OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Memorial to Norman W. Ten Brink (1943–2023)	25
Unraveling hydrologic and hydrochemical processes based on long-term concentration–discharge analysis in the Green Lake 4 catchment, Colorado Front Range, USA	18
Correction	17
Glacial versus geomorphic controls on stream temperature and conductivity in a temperate watershed	15
An analysis of McMurdo Dry Valleys’ lotic habitats within Antarctica’s protected area network and addressing gaps in biodiversity protection	14
Long-term data suggest a severe decline in recruitment of the American pika on Niwot Ridge, Boulder County, Colorado	14
Sedimentary facies and clay mineralogy of the late Pleistocene Landsort Deep sediments, Baltic Sea — Implications for the Baltic Ice Lake development	14
Can animal grazing help to reduce permafrost thaw?	12
Environmental changes in Krossfjorden, Svalbard, since 1950: Benthic foraminiferal and stable isotope evidence	12
Soil organic carbon stocks in mountain periglacial areas of northern Patagonia (Argentina)	11
Timing of glacial - non-glacial stages in Finland: An exploratory analysis of the OSL data	11
High resolution record of vegetation and climate change in Western Beringia (Yana–Indighirka Lowland) at the end of the Late Pleistocene	10
Characteristics of runoff changes and their climatic factors in two different glacier-fed basins	9
Implications of alder shrub growth for alpine tundra soil properties in Interior Alaska	9
Mortierellaceae diversity at earliest soil developmental stages of four calcareous glacier forefields—An isolation-based approach	9
Samuel Irvine Outcalt, 1936–2023	9
About the Cover - Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Volume 56(1)	8
Regeneration of subalpine conifer species is inhibited by bark-stripping deer in a Betula forest	8
Moraines and dead ice in Taylor Valley, Antarctica, record retreat of alpine and outlet glaciers from Marine Isotope Stage 5 to 4	8
Non-native vascular flora of alpine areas in the White Mountains, New Hampshire, USA	8
Effects of nitrogen on benthic diatom assemblages in high-elevation central and eastern alpine lakes	8
Microbial iron reduction and greenhouse gas production in response to organic matter amendment and temperature increase of periglacial sediments, Bolterdalen, Svalbard	8
Investigating the potential for redox-active organic matter reduction in high elevation wetlands of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA	8
Active layer variability and change in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories between 1991-2014: An ecoregional assessment	8
Long-term change and geospatial patterns of river ice cover and navigability in Southcentral Alaska detected with remote sensing	8

Living in ice: Examining the effects of temperature on thermal and metabolic physiology of glacier ice worms ( Mesenchytraeus solifugus )	7
Distinctive iceberg ploughmarks on the mid-Norwegian margin: Tidally influenced chains of pits with implications for iceberg drift	7
Tracking ablation and movement of icebergs with time-lapse photography at an alpine proglacial lake in Austria	7
The geoecological development of soil microbial communities following glacier retreat	7
Drivers of soil temperature variation in alpine lichen heaths and shrub vegetation during the summer	7
Ongoing regime shift on subarctic Disko Island, Greenland	7
Permafrost and active layer characteristics in the high arid Andes between the Altiplano and high Atacama Desert	7
Rapid contemporary shrinking and loss of ice-capped summits in the western United States	6
Stress-associated metabolites vary with both season and habitat across populations of a climate sentinel species	6
Correction	6
Succession of soil-living Nematoda and Diptera larvae (Chironomidae, Sciaridae, and Brachycera) near a melting glacier in Southern Norway	6
High Arctic vegetation lowers soil temperatures on sunny days despite low stature	6
Meteorological conditions and snow-avalanche occurrence over three snow seasons (2017–2020) in Tasiapik Valley, Umiujaq, Nunavik	5
Comparison of bacterial and diatom diversity patterns from waterbodies across two Antarctic Peninsula island groups	5
An exceptional March 1912 blizzard (the Final Blizzard) that sealed the fate of Captain Scott and his party	5
Multiproxy investigation of the last 2,000 years BP marine paleoenvironmental record along the western Spitsbergen margin	5
Temperature-induced germination pulses above the alpine tree line	5
Arctic ecosystem restoration with native tundra bryophytes	5
The long multiphase trunk–tributary surge history of the high-Arctic Chapman Glacier, 1959–2023	5
Photofate of Tetrabromobisphenol-A in the Arctic: Role of photofluence and dissolved organic matter	5
Will current protected areas harbor refugia for threatened Arctic vegetation types until 2050? A first assessment	5
Accounting deviations between the measured and simulated impact pressures in high-density snow avalanches	4
Bacterial community structure of microbial pinnacles in ice-covered Lake Vanda, Antarctica	4
Weathering products in glacial silt and clay: Using automated mineralogy to probe size distribution and source	4
An alpine enigma: Plant pathogens at Kosciuszko, Australia—A review	4
The thermal structure of small and shallow Arctic Fennoscandian lakes	4
