OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography 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
Environmental impacts on walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) distribution across the Bering Sea shelf	36
Ecological responses to climate perturbations and minimal sea ice in the northern Bering Sea	30
Evaluation and projection of global marine heatwaves based on CMIP6 models	26
Distributional shifts among seabird communities of the Northern Bering and Chukchi seas in response to ocean warming during 2017–2019	21
Climate-related changes in the biomass and distribution of small pelagic fishes in the eastern Bering Sea during late summer, 2002–2018	19
The breeding seabird community reveals that recent sea ice loss in the Pacific Arctic does not benefit piscivores and is detrimental to planktivores	19
Temperature variations in the northern Gulf of Alaska across synoptic to century-long time scales	18
Die–offs, reproductive failure, and changing at–sea abundance of murres in the Bering and Chukchi Seas in 2018	18
Recent shifts in northern Bering Sea snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) size structure and the potential role of climate-mediated range contraction	17
Responses of Gulf of Alaska plankton communities to a marine heat wave	17
Three decades of ocean warming impacts on marine ecosystems: A review and perspective	17
Walleye Pollock breach the Bering Strait: A change of the cods in the arctic	16
Body condition of phocid seals during a period of rapid environmental change in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Alaska	16
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) distribution and movements in the vicinity of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area	16
Deep-learning model for sea surface temperature prediction near the Korean Peninsula	15
Assessing the effect of riverine discharge on planktic foraminifera: A case study from the marginal marine regions of the western Bay of Bengal	15
Climate-driven shifts in pelagic fish distributions in a rapidly changing Pacific Arctic	14
ENSO phase-locking biases from the CMIP5 to CMIP6 models and a possible explanation	14
Hadal fauna of the South Sandwich Trench, Southern Ocean: Baited camera survey from the Five Deeps Expedition.	14
Dynamically downscaled projections of ocean acidification for the Bering Sea	14
Sediment trap-derived particulate matter fluxes in the oligotrophic subtropical gyre of the South Indian Ocean	13
Coupled modes of projected regional change in the Bering Sea from a dynamically downscaling model under CMIP6 forcing	13
Physical forcing controls spatial variability in primary production in the Indian Ocean	12
Investigation of the 2018 thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia) die-off on St. Lawrence Island rules out food shortage as the cause	12
Distinctive spring phytoplankton bloom in the Bering Strait in 2018: A year of historically minimum sea ice extent	12

Forecasts of marine heatwaves for marine industries: Reducing risk, building resilience and enhancing management responses	12
Acoustic detections of beaked whales, narrow-band high-frequency pulses and other odontocete cetaceans in the Southern Ocean using an autonomous towed hydrophone recorder	11
Nemerteans collected in the Bering Sea during the research cruises aboard the R/V Akademik M.A. Lavrentyev in 2016, 2018, and 2021 with an analysis of deep-sea heteronemertean and hoplonemertean speci	11
Extreme oceanographic conditions in the northwestern Bering Sea in 2017–2018	11
Deep-sea acorn worms (Enteropneusta) from the Bering Sea with the description of a new genus and a new species of Torquaratoridae dominating soft-bottom communities	11
Spatial changes in the summer diatom community of the northern Bering Sea in 2017 and 2018	11
Influence of the 2014–2016 marine heatwave on seasonal zooplankton community structure and abundance in the lower Cook Inlet, Alaska	10
Effects of a freshening trend on upper-ocean stratification over the central tropical Pacific and their representation by CMIP6 models	10
Submesoscale processes-induced vertical heat transport modulated by oceanic mesoscale eddies	10
Methane seep communities on the Koryak slope in the Bering Sea	10
Contrasting life-history traits of two toothfish (Dissostichus spp.) species at their range edge around the South Sandwich Islands	10
Microbial community biomass, production and grazing along 110°E in the eastern Indian Ocean	10
Integrated research in the Arctic – Ecosystem linkages and shifts in the northern Bering Sea and eastern and western Chukchi Sea	10
