OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annual Review of Marine Science is 31. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction	388
Neutral Theory and Plankton Biodiversity	167
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	160
New Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics	153
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	147
The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling	107
Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions	102
The Gulf Stream: Its History and Links to Coastal Impacts and Climate Change	88
Insights from Fossil-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes in Diatoms, Foraminifera, and Corals	75
Nuclear Reprocessing Tracers Illuminate Flow Features and Connectivity Between the Arctic and Subpolar North Atlantic Oceans	74
Carbon Export in the Ocean: A Biologist's Perspective	72
Using the Fossil Record to Understand Extinction Risk and Inform Marine Conservation in a Changing World	68
Physiological Consequences of Oceanic Environmental Variation: Life from a Pelagic Organism's Perspective	65
The Impact of Fine-Scale Currents on Biogeochemical Cycles in a Changing Ocean	61
Earth, Wind, Fire, and Pollution: Aerosol Nutrient Sources and Impacts on Ocean Biogeochemistry	55
The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre	52
Physics of the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone	51
Oil Transport Following theDeepwater HorizonBlowout	51
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	48
Temporal and Spatial Signaling Mediating the Balance of the Plankton Microbiome	46
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	45
Discoveries with Roseobacteraceae: Bacterial Models for Ocean Heterotrophy	45
Ventilation of the Southern Ocean Pycnocline	44
Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability	43
Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma	39

Modeling the Morphodynamics of Coastal Responses to Extreme Events: What Shape Are We In?	38
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The Goldilocks Principle: A Unifying Perspective on Biochemical Adaptation to Abiotic Stressors in the Sea	37
Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species	35
The Serendipity of Discovery: Life of a Geochemist	34
Chesapeake Bay Water Clarity: Challenges and Successes	32
Active Carbon Transport by Diel Vertical Migrating Zooplankton: Calculated and Modeled, but Never Measured	31