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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Recalibrating Coastal and Marine Environmental Governance Through Integrated Data Infrastructures: The EMMERA Platform, 2026
Thoughts on Maritime Power in the East Mediterranean and the Potential of Greece, 2026
The Legal Characterisation of Modern Yacht Charter Agreement, 2026
Slow Steaming and Just-In-Time (JIT) Arrival Strategies in Maritime Logistics: Exploratory Analysis on Shipping Segments and Potential Challenges for Dry Bulk Carriers, 2026
Port City Regions in Transition: Skills, Inclusion, and Innovative VET Pathways for the Twin Transformation, 2026
Recalibrating Coastal and Marine Environmental Governance Through Integrated Data Infrastructures: The EMMERA Platform, 2026
Environmental readiness and registry competition: A comparative assessment of flag States in maritime decarbonization, 2026
The Evolution of Shipping Marketing Implementation: A Case of Greek Tanker Shipping Companies, 2005-2025, 2026
The Charterer’s Use of the Yacht under the MYBA 2025 Yacht Charter Agreement, 2026
Repositioning Learners as Explainers: Peer Learning Through Student-Generated Videos in Undergraduate Mathematics, 2025
Citizens’ perceptions and environmental risk assessment in Eastern Mediterranean: The case of Limassol, 2025
Geopolitical risk, uncertainty, real options, and corporate social responsibility, 2025
Corporate Responsibility Reports and Greenwashing: A Natural Language Processing Approach, 2025
Grazing halos reveal differential ecosystem vulnerabilities in vegetated habitats, 2025
Long-term assessment of benthic ecological status in sediments affected by offshore aquaculture: The case of the Republic of Cyprus, 2025
The non-indigenous tropical octocoral Carijoa established in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, 2025
Corrigendum to “Using dark diversity to disentangle the effects of protection and habitat quality on species diversity”, 2025
Using dark diversity to disentangle the effects of protection and habitat quality on species diversity, 2025
Improving Maritime Surveillance Across Lemesos Bay: The Irsai Project, 2025
Online quizzes as a self-assessment tool in higher education: The case of Mathematics in Business Administration, 2025
A Novel Adaptive Sampling Algorithm for Dependent Variables in Energy-Efficient Iot Sensor Nodes and its Application in Agriculture, 2025
The Impact of Rubric-Guided Peer Review and Self-Assessment in an Engineering Math University Course, 2025
Validation of the European Ionosonde Service nowcasting foF2 maps over the eastern Mediterranean, 2024
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on ship operations, ports, and the rights of seafarers, 2024
Comparative Study of Voyage Charterparties in Dry and Liquid Bulk Markets, 2024
Marine protected areas can increase the abundance of invasive lionfish (Pterois miles), 2024
An underwater clash of spears: Public engagement in Mediterranean lionfish control efforts, 2024
Evaluating the effectiveness of the EU ETS in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in
the shipping sector, 2024
Is Onshore Power Supply a Viable Solution for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Ports? EU/Greek Ports Perspective, 2024
Comparative Study of Voyage Charterparties in Dry and Liquid Bulk Markets, 2024
First-year engineering students’ affective behavior about mathematics in relation to their performance, 2024
Environmental Challenges as Catalysts for Regional Conflict and Cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean, 2023
Shipping Stocks as Lotteries, 2023
Polychaetes (Annelida) of Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean Sea): An Updated and Annotated Checklist including New Distribution Records, 2023
First Year Engineering Students’ Difficulties with Math Courses- What Is the Starting Point for Academic Teachers?, 2023
Models of HF Interference over Cyprus, 2022
Uncertainty in Marine Species Distribution Modelling: Trying to Locate Invasion Hotspots for Pterois miles in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, 2022
Lessons From the Western Atlantic Lionfish Invasion to Inform Management in the Mediterranean, 2022
Conflicting interests and growing importance of non-indigenous species in commercial and recreational fisheries of the Mediterranean Sea, 2022
Using expert-elicitation to deliver biodiversity monitoring priorities on a Mediterranean island, 2022
Reproductive dynamics of the invasive lionfish (Pterois miles) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, 2022
