OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Polar Biology is 4. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Feasibility and knowledge gaps to modeling circumpolar seabird bycatch in the Arctic	38
Distribution and development patterns in sea stars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) of the Subantarctic Southern Atlantic	28
Species diversity of the genus Podocotyle Dujardin, 1845 (Trematoda, Opecoelidae) in the White Sea: morphological, molecular and life history evidences	27
Vertical stratification of arctic microbial communities near potential hydrocarbon seepage off Cape Dyer, Nunavut	23
Population structure of the bivalve Aequiyoldia eightsii (Jay, 1839) in the shallow water zone of Admiralty Bay (King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula)	23
First paired observations of sexual behavior and calls in wild leopard seals	21
Evaluating the hypoxic tolerance of two maturity stages of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) at its range edge	17
Phenological responses of the Arctic, ubiquitous, and boreal copepod species to long-term changes in the annual seasonality of the water temperature in the White Sea	16
Rapid changes in spectral composition after darkness influences nitric oxide, glucose and hydrogen peroxide production in the Antarctic diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus	15
Maintenance of nest quality in Adélie penguins Pygoscelis adeliae: an additional benefit to life in the center	14
Sclerochronology in the Southern Ocean	14
Habitat use by threatened sheldgeese (Chloephaga spp.) in Austral Patagonia at two spatial scales	13
Un-crewed aerial vehicle population survey of three sympatrically breeding seabird species at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands	12
Anthropogenic activities are associated with shorter telomeres in chicks of Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae)	11
Mycobiota associated to Casa Moneta Museum wood, South Orkney Islands, Antarctica	11
What is the impact of urban development and thermokarsting on arctic tundra pond zooplankton communities?	11
Water mass influence on spatial and seasonal distributions of diatoms, dinoflagellates and coccolithophores in the western Barents Sea	10
Long-term population size and trends of South Georgia Shags (Leucocarbo [atriceps] georgianus) at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands and Bird Island, South Georgia	10
A new ostracod species of the genus Xestoleberis from Nansen Island, Wilhelmina Bay, Southern Ocean, Antarctica	10
Local environmental conditions structured discrete fish assemblages in Arctic lagoons	10
Effects of climate change conditions on the individual response and biotic interactions of the native and non-native plants of Antarctica	10
Biotic and abiotic drivers of aquatic plant communities in shallow pools and wallows on the sub-Antarctic Iles Kerguelen	9
Video survey of deep benthic macroalgae and macroalgal detritus along a glacial Arctic fjord: Kongsfjorden (Spitsbergen)	9
Population decline of the cape petrel (Daption capense) on King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica	9
Distinct genetic clustering in the weakly differentiated polar cod, Boreogadus saida Lepechin, 1774 from East Siberian Sea to Svalbard	9

Regional diet in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) as determined by lipid, fatty acid, and sterol composition	9
Bottom-feeding gray whales Eschrichtius robustus demonstrate a finer scale of site fidelity than pelagic-feeding humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae on an Arctic feeding ground	9
Diversity and spatial variability of shallow benthic macrofaunal assemblages in a high-Arctic fjord (Young Sound, North-East Greenland)	9
Copepod assemblages in the water column and drifting sea-ice floes in the ice-edge region in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean during the austral summer	9
Species composition, distribution and relative abundance of the inshore fish community off the Argentine Islands, Bellingshausen Sea	9
Spring migration of a Neotropical shorebird, the Rufous-chested Plover, Charadrius modestus, between southern Brazil and the sub-Antarctic Falkland/Malvinas Islands	8
First abundance estimates of Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) colony at Tucker Islet	8
Moss bank composition on Galindez Island (Argentine Islands, maritime Antarctic)	8
Status of breeding birds at Observatorio and Goffré Islands, Argentina	8
Contrasting variation patterns in Austroplaca hookeri and Rusavskia elegans (Teloschistaceae, lichenized Ascomycota) in maritime Antarctica	8
