OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annual Review of Marine Science is 28. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction	313
New Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics	141
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	136
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	121
Neutral Theory and Plankton Biodiversity	110
The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling	94
Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions	92
The Gulf Stream: Its History and Links to Coastal Impacts and Climate Change	79
Insights from Fossil-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes in Diatoms, Foraminifera, and Corals	70
Nuclear Reprocessing Tracers Illuminate Flow Features and Connectivity Between the Arctic and Subpolar North Atlantic Oceans	66
Using the Fossil Record to Understand Extinction Risk and Inform Marine Conservation in a Changing World	60
Carbon Export in the Ocean: A Biologist's Perspective	59
Physiological Consequences of Oceanic Environmental Variation: Life from a Pelagic Organism's Perspective	56
The Impact of Fine-Scale Currents on Biogeochemical Cycles in a Changing Ocean	53
Earth, Wind, Fire, and Pollution: Aerosol Nutrient Sources and Impacts on Ocean Biogeochemistry	50
The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre	47
Oil Transport Following theDeepwater HorizonBlowout	44
Physics of the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone	44
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	43
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	40
Temporal and Spatial Signaling Mediating the Balance of the Plankton Microbiome	38
Discoveries with Roseobacteraceae: Bacterial Models for Ocean Heterotrophy	37
Ventilation of the Southern Ocean Pycnocline	33
Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability	33
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Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma	32
The Goldilocks Principle: A Unifying Perspective on Biochemical Adaptation to Abiotic Stressors in the Sea	32
Modeling the Morphodynamics of Coastal Responses to Extreme Events: What Shape Are We In?	31