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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

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A Spatially Restricted Distribution of Thermophilic Endospores in Laptev Sea Shelf Sediments Suggests a Limited Dispersal by Local Geofluids	79
An experimental study on post‐mortem dissolution and overgrowth processes affecting coccolith assemblages: A rapid and complex process	36
The role of clay minerals in the preservation of Precambrian organic‐walled microfossils	35
Iron‐mediated anaerobic ammonium oxidation recorded in the early Archean ferruginous ocean	28
Kinetics and mechanisms of cyanobacterially induced precipitation of magnesium silicate	24
Widespread mineralization of soft‐bodied insects in Cretaceous amber	20
Physiology, Not Nutrient Availability, May Have Limited Primary Productivity After the Emergence of Oxygenic Photosynthesis	20
Dynamics of the osmotic lysis of mineral protocells and its avoidance at the origins of life	19
Microbially promoted calcite precipitation in the pelagic redoxcline: Elucidating the formation of the turbid layer	17
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The diagenetic fate of collagen as revealed by analytical pyrolysis of fossil fish scales from deep time	16
Oceanic and Sedimentary Microbial Sulfur Cycling Controlled by Local Organic Matter Flux During the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion in the Three Gorges Area, South China	16
Organic preservation of vase‐shaped microfossils from the late Tonian Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA	15
Comprehensive molecular‐isotopic characterization of archaeal lipids in the Black Sea water column and underlying sediments	13
Enameloid‐bound δ¹⁵N reveals large trophic separation among Late Cretaceous sharks in the northern Gulf of Mexico	12
Effects of RuBisCO and CO ₂ concentration on cyanobacterial growth and carbon isotope fractionation	12
Branching archaeocyaths as ecosystem engineers during the Cambrian radiation	12
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Stromatolitic Mounds in Tidal‐Facies Sandstones of the Paleoarchean Moodies Group (Barberton Greenstone Belt, Eswatini)	12
A sedimentary record of the evolution of the global marine phosphorus cycle	11
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Early‐Branching Cyanobacteria Grow Faster and Upregulate Superoxide Dismutase Activity Under a Simulated Early Earth Anoxic Atmosphere	11
Microbial mats and their palaeoenvironmental analysis in offshore – shelf facies of the Los Molles Formation (Toarcian – Lower Callovian) in the Chacay Melehue area, Neuquén Basin, Argentina	11
New Insights Into Upper Messinian Microbial Carbonates: A Dendrolite‐Thrombolite Build‐Up From the Salento Peninsula, Central Mediterranean	11
Metabarcoding reveals high diversity of benthic foraminifera linked to water masses circulation at coastal Svalbard	11

Reduction in animal abundance and oxygen availability during and after the end‐Triassic mass extinction	11
Divergence time estimates for the hypoxia‐inducible factor‐1 alpha (HIF1α) reveal an ancient emergence of animals in low‐oxygen environments	11
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Terrestrial surface stabilisation by modern analogues of the earliest land plants: A multi‐dimensional imaging study	10
The Dziani Dzaha Lake: A long‐awaited modern analogue for superheavy pyrites	10
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Elevated δ¹⁵N Linked to Inhibited Nitrification Coupled to Ammonia Volatilization in Sediments of Shallow Alkaline‐Hypersaline Lakes	9
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Exploring the secondary mineral products generated by microbial iron respiration in Archean ocean simulations	9
Impact of steroid biosynthesis on the aerobic adaptation of eukaryotes	9
Protracted oxygenation across the Cambrian–Ordovician transition: A key initiator of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event?	9
Environmental and temporal patterns in bioturbation in the Cambrian–Ordovician of Western Newfoundland	8
A 1 Ma sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) record of catchment vegetation changes and the developmental history of tropical Lake Towuti (Sulawesi, Indonesia)	8
New keratose sponges after the end‐Permian extinction provide insights into biotic recoveries	8
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Interplay between abiotic and microbial biofilm‐mediated processes for travertine formation: Insights from a thermal spring (Piscine Carletti, Viterbo, Italy)	8
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Morphological and Microbial Diversity of Hydromagnesite Microbialites in Lake Salda: A Mars Analog Alkaline Lake	7
Production of diverse brGDGTs by Acidobacterium Solibacter usitatus in response to temperature, pH, and O₂ provides a culturing perspective on brGDGT proxies an	7
A Flourishing Planktonic Microbial Community in an Interglacial Offshore Environment: Silicified Microfossils From the Cryogenian Datangpo Formation, South China	7
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Oxygenation and Alkalinity Drive the Lacustrine Nitrogen Isotope Record Throughout the Past 3.2 Billion Years	7
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	7
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Biogeochemistry of an Iron‐ and Manganese‐Rich Stratified Lake: Tasik Biru, Malaysia, as a Modern Model Habitat for the Ancient Ocean	6
Lipid biomarkers recording marine microbial community structure changes through the Frasnian‐Famennian mass extinction event	6
Endospores associated with deep seabed geofluid features in the eastern Gulf of Mexico	6
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Biogeochemical transformations after the emergence of oxygenic photosynthesis and conditions for the first rise of atmospheric oxygen	6
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The paleoredox context of early eukaryotic evolution: insights from the Tonian Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup, Canada	6
The illusion of balance in the history of the biosphere	6
Two Worlds on a Stone: Arctic Desert Hypoliths and Epiliths Show Spatial Niche Differentiation	5
Carbonate chimneys at the highly productive point Dume methane seep: Fine‐scale mineralogical, geochemical, and microbiological heterogeneity reflects dynamic and long‐lived methane‐metabolizing habit	5
Major contribution of sulfide‐derived sulfur to the benthic food web in a large freshwater lake	5
Coral calcification and carbonate production in the eastern tropical Pacific: The role of branching and massive corals in the reef maintenance	5
Physiological and metabolic responses of chemolithoautotrophic NO3− reducers to high hydrostatic pressure	5
Ediacaran–Cambrianbioturbation did not extensively oxygenate sediments in shallow marine ecosystems	5
The role of iron in the formation of Ediacaran ‘death masks’	5
Sulfide Oxidation Products Support Microbial Metabolism at Interface Environments in a Marine‐Like Serpentinizing Spring in Northern California	5
Mesoproterozoic surface oxygenation accompanied major sedimentary manganese deposition at 1.4 and 1.1 Ga	5
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Inferred ancestry of scytonemin biosynthesis proteins in cyanobacteria indicates a response to Paleoproterozoic oxygenation	5
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Hydrogeological controls on microbial activity and habitability in the Precambrian continental crust	5
Microbial biosignatures in ancient deep‐sea hydrothermal sulfides	4

