OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Marine Science is 8. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction	264
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	115
New Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics	108
Neutral Theory and Plankton Biodiversity	99
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	81
Insights from Fossil-Bound Nitrogen Isotopes in Diatoms, Foraminifera, and Corals	80
Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions	79
The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling	69
Using the Fossil Record to Understand Extinction Risk and Inform Marine Conservation in a Changing World	60
Nuclear Reprocessing Tracers Illuminate Flow Features and Connectivity Between the Arctic and Subpolar North Atlantic Oceans	53
Carbon Export in the Ocean: A Biologist's Perspective	50
Physiological Consequences of Oceanic Environmental Variation: Life from a Pelagic Organism's Perspective	48
Earth, Wind, Fire, and Pollution: Aerosol Nutrient Sources and Impacts on Ocean Biogeochemistry	47
The Impact of Fine-Scale Currents on Biogeochemical Cycles in a Changing Ocean	47
The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre	46
Oil Transport Following theDeepwater HorizonBlowout	42
Physics of the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone	42
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	39
Temporal and Spatial Signaling Mediating the Balance of the Plankton Microbiome	36
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	35
Ventilation of the Southern Ocean Pycnocline	34
Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma	28
Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability	27
The Goldilocks Principle: A Unifying Perspective on Biochemical Adaptation to Abiotic Stressors in the Sea	27
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Modeling the Morphodynamics of Coastal Responses to Extreme Events: What Shape Are We In?	23
Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Foundation Species	23
Metabolic Flux Modeling in Marine Ecosystems	22
Arctic Continental-Shelf Sediment Dynamics	20
The Serendipity of Discovery: Life of a Geochemist	20
Introduction	19
Marine Transgression in Modern Times	17
Beyond Meta-Omics: Functional Genomics in Future Marine Microbiome Research	15
Insights Gained from Including People in Our Models of Nature and Modes of Science	15
Global Fisheries Science Documents Human Impacts on Oceans: The Sea Around Us Serves Civil Society in the Twenty-First Century	15
The History of Ocean Oxygenation	14
Marshes and Mangroves as Nature-Based Coastal Storm Buffers	13
How Viruses Shape Microbial Plankton Microdiversity	12
The Enzymology of Ocean Global Change	12
Introduction	11
Modeling the Vertical Flux of Organic Carbon in the Global Ocean	11
From Stamps to Parabolas	10
Life in the Midwater: The Ecology of Deep Pelagic Animals	10
Rhythms and Clocks in Marine Organisms	9
The Science, Engineering, and Validation of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage	8
Predation in a Microbial World: Mechanisms and Trade-Offs of Flagellate Foraging	8
Novel Insights into Marine Iron Biogeochemistry from Iron Isotopes	8
The Evolution, Assembly, and Dynamics of Marine Holobionts	8
Prokaryotic Life in the Deep Ocean's Water Column	8