OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Marine Science is 9. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction	276
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	120
New Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics	116
Neutral Theory and Plankton Biodiversity	100
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	89
The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling	84
Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions	83
Insights from Fossil-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes in Diatoms, Foraminifera, and Corals	71
Nuclear Reprocessing Tracers Illuminate Flow Features and Connectivity Between the Arctic and Subpolar North Atlantic Oceans	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	52
Physiological Consequences of Oceanic Environmental Variation: Life from a Pelagic Organism's Perspective	51
Earth, Wind, Fire, and Pollution: Aerosol Nutrient Sources and Impacts on Ocean Biogeochemistry	50
The Impact of Fine-Scale Currents on Biogeochemical Cycles in a Changing Ocean	48
The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre	46
Oil Transport Following theDeepwater HorizonBlowout	42
Physics of the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone	41
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	39
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	38
Ventilation of the Southern Ocean Pycnocline	38
Temporal and Spatial Signaling Mediating the Balance of the Plankton Microbiome	34
The Goldilocks Principle: A Unifying Perspective on Biochemical Adaptation to Abiotic Stressors in the Sea	28
Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability	28
Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma	28
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Modeling the Morphodynamics of Coastal Responses to Extreme Events: What Shape Are We In?	26
Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species	25
Metabolic Flux Modeling in Marine Ecosystems	24
Arctic Continental-Shelf Sediment Dynamics	22
The Serendipity of Discovery: Life of a Geochemist	20
Introduction	19
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	15
The History of Ocean Oxygenation	15
Marshes and Mangroves as Nature-Based Coastal Storm Buffers	15
Marine Transgression in Modern Times	14
How Viruses Shape Microbial Plankton Microdiversity	13
Life in the Midwater: The Ecology of Deep Pelagic Animals	13
The Enzymology of Ocean Global Change	13
Introduction	13
Modeling the Vertical Flux of Organic Carbon in the Global Ocean	11
Rhythms and Clocks in Marine Organisms	11
From Stamps to Parabolas	11
The Science, Engineering, and Validation of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage	10
Novel Insights into Marine Iron Biogeochemistry from Iron Isotopes	10
Prokaryotic Life in the Deep Ocean's Water Column	9
The Evolution, Assembly, and Dynamics of Marine Holobionts	9