OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Polar Research is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Some considerations regarding corporate social responsibility in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia	39
Norwegian killer whale movements reflect their different prey types	33
Polar vortex weakening and its impact on surface temperature in recent decades	15
The polar sciences journal: the past and future of a crucial research instrument	14
A 90-year record of glacier changes in the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian High Arctic	8
Five decades of terrestrial and freshwater research at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard	8
DNA metabarcoding of non-fungal eukaryotic diversity in air and snow of Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica	8
Applying landscape fragmentation analysis to icescape environments: potential impacts for the Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens)	8
Benthic foraminiferal investigations in Middle to Late Quaternary sections of Kongsfjordhallet, north-west Svalbard	7
Summertime tintinnids in surface water of the Weddell and Cosmonaut seas: community structure and relationships with different water masses	7
Modelled realistic daily variation in low winter sea-ice concentration over the Barents Sea amplifies Asian cold events	6
North Atlantic Oscillation seesaw effect in leaf morphological records from dwarf birch shrubs in Greenland and Finland	6
First recorded ice entrapment of a beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) in east Greenland	5
Hormone profiles from Cook Inlet, Bristol Bay and aquarium beluga whales	5
BOOK REVIEW	4
An Arctic expedition: a supposedly useful thing I’ll never do again	4
Local temperature near native vascular plants in the Argentine Islands–Kyiv Peninsula region, Antarctic Peninsula: annual variability and approximation using standard meteorological measurements	4
Alfred Eaton: a Victorian naturalist at the ends of the world	4
Larsen’s cairn: the birth of a new historical site in Antarctica	4
Environmental management and stewardship practices in Antarctic science and tourism: do they align with environmental concerns?	4
Representation of Dense Shelf Water formation by global oceanic reanalyses	3
An agenda for the future of Arctic snow research: the view from Svalbard	3
Value of the Copernicus Arctic Regional Reanalysis (CARRA) in representing near-surface temperature and wind speed in the north-east European Arctic	3
Personal submersibles offer novel ecological research access to Antarctic waters: an example, with observations of the rarely encountered scyphozoan Stygiomedusa gigantea	3
Polar bear depredation of a thick-billed murre fledgling in open water at Prince Leopold Island, Nunavut	3

The surface energy balance of Austre Lovénbreen, Svalbard, during the ablation period in 2014