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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Dawning of Antarctica: Through Exploration to Occupation Patrick G. Quilty Published by Dr Eva Meidl, Hobart (2021) ISBN 978-0-646-84234-9. xviii + 474 pp. 75.00 AUD.	38
Life, diatoms and everything: a tribute to Leanne Armand	12
ANS volume 33 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	12
Topographical effect of the Antarctic Peninsula on a strong wind event	11
Extreme cold (−69.1°C) in the McMurdo Dry Valleys	10
ANS volume 33 issue 5 Cover and Front matter	10
ANS volume 33 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	9
Gastropod assemblages associated with Himantothallus grandifolius, Sarcopeltis antarctica and other subtidal macroalgae	9
ANS volume 34 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	9
Influence of Late Holocene climate on Lake Eggers hydrology, McMurdo Sound	9
Experimental determination of reflectance spectra of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in the Scotia Sea	7
Prioritization of alien plant targets for biological control in South Africa's offshore sub-Antarctic islands	6
A tool to evaluate accessibility due to sea-ice cover: a case study of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica	6
Purified proteases of two Antarctic bacteria: from screening to characterization	6
Storytelling, exploration and science at the end of the world	5
The limnology and spectral behaviour of a freshwater lake at Harmony Point, Nelson Island, Antarctica	5
Retrospective modelling of air pollution due to the operation of scientific stations in Antarctica: an experience of reanalysis	5
Impact of the harsh Antarctic environment on mucosal immunity	5
McMurdo Dry Valley lake edge ‘moats’: the ecological intersection between terrestrial and aquatic polar desert habitats	5
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	5
A spatial model of Marion Island's palaeo-ice extent	5
Microhabitats, macro-differences: a survey of temperature records in Victoria Land terrestrial and freshwater environments	5
Beyond the ice: exploring Antarctic soils research through spatial and scientometrics analysis – CORRIGENDUM	5
Deadly mushrooms of the genus Galerina found in Antarctica colonized the continent as early as the Pleistocene	5
Winter warming of McMurdo Dry Valleys soils	4

The future role of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research	4
Short Note: 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai tsunami measured beneath the Ross Ice Shelf	4
Photophysiology of the first reported bleached crustose coralline alga, Clathromorphum sp. (Hapalidiales, Rhodophyta), from Antarctica	4
Extreme precipitation event at the Ross Ice Shelf during the 1911–1912 South Pole run	4
Extremophile hypolithic communities in the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica	4
The 1821 eruption of Bridgeman Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: an observed Capelinhos-style hydrovolcanic event	4
Varying population size of the Cape Royds Adélie penguin colony, 1955–2020: a synthesis	4
Genetic diversity in clustered colonies of an Antarctic marine mesopredator: a role for habitat quality?	4
Evolution of ice rises in the Fimbul Ice Shelf, Dronning Maud Land, over the last millennium	4
Geological insights from the newly discovered granite of Sif Island between Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers	4
Rock cairn and items from ‘Operation Windmill’ (January 1948) rediscovered in Bunger Hills, East Antarctica	3
ANS volume 34 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	3
ANS volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
Eukarya biodiversity in the Thala Hills, East Antarctica	3
Antarctic science in Chile: a bibliometric analysis of scientific productivity during the 2009–2019 period	3
Repeated freezing impacts buoyancy and photosynthesis of a rafting kelp species	3
Permafrost and hydrogeology of quaternary deposits at Cape Welchness, Dundee Island (Antarctic Peninsula)	3
Depositional landforms and sediments in western Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica	3
Evidence for a floristically diverse rainforest on the Falkland archipelago in the remote South Atlantic during the mid- to late Cenozoic	3
ANS volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
High-concentration sediment plumes, Horseshoe Island, western Antarctic Peninsula	3
Sulphur and oxygen isotope signatures of dissolved sulphate in freshwater from King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula	3
ANS volume 33 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
Mosses of Cockburn Island plateau, Antarctica	3
ANS volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	3
Pore size distribution and water retention in colonized Antarctic Beacon sandstone	3
Renewables in Antarctica: an assessment of progress to decarbonize the energy matrix of research facilities	3
Exchanged time in shared isolation: circulation of debt in Antarctica	3
Communicating the best available science to inform Antarctic policy and management: a practical introduction for researchers	3
Periphyton diversity in two different Antarctic lakes assessed using metabarcoding	3
Low-temperature investigation of residual water bound in free-living Antarctic Prasiola crispa	3
Sixty years of glacial retreat behind Palmer Station, Antarctica	3
Habitat severity characteristics structure soil communities at regional and local spatial scales along the Antarctica Peninsula	3
Patterns of moss richness in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, cannot be explained by geological or ornithogenic drivers alone	3
The contribution of Antarctic moss peat to the understanding of global peatland processes	3
Microsatellite locus development in the seaweed Plocamium sp.	3
Diminishing numbers of male southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina Pinnipedia: Phocidae, Linnaeus, 1758) at the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica (1957–2022)	3