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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Contrast of warm and cold phases in the Bering Sea to understand spatial distributions of Arctic and sub-Arctic gadids	36
Yes, they can: polar bears Ursus maritimus successfully hunt Svalbard reindeer Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus	25
Can heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) serve as biomarkers in Antarctica for future ocean acidification, warming and salinity stress?	23
The Little Auk Alle alle: an ecological indicator of a changing Arctic and a model organism	22
16S rRNA gene and 18S rRNA gene diversity in microbial mat communities in meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica	21
Reduced seasonal sea ice and increased sea surface temperature change prey and foraging behaviour in an ice-obligate Arctic seabird, Mandt’s black guillemot (Cepphus grylle mandtii)	21
Early detection of marine non-indigenous species on Svalbard by DNA metabarcoding of sediment	17
Heat-related massive chick mortality in an Imperial Cormorant Leucocarbo atriceps colony from Patagonia, Argentina	14
Estimating the average distribution of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba at the northern Antarctic Peninsula during austral summer and winter	13
Predictors of invertebrate biomass and rate of advancement of invertebrate phenology across eight sites in the North American Arctic	13
Seasonal abundance, distribution, and growth of the early life stages of polar cod (Boreogadus saida) and saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis) in the US Arctic	13
The first record of the golden jackal (Canis aureus Linnaeus, 1758) in the Russian Subarctic	13
Un-crewed aerial vehicle population survey of three sympatrically breeding seabird species at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands	12
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	12
Community structure and spatial distribution of phytoplankton in relation to hydrography in the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea (autumn 2008)	11
Distinct genetic clustering in the weakly differentiated polar cod, Boreogadus saida Lepechin, 1774 from East Siberian Sea to Svalbard	11
Diet and breeding habitat preferences of White-tailed Eagles in a northern inland environment	11
Ecophysiological and ultrastructural characterisation of the circumpolar orange snow alga Sanguina aurantia compared to the cosmopolitan red snow alga Sanguina nivaloides (Chlorophyta)	11
Diversity, distribution, and xerophilic tolerance of cultivable fungi associated with the Antarctic angiosperms	11
Fifty-year change in penguin abundance on Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: results of the 2019–20 census	10
Recent shift in biological communities: A case study from the Eastern European Russian Arctic (Bol`shezemelskaya Tundra)	10
The last refugia for a polar relict pollinator: isolates of Bombus glacialis on Novaya Zemlya and Wrangel Island indicate its broader former range in the Pleistocene	10
Trophic niches of benthic crustaceans in the Pechora Sea suggest that the invasive snow crab Chionoecetes opilio could be an important competitor	10
Diet composition and body condition of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in relation to sea ice habitat in the Canadian High Arctic	10
Ocean currents as a potential dispersal pathway for Antarctica’s most persistent non-native terrestrial insect	9

Summer activity patterns for a moss and lichen in the maritime Antarctic with respect to altitude	9
Multi-scale temporal variability in biological-physical associations in the NE Chukchi Sea	9
High abundances of small copepods early developmental stages and nauplii strengthen the perception of a non-dormant Arctic winter	9
Allometric relationships of ecologically important Antarctic and Arctic zooplankton and fish species	8
Cold tolerance is similar but heat tolerance is higher in the alien insect Trichocera maculipennis than in the native Parochlus steinenii in Antarctica	8
Annual variation of oceanographic conditions changed migration timing of bowhead whales Balaena mysticetus in the southern Chukchi Sea	8
Cyanobacterial diversity of Svalbard Archipelago	8
Decreased lipid storage in juvenile Bering Sea crabs (Chionoecetes spp.) in a warm (2014) compared to a cold (2012) year on the southeastern Bering Sea	8
Are the diets of sympatric Pygoscelid penguins more similar than previously thought?	8
Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) song pattern in the southern Chukchi Sea	8
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) distributions, aggregation structures, and predator interactions in Bransfield Strait	8
Population decline of the cape petrel (Daption capense) on King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica	8
Could Norwegian fjords serve as an analogue for the future of the Svalbard fjords? State and fate of high latitude fjords in the face of progressive “atlantification”	8
