OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The behavior of particulate matter in the Persian Gulf: biogeochemical proxies for source identification	126
Ecophenotypic variation in a cosmopolitan reef-building coral suggests reduced deep-sea reef growth under ocean change	33
Editorial Board	31
Diet of deep-sea holothurians in theVolcanologists Massif, Bering sea, as inferred from stable isotope and fatty acid analyses	28
Phytoplankton dynamics, growth and microzooplankton grazing across the subtropical frontal zone, east of New Zealand	27
Habitat and benthic fauna of the Wallaby-Cuvier escarpment, SE Indian ocean	26
An introducton to the Ross sea international conference special issue	25
Distribution of free–Living marine nematodes along environmental gradients in the strait of hormuz	22
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	20
Invader's portrait: Biological characteristics of walleye pollock Gadus chalcogrammus in the western Chukchi Sea	20
Arabian Sea high salinity core supplies oxygen to the Bay of Bengal	20
Contrasting trends of the ocean CO2 sink and pH in the agulhas current system and the Mozambique basin, south-western Indian ocean (1963–2023)	19
How do topography and thermal front influence the water transport from the northern Laotieshan Channel to the Bohai Sea interior in summer?	18
Influence of the 2014–2016 marine heatwave on seasonal zooplankton community structure and abundance in the lower Cook Inlet, Alaska	18
The first record of the family Paramunnidae (Isopoda: Asellota) from the bathyal of the Bering Sea with descriptions of two new species of Munnogonium	18
Dr. Satya Prakash (1979–2021)	17
Vertical distribution patterns of early stages of mesopelagic fishes along 110 °E, south-east Indian Ocean	17
Unveiling marine heatwave dynamics in the Persian /Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman: A spatio-temporal analysis and future projections	17
Dynamic change in an ocean desert: Microbial diversity and trophic transfer along the 110 °E meridional in the Indian Ocean	16
The coupling of winds, ocean turbulence, and High Salinity Shelf Water in the Terra Nova Bay Polynya	15
Of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the CMIP6 Project	15
Seasonal variability of eddy kinetic energy in the Banda Sea revealed by an ocean model: An energy budget perspective	15
Submesoscale processes-induced vertical heat transport modulated by oceanic mesoscale eddies	14
Shell-bearing Gastropoda from the methane seeps and hydrothermal vents of the Bering Sea: A preliminary description	14
Three decades of ocean warming impacts on marine ecosystems: A review and perspective	14

Megafaunal community structure on ferromanganese and phosphorite hardgrounds in the Southern California Borderland	14
Modifying a pelagic trawl to better retain small Arctic fishes	13
Deep-learning model for sea surface temperature prediction near the Korean Peninsula	13
Record-breaking 2020 summer marine heatwaves in the western North Pacific	13
Distinct patterns of coral lesion composition from national/quasi-national marine parks of Kerama and Yoron Islands, Ryukyu Archipelago	12
Suspended particles are hotspots of microbial remineralization in the ocean's twilight zone	12
Sagartiidae (Cnidaria: Actiniaria) from hydrothermal vents and methane seeps in the Bering Sea	12
Plastic pollution: A potential vector of both pathogens and probiotics for corals on the Mascarene Ridge, Indian Ocean	12
Editorial Board	12
Siliceous microfossil assemblages in the southern Emperor Seamount Chain sediments and their biogeographical and paleoceanographical implications	11
Biodiversity and functioning of mesozooplankton in a changing Ross Sea	11
South Sandwich Islands – An understudied isolated Southern Ocean archipelago	11
Time-series of dissolved organic carbon in the Fram Strait (2010-2021): Indications for increased river export of DOC to the East Greenland Current?	11
Vertical occurrence of copepod carcasses in the Cosmonaut Sea during austral summer	11
A seasonal transition in biological carbon pump efficiency in the northern Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean	11
Diel variations in the upper layer biophysical processes using a BGC-Argo in the Bay of Bengal	11
Advanced marine technologies for ocean research	10
Editorial Board	10
Latitudinal variation in diversity and abundance of mesopelagic fishes associated with change in oceanographic variables along 110°E, south-east Indian Ocean	10
Assessing marine mammal diversity in remote Indian Ocean regions, using an acoustic glider	10
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	10
Deep-sea life associated with sediments and polymetallic nodules from the Central Indian Ocean Basin: Insights from 18S metabarcoding	10
Hydrodynamic response to bathymetric changes in Tampa Bay, Florida	10
