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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The behavior of particulate matter in the Persian Gulf: biogeochemical proxies for source identification	114
Ecophenotypic variation in a cosmopolitan reef-building coral suggests reduced deep-sea reef growth under ocean change	40
Habitat and benthic fauna of the Wallaby-Cuvier escarpment, SE Indian ocean	32
Editorial Board	30
Diet of deep-sea holothurians in theVolcanologists Massif, Bering sea, as inferred from stable isotope and fatty acid analyses	26
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	25
An introducton to the Ross sea international conference special issue	25
Phytoplankton dynamics, growth and microzooplankton grazing across the subtropical frontal zone, east of New Zealand	25
Arabian Sea high salinity core supplies oxygen to the Bay of Bengal	23
The first record of the family Paramunnidae (Isopoda: Asellota) from the bathyal of the Bering Sea with descriptions of two new species of Munnogonium	20
Invader's portrait: Biological characteristics of walleye pollock Gadus chalcogrammus in the western Chukchi Sea	20
How do topography and thermal front influence the water transport from the northern Laotieshan Channel to the Bohai Sea interior in summer?	19
Hadal fauna of the South Sandwich Trench, Southern Ocean: Baited camera survey from the Five Deeps Expedition.	19
Dr. Satya Prakash (1979–2021)	18
Contrasting trends of the ocean CO2 sink and pH in the agulhas current system and the Mozambique basin, south-western Indian ocean (1963–2023)	18
The coupling of winds, ocean turbulence, and High Salinity Shelf Water in the Terra Nova Bay Polynya	18
Seasonal variability of eddy kinetic energy in the Banda Sea revealed by an ocean model: An energy budget perspective	18
Distribution of free–Living marine nematodes along environmental gradients in the strait of hormuz	18
Dynamic change in an ocean desert: Microbial diversity and trophic transfer along the 110 °E meridional in the Indian Ocean	17
Influence of the 2014–2016 marine heatwave on seasonal zooplankton community structure and abundance in the lower Cook Inlet, Alaska	17
Three decades of ocean warming impacts on marine ecosystems: A review and perspective	16
Vertical distribution patterns of early stages of mesopelagic fishes along 110 °E, south-east Indian Ocean	16
Shell-bearing Gastropoda from the methane seeps and hydrothermal vents of the Bering Sea: A preliminary description	15
Submesoscale processes-induced vertical heat transport modulated by oceanic mesoscale eddies	15
Of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the CMIP6 Project	15

Suspended particles are hotspots of microbial remineralization in the ocean's twilight zone	14
Megafaunal community structure on ferromanganese and phosphorite hardgrounds in the Southern California Borderland	14
Deep-learning model for sea surface temperature prediction near the Korean Peninsula	14
Unveiling marine heatwave dynamics in the Persian /Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman: A spatio-temporal analysis and future projections	14
Distinct patterns of coral lesion composition from national/quasi-national marine parks of Kerama and Yoron Islands, Ryukyu Archipelago	13
Sagartiidae (Cnidaria: Actiniaria) from hydrothermal vents and methane seeps in the Bering Sea	13
Editorial Board	13
Plastic pollution: A potential vector of both pathogens and probiotics for corals on the Mascarene Ridge, Indian Ocean	12
A seasonal transition in biological carbon pump efficiency in the northern Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean	12
South Sandwich Islands – An understudied isolated Southern Ocean archipelago	12
Record-breaking 2020 summer marine heatwaves in the western North Pacific	12
Modifying a pelagic trawl to better retain small Arctic fishes	12
Biodiversity and functioning of mesozooplankton in a changing Ross Sea	11
Latitudinal variation in diversity and abundance of mesopelagic fishes associated with change in oceanographic variables along 110°E, south-east Indian Ocean	11
Siliceous microfossil assemblages in the southern Emperor Seamount Chain sediments and their biogeographical and paleoceanographical implications	11
Deep-sea life associated with sediments and polymetallic nodules from the Central Indian Ocean Basin: Insights from 18S metabarcoding	11
