Organic Geochemistry

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	44
Assessing the reliability of H-brGDGTs as terrestrial paleothermometers in Plio-Pleistocene fluvio-lacustrine deposits from Northern China	25
Direct evidence of gas flushing oil in deep reservoirs: Insight from integrated fluid inclusion analyses	21
Differential evolution of extracted bitumen and solid bitumen in a hybrid shale system	20
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – March 2022	20
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Geochemical analysis of bituminous samples from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site of Nahal Efe (Northern Negev, Israel): Earliest evidence in the region and an example of alteration of the Dead Sea bit	19
Introduction to Xplorer, Hybrid and Early-Career Virtual Special Issue	19
Editorial Board	18
On the validity of position specific carbon isotopic analysis (PSIA) of propane	18
Exceptionally high contents of rearranged hopanes in a late Permian section, southern Sydney Basin, Australia	18
Early stages of Type I-S kerogen formation revealed by Rock-Eval® 7S analysis of sediment from a modern halo-alkaline lake (Dziani Dzaha, Mayotte)	18
Analytical inconsistencies in the measurement and reporting of IP25, IPSO25 and related biomarkers for paleo sea ice reconstruction	17
Complexity of the serpentinization lipidome	16
The sources of the Paleozoic petroleum systems in the Tarim Basin as revealed by geochemistry of oils and extracts from ultra-deep reservoirs	16
In-situ provenance of brGDGTs in peat sediments: A case study from southern China and a comparison of global results	16
Geochemistry Articles – April 2024	15
Environmental controls on the distribution of GDGT molecules in Lake Höglwörth, Southern Germany	15
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Thermal alteration of the aliphatic biopolymer cutan: implications for composition and degradation	15
Molecular composition of dissolved organic matter in saline lakes of the Qing-Tibetan Plateau	15
Geochemistry Articles – July 2024	14
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Phosphorus limitation drives the deterministic assembly of dissolved organic matter and microbial activity in surface waters of urban lakes	14
Distributions of vanadyl and nickel porphyrins in the Woodford Shale and selective chelation of metal species by different tetrapyrrole configurations	14

Three major types of trimethyl-alkylbenzenes and significance for the genesis of reservoir bitumens from the northwestern Sichuan Basin, South China	13
Molecular and carbon isotopic evidence for the possible origin of 13α(n-alkyl)-tricyclic terpanes in Mesoproterozoic bitumens from the Yanliao Rift, North China	13
Comment: Suppression of vitrinite reflectance by bitumen generated from liptinite during hydrous pyrolysis of artificial source rock by Peters et al. (2018)	13
Impacts of temperature and fluid seepage on organic matter composition in sediments of an active hydrothermal basin	13
Robert Alexander Obituary died 28th July 2023 (82 years)	13
Assessment of branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraether (brGMGT)-based paleothermometry in the 250,000-year sediment record of Lake Chala, equatorial East Africa	13
Chemodiversity of soil dissolved organic matter complementally improved by stepwise elution and electrospray ionization modes	12
Effects of fluid pressure on the occurrence of multi-phase oil and accumulation of light oil and condensate from crude oil cracking: Insights from modified gold tube pyrolysis experiments	12
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – June 2022	12
Fire-induced shifts in stalagmite organic matter mapped using Synchrotron infrared microspectroscopy	12
Geochemistry Articles – April 2025	12
Annotation of DOM metabolomes with an ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry molecular formula library	12
Controlling factors and geological applications of the drimane-skeleton compound content and composition of crude oils in complex petroleum systems: New insights from the Western Pearl River Mouth Bas	11
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Generation of carbazoles in Type II-S source rocks: Experimental analysis for kinetic parameters estimation	11
Comparison of Curie-point pyrolysis with tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) and base catalyzed methanolysis in leaf and root biomarker decomposition studies	11
Organic matter composition and thermal maturity evaluation of Mesoproterozoic source rocks in the Beetaloo Sub-Basin, Australia	10
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Polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles used as molecular markers in crude oils and source rocks	10
Mid- to Late-Holocene branched GDGT-based air temperatures from a crater lake in Cameroon (Central Africa)	10
Impact of organic carbon reworking upon GDGT temperature proxies during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum	10