Long-term alpine summit vegetation cover change: Divergent trajectories driven by climate warming and fire	4
Characterizing vegetation and return periods in avalanche paths using lidar and aerial imagery	4
Ground-penetrating radar investigation of regolith thickness on a periglacial alpine summit flat, Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA	4
Tree-ring evidence of the elusive 1959 summer cold event in northwestern North America	4
Hydrological heterogeneity and the plant colonization of recently deglaciated terrain	4
Integrating local environmental observations and remote sensing to better understand the life cycle of a thermokarst lake in Arctic Alaska	4
Chemical signatures of microbial life in an ecological end-member: Shifting hydroclimate and sediment fluxes influence DOM biogeochemistry in Lake Fryxell, a permanently ice-covered lake in the McMurd	4
Do gravel highways affect water quality and invertebrate communities in Arctic lakes?	4
Soil biota sensitivity to hydroclimate variability in a polar desert ecosystem	4
On the factors and the degree of their effect on subglacial melt and changes in the state of Antarctic subglacial lakes	4
Permafrost and seasonal frost thermal dynamics over fifty years on tropical Maunakea volcano, Hawai‘i	3
Remarks and advice to the study of early arthropod succession near melting glaciers	3
Measuring and modelling functional moat area in perennially ice-covered Lake Fryxell, Antarctica	3
Beringian flora and fauna from sed aDNA at Duvanny Yar, Sakha Republic, during marine isotope stages 2 and 3	3
Soil organic carbon stocks in a mountain permafrost area with extensive solifluction (Disko Island, west Greenland)	3
Genetic analysis of the frozen microbiome at 7900 m a.s.l., on the South Col of Sagarmatha (Mount Everest)	3
Permafrost development in northern Fennoscandian peatlands since the mid-Holocene	3
Vulnerability assessment and analysis of cryosphere changes in the Western Sichuan Plateau	3
Socioecological dynamics of diverse global permafrost-agroecosystems under environmental change	3
Influence of vegetation on occurrence and color of snow algal blooms in Mt. Gassan, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan	3
Glacier hazards: Will they change in the future?	3
Ice cover loss and debris cover evolution in the Afghanistan Hindu Kush Himalaya between 2000 and 2020	2
Oribatid mites in a succession of permafrost soils in Central Yakutia	2
Intercomparing atmospheric reanalysis products for hydrodynamic and wave modeling of extreme events during the open-water Arctic season	2

Late glacial retreat of the Lancaster Sound Ice Stream and early Holocene onset of Arctic/Atlantic throughflow in the Arctic Island channels	2
Plant succession on glacial moraines in the Arctic Brooks Range along a >125,000-year glacial chronosequence/toposequence	2
About the Cover - Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Volume 57(1)	2
Introduction: Processes and Palaeo-Environmental Changes in the Arctic from Past to Present (PalaeoArc) special issue	2
Plasticity in colonization and mycorrhizal benefit in the common Arctic species Avenella flexuosa in response to grazing	2
About the Cover - Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Volume 58(1)	2
Snowbed communities and soil C and N dynamics during a four-year investigation in the NW-Italian Alps	2
MIS 3 age of the Veiki moraine in N Sweden – Dating the landform record of an intermediate-sized ice sheet in Scandinavia	2
Predation, reoccupation, cannibalism, and scavenging? Records of small mammals in arctic ground squirrel middens from east Beringia	2
Shifting alpine plant distributions with global change: Testing the environmental matching hypothesis	2
Glacier inventory and recent variations of Santa Inés Icefield, Southern Patagonia	2
Food security crisis in the Yukon River Basin: where have the salmon gone and what can be done?	2
Assessment of Arctic sea ice and surface climate conditions in nine CMIP6 climate models	2
The effects of glacier retreat on plant diversity and soil development	2
Soil nutrient availability affects tundra plant community composition and plant–vole interactions	2
Geochemical evidence for the origin of late Quaternary loess, Seward Peninsula, Alaska	2
Yukon ice patches: Bryophyte generation from ancient ice-entombed assemblages	2
Study on wind dynamics characteristics and sand transport laws in the Qinghai–Tibet Engineering Corridor	2
6,000 years of vegetation and fire history at the timberline ecotone site Drakolimni Smolikas in the Pindos Mountains, northwestern Greece	2
Mineral and isotopic (Nd, Sr) signature of fine-grained deglacial and Holocene sediments from the Mackenzie Trough, Arctic Canada	2
Heat balance of a low-elevated Svalbard glacier during the ablation season: A case study of Aldegondabreen	2
Is the Arctic overlooked in freshwater biodiversity protection goals?	2
The Mammoth fauna as a paleontological characteristic of the Yedoma Ice Complex of Bol’shoy Lyakhovsky Island (New Siberian Islands, Eastern Arctic Siberia)	2
Soil organic and phytomass carbon stocks in mountain periglacial settings of Vindelfjällen (Sweden)	2
Microplastics in Antarctic penguins and seals in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica	2