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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploiting a perchlorate-tolerant desert cyanobacterium to support bacterial growth for in situ resource utilization on Mars	31
Biological safety in the context of backward planetary protection and Mars Sample Return: conclusions from the Sterilization Working Group	21
Mars: new insights and unresolved questions	19
Intelligence as a planetary scale process	19
Contact inequality: first contact will likely be with an older civilization	14
How the space environment influences organisms: an astrobiological perspective and review	12
On biosignatures for Mars	11
Interplanetary transmissions of life in an evolutionary context	10
Android Noahs and embryo Arks: ectogenesis in global catastrophe survival and space colonization	10
Presence of water on exomoons orbiting free-floating planets: a case study	9
An experimental study of the thermolysis of hydrogen cyanide: the role of hydrothermal systems in chemical evolution	9
Expecting the unexpected in the search for extraterrestrial life	8
Fungal biomarkers are detectable in Martian rock-analogues after space exposure: implications for the search of life on Mars	8
A brief history of the term ‘habitable zone’ in the 19th century	7
Mars: new insights and unresolved questions – Corrigendum	7
Intermittent signals and planetary days in SETI	7
Surviving Mars: new insights into the persistence of facultative anaerobic microbes from analogue sites	6
Climate change via CO₂ drawdown from astrophysically initiated atmospheric ionization?	6
SETI: the argument for artefact searches	6
Where are Solar storm-induced whale strandings more likely to occur?	6
Habitability: a process versus a state variable framework with observational tests and theoretical implications	5
Humanity should colonize space in order to survive but not with embryo space colonization	5
The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on human psychology and physical activity; a space analogue research perspective	5
Phospholipid biomarkers in Mars-analogous soils of the Atacama Desert	5
Von Neumann probes: rationale, propulsion, interstellar transfer timing	5

Quantum chemical study on the formation of isopropyl cyanide and its linear isomer in the interstellar medium	5
Astrobiology and its influence on the renewal of the way we see the world from the teloempathic, educational and astrotheological perspective	4
Evaluation of pathogenesis and biofilm formation ability of Yersinia pestis after 40-day exposure to simulated microgravity	4
Conceptual discussion around the notion of the human being as an inter and multiplanetary species	4
What's in a name: the etymology of astrobiology	4
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	4
Planck frequencies as Schelling points in SETI	4
Astrobiologists are rational but not Bayesian	4
Hype, skin in the game, and the stability of cooperative science	4
Role of DNA repair pathways in the recovery of a dried, radioresistant cyanobacterium exposed to high-LET radiation: implications for the habitability of Mars	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
Artificial versus biological intelligence in the Cosmos: clues from a stochastic analysis of the Drake equation	3
Solar system exposure to supernova γ radiation	3
Self-replicating probes are imminent – implications for SETI	3
Study of the formation of ferrihydrite under prebiotic chemistry conditions: artificial seawater 4.0 Gy and ammonium thiocyanate	3
Submarine hydrothermal vent systems: the relevance of dynamic systems in chemical evolution and prebiotic chemistry experiments	3
The interstellar communication relay	3
Dyson swarms of von Neumann probes: prospects and predictions	3
Microbial protocols for spacecraft: 2. Biocidal effects of Delrin and nylon in sealed compartments may enhance bioburden reductions in planetary spacecraft	3
Monte Carlo estimation of the probability of causal contacts between communicating civilizations	3
Biomarkers in the Atacama Desert along the moisture gradient and the depth in the hyperarid zone: Phosphatase activity as trace of microbial activity	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
Nucleic acids and melanin pigments after exposure to high doses of gamma rays: a biosignature robustness test	3
Attitudes and perceptions towards the scientific search for extraterrestrial life among students of public and private universities in Peru	3
Complex structures synthesized in shock processing of nucleobases – implications to the origins of life	3
Curbing the fruitfulness of self-replicating machines	3
A limbus mundi elucidation of habitability: the Goldilocks Edge	3
Protecting ocean worlds: Europa Clipper planetary protection inputs to a probabilistic risk-based approach	3
Space ectogenesis: securing survival of humans and Earth life with minimal risks – reply to Szocik	3
Iron reduction as a viable metabolic pathway in Enceladus’ ocean	3
Ectogenesis for survival in deep space and deep time: reply to Gale and Wandel	3
A brief epistemological discussion of astrotheology in the light of astrobiology	3