Geochemistry Articles – January 2024	10
Environmental indications and controls of bacterial membrane lipids in a tropical peatland from Panama	10
Pyrolysis experiments of model compounds to explore carbon isotope fractionation in propane from natural gas	9
Plant-wax n-alkanes from the central Congo Basin as palaeo-environmental and -climatic proxies	9
Geochemistry Articles – October 2024	9
Robust determination of kerogen properties in organic-rich mudrocks via Raman Spectroscopy	9
A plethora of hopanoid transformation products co-exist in a thermally immature Jurassic black shale II: Oxo- and thiohopanoids	9
Intramolecular carbon isotopic rollover in propane from natural gas reservoirs of the Santanghu Basin: Insights into chemical structure of kerogen	9
Bacterial physiology highlighted by the δ13C fractionation of bacteriohopanetetrol isomers	9
The widespread occurrence and wide structural diversity of sulfurized diterpenoids in ambers	9
Magma-induced thermal alteration in Devonian organic-rich rocks (Paraná Basin, Brazil): molecular transformations and clay-catalyzed maturation	8
Identifying the drivers of GDGT distributions in alkaline soil profiles within the Serengeti ecosystem	8
Impact of biodegradation on methyltrimethyltridecylchromans (MTTCs) in crude oils from the Bohai Bay Basin, China	8
Obituary for Prof. Dr. Dietrich Welte (1935–2025)	8
Hydrogen isotope biogeochemistry of plant waxes in paired lake catchments	8
Reply to Comment by M.D. Lewan	8
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – November 2021	8
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – October 2022	8
Seasonality of amino acid enantiomers and microbial communities at MOLA time series in the NW Mediterranean Sea	8
The global distribution of Isoprenoidal Glycerol Dialkyl Diethers (isoGDDs) is consistent with a predominant degradation origin	8
Contribution of abiotic methane polymerization of C2+ hydrocarbons in highly mature natural gas reservoirs	8
Geochemical fingerprints of Dongpu Depression crude oils in Bohai Bay Basin, northern China: Insights from biomarkers and isotopic compositions of selected alkylnaphthalenes and alkylphenanthrenes	8
The giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta takes up dissolved organic matter from benthic cyanobacterial mats	7
High abundances of degraded triterpenoids in Miocene turbiditic sediments of south-central Hokkaido, Japan	7
Improved procedures for the cleavage and reduction of GDGTs for hydrogen isotope analysis	7
Distribution and carbon isotopic composition of diploptene from epiphytic bryophytes in Wuhan, central China	7
Characteristics of light hydrocarbons under the superimposed influence of biodegradation and subsequent thermal maturation	7
Natural and laboratory-induced maturation of kerogen from the Vaca Muerta Formation: A comparison study	7
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3-OH-FA- and branched GDGT-based temperature calibrations from a transect of lakes in the eastern USA	7
Interaction between peptide and solid lignin suggest mechanisms of abiotic covalent bond formation	7
A new method for the quantification of hydrogen contribution from water to methane during hydrous kerogen pyrolysis	7
Heterotrophic origin and diverse sources of branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGMGTs) in peats and lignites	7
Compositions, structures, and confined pyrolysis of the alga Chlorella and its nonhydrolyzable fractions	7
Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether signatures in tropical mesotidal estuary sediments of Qua Iboe River, Gulf of Guinea	7
Five series of benzohopanes in early Cretaceous sediments from the Chaoyang Basin, NE China	7
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The bacterial influencing mechanisms of salinity fluctuations in a brackish-water lake on the dissolved organic matter characteristics of pore water	7
A potential new sea surface temperature proxy based on isomeric highly branched isoprenoid lipid biomarkers: EZ25	7
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – August 2023	7
Impact of water depth on the distributions and proxies of isoprenoidal hydroxylated GDGTs in the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea	7
Solvent effect in Soxhlet extraction of source rocks	7
Hydrous pyrolysis of Type III coal: I. Influence of temperature and time on gas generation potential and applicability to natural systems	7
Geochemistry Articles – June 2025	7
Fast quantitative analysis of n-alkanes, PAHs and alkenones in sediments	6
The biological source and paleoenvironment implication of rare short-chain lanostanes in alkaline lacustrine sediments	6
Geochemistry Articles – September 2023	6
Molecular hydrogen isotopic compositions of petroleum n-alkanes and its geological significance in the Mahu Sag, Junggar Basin, NW China	6
Organic matter-mediated activation of Pb-Zn metals in black shale dual-source rock systems: The Mayuan MVT deposit	6
