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 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
Changing Svalbard: Tracing interrelated socio-economic and environmental change in remote Arctic settlements	11
Physical and feasible: Climate change adaptation in Longyearbyen, Svalbard	11
Barentsburg and Longyearbyen in times of socioeconomic transition: Residents’ perceptions of community viability	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
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
Wisdom of affect? Emotion, environment, and the future of resource extraction	8
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
Between global collaboration and national competition: Unraveling the many faces of Arctic science diplomacy	7
The Svalbard treaty and identity of place: Impacts and implications for Longyearbyen, Svalbard	6
Commercial fishing, Inuit rights, and internal colonialism in Nunavut	6
Toponyms on the ice: The symbolic and iconographical role of Antarctic research base names	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
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
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
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
Is it real? Science diplomacy in the Arctic states’ strategies	3
Frozen data? Polar research and fieldwork in a pandemic era	3
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
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