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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exploiting a perchlorate-tolerant desert cyanobacterium to support bacterial growth for in situ resource utilization on Mars29
Biological safety in the context of backward planetary protection and Mars Sample Return: conclusions from the Sterilization Working Group20
Mars: new insights and unresolved questions19
Intelligence as a planetary scale process17
Contact inequality: first contact will likely be with an older civilization14
On biosignatures for Mars11
How the space environment influences organisms: an astrobiological perspective and review10
Interplanetary transmissions of life in an evolutionary context10
Android Noahs and embryo Arks: ectogenesis in global catastrophe survival and space colonization10
Why should geological criteria used on Earth not be valid also for Mars? Evidence of possible microbialites and algae in extinct Martian lakes9
Presence of water on exomoons orbiting free-floating planets: a case study9
Expecting the unexpected in the search for extraterrestrial life8
An experimental study of the thermolysis of hydrogen cyanide: the role of hydrothermal systems in chemical evolution8
Intermittent signals and planetary days in SETI7
A brief history of the term ‘habitable zone’ in the 19th century7
Fungal biomarkers are detectable in Martian rock-analogues after space exposure: implications for the search of life on Mars7
Mars: new insights and unresolved questions – Corrigendum7
SETI: the argument for artefact searches6
Where are Solar storm-induced whale strandings more likely to occur?6
Surviving Mars: new insights into the persistence of facultative anaerobic microbes from analogue sites6
Climate change via CO2 drawdown from astrophysically initiated atmospheric ionization?6
Quantum chemical study on the formation of isopropyl cyanide and its linear isomer in the interstellar medium5
Von Neumann probes: rationale, propulsion, interstellar transfer timing5
Humanity should colonize space in order to survive but not with embryo space colonization5
Habitability: a process versus a state variable framework with observational tests and theoretical implications5
Phospholipid biomarkers in Mars-analogous soils of the Atacama Desert5
The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on human psychology and physical activity; a space analogue research perspective4
Astrobiologists are rational but not Bayesian4
Hype, skin in the game, and the stability of cooperative science4
Astrobiology and its influence on the renewal of the way we see the world from the teloempathic, educational and astrotheological perspective4
Planck frequencies as Schelling points in SETI4
Where will they be: hidden implications of solutions to the Fermi paradox4
Role of DNA repair pathways in the recovery of a dried, radioresistant cyanobacterium exposed to high-LET radiation: implications for the habitability of Mars4
Conceptual discussion around the notion of the human being as an inter and multiplanetary species4
What's in a name: the etymology of astrobiology4
Curbing the fruitfulness of self-replicating machines3
Survival of Xanthoria parietina in simulated space conditions: vitality assessment and spectroscopic analysis3
Solar system exposure to supernova γ radiation3
Protecting ocean worlds: Europa Clipper planetary protection inputs to a probabilistic risk-based approach3
Study of the formation of ferrihydrite under prebiotic chemistry conditions: artificial seawater 4.0 Gy and ammonium thiocyanate3
Ectogenesis for survival in deep space and deep time: reply to Gale and Wandel3
Attitudes and perceptions towards the scientific search for extraterrestrial life among students of public and private universities in Peru3
Physical and chemical mechanisms that impact the detection, identification, and quantification of organic matter and the survival of microorganisms on the Martian surface – a review3
A limbus mundi elucidation of habitability: the Goldilocks Edge3
Monte Carlo estimation of the probability of causal contacts between communicating civilizations3
Self-replicating probes are imminent – implications for SETI3
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
The interstellar communication relay3
Complex structures synthesized in shock processing of nucleobases – implications to the origins of life3
Microbial protocols for spacecraft: 2. Biocidal effects of Delrin and nylon in sealed compartments may enhance bioburden reductions in planetary spacecraft3