Characteristics of n-alkyl lipids in cultivated Sphagnum and their preservation potential in the topsoil of Sphagnum farmlands in southwest China	6
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – December 2021	6
Comparing extraction methods for analyzing n-alkyl lipids in shelf sediments from the China Sea	6
Biodegradation sequence of coal organic matter and mechanism of biomethane formation in secondary biogenic gas accumulation areas	6
Geochemical constraints on the hydrocarbon generation and expulsion in source rocks with different primary organic matter compositions: A case study on the Lucaogou Formation in the Jimusaer Sag, Jung	6
Re-arranged hopanes and novel re-arranged tricyclic terpanes in Paleozoic rock extracts and oils in the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma	6
Isoprenoidal GDGTs and GDDs associated with anoxic lacustrine environments	6
Correlations between biomarkers of varying bioavailability and putative hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria in an Early-Eocene marlstone sedimentary record	6
Seasonal temperature dependency of aquatic branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers: A mesocosm approach	6
Dissolved oxygen concentrations influence the distribution of isoGDGTs in a deep Lake Fuxian in China: Implications for the use of TEX86 in stratified lakes	6
Effects of inorganic sulfur species on hydrocarbon conversion and 34S isotope fractionation during thermal maturation of Type II kerogen	6
C/H isotope fractionation of hydrocarbon gases from hydrogenation of organic matter: Insights from hydrothermal experiments	6
Phase behavior and GOR evolution using a natural maturity series of lacustrine oil-prone shale: Implications from compositional modelling	5
Editorial Board	5
Relative thermodynamic stabilities of biomarkers – Evidence from drill-bit metamorphism in the Iving Discovery wells 25/8-19 S & A, Norwegian North Sea	5
Elucidating the composition of organic matter in water-repellent forest soils using analytical pyrolysis combined with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (Py-GC–MS)	5
Occurrence and origin of perylene in Paleogene sediments from the Tasmanian Gateway, Australia	5
A paleoenvironmental and ecological analysis of biomarkers from the Eocene Fossil Basin, Green River Formation, U.S.A.	5
Influence of vegetation type on brGDGTs: Results from surface soils beneath sub-alpine forest and grassland under the same climatic conditions	5
Combining Rock-Eval® thermal analysis and thermochemolysis to evaluate the influence of forest management on soil organic matter quality and stability	5
Anisole-based assessment for the quantification of methoxyl groups in lignin-rich biomass	5
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – December 2022	5
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – November 2022	5
A saline lacustrine depositional environment enhances organic matter enrichment in the Permian Lucaogou shales	5
Resource potential of the Proterozoic–Paleozoic Carrara depocentre, South Nicholson region, Australia: Insights from stratigraphic drilling	5
A novel protocol for extracting 3-hydroxy fatty acids from soil with microwave-assisted acid digestion	5
Geochemistry Articles – December 2023	5
Gas-phase reaction of CH4 and H2S – Evidence from pyrolysis experiments and case study from the Sichuan Basin	5
Incorporation of wet gases to kerogen in petroleum formation and evolution	5
Reforestation in northeastern China increased the soil microbial necromass carbon accumulation by influencing glomalin and enzyme activities	5
Impact of terrestrial organic matter input on distributions of hydroxylated isoprenoidal GDGTs in marine sediments: Implications for OH-isoGDGT-based temperature proxies	5
Climatic and environmentally driven variability in lacustrine brGDGT distributions at local to regional scales in Alaska and northwestern Canada	5
Paleoceanographic importance of tri- and di-unsaturated alkenones through the early phase of Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 from southern high latitudes of the proto-Indian Ocean	5
Editorial Board	5
Structural properties of organic matter in marine-continental transitional shales and impacts on methane accumulation	5
Lacustrine records of Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) triggered by volcanic activity	5
Thermal evolution characteristics of dibenzothiophene, dibenzofuran and fluorene and their homologues and their geochemical implications	5
Reply to “Discussion on the studies of position-specific carbon isotopes of propane by Li et al. (2018), Zhang et al. (2022) and Shuai et al. (2023)”	5
Dissolved organic matter molecular composition controls potential biodegradability	5
Reservoir oil geochemistry in the northern Western Desert of Egypt – High-resolution mass spectrometry and stable carbon isotope characterization	5