Microstructure observations of three-layered mixing on the shelf of the northwestern South China Sea	9
Oceanic biophysical response to large-scale wind forcing observed southwest of Sumatra during December 2017	9
Age and growth of Antarctic deep-sea smelt (Bathylagus antarcticus), an important mesopelagic fish in the Southern Ocean	9
Ocean-atmosphere heat exchange seasonal cycle on the West Florida Shelf derived from long term moored data	9
Effects of symmetric instability in the Kuroshio Extension region in winter	9
eDNA metabarcoding shows latitudinal eukaryote micro- and mesoplankton diversity stabilizes across oligotrophic region of a >3000 km longitudinal transect in the Indian Ocean	9
Understanding future changes of Chlorophyll-a in the Indian Ocean using CMIP6 Earth System Model simulations	9
Mesozooplankton community responses to environmental stressors in Kuwait's first marine protected area	9
ENSO independent tropical-extratropical signal off the Northeast Pacific	9
The macro-and megabenthic fauna on the continental shelf of Prydz Bay, east Antarctica	8
Prediction of sardine and anchovy catches by double-boat purse seiners in the northern Persian Gulf using machine learning models	8
Fine-scale variability in habitat selection and niche differentiation between sponges and cold-water corals on vertical walls of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone	8
Blue carbon in an eastern boundary upwelling zone – A case study in Namibia	8
Coral reefs health status variation around Kish Island before and after 2015 bleaching in the Persian Gulf: A case study of global warming effects	8
Editorial Board	8
Mean circulation and its seasonal cycle on the West Florida Shelf as evidenced by multi-decadal time series of moored currents and winds	8
Impact of the Gulf Stream on ocean waves	8
Hard-bottom communities in the deep Fram Strait: patterns, processes, and looming questions	8
Polymorphism of mtDNA gene Cyt b of the Chukchi Sea polar cod, Boreogadus saida (Gadidae, Gadiformes)	8
Gulf of Mexico larval dispersal: Combining concurrent sampling, behavioral, and hydrodynamic data to inform end-to-end modeling efforts through a Lagrangian dispersal model	8
Sedimentary phosphorus in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman: Geochemical fractionation, seasonal variations, potential bioavailability, and ecological risk	8
Observed near-inertial waves and shears east of Luzon during Typhoons Mangkhut and Yutu in 2018	8
Deep carbon export peaks are driven by different biological pathways during the extended Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean) bloom	8
The distribution and host utilization of octocoral infesting Ascothoracida (Crustacea, Thecostraca), including the discovery of a new species of Gorgonolaureus from the Emperor sea Mount Chain	8
Ophiuroidea of the Emperor Seamount Chain – diversity, distribution and biogeography	8
The influence of aeolian input on the trace and rare earth element composition of Oligocene-Miocene corals of KOKO Guyot (Emperor seamount chain, Pacific Ocean)	8
Late Quaternary responses to glacial-interglacial climate cycles of offshore Benguela region and associated foraminifera in the southeast Atlantic along Namibia and western South Africa	8

Surface ocean carbon budget in the 2017 south Georgia diatom bloom: Observations and validation of profiling biogeochemical argo floats	8
Vertical imbalance in organic carbon budgets is indicative of a missing vertical transfer during a phytoplankton bloom near South Georgia (COMICS)	7
Echinoderes beringiensis sp. nov. - The first Kinorhyncha from deep-sea methane seepages in the north Pacific	7
Mega- and macrofauna of the hydrothermally active submarine Piip Volcano (the southwestern Bering Sea)	7
Interaction of bay outflow and wind-driven upwelling in chlorophyll patterns in the Gulf of the Farallones	7
Editorial Board	7
Impact of a fresh-core mesoscale eddy in modulating oceanic response to a Madden-Julian Oscillation	7
Editorial Board	7
Long-term monitoring and integrated research – Understanding ecosystem processes in the Gulf of Alaska	7
Influence of oceanic mesoscale eddy on the atmospheric boundary layer based on an idealized model	7
A data-assimilative modeling investigation of Gulf Stream variability	7
Sea surface temperature predictability assessment with an ensemble machine learning method using climate model simulations	7
New insights in benthic biodiversity of the saya de Malha Bank	7
Iron cycling during the decline of a South Georgia diatom bloom	7
Carbon budgets of Scotia Sea mesopelagic zooplankton and micronekton communities during austral spring	7
Acoustic characterization of fish and macroplankton communities in the Seychelles-Chagos Thermocline Ridge of the southwest Indian ocean	7
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).	7