OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Uncovering the hidden amphipod biodiversity and its drivers in the Persian Gulf	53
The habitat preference of commercial tuna species based on a daily environmental database approach in the tropical region of the Eastern Indian Ocean off Java-Bali waters	34
Deep carbon export peaks are driven by different biological pathways during the extended Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean) bloom	26
Effects of a freshening trend on upper-ocean stratification over the central tropical Pacific and their representation by CMIP6 models	25
Effects of symmetric instability in the Kuroshio Extension region in winter	22
Impact of the Gulf Stream on ocean waves	19
Editorial Board	18
The relative contribution of deep and shallow benthic sources to iron supply in the Ross sea, with specific emphasis on Ross Bank	18
Editorial Board	18
Editorial Board	15
Megabenthos habitats influenced by nearby hydrothermal activity on the Sandwich Plate, Southern Ocean	15
Editorial Board	14
Editorial Board	14
Observed near-inertial waves and shears east of Luzon during Typhoons Mangkhut and Yutu in 2018	14
Submesoscale eddies in eastern Guangdong identified using high-frequency radar observations	14
Seasonal variations of sinking velocities in Austral diatom blooms: Lessons learned from COMICS	14
Editorial Board	14
Editorial Board	14
Winners and losers in a warming Arctic: Potential habitat gain and loss for epibenthic invertebrates of the Chukchi and Bering Seas, 2008–2100	13
Prokaryotic diversity in the sponges Mycale (Oxymycale) acerata (Kirkpatrick, 1907) and Dendrilla antarctica (Topsent, 1905) from two distant Antarctic marine areas: South Cove at Rothera Point (Adela	13
Integrated research in the Arctic – Ecosystem linkages and shifts in the northern Bering Sea and eastern and western Chukchi Sea	13
Temporal shifts in prokaryotic metabolism in response to organic carbon dynamics in the mesopelagic ocean during an export event in the Southern ocean	12
Diatom growth, biogenic silica production, and grazing losses to microzooplankton during spring in the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas	11
Unravelling links between squid catch variations and biophysical mechanisms in South African waters	10
The role of subsurface instabilities for increasing chlorophyll concentrations in a warming southern Indian ocean	10

Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) hatching season and growth rates in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas	10
Diet of deep-sea holothurians in theVolcanologists Massif, Bering sea, as inferred from stable isotope and fatty acid analyses	10
The macro-and megabenthic fauna on the continental shelf of Prydz Bay, east Antarctica	10
Corrigendum to: “Species and size selectivity of two midwater trawls used in an acoustic survey of the Alaska Arctic” (Deep-Sea Res. II 135 (2017) 40–50)	10
Latitudinal changes in copepod assemblages across the South West Indian Ridge	10
Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) as a key forage fish in the southeastern Gulf of Alaska	10
Surface ocean carbon budget in the 2017 south Georgia diatom bloom: Observations and validation of profiling biogeochemical argo floats	10
Methane seep communities on the Koryak slope in the Bering Sea	10
Ecophenotypic variation in a cosmopolitan reef-building coral suggests reduced deep-sea reef growth under ocean change	9
Atmospheric and advective forcing of upwelling on South Africa's central Agulhas Bank	9
First record of the family Caprellidae (Amphipoda: Senticaudata) from the abyssal zone of the Bering Sea with description of a new species of Cercops	9
Mean circulation and its seasonal cycle on the West Florida Shelf as evidenced by multi-decadal time series of moored currents and winds	9
Spatial and temporal variability and connectivity of the marine environment of the South Sandwich Islands, Southern Ocean	9
Phytoplankton dynamics, growth and microzooplankton grazing across the subtropical frontal zone, east of New Zealand	9
Isopycnal and diapycnal mixing parameterization schemes for submesoscale processes induced by mesoscale eddies	8
Characteristics of ocean mesoscale eddies in the Agulhas and Tasman Leakage regions from two eddy datasets	8
New and known species of the genus Desmodora De Man, 1889 (Nematoda: Desmodoridae) from the hydrothermal vent communities of the Piip volcano (south-west Bering Sea)	8
Watermass characteristics and circulation near 110°E in the southeast Indian Ocean	8
Predicting the current habitat suitability and future habitat changes of Antarctic jonasfish Notolepis coatsorum in the Southern Ocean	8
Age and growth of Antarctic deep-sea smelt (Bathylagus antarcticus), an important mesopelagic fish in the Southern Ocean	8
The Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2): New exploration in a poorly understood ocean basin (volume 4)	7
Invader's portrait: Biological characteristics of walleye pollock Gadus chalcogrammus in the western Chukchi Sea	7
