OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Polar Science 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Theoretical and experimental research to remove hot water out of drill hose of deep hot-water drilling system	41
Evaluating and locating a suitable bedrock drilling site near zhongshan station with airborne and ground-based observations	22
Comparison of underwater noise at the Chukchi Plateau under open-water and ice-covered conditions	19
Prospects for the development of the Northern Sea Route after February 2022: An analysis of Russia's policy in the new conditions	14
Brood patch size as a field indicator for feather mercury concentration, but not plastic ingestion, in a harvested seabird of the high Arctic: The little auk Alle alle	13
The seasonality of precipitation on the eastern Antarctic plateau (Dome-C) as derived from LIDAR and ICECAMERA	12
Understanding the relationship between meltwater discharge and solute concentration by modeling solute transport in a snowpack in snow-dominated regions – A review	11
Differentiating Indigenous Peoples from local communities under climate regimes in just energy transition: Implications for the Inuit and Sami Peoples	11
Zircon geochronology of Mt. McMaster and Aker Peaks, Napier Complex, East Antarctica	10
A broadband seismological observatory at Larsemann Hills, Antarctica: Noise characteristics and data quality	9
Spatio-temporal patterns in arctic fox (Vulpes alopex) diets revealed by molecular analysis of scats from Northeast Greenland	9
Multi-level legal protection of traditional knowledge of Arctic indigenous peoples: Decolonizing knowledge production for sustainable development	9
Rapid deceleration in the ice-flow velocity of the Shirase Glacier ice tongue and its influence on the velocity field: Observations from Sentinel-1 C-SAR	9
Thaw slump development and other rapid permafrost disturbances in Hollendardalen Valley, Svalbard	9
Reindeer in a desert (Desertification in the Arctic because of overgrazing)	8
Arctic science diplomacy of Norway: A case study of svalbard	8
Life history and population structure of the Antarctic icefish, Pagetopsis maculata (Notothenioidei, Channichthyidae) from the Weddell Sea	8
Assessment of various microwave brightness temperature products and methods for surface melt detection over Greenland ice sheet	8
Bacterial community structure, adaptations and prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from Antarctica: A review	8
Optimizing the use of portable ROVs for community-based benthic surveys: A case study on the demographics of sea cucumbers around nursery habitats in the Arctic	8
Sediment sources and transport pathways on shelves of the Chukchi and East Siberian Seas: Evidence from the heavy minerals and garnet geochemistry	7
Reducing arctic black carbon emissions: Features of national regulatory systems as a key factor	7
Editorial Board	7
Hot-water rescue ice drilling system to recover subglacial lake exploring sonde: General concept	6
Assessment of the human footprint in Antarctica: A case study Larsemann Hills	6

Hidden dendritic high quartz, grandidierite, euhedrally zoned Mg–Fe carbonate and chalcedony in garnet; documentation and significance of multi–stage recrystallization of garnetiferous granulite from	6
Improving the quality of implementation of the container transportation project along the NSR based on the environmental and energy transition agenda	6
Taxonomy and distribution of deep benthos collected in and around the Southern Ocean during the 30th Anniversary expeditions of R/V Hakuho Maru: Annelida, Mollusca, Ostracoda, Decapoda, and Echinoderm	6
How does a dynamic surface roughness affect snowpack modeling?	6
Thermotectonic evolution of the Rauer Group and Vestfold Hills in Prydz Bay: implications for Neoproterozoic assembly of the East Antarctic Shield	6
Dynamics of pollutants accumulation in the snow of an urban agglomeration	6
Late Quaternary geomorphic evolution of Teesta-Khangtse basin, north Sikkim	6
Methane release from open leads and new ice following an Arctic winter storm event	6
Year-long ground-based observations of bromine oxide over Bharati Station, Antarctica	6
Estimating spatio-temporal changes in front edge of the Ronne Ice Shelf in context of climate change using remote sensing based integrated approach	6
Geological evolution in East Antarctica and related Gondwana fragments	5
International collaboration- An indispensable tool for Antarctic research: Status report of India's endeavours on the icy continent	5
Legal aspects of cooperation in shipping and logistics in the Arctic	5
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey over a melting blue ice area (BIA) at the south of Schirmacher Oasis, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica	5
Snow disappearance timing associated with elevation and vegetation type determines heterogeneity in spring onset in interior Alaska	5
Mapping lichen abundance in ice-free areas of Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica using remote sensing and lichen spectra	5
Evolution of the Archean crust in the Indian Ocean coastal sector (Napier Complex, and nearby areas) of Antarctica – Review	5
Editorial: Research advances from Larsemann Hills, Antarctica: International cooperation and future prospects	5
Studies of atmospheric climate forcers in the Arctic during the ArCS II project	5
An estimation of atmospheric attenuation on an earth-space radio link operating at Ka-band over Larsemann hills area of Antarctica	5
Unveiling risk factors influencing the selection of the Northern Sea Route: A conjoint analysis approach for Japanese shippers	5
Editorial Board	5
