International Journal of Astrobiology

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Astrobiology is 1. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exploiting a perchlorate-tolerant desert cyanobacterium to support bacterial growth for in situ resource utilization on Mars35
Mars: new insights and unresolved questions26
Intelligence as a planetary scale process23
Biological safety in the context of backward planetary protection and Mars Sample Return: conclusions from the Sterilization Working Group22
How the space environment influences organisms: an astrobiological perspective and review16
On biosignatures for Mars13
Fungal biomarkers are detectable in Martian rock-analogues after space exposure: implications for the search of life on Mars12
Android Noahs and embryo Arks: ectogenesis in global catastrophe survival and space colonization11
Presence of water on exomoons orbiting free-floating planets: a case study10
Expecting the unexpected in the search for extraterrestrial life8
Surviving Mars: new insights into the persistence of facultative anaerobic microbes from analogue sites8
Mars: new insights and unresolved questions – Corrigendum8
A brief history of the term ‘habitable zone’ in the 19th century7
Role of DNA repair pathways in the recovery of a dried, radioresistant cyanobacterium exposed to high-LET radiation: implications for the habitability of Mars6
Quantum chemical study on the formation of isopropyl cyanide and its linear isomer in the interstellar medium6
Von Neumann probes: rationale, propulsion, interstellar transfer timing6
Humanity should colonize space in order to survive but not with embryo space colonization6
The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on human psychology and physical activity; a space analogue research perspective5
Habitability: a process versus a state variable framework with observational tests and theoretical implications5
Phospholipid biomarkers in Mars-analogous soils of the Atacama Desert5
Physical and chemical mechanisms that impact the detection, identification, and quantification of organic matter and the survival of microorganisms on the Martian surface – a review5
Iron reduction as a viable metabolic pathway in Enceladus’ ocean4
Complex structures synthesized in shock processing of nucleobases – implications to the origins of life4
Astrobiologists are rational but not Bayesian4
Biomarkers in the Atacama Desert along the moisture gradient and the depth in the hyperarid zone: Phosphatase activity as trace of microbial activity4
Nucleic acids and melanin pigments after exposure to high doses of gamma rays: a biosignature robustness test4
Hype, skin in the game, and the stability of cooperative science4
Conceptual discussion around the notion of the human being as an inter and multiplanetary species4
Protecting ocean worlds: Europa Clipper planetary protection inputs to a probabilistic risk-based approach4
Submarine hydrothermal vent systems: the relevance of dynamic systems in chemical evolution and prebiotic chemistry experiments4
Dyson swarms of von Neumann probes: prospects and predictions4
Evaluation of pathogenesis and biofilm formation ability of Yersinia pestis after 40-day exposure to simulated microgravity4
Survival of Xanthoria parietina in simulated space conditions: vitality assessment and spectroscopic analysis4
Where will they be: hidden implications of solutions to the Fermi paradox4
Curbing the fruitfulness of self-replicating machines3
Microbial protocols for spacecraft: 2. Biocidal effects of Delrin and nylon in sealed compartments may enhance bioburden reductions in planetary spacecraft3
Space ectogenesis: securing survival of humans and Earth life with minimal risks – reply to Szocik3
Ectogenesis for survival in deep space and deep time: reply to Gale and Wandel3
Frontiers of astrobiology and the humanities3
Solar system exposure to supernova γ radiation3
Self-replicating probes are imminent – implications for SETI3
A brief epistemological discussion of astrotheology in the light of astrobiology3
Early taphonomic processes in a microbial-based sedimentary system from a temperate salt-pan site (Cervia salterns, Italy)3
Long-read sequencing reveals increased occurrence of genomic variants and adenosine methylation in Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032 after long-duration flight exposure onboard the International Space 3
Prebiotic decluttering: the thermodynamic tail-wind to asymmetric autocatalysis3
Planck frequencies as Schelling points in SETI – Erratum2
Formalizing the Fermi paradox and combining consistent explanatory hypotheses2
Acid and aluminium-tolerant microbes isolated from China space station assembly cleanroom surfaces and identified by 16S rRNA/ITS sequencing and MALDI-TOF MS2
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists, it is unable to recognize humans as intelligent beings2
Detection of pre-industrial societies on exoplanets – CORRIGENDUM2
Particle motion determines the types of bioaerosol particles in the stratosphere2
Breakthrough results in astrobiology: is ‘high risk’ research needed?2
Migrating extraterrestrial civilizations and interstellar colonization: implications for SETI and SETA2
Interaction between adenine and Cu2+ and Fe3+-montmorillonites: a prebiotic chemistry experiment2
Searching for biosignatures by their rotational spectrum: global fit and methyl group internal rotation features of dimethylsulphoxide up to 116 GHz2
Abiogenesis: the Carter argument reconsidered2
Database on mineral mediated carbon reduction: implications for future research2
Galactic traversability: a new concept for extragalactic SETI2
Astrovirology: how viruses enhance our understanding of life in the Universe2
Succession of the bacterial community from a spacecraft assembly clean room when enriched in brines relevant to Mars2
Atmospheric entry of sub-millimetre-sized grains into Mars atmosphere: white soft mineral micrometeoroids2
Martian stick-like structures are not trace fossils: a new protocol for testing ichnogenicity synthesized from paleosol ichnology2
Bacterial influence on the formation of hematite: implications for Martian dormant life2
The Fermi paradox: impact of astrophysical processes and dynamical evolution2
Survival and growth of soil microbial communities under influence of sodium perchlorates2
Fundamental physical and resource requirements for a Martian magnetic shield1
Self-conscious intelligent technological societies in the universe: a simple direct approach to probable astrosociological realistic scenarios1
Extraterrestrial intelligence and moral standing1
The future of intelligence in the Universe: a call for humility1
Mars: a free planet?1
The Noonday argument: fine-graining, indexicals, and the nature of Copernican reasoning1
Life detection in Martian returned samples: correlation between analytical techniques and biological signatures1
Psychological aspects in unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) witnesses1
Presence of liquid water during the evolution of exomoons orbiting ejected free-floating planets1
Astrobiology: resolution of the statistical Drake equation by Maccone's lognormal method in 50 steps1
Brief review about history of astrobiology1
Cosmology, astrobiology and the RNA world: just add quintessential water1
On possible life-dispersal patterns beyond the Earth1
Solid grains ejected from terrestrial exoplanets as a probe of the abundance of life in the Milky Way1
Planetary geodynamics and age constraints on circumstellar habitable zones around main sequence stars1
Stromatolite photomorphogenesis: lighting up their shape1
Alien technology, conjunction and ergodicity1
On the border between Science and Science Fiction1
The social science perspective on the Fermi paradox1
Analysis of microbial lipids deposited on Mars Global Simulant (MGS-1) by geomatrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry1
Astroecology: bridging the gap between ecology and astrobiology1
Astrobiocentrism: reflections on challenges in the transition to a vision of life and humanity in space1
Extraterrestrial nature reserves (ETNRs)1
Megatsunamis and microbial life on early Mars1
Histidine adsorption onto modified montmorillonite under prebiotic chemistry conditions: a thermodynamic and kinetic study1
Distinguishing multicellular life on exoplanets by testing Earth as an exoplanet1
Astrobiology in Europe, 20 years of expectations1
Reaching out to early-career astrobiologists: AbGradE's actions and perspectives1
Detection of pre-industrial societies on exoplanets1
On the first probe to transit between two interstellar civilizations1
Computer simulations of biotic chiral selection scenarios1
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