OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Glaciology is 5. 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
JOG volume 68 issue 267 Cover and Front matter	41
Prefacing unexplored archives from Central Andean surface-to-bedrock ice cores through a multifaceted investigation of regional firn and ice core glaciochemistry	41
On the nonlinear viscosity of the orthotropic bulk rheology	35
Dynamic models for impact-initiated stress waves through snow columns	31
Subglacial cavity collapses on Swiss glaciers: Spatiotemporal distribution and mass loss contribution	30
The last years of Infiernos Glacier and its transition to a new paraglacial stage	27
Sixty years of ice form and flow at Camp Century, Greenland	27
Fracture criteria and tensile strength for natural glacier ice calibrated from remote sensing observations of Antarctic ice shelves – ERRATUM	22
The vertical atmospheric structure of the partially glacierised Mittivakkat valley, southeast Greenland	21
Evolution of sub-ice-shelf channels reveals changes in ocean-driven melt in West Antarctica	20
Using ground-based thermal imagery to estimate debris thickness over glacial ice: fieldwork considerations to improve the effectiveness	19
What can radar-based measures of subglacial hydrology tell us about basal shear stress? A case study at Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica	18
Empirical glacier mass-balance models for South America	18
An inventory of Norway's glaciers and ice-marginal lakes from 2018–19 Sentinel-2 data	17
Millennial-scale migration of the frozen/melted basal boundary, western Greenland ice sheet	16
Water blister geomorphology and subglacial drainage sediments: an example from the bed of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet in SW Finland	16
A comparison between three-dimensional, transient, thermomechanically coupled first-order and Stokes ice flow models	16
Formation and persistence of glaciovolcanic voids explored with analytical and numerical models	16
Automated prediction of wet-snow avalanche activity in the Swiss Alps	15
Comparison of MODIS surface temperatures to in situ measurements on the Greenland Ice Sheet from 2014 to 2017	15
Challenges in modeling the energy balance and melt in the percolation zone of the Greenland ice sheet	14
Density matters: ice compressibility and glacier mass estimation	14
Drag forces at the ice-sheet bed and resistance of hard-rock obstacles: the physics of glacial ripping	13
Radiometric analysis of digitized Z-scope records in archival radar sounding film	13
Modelling the influence of marine ice on the dynamics of an idealised ice shelf	13

Effects of calving and submarine melting on steady states and stability of buttressed marine ice sheets	13
Observing glacier dynamics with low-cost, multi-GNSS positioning in Victoria Land, Antarctica	12
Glacier-wide seasonal and annual geodetic mass balances from Pléiades stereo images: application to the Glacier d'Argentière, French Alps	12
Characteristics of dynamic thickness change across diverse outlet glacier geometries and basal conditions	12
Observations and simulations of new snow density in the drifting snow-dominated environment of Antarctica	12
Enigmatic surface rolls of the Ellesmere Ice Shelf	12
Distribution and isotopic compositions of n-alkanes and n-alkenes in the cryoconites from the Tibetan Plateau glaciers	12
Direct measurement of optical properties of glacier ice using a photon-counting diffuse LiDAR	12
JOG volume 68 issue 272 Cover and Front matter	11
Revisiting mechanics of ice–skate friction: from experiments at a skating rink to a unified hypothesis	11
JOG volume 69 issue 273 Cover and Front matter	11
A comparison of contemporaneous airborne altimetry and ice-thickness measurements of Antarctic ice shelves	11
Step-change in supraglacial pond area on Tshojo Glacier, Bhutan, and potential downstream inundation patterns due to pond drainage events	11
JOG volume 68 issue 271 Cover and Front matter	11
Amundsen Sea Embayment ice-sheet mass-loss predictions to 2050 calibrated using observations of velocity and elevation change	10
Snapshot and time-dependent inversions of basal sliding using automatic generation of adjoint code on graphics processing units	10
Simulating Seasonal Evolution of Subglacial Hydrology at a Surging Glacier in the Karakoram	10
Constraining ice slab thickness at the onset of visible surface runoff from the Greenland ice sheet	10
The stepwise decrease of 4+ year ice extent and its linked survivability since around 2007	10