Advanced marine technologies for ocean research	11
Diel variations in the upper layer biophysical processes using a BGC-Argo in the Bay of Bengal	11
Vertical occurrence of copepod carcasses in the Cosmonaut Sea during austral summer	11
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	11
Microstructure observations of three-layered mixing on the shelf of the northwestern South China Sea	10
Hydrodynamic response to bathymetric changes in Tampa Bay, Florida	10
Mesozooplankton community responses to environmental stressors in Kuwait's first marine protected area	10
Understanding future changes of Chlorophyll-a in the Indian Ocean using CMIP6 Earth System Model simulations	10
Ocean-atmosphere heat exchange seasonal cycle on the West Florida Shelf derived from long term moored data	10
Editorial Board	10
Oceanic biophysical response to large-scale wind forcing observed southwest of Sumatra during December 2017	9
Vertical distribution and environmental drivers of Meiofaunal communities in the Persian Gulf: insights into biodiversity and sediment dynamics	9
Age and growth of Antarctic deep-sea smelt (Bathylagus antarcticus), an important mesopelagic fish in the Southern Ocean	9
Assessing marine mammal diversity in remote Indian Ocean regions, using an acoustic glider	9
Editorial Board	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
Observed near-inertial waves and shears east of Luzon during Typhoons Mangkhut and Yutu in 2018	9
Sedimentary phosphorus in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman: Geochemical fractionation, seasonal variations, potential bioavailability, and ecological risk	8
Editorial Board	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
Corrigendum to: “Species and size selectivity of two midwater trawls used in an acoustic survey of the Alaska Arctic” (Deep-Sea Res. II 135 (2017) 40–50)	8
Hard-bottom communities in the deep Fram Strait: patterns, processes, and looming questions	8
Influence of environmental attributes on intertidal community structure in glacial estuaries	8
Deep carbon export peaks are driven by different biological pathways during the extended Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean) bloom	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
A data-assimilative modeling investigation of Gulf Stream variability	8
Blue carbon in an eastern boundary upwelling zone – A case study in Namibia	8
Surface ocean carbon budget in the 2017 south Georgia diatom bloom: Observations and validation of profiling biogeochemical argo floats	8
Impact of the Gulf Stream on ocean waves	8
ENSO independent tropical-extratropical signal off the Northeast Pacific	8
Ophiuroidea of the Emperor Seamount Chain – diversity, distribution and biogeography	8
Polymorphism of mtDNA gene Cyt b of the Chukchi Sea polar cod, Boreogadus saida (Gadidae, Gadiformes)	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
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).	8

Prediction of sardine and anchovy catches by double-boat purse seiners in the northern Persian Gulf using machine learning models	8
The macro-and megabenthic fauna on the continental shelf of Prydz Bay, east Antarctica	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
Effects of symmetric instability in the Kuroshio Extension region in winter	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
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	7
Acoustic characterization of fish and macroplankton communities in the Seychelles-Chagos Thermocline Ridge of the southwest Indian ocean	7
Vertical imbalance in organic carbon budgets is indicative of a missing vertical transfer during a phytoplankton bloom near South Georgia (COMICS)	7
Editorial Board	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
Coral reefs health status variation around Kish Island before and after 2015 bleaching in the Persian Gulf: A case study of global warming effects	7
Impact of a fresh-core mesoscale eddy in modulating oceanic response to a Madden-Julian Oscillation	7
Echinoderes beringiensis sp. nov. - The first Kinorhyncha from deep-sea methane seepages in the north Pacific	7
Analysis of Ningaloo Niño simulated by two coupled models of FGOALS3	7
Long-term monitoring and integrated research – Understanding ecosystem processes in the Gulf of Alaska	7
Sea surface temperature predictability assessment with an ensemble machine learning method using climate model simulations	7