OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Astrobiology is 3. 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
Mars: new insights and unresolved questions – Corrigendum	8
Surviving Mars: new insights into the persistence of facultative anaerobic microbes from analogue sites	8
A brief history of the term ‘habitable zone’ in the 19th century	7
Von Neumann probes: rationale, propulsion, interstellar transfer timing	6
Humanity should colonize space in order to survive but not with embryo space colonization	6
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
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
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
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
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
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