Mycobiota of deep-sea benthic communities on the Piip submarine volcano, Bering Sea, Russia	7
The Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2): Revisiting 110°E	7
ENSO independent tropical-extratropical signal off the Northeast Pacific	7
Editorial Board	7
Rehabilitation of two deep-sea holothurian species in genus Pannychia from the northwest Pacific Ocean	7
The sedimentation, bioturbation and organic matter degradation as revealed by excess 230Th and 210Pb in the Cosmonaut Sea	7
Habitat and benthic fauna of the Wallaby-Cuvier escarpment, SE Indian ocean	7
Latitudinal variation in zooplankton over the Emperor Seamounts (34°–44° N, 170°–171° E) during the summer of 2019	7
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) distribution and movements in the vicinity of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area	7
Microzooplankton and phytoplankton of Ross Sea polynya areas and potential linkage among functional traits	7
Brought to the surface from obscurity: The distribution and biology of Coelorhinchus gilberti (Macrouridae, Gadiformes, Teleostei) off the Emperor Seamounts (Northwestern Pacific)	7
Distribution and long-term change of the sea surface carbonate system in the Mozambique Channel (1963–2019)	7
Deep-sea acorn worms (Enteropneusta) from the Bering Sea with the description of a new genus and a new species of Torquaratoridae dominating soft-bottom communities	7
Microbial community biomass, production and grazing along 110°E in the eastern Indian Ocean	7
Ocean processes south of the Drygalski Ice Tongue, western Ross Sea	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
An introducton to the Ross sea international conference special issue	7
Eastern Bering Sea shelf environmental and lower trophic level responses to climate forcing: Results of dynamical downscaling from CMIP6	6
Potential impact of predation by larval Spanish mackerel on larval anchovy in the central Seto Inland Sea, Japan	6
Deep-sea hydrozoans in the western part of the Bering Sea: some hydroids associated with methane seep communities at upper bathyal depths and abyssal hydroids with a description of two new species	6
Polymorphism of mtDNA gene Cyt b of the Chukchi Sea polar cod, Boreogadus saida (Gadidae, Gadiformes)	6
Projected climate change impacts on the ecosystems of the Agulhas Bank, South Africa	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
Polymorphism of mtDNA gene Cyt b of walleye pollock, Gadus chalcogrammus (Gadidae), in the Chukchi Sea, western Bering Sea, and Sea of Okhotsk	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
Intraseasonal oscillations of the Andaman Sea thermocline	6

Submesoscale frontal waves and instabilities driven by sheared flows	5
Causal relations between the loop current penetration and the inflow/outflow conditions inferred with a rigorous quantitative causality analysis	5
Interannual variability of red sea overflow water pathways in the Western Arabian Sea in an eddy rich reanalysis	5
Modeling in an integrated ecosystem research framework to explore recruitment in Gulf of Alaska groundfish – Applications to management and lessons learned	5
Seasonality of the Somali Current/Undercurrent system	5
The spatial distribution and environmental effects on hotspots and coldspots of micronekton in the southwestern Indian Ocean	5
Physical oceanography and its applications: A tribute to Distinguished University Professor Dr. Robert H. Weisberg	5
High-resolution biological net community production in the Pacific-influenced Arctic as constrained by O2/Ar and O2/N2 observations	5
Distributions of virio- and picoplankton and their relationships with ice-melting and upwelling in the Indian Ocean sector of East Antarctica	5
How do topography and thermal front influence the water transport from the northern Laotieshan Channel to the Bohai Sea interior in summer?	5
ENSO phase-locking biases from the CMIP5 to CMIP6 models and a possible explanation	5
Study of upwelling and mixing process in the Somali coastal region using satellite and numerical model observations: A Lagrangian approach	5
Nemerteans collected in the Bering Sea during the research cruises aboard the R/V Akademik M.A. Lavrentyev in 2016, 2018, and 2021 with an analysis of deep-sea heteronemertean and hoplonemertean speci	5
The first record of the family Paramunnidae (Isopoda: Asellota) from the bathyal of the Bering Sea with descriptions of two new species of Munnogonium	5
Foraging ecology of nearshore fishes in the Gulf of Alaska	5
Pacific cod or tikhookeanskaya treska (Gadus macrocephalus) in the Chukchi Sea during recent warm years: Distribution by life stage and age-0 diet and condition	5
Molecular assessment of demersal fish diversity in Prydz Bay using DNA taxonomy	5
Dynamically downscaled projections of ocean acidification for the Bering Sea	5
Mesoscale cyclonic eddies born in an eastern boundary upwelling system enhance microbial eukaryote diversity in oligotrophic offshore waters	5