OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Marine Science is 11. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction	371
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	159
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	157
Neutral Theory and Plankton Biodiversity	142
New Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics	142
The Gulf Stream: Its History and Links to Coastal Impacts and Climate Change	106
Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions	99
The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling	88
Insights from Fossil-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes in Diatoms, Foraminifera, and Corals	75
Using the Fossil Record to Understand Extinction Risk and Inform Marine Conservation in a Changing World	72
Nuclear Reprocessing Tracers Illuminate Flow Features and Connectivity Between the Arctic and Subpolar North Atlantic Oceans	70
Carbon Export in the Ocean: A Biologist's Perspective	65
Physiological Consequences of Oceanic Environmental Variation: Life from a Pelagic Organism's Perspective	63
The Impact of Fine-Scale Currents on Biogeochemical Cycles in a Changing Ocean	60
Earth, Wind, Fire, and Pollution: Aerosol Nutrient Sources and Impacts on Ocean Biogeochemistry	52
The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre	52
Oil Transport Following theDeepwater HorizonBlowout	50
Physics of the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone	50
Temporal and Spatial Signaling Mediating the Balance of the Plankton Microbiome	47
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	45
Discoveries with Roseobacteraceae: Bacterial Models for Ocean Heterotrophy	43
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	43
Ventilation of the Southern Ocean Pycnocline	42
Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma	41
Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability	39

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The Goldilocks Principle: A Unifying Perspective on Biochemical Adaptation to Abiotic Stressors in the Sea	36
Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species	35
Modeling the Morphodynamics of Coastal Responses to Extreme Events: What Shape Are We In?	34
The Serendipity of Discovery: Life of a Geochemist	33
Chesapeake Bay Water Clarity: Challenges and Successes	32
Metabolic Flux Modeling in Marine Ecosystems	30
Active Carbon Transport by Diel Vertical Migrating Zooplankton: Calculated and Modeled, but Never Measured	24
Arctic Continental-Shelf Sediment Dynamics	23
Introduction	21
Global Fisheries Science Documents Human Impacts on Oceans: The Sea Around Us Serves Civil Society in the Twenty-First Century	20
Insights Gained from Including People in Our Models of Nature and Modes of Science	20
Beyond Meta-Omics: Functional Genomics in Future Marine Microbiome Research	20
Marine Transgression in Modern Times	18
The History of Ocean Oxygenation	18
Marshes and Mangroves as Nature-Based Coastal Storm Buffers	17
Introduction	16
How Viruses Shape Microbial Plankton Microdiversity	16
The Enzymology of Ocean Global Change	16
Life in the Midwater: The Ecology of Deep Pelagic Animals	16
Modeling the Vertical Flux of Organic Carbon in the Global Ocean	15
Beryllium Isotopes in Marine Science: Understanding Ocean Current and Ice Dynamics	15
From Stamps to Parabolas	14
The Verification Challenge of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal	13
Novel Insights into Marine Iron Biogeochemistry from Iron Isotopes	13
Rhythms and Clocks in Marine Organisms	13
The Science, Engineering, and Validation of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage	13
Prokaryotic Life in the Deep Ocean's Water Column	12
Argo—Two Decades: Global Oceanography, Revolutionized	12
Feedbacks Regulating the Salinization of Coastal Landscapes	12
Environmental DNA Metabarcoding: A Novel Method for Biodiversity Monitoring of Marine Fish Communities	11