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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

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	50
The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project	31
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	28
A new constraint on the antiquity of ancient haloalkaliphilic green algae that flourished in a ca. 300 Ma Paleozoic lake	27
A late Paleoproterozoic (1.74 Ga) deep‐sea, low‐temperature, iron‐oxidizing microbial hydrothermal vent community from Arizona, USA	26
The ‘classic stromatolite’ Cryptozoön is a keratose sponge‐microbial consortium	22
The gammaproteobacterium Achromatium forms intracellular amorphous calcium carbonate and not (crystalline) calcite	20
A new model for silicification of cyanobacteria in Proterozoic tidal flats	20
The occurrence of 2‐methylhopanoids in modern bacteria and the geological record	17
A sedimentary record of the evolution of the global marine phosphorus cycle	16
Cryptogamic ground covers as analogues for early terrestrial biospheres: Initiation and evolution of biologically mediated proto‐soils	16
Microbial succession and dynamics in meromictic Mono Lake, California	15
Ediacaran–Cambrianbioturbation did not extensively oxygenate sediments in shallow marine ecosystems	13
Volcanic controls on the microbial habitability of Mars‐analogue hydrothermal environments	13
Isotopic analyses of Ordovician–Silurian siliceous skeletons indicate silica‐depleted Paleozoic oceans	13
Metagenomic analysis of microbial communities across a transect from low to highly hydrocarbon‐contaminated soils in King George Island, Maritime Antarctica	13
Neoproterozoic syn‐glacial carbonate precipitation and implications for a snowball Earth	13
Inter‐domain horizontal gene transfer of nickel‐binding superoxide dismutase	12
Morphogenesis of digitate structures in hot spring silica sinters of the El Tatio geothermal field, Chile	12
Microbially induced chromium isotope fractionation and trace elements behavior in lower Cambrian microbialites from the Jaíba Member, Bambuí Basin, Brazil	12
Anoxygenic photosynthesis linked to Neoarchean iron formations in Carajás (Brazil)	11
Hematite‐promoted nitrate‐reducing Fe(II) oxidation by Acidovorax sp. strain BoFeN1: Roles of mineral catalysis and cell encrustation	11
Evaporative silicification in floating microbial mats: patterns of oxygen production and preservation potential in silica‐undersaturated streams, El Tatio, Chile	11
The biogeochemical cycling of chlorine	11
Phosphatic scales in vase‐shaped microfossil assemblages from Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Tasmania, and Svalbard	11

Inverse hydrogen isotope fractionation indicates heterotrophic microbial production of long‐chain n‐alkyl lipids in desolate Antarctic ponds	11
Dubiofossils from a Mars‐analogue subsurface palaeoenvironment: The limits of biogenicity criteria	10
Widespread mineralization of soft‐bodied insects in Cretaceous amber	10
Nitrogen‐based symbioses, phosphorus availability, and accounting for a modern world more productive than the Paleozoic	10
Active and dormant microorganisms on glacier surfaces	10
Widespread seafloor anoxia during generation of the Ediacaran Shuram carbon isotope excursion	10
Messinian bottom‐grown selenitic gypsum: An archive of microbial life	10
Influences of pH and substrate supply on the ratio of iron to sulfate reduction	10
Electrochemical evidence for in situ microbial activity at the Deep Mine Microbial Observatory (DeMMO), South Dakota, USA	10
Marine and terrestrial nitrifying bacteria are sources of diverse bacteriohopanepolyols	9
In search of the RNA world on Mars	9
Iron‐mediated anaerobic ammonium oxidation recorded in the early Archean ferruginous ocean	9
Detection of the deep biosphere in metamorphic rocks from the Chinese continental scientific drilling	9
The Dziani Dzaha Lake: A long‐awaited modern analogue for superheavy pyrites	8
Builders, tenants, and squatters: the origins of genetic material in modern stromatolites	8
The influence of elevated SiO₂(aq) on intracellular silica uptake and microbial metabolism	8
Carbon reservoir perturbations induced by Deccan volcanism: Stable isotope and biomolecular perspectives from shallow marine environment in Eastern India	8