Latitudinal variation in diversity and abundance of mesopelagic fishes associated with change in oceanographic variables along 110°E, south-east Indian Ocean	9
Of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the CMIP6 Project	9
Distribution and long-term change of the sea surface carbonate system in the Mozambique Channel (1963–2019)	9
Spatio-temporal variability of chlorophyll in the northern Indian Ocean: A biogeochemical argo data perspective	9
Annual and spatial variation in the condition and lipid storage of juvenile Chukchi Sea gadids during a recent period of environmental warming (2012 to 2019).	9
Unravelling links between squid catch variations and biophysical mechanisms in South African waters	9
Spatial distribution of arctic sand lance in the Chukchi Sea related to the physical environment	9
Processes governing the seasonality of vertical chlorophyll-a distribution in the central Arabian Sea: Bio-Argo observations and ecosystem model simulation	9
Pacific cod or tikhookeanskaya treska (Gadus macrocephalus) in the Chukchi Sea during recent warm years: Distribution by life stage and age-0 diet and condition	9
Seasonal changes in the zooplankton community and population structure in the northern Bering Sea from June to September, 2017	8
Eastern Bering Sea shelf environmental and lower trophic level responses to climate forcing: Results of dynamical downscaling from CMIP6	8
Mega- and macrofauna of the hydrothermally active submarine Piip Volcano (the southwestern Bering Sea)	8
Synthesizing integrated ecosystem research to create informed stock-specific indicators for next generation stock assessments	8
Stratification in the northern Bering Sea in early summer of 2017 and 2018	8
A seasonal transition in biological carbon pump efficiency in the northern Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean	8
Invader's portrait: Biological characteristics of walleye pollock Gadus chalcogrammus in the western Chukchi Sea	8
Diet of deep-sea holothurians in theVolcanologists Massif, Bering sea, as inferred from stable isotope and fatty acid analyses	7
Plankton and nekton community structure in the vicinity of the South Sandwich Islands (Southern Ocean) and the influence of environmental factors	7
Using habitat models for chinstrap penguins, Pygoscelis antarctica, to inform marine spatial management around the South Sandwich Islands during the penguin breeding season	7
Effects of the timing of sea ice retreat on demersal fish assemblages in the northern bering and Chukchi Seas	7
Diatom based reconstruction of climate evolution through the Last Glacial Maximum to Holocene in the Cosmonaut Sea, East Antarctica	7
MJO induced diurnal sea surface temperature variations off the northwest shelf of Australia observed from Himawari geostationary satellite	7
Changes of Circumpolar Deep Water between 2006 and 2020 in the south-west Indian Ocean, East Antarctica	7
Mesozooplankton community distribution on the Agulhas Bank in autumn: Size structure and production	7
The role of temperature on overwinter survival, condition metrics and lipid loss in juvenile polar cod (Boreogadus saida): A laboratory experiment	7
Characteristics and dynamics of mesoscale eddies in the eastern Arabian sea	7
Timing of spring sea-ice retreat and summer seabird-prey associations in the northern Bering Sea	7
Dynamic change in an ocean desert: Microbial diversity and trophic transfer along the 110 °E meridional in the Indian Ocean	7
Drivers of productivity on the Agulhas Bank and the importance for marine ecosystems	6
Copepods and mixotrophic Rhizaria dominate zooplankton abundances in the oligotrophic Indian Ocean	6
Development of a prey-predator species distribution model for a large piscivorous fish: A case study for Japanese Spanish mackerel Scomberomorus niphonius and Japanese anchovy Engraulis japonicus	6
Spatial and temporal variability and connectivity of the marine environment of the South Sandwich Islands, Southern Ocean	6
Evaluating the impact of climate and demographic variation on future prospects for fish stocks: An application for northern rock sole in Alaska	6
Can an invader support commercial fishing? A case study of walleye pollock Gadus chalcogrammus in the western Chukchi Sea	6
Influence of environmental attributes on intertidal community structure in glacial estuaries	6
Characteristics of ocean mesoscale eddies in the Agulhas and Tasman Leakage regions from two eddy datasets	6
