OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Geobiology is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Groundwater microbial communities reflect geothermal activity on volcanic island	875376689
On the co‐evolution of surface oxygen levels and animals	81
Radiation of nitrogen‐metabolizing enzymes across the tree of life tracks environmental transitions in Earth history	33
Production of diverse brGDGTs by Acidobacterium Solibacter usitatus in response to temperature, pH, and O₂ provides a culturing perspective on brGDGT proxies an	32
Mineral‐hosted biofilm communities in the continental deep subsurface, Deep Mine Microbial Observatory, SD, USA	31
Discovery of the oldest known biomarkers provides evidence for phototrophic bacteria in the 1.73 Ga Wollogorang Formation, Australia	25
The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project	25
Carbonate facies‐specific stable isotope data record climate, hydrology, and microbial communities in Great Salt Lake, UT	25
Chemical signatures of soft tissues distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte of Illinois	22
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	22
A new constraint on the antiquity of ancient haloalkaliphilic green algae that flourished in a ca. 300 Ma Paleozoic lake	22
In Situ Fe and S isotope analyses in pyrite from the 3.2 Ga Mendon Formation (Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa): Evidence for early microbial iron reduction	22
A late Paleoproterozoic (1.74 Ga) deep‐sea, low‐temperature, iron‐oxidizing microbial hydrothermal vent community from Arizona, USA	21
The gammaproteobacterium Achromatium forms intracellular amorphous calcium carbonate and not (crystalline) calcite	20
The ‘classic stromatolite’ Cryptozoön is a keratose sponge‐microbial consortium	20
Stromatolitic digitate sinters form under wide‐ranging physicochemical conditions with diverse hot spring microbial communities	18
A new model for silicification of cyanobacteria in Proterozoic tidal flats	16
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
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
Microbial succession and dynamics in meromictic Mono Lake, California	13
Formation of micro‐spherulitic barite in association with organic matter within sulfidized stromatolites of the 3.48 billion‐year‐old Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton	13
Unraveling biogeochemical phosphorus dynamics in hyperarid Mars‐analogue soils using stable oxygen isotopes in phosphate	12
Understanding the geobiology of the terminal Ediacaran Khatyspyt Lagerstätte (Arctic Siberia, Russia)	12

Microbially induced chromium isotope fractionation and trace elements behavior in lower Cambrian microbialites from the Jaíba Member, Bambuí Basin, Brazil	11
In situ S‐isotope compositions of sulfate and sulfide from the 3.2 Ga Moodies Group, South Africa: A record of oxidative sulfur cycling	11
Inter‐domain horizontal gene transfer of nickel‐binding superoxide dismutase	11
Isotopic analyses of Ordovician–Silurian siliceous skeletons indicate silica‐depleted Paleozoic oceans	10
Infaunal augurs of the Cambrian explosion: An Ediacaran trace fossil assemblage from Nevada, USA	10
Inverse hydrogen isotope fractionation indicates heterotrophic microbial production of long‐chain n‐alkyl lipids in desolate Antarctic ponds	10
Anoxygenic photosynthesis linked to Neoarchean iron formations in Carajás (Brazil)	10
Influence of temperature on the δ¹³C values and distribution of methanotroph‐related hopanoids in Sphagnum‐dominated peat bogs	10
Dubiofossils from a Mars‐analogue subsurface palaeoenvironment: The limits of biogenicity criteria	10
Phosphatic scales in vase‐shaped microfossil assemblages from Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Tasmania, and Svalbard	10
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
Volcanic controls on the microbial habitability of Mars‐analogue hydrothermal environments	9
Biomarker stratigraphy in the Athel Trough of the South Oman Salt Basin at the Ediacaran‐Cambrian Boundary	9
Influences of pH and substrate supply on the ratio of iron to sulfate reduction	9
A sedimentary record of the evolution of the global marine phosphorus cycle	9
Nitrogen‐based symbioses, phosphorus availability, and accounting for a modern world more productive than the Paleozoic	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
