OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Memorial to Norman W. Ten Brink (1943–2023)	26
Unraveling hydrologic and hydrochemical processes based on long-term concentration–discharge analysis in the Green Lake 4 catchment, Colorado Front Range, USA	23
Correction	18
Glacial versus geomorphic controls on stream temperature and conductivity in a temperate watershed	17
Long-term data suggest a severe decline in recruitment of the American pika on Niwot Ridge, Boulder County, Colorado	16
Spatiotemporal landscape dynamics drive organic matter mobilization and degradation in thermokarst terrain of the southern continuous permafrost zone	15
An analysis of McMurdo Dry Valleys’ lotic habitats within Antarctica’s protected area network and addressing gaps in biodiversity protection	15
Timing of glacial - non-glacial stages in Finland: An exploratory analysis of the OSL data	12
Can animal grazing help to reduce permafrost thaw?	12
Sedimentary facies and clay mineralogy of the late Pleistocene Landsort Deep sediments, Baltic Sea — Implications for the Baltic Ice Lake development	12
High resolution record of vegetation and climate change in Western Beringia (Yana–Indighirka Lowland) at the end of the Late Pleistocene	11
Environmental changes in Krossfjorden, Svalbard, since 1950: Benthic foraminiferal and stable isotope evidence	11
Samuel Irvine Outcalt, 1936–2023	10
Effects of nitrogen on benthic diatom assemblages in high-elevation central and eastern alpine lakes	10
Implications of alder shrub growth for alpine tundra soil properties in Interior Alaska	10
About the Cover - Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Volume 56(1)	9
Mortierellaceae diversity at earliest soil developmental stages of four calcareous glacier forefields—An isolation-based approach	9
Characteristics of runoff changes and their climatic factors in two different glacier-fed basins	9
Active layer variability and change in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories between 1991-2014: An ecoregional assessment	9
Investigating the potential for redox-active organic matter reduction in high elevation wetlands of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA	9
Non-native vascular flora of alpine areas in the White Mountains, New Hampshire, USA	8
The geoecological development of soil microbial communities following glacier retreat	8
Moraines and dead ice in Taylor Valley, Antarctica, record retreat of alpine and outlet glaciers from Marine Isotope Stage 5 to 4	8
Microbial iron reduction and greenhouse gas production in response to organic matter amendment and temperature increase of periglacial sediments, Bolterdalen, Svalbard	8
Regeneration of subalpine conifer species is inhibited by bark-stripping deer in a Betula forest	8

Living in ice: Examining the effects of temperature on thermal and metabolic physiology of glacier ice worms ( Mesenchytraeus solifugus )	7
Stress-associated metabolites vary with both season and habitat across populations of a climate sentinel species	7
Ongoing regime shift on subarctic Disko Island, Greenland	7
Correction	7
Multiproxy investigation of the last 2,000 years BP marine paleoenvironmental record along the western Spitsbergen margin	7
Permafrost and active layer characteristics in the high arid Andes between the Altiplano and high Atacama Desert	7
Long-term change and geospatial patterns of river ice cover and navigability in Southcentral Alaska detected with remote sensing	7
Tracking ablation and movement of icebergs with time-lapse photography at an alpine proglacial lake in Austria	7
High Arctic vegetation lowers soil temperatures on sunny days despite low stature	7
Drivers of soil temperature variation in alpine lichen heaths and shrub vegetation during the summer	7
Meteorological conditions and snow-avalanche occurrence over three snow seasons (2017–2020) in Tasiapik Valley, Umiujaq, Nunavik	6
Temperature-induced germination pulses above the alpine tree line	6
Rapid contemporary shrinking and loss of ice-capped summits in the western United States	6
Comparison of bacterial and diatom diversity patterns from waterbodies across two Antarctic Peninsula island groups	5
Will current protected areas harbor refugia for threatened Arctic vegetation types until 2050? A first assessment	5
Arctic ecosystem restoration with native tundra bryophytes	5
Photofate of Tetrabromobisphenol-A in the Arctic: Role of photofluence and dissolved organic matter	5
Succession of soil-living Nematoda and Diptera larvae (Chironomidae, Sciaridae, and Brachycera) near a melting glacier in Southern Norway	5
An exceptional March 1912 blizzard (the Final Blizzard) that sealed the fate of Captain Scott and his party	5
Bacterial community structure of microbial pinnacles in ice-covered Lake Vanda, Antarctica	5
The long multiphase trunk–tributary surge history of the high-Arctic Chapman Glacier, 1959–2023	5
Characterizing vegetation and return periods in avalanche paths using lidar and aerial imagery	5
Chemical signatures of microbial life in an ecological end-member: Shifting hydroclimate and sediment fluxes influence DOM biogeochemistry in Lake Fryxell, a permanently ice-covered lake in the McMurd	5
Soil biota sensitivity to hydroclimate variability in a polar desert ecosystem	4
Tree-ring evidence of the elusive 1959 summer cold event in northwestern North America	4
Interpreting summit elevations on Mount Rainier: Contextualizing ice-surface change, bedrock elevation, and geodetic frameworks	4
Soil organic carbon stocks in a mountain permafrost area with extensive solifluction (Disko Island, west Greenland)	4
Glacier hazards: Will they change in the future?	4
The thermal structure of small and shallow Arctic Fennoscandian lakes	4
