OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Polar Record is 0. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Sustainable Tourism in Svalbard: Balancing economic growth, sustainability, and environmental governance	21
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022: Can we still cooperate with Russia in the Arctic?	14
Barentsburg and Longyearbyen in times of socioeconomic transition: Residents’ perceptions of community viability	11
Changing Svalbard: Tracing interrelated socio-economic and environmental change in remote Arctic settlements	11
Physical and feasible: Climate change adaptation in Longyearbyen, Svalbard	11
To be or not to be like Iceland? (Ontological) Politics of comparison in Greenlandic tourism development	10
Valuing time: Tourism transitions in Svalbard	9
Wisdom of affect? Emotion, environment, and the future of resource extraction	8
From mining tool to tourist attraction: Cultural heritage as a materialised form of transformation in Svalbard society	8
Interruptions: Affective futures and uncanny presences atGiemaš, Finnmark	8
Science diplomacy in the Arctic: Contributions of the USGS to policy discourse and impact on governance	8
Between global collaboration and national competition: Unraveling the many faces of Arctic science diplomacy	7
Negotiating trade-offs between the environment, sustainability and mass tourism amongst guides on Svalbard	7
The trouble with local community in Longyearbyen, Svalbard: Howbig politicsand lack offellesskaphinder a not-yet-decided future	7
Toponyms on the ice: The symbolic and iconographical role of Antarctic research base names	6
The Svalbard treaty and identity of place: Impacts and implications for Longyearbyen, Svalbard	6
Commercial fishing, Inuit rights, and internal colonialism in Nunavut	6
Mining tourism in abandoned and existing mines in the Swedish Far North	5
The rise and fall of Pyramiden: The story of a town in a wider geopolitical and environmental context	5
Human–environment interactions at a short-lived Arctic mine and the long-term response of the local tundra vegetation	4
Arctic Uchronotopias: Resource extraction, community making and the negotiation of Arctic futures	4
A spatial reference and identification system for coastal ice-free land in East Antarctica	4
Moscow University’s field station in the Khibiny Mountains, Russian Arctic: A 70-year history to the present day	4
Disaster risk perceptions and multinational cooperation in Barentsburg, Svalbard	4
Antarctic pack ice seal observations during spring across the Lazarev Sea	4

Healthy ecosystems for human and animal health: Science diplomacy for responsible development in the Arctic	4
Is it real? Science diplomacy in the Arctic states’ strategies	3
Frozen data? Polar research and fieldwork in a pandemic era	3
Declining citation accuracy in polar research	3
Tourism worlding: Collective becoming in East Greenland	3
Telecommunication line infrastructure and the Arctic environment: past, present and future	3
Russia in the Arctic Chair: Adapting the Arctic Governance System to Conditions Prevailing in the 2020s	3
Icebreaking polar class research vessels: New Antarctic fleet capabilities	3
Economy, territory, and identity: A Rokkanian analysis of Indigenous self-determination in Canada and Norway	2
Norwegian and Russian settlements on Svalbard: An analysis of demographic and socio-economic trends	2
Global interest in the Arctic region: Naval operations impacting scientific-commercial activities	2
A southern Māori perspective on stories of Polynesian polar voyaging	2
The multiple landscapes of Biedjovággi: Ontological conflicts on indigenous land	2
Three new records of lichenised fungi for Antarctica	2
International interdisciplinary Arctic research: Case study of the Russian Arctic biomonitoring mega-grant project	2
The belief in mining: How imageries of other mines may brighten Arctic minescapes	2
Finding Antarctica’s Pole of Inaccessibility	2
Phasing out coal on Svalbard: From a conflict of interest to a contest over symbolic capital	2
An unlikely partnership? New Zealand–South Korea bilateral cooperation and Antarctic order	2
International access to research infrastructure in the Arctic	2
Mapping Antarctic and Arctic Women: An exploration of polar women’s experiences and contributions through place names	2
Iceberg disturbance to benthic communities in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica	2
Arctic adventure cruise shipping network: Itinerary characteristics and spatial structure	2
Between an archipelago and an ice floe: The know-where of Arctic governance expertise	2
Bridgeman Island, Antarctica, ‘burning mount’ or old eroded volcano?	1
Population migration in the supporting regions of the Russian Arctic to improve international competitiveness of the Northern Sea Route	1
Participatory action research with Inuit societies: A scoping review	1
The question of Icebergs: a cryo-history of Arctic submarine cables	1
Soft institutions in Arctic governance—who does what?	1
Three decades of remote sensing subarctic vegetation in northern Russia: A case study in science diplomacy	1
Producing and communicating natural history in the long 18th century: Moravian observations concerning Greenland’s climate in unpublished sources	1
