OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Antarctic Science 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for Antarctica	38
Checklist of the species of notothenioid fishes	36
The price of cumulative human activities in the Antarctic	17
Assessing colonies of Antarctic shags by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at South Shetland Islands, Antarctica	13
Evolution of the Cook Ice Cap (Kerguelen Islands) between the last centuries and 2100 ce based on cosmogenic dating and glacio-climatic modelling	12
Anthropogenic effects on the marine environment adjacent to Palmer Station, Antarctica	12
A lithostratigraphical and chronological study of Oligocene-Miocene sequences on eastern King George Island, South Shetland Islands (Antarctica), and correlation of glacial episodes with global isotop	11
The need for increased protection of Antarctica's inland waters	10
Lithostratigraphy, age and distribution of Eocene volcanic sequences on eastern King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica	10
Interannual variability of hydrographic properties in Potter Cove during summers between 2010 and 2017	10
Exploring the plant environmental DNA diversity in soil from two sites on Deception Island (Antarctica, South Shetland Islands) using metabarcoding	9
National Antarctic Program responses to fieldwork sexual harassment	9
Species distribution modelling of the Southern Ocean benthos: a review on methods, cautions and solutions	9
Gastropod assemblages associated with Himantothallus grandifolius, Sarcopeltis antarctica and other subtidal macroalgae	9
A debris-covered glacier at Kerguelen (49°S, 69°E) over the past 15 000 years	8
Cryostratigraphy of mid-Miocene permafrost at Friis Hills, McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica	6
Seasonal hydrological and suspended sediment transport dynamics and their future modelling in the Orwell Glacier proglacial stream, Signy Island, Antarctica	6
Valley-floor snowfall in Taylor Valley, Antarctica, from 1995 to 2017: spring, summer and autumn	6
Episodic basin-scale soil moisture anomalies associated with high relative humidity events in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica	6
Habitat selection of southern giant petrels: potential environmental monitors of the Antarctic Peninsula	6
Climate and energy balance of the ground in University Valley, Antarctica	5
A bathymetric compilation of the Cape Darnley region, East Antarctica	5
Unravelling the suitability of Branchinecta gaini as a potential biomonitor of contaminants of emerging concern in the Antarctic Peninsula region	5
Genetic diversity in clustered colonies of an Antarctic marine mesopredator: a role for habitat quality?	5
Can classic biological invasion hypotheses be applied to reported cases of non-native terrestrial species in the Maritime Antarctic?	5

Yeasts from the Maritime Antarctic: tools for industry and bioremediation	5
Renewables in Antarctica: an assessment of progress to decarbonize the energy matrix of research facilities	5
Dealing with insecurities and geopolitics: science diplomacy at the poles	5
The risk of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the Southern Ocean: a practical guide for operators and scientists interacting with wildlife	5
Soil environmental DNA metabarcoding in low-biomass regions requires protocol optimization: a case study in Antarctica	5
Periphyton diversity in two different Antarctic lakes assessed using metabarcoding	5
Influence of heavy metals on the occurrence of Antarctic soil microalgae	4
Diatom communities differ among Antarctic moss and lichen vegetation types	4
Seasonal shifts in microbial diversity in the lakes of Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, Maritime Antarctica	4
Eukarya biodiversity in the Thala Hills, East Antarctica	4
Ice-free valleys in the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica: glacial geomorphology, geochronology and potential as palaeoenvironmental archives	4
Advancing Antarctic climate change policy: upcoming opportunities for scientists and policymakers to work together	4
Harnessing Erebus volcano's thermal energy to power year-round monitoring	4
Microhabitats, macro-differences: a survey of temperature records in Victoria Land terrestrial and freshwater environments	4
Diversity in polar science: promoting inclusion through our daily words and actions	4
Salinity response to atmospheric forcing of the Terra Nova Bay polynya, Antarctica	4
The sub-Antarctic islands are increasingly warming in the 21st century	4
Habitat severity characteristics structure soil communities at regional and local spatial scales along the Antarctica Peninsula	4
Molecular evidence for hybridization in the aquatic plant Limosella on sub-Antarctic Marion Island	3
Communicating the best available science to inform Antarctic policy and management: a practical introduction for researchers	3
Purified proteases of two Antarctic bacteria: from screening to characterization	3
The history of a cluster of large icebergs on leaving the Weddell Sea pack ice and their impact on the ocean	3
Researchers on ice? How the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Antarctic researchers	3
The Chinese Antarctic science programme: origins and development	3
The impact of the Neoglacial and other environmental changes on the raised beaches of Joinville Island, Antarctica	3
Weddell seal behaviour during an exceptional oceanographic event in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 2017	3
Vertical zonation of benthic invertebrates in the intertidal zone of Antarctica (Admiralty Bay, King George Island)	3
Sediment and water geochemistry record of water-rock interactions in King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula	3
Low-temperature investigation of residual water bound in free-living Antarctic Prasiola crispa	3
Experimental determination of reflectance spectra of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in the Scotia Sea	3
First glaciological investigations at Ridge B, central East Antarctica	3
Four unreported emperor penguin colonies discovered by satellite	3
Marine macroalgae of the Balleny Islands and Ross Sea	3
Why do so few Antarctic Specially Protected Areas protect inland waters?	3
Bacteriophages and their microbial hosts in terrestrial biotopes of Antarctica	3
Isolation and characterization of a novel laccase from an Antarctic thermophilic Geobacillus	3
What is the place of science in Antarctica?	3
A tool to evaluate accessibility due to sea-ice cover: a case study of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica	3
Formal recognition of extinct Antarctic polar forests as a distinct biome	3
The emerging contribution of Türkiye to Antarctic science and policy	3
Who should work in Antarctica? An exploration of the individual, social and cultural aspects of expeditioner recruitment	3
Antarctic representation in print media during the emergence of COVID-19	3
Amphipod diversity and metabolomics of the Antarctic spongeDendrilla antarctica	3
Ant-ICON - ‘Integrated Science to Inform Antarctic and Southern Ocean Conservation’: a new SCAR Scientific Research Programme	3