Spatial and temporal diet variability of Adélie (Pygoscelis adeliae) and Emperor (Aptenodytes forsteri) Penguin: a multi tissue stable isotope analysis	8
First evidence of microplastics in the Marine Protected Area Namuncurá at Burdwood Bank, Argentina: a study on Henricia obesa and Odontaster penicillatus (Echinodermata: Asteroidea)	8
Prokaryotic diversity and biogeochemical characteristics of benthic microbial ecosystems from James Ross Archipelago (West Antarctica)	8
Planktonic ciliates in different water masses of Cosmonaut and Cooperation Seas (Indian sector of the Southern Ocean) during austral summer	7
Maintenance of nest quality in Adélie penguins Pygoscelis adeliae: an additional benefit to life in the center	7
Experimental evidence of antimicrobial activity in Antarctic seaweeds: ecological role and antibiotic potential	7
Fungal diversity in seasonal snow of Martel Inlet, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, assessed using DNA metabarcoding	7
Feeding ecology of the long finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas edwardii, in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, determined by stable isotopes analysis	7
DNA metabarcoding data reveals harmful algal-bloom species undescribed previously at the northern Antarctic Peninsula region	7
Fecal glucocorticoid metabolites as an indicator of adrenocortical activity in Arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus) and recommendations for future studies	7
Trophic ecology of the yellowfin notothen, Patagonotothen guntheri (Norman, 1937) at the Marine Protected Area Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank, Argentina	7
Summer circumpolar acoustic occurrence and call rates of Ross, Ommatophoca rossii, and leopard, Hydrurga leptonyx, seals in the Southern Ocean	7
Genomics and transcriptomics analyses provide insights into the cold adaptation strategies of an Antarctic bacterium, Cryobacterium sp. SO1	7
Persistent organic pollutants and mercury in a colony of Antarctic seabirds: higher concentrations in 1998, 2001, and 2003 compared to 2014 to 2016	7
Ensemble forecasting of invasion risk for four alien springtail (Collembola) species in Antarctica	7
Observations of intraspecific killing, cannibalism, and aggressive behavior among polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in the eastern Barents Sea and the Kara Sea	7
Benthic scavenger community composition and carrion removal in Arctic and Subarctic fjords	7
Sea-ice habitat minimizes grazing impact and predation risk for larval Antarctic krill	7
Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus depredating breeding Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses Thalassarche chlororhynchos on Gough Island	7
New distribution records of kelp in the Kitikmeot Region, Northwest Passage, Canada, fill a pan-Arctic gap	7
High diversity of planktonic prokaryotes in Arctic Kongsfjorden seawaters in summer 2015	7
Preliminary study of the benthic fauna in lakes of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago and Vaigach Island (the Russian Arctic)	7
Microbial diversity and dominant bacteria causing spoilage during storage and processing of the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba	6
Distribution of rorquals and Atlantic cod in relation to their prey in the Norwegian high Arctic	6
Genotoxicity of oxidative stress and UV-B radiation in Antarctic vascular plants	6
Effects of iron limitation on carbon balance and photophysiology of the Antarctic diatom Chaetoceros cf. simplex	6
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	6
Shifting polar bear Ursus maritimus denning habitat availability in the European Arctic	6
Bioerosion ichnodiversity in barnacles from the Ross Sea, Antarctica	6
Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) vocalizations across seasons and habitat types in Svalbard, Norway	6
Phytoplankton succession during a massive coastal diatom bloom at Marian Cove, King George Island, Antarctica	6
Vagrant sub-Antarctic fur seal at tropical Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean	6
Spatial distribution of microzooplankton in different areas of the northern Antarctic Peninsula region, with an emphasis on tintinnids	6
A review of leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) births and pups using a standardised age-class classification system	6
The occurrence of Nematoda in coastal sea ice on Svalbard (European Arctic) determined with the 18S small subunit rRNA gene	6
The taxonomic identity and distribution of the eel cod Muraenolepis (Gadiformes: Muraenolepididae) around South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	6
Feeding ecology of the longtail southern cod, Patagonotothen ramsayi (Regan, 1913) (Notothenioidei) in the Marine Protected Area Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank, Argentina	6

Anthropogenic activities are associated with shorter telomeres in chicks of Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae)	6
