OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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

Article	Citations
Mars: new insights and unresolved questions	26
Intelligence as a planetary scale process	23
Biological safety in the context of backward planetary protection and Mars Sample Return: conclusions from the Sterilization Working Group	22
How the space environment influences organisms: an astrobiological perspective and review	16
On biosignatures for Mars	13
Fungal biomarkers are detectable in Martian rock-analogues after space exposure: implications for the search of life on Mars	12
Android Noahs and embryo Arks: ectogenesis in global catastrophe survival and space colonization	11
Presence of water on exomoons orbiting free-floating planets: a case study	10
Surviving Mars: new insights into the persistence of facultative anaerobic microbes from analogue sites	8
Mars: new insights and unresolved questions – Corrigendum	8
A brief history of the term ‘habitable zone’ in the 19th century	7
Role of DNA repair pathways in the recovery of a dried, radioresistant cyanobacterium exposed to high-LET radiation: implications for the habitability of Mars	6
Quantum chemical study on the formation of isopropyl cyanide and its linear isomer in the interstellar medium	6
Von Neumann probes: rationale, propulsion, interstellar transfer timing	6
Humanity should colonize space in order to survive but not with embryo space colonization	6
The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on human psychology and physical activity; a space analogue research perspective	5
Physical and chemical mechanisms that impact the detection, identification, and quantification of organic matter and the survival of microorganisms on the Martian surface – a review	5
Habitability: a process versus a state variable framework with observational tests and theoretical implications	5
Nucleic acids and melanin pigments after exposure to high doses of gamma rays: a biosignature robustness test	4
Hype, skin in the game, and the stability of cooperative science	4
Conceptual discussion around the notion of the human being as an inter and multiplanetary species	4
Protecting ocean worlds: Europa Clipper planetary protection inputs to a probabilistic risk-based approach	4
Submarine hydrothermal vent systems: the relevance of dynamic systems in chemical evolution and prebiotic chemistry experiments	4
Complex structures synthesized in shock processing of nucleobases – implications to the origins of life	4
Evaluation of pathogenesis and biofilm formation ability of Yersinia pestis after 40-day exposure to simulated microgravity	4

Survival of Xanthoria parietina in simulated space conditions: vitality assessment and spectroscopic analysis	4
Where will they be: hidden implications of solutions to the Fermi paradox	4
Iron reduction as a viable metabolic pathway in Enceladus’ ocean	4
Astrobiologists are rational but not Bayesian	4
Biomarkers in the Atacama Desert along the moisture gradient and the depth in the hyperarid zone: Phosphatase activity as trace of microbial activity	4
Frontiers of astrobiology and the humanities	3
Solar system exposure to supernova γ radiation	3
Self-replicating probes are imminent – implications for SETI	3
A brief epistemological discussion of astrotheology in the light of astrobiology	3
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 autocatalysis	3
Curbing the fruitfulness of self-replicating machines	3
Microbial protocols for spacecraft: 2. Biocidal effects of Delrin and nylon in sealed compartments may enhance bioburden reductions in planetary spacecraft	3
Space ectogenesis: securing survival of humans and Earth life with minimal risks – reply to Szocik	3
Ectogenesis for survival in deep space and deep time: reply to Gale and Wandel	3
Astrovirology: how viruses enhance our understanding of life in the Universe	2
Planck frequencies as Schelling points in SETI – Erratum	2
Interaction between adenine and Cu²⁺ and Fe³⁺-montmorillonites: a prebiotic chemistry experiment	2
Searching for biosignatures by their rotational spectrum: global fit and methyl group internal rotation features of dimethylsulphoxide up to 116 GHz	2
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists, it is unable to recognize humans as intelligent beings	2
Database on mineral mediated carbon reduction: implications for future research	2
Particle motion determines the types of bioaerosol particles in the stratosphere	2
Breakthrough results in astrobiology: is ‘high risk’ research needed?	2
Migrating extraterrestrial civilizations and interstellar colonization: implications for SETI and SETA	2
Atmospheric entry of sub-millimetre-sized grains into Mars atmosphere: white soft mineral micrometeoroids	2
Martian stick-like structures are not trace fossils: a new protocol for testing ichnogenicity synthesized from paleosol ichnology	2
Bacterial influence on the formation of hematite: implications for Martian dormant life	2
The Fermi paradox: impact of astrophysical processes and dynamical evolution	2
Galactic traversability: a new concept for extragalactic SETI	2
Succession of the bacterial community from a spacecraft assembly clean room when enriched in brines relevant to Mars	2
Formalizing the Fermi paradox and combining consistent explanatory hypotheses	2
Acid and aluminium-tolerant microbes isolated from China space station assembly cleanroom surfaces and identified by 16S rRNA/ITS sequencing and MALDI-TOF MS	2
Abiogenesis: the Carter argument reconsidered	2
Detection of pre-industrial societies on exoplanets – CORRIGENDUM	2
Stromatolite photomorphogenesis: lighting up their shape	1
On the border between Science and Science Fiction	1
Detection of pre-industrial societies on exoplanets	1
Brief review about history of astrobiology	1
Extraterrestrial nature reserves (ETNRs)	1
The challenging history of other Earths	1
Megatsunamis and microbial life on early Mars	1
The Noonday argument: fine-graining, indexicals, and the nature of Copernican reasoning	1
On the first probe to transit between two interstellar civilizations	1
Presence of liquid water during the evolution of exomoons orbiting ejected free-floating planets	1
Astrobiology in Europe, 20 years of expectations	1
Astrobiocentrism: reflections on challenges in the transition to a vision of life and humanity in space	1
Astroecology: bridging the gap between ecology and astrobiology	1
Self-conscious intelligent technological societies in the universe: a simple direct approach to probable astrosociological realistic scenarios	1
Solid grains ejected from terrestrial exoplanets as a probe of the abundance of life in the Milky Way	1

Extraterrestrial intelligence and moral standing	1
The future of intelligence in the Universe: a call for humility	1
Alien technology, conjunction and ergodicity	1
Psychological aspects in unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) witnesses	1
Computer simulations of biotic chiral selection scenarios	1
Mars: a free planet?	1
Life detection in Martian returned samples: correlation between analytical techniques and biological signatures	1
Astrobiology: resolution of the statistical Drake equation by Maccone's lognormal method in 50 steps	1
Fundamental physical and resource requirements for a Martian magnetic shield	1
Cosmology, astrobiology and the RNA world: just add quintessential water	1
Histidine adsorption onto modified montmorillonite under prebiotic chemistry conditions: a thermodynamic and kinetic study	1
On possible life-dispersal patterns beyond the Earth	1
Planetary geodynamics and age constraints on circumstellar habitable zones around main sequence stars	1
Reaching out to early-career astrobiologists: AbGradE's actions and perspectives	1
Analysis of microbial lipids deposited on Mars Global Simulant (MGS-1) by geomatrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry	1
The social science perspective on the Fermi paradox	1