Resilience of seagrass populations to thermal stress does not reflect regional differences in ocean climate, 2022
Spatial and temporal distribution of mesozooplankton in the coastal waters of Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean), 2022
Cold Ironing Feasibility Study at the Heraklion Port, 2022
An Assessment of Intermodality in Pula and Corfu, 2022
The Digitalisation in Chartering Business: Special Reference to the Roles of E-Bill in the Bulk and Liner Markets, 2022
Evaluating the Economic Impact of Active Sports Tourism Events: Lessons Learned from Cyprus, 2021
I.P.O. determinants of delisting risk: Lessons from the Athens Stock Exchange, 2021
The socio-economic impact of environmental projects to neighbouring areas and Cypriot Society, 2021
An Essay on Axelos: Philosophy, Justice and Politics, 2021
Regular monitoring and targeted removals can control lionfish in Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas, 2021
Integrating literature, biodiversity databases, and citizen-science to reconstruct the checklist of chondrichthyans in cyprus (Eastern mediterranean sea), 2021
Elective affinities or random choice within the seagrass holobiont? The case of the native Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile and the exotic Halophila stipulacea (Forssk.) Asch. from the same site (Limassol, Cyprus), 2021
Multi-disciplinary approach of reported and unreported fisheries in a new established MPA: The case of Cavo Greco, Cyprus, 2021
Microplastics investigation using zooplankton samples from the coasts of cyprus (Eastern mediterranean), 2021
Low Pufferfish and Lionfish Predation in Their Native and Invaded Ranges Suggests Human Control Mechanisms May Be Necessary to Control Their Mediterranean Abundances, 2021
The case of lionfish (Pterois miles) in the mediterranean sea demonstrates limitations in EU legislation to address marine biological invasions, 2021
Fishery reforms for the management of non-indigenous species, 2021
Marketing Information System: A Success Factor of Shipping Business in Cyprus, 2021
1. Menelaou, A., Makrominas, M., Plomaritou, E. and Hein, C., 2026. Recalibrating coastal and marine environmental governance through integrated data infrastructures: The EMMERA Platform. Sustainability. DOI: 10.3390/su18147144, https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/18/14/7144
2. Voudouris, I.K., 2026. Thoughts on maritime power in the East Mediterranean and the potential of Greece. In Governance, Society, and Geopolitics in Times of Transformation (pp.73–108). IGI Global Scientific Publishing. DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-8790-1.ch005, https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/thoughts-on-maritime-power-in-the-east-mediterranean-and-the-potential-of-greece/398616
3. Devetzis, D. and Voudouris, I., 2026. The legal characterisation of modern yacht charter agreement. Juridical Tribune – Review of Comparative and International Law, 16(1), pp.73–90. DOI: 10.62768/TBJ/2026/16/1/05, http://www.tribunajuridica.eu/arhiva/y16v1/5.pdf
4. Menelaou, A.A., Popravko, S. and Bronnikov, I., 2026. Slow steaming and Just-In-Time (JIT) arrival strategies in maritime logistics: Exploratory analysis on shipping segments and potential challenges for dry bulk carriers. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 14(3), p.299. DOI: 10.3390/jmse14030299, Slow Steaming and Just-In-Time (JIT) Arrival Strategies in Maritime Logistics: Exploratory Analysis on Shipping Segments and Potential Challenges for Dry Bulk Carriers
5. Andrinos, M., Greco, L., Menelaou, A., Metaxas, T., Nikolaidis, E., Psatha, E. and Sirakoulis, K., 2026. Port city regions in transition: Skills, inclusion, and innovative VET pathways for the twin transformation. Sustainability, 18(5), p.2538. DOI: 10.3390/su18052538, https://doi.org/10.3390/su18052538
6. Nikolaidis, E. and Tsolaki, E., 2026. Environmental readiness and registry competition: A comparative assessment of flag States in maritime decarbonization. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 25, 101905. DOI: 10.1016/j.cstp.2026.101905, Scopus - Case Studies on Transport Policy
7. Plomaritou, E. and Hadjiconstantinou, E., 2026. The evolution of shipping marketing implementation: A case study of Greek tanker companies, 2005–2025. WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs, pp.1–25. DOI: 10.1007/s13437-026-00423-x, The evolution of shipping marketing implementation: a case study of Greek tanker companies, 2005-2025 | WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs | Springer Nature Link
