OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Marine Science is 34. 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
The Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Gyre	52
Earth, Wind, Fire, and Pollution: Aerosol Nutrient Sources and Impacts on Ocean Biogeochemistry	52
Physics of the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone	50
Oil Transport Following theDeepwater HorizonBlowout	50
Temporal and Spatial Signaling Mediating the Balance of the Plankton Microbiome	47
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	45
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	43
Discoveries with Roseobacteraceae: Bacterial Models for Ocean Heterotrophy	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