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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Global interest in the Arctic region: Naval operations impacting scientific-commercial activities	36
To be or not to be like Iceland? (Ontological) Politics of comparison in Greenlandic tourism development	17
Treaty Time, Penikett Tony, (2025), Amazon, 292 p. ISBN 979-8280908789.	17
Roald Amundsen’s false start: Leadership and conflict during Amundsen’s South Pole expedition	15
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$60. Hardcover (978-1-	14
Commercial fishing, Inuit rights, and internal colonialism in Nunavut	14
Edmund Li Sheng , Arctic opportunities and challenges: China, Russia and the US Cooperation and Competition, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 175 p.p., EUR 49.99 Hardcover	12
The figure of the guide: arctic nature guiding as productive behaviour on Svalbard	11
Northernmost land in the world re-confirmed: Islands north of Greenland are icebergs	11
Tourism worlding: Collective becoming in East Greenland	11
Climate change, energy production, and Arctic tourism: A case study analysis of northern Alaska	10
Three decades of remote sensing subarctic vegetation in northern Russia: A case study in science diplomacy	8
Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, Colin Monteath (2023), Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press. 368p, hard cover. NZ$ 65. ISBN: 978-1-99-101636-2	8
Economy, territory, and identity: A Rokkanian analysis of Indigenous self-determination in Canada and Norway	8
Has Russia heard about the European Union’s Arcticness? The EU’s Arctic steps as seen from Russia – CORRIGENDUM	8
The law of thaw: understanding subnational land use policies for permafrost-agroecosystems	7
The right to roam – balancing inclusion and enclosure	6
Greenland – a distinctive island operation economy - contextual challenges in comparing across societies	6
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR): Showcases for making science diplomacy	5
Representing Sápmi: Analysing the development of the Saami Council as an Indigenous paradiplomatic organisation	5
The question of Icebergs: a cryo-history of Arctic submarine cables	4
Valuing time: Tourism transitions in Svalbard	4
The short-term development of performance and aerobic endurance following prolonged low-intensity ski trekking in Svalbard: A case study	4
Portugal in Antarctic History	4
The first observations of Antarctic icebergs by Davis in 1688 and Halley in 1700	4

Participatory action research with Inuit societies: A scoping review	4
Science diplomacy in the Arctic: Contributions of the USGS to policy discourse and impact on governance	4
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	4
Managing plastic pollution in the Arctic ocean: An integrated quantitative flux estimate and policy study	4
The Possession Islands Ross Sea Antarctica: A history of exploration and scientific endeavour at a Ross Sea archipelago since the first landing in 1841	3
The rise and fall of science diplomacy in the Arctic: The “INTERACT” experience	3
A note relating to the birth date of Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier R.N., F.R.S., F.R.A.S.	3
Arctic science diplomacy in new geopolitical conditions: From “soft” power to “hard” dialogue?	3
Disaster risk perceptions and multinational cooperation in Barentsburg, Svalbard	2
Soft institutions in Arctic governance—who does what?	2
Restoration of legacy contaminated sites in Antarctica: Lessons from Vanda Station, McMurdo Dry Valleys	2
Why did Endurance sink?	2
Iceland’s demographic transition: from turf houses to too many tourists	2
Logbooks and Antarctic sealing. Approaching early- and late-19th-century exploitation strategies and their archaeological footprint	2
In search of the origin of an Antarctic ghost ship: The legend of the Jenny re-evaluated	2
Atomic energy for Antarctica: the rise and fall of “Nukey Poo”	2
Negotiating trade-offs between the environment, sustainability and mass tourism amongst guides on Svalbard	2
Population migration in the supporting regions of the Russian Arctic to improve international competitiveness of the Northern Sea Route	2
Roald Amundsen’s route across the polar plateau in 1911–1912	2
Franklin’s “Cemented Tomb”: The Jamme Report of 1928 Revisited	2
Between an archipelago and an ice floe: The know-where of Arctic governance expertise	2
Scott’s fuel shortages – Disentangling the explanations	2
Research on the implementation and practice of the CCAMLR System of Inspection	2
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
The trouble with local community in Longyearbyen, Svalbard: Howbig politicsand lack offellesskaphinder a not-yet-decided future	1
What is the Arctic to the United States? Status anxiety, ontological security, and the evolution of US Arctic policy	1
Human traces in Arctic soils: Geoarchaeological evidence from 19th-century herders and farmers	1
Mapping Antarctic and Arctic Women: An exploration of polar women’s experiences and contributions through place names	1
Fishy windows to an Arctic city: Urban (in)visibilities of global fisheries in Tromsø	1
Sámi agency in economic development processes in the Norwegian High North	1
The balance between critical thinking and paradigm thinking in the Arctic: Scientific cooperation across theoretical divides	1
Knowledge, innovation and the race to the South Pole	1
Antarctic Pioneer – The Trailblazing Life of Jackie Ronne. Joanna Kafarowski. 2022. Dundurn Press. 285pp, paperback. ISBN 9781459749535. GBP17.99	1
Keeping it in the family: Relationships between Polar medallists	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
Inter-academic cooperation in the Arctic during the 1898–1901 Swedish–Russian Arc-of-Meridian expedition: Based on materials from the Russian Academy of Sciences Archives	1
Worldmaking on shifting ice: Chinese and Indian cultural geographies of Antarctica	1
International access to research infrastructure in the Arctic	1
Six activities of Observers in the Arctic Council	1
Thomas Blanky (1804–1848/51?)	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
A tale of two species: Pringlea antiscorbutica and Azorella polaris, sub-Antarctic scurvy remedies	1
The Royal Navy’s preserved meat “scandal”: Estimating the edible quantity and nutritional deficiencies of the Franklin expedition’s canned provisions	0
