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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Roald Amundsen’s false start: Leadership and conflict during Amundsen’s South Pole expedition	29
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$60. Hardcover (978-1-	15
Global interest in the Arctic region: Naval operations impacting scientific-commercial activities	15
To be or not to be like Iceland? (Ontological) Politics of comparison in Greenlandic tourism development	15
Commercial fishing, Inuit rights, and internal colonialism in Nunavut	13
The figure of the guide: arctic nature guiding as productive behaviour on Svalbard	11
Northernmost land in the world re-confirmed: Islands north of Greenland are icebergs	11
Edmund Li Sheng , Arctic opportunities and challenges: China, Russia and the US Cooperation and Competition, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 175 p.p., EUR 49.99 Hardcover	11
Tourism worlding: Collective becoming in East Greenland	10
Climate change, energy production, and Arctic tourism: A case study analysis of northern Alaska	9
Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, Colin Monteath (2023), Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press. 368p, hard cover. NZ$ 65. ISBN: 978-1-99-101636-2	8
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
Economy, territory, and identity: A Rokkanian analysis of Indigenous self-determination in Canada and Norway	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
Representing Sápmi: Analysing the development of the Saami Council as an Indigenous paradiplomatic organisation	6
Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR): Showcases for making science diplomacy	4
The question of Icebergs: a cryo-history of Arctic submarine cables	4
The short-term development of performance and aerobic endurance following prolonged low-intensity ski trekking in Svalbard: A case study	4
Science diplomacy in the Arctic: Contributions of the USGS to policy discourse and impact on governance	4
Participatory action research with Inuit societies: A scoping review	4
Portugal in Antarctic History	4
Valuing time: Tourism transitions in Svalbard	4
The first observations of Antarctic icebergs by Davis in 1688 and Halley in 1700	4

Arctic science diplomacy in new geopolitical conditions: From “soft” power to “hard” dialogue?	3
A note relating to the birth date of Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier R.N., F.R.S., F.R.A.S.	3
The rise and fall of science diplomacy in the Arctic: The “INTERACT” experience	3
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
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
Managing plastic pollution in the Arctic ocean: An integrated quantitative flux estimate and policy study	3
Logbooks and Antarctic sealing. Approaching early- and late-19th-century exploitation strategies and their archaeological footprint	2
Disaster risk perceptions and multinational cooperation in Barentsburg, Svalbard	2
Atomic energy for Antarctica: the rise and fall of “Nukey Poo”	2
Soft institutions in Arctic governance—who does what?	2
Franklin’s “Cemented Tomb”: The Jamme Report of 1928 Revisited	2
Restoration of legacy contaminated sites in Antarctica: Lessons from Vanda Station, McMurdo Dry Valleys	2
Roald Amundsen’s route across the polar plateau in 1911–1912	2
Between an archipelago and an ice floe: The know-where of Arctic governance expertise	2
In search of the origin of an Antarctic ghost ship: The legend of the Jenny re-evaluated	2