OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Marine Science is 22. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
How Viruses Shape Microbial Plankton Microdiversity	203
Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience	81
Revered and Reviled: The Plight of the Vanishing Sea Cucumbers	79
New Technologies for Monitoring Coastal Ecosystem Dynamics	79
Ventilation of the Southern Ocean Pycnocline	66
Lipid Biogeochemistry and Modern Lipidomic Techniques	57
Introduction	56
The Enzymology of Ocean Global Change	50
Viruses in Marine Invertebrate Holobionts: Complex Interactions Between Phages and Bacterial Symbionts	41
Hidden Threat: The Influence of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Groundwater and the Convergence of Impacts on Municipal Infrastructure	38
Temporal and Spatial Signaling Mediating the Balance of the Plankton Microbiome	37
Aquatic Eddy Covariance: The Method and Its Contributions to Defining Oxygen and Carbon Fluxes in Marine Environments	37
Sociotechnical Considerations About Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal	36
The Physical Oceanography of Ice-Covered Moons	33
Organic Matter Supply and Utilization in Oxygen Minimum Zones	32
Exchange of Plankton, Pollutants, and Particles Across the Nearshore Region	31
Neutral Theory and Plankton Biodiversity	29
Climate Change Impacts on Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems	28
Welcoming More Participation in Open Data Science for the Oceans	27
Modes and Mechanisms of Pacific Decadal-Scale Variability	23
Metal Organic Complexation in Seawater: Historical Background and Future Directions	23
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The Global Turbidity Current Pump and Its Implications for Organic Carbon Cycling	23
Phaeocystis: A Global Enigma	22
Life in the Midwater: The Ecology of Deep Pelagic Animals	22