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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
New Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics	462
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	217
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	208
Neutral Theory and Plankton Biodiversity	181
Insights from Fossil-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes in Diatoms, Foraminifera, and Corals	120
Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions	97
The Gulf Stream: Its History and Links to Coastal Impacts and Climate Change	79
The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling	69
Nuclear Reprocessing Tracers Illuminate Flow Features and Connectivity Between the Arctic and Subpolar North Atlantic Oceans	59
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	58
The Impact of Fine-Scale Currents on Biogeochemical Cycles in a Changing Ocean	54
The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre	54
Oil Transport Following theDeepwater HorizonBlowout	51
Physics of the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone	46
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	46
Discoveries with Roseobacteraceae: Bacterial Models for Ocean Heterotrophy	44
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	43
Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability	35
Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma	34
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The Serendipity of Discovery: Life of a Geochemist	28
Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species	28
Chesapeake Bay Water Clarity: Challenges and Successes	25
Arctic Continental-Shelf Sediment Dynamics	25

Metabolic Flux Modeling in Marine Ecosystems	24
Active Carbon Transport by Diel Vertical Migrating Zooplankton: Calculated and Modeled, but Never Measured	23
Introduction	23
Beyond Meta-Omics: Functional Genomics in Future Marine Microbiome Research	22
Marine Transgression in Modern Times	22
Global Fisheries Science Documents Human Impacts on Oceans: The Sea Around Us Serves Civil Society in the Twenty-First Century	21
Marshes and Mangroves as Nature-Based Coastal Storm Buffers	20
Insights Gained from Including People in Our Models of Nature and Modes of Science	20
How Viruses Shape Microbial Plankton Microdiversity	20
Introduction	18
Beryllium Isotopes in Marine Science: Understanding Ocean Current and Ice Dynamics	18
Modeling the Vertical Flux of Organic Carbon in the Global Ocean	17
Life in the Midwater: The Ecology of Deep Pelagic Animals	17
From Stamps to Parabolas	16
Introduction	16
Rhythms and Clocks in Marine Organisms	16
The Science, Engineering, and Validation of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage	15
Novel Insights into Marine Iron Biogeochemistry from Iron Isotopes	15
The Verification Challenge of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal	15
Life in the Frozen Ocean	14
Marine Viruses and Their Role in Marine Ecosystems and Carbon Cycling	13
The Evolution, Assembly, and Dynamics of Marine Holobionts	13
Climate, Oxygen, and the Future of Marine Biodiversity	13