OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Polar Record is 0. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent: Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen (2023), Lincoln, USA: University of Nebraska Press. 268p. US$60. Hardcover (978-1-	43
Global interest in the Arctic region: Naval operations impacting scientific-commercial activities	13
Roald Amundsen’s false start: Leadership and conflict during Amundsen’s South Pole expedition	12
Treaty Time, Penikett Tony, (2025), Amazon, 292 p. ISBN 979-8280908789.	8
To be or not to be like Iceland? (Ontological) Politics of comparison in Greenlandic tourism development	7
Edmund Li Sheng , Arctic opportunities and challenges: China, Russia and the US Cooperation and Competition, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 175 p.p., EUR 49.99 Hardcover	7
Northernmost land in the world re-confirmed: Islands north of Greenland are icebergs	6
The figure of the guide: arctic nature guiding as productive behaviour on Svalbard	6
Climate change, energy production, and Arctic tourism: A case study analysis of northern Alaska	6
Has Russia heard about the European Union’s Arcticness? The EU’s Arctic steps as seen from Russia – CORRIGENDUM	5
Social zeitgebers in the North: Rebuilding time under extreme photoperiods – A qualitative study of high-latitude civilian life	5
The law of thaw: understanding subnational land use policies for permafrost-agroecosystems	5
The right to roam – balancing inclusion and enclosure	5
Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, Colin Monteath (2023), Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press. 368p, hard cover. NZ$ 65. ISBN: 978-1-99-101636-2	5
Portugal in Antarctic History	4
Representing Sápmi: Analysing the development of the Saami Council as an Indigenous paradiplomatic organisation	4
Greenland – a distinctive island operation economy - contextual challenges in comparing across societies	4
The first observations of Antarctic icebergs by Davis in 1688 and Halley in 1700	3
A nationally pleasing picture. The history of The Arctic Council (1851)	3
Marjo Lindroth; Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen & Monica Tennberg (eds.) Critical Studies of the Arctic: Unravelling the North, 2022. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. XII, 283 p, hardcover. ISBN 978-3-031-11119	3
Participatory action research with Inuit societies: A scoping review	3
Hovercraft travel in Antarctica revisited	3
Managing plastic pollution in the Arctic ocean: An integrated quantitative flux estimate and policy study	3
The Possession Islands Ross Sea Antarctica: A history of exploration and scientific endeavour at a Ross Sea archipelago since the first landing in 1841	2
Arctic science diplomacy in new geopolitical conditions: From “soft” power to “hard” dialogue?	2

Franklin’s “Cemented Tomb”: The Jamme Report of 1928 Revisited	2
Atomic energy for Antarctica: the rise and fall of “Nukey Poo”	2
The rise and fall of science diplomacy in the Arctic: The “INTERACT” experience	2
Logbooks and Antarctic sealing. Approaching early- and late-19th-century exploitation strategies and their archaeological footprint	2
Soft institutions in Arctic governance—who does what?	2
The Kingdom of Denmark in the Arctic Council: Development of participation patterns and delegation designations	2
Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic. Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds. 2025. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press. 352 p, hardcover. ISBN 978-0-300-25999-5. GBP 20.	2
Franklin expedition relics recovered by Charles F. Hall at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.	2
Possible evidence of field modifications on the ship’s cutter adjacent to the wreck of HMS Terror: a comparative, image-based assessment against the 1859 NgLj-3 (“Boat Place”) description	2
Iceland’s demographic transition: from turf houses to too many tourists	1
“It would be a lot easier to hunt whales if they didn’t move.” Addressing marine baseline information challenges in Nunavut’s impact assessment process	1
