OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Marine Science is 31. 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
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
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	79
Temporal and Spatial Signaling Mediating the Balance of the Plankton Microbiome	73
Aquatic Eddy Covariance: The Method and Its Contributions to Defining Oxygen and Carbon Fluxes in Marine Environments	73
Sociotechnical Considerations About Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal	66
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	62
Organic Matter Supply and Utilization in Oxygen Minimum Zones	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
Introduction	37
	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