Food chain, parasites and climate changes in the high Arctic: a case study on trophically transmitted parasites of common eider Somateria mollissima at Franz Josef Land	8
Parasites of chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) from three localities in the Antarctic Peninsula and a review of their parasitic fauna	8
Surveying cliff-nesting seabirds with unoccupied aircraft systems in the Gulf of Alaska	8
Mitochondrial genomes provide insight into interfamilial relationships within Pycnogonida	8
Significance of autumn and winter food consumption for reproduction by Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears, Ursus maritimus	8
Tendons and ligaments of the Rangifer tarandus metapodial and hoof	8
Cetacean distribution in relation to oceanographic features at the Kerguelen Plateau	8
Otolith chemical composition suggests local populations of Antarctic silverfish Pleuragramma antarctica (Boulenger, 1902) around Antarctica are exposed to similar environmental conditions at early lif	8
Shifting polar bear Ursus maritimus denning habitat availability in the European Arctic	8
First report on biological iron uptake in the Antarctic sea-ice environment	8
Temporal variation in the summer diet of the weddell seal, leptonychotes weddellii, at hope bay, antarctic peninsula	7
Morphological shell characterization of Fissurellidea and Fissurella (Vetigastropoda: Fissurellidae) along the Argentinean coast, from temperate to subantarctic waters	7
First record of ocular albinism in sub-Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis) pups on Marion Island	7
Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) and killer whale (Orcinus orca) co-occurrence in the eastern Chukchi Sea, 2009–2019: evidence from gray whale carcasses observed during aerial surveys	7
Metabarcoding inventory of an arctic tundra soil ecosystem reveals highly heterogeneous communities at a small scale	7
Multiple reproductive events in female wolf spiders Pardosa hyperborea and Pardosa furcifera in the Low-Arctic: one clutch can hide another	7
Pack-ice seals contribute to biological transfers of iron in the Southern Ocean	7
Evaluating strategic offspring sex allocation in the Southern Rockhopper Penguins Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome, a species with obligate brood reduction	7
Correction to: The relevance of fish in the summer diet of the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) at Hope Bay, Antarctic Peninsula and Stranger Point, South Shetland Islands	7
Correction: Where have all the petrels gone? Forty years (1978–2020) of Wilson’s Storm Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus) population dynamics at King George Island (Isla 25 de Mayo, Antarctica) in a changin	7
Arthropods, nematodes, fungi, and bacteria associated with penguin carrion in Barton Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica	7
Complementary diet analyses reveal intraspecific and temporal variation in ringed seal (Pusa hispida) foraging in the Canadian high arctic	7
Antarctic Porifera homogenates as a source of enzymes and antibacterial substances: first results	6
Pathological findings in bycaught harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from the coast of Northern Norway	6
Biodegradation of low sulfur fuel oil HDME 50 in seawater at sub-arctic temperatures with and without dispersants	6
Residues of anthropogenic origin found at Stranger Point/Cabo Funes, 25 de Mayo/King George Island, Antarctica	6
Behavioral and physiological stress responses of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) to industrial ice roads	6
Parasites of invasive pink salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Walbaum, 1792) (Actinopterygii: Salmonidae), in the Kandalaksha Bay of the White Sea	6
Fledging behaviour in colonial auks from the Alcini tribe: comparison of Little Auk Alle alle and Brünnich’s Guillemot Uria lomvia	6
Notes on reproduction in the deep-sea cup coral Balanophyllia malouinensis (Squires 1961) from the Southern Ocean	6
Sterols in red macroalgae from antarctica: extraction and quantification by Gas Chromatography–Mass spectrometry	6
Seasonal abundance, distribution, and growth of the early life stages of polar cod (Boreogadus saida) and saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis) in the US Arctic	6
A systematic review of the trophic ecology of eight ecologically and culturally important fish species in the North American Arctic	6
Breeding den selection by Arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus) in southern Yamal Peninsula, Russia	6