Expedition Relics from High Arctic Greenland eight decades of exploration history told through 102 objects. Peter R. Dawes. With artefact photography by Roberto Fortuna. 2023. Museum Tusculanum Press/	1
Fishy windows to an Arctic city: Urban (in)visibilities of global fisheries in Tromsø	1
Everyday life at the Finnish polar station in Sodankylä, 1882–1884: revisiting popular accounts from the first IPY	1
Scott’s fuel shortages – Disentangling the explanations	1
Research on the implementation and practice of the CCAMLR System of Inspection	1
Between an archipelago and an ice floe: The know-where of Arctic governance expertise	1
The balance between critical thinking and paradigm thinking in the Arctic: Scientific cooperation across theoretical divides	1
Places of unrest. Animisms of past landscapes in Troms, North Norway	1
Antarctic Pioneer – The Trailblazing Life of Jackie Ronne. Joanna Kafarowski. 2022. Dundurn Press. 285pp, paperback. ISBN 9781459749535. GBP17.99	1
A tale of two species: Pringlea antiscorbutica and Azorella polaris, sub-Antarctic scurvy remedies	1
Why did Endurance sink?	1
Locating Sir Hubert Wilkins’ enigmatic 1939 landing sites in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica: an 86-year-old puzzle resolved and the importance to the history, exploration and discovery of Princess Elizabe	1
Permanent temporality and imagined mobilities at the edge: Vocational youth in the Russian Arctic	1
Worldmaking on shifting ice: Chinese and Indian cultural geographies of Antarctica	1
What is the Arctic to the United States? Status anxiety, ontological security, and the evolution of US Arctic policy	1
Sámi agency in economic development processes in the Norwegian High North	1
Restoration of legacy contaminated sites in Antarctica: Lessons from Vanda Station, McMurdo Dry Valleys	1
Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic: Leena Cho and Matthew Jull (2024), New York, NY: Routledge. 246 p. paperpack. ISBN 978-1-032-66770-6	0
Was it a bad idea to add the fifth man to Scott’s Polar Party?	0
Islands of abandoned projects: The checkered history of the French Southern Islands	0
Geopolitics of Rare Earth Elements (REE) in the Arctic: Study of evolving strategic, scholar, and media discourse	0
The Svalbard treaty and identity of place: Impacts and implications for Longyearbyen, Svalbard	0
Frederick George Jackson, Indigenous knowledge, and the “heroic age” of polar exploration	0
Co-constituting the Arctic Council: The role of the Permanent Participants	0
Antonio de la Roche and the discovery of South Georgia	0
Thomas Blanky (1804–1848/51?)	0
The DIMA Network: Bridging boundaries via shared scientific interests	0
Women working in polar regions: Breaking barriers in the final frontier	0
Editorial: Women of the Arctic	0
Science diplomacy and Asian states: Transforming the governance landscape in the Arctic	0
The lost message of Nils Strindberg: Re-examining an 1897 Andrée balloon expedition mystery	0
Blubber for Bibles: translating colonialism in Inuit missions, c. 1750–1850	0
Recruitment for Swedish scientific expeditions in the heroic age of exploration	0
Sŭ-pung-er’s pillar: The recent significant discovery of a relic related to the Franklin Expedition	0
Shackleton’s unexpected arrival in Stromness, South Georgia, 20 May 1916	0
The United States exploring expedition (1838–1842) and the recent surfacing of J. C. Palmer’s proof copies of his epic poem Antarctic Mariner’s Song of 1	0
Norwegian and Russian settlements on Svalbard: An analysis of demographic and socio-economic trends	0
A local climate perspective on possible development pathways for Longyearbyen, Svalbard	0
International interdisciplinary Arctic research: Case study of the Russian Arctic biomonitoring mega-grant project	0

The Royal Navy’s preserved meat “scandal”: Estimating the edible quantity and nutritional deficiencies of the Franklin expedition’s canned provisions	0
Victorian prescience: The Lancetmedical journal and the loss of the Franklin expedition, 1845–1859	0
Collaring nature: The use of foxes to find and rescue the members of the lost Franklin expedition	0
Thamnolecania yunusii(Ramalinaceae) – A new species of lichenised fungus from Horseshoe Island (Antarctic Peninsula)	0
Green oil? Arctic melting and Norway’s climate change obstruction discourses	0
