OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Marine Science is 10. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction	346
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	151
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	151
Neutral Theory and Plankton Biodiversity	136
New Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics	131
The Gulf Stream: Its History and Links to Coastal Impacts and Climate Change	98
Insights from Fossil-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes in Diatoms, Foraminifera, and Corals	97
The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling	85
Using the Fossil Record to Understand Extinction Risk and Inform Marine Conservation in a Changing World	72
Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions	72
Carbon Export in the Ocean: A Biologist's Perspective	65
Nuclear Reprocessing Tracers Illuminate Flow Features and Connectivity Between the Arctic and Subpolar North Atlantic Oceans	65
Physiological Consequences of Oceanic Environmental Variation: Life from a Pelagic Organism's Perspective	61
The Impact of Fine-Scale Currents on Biogeochemical Cycles in a Changing Ocean	57
Earth, Wind, Fire, and Pollution: Aerosol Nutrient Sources and Impacts on Ocean Biogeochemistry	52
The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre	51
Oil Transport Following theDeepwater HorizonBlowout	49
Discoveries with Roseobacteraceae: Bacterial Models for Ocean Heterotrophy	47
Physics of the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone	47
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	42
Temporal and Spatial Signaling Mediating the Balance of the Plankton Microbiome	42
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	41
Ventilation of the Southern Ocean Pycnocline	39
Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability	37
Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma	37

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Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species	34
Modeling the Morphodynamics of Coastal Responses to Extreme Events: What Shape Are We In?	34
The Goldilocks Principle: A Unifying Perspective on Biochemical Adaptation to Abiotic Stressors in the Sea	34
Metabolic Flux Modeling in Marine Ecosystems	30
The Serendipity of Discovery: Life of a Geochemist	29
Chesapeake Bay Water Clarity: Challenges and Successes	29
Arctic Continental-Shelf Sediment Dynamics	23
Active Carbon Transport by Diel Vertical Migrating Zooplankton: Calculated and Modeled, but Never Measured	21
Beyond Meta-Omics: Functional Genomics in Future Marine Microbiome Research	20
Introduction	20
The History of Ocean Oxygenation	19
Marine Transgression in Modern Times	18
Global Fisheries Science Documents Human Impacts on Oceans: The Sea Around Us Serves Civil Society in the Twenty-First Century	18
Insights Gained from Including People in Our Models of Nature and Modes of Science	18
Marshes and Mangroves as Nature-Based Coastal Storm Buffers	16
How Viruses Shape Microbial Plankton Microdiversity	16
The Enzymology of Ocean Global Change	16
Beryllium Isotopes in Marine Science: Understanding Ocean Current and Ice Dynamics	15
Life in the Midwater: The Ecology of Deep Pelagic Animals	15
Modeling the Vertical Flux of Organic Carbon in the Global Ocean	15
Introduction	15
From Stamps to Parabolas	14
Rhythms and Clocks in Marine Organisms	13
The Science, Engineering, and Validation of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage	13
The Verification Challenge of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal	13
Novel Insights into Marine Iron Biogeochemistry from Iron Isotopes	12
Predation in a Microbial World: Mechanisms and Trade-Offs of Flagellate Foraging	11
Feedbacks Regulating the Salinization of Coastal Landscapes	11
The Evolution, Assembly, and Dynamics of Marine Holobionts	11
Life in the Frozen Ocean	10