Mesoproterozoic surface oxygenation accompanied major sedimentary manganese deposition at 1.4 and 1.1 Ga	8
Silicate minerals as a direct source of limiting nutrients: Siderophore synthesis and uptake promote ferric iron bioavailability from olivine and microbial growth	8
Subseafloor Archaea reflect 139 kyrs of paleodepositional changes in the northern Red Sea	7
Endospores associated with deep seabed geofluid features in the eastern Gulf of Mexico	7
Contrasting nutrient availability between marine and brackish waters in the late Mesoproterozoic: Evidence from the Paranoá Group, Brazil	7
Minimum levels of atmospheric oxygen from fossil tree roots imply new plant−oxygen feedback	7
The interplay of environmental constraints and bioturbation on matground development along the marine depositional profile during the Ordovician Radiation	7
Exploring the secondary mineral products generated by microbial iron respiration in Archean ocean simulations	7
Bacterial and archaeal lipids trace chemo(auto)trophy along the redoxcline in Vancouver Island fjords	7
Copper mobilisation from Cu sulphide minerals by methanobactin: Effect of pH, oxygen and natural organic matter	7
Influence of aphotic haloclines and euxinia on organic biomarkers and microbial communities in a thalassohaline and alkaline volcanic crater lake	6
Biogeochemical transformations after the emergence of oxygenic photosynthesis and conditions for the first rise of atmospheric oxygen	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
The diagenetic fate of collagen as revealed by analytical pyrolysis of fossil fish scales from deep time	6
Using thermodynamics to obtain geochemical information from genomes	6
A re‐examination of the mechanism of whiting events: A new role for diatoms in Fayetteville Green Lake (New York, USA)	6
Structure and function of Shark Bay microbial communities following tropical cyclone Olwyn: A metatranscriptomic and organic geochemical perspective	6
Sedimentary pyrite sulfur isotope compositions preserve signatures of the surface microbial mat environment in sediments underlying low‐oxygen cyanobacterial mats	6
The deposition and significance of an Ediacaran non‐glacial iron formation	6
A review of microbial‐environmental interactions recorded in Proterozoic carbonate‐hosted chert	6
Potential role for microbial ureolysis in the rapid formation of carbonate tufa mounds	6
Diagenetic nutrient supplies to the Proterozoic biosphere archived in divergent nitrogen isotopic ratios between kerogen and silicate minerals	5
Bioavailability of mineral‐associated trace metals as cofactors for nitrogen fixation by Azotobacter vinelandii	5
Microbially promoted calcite precipitation in the pelagic redoxcline: Elucidating the formation of the turbid layer	5
White and green rust chimneys accumulate RNA in a ferruginous chemical garden	5
Mineralogical characterization of biosilicas versus geological analogs	5
Evolution of iron and oxygen biogeochemical cycles during the Precambrian	5
Microbial chemolithotrophic oxidation of pyrite in a subsurface shale weathering environment: Geologic considerations and potential mechanisms	5
Distinguishing cellular from abiotic spheroidal microstructures in the ca. 3.4 Ga Strelley Pool Formation	5
‘Ten Years After’—a long‐term settlement and bioerosion experiment in an Arctic rhodolith bed (Mosselbukta, Svalbard)	5
Growth of microaerophilic Fe(II)‐oxidizing bacteria using Fe(II) produced by Fe(III) photoreduction	5
Molecular dating of the blood pigment hemocyanin provides new insight into the origin of animals	5
The role of iron in the formation of Ediacaran ‘death masks’	4

Nickel and zinc micronutrient availability in Phanerozoic oceans	4
On the trail of iron uptake in ancestral Cyanobacteria on early Earth	4
The role of clay minerals in the preservation of Precambrian organic‐walled microfossils	4
Coral calcification and carbonate production in the eastern tropical Pacific: The role of branching and massive corals in the reef maintenance	4
Inferred ancestry of scytonemin biosynthesis proteins in cyanobacteria indicates a response to Paleoproterozoic oxygenation	4