Evaluation of pathogenesis and biofilm formation ability of Yersinia pestis after 40-day exposure to simulated microgravity3
Space ectogenesis: securing survival of humans and Earth life with minimal risks – reply to Szocik3
Biomarkers in the Atacama Desert along the moisture gradient and the depth in the hyperarid zone: Phosphatase activity as trace of microbial activity3
Nucleic acids and melanin pigments after exposure to high doses of gamma rays: a biosignature robustness test3
A brief epistemological discussion of astrotheology in the light of astrobiology3
Dyson swarms of von Neumann probes: prospects and predictions3
Searching for biosignatures by their rotational spectrum: global fit and methyl group internal rotation features of dimethylsulphoxide up to 116 GHz2
Iron reduction as a viable metabolic pathway in Enceladus’ ocean2
Evolution of the number of communicative civilizations in the Galaxy: implications on Fermi paradox2
Frontiers of astrobiology and the humanities2
Artificial versus biological intelligence in the Cosmos: clues from a stochastic analysis of the Drake equation2
Detection of organic or inorganic material in Martian meteorite Zagami by vibrational spectroscopy?2
Submarine hydrothermal vent systems: the relevance of dynamic systems in chemical evolution and prebiotic chemistry experiments2
Does microgravity effect on oral and maxillofacial region?2
Detection of pre-industrial societies on exoplanets – CORRIGENDUM2
Early taphonomic processes in a microbial-based sedimentary system from a temperate salt-pan site (Cervia salterns, Italy)2
Planck frequencies as Schelling points in SETI – Erratum2
Astrometric study of Gaia DR2 stars for interstellar communication2
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists, it is unable to recognize humans as intelligent beings2
Bacterial influence on the formation of hematite: implications for Martian dormant life2
Astrovirology: how viruses enhance our understanding of life in the Universe2
Atmospheric entry of sub-millimetre-sized grains into Mars atmosphere: white soft mineral micrometeoroids2
Database on mineral mediated carbon reduction: implications for future research1
Acceleration of amino acid racemization by isovaline: possible implications for homochirality and biosignature search1
Galactic traversability: a new concept for extragalactic SETI1
Acid and aluminium-tolerant microbes isolated from China space station assembly cleanroom surfaces and identified by 16S rRNA/ITS sequencing and MALDI-TOF MS1
The Fermi paradox: impact of astrophysical processes and dynamical evolution1
Abiogenesis: the Carter argument reconsidered1
Detection of pre-industrial societies on exoplanets1
Prebiotic decluttering: the thermodynamic tail-wind to asymmetric autocatalysis1
Extraterrestrial nature reserves (ETNRs)1
Presence of liquid water during the evolution of exomoons orbiting ejected free-floating planets1
Computer simulations of biotic chiral selection scenarios1
Life detection in Martian returned samples: correlation between analytical techniques and biological signatures1
On possible life-dispersal patterns beyond the Earth1
Astrobiology in Europe, 20 years of expectations1
Martian stick-like structures are not trace fossils: a new protocol for testing ichnogenicity synthesized from paleosol ichnology1
Histidine adsorption onto modified montmorillonite under prebiotic chemistry conditions: a thermodynamic and kinetic study1
The Noonday argument: fine-graining, indexicals, and the nature of Copernican reasoning1
Breakthrough results in astrobiology: is ‘high risk’ research needed?1
Reaching out to early-career astrobiologists: AbGradE's actions and perspectives1
Migrating extraterrestrial civilizations and interstellar colonization: implications for SETI and SETA1
Analysis of microbial lipids deposited on Mars Global Simulant (MGS-1) by geomatrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry1
Mars: a free planet?1
Interaction between adenine and Cu2+ and Fe3+-montmorillonites: a prebiotic chemistry experiment1
Particle motion determines the types of bioaerosol particles in the stratosphere1
Megatsunamis and microbial life on early Mars1
On the border between Science and Science Fiction1
Alien technology, conjunction and ergodicity1
Survival and growth of soil microbial communities under influence of sodium perchlorates1
Distinguishing multicellular life on exoplanets by testing Earth as an exoplanet1
Anomalous fluctuations and selective extinction in primordial replicators: a ‘struggle for life’ at the origin of biological homochirality1
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