OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Marine Science is 13. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Neutral Theory and Plankton Biodiversity	506
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	239
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	225
New Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics	200
Insights from Fossil-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes in Diatoms, Foraminifera, and Corals	131
Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions	103
The Gulf Stream: Its History and Links to Coastal Impacts and Climate Change	87
The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling	76
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
Using the Fossil Record to Understand Extinction Risk and Inform Marine Conservation in a Changing World	64
The Impact of Fine-Scale Currents on Biogeochemical Cycles in a Changing Ocean	60
From White to Green to Blue? Trajectories of Phytoplankton Communities in a Warming Southern Ocean	60
The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre	56
Oil Transport Following theDeepwater HorizonBlowout	53
Physics of the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone	53
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	51
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	48
Discoveries with Roseobacteraceae: Bacterial Models for Ocean Heterotrophy	43
Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability	42
Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma	34
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Arctic Continental-Shelf Sediment Dynamics	31
Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species	31
Stoichiometric, Isotopic, and Modeling Tracers of Marine Autotrophic Dissolved Organic Nutrient Production and Consumption	31

Active Carbon Transport by Diel Vertical Migrating Zooplankton: Calculated and Modeled, but Never Measured	30
Chesapeake Bay Water Clarity: Challenges and Successes	28
Metabolic Flux Modeling in Marine Ecosystems	27
The Serendipity of Discovery: Life of a Geochemist	27
Beyond Meta-Omics: Functional Genomics in Future Marine Microbiome Research	26
Introduction	26
Insights Gained from Including People in Our Models of Nature and Modes of Science	25
Marine Transgression in Modern Times	24
Global Fisheries Science Documents Human Impacts on Oceans: The Sea Around Us Serves Civil Society in the Twenty-First Century	23
Marshes and Mangroves as Nature-Based Coastal Storm Buffers	22
How Viruses Shape Microbial Plankton Microdiversity	21
Introduction	20
Beryllium Isotopes in Marine Science: Understanding Ocean Current and Ice Dynamics	19
Life in the Midwater: The Ecology of Deep Pelagic Animals	19
Introduction	18
From Stamps to Parabolas	18
Modeling the Vertical Flux of Organic Carbon in the Global Ocean	18
Novel Insights into Marine Iron Biogeochemistry from Iron Isotopes	17
The Verification Challenge of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal	17
The Science, Engineering, and Validation of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage	17
Rhythms and Clocks in Marine Organisms	17
The Evolution, Assembly, and Dynamics of Marine Holobionts	16
Life in the Frozen Ocean	15
Feedbacks Regulating the Salinization of Coastal Landscapes	14
Prokaryotic Life in the Deep Ocean's Water Column	13
Predation in a Microbial World: Mechanisms and Trade-Offs of Flagellate Foraging	13
Climate, Oxygen, and the Future of Marine Biodiversity	13