Blinded by the light: Seabird collision events in South Georgia	6
Thermal responses of two sub-Antarctic notothenioid fishes, the black southern cod Patagonotothen tessellata (Richardson, 1845) and the Magellan plunderfish Harpagifer bispinis (Forster, 1801), from s	6
New Magellanic penguin Spheniscus magellanicus colony in a subantarctic island	6
Penguin predation by extra-limital sub-Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus tropicalis	6
Morphological dietary composition of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) along the East Antarctic continental slope	6
Large-scale genetic structure and diversity of Arctic rainbow smelt Osmerus dentex Steindachner et Kner, 1870 throughout its distributional range based on microsatellites	6
Differences in the fecal microbiota due to the sexual niche segregation of captive Gentoo penguins Pygoscelis papua	6
Evaluation of factors influencing the eradication of annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.) from Point Thomas Oasis, King George Island, Maritime Antarctica	6
Tendons and ligaments of the Rangifer tarandus metapodial and hoof	6
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	6
Thermal adaptations of adults and eggs in the Arctic seed bug Nysius groenlandicus (Insecta: Hemiptera) from South Greenland	6
Egg retention of high-latitude sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in the Pilgrim River, Alaska, during the Pacific marine heatwave of 2014–2016	6
The diversity and antibacterial activity of culturable actinobacteria isolated from the rhizosphere soil of Deschampsia antarctica (Galindez Island, Maritime Antarctic)	6
Variation in migration behaviors used by Arctic Terns (Sterna paradisaea) breeding across a wide latitudinal gradient	6
Leukocyte counts in blood smears of Antarctic seals and penguins: a new less time-consuming method	5
Plastic and other anthropogenic debris in Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) faeces from Iceland	5
Bioremediation of hydrocarbon-contaminated soil from Carlini Station, Antarctica: effectiveness of different nutrient sources as biostimulation agents	5
Do skeletal Mg/Ca ratios of Arctic rhodoliths reflect atmospheric CO2 concentrations?	5
First evidence of interchange of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) between the Magellan Strait and Antarctic Peninsula feeding grounds	5
Identification and validation of new reference genes for accurate quantitative reverse transcriptase-PCR normalization in the Antarctic plant Colobanthus quitensis under abiotic stress conditions	5
Video survey of deep benthic macroalgae and macroalgal detritus along a glacial Arctic fjord: Kongsfjorden (Spitsbergen)	5
Fatty acid biomarkers in three species inhabiting a high latitude Patagonian fjord (Yendegaia Fjord, Chile)	5
First trait-based characterization of Arctic ice meiofauna taxa	5
Structure of virioplankton and viral lysis of prokaryotes on the shelf of Siberian Arctic seas: impact of large river runoff	5
Parental care and demography of a spawning population of the channichthyid Neopagetopsis ionah, Nybelin 1947 from the Weddell Sea	5
Genomic analyses of a novel bioemulsifier-producing Psychrobacillus strain isolated from soil of King George Island, Antarctica	5
Dental evidence for variation in diet over time and space in the Arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus	5
Variation among colonies in breeding success and population trajectories of wandering albatrosses Diomedea exulans at South Georgia	5
Abundance, habitat use and food consumption of seabirds in the high-Arctic fjord ecosystem	5
Xanthophyll cycles in the juniper haircap moss (Polytrichum juniperinum) and Antarctic hair grass (Deschampsia antarctica) on Livingston Island (South Shetland Islands, Maritime Antarctica)	5
Mass strandings of seven toothed and baleen whale species in Northern Norway in March 2020 call for further investigation	5
The overabundance of resources leads to small but exclusive home ranges in Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) on Bering Island	5
Trophic variability of long tail hake Macruronus magellanicus in the Southwestern Atlantic: movements evidenced by stomach content and stable isotope analysis	5
Pellet analysis evidences flexibility in the diet of Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus) during breeding at Esperanza/Hope Bay (Antarctic Peninsula)	5
Influence of marine vertebrates on organic matter, phosphorus and other chemical element levels in Antarctic soils	5
Variability in nitrogen-derived trophic levels of Arctic marine biota	5
Biodiversity and biogeography of hydroids across marine ecoregions and provinces of southern South America and Antarctica	5
Mycobiota associated to Casa Moneta Museum wood, South Orkney Islands, Antarctica	5
Feeding in spatangoids: the case of Abatus Cordatus in the Kerguelen Islands (Southern Ocean)	5