Biological aspects of a rare nototheniid fish, Trematomus tokarevi, from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)	6
Correction to: Summer phyto‑ and bacterioplankton communities during low and high productivity scenarios in the Western Antarctic Peninsula	6
New strategies for the new environment in Spitsbergen fjords (Arctic). Scattering of the feather star Heliometra glacialis (Echinodermata, unstalked crinoid) clinging to a crab	6
Feeding ecology of the longtail southern cod, Patagonotothen ramsayi (Regan, 1913) (Notothenioidei) in the Marine Protected Area Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank, Argentina	6
Visitor and vagrant seabirds admitted for rehabilitation in South Africa, 1993–2017	6
Cyanobacterial diversity of Svalbard Archipelago	6

Distribution and diet of cape petrels (Daption capense) attending fishing vessels off the Patagonian Continental Shelf during the non-breeding season in austral winter: insights from on-board censuses	6
Diversity of Viridiplantae DNA present on rock surfaces in the Ellsworth Mountains, continental Antarctica	6
Spatio-temporal characteristics of demersal fish community in the Chukchi and northern Bering Seas: significant distributional records and interannual variations in species composition and biodiversit	6
Demography of a nearshore gadid navaga, Eleginus nawaga, from the Barents Sea coast during the last glacial period	6
Physiological parameters of South Georgia Shag (Phalacrocorax georgianus) during breeding in South Orkney Island, Antarctica	6
Bdelloid rotifers (Bdelloidea, Rotifera) in shallow freshwater ecosystems of Thala Hills, East Antarctica	6
Macrozoobenthos of the Pechora Bay in 2020–2021 indicates a likely change of common bivalve molluscs in the Arctic estuary	6
Doris Abele (1957–2021)	6
Year-round population dynamics of Limacina spp. early stages in a high-Arctic fjord (Adventfjorden, Svalbard)	6
The Little Auk Alle alle: an ecological indicator of a changing Arctic and a model organism	6
Culturable microorganisms of substrates of terrestrial plant communities of the maritime Antarctic (Galindez Island, Booth Island)	6
Correction: Prey targeted by lactating Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) in Erebus Bay, Antarctica	5
Can penguins (Spheniscidae) see in the ultraviolet spectrum?	5
Spatial patterns and behaviour of notothenioid fishes off the northern Antarctic Peninsula	5
Correction: Mysis segerstralei, an unexpected but important prey for resident Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) in a Svalbard lake	5
Metagenomic mining and molecular characterization of a psychrophilic GH5-CBM5 cellulase from Krossfjorden sediments, Arctic	5
Haemosporidian blood parasites of passerine birds in north-western Siberia	5
Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) hindlimb joint kinetics: propulsive and energy storage mechanisms and mechanical work	5
The relevance of fish in the summer diet of the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) at Hope Bay, Antarctic Peninsula and Stranger Point, South Shetland Islands	5
Heat-related massive chick mortality in an Imperial Cormorant Leucocarbo atriceps colony from Patagonia, Argentina	5
Prokaryotic diversity and biogeochemical characteristics of benthic microbial ecosystems from James Ross Archipelago (West Antarctica)	5
Ontogenetic shift in feeding habits of Antarctic deep-sea smelt Bathylagus antarcticus in the Cosmonaut Sea, East Antarctica	5
Hematological differences in Barents and Kara Seas polar bears (Ursus maritimus): what factors matter?	5
Contributions to the knowledge of the lichenized fungal genera Amandinea, Buellia and Tetramelas (Ascomycota, Caliciaceae) in Antarctica	5
Silica-scaled protists (Chrysophyceae, Centroplasthelida, Thaumatomonadida and Rotosphaerida) in waters bodies of Kotelny Island, Russian Arctic	5
A comprehensive survey of soil microbial diversity across the Antarctic continent	5
Diet, isotopic niche, and spatial distribution of the white-headed petrel (Pterodroma lessonii) at Kerguelen Islands	5
Correction to: Detection of the phycotoxin pectenotoxin-2 in waters around King George Island, Antarctica	5
Estimating variability of microeukaryotic community during summer at Potter Cove (Antarctica), using a multiprimer approach	5
Bird traits and their nutrient impact on terrestrial invertebrate populations	5
Whale bones: a key and endangered substrate for cryptogams in Antarctica	4
Sequencing and gene expression analysis of catalase genes in Antarctic fungal strain Penicillium griseofulvum P29	4
New species of Gromia (Protista, Rhizaria) from South Georgia and the Falkland Islands	4
