OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	173
Phytoplankton dynamics, growth and microzooplankton grazing across the subtropical frontal zone, east of New Zealand	37
Habitat and benthic fauna of the Wallaby-Cuvier escarpment, SE Indian ocean	33
Diet of deep-sea holothurians in theVolcanologists Massif, Bering sea, as inferred from stable isotope and fatty acid analyses	30
Ecophenotypic variation in a cosmopolitan reef-building coral suggests reduced deep-sea reef growth under ocean change	28
Analysis of environmental data during a lagrangian experiment: The influence of vertical movements	23
The behavior of particulate matter in the Persian Gulf: biogeochemical proxies for source identification	22
An introducton to the Ross sea international conference special issue	22
How do topography and thermal front influence the water transport from the northern Laotieshan Channel to the Bohai Sea interior in summer?	21
Invader's portrait: Biological characteristics of walleye pollock Gadus chalcogrammus in the western Chukchi Sea	21
The first record of the family Paramunnidae (Isopoda: Asellota) from the bathyal of the Bering Sea with descriptions of two new species of Munnogonium	20
Distribution of free–Living marine nematodes along environmental gradients in the strait of hormuz	19
Arabian Sea high salinity core supplies oxygen to the Bay of Bengal	18
Contrasting trends of the ocean CO2 sink and pH in the agulhas current system and the Mozambique basin, south-western Indian ocean (1963–2023)	18
Wind-driven Kelvin waves induce quasibiweekly oscillations in the coastal water of south Maritime Continent	16
Dynamic change in an ocean desert: Microbial diversity and trophic transfer along the 110 °E meridional in the Indian Ocean	16
Submesoscale processes-induced vertical heat transport modulated by oceanic mesoscale eddies	16
The coupling of winds, ocean turbulence, and High Salinity Shelf Water in the Terra Nova Bay Polynya	15
Unveiling marine heatwave dynamics in the Persian /Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman: A spatio-temporal analysis and future projections	14
Shell-bearing Gastropoda from the methane seeps and hydrothermal vents of the Bering Sea: A preliminary description	14
Sagartiidae (Cnidaria: Actiniaria) from hydrothermal vents and methane seeps in the Bering Sea	14
Seasonal variability of eddy kinetic energy in the Banda Sea revealed by an ocean model: An energy budget perspective	14
Of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the CMIP6 Project	14
Editorial Board	14
Megafaunal community structure on ferromanganese and phosphorite hardgrounds in the Southern California Borderland	14

Three decades of ocean warming impacts on marine ecosystems: A review and perspective	14
Vertical distribution patterns of early stages of mesopelagic fishes along 110 °E, south-east Indian Ocean	14
Plastic pollution: A potential vector of both pathogens and probiotics for corals on the Mascarene Ridge, Indian Ocean	13
Distinct patterns of coral lesion composition from national/quasi-national marine parks of Kerama and Yoron Islands, Ryukyu Archipelago	13
South Sandwich Islands – An understudied isolated Southern Ocean archipelago	13
Time series of dissolved organic carbon in the Fram Strait (2010–2021): Indications for increased river export of DOC to the East Greenland Current?	12
Modifying a pelagic trawl to better retain small Arctic fishes	12
Deep-learning model for sea surface temperature prediction near the Korean Peninsula	12
Record-breaking 2020 summer marine heatwaves in the western North Pacific	11
A seasonal transition in biological carbon pump efficiency in the northern Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean	11
Association between a declining population of Humboldt penguins and changes in sea surface temperatures within their foraging range	11
Deep-sea life associated with sediments and polymetallic nodules from the Central Indian Ocean Basin: Insights from 18S metabarcoding	11
Suspended particles are hotspots of microbial remineralization in the ocean's twilight zone	11
Diel variations in the upper layer biophysical processes using a BGC-Argo in the Bay of Bengal	11
Siliceous microfossil assemblages in the southern Emperor Seamount Chain sediments and their biogeographical and paleoceanographical implications	10
Hydrodynamic response to bathymetric changes in Tampa Bay, Florida	10
Biodiversity and functioning of mesozooplankton in a changing Ross Sea	10
Advanced marine technologies for ocean research	10
Assessing marine mammal diversity in remote Indian Ocean regions, using an acoustic glider	9
Zooplankton assemblages associated with submarine canyons off the east coast of South Africa	9
Understanding future changes of Chlorophyll-a in the Indian Ocean using CMIP6 Earth System Model simulations	9
Microstructure observations of three-layered mixing on the shelf of the northwestern South China Sea	9
Mesozooplankton community responses to environmental stressors in Kuwait's first marine protected area	9
eDNA metabarcoding shows latitudinal eukaryote micro- and mesoplankton diversity stabilizes across oligotrophic region of a >3000 km longitudinal transect in the Indian Ocean	9
Editorial Board	9
Editorial Board	8
Ocean-atmosphere heat exchange seasonal cycle on the West Florida Shelf derived from long term moored data	8
Vertical distribution and environmental drivers of meiofaunal communities in the Persian Gulf: insights into biodiversity and sediment dynamics	8
Effects of symmetric instability in the Kuroshio Extension region in winter	8