Wolverines (Gulo gulo) in the Arctic: Revisiting distribution and identifying research and conservation priorities amid rapid environmental change	5
Using correlative and mechanistic niche models to assess the sensitivity of the Antarctic echinoid Sterechinus neumayeri to climate change	4
In-situ observations of an intact natural whale fall in Palmer deep, Western Antarctic Peninsula	4
Quantifying the consequence of applying conservative assumptions in the assessment of oil spill effects on polar cod (Boreogadus saida) populations	4
Phyto-detritus feeding by early-stage larvae of Electrona antarctica (Myctophidae) off Wilkes Land in the Southern Ocean, austral summer 2017	4
The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus L.) on the Kola Peninsula (Russia): silently disappearing in the mist of data deficiency?	4
Neuromorphological disparity in deep-living sister species of the Antarctic fish genus Trematomus	4
Effects of seawater temperature and seasonal irradiance on growth, reproduction, and survival of the endemic Antarctic brown alga Desmarestia menziesii (Phaeophyceae)	4
Emerging mosquitoes (Aedes nigripes) as a resource subsidy for wolf spiders (Pardosa glacialis) in western Greenland	4
Morphological variability of cushion plant Lyallia kerguelensis (Caryophyllales) in relation to environmental conditions and geography in the Kerguelen Islands: implications for cushion necrosis and c	4
Status of pinnipeds on mid-Atlantic ridge islands, South Atlantic Ocean	4
Control of Antarctic phytoplankton community composition and standing stock by light availability	4
Notes on reproduction in the deep-sea cup coral Balanophyllia malouinensis (Squires 1961) from the Southern Ocean	4
Community-based monitoring in the Ponoy River, Kola Peninsula (Russia): reflections on Atlantic salmon, pink salmon, Northern pike and weather/climate change	4
Decomplicating and identifying species in the radiation of the Antarctic fish genus Pogonophryne (Artedidraconidae)	4
Phagotrophic protists (protozoa) in Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems: diversity, distribution, ecology, and best research practices	4
An on-ice aerial survey of the Kane Basin polar bear (Ursus maritimus) subpopulation	4
Varying heat tolerance among Arctic nearshore fishes	4
Population characteristics of benthopelagic Gymnoscopelus nicholsi (Pisces: Myctophidae) on the continental shelf of South Georgia (Southern Ocean) during austral summer	4
Estimation of the feeding record of pregnant Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of baleen plates	4
Diversity, ecology, and community structure of the terrestrial diatom flora from Ulu Peninsula (James Ross Island, NE Antarctic Peninsula)	4
Composition of marine nematode communities across broad longitudinal and bathymetric gradients in the Northeast Chukchi and Beaufort Seas	4
Midtrophic fish feeding modes at the poles: an ecomorphological comparison of polar cod (Boreogadus saida) and Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarctica)	4
New insights into reproductive physiology in Antarctic fish: a trial in Lepidonotothen nudifrons	4
Sequencing and gene expression analysis of catalase genes in Antarctic fungal strain Penicillium griseofulvum P29	4
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) exhibit positive phototaxis to white LED light	4
Skull morphology of four Antarctic fulmarine petrels (Aves: Procellariiformes): insights into their feeding biology	4
New confirmed depth limit of Antarctic macroalgae: Palmaria decipiens found at 100 m depth in the Southern Ocean	4
Movements of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) from Davis Base, Antarctica: combining population genetics and tracking data	4
Population dynamics of an island population of water voles Arvicola amphibius (Linnaeus, 1758) with one major predator, the eagle owl Bubo bubo (Linnaeus, 1758), in northern Norway	4
Microbial responses to herbivory-induced vegetation changes in a high-Arctic peatland	4
Year-round movements of Long-tailed Ducks Clangula hyemalis from Kolguev Island, Barents Sea	4
Cannibalism in southern giant petrels (Macronectes giganteus) at Nelson Island, Maritime Antarctic Peninsula	4
The highest mercury concentrations ever reported in a South American bird, the Striated Caracara (Phalcoboenus australis)	4
Glacier lanternfish (Benthosema glaciale) first found on the continental slope of the Pacific Arctic	4
New genetic evidences for distinct populations of the common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in the Southern Hemisphere	4
Pitfalls and advances in morphometric sexing: insights from the Adélie penguin Pygoscelis adeliae	4
Diversity of Viridiplantae DNA present on rock surfaces in the Ellsworth Mountains, continental Antarctica	4
Trends in breeding performance in wader populations at Zackenberg, high Arctic Greenland, in relation to environmental drivers 1996–2018	4
Occurrence of mites (Acari) and springtails (Collembola) in bird nests on King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica)	4