Origin of terrigenous-marine oils from the Xihu Sag, East China Sea Shelf Basin: Insights from biomarkers and carbon isotopes	5
Biomarker signatures in host rocks and their co-occurring fossil plants from northern Scotland	5
Isolation of 2,3,6- & 2,3,4-trimethyl aryl isoprenoids using argentation silica gel column chromatography for compound-specific isotopic analysis	5
Editorial Board	5
Contrasting particulate organic carbon and sediment trophic status in two Antarctic fjords: Hope Bay and Collins Bay	5
Genetic and source differences of gases in the Middle Permian Qixia and Maokou formations in the Sichuan Basin, SW China	4
Alkenones in Pleistocene Upper Bed I (1.803–1.900 Ma) sediments from Paleolake Olduvai, Tanzania	4
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Compound-specific carbon isotope measurements of individual lipid biomarkers from immature Ediacaran rocks of Baltica	4
Organic matter composition in sediments recording sea surface phytoplankton community structure in Prydz Bay of Antarctica	4
Geochemistry articles – April 2023	4
Exploring the theoretical upper temperature limit of alkenone unsaturation indices: Implications for paleotemperature reconstructions	4
Exploring clumped isotope fractionation of organic molecules using density functional theory	4
Root-derived carbon stocks in formerly deep-ploughed soils – A biomarker-based approach	4
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Study on the main controlling factors on the differential accumulation of natural gas in multiple (ultra-)deeply-buried marine strata	4
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Quantification of allochthonous and autochthonous organic carbon in large and shallow Lake Wuliangsu based on distribution patterns and δ13C signatures of n-alkanes	4

GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – March 2023	4
Experimental evidence on the bitumen role of the metal enrichment in the Erdaokan Ag-Pb-Zn deposit	4
Characterisation by ESI FT-ICR MS of heteroatomic compounds in catalytic hydropyrolysates released from marine crude oil asphaltenes	4
Geochemical implications of the carbon isotope compositions of individual polycyclic aromatic compounds in coals from the Junggar and Ordos basins, NW China	4
Compositional convergence of dissolved organic matter from root litter to rhizosphere soil in a semiarid grassland of North China	4
The impact of precipitation on the distributions of branched tetraethers in alkaline soils	4
Modified rapid small-scale fractionation method for quantitatively separating pyrrolic nitrogen compounds, phenols-ketones and carboxylic acids fractions from petroleum	4
Distribution and origin of higher diamondoids in the ultra-deep Paleozoic condensates of the Shunbei oilfield in the Tarim Basin, NW China	4
Intensive methane seep region on the outer East Siberian Arctic Shelf shows biomarker evidence for aerobic oxidation of methane	4
Dual-pressure pyrolysis apparatus unravelling how fluid and lithostatic pressure matter in hydrocarbon expulsion	4
Impact of anaerobic methanotrophic archaeal input on hydroxylated isoprenoid GDGT-derived temperatures	4
Discussion on the studies of position-specific carbon isotopes of propane by Li et al. (2018), Zhang et al. (2022) and Shuai et al. (2023)	4
Definitive identification of Ordovician-sourced oils in the Tarim Basin: geochemical constraints from biomarkers and sulfur isotopes	3
Constraining the sources of lipid biomarkers in the Pearl River Estuary and coastal sediments of the northern South China Sea using triple isotopes (δ2H, δ13C, Δ14C)	3
Occurrence and significance of des-A-triterpenoids in the Shahejie formation, Laizhouwan Sag, Bohai Bay Basin: Insights into paleoenvironmental conditions and organic matter origin	3
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – January 2023	3
Compound-specific radiocarbon analysis of sedimentary fatty acids: Potential as a dating tool for lake sediments of Mt. Fuji volcanic region, Japan	3
Geochemistry Articles – October 2025	3
An unusual occurrence of hydroxylated isoprenoid GDGTs in forest soils	3
Reproducibility of Rock-Eval® thermal analysis for soil organic matter characterization	3
Editorial Board	3
Global sea level changes or local tectonics? Pliocene, Miocene and Oligocene biomarkers in cored sedimentary rocks from IODP Expedition 317, Canterbury Basin, New Zealand	3
Assessing tetraether lipids as a paleotemperature proxy on western edge of the Chinese Loess Plateau: A cautionary tale	3
Generation and maturation of diamondoids for petroleum reservoirs in the Tarim Basin, NW China	3
Distribution, occurrence and identification of dibenzofuran, benzo[b]naphthofurans and their alkyl derivatives in Gippsland Basin source rocks	3
Geochemistry Articles – March 2024	3
Editorial Board	3
Rainshadow effect on hydrogen isotopes in leaf wax n-Alkanes across the Cascade Mountains of Washington, USA	3
Infrared characterisation of fossils down to the nanoscale: Insights from an insect in amber	3
