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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	449
Neutral Theory and Plankton Biodiversity	200
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	200
New Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics	178
Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions	119
The Gulf Stream: Its History and Links to Coastal Impacts and Climate Change	92
Insights from Fossil-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes in Diatoms, Foraminifera, and Corals	76
The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling	61
Using the Fossil Record to Understand Extinction Risk and Inform Marine Conservation in a Changing World	59
Carbon Export in the Ocean: A Biologist's Perspective	57
Nuclear Reprocessing Tracers Illuminate Flow Features and Connectivity Between the Arctic and Subpolar North Atlantic Oceans	57
The Impact of Fine-Scale Currents on Biogeochemical Cycles in a Changing Ocean	53
The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre	52
Physics of the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone	51
Oil Transport Following theDeepwater HorizonBlowout	46
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	44
Discoveries with Roseobacteraceae: Bacterial Models for Ocean Heterotrophy	42
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	41
Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability	31
Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma	30
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Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species	27
Metabolic Flux Modeling in Marine Ecosystems	26
Arctic Continental-Shelf Sediment Dynamics	24
The Serendipity of Discovery: Life of a Geochemist	23

Introduction	22
Active Carbon Transport by Diel Vertical Migrating Zooplankton: Calculated and Modeled, but Never Measured	22
Chesapeake Bay Water Clarity: Challenges and Successes	22
Global Fisheries Science Documents Human Impacts on Oceans: The Sea Around Us Serves Civil Society in the Twenty-First Century	20
Marshes and Mangroves as Nature-Based Coastal Storm Buffers	20
Beyond Meta-Omics: Functional Genomics in Future Marine Microbiome Research	19
Insights Gained from Including People in Our Models of Nature and Modes of Science	19
Marine Transgression in Modern Times	19
Introduction	18
How Viruses Shape Microbial Plankton Microdiversity	18
Beryllium Isotopes in Marine Science: Understanding Ocean Current and Ice Dynamics	17
Life in the Midwater: The Ecology of Deep Pelagic Animals	17
From Stamps to Parabolas	16
Modeling the Vertical Flux of Organic Carbon in the Global Ocean	16
The Science, Engineering, and Validation of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage	15
Rhythms and Clocks in Marine Organisms	15
Introduction	15
Life in the Frozen Ocean	14
The Verification Challenge of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal	14
Novel Insights into Marine Iron Biogeochemistry from Iron Isotopes	14
Prokaryotic Life in the Deep Ocean's Water Column	13
Feedbacks Regulating the Salinization of Coastal Landscapes	13