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

Article	Citations
To be or not to be like Iceland? (Ontological) Politics of comparison in Greenlandic tourism development	23
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$60. Hardcover (978-1-	14
Commercial fishing, Inuit rights, and internal colonialism in Nunavut	14
Global interest in the Arctic region: Naval operations impacting scientific-commercial activities	13
Roald Amundsen’s false start: Leadership and conflict during Amundsen’s South Pole expedition	12
Edmund Li Sheng , Arctic opportunities and challenges: China, Russia and the US Cooperation and Competition, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 175 p.p., EUR 49.99 Hardcover	11
Climate change, energy production, and Arctic tourism: A case study analysis of northern Alaska	10
The figure of the guide: arctic nature guiding as productive behaviour on Svalbard	10
Northernmost land in the world re-confirmed: Islands north of Greenland are icebergs	10
Tourism worlding: Collective becoming in East Greenland	9
Economy, territory, and identity: A Rokkanian analysis of Indigenous self-determination in Canada and Norway	8
Erebus The Ice Dragon: A portrait of an Antarctic volcano, Colin Monteath (2023), Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press. 368p, hard cover. NZ$ 65. ISBN: 978-1-99-101636-2	7
Has Russia heard about the European Union’s Arcticness? The EU’s Arctic steps as seen from Russia – CORRIGENDUM	7
Three decades of remote sensing subarctic vegetation in northern Russia: A case study in science diplomacy	6
The law of thaw: understanding subnational land use policies for permafrost-agroecosystems	6
Portugal in Antarctic History	5
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
The question of Icebergs: a cryo-history of Arctic submarine cables	4
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
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
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
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