Metagenomic analysis of microbial communities across a transect from low to highly hydrocarbon‐contaminated soils in King George Island, Maritime Antarctica	8
Intense but variable autotrophic activity in a rapidly flushed shallow‐water hydrothermal plume (Kueishantao Islet, Taiwan)	8
Electrochemical evidence for in situ microbial activity at the Deep Mine Microbial Observatory (DeMMO), South Dakota, USA	7
Marine and terrestrial nitrifying bacteria are sources of diverse bacteriohopanepolyols	7
The biogeochemical cycling of chlorine	7
Builders, tenants, and squatters: the origins of genetic material in modern stromatolites	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
Endospores associated with deep seabed geofluid features in the eastern Gulf of Mexico	7
Evidence for local carbon‐cycle perturbations superimposed on the Toarcian carbon isotope excursion	7
Subseafloor Archaea reflect 139 kyrs of paleodepositional changes in the northern Red Sea	6
Coccolith volume of the Southern Ocean coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi as a possible indicator for palaeo‐cell volume	6
Neoproterozoic syn‐glacial carbonate precipitation and implications for a snowball Earth	6
New preparation techniques for molecular and in‐situ analysis of ancient organic micro‐ and nanostructures	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
Hematite‐promoted nitrate‐reducing Fe(II) oxidation by Acidovorax sp. strain BoFeN1: Roles of mineral catalysis and cell encrustation	6
Carbon reservoir perturbations induced by Deccan volcanism: Stable isotope and biomolecular perspectives from shallow marine environment in Eastern India	6
The interplay of environmental constraints and bioturbation on matground development along the marine depositional profile during the Ordovician Radiation	6
Structure and function of Shark Bay microbial communities following tropical cyclone Olwyn: A metatranscriptomic and organic geochemical perspective	6
Silicate minerals as a direct source of limiting nutrients: Siderophore synthesis and uptake promote ferric iron bioavailability from olivine and microbial growth	5
Molecular dating of the blood pigment hemocyanin provides new insight into the origin of animals	5
Widespread seafloor anoxia during generation of the Ediacaran Shuram carbon isotope excursion	5
Multiple stages of plant root calcification deciphered by chemical and micromorphological analyses	5
The Dziani Dzaha Lake: A long‐awaited modern analogue for superheavy pyrites	5
Micro‐ and nano‐scale mineralogical characterization of Fe(II)‐oxidizing bacterial stalks	5
Microbially promoted calcite precipitation in the pelagic redoxcline: Elucidating the formation of the turbid layer	5
Morphogenesis of digitate structures in hot spring silica sinters of the El Tatio geothermal field, Chile	5
The deposition and significance of an Ediacaran non‐glacial iron formation	5
Minimum levels of atmospheric oxygen from fossil tree roots imply new plant−oxygen feedback	5
Potential role for microbial ureolysis in the rapid formation of carbonate tufa mounds	5

Contrasting nutrient availability between marine and brackish waters in the late Mesoproterozoic: Evidence from the Paranoá Group, Brazil	5
Mesoproterozoic surface oxygenation accompanied major sedimentary manganese deposition at 1.4 and 1.1 Ga	4
Ediacaran–Cambrian bioturbation did not extensively oxygenate sediments in shallow marine ecosystems	4
Iron‐mediated anaerobic ammonium oxidation recorded in the early Archean ferruginous ocean	4
Deconstructing Earth’s oldest ichnofossil record from the Pilbara Craton, West Australia: Implications for seeking life in the Archean subseafloor	4
The influence of elevated SiO₂(aq) on intracellular silica uptake and microbial metabolism	4
Microbial chemolithotrophic oxidation of pyrite in a subsurface shale weathering environment: Geologic considerations and potential mechanisms	4
Distinguishing cellular from abiotic spheroidal microstructures in the ca. 3.4 Ga Strelley Pool Formation	4
Exploring the secondary mineral products generated by microbial iron respiration in Archean ocean simulations	4
On the trail of iron uptake in ancestral Cyanobacteria on early Earth	4
