When international symposiums, academic journals and submissions to academic seminars are included, over 200 theses were written as a direct result of INSROP.
One of Japan's key objectives in taking part in this ambitious project was to encourage the publication of Russia's wealth of data on the NSR region, so that it could be put to use by the international community and give a concrete sense of the actual state of the Arctic Ocean. For Russia and Norway, who have frequent working experience of conditions in the Arctic, priorities were understandably somewhat different. In planning the project it seems to the authors that both Norway and Russia allowed national pride to get in the way of good science at times. One of the greatest achievements of Japan's participation in INSROP may well have been its success in obtaining richer rewards form the research effort by mediating between the viewpoints of these two nations, encouraging them to reaffirm their commitment to the international character of this project and obtaining the permission of the Russians to publish their previously accumulated data.
