OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geobiology is 6. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Production of diverse brGDGTs by Acidobacterium Solibacter usitatus in response to temperature, pH, and O₂ provides a culturing perspective on brGDGT proxies an	34
Radiation of nitrogen‐metabolizing enzymes across the tree of life tracks environmental transitions in Earth history	34
The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project	26
Chemical signatures of soft tissues distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte of Illinois	23
Carbon cycle inverse modeling suggests large changes in fractional organic burial are consistent with the carbon isotope record and may have contributed to the rise of oxygen	23
A late Paleoproterozoic (1.74 Ga) deep‐sea, low‐temperature, iron‐oxidizing microbial hydrothermal vent community from Arizona, USA	22
A new constraint on the antiquity of ancient haloalkaliphilic green algae that flourished in a ca. 300 Ma Paleozoic lake	21
Stromatolitic digitate sinters form under wide‐ranging physicochemical conditions with diverse hot spring microbial communities	20
The ‘classic stromatolite’ Cryptozoön is a keratose sponge‐microbial consortium	20
The gammaproteobacterium Achromatium forms intracellular amorphous calcium carbonate and not (crystalline) calcite	20
Spherulitic microbialites from modern hypersaline lakes, Rottnest Island, Western Australia	16
A micrometer‐scale snapshot on phototroph spatial distributions: mass spectrometry imaging of microbial mats in Octopus Spring, Yellowstone National Park	16
A new model for silicification of cyanobacteria in Proterozoic tidal flats	16
Cryptogamic ground covers as analogues for early terrestrial biospheres: Initiation and evolution of biologically mediated proto‐soils	15
The occurrence of 2‐methylhopanoids in modern bacteria and the geological record	15
Formation of micro‐spherulitic barite in association with organic matter within sulfidized stromatolites of the 3.48 billion‐year‐old Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton	14
Microbial succession and dynamics in meromictic Mono Lake, California	14
Understanding the geobiology of the terminal Ediacaran Khatyspyt Lagerstätte (Arctic Siberia, Russia)	12
Unraveling biogeochemical phosphorus dynamics in hyperarid Mars‐analogue soils using stable oxygen isotopes in phosphate	12
In situ S‐isotope compositions of sulfate and sulfide from the 3.2 Ga Moodies Group, South Africa: A record of oxidative sulfur cycling	12
Metagenomic analysis of microbial communities across a transect from low to highly hydrocarbon‐contaminated soils in King George Island, Maritime Antarctica	11
Inter‐domain horizontal gene transfer of nickel‐binding superoxide dismutase	11
A sedimentary record of the evolution of the global marine phosphorus cycle	11
Microbially induced chromium isotope fractionation and trace elements behavior in lower Cambrian microbialites from the Jaíba Member, Bambuí Basin, Brazil	11
Infaunal augurs of the Cambrian explosion: An Ediacaran trace fossil assemblage from Nevada, USA	11

Anoxygenic photosynthesis linked to Neoarchean iron formations in Carajás (Brazil)	10
Inverse hydrogen isotope fractionation indicates heterotrophic microbial production of long‐chain n‐alkyl lipids in desolate Antarctic ponds	10
Phosphatic scales in vase‐shaped microfossil assemblages from Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Tasmania, and Svalbard	10
Dubiofossils from a Mars‐analogue subsurface palaeoenvironment: The limits of biogenicity criteria	10
Biomarker stratigraphy in the Athel Trough of the South Oman Salt Basin at the Ediacaran‐Cambrian Boundary	10
Isotopic analyses of Ordovician–Silurian siliceous skeletons indicate silica‐depleted Paleozoic oceans	10
Influences of pH and substrate supply on the ratio of iron to sulfate reduction	9
Effects of seawater Mg²⁺/Ca²⁺ ratio and diet on the biomineralization and growth of sea urchins and the relevance of fossil echinoderms to paleoenvironmental reconstructions	9
Nitrogen‐based symbioses, phosphorus availability, and accounting for a modern world more productive than the Paleozoic	9
Volcanic controls on the microbial habitability of Mars‐analogue hydrothermal environments	9
Detection of the deep biosphere in metamorphic rocks from the Chinese continental scientific drilling	8
Messinian bottom‐grown selenitic gypsum: An archive of microbial life	8
Intense but variable autotrophic activity in a rapidly flushed shallow‐water hydrothermal plume (Kueishantao Islet, Taiwan)	8
Builders, tenants, and squatters: the origins of genetic material in modern stromatolites	8
Evidence for local carbon‐cycle perturbations superimposed on the Toarcian carbon isotope excursion	8
Mesoproterozoic surface oxygenation accompanied major sedimentary manganese deposition at 1.4 and 1.1 Ga	7
Electrochemical evidence for in situ microbial activity at the Deep Mine Microbial Observatory (DeMMO), South Dakota, USA	7
Endospores associated with deep seabed geofluid features in the eastern Gulf of Mexico	7
Evaporative silicification in floating microbial mats: patterns of oxygen production and preservation potential in silica‐undersaturated streams, El Tatio, Chile	7
Widespread mineralization of soft‐bodied insects in Cretaceous amber	7
In search of the RNA world on Mars	7
Bacterial and archaeal lipids trace chemo(auto)trophy along the redoxcline in Vancouver Island fjords	7
Marine and terrestrial nitrifying bacteria are sources of diverse bacteriohopanepolyols	7
Multiple stages of plant root calcification deciphered by chemical and micromorphological analyses	7
Carbon reservoir perturbations induced by Deccan volcanism: Stable isotope and biomolecular perspectives from shallow marine environment in Eastern India	7
Coccolith volume of the Southern Ocean coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi as a possible indicator for palaeo‐cell volume	7
The interplay of environmental constraints and bioturbation on matground development along the marine depositional profile during the Ordovician Radiation	7
The biogeochemical cycling of chlorine	7
Subseafloor Archaea reflect 139 kyrs of paleodepositional changes in the northern Red Sea	6
Structure and function of Shark Bay microbial communities following tropical cyclone Olwyn: A metatranscriptomic and organic geochemical perspective	6
Ediacaran–Cambrian bioturbation did not extensively oxygenate sediments in shallow marine ecosystems	6
Hematite‐promoted nitrate‐reducing Fe(II) oxidation by Acidovorax sp. strain BoFeN1: Roles of mineral catalysis and cell encrustation	6
The Dziani Dzaha Lake: A long‐awaited modern analogue for superheavy pyrites	6
New geochemical tools for investigating resource and energy functions at deep‐sea cold seeps using amino acid δ¹⁵N in chemosymbiotic mussels (Bathymodiolus childressi)	6
Neoproterozoic syn‐glacial carbonate precipitation and implications for a snowball Earth	6