The first record of the family Parvaplustridae (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) from hydrothermal vent fields of the Piip Volcano, Bering Sea with the description of a new species of the genus Parvaplustr	6

Vertical imbalance in organic carbon budgets is indicative of a missing vertical transfer during a phytoplankton bloom near South Georgia (COMICS)	6
Distributions of virio- and picoplankton and their relationships with ice-melting and upwelling in the Indian Ocean sector of East Antarctica	6
Impacts of unusually light sea-ice cover in winter 2017-2018 on the northern Bering Sea marine ecosystem – An introduction	6
Carbon budgets of Scotia Sea mesopelagic zooplankton and micronekton communities during austral spring	5
Short-term forecast of Karenia brevis trajectory on the West Florida Shelf	5
Polar cod (Boreogadus saida) of the Siberian Arctic: Distribution and biology	5
Predicting the current habitat suitability and future habitat changes of Antarctic jonasfish Notolepis coatsorum in the Southern Ocean	5
The thermodynamic and dynamic control of the sensible heat polynya in the western Cosmonaut Sea	5
Spatial and temporal variability of Net Primary Production on the Agulhas Bank, 1998–2018	5
Krill along the 110°E meridian: Oceanographic influences on assemblages in the eastern Indian Ocean	5
The first record of Asellota (Isopoda) from hydrothermal vent biotopes of the submarine Piip Volcano, Bering Sea, with descriptions of two new species of Munnopsidae	5
Bioregionalization of the South Sandwich Islands through community analysis of bathyal fish and invertebrate assemblages using fishery-derived data	5
210Po and 210Pb as tracers for particle cycling in a shallow semi-enclosed bay of Taiwan Strait	5
Age and growth of Antarctic deep-sea smelt (Bathylagus antarcticus), an important mesopelagic fish in the Southern Ocean	5
eDNA metabarcoding shows latitudinal eukaryote micro- and mesoplankton diversity stabilizes across oligotrophic region of a >3000 km longitudinal transect in the Indian Ocean	5
Depth distribution of organic carbon sources in Arctic Chukchi Sea sediments	5
Nutrients and chlorophyll-a in the Gulf of Oman: High seasonal variability in nitrate distribution	5
Spatial and temporal variability of dissolved aluminum and manganese in surface waters of the northern Gulf of Alaska	5
Vertical distribution patterns of early stages of mesopelagic fishes along 110 °E, south-east Indian Ocean	5
An ocean perspective on CMIP6 climate model evaluations	5
Intraseasonal variability of the Indonesian throughflow associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation	5
Deep carbon export peaks are driven by different biological pathways during the extended Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean) bloom	5
Simulated sea levels during 1948–2009 in a global ocean-sea ice model for OMIP	5
Benthic bacteria and archaea in the North American Arctic reflect food supply regimes and impacts of coastal and riverine inputs	5
Observed variability of monsoon blooms in the north-central Arabian Sea and its implication on oxygen concentration: A bio-argo study	4
The macro-and megabenthic fauna on the continental shelf of Prydz Bay, east Antarctica	4
Alien toxic dinoflagellate Heterocapsa circularisquama from the Western Pacific in Kuwait, NW Indian Ocean	4
Participatory place-based integrated ecosystem assessment in Sitka, Alaska: Constructing and operationalizing a socio-ecological conceptual model for sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria)	4
Iron cycling during the decline of a South Georgia diatom bloom	4
Modifying a pelagic trawl to better retain small Arctic fishes	4
Updated parameterization of internal tidal mixing in the deep ocean based on laboratory rotating tank experiments	4
Molecular assessment of demersal fish diversity in Prydz Bay using DNA taxonomy	4
Modeling in an integrated ecosystem research framework to explore recruitment in Gulf of Alaska groundfish – Applications to management and lessons learned	4
Phytoplankton dynamics, growth and microzooplankton grazing across the subtropical frontal zone, east of New Zealand	4
Diatom growth, biogenic silica production, and grazing losses to microzooplankton during spring in the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas	4
Applying machine learning in devising a parsimonious ocean mixing parameterization scheme	4
Retention properties of the Agulhas bank and their relevance to the chokka squid life cycle	4
From sealing to the MPA - A history of exploitation, conservation and management of marine living resources at the South Sandwich Islands	4