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Microbial Cycling of Sulfur and Other Redox‐Sensitive Elements in Porewaters of San Clemente Basin, California, and Cocos Ridge, Costa Rica	4
Growth of microaerophilic Fe(II)‐oxidizing bacteria using Fe(II) produced by Fe(III) photoreduction	4
An Anaerobic Microbial Community Mediates Epigenetic Native Sulfur and Carbonate Formation During Replacement of Messinian Gypsum at Monte Palco, Sicily	4
Copper mobilisation from Cu sulphide minerals by methanobactin: Effect of pH, oxygen and natural organic matter	4
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White and green rust chimneys accumulate RNA in a ferruginous chemical garden	4
The biogeochemical cycling of chlorine	4
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Mineralization Controls Informative Biomarker Preservation Associated With Soft Part Fossilization in Deep Time	4
A Biofilm Channel Origin for Vermiform Microstructure in Carbonate Microbialites	3
Isotopic evidence of environmental changes during the Devonian–Carboniferous transition in South China and its implications for the biotic crisis	3
Primary to post‐depositional microbial controls on the stable and clumped isotope record of shoreline sediments at Fayetteville Green Lake	3
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Ultrastructural Perspectives on the Biology and Taphonomy of Tonian Microfossils From the Draken Formation, Spitsbergen	3
Bioavailability of mineral‐associated trace metals as cofactors for nitrogen fixation by Azotobacter vinelandii	3
Redox Gradient Shapes the Chemical Composition of Peatland Microbial Communities	3
Cyanobacteria Boring Limestones in Freshwater Settings—Their Pioneering Role in Sculpturing Pebbles and Carbonate Dissolution	3
Nubecularia‐coralline algal‐serpulid‐microbial bioherms of the Paratethys Sea—Distribution and paleoecological significance (upper Serravallian, upper Sarmatian, Middle Miocene)	3
Lateral redox variability in ca. 1.9 Ga marine environments indicated by organic carbon and nitrogen isotope compositions	2
Thallium Isotopes Suggest the Global Deep Ocean Did Not Approach Modern Oxygenation During Cambrian Age 3 Metazoan Radiation	2
Multiple sulphur isotope record of Paleoarchean sedimentary rocks across the Onverwacht Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa	2
Microbial diversity and authigenic siderite mediation in sediments surrounding the Kedr‐1 mud volcano, Lake Baikal	2
Deep water cuspate stromatolites of the Cryogenian Trezona Formation	2
Dissolved silica affects the bulk iron redox state and recrystallization of minerals generated by photoferrotrophy in a simulated Archean ocean	2
A Reassessment of the Coprostane Biomarker in the Ediacaran With Implications for Dickinsonia	2
Contrasting morphology and growth habits of Frutexites in Late Devonian reef complexes of the Canning Basin, northwestern Australia	2
Absence of canonical trophic levels in a microbial mat	2
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Bacterial community structure and metabolic potential in microbialite‐forming mats from South Australian saline lakes	2
Pyritic stromatolites from the Paleoarchean Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton: Resolving biogenicity and hydrothermally influenced ecosystem dynamics	2
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