OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Polar Record is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Global interest in the Arctic region: Naval operations impacting scientific-commercial activities	34
Commercial fishing, Inuit rights, and internal colonialism in Nunavut	17
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$60. Hardcover (978-1-	15
Roald Amundsen’s false start: Leadership and conflict during Amundsen’s South Pole expedition	15
To be or not to be like Iceland? (Ontological) Politics of comparison in Greenlandic tourism development	14
The figure of the guide: arctic nature guiding as productive behaviour on Svalbard	12
Edmund Li Sheng , Arctic opportunities and challenges: China, Russia and the US Cooperation and Competition, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 175 p.p., EUR 49.99 Hardcover	12
Tourism worlding: Collective becoming in East Greenland	11
Northernmost land in the world re-confirmed: Islands north of Greenland are icebergs	11
Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, Colin Monteath (2023), Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press. 368p, hard cover. NZ$ 65. ISBN: 978-1-99-101636-2	9
Climate change, energy production, and Arctic tourism: A case study analysis of northern Alaska	9
Economy, territory, and identity: A Rokkanian analysis of Indigenous self-determination in Canada and Norway	8
The right to roam – balancing inclusion and enclosure	7
Three decades of remote sensing subarctic vegetation in northern Russia: A case study in science diplomacy	7
The law of thaw: understanding subnational land use policies for permafrost-agroecosystems	7
Has Russia heard about the European Union’s Arcticness? The EU’s Arctic steps as seen from Russia – CORRIGENDUM	7
Greenland – a distinctive island operation economy - contextual challenges in comparing across societies	6
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR): Showcases for making science diplomacy	5
Representing Sápmi: Analysing the development of the Saami Council as an Indigenous paradiplomatic organisation	5
The question of Icebergs: a cryo-history of Arctic submarine cables	5
Valuing time: Tourism transitions in Svalbard	4
The short-term development of performance and aerobic endurance following prolonged low-intensity ski trekking in Svalbard: A case study	4
A note relating to the birth date of Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier R.N., F.R.S., F.R.A.S.	4
Science diplomacy in the Arctic: Contributions of the USGS to policy discourse and impact on governance	4
Managing plastic pollution in the Arctic ocean: An integrated quantitative flux estimate and policy study	4

Participatory action research with Inuit societies: A scoping review	4
The first observations of Antarctic icebergs by Davis in 1688 and Halley in 1700	4
Portugal in Antarctic History	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	4
Arctic science diplomacy in new geopolitical conditions: From “soft” power to “hard” dialogue?	3
The Possession Islands Ross Sea Antarctica: A history of exploration and scientific endeavour at a Ross Sea archipelago since the first landing in 1841	3
The rise and fall of science diplomacy in the Arctic: The “INTERACT” experience	2
Disaster risk perceptions and multinational cooperation in Barentsburg, Svalbard	2
Between an archipelago and an ice floe: The know-where of Arctic governance expertise	2
Negotiating trade-offs between the environment, sustainability and mass tourism amongst guides on Svalbard	2
Logbooks and Antarctic sealing. Approaching early- and late-19th-century exploitation strategies and their archaeological footprint	2
In search of the origin of an Antarctic ghost ship: The legend of the Jenny re-evaluated	2
Atomic energy for Antarctica: the rise and fall of “Nukey Poo”	2
Why did Endurance sink?	2
Roald Amundsen’s route across the polar plateau in 1911–1912	2
Soft institutions in Arctic governance—who does what?	2
Restoration of legacy contaminated sites in Antarctica: Lessons from Vanda Station, McMurdo Dry Valleys	2
Franklin’s “Cemented Tomb”: The Jamme Report of 1928 Revisited	2