OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Glaciology is 6. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
JOG volume 68 issue 267 Cover and Front matter	36
Prefacing unexplored archives from Central Andean surface-to-bedrock ice cores through a multifaceted investigation of regional firn and ice core glaciochemistry	31
On the nonlinear viscosity of the orthotropic bulk rheology	28
Dynamic models for impact-initiated stress waves through snow columns	28
Using ground-based thermal imagery to estimate debris thickness over glacial ice: fieldwork considerations to improve the effectiveness	28
Subglacial cavity collapses on Swiss glaciers: spatio-temporal distribution and mass loss contribution	24
Sixty years of ice form and flow at Camp Century, Greenland	23
The last years of Infiernos Glacier and its transition to a new paraglacial stage	23
The vertical atmospheric structure of the partially glacierised Mittivakkat valley, southeast Greenland	21
Satellite-derived dry-snow line as an indicator of the local climate on the Antarctic Peninsula	21
Evolution of sub-ice-shelf channels reveals changes in ocean-driven melt in West Antarctica	20
What can radar-based measures of subglacial hydrology tell us about basal shear stress? A case study at Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica	18
Effects of calving and submarine melting on steady states and stability of buttressed marine ice sheets	18
Empirical glacier mass-balance models for South America	18
Radiometric analysis of digitized Z-scope records in archival radar sounding film	18
Millennial-scale migration of the frozen/melted basal boundary, western Greenland ice sheet	17
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
Challenges in modeling the energy balance and melt in the percolation zone of the Greenland ice sheet	15
Comparison of MODIS surface temperatures to in situ measurements on the Greenland Ice Sheet from 2014 to 2017	15
Water blister geomorphology and subglacial drainage sediments: an example from the bed of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet in SW Finland	15
Density matters: ice compressibility and glacier mass estimation	15
Automated prediction of wet-snow avalanche activity in the Swiss Alps	14
Inferred basal friction and mass flux affected by crystal-orientation fabrics	14
An inventory of Norway's glaciers and ice-marginal lakes from 2018–19 Sentinel-2 data	14

Drag forces at the ice-sheet bed and resistance of hard-rock obstacles: the physics of glacial ripping	13
Observing glacier dynamics with low-cost, multi-GNSS positioning in Victoria Land, Antarctica	13
Glacier-wide seasonal and annual geodetic mass balances from Pléiades stereo images: application to the Glacier d'Argentière, French Alps	13
Distribution and isotopic compositions of n-alkanes and n-alkenes in the cryoconites from the Tibetan Plateau glaciers	13
Modelling the influence of marine ice on the dynamics of an idealised ice shelf	13
Enigmatic surface rolls of the Ellesmere Ice Shelf	13
A comparison of contemporaneous airborne altimetry and ice-thickness measurements of Antarctic ice shelves	12
Characteristics of dynamic thickness change across diverse outlet glacier geometries and basal conditions	12
Revisiting mechanics of ice–skate friction: from experiments at a skating rink to a unified hypothesis	12
Observations and simulations of new snow density in the drifting snow-dominated environment of Antarctica	12
JOG volume 69 issue 273 Cover and Front matter	12
Direct measurement of optical properties of glacier ice using a photon-counting diffuse LiDAR	12
Measurement of unsaturated meltwater percolation flux in seasonal snowpack using self-potential	12
JOG volume 68 issue 271 Cover and Front matter	12
Controls on calving at a large Greenland tidewater glacier: stress regime, self-organised criticality and the crevasse-depth calving law	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 272 Cover and Front matter	11
The stepwise decrease of 4+ year ice extent and its linked survivability since around 2007	11
Effect of high-pressure sintering on snow density evolution. Part I: experiments and results – CORRIGENDUM	11
Simulating the processes controlling ice-shelf rift paths using damage mechanics	10
Modeling spatially distributed snow instability at a regional scale using Alpine3D	10
Amundsen Sea Embayment ice-sheet mass-loss predictions to 2050 calibrated using observations of velocity and elevation change	10
Potential threats of glacial lake changes to the Sichuan-Tibet Railway	10
Dynamics throughout a complete surge of Iceberg Glacier on western Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic	10
Constraining ice slab thickness at the onset of visible surface runoff from the Greenland ice sheet	10
Weak form shallow ice approximation models with an improved time-step restriction	10
Classifying disequilibrium of small mountain glaciers from patterns of surface elevation change distributions	9
Melting temperature changes during slip across subglacial cavities drive basal mass exchange	9
Area, volume and ELA changes of West Greenland local glaciers and ice caps from 1985–2020	9
Development of a drone-based ground-penetrating radar system for efficient and safe 3D and 4D surveying of alpine glaciers	9
Calving, ice flow, and thickness of outlet glaciers controlled by land-fast sea ice in Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica	9
Sub-kilometre scale distribution of snow depth on Arctic sea ice from Soviet drifting stations	9
Tracking glacier surge evolution using interferometric SAR coherence—examples from Svalbard	9
A new model of dry firn-densification constrained by continuous strain measurements near South Pole	9
A novel laser melting sampler for discrete, sub-centimeter depth-resolved analyses of stable water isotopes in ice cores	9