“The ice has gone”: Vernacular meteorology, fisheries and human–ice relationships on Sakhalin Island	1
The Possession Islands Ross Sea Antarctica: A history of exploration and scientific endeavour at a Ross Sea archipelago since the first landing in 1841	1
Sŭ-pung-er’s pillar: The recent significant discovery of a relic related to the Franklin Expedition	1
Bilateral collaboration between the Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) and United States Research Communities – from a vision to everyday practice	1
The Italian Arctic expedition 1899–1900: What happened to the first support party?	1
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR): Showcases for making science diplomacy	1
Sámi agency in economic development processes in the Norwegian High North	1
Undecided dreams: France in the Antarctic, 1840–2021	1
Science diplomacy and Asian states: Transforming the governance landscape in the Arctic	1
DNA identification of a sailor from the 1845 Franklin northwest passage expedition	1
Spatio-temporal monitoring of the iceberg D28 using SCATSAT-1 data	1
Captain Scott changed his mind: The dogs shall not go to the South Pole	1
Between exploration and tourism: Carl Irminger’s Iceland travel diary 1826	1
Unfinished indigenous geographies: The endurances and becomings of a Sámi tourism venture	1
Improving the work of the Arctic Council: challenges and recommendations	1
Reframing Antarctica’s ice loss: impacts of cryospheric change on local human activity	1
Russia’s Arctic policy: Upcoming change?	1
Arctic science diplomacy in new geopolitical conditions: From “soft” power to “hard” dialogue?	1
Assessment of the intensity and directions of population movement in the regions of the Arctic zone of Russia in 1991–2000	1

How Jean-Baptiste Charcot came to embrace fear but not anger. Emotions of polar exploration and their communication to the public in the 1900s	0
Editorial: Women of the Arctic	0
The short-term development of performance and aerobic endurance following prolonged low-intensity ski trekking in Svalbard: A case study	0
James Reid (1795?–1850?)	0
Antarctic Pioneer – The Trailblazing Life of Jackie Ronne. Joanna Kafarowski. 2022. Dundurn Press. 285pp, paperback. ISBN 9781459749535. GBP17.99	0
Industry, War and Stalin’s Battle for Resources; The Arctic and the Environment, Lars Rowe , (2021) London: I. B. Tauris, 240 pp. Pbk $39.95, Hdbk $120, Ebook 35.95 ISBN: 978-1-78453-7951 (Hdbk).	0
The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson (2020). London, United Kingdom: Orbit. 576p, paperback. £17. ISBN: 9780316300131	0
Changing Svalbard: Tracing interrelated socio-economic and environmental change in remote Arctic settlements – CORRIGENDUM	0
The figure of the guide: arctic nature guiding as productive behaviour on Svalbard	0
Scoping Arctic expertise: The mismatch between traditional theories of expertise and Indigenous expertise	0
Governing Complexity in the Arctic Region. Mathieu Landriault, Andrew Chater, Elana Wilson Rowe, and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. 2020. Abingdon-on-Thames and New York, NY: Routledge. xiv + 134 p, hardcove	0
Antonio de la Roche and the discovery of South Georgia	0
LARGE ANIMALS AND WIDE HORIZONS [The autobiography of Richard M Laws]. Arnoldus Schytte Blix, Ian Parker and Christine Parker. 2017. Cambridge, England: Janus Publishing Company Ltd. 431 pages. ISBN 9	0
Dogs of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910–13 – ERRATUM	0
Finding “Harry Peglar”: Re-examining the discovery of a Franklin expedition sailor’s skeleton by the 1859 McClintock search expedition	0
Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, Colin Monteath (2023), Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press. 368p, hard cover. NZ$ 65. ISBN: 978-1-99-101636-2	0
Obituary – Dr Peter John Tilbrook	0
Benthic community descriptions at underwater peaks in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica	0
Fishy windows to an Arctic city: Urban (in)visibilities of global fisheries in Tromsø	0
Collaring nature: The use of foxes to find and rescue the members of the lost Franklin expedition	0
Victorian prescience: The Lancetmedical journal and the loss of the Franklin expedition, 1845–1859	0
In search of the origin of an Antarctic ghost ship: The legend of the Jenny re-evaluated	0
The DIMA Network: Bridging boundaries via shared scientific interests	0
Marjo Lindroth; Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen & Monica Tennberg (eds.) Critical Studies of the Arctic: Unravelling the North, 2022. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. XII, 283 p, hardcover. ISBN 978-3-031-11119	0
The balance between critical thinking and paradigm thinking in the Arctic: Scientific cooperation across theoretical divides	0
The art of Inuit administration: Post-war Canada, cultural diplomacy and northern administration	0
Blubber for Bibles: translating colonialism in Inuit missions, c. 1750–1850	0
‘Observing’ the Arctic; Asia in the Arctic Council and Beyond, Chih Y. Woon and Klaus Dodds (eds.). 2020. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, Hdbk, 256 pp., $135, ISBN: 978-1-83910-8204; eIS	0