Similarities and differences in circulation beneath the Filchner- Ronne and Ross Ice Shelves: A Lagrangian point of view	5
Important factors affecting transportation for shippers and potential demand for the Northeast Passage: A conjoint analysis of Japan	5
Editorial Board	5
Structural evolution of the Instekleppane, Lützow-Holm Complex: Deformation patterns in high-grade zones of east Antarctica	4
First characterization of a nursery ground for the commercial sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa	4
Melting processes of the marginal ice zone inferred from floe size distributions measured with a drone in the southern Sea of Okhotsk	4
The Alaskan Arctic regime shift since 2017: A harbinger of years to come?	4
Lichens of Larsemann Hills and adjacent oases in the area of Prydz Bay (Princess Elizabeth Land and MacRobertson Land, Antarctica)	4
Regional ensemble of CMIP6 global climate models for Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Northern Eurasia	4
High-grade metamorphic rocks in Instekleppane, Lützow-Holm Complex, east Antarctica: A potential new locality of ultrahigh-temperature (UHT) metamorphic rocks	4
Shear Wave Velocity Structure beneath Maitri station in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica from Joint Inversions of Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity, Multimode Surface Waves and Diffused Wave Horizontal-to-	4
Evidence of Paleoproterozoic metamorphism in Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica: Insights from phase equilibria modelling and monazite CHIME dating	4
Foraging ecology of mature male Antarctic minke whales (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) revealed by stable isotope analysis of baleen plates	4
Diversity of culturable microfungi of coal mine spoil tips in Svalbard	4
The strong activity of noctilucent clouds at middle latitudes in 2020	4
Mercury levels in tissues (cartilage, skin, and muscle) of the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus): Potential contamination sources and implications for health and conservation	4
Ecological aspects of water quality investigation in connection with projects of hydropower plants' construction on the Timpton River, Yakutia, Russia	4
Estimating the probability of human error for navigational safety in the Arctic waters	4
Determination of initial breaking pattern in the bending failure of a semi-infinite ice sheet	4
Cellulose δ18O as a hydrological proxy: A case study for willows growing in Indigirka river lowland, Northeastern Siberia	4
Atmospheric aerosol optical properties and trends over Antarctica using in-situ measurements and MERRA-2 aerosol products	4
Editorial Board	4
Corrigendum to “The digital beam forming technique in AgileDARN high-frequency radar”[Polar Sci, 28(2020) 100595, Special Issue on "SuperDARN/ studies of geospace dynamics - Today and future"]	4
Predictability and applicability evaluation of winter temperatures in China based on Eurasian Arctic sea ice concentrations in autumn	4
Application of menthol anesthetics for body size measurements of the sea angel Clione elegantissima (Mollusca: Gymnosomata)	4
Thermal germination characteristics of three High Arctic plants: Implications for their response to climate warming	4
Soil organic matter and biogenic-abiogenic interactions in soils of Larsemann Hills and Bunger Hills, East Antarctica	4
NARR-based analysis of changes in the mesoscale wind and temperature over the Hudson Bay Lowlands and their impact on the surface energy balance: 1979–2018	4

Sympagic communities of the seasonal drift ice fields in the Kara and northeastern Barents Seas	4
The situation of Inuit communities in northwest Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) amid continuously changing environmental and social conditions	3
New insights on the phylogeny and genetic status of a highly vagile seabird from East Antarctica	3
Evaluation of meteorological characteristics and the influence of the Southern Annular Mode at newly established Bharati Station, East Antarctica	3
Editorial Board	3
Cold winds in the north: Three perspectives on the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine on security and international relations in the Arctic	3
Formation of subaerial taliks in Larsemann hills, princess Elizabeth land, East Antarctica	3
High-resolution insights of physical properties of water columns of lakes at the Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica	3
Corrigendum to“Estimation of aboveground biomass, stand density, and biomass growth per year in the past using stand reconstruction technique in black spruce and Scotch pine in boreal forest” [Polar S	3
Polar federated search: New infrastructure to support the polar community	3
Metal speciation in the surface sediments of an Arctic fjord and nearby lakes	3
Effect of varying temperature increases on the microbial community of Pleistocene and Holocene permafrost	3
Post-collisional K-rich mafic magmatism in the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica: Magmatic processes of layered syenite and mantle modification	3
Arctic marine environments regulated by ocean transport and air‒sea‒land interaction: Findings from the ArCS II Ocean Research Program	3
Uncovering the economic impact of thawing arctic permafrost: Exploring GDP production in a changing landscape	3
Performance monitoring of the wastewater system of Bharati Station, Antarctica	3
Who addresses pollution? Relationships among actors and grant money for waste management efforts in remote Alaskan communities	3
Knowledge exchange in the arctic environmental studies: Bridging science and the local community in dialogue	3
New approaches to modeling the critical refreezing length of a Philberth melt probe for ice sheet exploration	3
