding and oxygen consumption rates	9
How many independent quantities can be extracted from ocean color?	9
Continental margin sediments underlying the NE Pacific oxygen minimum zone are a source of nitrous oxide to the water column	9
A database of ocean primary productivity from the ¹⁴C method	9
Impact of atmospheric pressure variations on methane ebullition and lake turbidity during ice‐cover	9
Seascape topography slows predicted range shifts in fish under climate change	9