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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Diet of deep-sea holothurians in theVolcanologists Massif, Bering sea, as inferred from stable isotope and fatty acid analyses	61
Ecophenotypic variation in a cosmopolitan reef-building coral suggests reduced deep-sea reef growth under ocean change	35
Editorial Board	27
Phytoplankton dynamics, growth and microzooplankton grazing across the subtropical frontal zone, east of New Zealand	27
Habitat and benthic fauna of the Wallaby-Cuvier escarpment, SE Indian ocean	23
An introducton to the Ross sea international conference special issue	22
Contrasting trends of the ocean CO2 sink and pH in the agulhas current system and the Mozambique basin, south-western Indian ocean (1963–2023)	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	19
Arabian Sea high salinity core supplies oxygen to the Bay of Bengal	18
Invader's portrait: Biological characteristics of walleye pollock Gadus chalcogrammus in the western Chukchi Sea	18
Hadal fauna of the South Sandwich Trench, Southern Ocean: Baited camera survey from the Five Deeps Expedition.	18
How do topography and thermal front influence the water transport from the northern Laotieshan Channel to the Bohai Sea interior in summer?	18
Dynamic change in an ocean desert: Microbial diversity and trophic transfer along the 110 °E meridional in the Indian Ocean	17
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	17
Unveiling marine heatwave dynamics in the Persian /Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman: A spatio-temporal analysis and future projections	17
The coupling of winds, ocean turbulence, and High Salinity Shelf Water in the Terra Nova Bay Polynya	17
Influence of the 2014–2016 marine heatwave on seasonal zooplankton community structure and abundance in the lower Cook Inlet, Alaska	17
Shell-bearing Gastropoda from the methane seeps and hydrothermal vents of the Bering Sea: A preliminary description	15
Dr. Satya Prakash (1979–2021)	15
Submesoscale processes-induced vertical heat transport modulated by oceanic mesoscale eddies	14
Vertical distribution patterns of early stages of mesopelagic fishes along 110 °E, south-east Indian Ocean	14
Three decades of ocean warming impacts on marine ecosystems: A review and perspective	13
Sagartiidae (Cnidaria: Actiniaria) from hydrothermal vents and methane seeps in the Bering Sea	13
Seasonal variability of eddy kinetic energy in the Banda Sea revealed by an ocean model: An energy budget perspective	13
Modifying a pelagic trawl to better retain small Arctic fishes	13

Of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the CMIP6 Project	13
Deep-learning model for sea surface temperature prediction near the Korean Peninsula	12
Editorial Board	12
A seasonal transition in biological carbon pump efficiency in the northern Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean	11
Elemental and Sr–Nd isotopic compositions of surface clay-size sediments in the front end of major ice shelves around Antarctica and indications for provenance	11
South Sandwich Islands – An understudied isolated Southern Ocean archipelago	11
Suspended particles are hotspots of microbial remineralization in the ocean's twilight zone	11
Distinct patterns of coral lesion composition from national/quasi-national marine parks of Kerama and Yoron Islands, Ryukyu Archipelago	11
Record-breaking 2020 summer marine heatwaves in the western North Pacific	11
Deep-sea Life associated with sediments and polymetallic nodules from the Central Indian Ocean Basin: Insights from 18S metabarcoding	10
Diel variations in the upper layer biophysical processes using a BGC-Argo in the Bay of Bengal	10
Vertical occurrence of copepod carcasses in the Cosmonaut Sea during austral summer	10
Biodiversity and functioning of mesozooplankton in a changing Ross Sea	10
Latitudinal variation in diversity and abundance of mesopelagic fishes associated with change in oceanographic variables along 110°E, south-east Indian Ocean	10
Hydrodynamic response to bathymetric changes in Tampa Bay, Florida	10
Microstructure observations of three-layered mixing on the shelf of the northwestern South China Sea	9
Editorial Board	9
Ocean-atmosphere heat exchange seasonal cycle on the West Florida Shelf derived from long term moored data	9
Assessing marine mammal diversity in remote Indian Ocean regions, using an acoustic glider	9
Advanced marine technologies for ocean research	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
Understanding future changes of Chlorophyll-a in the Indian Ocean using CMIP6 Earth System Model simulations	9
Siliceous microfossil assemblages in the southern Emperor Seamount Chain sediments and their biogeographical and paleoceanographical implications	9
Oceanic biophysical response to large-scale wind forcing observed southwest of Sumatra during December 2017	9
Impact of the Gulf Stream on ocean waves	9
Mean circulation and its seasonal cycle on the West Florida Shelf as evidenced by multi-decadal time series of moored currents and winds	8
Effects of symmetric instability in the Kuroshio Extension region in winter	8
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)	8
ENSO independent tropical-extratropical signal off the Northeast Pacific	8
Age and growth of Antarctic deep-sea smelt (Bathylagus antarcticus), an important mesopelagic fish in the Southern Ocean	8
The macro-and megabenthic fauna on the continental shelf of Prydz Bay, east Antarctica	8
Editorial Board	8
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
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
Long-term monitoring and integrated research – Understanding ecosystem processes in the Gulf of Alaska	7
Surface ocean carbon budget in the 2017 south Georgia diatom bloom: Observations and validation of profiling biogeochemical argo floats	7
Influence of environmental attributes on intertidal community structure in glacial estuaries	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
A data-assimilative modeling investigation of Gulf Stream variability	7
Blue carbon in an eastern boundary upwelling zone – A case study in Namibia	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
Editorial Board	7
Observed near-inertial waves and shears east of Luzon during Typhoons Mangkhut and Yutu in 2018	7
Polymorphism of mtDNA gene Cyt b of the Chukchi Sea polar cod, Boreogadus saida (Gadidae, Gadiformes)	7
Vertical imbalance in organic carbon budgets is indicative of a missing vertical transfer during a phytoplankton bloom near South Georgia (COMICS)	7
Sea surface temperature predictability assessment with an ensemble machine learning method using climate model simulations	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
Deep carbon export peaks are driven by different biological pathways during the extended Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean) bloom	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
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.	7

Editorial Board	6
Carbon budgets of Scotia Sea mesopelagic zooplankton and micronekton communities during austral spring	6
Mega- and macrofauna of the hydrothermally active submarine Piip Volcano (the southwestern Bering Sea)	6
Editorial Board	6
Acoustic characterization of fish and macroplankton communities in the Seychelles-Chagos Thermocline Ridge of the southwest Indian ocean	6
Iron cycling during the decline of a South Georgia diatom bloom	6
Impact of a fresh-core mesoscale eddy in modulating oceanic response to a Madden-Julian Oscillation	6
Analysis of Ningaloo Niño simulated by two coupled models of FGOALS3	6
Kinorhynchs (Kinorhyncha) from methane cold seeps in the Bering Sea, with biogeographical discussion and ecological notes	6
Influence of oceanic mesoscale eddy on the atmospheric boundary layer based on an idealized model	6
Echinoderes beringiensis sp. nov. - The first Kinorhyncha from deep-sea methane seepages in the north Pacific	6
Acoustic detections of beaked whales, narrow-band high-frequency pulses and other odontocete cetaceans in the Southern Ocean using an autonomous towed hydrophone recorder	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
Spatial and temporal variability of dissolved aluminum and manganese in surface waters of the northern Gulf of Alaska	6