The fragmented Arctic: Comparing Arctic security public opinion in Russia and the A7	0
Antarctic civics: how tourists to Antarctica view their role as “Antarctic ambassadors” and how to change it	0
Internal migration in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): variations across economic zones in 2006–2023	0
Arctic adventure cruise shipping network: Itinerary characteristics and spatial structure	0
Obituary – Dr Peter John Tilbrook	0
S. A. Andrée’s understanding of Arctic ice drift during his 1897 balloon expedition	0
In search of the last continent: Australia and early Antarctic exploration. A. McConville (2022). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing Ltd. 227p, paperback. ISBN 978-1-922669-94-0. AU	0
“Some very hard ground to heave”: DNA identification of Harry Peglar, Captain of the Foretop, HMS Terror	0
Concluding commentary: Inter-disciplinary vistas – research on Svalbard in a local to global continuum	0
North Pacific Perspectives on the Arctic: Looking Far North in Turbulent Times. Y Oran and J-D Kim. 2024. Edward Elgar Publishing. xxv + 171 p, hardcover. ISBN 978-1-0353-4494-9.	0
The art of Inuit administration: Post-war Canada, cultural diplomacy and northern administration	0
Considering the societal relevance of the ICARP IV process and future Arctic research priorities and development towards IPY-5	0
Navigating turbulence: adaptive local governance responses to the consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine in the Norwegian Arctic	0
Geopolitics of Rare Earth Elements (REE) in the Arctic: Study of Evolving Strategic, Scholar and Media Discourse – CORRIGENDUM	0
What went wrong with Scott’s Antarctic motor sledges?	0
Russia’s policy of presence in Svalbard	0
“A romance based on information”: The curious case of Clements Markham’s Franklin Expedition novel	0
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022: Can we still cooperate with Russia in the Arctic?	0
Conflict and cohesion on Amundsen’s South Pole journey	0
Phasing out coal on Svalbard: From a conflict of interest to a contest over symbolic capital	0
How Jean-Baptiste Charcot came to embrace fear but not anger. Emotions of polar exploration and their communication to the public in the 1900s	0
Finn Malmgren and polar exploration	0
Can China change the Arctic regime?	0
Artists in Antarctica: Patrick Shepherd (2023), Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press. 240p, hard cover. NZ$80. ISBN: 978-1-99-101627-0	0
Scott of the Antarctic, the missing relic	0
Six activities of Observers in the Arctic Council	0
James Reid (1795?–1850?)	0
Human traces in Arctic soils: Geoarchaeological evidence from 19th-century herders and farmers	0
Russia’s Arctic policy: Upcoming change?	0
Dreams of flight in the nineteenth-century Arctic imagination	0
Lake Ladoga. The coastal history of the greatest lake in Europe. Maria Lähteenmäki and Isaac Land, editors. Helsinki: Finnish Literary Society, SKS. 2023. 233 p, paperback, epub and pdf. ISBN 978-951-	0
A study on the development of Japan’s Basic Ocean Policy focusing on the Arctic	0
Count Otani Kozui’s 1900 northern cruise: A Japanese “explorer tourist” in the Nordic Arctic	0
At home in the cloudberry marsh: on the making and remaking of Sámi home place landscapes	0
British sailor or Inuk? A reappraisal of the ancestry of human skeletal remains found in 1949 by Henry Larsen, Cape Felix, King William Island	0
Spatio-temporal monitoring of the iceberg D28 using SCATSAT-1 data	0
Scoping Arctic expertise: The mismatch between traditional theories of expertise and Indigenous expertise	0
Arctic State Identity, Geography, History and Geopolitical Relations, Ingrid A. Medby , (2025), Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. 233 p. Hardback. ISBN 978 1 5261 5390 6	0
One century of US policy toward Antarctica	0
The Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty at 20: role, challenges, and prospects in a changing governance landscape	0
Sea ice and socio-economic impacts from extreme events in Nome, Alaska	0
The Central Arctic Ocean fisheries moratorium: A rare example of the precautionary principle in fisheries management	0