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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Widespread mineralization of soft‐bodied insects in Cretaceous amber	67
An experimental study on post‐mortem dissolution and overgrowth processes affecting coccolith assemblages: A rapid and complex process	29
The role of clay minerals in the preservation of Precambrian organic‐walled microfossils	27
Morphogenesis of digitate structures in hot spring silica sinters of the El Tatio geothermal field, Chile	24
A Spatially Restricted Distribution of Thermophilic Endospores in Laptev Sea Shelf Sediments Suggests a Limited Dispersal by Local Geofluids	19
Physiology, Not Nutrient Availability, May Have Limited Primary Productivity After the Emergence of Oxygenic Photosynthesis	18
Iron‐mediated anaerobic ammonium oxidation recorded in the early Archean ferruginous ocean	16
Kinetics and mechanisms of cyanobacterially induced precipitation of magnesium silicate	16
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Microbially promoted calcite precipitation in the pelagic redoxcline: Elucidating the formation of the turbid layer	14
Organic preservation of vase‐shaped microfossils from the late Tonian Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA	14
The diagenetic fate of collagen as revealed by analytical pyrolysis of fossil fish scales from deep time	14
Effects of RuBisCO and CO₂ concentration on cyanobacterial growth and carbon isotope fractionation	14
Dynamics of the osmotic lysis of mineral protocells and its avoidance at the origins of life	13
Comprehensive molecular‐isotopic characterization of archaeal lipids in the Black Sea water column and underlying sediments	12
Branching archaeocyaths as ecosystem engineers during the Cambrian radiation	12
Oceanic and Sedimentary Microbial Sulfur Cycling Controlled by Local Organic Matter Flux During the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion in the Three Gorges Area, South China	12
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The interplay of environmental constraints and bioturbation on matground development along the marine depositional profile during the Ordovician Radiation	11
Divergence time estimates for the hypoxia‐inducible factor‐1 alpha (HIF1α) reveal an ancient emergence of animals in low‐oxygen environments	11
Terrestrial surface stabilisation by modern analogues of the earliest land plants: A multi‐dimensional imaging study	10
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	10
Stromatolitic Mounds in Tidal‐Facies Sandstones of the Paleoarchean Moodies Group (Barberton Greenstone Belt, Eswatini)	10
Reduction in animal abundance and oxygen availability during and after the end‐Triassic mass extinction	10
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Metabarcoding reveals high diversity of benthic foraminifera linked to water masses circulation at coastal Svalbard	10
A sedimentary record of the evolution of the global marine phosphorus cycle	10
Enameloid‐bound δ¹⁵N reveals large trophic separation among Late Cretaceous sharks in the northern Gulf of Mexico	10
Exploring the secondary mineral products generated by microbial iron respiration in Archean ocean simulations	9
New Insights Into Upper Messinian Microbial Carbonates: A Dendrolite‐Thrombolite Build‐Up From the Salento Peninsula, Central Mediterranean	9
Carbon reservoir perturbations induced by Deccan volcanism: Stable isotope and biomolecular perspectives from shallow marine environment in Eastern India	9
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Early‐Branching Cyanobacteria Grow Faster and Upregulate Superoxide Dismutase Activity Under a Simulated Early Earth Anoxic Atmosphere	9
Protracted oxygenation across the Cambrian–Ordovician transition: A key initiator of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event?	9
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Impact of steroid biosynthesis on the aerobic adaptation of eukaryotes	8
The Dziani Dzaha Lake: A long‐awaited modern analogue for superheavy pyrites	8
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Elevated δ¹⁵N Linked to Inhibited Nitrification Coupled to Ammonia Volatilization in Sediments of Shallow Alkaline‐Hypersaline Lakes	8
Environmental and temporal patterns in bioturbation in the Cambrian–Ordovician of Western Newfoundland	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
New keratose sponges after the end‐Permian extinction provide insights into biotic recoveries	7
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Contrasting nutrient availability between marine and brackish waters in the late Mesoproterozoic: Evidence from the Paranoá Group, Brazil	7
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The paleoredox context of early eukaryotic evolution: insights from the Tonian Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup, Canada	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
A 1 Ma sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) record of catchment vegetation changes and the developmental history of tropical Lake Towuti (Sulawesi, Indonesia)	7
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Production of diverse brGDGTs by Acidobacterium Solibacter usitatus in response to temperature, pH, and O₂ provides a culturing perspective on brGDGT proxies an	7
The illusion of balance in the history of the biosphere	6
Biogeochemical transformations after the emergence of oxygenic photosynthesis and conditions for the first rise of atmospheric oxygen	6
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Evaporative silicification in floating microbial mats: patterns of oxygen production and preservation potential in silica‐undersaturated streams, El Tatio, Chile	6
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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
Major contribution of sulfide‐derived sulfur to the benthic food web in a large freshwater lake	6
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Morphological and Microbial Diversity of Hydromagnesite Microbialites in Lake Salda: A Mars Analog Alkaline Lake	6