Surface ocean carbon budget in the 2017 south Georgia diatom bloom: Observations and validation of profiling biogeochemical argo floats	8
The distribution and host utilization of octocoral infesting Ascothoracida (Crustacea, Thecostraca), including the discovery of a new species of Gorgonolaureus from the Emperor sea Mount Chain	8
Deep carbon export peaks are driven by different biological pathways during the extended Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean) bloom	8
Spatiotemporal patterns and implications of suspended Alexandrium catenella cysts in the Pacific Arctic region	8
Oceanic biophysical response to large-scale wind forcing observed southwest of Sumatra during December 2017	8
ENSO independent tropical-extratropical signal off the Northeast Pacific	8
Hard-bottom communities in the deep Fram Strait: patterns, processes, and looming questions	8
Mean circulation and its seasonal cycle on the West Florida Shelf as evidenced by multi-decadal time series of moored currents and winds	8
Zooplankton dynamics in the Fram Strait from 2011 to 2023: Linking abundance, biodiversity, and environmental conditions	8
Observed near-inertial waves and shears east of Luzon during Typhoons Mangkhut and Yutu in 2018	8
Impact of the Gulf Stream on ocean waves	8
Age and growth of Antarctic deep-sea smelt (Bathylagus antarcticus), an important mesopelagic fish in the Southern Ocean	8
Drivers of benthic megafauna community dynamics in the Fram Strait, Arctic Ocean: Insights from the HAUSGARTEN observatory (2016-2021)	8
Sedimentary phosphorus in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman: Geochemical fractionation, seasonal variations, potential bioavailability, and ecological risk	8
Polymorphism of mtDNA gene Cyt b of the Chukchi Sea polar cod, Boreogadus saida (Gadidae, Gadiformes)	7
A data-assimilative modeling investigation of Gulf Stream variability	7
Gulf of Mexico larval dispersal: Combining concurrent sampling, behavioral, and hydrodynamic data to inform end-to-end modeling efforts through a Lagrangian dispersal model	7
Ophiuroidea of the Emperor Seamount Chain – diversity, distribution and biogeography	7
The influence of aeolian input on the trace and rare earth element composition of Oligocene-Miocene corals of KOKO Guyot (Emperor seamount chain, Pacific Ocean)	7
Blue carbon in an eastern boundary upwelling zone – A case study in Namibia	7
Sea surface temperature predictability assessment with an ensemble machine learning method using climate model simulations	7

Late Quaternary responses to glacial-interglacial climate cycles of offshore Benguela region and associated foraminifera in the southeast Atlantic along Namibia and western South Africa	7
Spatiotemporal variability from physics to plankton ecology in an upwelling bay	7
Fine-scale variability in habitat selection and niche differentiation between sponges and cold-water corals on vertical walls of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone	7
Editorial Board	7
Coral reefs health status variation around Kish Island before and after 2015 bleaching in the Persian Gulf: A case study of global warming effects	7
Primary productivity and N2-fixation in the eastern Indian ocean: Bottom-up support for an ecologically and economically important ecosystem	7
Annual and spatial variation in the condition and lipid storage of juvenile Chukchi Sea gadids during a recent period of environmental warming (2012 to 2019).	7
Corrigendum to “Response of phytoplankton to eddy dipole structure in the Mozambique channel: An automated underway evaluation” [Deep-Sea Res. 224 (2025) 105554]	7
Prediction of sardine and anchovy catches by double-boat purse seiners in the northern Persian Gulf using machine learning models	7
Vertical imbalance in organic carbon budgets is indicative of a missing vertical transfer during a phytoplankton bloom near South Georgia (COMICS)	7
Interaction of bay outflow and wind-driven upwelling in chlorophyll patterns in the Gulf of the Farallones	6
Clinging onto Arctic Benthos: Biogeography of Amathillopsis spinigera Heller, 1875 (Crustacea: Amphipoda), including its redescription	6
Iron cycling during the decline of a South Georgia diatom bloom	6
Editorial Board	6
Impact of a fresh-core mesoscale eddy in modulating oceanic response to a Madden-Julian Oscillation	6
Mega- and macrofauna of the hydrothermally active submarine Piip Volcano (the southwestern Bering Sea)	6
Echinoderes beringiensis sp. nov. - The first Kinorhyncha from deep-sea methane seepages in the north Pacific	6
Acoustic characterization of fish and macroplankton communities in the Seychelles-Chagos Thermocline Ridge of the southwest Indian ocean	6
A new species of the genus Nebalia (Crustacea: Phyllocarida: Leptostraca) from hydrothermal vent fields of the submarine Piip Volcano (the southwestern Bering Sea) described through molecular and morp	6
Editorial Board	6
Influence of oceanic mesoscale eddy on the atmospheric boundary layer based on an idealized model	6
Long-term monitoring and integrated research – Understanding ecosystem processes in the Gulf of Alaska	6
Trophic specialization enhances growth performance in larvae of southern bluefin, albacore, and skipjack tunas from the eastern Indian ocean	6
Carbon budgets of Scotia Sea mesopelagic zooplankton and micronekton communities during austral spring	6
Editorial Board	6
Observed internal tides in the deep northwestern Pacific by Argo floats	6
New insights in benthic biodiversity of the saya de Malha Bank	6
Editorial Board	6