OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Polar Research is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Revisiting the extended Svalbard Airport monthly temperature series, and the compiled corresponding daily series 1898–2018	39
The challenges of a small population exposed to multiple anthropogenic stressors and a changing climate: the St. Lawrence Estuary beluga	15
Five decades of terrestrial and freshwater research at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard	15
Smoking guns and volcanic ash: the importance of sparse tephras in Greenland ice cores	14
Can you hear me? Impacts of underwater noise on communication space of adult, sub-adult and calf contact calls of endangered St. Lawrence belugas (Delphinapterus leucas)	13
Beluga whale stewardship and collaborative research practices among Indigenous peoples in the Arctic	12
Sharing country food: connecting health, food security and cultural continuity in Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut	10
Temporal and spatial change in the relationship between sea-ice motion and wind in the Arctic	9
Seasonality of social behaviour among immature belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in managed care	9
A climatology of wintertime low-level jets in Nares Strait	8
Distribution and contamination assessment of heavy metals in soils and sediments from the Fildes Peninsula and Ardley Island in King George Island, Antarctica	8
Value of the Copernicus Arctic Regional Reanalysis (CARRA) in representing near-surface temperature and wind speed in the north-east European Arctic	8
Cetacean spatial trends from 2005 to 2019 in Svalbard, Norway	7
Distribution and source of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) and the applicability of GDGT-based temperature proxies in surface sediments of Prydz Bay, East Antarctica	7
Ice-out and freshet fluxes of CO2 and CH4 across the air–water interface of the channel network of a great Arctic delta, the Mackenzie	7
The ice flux to the Lambert Glacier and Amery Ice Shelf along the Chinese inland traverse and implications for mass balance of the drainage basins, East Antarctica	7
Variation in body size of ringed seals (Pusa hispida hispida) across the circumpolar Arctic: evidence of morphs, ecotypes or simply extreme plasticity?	6
Distribution and habitat characteristics of pinnipeds and polar bears in the Svalbard Archipelago, 2005–2018	6
The effect of an experimental decrease in salinity on the viability of the Subarctic planktonic foraminifera Neogloboquadrina incompta	6
Minimally invasive physiological correlates of social behaviour in belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) under human care	6
Discovery of a large population of Hygrolembidium isophyllum (Lepidoziaceae, Marchantiophyta) in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica	6
Warming of Atlantic Water in three west Spitsbergen fjords: recent patterns and century-long trends	6
Organic carbon and microbiome in tundra and forest–tundra permafrost soils, southern Yamal, Russia	6
Differential acclimation responses to irradiance and temperature in two co-occurring seaweed species in Arctic fjords	5
New Antarctic clawed lobster species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Nephropidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of James Ross Island	5

Networks of international co-authorship in journal articles about Antarctic research, 1998–2015	5
A review of the ecology and status of white whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in Svalbard, Norway	5
Ichnodiversity and bathymetric range of microbioerosion traces in polar barnacles of Svalbard	5
The Billefjorden Fault Zone north of Spitsbergen: a major terrane boundary?	5
Synergy between behavioural research on beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) conducted in zoological and wild settings	4
Stability of space use in Svalbard coastal female polar bears: intra-individual variability and influence of kinship	4
Morphological measurements of Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica naumanni) in High-Arctic Greenland	4
Marine debris on two Arctic beaches in the Russian Far East	4
Effect of ikaite precipitation on phosphate removal in sea ice	4
The surface energy balance of Austre Lovénbreen, Svalbard, during the ablation period in 2014	4
Hair mineral levels as indicator of wildlife demographics?—a pilot study of muskoxen	4
Pathogen surveillance in Southern Ocean pinnipeds	4
Tintinnid ciliates (marine microzooplankton) of the Ross Sea	4
Alaska Beluga Whale Committee—a unique model of co-management	3
Post-depositional loss of nitrate and chloride in Antarctic snow by photolysis and sublimation: a field investigation	3
Hormone profiles from Cook Inlet, Bristol Bay and aquarium beluga whales	3
The last two millennia: climate, ocean circulation and palaeoproductivity inferred from planktic foraminifera, south-western Svalbard margin	3
Genetic history and stock identity of beluga whales in Kotzebue Sound	3
Occurrence of sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Russian Arctic	3
Aggregations of foraging black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) at a sea-ice edge in front of a tidewater glacier	3
A comparison of an operational wave–ice model product and drifting wave buoy observation in the central Arctic Ocean: investigating the effect of sea-ice forcing in thin ice cover	3
Hop-on, hop-off: the first record of the alien species crescent-marked lily aphid (Neomyzus circumflexus) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Aphididae) in Greenland	2
The immune response and diving: conservation considerations for belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in a changing Arctic environment	2
Unusual drift behaviour of multi-year sea ice in the Beaufort Sea during summer 2018	2
Managing cumulative impacts and protected areas in Antarctica: what can we learn from the rest of the world?	2
Extremely high abundances of Prasiola crispa-associated micrometazoans in East Antarctica	2
Liverworts frequently form mycothalli on Spitsbergen in the High Arctic	2
Patterns of interdisciplinary collaboration resemble biogeochemical relationships in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: a historical social network analysis of science, 1907–2016	2
Reconstructing the Little Ice Age extent of Langfjordjøkelen, Arctic mainland Norway, as a baseline for assessing centennial-scale icefield recession	2
Species diversity of macroalgae in Grønfjorden, Spitsbergen, Svalbard	2
The role of aquaria in beluga research and conservation	2
Sudden death of an Arctic wolf population in Greenland	2
Carbon exchange and primary production in a High-Arctic peatland in Svalbard	1
An observation of white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) mating behaviour in the wild	1
Subglacial discharge weakens the stability of the Ross Ice Shelf around the grounding line	1
Tusk anomalies in narwhals (Monodon monoceros) from Greenland	1
Foraging behaviour of sympatrically breeding macaroni (Eudyptes chrysolophus) and chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarcticus) penguins at Bouvetøya, Southern Ocean	1
Growth-related changes in salt gland mass in gentoo and chinstrap penguin chicks	1
Multidisciplinary perspectives on living marine resources in the Arctic	1
Why are Svalbard Arctic foxes Brucella spp. seronegative?	1
The Queen of the Arctic: Louise Arner Boyd	1
Ichnodiversity in the eastern Canadian Arctic in the context of polar microbioerosion patterns	1
Polar Research Special Cluster—Beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas): knowledge from the wild, human care and TEK	1
An Arctic expedition: a supposedly useful thing I’ll never do again	1
Historic temperature observations on Nordaustlandet, north-east Svalbard	1
Diesel spills under stilted buildings in Canadian Arctic villages: what is the best remediation method?	1
First record of horned puffin in the North Atlantic and tufted puffin in High Arctic Greenland	1
Inferring population structure and genetic diversity of the invasive alien Nootka lupin in Iceland	1
Polar bear depredation of a thick-billed murre fledgling in open water at Prince Leopold Island, Nunavut	1