Thermal stability of freshwater fern Azolla biomarkers as assessed by hydrous pyrolysis	3
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Bacteriohopanepolyols and glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers record Holocene redox regime shifts in a marine inlet in eastern Prydz Bay, Antarctica	3
The temporal distributions of seed-plant terpanes in petroleum samples: Implications as oil age-diagnostic biomarkers for crude oils	3
Geochemistry Articles – August 2025	3
Microbial utilization of recently fixed, plant-derived organic carbon in shallow Holocene and Pleistocene aquifers in Bangladesh	3
Editorial Board	3
Does leaf wax isotopic characterisation of gymnosperms and angiosperms capture environmental gradients in Himalayas?	3
Geochemistry Articles – February 2024	3
Determination and petroleum geochemical significance of short-chain alkylbenzenes in lacustrine source rocks	3
Abiotic chlorination of organic matter in the soil environment: A simulation study	3
The occurrence and geochemical origin of 9-alkyl HDBTs substituted by long isoprenoid alkyl chains in crude oil	3
Diatom-derived highly branched isoprenoids are diverse and widespread in lakes	2
Large-scale accumulation of abiotic gases associated with subduction and volcanic activities in rift basins in eastern China	2
Editorial Board	2
Assessing marine communities and carbon cycling that sustained shallow-marine ecosystems on Silurian, reef-rimmed carbonate platforms	2
Editorial Board	2
Improved light hydrocarbons collection method for the pyrolysis of crude oil in gold tube closed system experiments	2
Comparison of dissolved organic matter composition from various sorbents using ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry	2
Primary and secondary steroid acids in crude oils: Implications for geological fate of steroids	2
Early decomposition and transformation of organic matter in natural and disturbed boreal forests	2
Analysis, distribution and evolution of individual carboxylic acids in crude oil during biodegradation	2
Editorial Board	2
Effects of digestate application, winter crop species and development on dissolved organic matter composition along the soil profile	2
Experimental evidence suggests dominance of species effect on the variability in hydrogen isotope fractionation between leaf wax compounds and source water	2
Abundance of phytanyl and n-alkyl toluenes in petroleum from the Lower Saxony Basin (Germany) provides information on maturity, palaeosettings and sources	2
Validation of the U37	2
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – October 2021	2
Occurrence of tetraester and mixed ether/ester-bound iso-diabolic acid membrane-spanning lipids in acidic, high-elevation mineral soils	2
Geochemistry Articles – August 2024	2
Novel oxygenated fossil nor-diterpenoids from Cretaceous amber (South-Western France) as potential markers from Cupressaceae and/or Cheirolepidiaceae	2
Sulfur ions reduce the activation energy of steranes and terpanes under hydrothermal action	2
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – September 2021	2
Geochemistry Articles – February 2025	2
Revisiting paleoenvironmental analyses and interpretations of organic-rich deposits: The importance of TOC corrections	2
Transformation of lignin and lipid biomarkers through degradation of plant tissues and soil organic carbon in a salt marsh-mangrove ecotone	2
Editorial Board	2
Group 2i Isochrysidales flourishes at exceedingly low growth temperatures (0 to 6 °C)	2
Field and laboratory study on the distribution, fate and transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the loess porous medium at a refinery polluted site: Understanding the soil-groundwater interf	2
Editorial Board	2
Sediment organic matter compositional changes in a tropical rift lake as a function of water depth and distance from shore	2
Geochemical characteristics of Longtan transitional shale gas in the western Hubei Basin, northwest Middle Yangtze Block: Implications for the origin and carbon isotopes	2
Application of Raman thermometry to charcoals from archaeological sites: assessing the effect of wood chemistry and post-depositional effects on apparent carbonization temperature	2
Editorial Board	2
Quantitative analysis of carbazoles and hydrocarbons in condensates and oils using comprehensive GC–MS/MS and comparative GC–MS analyses	2
Sedimentary geochemical records of the palaeovegetation and palaeoclimate evolution in the Pinghu Formation, Western Slope Belt, Xihu Sag, East China Sea Basin	2
Hydrogen isotope fractionation during aromatization to form alkylnaphthalene: Insights from pyrolysis experiments of 1-n-butyldecalin	2
Computational analysis of the thermodynamic stability and isomeric composition of cholestane	2
The stable sulfur isotope and abundance fluxes of reduced inorganic sulfur and organic sulfur phases recorded in the Permian-Triassic transition of the Meishan type section	2
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – September 2022	2