A review of the Pacific sleeper shark Somniosus pacificus: biology and fishery interactions	4
Body size, assortative mating and divorce rates in a little-known skua taxon, the Falkland Skua Stercorarius antarcticus antarcticus	4
Antimicrobial resistance occurrence in the South American Sea Lion (Otaria flavescens) from Patagonia, Argentina, from a One Health perspective	4
Abundance, habitat use and food consumption of seabirds in the high-Arctic fjord ecosystem	4
Penguindex: a Living Planet Index for Pygoscelis species penguins identifies key eras of population change	4
Trends in Arctic-nesting loon (Gavia spp.) populations in North America	4
New migration and distribution patterns of Atlantic walruses (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) around Nunavik (Québec, Canada) identified using Inuit Knowledge	4
Declining freshwater habitats in Greenland may shift diets of the ubiquitous wolf spider Pardosa glacialis	4
A systematic review of indicators and methods used to assess coastal to offshore marine ecosystems in the western Canadian Arctic	4
Estimating the average distribution of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba at the northern Antarctic Peninsula during austral summer and winter	4
Extreme fieldwork: flame-sealed capillaries versus frozen serums to estimate body composition of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) using isotopic dilution	4
Glacier lanternfish (Benthosema glaciale) first found on the continental slope of the Pacific Arctic	4
High-Arctic intertidal foraminifera, 78°N Spitsbergen	4
Behavior of Arctic fourhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus quadricornis) beneath winter sea ice assessed with passive acoustic telemetry in Tremblay Sound (Baffin Island, Canada)	4
Permafrost conditions influence the abundance, distribution, and leaf traits of two closely related dominant shrub species (Rhododendron subsect. Ledum) in interior Alaska	4
Benthic communities at the marine protected area Namuncurá/Burdwood bank, SW Atlantic Ocean: detection of vulnerable marine ecosystems and contributions to the assessment of the rezoning process	4
A new Entoprocta species from the northwestern Weddell Sea shelf (Southern Ocean), its soft-sediment habitat and possible polychaete hosts	4
Patterns of surface temperature and link to environmental variables in Weddell seals from the western Antarctic Peninsula	4
Factors influencing haulout behaviour of non-breeding weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) at Cape Royds, Antarctica	4
Age, growth and maturity of Southern Ocean skates (Bathyraja spp.) from the Kerguelen Plateau	4
Age estimation comparison between whole and thin-sectioned otoliths and pelvic fin-ray sections of long-lived lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, from Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada	4
Diverging trends and drivers of Arctic flower production in Greenland over space and time	4
Trophic ecology of the yellowfin notothen, Patagonotothen guntheri (Norman, 1937) at the Marine Protected Area Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank, Argentina	4
High abundances of small copepods early developmental stages and nauplii strengthen the perception of a non-dormant Arctic winter	4
Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua) started using mosses as nesting material in the southernmost colony on the Antarctic Peninsula (Cape Tuxen, Graham Land)	4
Evaluation of factors influencing the eradication of annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.) from Point Thomas Oasis, King George Island, Maritime Antarctica	4
Recent shift in biological communities: A case study from the Eastern European Russian Arctic (Bol`shezemelskaya Tundra)	4
The occurrence of Nematoda in coastal sea ice on Svalbard (European Arctic) determined with the 18S small subunit rRNA gene	4
Alterations in human health parameters during stressful ship voyage to Antarctica: effects of probiotics intervention	4
Fish prey of sub-Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus tropicalis at the Tristan da Cunha Islands, South Atlantic Ocean	4
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Field observations of Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) twins at Terra Nova Bay in the Ross Sea, Antarctica	4
Krill finder: spatial distribution of sympatric fin (Balaenoptera physalus) and humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) whales in the Southern Ocean	4
Biodiversity and biogeography of hydroids across marine ecoregions and provinces of southern South America and Antarctica	4