Copper mobilisation from Cu sulphide minerals by methanobactin: Effect of pH, oxygen and natural organic matter	4
Mineralogical characterization of biosilicas versus geological analogs	3
Organic preservation of vase‐shaped microfossils from the late Tonian Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA	3
Energetics of Acidianus ambivalens growth in response to oxygen availability	3
Low oxygen levels with high redox heterogeneity in the late Ediacaran shallow ocean: Constraints from I/(Ca + Mg) and Ce/Ce* of the Dengying Formation, South China	3
Sedimentary pyrite sulfur isotope compositions preserve signatures of the surface microbial mat environment in sediments underlying low‐oxygen cyanobacterial mats	3
Microbial helpers allow cyanobacteria to thrive in ferruginous waters	3
A 571 million‐year‐old alkaline volcanic lake photosynthesizing microbial community, the Anti‐atlas, Morocco	3
Actualistic approaches to interpreting the role of biological decomposition in microbial preservation	3
Bioavailability of mineral‐associated trace metals as cofactors for nitrogen fixation by Azotobacter vinelandii	3
The diagenetic fate of collagen as revealed by analytical pyrolysis of fossil fish scales from deep time	3
Microbial colonization of metal sulfide minerals at a diffuse‐flow deep‐sea hydrothermal vent at 9°50′N on the East Pacific Rise	3
Sulfur isotopes of hydrothermal vent fossils and insights into microbial sulfur cycling within a lower Paleozoic (Ordovician‐early Silurian) vent community	3
White and green rust chimneys accumulate RNA in a ferruginous chemical garden	3
Comparative soft‐tissue preservation in Holocene‐age capelin concretions	3
Using thermodynamics to obtain geochemical information from genomes	3
The role of iron in the formation of Ediacaran ‘death masks’	3
‘Ten Years After’—a long‐term settlement and bioerosion experiment in an Arctic rhodolith bed (Mosselbukta, Svalbard)	3
Effects of RuBisCO and CO₂ concentration on cyanobacterial growth and carbon isotope fractionation	3
Authigenic anatase within 1 billion‐year‐old cells	3
Active and dormant microorganisms on glacier surfaces	3
Associations between redox‐sensitive trace metals and microbial communities in a Proterozoic ocean analogue	3
Isotopically anomalous organic carbon in the aftermath of the Marinoan snowball Earth	3
Influence of aphotic haloclines and euxinia on organic biomarkers and microbial communities in a thalassohaline and alkaline volcanic crater lake	3
Bacterial community structure and metabolic potential in microbialite‐forming mats from South Australian saline lakes	2
Terrestrial surface stabilisation by modern analogues of the earliest land plants: A multi‐dimensional imaging study	2
Biogeochemical transformations after the emergence of oxygenic photosynthesis and conditions for the first rise of atmospheric oxygen	2
Nanoscale chemical mapping of exometabolites at fungal–mineral interfaces	2
Taphonomy of microorganisms and microbial microtextures at sulfidic hydrothermal vents: A case study from the Roman Ruins black smokers, Eastern Manus Basin	2
Foraminifera‐derived carbon contribution to sedimentary inorganic carbon pool: A case study from three Norwegian fjords	2
Diagenetic nutrient supplies to the Proterozoic biosphere archived in divergent nitrogen isotopic ratios between kerogen and silicate minerals	2
Metabarcoding reveals high diversity of benthic foraminifera linked to water masses circulation at coastal Svalbard	2
Carbon cycle dynamics and ecology revealed by the carbon isotopic composition of single organic microfossils during the Late Devonian Biotic Crisis	2
Living phosphatic stromatolites in a low‐phosphorus environment: Implications for the use of phosphorus as a proxy for phosphate levels in paleo‐systems	2
Absence of canonical trophic levels in a microbial mat	2
Sulfur cycling at natural hydrocarbon and sulfur seeps in Santa Paula Creek, CA	2
A review of microbial‐environmental interactions recorded in Proterozoic carbonate‐hosted chert	2
A re‐examination of the mechanism of whiting events: A new role for diatoms in Fayetteville Green Lake (New York, USA)	2
Growth of microaerophilic Fe(II)‐oxidizing bacteria using Fe(II) produced by Fe(III) photoreduction	2
An experimental study on post‐mortem dissolution and overgrowth processes affecting coccolith assemblages: A rapid and complex process	2