OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annual Review of Marine Science is 30. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction	346
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	151
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	151
Neutral Theory and Plankton Biodiversity	136
New Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics	131
The Gulf Stream: Its History and Links to Coastal Impacts and Climate Change	98
Insights from Fossil-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes in Diatoms, Foraminifera, and Corals	97
The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling	85
Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions	72
Using the Fossil Record to Understand Extinction Risk and Inform Marine Conservation in a Changing World	72
Carbon Export in the Ocean: A Biologist's Perspective	65
Nuclear Reprocessing Tracers Illuminate Flow Features and Connectivity Between the Arctic and Subpolar North Atlantic Oceans	65
Physiological Consequences of Oceanic Environmental Variation: Life from a Pelagic Organism's Perspective	61
The Impact of Fine-Scale Currents on Biogeochemical Cycles in a Changing Ocean	57
Earth, Wind, Fire, and Pollution: Aerosol Nutrient Sources and Impacts on Ocean Biogeochemistry	52
The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre	51
Oil Transport Following theDeepwater HorizonBlowout	49
Discoveries with Roseobacteraceae: Bacterial Models for Ocean Heterotrophy	47
Physics of the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone	47
Temporal and Spatial Signaling Mediating the Balance of the Plankton Microbiome	42
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	42
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	41
Ventilation of the Southern Ocean Pycnocline	39
Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability	37
Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma	37

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The Goldilocks Principle: A Unifying Perspective on Biochemical Adaptation to Abiotic Stressors in the Sea	34
Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species	34
Modeling the Morphodynamics of Coastal Responses to Extreme Events: What Shape Are We In?	34
Metabolic Flux Modeling in Marine Ecosystems	30