Logbooks and Antarctic sealing. Approaching early- and late-19th-century exploitation strategies and their archaeological footprint	0
The Central Arctic Ocean fisheries moratorium: A rare example of the precautionary principle in fisheries management	0
Artists in Antarctica: Patrick Shepherd (2023), Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press. 240p, hard cover. NZ$80. ISBN: 978-1-99-101627-0	0
Drilling for the future: Gendered justifications of the Arctic fossil fuel industry – ERRATUM	0
Thamnolecania yunusii(Ramalinaceae) – A new species of lichenised fungus from Horseshoe Island (Antarctic Peninsula)	0
The image of the universe in the folklore of the Nenets: Systematic and phenomenological analysis. Elena Pushkareva. 2019. Sankt-Peterburg: IstorichEskaya illiustratsiya. 280 p, hardcover, illustrated	0
Portugal in Antarctic History	0
Feeding the team: Analysis of a Spratt’s dog cake from Antarctica	0
Mawson’s views on use of natural resources in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic	0
Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent: Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen (2023), Lincoln, USA: University of Nebraska Press. 268p. US$60. Hardcover (978-1-	0
A note relating to the birth date of Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier R.N., F.R.S., F.R.A.S.	0
Atomic energy for Antarctica: the rise and fall of “Nukey Poo”	0
GERMANS IN THE ANTARCTIC. Cornelia Lüdecke. 2021. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 284 p, illustrated, hardcover. 978-3-030-40923-4. 978-3-030-40924-1 (eBook). Translated by Bernard Oelkers from	0
Expedition Relics from High Arctic Greenland eight decades of exploration history told through 102 objects. Peter R. Dawes. With artefact photography by Roberto Fortuna. 2023. Museum Tusculanum Press/	0
Declining citation accuracy in polar research – CORRIGENDUM	0
Captain Scott rewrote his story: January–June 1911	0
Franklin’s “Cemented Tomb”: The Jamme Report of 1928 Revisited	0
How children in northern Canada represent the wolverine through drawings – CORRIGENDUM	0
The “Rediscovery” of Reginald Ford and his New Zealand Antarctic Lectures, 1905 to 1926	0
Roald Amundsen’s route across the polar plateau in 1911–1912	0
S. A. Andrée’s understanding of Arctic ice drift during his 1897 balloon expedition	0
Research Handbook on Polar Law. Edited by Karen N Scott and David L VanderZwaag. 2020. Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar. 512 p, hardback. ISBN 9781788119580. GBP 200.	0
In search of the last continent: Australia and early Antarctic exploration. A. McConville (2022). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing Ltd. 227p, paperback. ISBN 978-1-922669-94-0. AU	0
Visiting the complex bibliography ofThe Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, 1839-1843	0
“A romance based on information”: The curious case of Clements Markham’s Franklin Expedition novel	0
Emperor penguins and the First German South Polar Expedition, 1901–1903: The elusive colony in Posadowsky Bay	0
“It would be a lot easier to hunt whales if they didn’t move.” Addressing marine baseline information challenges in Nunavut’s impact assessment process	0
A tale of two species: Pringlea antiscorbutica and Azorella polaris, sub-Antarctic scurvy remedies	0
Indigenous peoples in Russian Arctic labour market	0
Climate change, energy production, and Arctic tourism: A case study analysis of northern Alaska	0
Knowledge, innovation and the race to the South Pole	0
Beyond wild and tame: Soiot encounters in a sentient landscape. Alex C. Oehler. 2020. New York, Oxford: Berghahn. ISBN 978-1-78920-679-1	0
Can China change the Arctic regime?	0
Antarctic civics: how tourists to Antarctica view their role as “Antarctic ambassadors” and how to change it	0
Thomas Blanky (1804–1848/51?)	0
Count Otani Kozui’s 1900 northern cruise: A Japanese “explorer tourist” in the Nordic Arctic	0
Concluding commentary: Inter-disciplinary vistas – research on Svalbard in a local to global continuum	0
The original Scott Base buildings	0
Has Russia heard about the European Union’s Arcticness? The EU’s Arctic steps as seen from Russia – CORRIGENDUM	0
Keeping it in the family: Relationships between Polar medallists	0
Inter-academic cooperation in the Arctic during the 1898–1901 Swedish–Russian Arc-of-Meridian expedition: Based on materials from the Russian Academy of Sciences Archives	0
Towards customised sovereignty: West Nordic societies in the new great power rivalry	0
Six activities of Observers in the Arctic Council	0
Peter Hemmersam. Making the Arctic city: the history and future of urbanism in the circumpolar North. BLOOMSBURY VISUAL ARTS. London, New York, Dublin, 2021. 254 pp.	0
Research on the implementation and practice of the CCAMLR System of Inspection	0
Managing plastic pollution in the Arctic ocean: An integrated quantitative flux estimate and policy study	0
Lake Ladoga. The coastal history of the greatest lake in Europe. Maria Lähteenmäki and Isaac Land, editors. Helsinki: Finnish Literary Society, SKS. 2023. 233 p, paperback, epub and pdf. ISBN 978-951-	0
China’s Role in the Arctic: Observing and Being Observed. Nong Hong . 2020. New York, NY: Routledge. xiii + 218 p, hardcover. ISBN 9780367278694. USD 99.00.	0