Controls on calving at a large Greenland tidewater glacier: stress regime, self-organised criticality and the crevasse-depth calving law	10
Effect of high-pressure sintering on snow density evolution. Part I: experiments and results – CORRIGENDUM	10
Tracking glacier surge evolution using interferometric SAR coherence—examples from Svalbard	10
Dynamics throughout a complete surge of Iceberg Glacier on western Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic	10
Calving, ice flow, and thickness of outlet glaciers controlled by land-fast sea ice in Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica	9
Equilibrium line altitudes, accumulation areas and the vulnerability of glaciers in Alaska	9
Potential threats of glacial lake changes to the Sichuan-Tibet Railway	9
Three-Dimensional Multitrack Electrical Conductivity Method for Interpretation of Complex Ice Core Stratigraphy	9
Glacier mass change on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, from 2000 to 2016	9
Area, volume and ELA changes of West Greenland local glaciers and ice caps from 1985–2020	9
A new model of dry firn-densification constrained by continuous strain measurements near South Pole	9
Weak form shallow ice approximation models with an improved time-step restriction	9
Simulating the processes controlling ice-shelf rift paths using damage mechanics	9
Development of a drone-based ground-penetrating radar system for efficient and safe 3D and 4D surveying of alpine glaciers	9
A novel laser melting sampler for discrete, sub-centimeter depth-resolved analyses of stable water isotopes in ice cores	9
Melting temperature changes during slip across subglacial cavities drive basal mass exchange	9
Origin of englacial stratigraphy at three deep ice core sites of the Greenland Ice Sheet by synthetic radar modelling	9
Sub-kilometre scale distribution of snow depth on Arctic sea ice from Soviet drifting stations	9
Glacier fragmentation on the Southern Patagonian Icefield: a comprehensive analysis of the Upsala Glacier	8
Acoustic activity indicates submarine melt at tidewater glaciers	8
Exploring canyons beneath Devon Ice Cap for sub-glacial drainage using radar and thermodynamic modeling	8
Geothermal heat flux of Ridge B region in Antarctica inferred from basal dry–wet distribution	8
Model insights into bed control on retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica	8
Frontal variations and surface area changes of Swedish glaciers during 2017–2023	8
Expansion of supraglacial lake area, volume and extent on the Greenland ice sheet from 1985 to 2023	8
Antarctic ice-shelf meltwater outflows in satellite radar imagery: ground-truthing and basal channel observations	8
Quantified mass loss of the Laohugou ice core and its precipitation signal during 1961–2005 at high elevation in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau	8
Supraglacial lake evolution and its drivers in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica	8
‘Stable’ and ‘unstable’ are not useful descriptions of marine ice sheets in the Earth's climate system	8
JOG volume 69 issue 278 Cover and Back matter	8
Progression of the surge in the Negribreen Glacier System from two years of ICESat-2 measurements	8

Observing tidal effects on the dynamics of the Ekström Ice Shelf with focus on quarterdiurnal and terdiurnal periods	7
Ice volume and thickness of all Scandinavian glaciers and ice caps	7
Beyond glacier-wide mass balances: parsing seasonal elevation change into spatially resolved patterns of accumulation and ablation at Wolverine Glacier, Alaska	7
Increasing rate of 21st century volume loss of the Patagonian Icefields measured from proglacial river discharge	7
Seasonal changes in submarine melting mechanisms controlling frontal ablation of Hansbreen, Svalbard	7
Large-ensemble climate simulations to assess changes in snow stability over northern Japan	7
Performance analysis of high-resolution ice-sheet simulations	7
Historical occurrence of Antarctic icebergs within mercantile shipping routes and the exceptional events of the 1890s	7
Bayesian parameter estimation in glacier mass-balance modelling using observations with distinct temporal resolutions and uncertainties	7
Application of a simple model for ice growth to the Lake St. Moritz, Switzerland	7
Definition, formation and rupture mechanisms of water pockets in alpine glaciers: Insights from an updated inventory for the Swiss Alps	7
Applying a distributed mass-balance model to identify uncertainties in glaciological mass balance on Brewster Glacier, New Zealand	7
Retreat and frontal ablation rates for Alaska’s lake-terminating glaciers: Investigating potential physical controls with implications for future stability	7
