OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Marine Science is 8. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction	313
New Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics	141
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	136
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	121
Neutral Theory and Plankton Biodiversity	110
The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling	94
Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions	92
The Gulf Stream: Its History and Links to Coastal Impacts and Climate Change	79
Insights from Fossil-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes in Diatoms, Foraminifera, and Corals	70
Nuclear Reprocessing Tracers Illuminate Flow Features and Connectivity Between the Arctic and Subpolar North Atlantic Oceans	66
Using the Fossil Record to Understand Extinction Risk and Inform Marine Conservation in a Changing World	60
Carbon Export in the Ocean: A Biologist's Perspective	59
Physiological Consequences of Oceanic Environmental Variation: Life from a Pelagic Organism's Perspective	56
The Impact of Fine-Scale Currents on Biogeochemical Cycles in a Changing Ocean	53
Earth, Wind, Fire, and Pollution: Aerosol Nutrient Sources and Impacts on Ocean Biogeochemistry	50
The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre	47
Oil Transport Following theDeepwater HorizonBlowout	44
Physics of the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone	44
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	43
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	40
Temporal and Spatial Signaling Mediating the Balance of the Plankton Microbiome	38
Discoveries with Roseobacteraceae: Bacterial Models for Ocean Heterotrophy	37
Ventilation of the Southern Ocean Pycnocline	33
Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability	33
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Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma	32
The Goldilocks Principle: A Unifying Perspective on Biochemical Adaptation to Abiotic Stressors in the Sea	32
Modeling the Morphodynamics of Coastal Responses to Extreme Events: What Shape Are We In?	31
Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species	27
Arctic Continental-Shelf Sediment Dynamics	27
Metabolic Flux Modeling in Marine Ecosystems	27
The Serendipity of Discovery: Life of a Geochemist	25
Active Carbon Transport by Diel Vertical Migrating Zooplankton: Calculated and Modeled, but Never Measured	22
Chesapeake Bay Water Clarity: Challenges and Successes	19
Introduction	18
Beyond Meta-Omics: Functional Genomics in Future Marine Microbiome Research	18
Global Fisheries Science Documents Human Impacts on Oceans: The Sea Around Us Serves Civil Society in the Twenty-First Century	17
Insights Gained from Including People in Our Models of Nature and Modes of Science	17
Marine Transgression in Modern Times	16
Marshes and Mangroves as Nature-Based Coastal Storm Buffers	16
The History of Ocean Oxygenation	15
How Viruses Shape Microbial Plankton Microdiversity	14
Introduction	13
The Enzymology of Ocean Global Change	13
Beryllium Isotopes in Marine Science: Understanding Ocean Current and Ice Dynamics	13
Modeling the Vertical Flux of Organic Carbon in the Global Ocean	12
Life in the Midwater: The Ecology of Deep Pelagic Animals	12
From Stamps to Parabolas	11
Novel Insights into Marine Iron Biogeochemistry from Iron Isotopes	10
Rhythms and Clocks in Marine Organisms	10
The Science, Engineering, and Validation of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage	10
Life in the Frozen Ocean	10
The Verification Challenge of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal	10
Marine Viruses and Their Role in Marine Ecosystems and Carbon Cycling	9
Feedbacks Regulating the Salinization of Coastal Landscapes	9
Prokaryotic Life in the Deep Ocean's Water Column	8
The Evolution, Assembly, and Dynamics of Marine Holobionts	8