8. Plomaritou, E., Voudouris, I. and Filippou, D.A., 2026. The charterer’s use of the yacht under the MYBA 2025 Yacht Charter Agreement. Journal of Regional Socio Economic Issues (JRSEI), 16(2). DOI: 10.26215/heal.jrsei-v16i2.262, Τμήμα Γεωγραφίας: Έρευνα
9. Menelaou, A., Makrominas, M., Plomaritou, E. and Hein, C., 2026. Recalibrating coastal and marine environmental governance through integrated data infrastructures: The EMMERA Platform. Sustainability. DOI: 10.3390/su18147144, Recalibrating Coastal and Marine Environmental Governance Through Integrated Data Infrastructures: The EMMERA Platform
10. Tsolaki, E., Panaoura, R., Pericleous, S. and Charalambides, M., 2026. Repositioning learners as explainers: Peer learning through student-generated videos in undergraduate mathematics. Education Sciences, 16(1), p.148. DOI: 10.3390/educsci16010148, https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105028888107?origin=resultslist
11. Nikolaidis, E. and Tsolaki, E., 2026. Environmental readiness and registry competition: A comparative assessment of flag States in maritime decarbonization. Case Studies on Transport Policy, p.101905. DOI: 10.1016/j.cstp.2026.101905, Scopus - Case Studies on Transport Policy
2. Makrominas, M., Menelaou, A. and Kletou, D., 2025. Citizens’ perceptions and environmental risk assessment in Eastern Mediterranean: The case of Limassol. Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment, (2025/1). DOI: 10.3280/EFE2025-001001, Scopus - Document Details
3. Chowdhury, M.S.R., Koussis, N., Makrominas, M. and Trigeorgis, L., 2025. Geopolitical risk, uncertainty, real options, and corporate social responsibility. Financial Review, 60(3), pp.729–759. DOI: 10.1111/fire.12427, Scopus - Document Details
4. Minguito-Frutos, M., Arthur, R., Boada, J., Marco-Méndez, C., Adams, M.P., Pagès, J.F., Buñuel, X. et al., 2025. Grazing halos reveal differential ecosystem vulnerabilities in vegetated habitats. Ecology, 106(11), e70239. DOI:
10.1002/ecy.70239, Scopus - Document Details
5. Lampa, M., Karakassis, I., Langeneck, J., Rousou, M., Apserou, C., Chrysanthou, K., Constantinou, G., Kletou, D., Kleitou, P., Louizidou, P. and Moraitis, M.L., 2025. Long-term assessment of benthic ecological status in sediments affected by offshore aquaculture: The case of the Republic of Cyprus. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 219, p.118332. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.118332, Scopus - Document Details
6. Kletou, D., Michail, C., Kleitou, P., Constantinou, G., McFadden, C.S. and Benayahu, Y., 2025. The non-indigenous tropical octocoral Carijoa established in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Available at SSRN 5236130. DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2025.107327, Scopus - Document Details
7. Gavriel, T., Azzurro, E., Benedetti-Cecchi, L., Bertocci, I., Cai, L.L., Claudet, J., Di Franco, A., Frid, O., Guidetti, P., Kleitou, P. and Kletou, D., 2025. Using dark diversity to disentangle the effects of protection and habitat quality on species diversity. Biological Conservation, 305, p.111096. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111162, Scopus - Document Details
8. Gavriel, T., Azzurro, E., Benedetti-Cecchi, L., Bertocci, I., Cai, L.L., Claudet, J., Di Franco, A., Frid, O., Guidetti, P., Kleitou, P. and Kletou, D., 2025. Using dark diversity to disentangle the effects of protection and habitat quality on species diversity. Biological Conservation, 305, p.111096. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111096, Scopus - Document Details
9. Demetriou, G.A., Kleitou, P., Kakoulli, C., Artusi, A., Milidonis, X., Angelini, M., Trimithiotis, G., Lazaridis, S., Menelaou, A. and Kletou, D., 2025, June. Improving maritime surveillance across Lemesos Bay: The Irsai Project. In 2025 IEEE 19th International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA) (pp.198–203). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/ICCA65672.2025.11129765, Scopus - Document Details
10. Demetriou, G.A., Kleitou, P., Kakoulli, C., Artusi, A., Milidonis, X., Angelini, M., Trimithiotis, G., Lazaridis, S., Menelaou, A. and Kletou, D., 2025, June. Improving maritime surveillance across Lemesos Bay: The Irsai Project. In 2025 IEEE 19th International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA) (pp.198–203). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/ICCA65672.2025.11129765, Scopus - Document Details
11. Makrominas, M., Menelaou, A. and Kletou, D., 2025. Citizens’ perceptions and environmental risk assessment in Eastern Mediterranean: The case of Limassol. Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment, (2025/1). DOI: 10.3280/EFE2025-001001, Scopus - Document Details
