OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Polar Research is 1. 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
Five decades of terrestrial and freshwater research at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard	21
The challenges of a small population exposed to multiple anthropogenic stressors and a changing climate: the St. Lawrence Estuary beluga	18
Can you hear me? Impacts of underwater noise on communication space of adult, sub-adult and calf contact calls of endangered St. Lawrence belugas (Delphinapterus leucas)	16
Value of the Copernicus Arctic Regional Reanalysis (CARRA) in representing near-surface temperature and wind speed in the north-east European Arctic	15
Sharing country food: connecting health, food security and cultural continuity in Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut	13
Beluga whale stewardship and collaborative research practices among Indigenous peoples in the Arctic	13
Temporal and spatial change in the relationship between sea-ice motion and wind in the Arctic	12
Distribution and contamination assessment of heavy metals in soils and sediments from the Fildes Peninsula and Ardley Island in King George Island, Antarctica	11
The ice flux to the Lambert Glacier and Amery Ice Shelf along the Chinese inland traverse and implications for mass balance of the drainage basins, East Antarctica	10
A climatology of wintertime low-level jets in Nares Strait	10
Warming of Atlantic Water in three west Spitsbergen fjords: recent patterns and century-long trends	9
Seasonality of social behaviour among immature belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in managed care	9
Variation in body size of ringed seals (Pusa hispida hispida) across the circumpolar Arctic: evidence of morphs, ecotypes or simply extreme plasticity?	8
Cetacean spatial trends from 2005 to 2019 in Svalbard, Norway	8
The Billefjorden Fault Zone north of Spitsbergen: a major terrane boundary?	7
Distribution and habitat characteristics of pinnipeds and polar bears in the Svalbard Archipelago, 2005–2018	7
Organic carbon and microbiome in tundra and forest–tundra permafrost soils, southern Yamal, Russia	7
The surface energy balance of Austre Lovénbreen, Svalbard, during the ablation period in 2014	6
Differential acclimation responses to irradiance and temperature in two co-occurring seaweed species in Arctic fjords	6
Minimally invasive physiological correlates of social behaviour in belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) under human care	6
Tintinnid ciliates (marine microzooplankton) of the Ross Sea	5
A review of the ecology and status of white whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in Svalbard, Norway	5
Morphological measurements of Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica naumanni) in High-Arctic Greenland	5
Stability of space use in Svalbard coastal female polar bears: intra-individual variability and influence of kinship	5
Networks of international co-authorship in journal articles about Antarctic research, 1998–2015	4

Pathogen surveillance in Southern Ocean pinnipeds	4
Synergy between behavioural research on beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) conducted in zoological and wild settings	4
Managing cumulative impacts and protected areas in Antarctica: what can we learn from the rest of the world?	4
Hair mineral levels as indicator of wildlife demographics?—a pilot study of muskoxen	4
Multidisciplinary perspectives on living marine resources in the Arctic	3
Alaska Beluga Whale Committee—a unique model of co-management	3
Patterns of interdisciplinary collaboration resemble biogeochemical relationships in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: a historical social network analysis of science, 1907–2016	3
Extremely high abundances of Prasiola crispa-associated micrometazoans in East Antarctica	3
Occurrence of sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Russian Arctic	3
Aggregations of foraging black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) at a sea-ice edge in front of a tidewater glacier	3
Genetic history and stock identity of beluga whales in Kotzebue Sound	3
Hormone profiles from Cook Inlet, Bristol Bay and aquarium beluga whales	3
An Arctic expedition: a supposedly useful thing I’ll never do again	3
Post-depositional loss of nitrate and chloride in Antarctic snow by photolysis and sublimation: a field investigation	3
A comparison of an operational wave–ice model product and drifting wave buoy observation in the central Arctic Ocean: investigating the effect of sea-ice forcing in thin ice cover	3
Diversity and distribution of heterotrophic flagellates in seawater of the Powell Basin, Antarctic Peninsula	2
The role of aquaria in beluga research and conservation	2
Polar Research Special Cluster—Beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas): knowledge from the wild, human care and TEK	2
Liverworts frequently form mycothalli on Spitsbergen in the High Arctic	2
Sudden death of an Arctic wolf population in Greenland	2
Species diversity of macroalgae in Grønfjorden, Spitsbergen, Svalbard	2
The immune response and diving: conservation considerations for belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in a changing Arctic environment	2
Foraging behaviour of sympatrically breeding macaroni (Eudyptes chrysolophus) and chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarcticus) penguins at Bouvetøya, Southern Ocean	2
Inferring population structure and genetic diversity of the invasive alien Nootka lupin in Iceland	1
Svalbard rock ptarmigan: a first glimpse into parasite infections	1
Historic temperature observations on Nordaustlandet, north-east Svalbard	1
Remote sensing, snow modelling, survey data and Indigenous Knowledge show how snow and sea-ice conditions affect Peary caribou (Rangifer tarandus pearyi) distribution and inter-island and island–mainl	1
Personal submersibles offer novel ecological research access to Antarctic waters: an example, with observations of the rarely encountered scyphozoan Stygiomedusa gigantea	1
The Queen of the Arctic: Louise Arner Boyd	1
Ichnodiversity in the eastern Canadian Arctic in the context of polar microbioerosion patterns	1
Polar bear depredation of a thick-billed murre fledgling in open water at Prince Leopold Island, Nunavut	1
Local temperature near native vascular plants in the Argentine Islands–Kyiv Peninsula region, Antarctic Peninsula: annual variability and approximation using standard meteorological measurements	1
Why are Svalbard Arctic foxes Brucella spp. seronegative?	1
Diesel spills under stilted buildings in Canadian Arctic villages: what is the best remediation method?	1
An observation of white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) mating behaviour in the wild	1
Tusk anomalies in narwhals (Monodon monoceros) from Greenland	1
Applying landscape fragmentation analysis to icescape environments: potential impacts for the Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens)	1
Carbon exchange and primary production in a High-Arctic peatland in Svalbard	1
An agenda for the future of Arctic snow research: the view from Svalbard	1
Subglacial discharge weakens the stability of the Ross Ice Shelf around the grounding line	1
Garbage consumption by Arctic terrestrial predators in one of the most pristine land areas on Earth	1