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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
To be or not to be like Iceland? (Ontological) Politics of comparison in Greenlandic tourism development	23
Commercial fishing, Inuit rights, and internal colonialism in Nunavut	14
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$60. Hardcover (978-1-	14
Global interest in the Arctic region: Naval operations impacting scientific-commercial activities	13
Roald Amundsen’s false start: Leadership and conflict during Amundsen’s South Pole expedition	12
Edmund Li Sheng , Arctic opportunities and challenges: China, Russia and the US Cooperation and Competition, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 175 p.p., EUR 49.99 Hardcover	11
The figure of the guide: arctic nature guiding as productive behaviour on Svalbard	10
Northernmost land in the world re-confirmed: Islands north of Greenland are icebergs	10
Climate change, energy production, and Arctic tourism: A case study analysis of northern Alaska	10
Tourism worlding: Collective becoming in East Greenland	9
Economy, territory, and identity: A Rokkanian analysis of Indigenous self-determination in Canada and Norway	8
Has Russia heard about the European Union’s Arcticness? The EU’s Arctic steps as seen from Russia – CORRIGENDUM	7
Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, Colin Monteath (2023), Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press. 368p, hard cover. NZ$ 65. ISBN: 978-1-99-101636-2	7
The law of thaw: understanding subnational land use policies for permafrost-agroecosystems	6
Three decades of remote sensing subarctic vegetation in northern Russia: A case study in science diplomacy	6
Portugal in Antarctic History	5
The question of Icebergs: a cryo-history of Arctic submarine cables	4
Science diplomacy in the Arctic: Contributions of the USGS to policy discourse and impact on governance	4
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR): Showcases for making science diplomacy	4
Greenland – a distinctive island operation economy - contextual challenges in comparing across societies	4
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	3
Participatory action research with Inuit societies: A scoping review	3
Managing plastic pollution in the Arctic ocean: An integrated quantitative flux estimate and policy study	3
Valuing time: Tourism transitions in Svalbard	3
The short-term development of performance and aerobic endurance following prolonged low-intensity ski trekking in Svalbard: A case study	3

The first observations of Antarctic icebergs by Davis in 1688 and Halley in 1700	3
The rise and fall of science diplomacy in the Arctic: The “INTERACT” experience	2
In search of the origin of an Antarctic ghost ship: The legend of the Jenny re-evaluated	2
Roald Amundsen’s route across the polar plateau in 1911–1912	2
A note relating to the birth date of Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier R.N., F.R.S., F.R.A.S.	2
Arctic science diplomacy in new geopolitical conditions: From “soft” power to “hard” dialogue?	2
Disaster risk perceptions and multinational cooperation in Barentsburg, Svalbard	2
The Possession Islands Ross Sea Antarctica: A history of exploration and scientific endeavour at a Ross Sea archipelago since the first landing in 1841	2
Logbooks and Antarctic sealing. Approaching early- and late-19th-century exploitation strategies and their archaeological footprint	2
Franklin’s “Cemented Tomb”: The Jamme Report of 1928 Revisited	2
A tale of two species: Pringlea antiscorbutica and Azorella polaris, sub-Antarctic scurvy remedies	1
Iceland’s demographic transition: from turf houses to too many tourists	1
Soft institutions in Arctic governance—who does what?	1
Between an archipelago and an ice floe: The know-where of Arctic governance expertise	1
Research on the implementation and practice of the CCAMLR System of Inspection	1
The trouble with local community in Longyearbyen, Svalbard: Howbig politicsand lack offellesskaphinder a not-yet-decided future	1
Population migration in the supporting regions of the Russian Arctic to improve international competitiveness of the Northern Sea Route	1
Negotiating trade-offs between the environment, sustainability and mass tourism amongst guides on Svalbard	1
“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	1
The balance between critical thinking and paradigm thinking in the Arctic: Scientific cooperation across theoretical divides	1
Atomic energy for Antarctica: the rise and fall of “Nukey Poo”	1
Restoration of legacy contaminated sites in Antarctica: Lessons from Vanda Station, McMurdo Dry Valleys	1
Phasing out coal on Svalbard: From a conflict of interest to a contest over symbolic capital	0
The Central Arctic Ocean fisheries moratorium: A rare example of the precautionary principle in fisheries management	0
Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic: Leena Cho and Matthew Jull (2024), New York, NY: Routledge. 246 p. paperpack. ISBN 978-1-032-66770-6	0
Sŭ-pung-er’s pillar: The recent significant discovery of a relic related to the Franklin Expedition	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
Russia’s Arctic policy: Upcoming change?	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
Artists in Antarctica: Patrick Shepherd (2023), Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press. 240p, hard cover. NZ$80. ISBN: 978-1-99-101627-0	0