12. Panaoura, A., Tsolaki, E., Charalambides, M. and Pericleous, S., 2025. Online quizzes as a self-assessment tool in higher education: The case of Mathematics in Business Administration. Bolema: Boletim de Educação Matemática, 39, p.e240124., Scopus - Document Details
13. Kosti, K., Tatas, K. and Tsolaki, E., 2025, December. A novel adaptive sampling algorithm for dependent variables in energy-efficient IoT sensor nodes and its application in agriculture. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1558(1), p.012058. IOP Publishing. DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/1558/1/012058, Scopus - Document Details
14. Pericleous, S., Tsolaki, E., Charalambides, M. and Panaoura, R., 2025. The impact of rubric-guided peer review and self-assessment in an engineering math university course. Education Sciences, 15(11), p.1433. DOI: 10.3390/educsci15111433, Scopus - Document Details
2. Voudouris, I. and Nicholas, G.B., 2023. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on ship operations, ports, and the rights of seafarers. The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Human Rights, 93. ISBN: 978-383255665-5, Scopus - Document Details
3. Voudouris, I. and Plomaritou, E., 2024. Comparative Study of Voyage Charterparties in Dry and Liquid Bulk Markets. Perspectives of Law and Public Administration, 13(4), pp.536-555.DOI: 10.62768/PLPA/2024/13/4/05, https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1303785
4. Kleitou, P., Rees, S.E., Kletou, D., Harris, H.E., Cai, L.L., Green, S., Hadjioannou, L., Savva, I., Giovos, I., Jimenez, C. and Hall-Spencer, J.M., 2024. Marine protected areas can increase the abundance of invasive lionfish (Pterois miles). Conservation Science and Practice, 6(6), p.e13147. DOI: 10.1111/csp2.13147, Scopus - Document Details
5. Savva, I., Cai, L.L., Kleitou, P., Hadjioannou, L., Jimenez, C., Karonias, A.,Nicolaou, E., Chartosia, N., Hall-Spencer, J.M. and Kletou, D., 2024. An underwater clash of spears: Public engagement in Mediterranean lionfish control efforts. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 34(2), p.e4104. DOI: 10.1002/aqc.4104, Scopus - Document Details
6. Nikolaidis, E., Theodoropoulos, K., Tonbol, K.M.H. and Maniati, M., 2024. Evaluating the effectiveness of the EU ETS in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the shipping sector. Journal of Multidisciplinary Adaptive Climate Insights (MACI), 1(2), pp.75–84. DOI: 10.21622/MACI.2024.01.2.1035,
7.Nikolaidis, E. and Maniati, M., 2024. Is onshore power supply a viable solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in ports? EU/Greek ports perspective. Journal of Multidisciplinary Adaptive Climate Insights, 1(1). DOI: 10.21622/MACI.2024.01.1.915, Is cold ironing (onshore power supply, or alternative maritime power, or shore-to-ship power): a viable solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in ports? EU / Greek ports perspective | Nikolaidis | Multidisciplinary Adaptive Climate Insights
2. Makrominas, M. and Marcoulis, S., 2018. Shipping stocks as lotteries. Maritime Policy & Management, 45(7), pp.885–902. DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2021.2021594, Scopus - Document Details
3. Environmental Challenges.pdf - Google Drive
4. Rousou, M., Langeneck, J., Apserou, C., Arvanitidis, C., Charalambous, S., Chrysanthou, K., Constantinides, G., Dimitriou, P.D., Gómez, S.C.G., Hadjieftychiou, S.I. and Katsiaras, N., 2023. Polychaetes (Annelida) of Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean Sea): An updated and annotated checklist including new distribution records. Diversity, 15(8), p.941. DOI: 10.3390/d15080941, Scopus - Document Details
5. Environmental Challenges: Catalysts for Regional Conflict & Cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean - Foundation Office Israel - Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
6. Stamatopoulou, E.A., Ventikos, N.P., Nikolaidis, E., Delenta, S. and Drivas, D., 2023. SEAVIEWS Transnational Repository Network: A Sector Adaptive Virtual Early Warning System for Marine Pollution in the Adriatic-Ionian Sea. In Rubinovitz, Z. (ed.) Environmental Challenges as Catalysts for Regional Conflict and Cooperation in the Eastern Mediterranean. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Xenophon Paper No. 20. ISBN: 978-965-7694-04-9
7. Charalambides, M., Panaoura, R., Tsolaki, E. and Pericleous, S., 2023. First year engineering students’ difficulties with math courses—What is the starting point for academic teachers? Education Sciences, 13(8), p.835. DOI: 10.3390/educsci13080835, Scopus - Document Details