Microbial helpers allow cyanobacteria to thrive in ferruginous waters	4
Terrestrial surface stabilisation by modern analogues of the earliest land plants: A multi‐dimensional imaging study	4
Nanoscale chemical mapping of exometabolites at fungal–mineral interfaces	4
Microbial biosignatures in ancient deep‐sea hydrothermal sulfides	4
Comparative soft‐tissue preservation in Holocene‐age capelin concretions	4
Protracted oxygenation across the Cambrian–Ordovician transition: A key initiator of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event?	4
Taphonomy of microorganisms and microbial microtextures at sulfidic hydrothermal vents: A case study from the Roman Ruins black smokers, Eastern Manus Basin	4
Stable carbon isotope values of syndepositional carbonate spherules and micrite record spatial and temporal changes in photosynthesis intensity	4
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	4
Bacterial community structure and metabolic potential in microbialite‐forming mats from South Australian saline lakes	3
Coccolith Sr/Ca is a robust temperature and growth rate indicator that withstands dynamic microbial interactions	3
Organic preservation of vase‐shaped microfossils from the late Tonian Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA	3
Sulfur isotopes of hydrothermal vent fossils and insights into microbial sulfur cycling within a lower Paleozoic (Ordovician‐early Silurian) vent community	3
A 571 million‐year‐old alkaline volcanic lake photosynthesizing microbial community, the Anti‐atlas, Morocco	3
Revisiting marine redox conditions during the Ediacaran Shuram carbon isotope excursion	3
Metabarcoding reveals high diversity of benthic foraminifera linked to water masses circulation at coastal Svalbard	3
Effects of RuBisCO and CO₂ concentration on cyanobacterial growth and carbon isotope fractionation	3
Absence of canonical trophic levels in a microbial mat	3
Actualistic approaches to interpreting the role of biological decomposition in microbial preservation	3
Structural and chemical heterogeneity of Proterozoic organic microfossils of the ca. 1 Ga old Angmaat Formation, Baffin Island, Canada	3
Deep water cuspate stromatolites of the Cryogenian Trezona Formation	3
Environmental and temporal patterns in bioturbation in the Cambrian–Ordovician of Western Newfoundland	3
Distinctive microfossil supports early Paleoproterozoic rise in complex cellular organisation	2
Deep‐water first occurrences of Ediacara biota prior to the Shuram carbon isotope excursion in the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon, Canada	2
A carbonate corrosion experiment at a marine methane seep: The role of aerobic methanotrophic bacteria	2
Carbon cycle dynamics and ecology revealed by the carbon isotopic composition of single organic microfossils during the Late Devonian Biotic Crisis	2
An experimental study on post‐mortem dissolution and overgrowth processes affecting coccolith assemblages: A rapid and complex process	2
Carbon pump dynamics and limited organic carbon burial during OAE1a	2
Foraminifera‐derived carbon contribution to sedimentary inorganic carbon pool: A case study from three Norwegian fjords	2
Lipid biomarkers recording marine microbial community structure changes through the Frasnian‐Famennian mass extinction event	2
Fire activity across Cretaceous/Paleogene transition: Evidence from pyrogenic biomarkers preserved in the Mahadeo‐Cherrapunji section, Meghalaya, India	2
New keratose sponges after the end‐Permian extinction provide insights into biotic recoveries	2
Contrasting morphology and growth habits of Frutexites in Late Devonian reef complexes of the Canning Basin, northwestern Australia	2
Interplay between abiotic and microbial biofilm‐mediated processes for travertine formation: Insights from a thermal spring (Piscine Carletti, Viterbo, Italy)	2
Sulfur cycling at natural hydrocarbon and sulfur seeps in Santa Paula Creek, CA	2
Microbial influence on dolomite and authigenic clay mineralisation in dolocrete profiles of NW Australia	2
Sulfur disproportionating microbial communities in a dynamic, microoxic‐sulfidic karst system	2
Hydrogeological controls on microbial activity and habitability in the Precambrian continental crust	2