Equilibrium line altitudes, accumulation areas and the vulnerability of glaciers in Alaska	9
Origin of englacial stratigraphy at three deep ice core sites of the Greenland Ice Sheet by synthetic radar modelling	9
Expansion of supraglacial lake area, volume and extent on the Greenland ice sheet from 1985 to 2023	9
Snapshot and time-dependent inversions of basal sliding using automatic generation of adjoint code on graphics processing units	9
‘Stable’ and ‘unstable’ are not useful descriptions of marine ice sheets in the Earth's climate system	9
Glacier fragmentation on the Southern Patagonian Icefield: a comprehensive analysis of the Upsala Glacier	9
Deformation motion tracks sliding changes through summer, western Greenland	8
Model insights into bed control on retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica	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
Geothermal heat flux of Ridge B region in Antarctica inferred from basal dry–wet distribution	8
Seasonal changes in submarine melting mechanisms controlling frontal ablation of Hansbreen, Svalbard	8
Performance analysis of high-resolution ice-sheet simulations	8
Supraglacial lake evolution and its drivers in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica	8
Exploring canyons beneath Devon Ice Cap for sub-glacial drainage using radar and thermodynamic modeling	8
Progression of the surge in the Negribreen Glacier System from two years of ICESat-2 measurements	8

Distribution and morphometry of large supraglacial channels on five Antarctic ice shelves	8
Applying a distributed mass-balance model to identify uncertainties in glaciological mass balance on Brewster Glacier, New Zealand	8
Glacier mass change on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, from 2000 to 2016	8
JOG volume 69 issue 278 Cover and Back matter	8
Antarctic ice-shelf meltwater outflows in satellite radar imagery: ground-truthing and basal channel observations	8
Increasing rate of 21st century volume loss of the Patagonian Icefields measured from proglacial river discharge	8
Greenland ice-sheet wide glacier classification based on two distinct seasonal ice velocity behaviors	8
Beyond glacier-wide mass balances: parsing seasonal elevation change into spatially resolved patterns of accumulation and ablation at Wolverine Glacier, Alaska	7
Detection of crevassed areas with minimum geometric information: Vernagtferner case study	7
JOG volume 68 issue 270 Cover and Front matter	7
Retreat and frontal ablation rates for Alaska’s lake-terminating glaciers: Investigating potential physical controls with implications for future stability	7
Ice volume and thickness of all Scandinavian glaciers and ice caps	7
Estimating Marine Ice Thickness Beneath the Amery Ice Shelf from Airborne Radio-Echo Sounding	7
Bayesian parameter estimation in glacier mass-balance modelling using observations with distinct temporal resolutions and uncertainties	7
Observing tidal effects on the dynamics of the Ekström Ice Shelf with focus on quarterdiurnal and terdiurnal periods	7
Mechanics of densely packed snow across scales: A constitutive modelling strategy based on the 3-D H-model	7
Large-ensemble climate simulations to assess changes in snow stability over northern Japan	7
Recent change in surface mass-balance trends of glaciers on James Ross Island, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula	7
Application of a simple model for ice growth to the Lake St. Moritz, Switzerland	7
MODIS land surface temperature in East Antarctica: accuracy and its main affecting factors	7
Helheim Glacier diurnal velocity fluctuations driven by surface melt forcing	7
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
Observed meltwater-induced flexure and fracture at a doline on George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica	6
Positive degree-day sums in the Alps: a direct link between glacier melt and international climate policy	6
Basal debris of the NEEM ice core, Greenland: a window into sub-ice-sheet geology, basal ice processes and ice-sheet oscillations	6
Constraints on subglacial melt fluxes from observations of active subglacial lake recharge	6
Snow effects on brash ice and level ice growth	6
JOG volume 68 issue 271 Cover and Back matter	6
Thin ice, deep snow and surface flooding in Kotzebue Sound: landfast ice mass balance during two anomalously warm winters and implications for marine mammals and subsistence hunting	6
Inferring time-dependent calving dynamics at Helheim Glacier	6
Near-surface seismic anisotropy in Antarctic glacial snow and ice revealed by high-frequency ambient noise	6
Inversion of a Stokes glacier flow model emulated by deep learning	6
Hydrologic modeling of a perennial firn aquifer in southeast Greenland	6
Recent change in surface mass-balance trends of glaciers on James Ross Island, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula – CORRIGENDUM	6
For whom and by whom is glaciology?	6
JOG volume 69 issue 275 Cover and Front matter	6
GNSS reflectometry from low-cost sensors for continuous in situ contemporaneous glacier mass balance and flux divergence	6
The sensitivity of parameterization schemes in thermodynamic modeling of the landfast sea ice in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica	6
Historical occurrence of Antarctic icebergs within mercantile shipping routes and the exceptional events of the 1890s	6
Microstructures in a shear margin: Jarvis Glacier, Alaska	6
In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland	6
Improvements on the discretisation of boundary conditions to the momentum balance for glacial ice	6
A shallow approximation for ice streams sliding over strong beds	6
Lake ice deformation on Khovsgol Lake from Sentinel data before, during and after the 2021 Mw 6.7 earthquake in Turt, Mongolia	6