OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Marine Science is 10. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction	299
Neutral Theory and Plankton Biodiversity	133
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	130
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	113
New Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics	103
Insights from Fossil-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes in Diatoms, Foraminifera, and Corals	89
The Gulf Stream: Its History and Links to Coastal Impacts and Climate Change	88
Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions	74
The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling	66
Nuclear Reprocessing Tracers Illuminate Flow Features and Connectivity Between the Arctic and Subpolar North Atlantic Oceans	65
Using the Fossil Record to Understand Extinction Risk and Inform Marine Conservation in a Changing World	56
Carbon Export in the Ocean: A Biologist's Perspective	55
Physiological Consequences of Oceanic Environmental Variation: Life from a Pelagic Organism's Perspective	54
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	49
Physics of the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone	43
The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre	43
Oil Transport Following theDeepwater HorizonBlowout	42
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	41
Temporal and Spatial Signaling Mediating the Balance of the Plankton Microbiome	39
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	38
Ventilation of the Southern Ocean Pycnocline	37
Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma	32
Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability	31
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The Goldilocks Principle: A Unifying Perspective on Biochemical Adaptation to Abiotic Stressors in the Sea	30
Modeling the Morphodynamics of Coastal Responses to Extreme Events: What Shape Are We In?	29
Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species	28
Metabolic Flux Modeling in Marine Ecosystems	26
The Serendipity of Discovery: Life of a Geochemist	25
Arctic Continental-Shelf Sediment Dynamics	25
Active Carbon Transport by Diel Vertical Migrating Zooplankton: Calculated and Modeled, but Never Measured	24
Global Fisheries Science Documents Human Impacts on Oceans: The Sea Around Us Serves Civil Society in the Twenty-First Century	19
Introduction	19
Beyond Meta-Omics: Functional Genomics in Future Marine Microbiome Research	18
Insights Gained from Including People in Our Models of Nature and Modes of Science	17
Marine Transgression in Modern Times	17
The History of Ocean Oxygenation	15
Marshes and Mangroves as Nature-Based Coastal Storm Buffers	15
How Viruses Shape Microbial Plankton Microdiversity	14
Life in the Midwater: The Ecology of Deep Pelagic Animals	13
Introduction	13
Beryllium Isotopes in Marine Science: Understanding Ocean Current and Ice Dynamics	13
The Enzymology of Ocean Global Change	13
Modeling the Vertical Flux of Organic Carbon in the Global Ocean	12
From Stamps to Parabolas	11
Rhythms and Clocks in Marine Organisms	11
Prokaryotic Life in the Deep Ocean's Water Column	10
Novel Insights into Marine Iron Biogeochemistry from Iron Isotopes	10
The Evolution, Assembly, and Dynamics of Marine Holobionts	10
The Science, Engineering, and Validation of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage	10