OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Marine Science 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Ventilation of the Southern Ocean Pycnocline	301
Combining Modern and Paleoceanographic Perspectives on Ocean Heat Uptake	203
Lipid Biogeochemistry and Modern Lipidomic Techniques	126
Introduction	92
New Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics	81
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	79
The Enzymology of Ocean Global Change	79
Hidden Threat: The Influence of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Groundwater and the Convergence of Impacts on Municipal Infrastructure	79
Aquatic Eddy Covariance: The Method and Its Contributions to Defining Oxygen and Carbon Fluxes in Marine Environments	73
Temporal and Spatial Signaling Mediating the Balance of the Plankton Microbiome	73
Sociotechnical Considerations About Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal	66
Organic Matter Supply and Utilization in Oxygen Minimum Zones	62
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	62
Exchange of Plankton, Pollutants, and Particles Across the Nearshore Region	57
Marine Heatwaves	56
How Viruses Shape Microbial Plankton Microdiversity	51
Climate Change Impacts on Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems	50
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	43
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	41
The Complexity of Spills: The Fate of the Deepwater Horizon Oil	38
Neutral Theory and Plankton Biodiversity	38
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Introduction	37
Modeling the Vertical Flux of Organic Carbon in the Global Ocean	36
Combined Use of Short-Lived Radionuclides (²³⁴Th and ²¹⁰Po) as Tracers of Sinking Particles in the Ocean	35

Improving Ocean Management Using Insights from Space	33
Gender Equity in Oceanography	32
Oyster Restoration to Recover Ecosystem Services	32
The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling	31
Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability	31
Standardized Methods to Assess the Impacts of Thermal Stress on Coral Reef Marine Life	29
Insights from Fossil-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes in Diatoms, Foraminifera, and Corals	28
Production of Extracellular Reactive Oxygen Species by Marine Biota	27
Marine Parasites and Disease in the Era of Global Climate Change	27
Turbulence and Coral Reefs	26
Life in the Midwater: The Ecology of Deep Pelagic Animals	23
Incorporating Biological Traits into Conservation Strategies	23
Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma	23
Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions	23
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The State of Marine Social Science: Yesterday, Today, and into the Future	21
Nuclear Reprocessing Tracers Illuminate Flow Features and Connectivity Between the Arctic and Subpolar North Atlantic Oceans	20
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A Global Inventory of Natural and Synthetic Estrogens in Aquatic Systems	15
Amazon Sediment Transport and Accumulation Along the Continuum of Mixed Fluvial and Marine Processes	15
Designing More Informative Multiple-Driver Experiments	14
Using the Fossil Record to Understand Extinction Risk and Inform Marine Conservation in a Changing World	14
Rhythms and Clocks in Marine Organisms	13
The Goldilocks Principle: A Unifying Perspective on Biochemical Adaptation to Abiotic Stressors in the Sea	12
The Biological Effects of Pharmaceuticals in the Marine Environment	10
Physiological Responses of Fish to Oil Spills	10
Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Acidification in Large Estuaries	10
Carbon Export in the Ocean: A Biologist's Perspective	10
The Hydrodynamics of Jellyfish Swimming	9
From Stamps to Parabolas	9
Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species	8
The Desiccation and Catastrophic Refilling of the Mediterranean: 50 Years of Facts, Hypotheses, and Myths Around the Messinian Salinity Crisis	7
Modeling the Morphodynamics of Coastal Responses to Extreme Events: What Shape Are We In?	7