Influence of oceanic mesoscale eddy on the atmospheric boundary layer based on an idealized model	4
Re-examining flow pathways over the Chukchi Sea continental shelf	4
Shell-bearing Gastropoda from the methane seeps and hydrothermal vents of the Bering Sea: A preliminary description	4
The first record of the family Paramunnidae (Isopoda: Asellota) from the bathyal of the Bering Sea with descriptions of two new species of Munnogonium	4
How do topography and thermal front influence the water transport from the northern Laotieshan Channel to the Bohai Sea interior in summer?	4
Watermass characteristics and circulation near 110°E in the southeast Indian Ocean	4
Winners and losers in a warming Arctic: Potential habitat gain and loss for epibenthic invertebrates of the Chukchi and Bering Seas, 2008–2100	4
Trophic structure of key taxa in rocky intertidal communities in two contrasting high-latitude environments	4
Growth patterns of larval walleye pollock Gadus chalcogrammus from core and peripheral habitat differ in response to temperature	4
Record-breaking 2020 summer marine heatwaves in the western North Pacific	4
Abundance, horizontal and vertical distribution of epipelagic ctenophores and scyphomedusae in the northern Bering Sea in summer 2017 and 2018: Quantification by underwater video imaging analysis	4
Algal contribution to organic carbon sequestration and its signatures in a tropical seagrass meadow	4
Causal relations between the loop current penetration and the inflow/outflow conditions inferred with a rigorous quantitative causality analysis	4
Seasonality of the Somali Current/Undercurrent system	4
Sea surface temperature trends for Tampa Bay, West Florida Shelf and the deep Gulf of Mexico	3
Polymorphism of mtDNA gene Cyt b of the Chukchi Sea polar cod, Boreogadus saida (Gadidae, Gadiformes)	3
Rehabilitation of two deep-sea holothurian species in genus Pannychia from the northwest Pacific Ocean	3
First record of the family Caprellidae (Amphipoda: Senticaudata) from the abyssal zone of the Bering Sea with description of a new species of Cercops	3
Assessing marine mammal diversity in remote Indian Ocean regions, using an acoustic glider	3
Year-round distribution of bearded seals, Erignathus barbatus, throughout the Alaskan Chukchi and northern Bering Sea	3
Predictive performance from abundance distribution models of Vinciguerria lucetia larvae in the southern portion of the California current system using XGBOOST	3
Patterns in the plankton – Spatial distribution and long-term variability of copepods on the Agulhas Bank	3
Environmental factors important to high-latitude nearshore estuarine fish community structure	3
High-resolution biological net community production in the Pacific-influenced Arctic as constrained by O2/Ar and O2/N2 observations	3
Deep-sea hydrozoans in the western part of the Bering Sea: some hydroids associated with methane seep communities at upper bathyal depths and abyssal hydroids with a description of two new species	3
Surface ocean carbon budget in the 2017 south Georgia diatom bloom: Observations and validation of profiling biogeochemical argo floats	3
A Tampa Bay coastal ocean model (TBCOM) nowcast/forecast system	3
Dendrophylliidae cold-water corals in a warm ocean: The effect of exposure duration on their physiological response	3
Elemental and Sr–Nd isotopic compositions of surface clay-size sediments in the front end of major ice shelves around Antarctica and indications for provenance	3
Echinoderes beringiensis sp. nov. - The first Kinorhyncha from deep-sea methane seepages in the north Pacific	3
Trace metal biogeochemistry in methane seeps on the Koryak slope of the Bering Sea	3
Zonal current structure of the Indian Ocean in CMIP6 models	3
The sedimentation, bioturbation and organic matter degradation as revealed by excess 230Th and 210Pb in the Cosmonaut Sea	3
Foraging ecology of nearshore fishes in the Gulf of Alaska	3
Effects of symmetric instability in the Kuroshio Extension region in winter	3
Cold ridge formation mechanisms on the Agulhas Bank (South Africa) as revealed by satellite-tracked drifters	3
Unusual aliphatic hydrocarbon profiles at hydrothermal vent fields of the Central and Southeast Indian Ridges and Mid-Indian Basin	3
Latitudinal variation, and potential ecological indicator species, in the dinoflagellate genus Tripos along 110°E in the south-east Indian Ocean	3
Long-term monitoring and integrated research – Understanding ecosystem processes in the Gulf of Alaska	3
Microbial dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) cycling in the ultraoligotrophic eastern Indian Ocean	3