An alpine enigma: Plant pathogens at Kosciuszko, Australia—A review	4
Weathering products in glacial silt and clay: Using automated mineralogy to probe size distribution and source	4
Hydrological heterogeneity and the plant colonization of recently deglaciated terrain	4
Integrating local environmental observations and remote sensing to better understand the life cycle of a thermokarst lake in Arctic Alaska	4
Remarks and advice to the study of early arthropod succession near melting glaciers	4
Beringian flora and fauna from sed aDNA at Duvanny Yar, Sakha Republic, during marine isotope stages 2 and 3	4
Long-term alpine summit vegetation cover change: Divergent trajectories driven by climate warming and fire	4
Do gravel highways affect water quality and invertebrate communities in Arctic lakes?	4
Ground-penetrating radar investigation of regolith thickness on a periglacial alpine summit flat, Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA	4
Genetic analysis of the frozen microbiome at 7900 m a.s.l., on the South Col of Sagarmatha (Mount Everest)	4
Permafrost and seasonal frost thermal dynamics over fifty years on tropical Maunakea volcano, Hawai‘i	4
Socioecological dynamics of diverse global permafrost-agroecosystems under environmental change	4
Vulnerability assessment and analysis of cryosphere changes in the Western Sichuan Plateau	4
On the factors and the degree of their effect on subglacial melt and changes in the state of Antarctic subglacial lakes	4
Accounting deviations between the measured and simulated impact pressures in high-density snow avalanches	4
Permafrost development in northern Fennoscandian peatlands since the mid-Holocene	3
Is the Arctic overlooked in freshwater biodiversity protection goals?	3
Assessment of Arctic sea ice and surface climate conditions in nine CMIP6 climate models	3
Study on wind dynamics characteristics and sand transport laws in the Qinghai–Tibet Engineering Corridor	3
Introduction: Processes and Palaeo-Environmental Changes in the Arctic from Past to Present (PalaeoArc) special issue	3
Influence of vegetation on occurrence and color of snow algal blooms in Mt. Gassan, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan	3

Plant succession on glacial moraines in the Arctic Brooks Range along a >125,000-year glacial chronosequence/toposequence	3
The Mammoth fauna as a paleontological characteristic of the Yedoma Ice Complex of Bol’shoy Lyakhovsky Island (New Siberian Islands, Eastern Arctic Siberia)	3
Plasticity in colonization and mycorrhizal benefit in the common Arctic species Avenella flexuosa in response to grazing	3
Measuring and modelling functional moat area in perennially ice-covered Lake Fryxell, Antarctica	3
About the Cover - Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Volume 57(1)	3
Shifting alpine plant distributions with global change: Testing the environmental matching hypothesis	3
Heat balance of a low-elevated Svalbard glacier during the ablation season: A case study of Aldegondabreen	3
Climate predicts disjunct arctic-alpine plant species richness and abundance along Lake Superior shorelines better than local habitat	2
Snowbed communities and soil C and N dynamics during a four-year investigation in the NW-Italian Alps	2
Mineral and isotopic (Nd, Sr) signature of fine-grained deglacial and Holocene sediments from the Mackenzie Trough, Arctic Canada	2
Soil nutrient availability affects tundra plant community composition and plant–vole interactions	2
Predation, reoccupation, cannibalism, and scavenging? Records of small mammals in arctic ground squirrel middens from east Beringia	2
Food security crisis in the Yukon River Basin: where have the salmon gone and what can be done?	2
Geochemical evidence for the origin of late Quaternary loess, Seward Peninsula, Alaska	2
Spatial patterns of rare earth elements and trace metals in an acid mine drainage-impacted wetland ecosystem	2
Spring comes early, but do the fungi? Plant phenology mediates plant–fungal interactions under experimental early snowmelt in alpine tundra	2
Surveying the ice thickness of the ice climbing wall using TLS surveying method – case of Mlačca Gorge, Slovenia	2
Ice cover loss and debris cover evolution in the Afghanistan Hindu Kush Himalaya between 2000 and 2020	2
Validation of the SNOWPACK model and reconstruction of multidecade snow climatology at Ram Mountain (Alberta, Canada) forced with NARR data	2
Yukon ice patches: Bryophyte generation from ancient ice-entombed assemblages	2
Soil organic and phytomass carbon stocks in mountain periglacial settings of Vindelfjällen (Sweden)	2
Can economic drivers enable an affordable, reliable, and resilient energy system in rural Alaska?	2
Continuity of eastern Beringian megafauna phylogenetic diversity following deposition of the Late Pleistocene Dawson tephra	2
Methane emissions from subglacial meltwater of three alpine glaciers in Yukon, Canada	2
Oribatid mites in a succession of permafrost soils in Central Yakutia	2
Multidecadal area changes of perennial snowpatches in Yosemite National Park, CA, USA	2
Late glacial retreat of the Lancaster Sound Ice Stream and early Holocene onset of Arctic/Atlantic throughflow in the Arctic Island channels	2
Microplastics in Antarctic penguins and seals in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica	2
6,000 years of vegetation and fire history at the timberline ecotone site Drakolimni Smolikas in the Pindos Mountains, northwestern Greece	2
About the Cover - Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Volume 58(1)	2
The effects of glacier retreat on plant diversity and soil development	2
Temperature and precipitation changes impact the yields of small grain cultivars from 1978 to 2018 in Fairbanks and Delta Junction, Alaska	2