OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Marine Science 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
How Viruses Shape Microbial Plankton Microdiversity	252
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	106
Revered and Reviled: The Plight of the Vanishing Sea Cucumbers	100
New Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics	96
Ventilation of the Southern Ocean Pycnocline	77
Introduction	73
Climate Change Impacts on Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems	69
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	66
The Enzymology of Ocean Global Change	60
Temporal and Spatial Signaling Mediating the Balance of the Plankton Microbiome	50
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	49
Exchange of Plankton, Pollutants, and Particles Across the Nearshore Region	46
Organic Matter Supply and Utilization in Oxygen Minimum Zones	45
Neutral Theory and Plankton Biodiversity	45
Aquatic Eddy Covariance: The Method and Its Contributions to Defining Oxygen and Carbon Fluxes in Marine Environments	43
Sociotechnical Considerations About Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal	41
Hidden Threat: The Influence of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Groundwater and the Convergence of Impacts on Municipal Infrastructure	40
Lipid Biogeochemistry and Modern Lipidomic Techniques	37
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	32
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Introduction	28
Modeling the Vertical Flux of Organic Carbon in the Global Ocean	27
Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability	23
Combined Use of Short-Lived Radionuclides (²³⁴Th and ²¹⁰Po) as Tracers of Sinking Particles in the Ocean	23
Insights from Fossil-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes in Diatoms, Foraminifera, and Corals	23

Gender Equity in Oceanography	23
The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling	20
Improving Ocean Management Using Insights from Space	18
Standardized Methods to Assess the Impacts of Thermal Stress on Coral Reef Marine Life	18
Oyster Restoration to Recover Ecosystem Services	16
Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions	15
Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma	15
Life in the Midwater: The Ecology of Deep Pelagic Animals	14
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The Goldilocks Principle: A Unifying Perspective on Biochemical Adaptation to Abiotic Stressors in the Sea	13
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The Biological Effects of Pharmaceuticals in the Marine Environment	10
From Stamps to Parabolas	10
Designing More Informative Multiple-Driver Experiments	10
Nuclear Reprocessing Tracers Illuminate Flow Features and Connectivity Between the Arctic and Subpolar North Atlantic Oceans	9
The State of Marine Social Science: Yesterday, Today, and into the Future	8
Using the Fossil Record to Understand Extinction Risk and Inform Marine Conservation in a Changing World	7
Introduction	7
A Global Inventory of Natural and Synthetic Estrogens in Aquatic Systems	7
Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species	6
Physiological Consequences of Oceanic Environmental Variation: Life from a Pelagic Organism's Perspective	6
Rhythms and Clocks in Marine Organisms	6
The Impact of Fine-Scale Currents on Biogeochemical Cycles in a Changing Ocean	6
Carbon Export in the Ocean: A Biologist's Perspective	6
Modeling the Morphodynamics of Coastal Responses to Extreme Events: What Shape Are We In?	6
Metabolic Flux Modeling in Marine Ecosystems	6