OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Marine Science is 13. 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
Oil Transport Following theDeepwater HorizonBlowout	51
Physics of the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone	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

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Modeling the Morphodynamics of Coastal Responses to Extreme Events: What Shape Are We In?	38
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
Metabolic Flux Modeling in Marine Ecosystems	24
Arctic Continental-Shelf Sediment Dynamics	24
Beyond Meta-Omics: Functional Genomics in Future Marine Microbiome Research	22
Introduction	22
Insights Gained from Including People in Our Models of Nature and Modes of Science	21
Marine Transgression in Modern Times	20
The History of Ocean Oxygenation	19
Global Fisheries Science Documents Human Impacts on Oceans: The Sea Around Us Serves Civil Society in the Twenty-First Century	18
Beryllium Isotopes in Marine Science: Understanding Ocean Current and Ice Dynamics	17
How Viruses Shape Microbial Plankton Microdiversity	17
Introduction	17
Marshes and Mangroves as Nature-Based Coastal Storm Buffers	17
The Enzymology of Ocean Global Change	17
Modeling the Vertical Flux of Organic Carbon in the Global Ocean	16
Life in the Midwater: The Ecology of Deep Pelagic Animals	16
From Stamps to Parabolas	15
The Verification Challenge of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal	14
The Evolution, Assembly, and Dynamics of Marine Holobionts	14
The Science, Engineering, and Validation of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage	14
Novel Insights into Marine Iron Biogeochemistry from Iron Isotopes	14
Rhythms and Clocks in Marine Organisms	14
Life in the Frozen Ocean	13
Marine Viruses and Their Role in Marine Ecosystems and Carbon Cycling	13
Predation in a Microbial World: Mechanisms and Trade-Offs of Flagellate Foraging	13