OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research 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
Increased mean annual temperatures in 2014–2019 indicate permafrost thaw in Alaskan national parks	14
Climate of the Marrakech High Atlas, Morocco: Temperature lapse rates and precipitation gradient from piedmont to summits	13
Vertical root distribution and biomass allocation along proglacial chronosequences in Central Switzerland	11
Morphological and wood anatomical traits of Rhododendron lepidotum Wall ex G. Don along the elevation gradients in Nepal Himalayas	10
Land use change in the Ecuadorian páramo: The impact of expanding agriculture on soil carbon storage	10
Does fire always accelerate shrub expansion in Arctic tundra? Examining a novel grass-dominated successional trajectory on the Seward Peninsula	9
Abrupt permafrost thaw accelerates carbon dioxide and methane release at a tussock tundra site	9
Diurnal and seasonal variations in photosynthetic rates of dwarf pinePinus pumilaat the treeline in central Japan	8
Late glacial retreat of the Lancaster Sound Ice Stream and early Holocene onset of Arctic/Atlantic throughflow in the Arctic Island channels	7
How is rapid Arctic warming influencing weather patterns in lower latitudes?	7
Testing the stratigraphic consistency of Pleistocene microfossil bioevents identified on the Alpha and Lomonosov Ridges, Arctic Ocean	7
Freeze–thaw cycles and snow impact at arid permafrost region in Chajnantor Volcano, Atacama, northern Chile	7
Ground thermal regimes and implications for permafrost distribution on Kilimanjaro, Tanzania	7
Soil invertebrate abundance, diversity, and community composition across steep high elevation snowmelt gradients in the European Alps	6
Ecology of the diatomAulacoseira pusillain oligotrophic mountain lakes, with implications for paleoclimate reconstructions	6
Distinctive iceberg ploughmarks on the mid-Norwegian margin: Tidally influenced chains of pits with implications for iceberg drift	6
How will diminishing sea ice impact commercial fishing in the Bering Sea?	6
Mineral and isotopic (Nd, Sr) signature of fine-grained deglacial and Holocene sediments from the Mackenzie Trough, Arctic Canada	6
Disproportional vulnerability of mountain aquatic invertebrates to climate change effects	6
When no color pattern is available: Application of double observer methods to estimate population size of the Alpine salamander	5
A first continuous three-year temperature record from the dimictic arctic–alpine Lake Tarfala, northern Sweden	5
Timing and duration of ephemeral Antarctic water tracks and wetlands using high temporal–resolution satellite imagery, high spatial–resolution satellite imagery, and ground-based sensors in the McMurd	5
Heat balance of a low-elevated Svalbard glacier during the ablation season: A case study of Aldegondabreen	5
MIS 3 age of the Veiki moraine in N Sweden – Dating the landform record of an intermediate-sized ice sheet in Scandinavia	5
Long-term change and geospatial patterns of river ice cover and navigability in Southcentral Alaska detected with remote sensing	5

Variation in δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N within and among plant species in the alpine tundra	5
Inventory and kinematics of active and transitional rock glaciers in the Southern Alps of New Zealand from Sentinel-1 InSAR	4
Slight change of glaciers in the Pamir over the period 2000–2017	4
Spatiotemporal niche overlap, asymmetric reproductive interference, and population genetics between the sympatric species, Rhododendron diversipilosum and	4
Estimating lichen biomass in forests and peatlands of northwestern Canada in a changing climate	4
Root development on cuttings of seven arctic shrub species for revegetation	4
Surface atmospheric duct over Svalbard, Arctic, related to atmospheric and ocean conditions in winter	4
Intercomparing atmospheric reanalysis products for hydrodynamic and wave modeling of extreme events during the open-water Arctic season	4
Local variability of a taiga snow cover due to vegetation and microtopography	4
Late glacial and Holocene glaciation history of North and Northeast Greenland	4
Multi-proxy evidence of unprecedented hydroclimatic change in a high Arctic proglacial lake: Linnévatnet, Svalbard	4
Temperature response and salt tolerance of the opportunistic pathogen Saprolegnia parasitica: Implications for the broad whitefish subsistence fishery	4
When will the Arctic Ocean become ice-free?	3
Methane emissions from subglacial meltwater of three alpine glaciers in Yukon, Canada	3
Three-dimensional subsurface architecture and its influence on the spatiotemporal development of a retrogressive thaw slump in the Richardson Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada	3
Twentieth century warming reflected by the Malan Glacier borehole temperatures, northern Tibetan Plateau	3
Drought erodes mountain plant community resistance to novel species under a warming climate	3
Active layer variability and change in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories between 1991-2014: An ecoregional assessment	3
Mass balance, ice volume, and flow velocity of the Vestre Grønfjordbreen (Svalbard) from 2013/14 to 2019/20	3