“A romance based on information”: The curious case of Clements Markham’s Franklin Expedition novel	0
Finding “Harry Peglar”: Re-examining the discovery of a Franklin expedition sailor’s skeleton by the 1859 McClintock search expedition	0
Frederick George Jackson, Indigenous knowledge, and the “heroic age” of polar exploration	0
China’s Role in the Arctic: Observing and Being Observed. Nong Hong . 2020. New York, NY: Routledge. xiii + 218 p, hardcover. ISBN 9780367278694. USD 99.00.	0
The “Rediscovery” of Reginald Ford and his New Zealand Antarctic Lectures, 1905 to 1926	0
Can China change the Arctic regime?	0
Finn Malmgren and polar exploration	0

Internal migration in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): variations across economic zones in 2006–2023	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
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
Count Otani Kozui’s 1900 northern cruise: A Japanese “explorer tourist” in the Nordic Arctic	0
Victorian prescience: The Lancetmedical journal and the loss of the Franklin expedition, 1845–1859	0
Russia’s policy of presence in Svalbard	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
The original Scott Base buildings	0
S. A. Andrée’s understanding of Arctic ice drift during his 1897 balloon expedition	0
The art of Inuit administration: Post-war Canada, cultural diplomacy and northern administration	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 DIMA Network: Bridging boundaries via shared scientific interests	0
Blubber for Bibles: translating colonialism in Inuit missions, c. 1750–1850	0
The rise and fall of Pyramiden: The story of a town in a wider geopolitical and environmental context	0
Mining tourism in abandoned and existing mines in the Swedish Far North	0
Is it real? Science diplomacy in the Arctic states’ strategies	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
Physical and feasible: Climate change adaptation in Longyearbyen, Svalbard	0
Women working in polar regions: Breaking barriers in the final frontier	0
Indigenous peoples in Russian Arctic labour market	0
Scott of the Antarctic, the missing relic	0
Collaring nature: The use of foxes to find and rescue the members of the lost Franklin expedition	0
James Reid (1795?–1850?)	0
Barentsburg and Longyearbyen in times of socioeconomic transition: Residents’ perceptions of community viability	0
Industry, War and Stalin’s Battle for Resources; The Arctic and the Environment, Lars Rowe , (2021) London: I. B. Tauris, 240 pp. Pbk $39.95, Hdbk $120, Ebook 35.95 ISBN: 978-1-78453-7951 (Hdbk).	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
Russia’s Arctic policy: Upcoming change?	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
The lost message of Nils Strindberg: Re-examining an 1897 Andrée balloon expedition mystery	0
The Central Arctic Ocean fisheries moratorium: A rare example of the precautionary principle in fisheries management	0
Arctic adventure cruise shipping network: Itinerary characteristics and spatial structure	0
Navigating turbulence: adaptive local governance responses to the consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine in the Norwegian Arctic	0
Between global collaboration and national competition: Unraveling the many faces of Arctic science diplomacy	0
Considering the societal relevance of the ICARP IV process and future Arctic research priorities and development towards IPY-5	0
Benthic community descriptions at underwater peaks in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica	0
Antarctic civics: how tourists to Antarctica view their role as “Antarctic ambassadors” and how to change it	0
Concluding commentary: Inter-disciplinary vistas – research on Svalbard in a local to global continuum	0
Peter Hemmersam. Making the Arctic city: the history and future of urbanism in the circumpolar North. BLOOMSBURY VISUAL ARTS. London, New York, Dublin, 2021. 254 pp.	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
Sŭ-pung-er’s pillar: The recent significant discovery of a relic related to the Franklin Expedition	0
The Svalbard treaty and identity of place: Impacts and implications for Longyearbyen, Svalbard	0
A local climate perspective on possible development pathways for Longyearbyen, Svalbard	0
At home in the cloudberry marsh: on the making and remaking of Sámi home place landscapes	0
Captain Scott rewrote his story: January–June 1911	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
Phasing out coal on Svalbard: From a conflict of interest to a contest over symbolic capital	0
International interdisciplinary Arctic research: Case study of the Russian Arctic biomonitoring mega-grant project	0
Three new records of lichenised fungi for Antarctica	0
Towards customised sovereignty: West Nordic societies in the new great power rivalry	0
Thamnolecania yunusii(Ramalinaceae) – A new species of lichenised fungus from Horseshoe Island (Antarctic Peninsula)	0
Bilateral collaboration between the Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) and United States Research Communities – from a vision to everyday practice	0
Norwegian and Russian settlements on Svalbard: An analysis of demographic and socio-economic trends	0
Editorial: Women of the Arctic	0
Unfinished indigenous geographies: The endurances and becomings of a Sámi tourism venture	0
Changing Svalbard: Tracing interrelated socio-economic and environmental change in remote Arctic settlements – CORRIGENDUM	0
Antonio de la Roche and the discovery of South Georgia	0
From mining tool to tourist attraction: Cultural heritage as a materialised form of transformation in Svalbard society	0
Changing Svalbard: Tracing interrelated socio-economic and environmental change in remote Arctic settlements	0
Spatio-temporal monitoring of the iceberg D28 using SCATSAT-1 data	0
Science diplomacy and Asian states: Transforming the governance landscape in the Arctic	0
What went wrong with Scott’s Antarctic motor sledges?	0
Sea ice and socio-economic impacts from extreme events in Nome, Alaska	0
Obituary – Dr Peter John Tilbrook	0
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022: Can we still cooperate with Russia in the Arctic?	0
One century of US policy toward Antarctica	0
Scoping Arctic expertise: The mismatch between traditional theories of expertise and Indigenous expertise	0