JOG volume 68 issue 270 Cover and Front matter	7
Recent change in surface mass-balance trends of glaciers on James Ross Island, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula	7
Detection of crevassed areas with minimum geometric information: Vernagtferner case study	7
Distribution and morphometry of large supraglacial channels on five Antarctic ice shelves	7
Mechanics of densely packed snow across scales: A constitutive modelling strategy based on the 3-D H-model	7
MODIS land surface temperature in East Antarctica: accuracy and its main affecting factors	7
Inversion of a Stokes glacier flow model emulated by deep learning	6
Observed meltwater-induced flexure and fracture at a doline on George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica	6
Inferring time-dependent calving dynamics at Helheim Glacier	6
Hydrologic modeling of a perennial firn aquifer in southeast Greenland	6
A shallow approximation for ice streams sliding over strong beds	6
Improvements on the discretisation of boundary conditions to the momentum balance for glacial ice	6
GNSS reflectometry from low-cost sensors for continuous in situ contemporaneous glacier mass balance and flux divergence	6
Near-surface seismic anisotropy in Antarctic glacial snow and ice revealed by high-frequency ambient noise	6
In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland	6
Basal debris of the NEEM ice core, Greenland: a window into sub-ice-sheet geology, basal ice processes and ice-sheet oscillations	6
JOG volume 69 issue 275 Cover and Front matter	6
Lake ice deformation on Khovsgol Lake from Sentinel data before, during and after the 2021 Mw 6.7 earthquake in Turt, Mongolia	6
Recent change in surface mass-balance trends of glaciers on James Ross Island, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula – CORRIGENDUM	6
The sensitivity of parameterization schemes in thermodynamic modeling of the landfast sea ice in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica	6
Estimating marine ice thickness beneath the Amery Ice Shelf from airborne radio-echo sounding	6
Positive degree-day sums in the Alps: a direct link between glacier melt and international climate policy	6
Validity of the wave stationarity assumption on estimates of wave attenuation in sea ice: toward a method for wave–ice attenuation observations at global scales	6
JOG volume 68 issue 271 Cover and Back matter	6
Snow effects on brash ice and level ice growth	6
Slushflows: Large Discrepancy Between Reported and Actual Incidents	6
Surface energy and mass balance of Mera Glacier (Nepal, Central Himalaya) and their sensitivity to temperature and precipitation	5
FirnLearn: A neural network-based approach to firn density modeling in Antarctica	5
Reconstructing subglacial lake activity with an altimetry-based inverse method	5
Morphological diversity of microalgae and Cyanobacteria of cryoconite holes in Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica	5
Glacier speed-up as a possible precursor to volcanic eruptions at Mount Veniaminof, Alaska	5
A unified model for transient subglacial water pressure and basal sliding	5
JOG volume 67 issue 265 Cover and Back matter	5
Improved processing methods for eddy covariance measurements in calculating sensible heat fluxes at glacier surfaces	5
Monitoring the physical processes driving the mass loss of Tapado Glacier, Dry Andes of Chile	5
Constraints on subglacial melt fluxes from observations of active subglacial lake recharge	5
Persistent mass loss of Triangular Glacier, James Ross Island, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula	5
Numerical modelling of dense snow avalanches with a well-balanced scheme based on the 2D shallow water equations	5
Global detection of glacier surges from surface velocities, elevation change and SAR backscatter data between 2000 and 2024: a test of surge mechanism theories	5
Light absorption and albedo reduction by pigmented microalgae on snow and ice	5
For whom and by whom is glaciology?	5
Glaciological and climatological drivers of heterogeneous glacier mass loss in the Tanggula Shan (Central-Eastern Tibetan Plateau), since the 1960s	5
Structural evolution during a surge in the Paulabreen glacier system, Svalbard	5
In a sea of crumbling icebergs	5
The sub-seasonal and interannual spatio-temporal variability of bare-ice albedo of abramov glacier, Kyrgyzstan – CORRIGENDUM	5
Rheological control of crystal fabrics on Antarctic ice shelves	5
Review of the design considerations for the laboratory growth of sea ice	5