Sámi agency in economic development processes in the Norwegian High North	0
Editorial: Women of the Arctic	0
Antarctic civics: how tourists to Antarctica view their role as “Antarctic ambassadors” and how to change it	0
Count Otani Kozui’s 1900 northern cruise: A Japanese “explorer tourist” in the Nordic Arctic	0
S. A. Andrée’s understanding of Arctic ice drift during his 1897 balloon expedition	0
Towards customised sovereignty: West Nordic societies in the new great power rivalry	0
Thomas Blanky (1804–1848/51?)	0
Benthic community descriptions at underwater peaks in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica	0
The Svalbard treaty and identity of place: Impacts and implications for Longyearbyen, Svalbard	0
Internal migration in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): variations across economic zones in 2006–2023	0
The DIMA Network: Bridging boundaries via shared scientific interests	0
Russia’s policy of presence in Svalbard	0
Three new records of lichenised fungi for Antarctica	0
Mining tourism in abandoned and existing mines in the Swedish Far North	0
Bilateral collaboration between the Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) and United States Research Communities – from a vision to everyday practice	0
Physical and feasible: Climate change adaptation in Longyearbyen, Svalbard	0
Unfinished indigenous geographies: The endurances and becomings of a Sámi tourism venture	0
Captain Scott rewrote his story: January–June 1911	0
From mining tool to tourist attraction: Cultural heritage as a materialised form of transformation in Svalbard society	0
A local climate perspective on possible development pathways for Longyearbyen, Svalbard	0

Victorian prescience: The Lancetmedical journal and the loss of the Franklin expedition, 1845–1859	0
At home in the cloudberry marsh: on the making and remaking of Sámi home place landscapes	0
Obituary – Dr Peter John Tilbrook	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
Norwegian and Russian settlements on Svalbard: An analysis of demographic and socio-economic trends	0
International access to research infrastructure in the Arctic	0
The rise and fall of Pyramiden: The story of a town in a wider geopolitical and environmental context	0
Blubber for Bibles: translating colonialism in Inuit missions, c. 1750–1850	0
Antarctic Pioneer – The Trailblazing Life of Jackie Ronne. Joanna Kafarowski. 2022. Dundurn Press. 285pp, paperback. ISBN 9781459749535. GBP17.99	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
Between global collaboration and national competition: Unraveling the many faces of Arctic science diplomacy	0
Science diplomacy and Asian states: Transforming the governance landscape in the Arctic	0
Arctic adventure cruise shipping network: Itinerary characteristics and spatial structure	0
Spatio-temporal monitoring of the iceberg D28 using SCATSAT-1 data	0
Scoping Arctic expertise: The mismatch between traditional theories of expertise and Indigenous expertise	0
Scott of the Antarctic, the missing relic	0
The art of Inuit administration: Post-war Canada, cultural diplomacy and northern administration	0
Sea ice and socio-economic impacts from extreme events in Nome, Alaska	0
Thamnolecania yunusii(Ramalinaceae) – A new species of lichenised fungus from Horseshoe Island (Antarctic Peninsula)	0
Is it real? Science diplomacy in the Arctic states’ strategies	0
James Reid (1795?–1850?)	0
Finding “Harry Peglar”: Re-examining the discovery of a Franklin expedition sailor’s skeleton by the 1859 McClintock search expedition	0
The “Rediscovery” of Reginald Ford and his New Zealand Antarctic Lectures, 1905 to 1926	0
Finn Malmgren and polar exploration	0
The original Scott Base buildings	0
Collaring nature: The use of foxes to find and rescue the members of the lost Franklin expedition	0
Antonio de la Roche and the discovery of South Georgia	0
Mapping Antarctic and Arctic Women: An exploration of polar women’s experiences and contributions through place names	0
“A romance based on information”: The curious case of Clements Markham’s Franklin Expedition novel	0
Fishy windows to an Arctic city: Urban (in)visibilities of global fisheries in Tromsø	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
Knowledge, innovation and the race to the South Pole	0
International interdisciplinary Arctic research: Case study of the Russian Arctic biomonitoring mega-grant project	0
Six activities of Observers in the Arctic Council	0
Keeping it in the family: Relationships between Polar medallists	0
The lost message of Nils Strindberg: Re-examining an 1897 Andrée balloon expedition mystery	0
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022: Can we still cooperate with Russia in the Arctic?	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
Changing Svalbard: Tracing interrelated socio-economic and environmental change in remote Arctic settlements	0
Concluding commentary: Inter-disciplinary vistas – research on Svalbard in a local to global continuum	0
Indigenous peoples in Russian Arctic labour market	0
Can China change the Arctic regime?	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
Changing Svalbard: Tracing interrelated socio-economic and environmental change in remote Arctic settlements – CORRIGENDUM	0
Barentsburg and Longyearbyen in times of socioeconomic transition: Residents’ perceptions of community viability	0
One century of US policy toward Antarctica	0
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