Editorial: Research advances from Larsemann Hills, Antarctica: International cooperation and future prospects (Part-2)	3
Development of long-term monitoring of Antarctic moss banks to recent climate changes	3
The seventh International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-7)	2
Investigation of background radiation levels and environmental radioactivity around Bharati Station, Larsemann Hills in east Antarctica-an overview	2
Community perspectives inform coastal marine ecosystem research in northwestern Greenland	2
A proposed framework for describing, understanding and protecting Antarctic wetlands: The Cierva Point Wetland complex case	2
Pressure-Temperature-time (P-T-t) evolution of pelitic granulites from the Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica: Insights from accessory mineral geochronology and phase equilibria modeling	2
Analysis of Near-Earth plasma-sheet cumulative magnetic flux transport and its’ comparison for several different runs using the Rice Convection Model	2
Projected changes in near-surface wind speed in the Arctic by a regional climate model	2
Comprehending the surface melt characteristics, calving processes, and seasonal ice velocity of Dålk glacier in Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica	2
Influence of early sea ice melting on the autumn microplankton community of the Pacific Arctic Ocean	2
Estimation of annual and seasonal glaciological-based mass balance of Ladakh range in cold-arid Himalayan region – Case studies of Phuche and Khardung glaciers in 2014–2017	2
Climatic assessment of circum-Arctic permafrost zonation over the last 122 kyr	2
A geological cross section of Neogene to Quaternary sediments in the Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica	2
The current state of Lake Dålk (Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica)	2
Editorial Board	2
Biophysical effects of an old tundra fire in the Brooks Range Foothills of Northern Alaska, U.S.A	2
Occurrence, hyphal growth rate, and carbon source utilization of fungi from continental Antarctica	2
First direct measurement and characterisation of plasma waves, originating from outer space, in the polar upper atmosphere, achieved in the Larsemann-Vestfold region by winter traverses onto the iceca	2
Spatio-temporal variability of Atmospheric CO2 and CH4 concentrations over Antarctica using Ground and Space-based measurements	2
Origin of retrograde saline fluids during collision zone high-temperature metamorphism constrained from whole-rock sulfur isotope composition, the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica	2
Pitfalls of the green transition: Towards a genuine understanding of the right to free, prior and informed consent of the Indigenous peoples	2
Prospective memory performance and emotional regulation during wintering at Bharati station in Antarctica	2
Neoproterozoic crustal evolution of Rayner province, East Antarctica: New insight from subglacial drilling	2
Neoarchean crustal evolution in the Madras Block: Geochemical and petrological evidence from felsic gneiss and amphibolite	2
Analysis of mountain glaciers mass loss in Iran's largest glacier region, Takht-e Soleyman, from 1997 to 2023, using the geodetic techniques	2
Joint effects of sea ice melt, freshwater discharge and tidal currents on zooplankton abundance in the Sea of Okhotsk: 2004 and 2013	2
Editorial Board	2
Contamination assessment and source apportionment of trace metals in the surface sediments of Prydz Bay, coastal Antarctica using positive matrix factorization (PMF)	2
The third-quarter time phenomenon: State of research, findings, and perspectives in isolated, confined, and extreme environments	2
Elucidating the influence of freshwater and sympagic inputs on biogeochemical cycling in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago	2
Morphometry and unusual internal structure of ice ridge investigated at Barneo ice camp in April 2013	2
Estimation of aboveground biomass, stand density, and biomass growth per year in the past using stand reconstruction technique in black spruce and Scotch pine in boreal forest	2
Occurrence and abundance of the gymnosome pteropod genus Clione in the coastal waters of Mombetsu, southern Okhotsk Sea, from 2004 to 2012	2
Interannual variability of surface bio-optical characteristics in the frontal zones of the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during austral summer	2
Spatial and temporal occurrence of two Gyrodinium species in the seasonal ice zone off Wilkes Land, Southern Ocean	2
The effects of environmental variables on hotspots of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in the Bransfield Strait during autumn	2
Investigating long range dependence in temperatures in Siberia	2
Climate change, community well-being, and consumption: Reconsidering human-environment relationships in Greenland under global change	2
First record of a halacarid mite Bradyagaue drygalskii (Halacaroidea, Acari) from Lützow-Holm Bay in East Antarctica	2
Factors influencing harvest success for an Arctic under-ice subsistence fishery	2
Direct sampling and bioanalyses of atmospheric bioaerosols using a tethered balloon over Syowa Station, Antarctica	2
Characterizing Antarctic air-breathing predator dive patterns on a common prey base from stationary echosounders	2
Spatio-temporal changes in radar zones and ELA estimation of glaciers in NyÅlesund using Sentinel-1 SAR	2
Investigating noble gases and nitrogen in Zag (H3-6) and ALH 77216 (L3.7–3.9): The ordinary chondrites with solar type neon and argon	2
Editorial Board	2
Editorial Board	2
Antibiotic resistance and cold-adaptive enzymes of antarctic culturable bacteria from King George Island	2