Astrobiology

Papers
(The H4-Index of Astrobiology is 22. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Habitability Models for Astrobiology143
Spore Survival During Abrasive Saltation on Mars: A Comment on Bak et al.81
Chapter 10: Planetary Protection—History, Science, and the Future56
Proteomic Insights into Psychrophile Growth in Perchlorate-Amended Subzero Conditions: Implications for Martian Life Detection45
Novel Chimeric Amino Acid-Fatty Alcohol Ester Amphiphiles Self-Assemble into Stable Primitive Membranes in Diverse Geological Settings44
Deoxyribonucleic Acid Extraction from Mars Analog Soils and Their Characterization with Solid-State Nanopores37
Ultraviolet Resistance of Microorganisms Isolated from Uranium-Rich Minerals from Perus, Brazil37
Life Detection and Microbial Biomarker Profiling with Signs of Life Detector-Life Detector Chip During a Mars Drilling Simulation Campaign in the Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert35
Biogeographical Modeling of Alien Worlds34
Self-Shielding Enhanced Organics Synthesis in an Early Reduced Earth’s Atmosphere33
Extremophiles in Earth's Deep Seas: A View Toward Life in Exo-Oceans32
Hydrothermal Regeneration of Ammonium as a Basin-Scale Driver of Primary Productivity31
Haloferax volcanii Remains Viable and Shows Morphological Changes under Anoxic (CO2-Enriched) and Hypobaric (2.4 kPa) Atmospheric Conditions31
Boron as a Hypothetical Participant in the Prebiological Enantiomeric Enrichment30
The Call for a New Definition of Biosignature29
Protective Effects of Halite to Vacuum and Vacuum-Ultraviolet Radiation: A Potential Scenario During a Young Sun Superflare29
Scientific Targets of Tanpopo: Astrobiology Exposure and Micrometeoroid Capture Experiments at the Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility of the International Space Station27
What Would an Alien Amino Acid Alphabet Look Like and Why?27
Exobiology of the Venusian Clouds: New Insights into Habitability through Terrestrial Models and Methods of Detection26
An Accounting of Contamination Control Requirements, Implementation, and Verification of the Sample Tubes for the Mars 2020 Mission and Future Return Sample Science25
Magma Ocean Evolution of the TRAPPIST-1 Planets25
Traces of Bacterial Contribution to Calcite Weathering Detected by Statistical Characterizations of Surface Microtopography25
Sharp Rise in Cosmic Ray Irradiation of Organisms on Earth Caused by a Nearby SN Shockwave Passage22
Linear Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (LITMS) Instrument Field and Laboratory Tests as Part of the ARADS Field Campaigns22
Exploiting the Unique Biology of Caenorhabditis elegans to Launch Neurodegeneration Studies in Space22
The Venus Life Equation22
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