Organic Geochemistry

Papers
(The median citation count of Organic Geochemistry 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Effects of digestate application, winter crop species and development on dissolved organic matter composition along the soil profile27
Application of biomarker and non-biomarker parameters to assess maturity using the Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin as a case study26
Protocols to assist deconvolution of co-eluting 5β– and 5α–steranes by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry26
Geochemical analysis of bituminous samples from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site of Nahal Efe (Northern Negev, Israel): Earliest evidence in the region and an example of alteration of the Dead Sea bit25
Study on the main controlling factors on the differential accumulation of natural gas in multiple (ultra-)deeply-buried marine strata22
Reconstructing the palaeoecology of a middle Permian alkaline lake using molecular fossils, case study of the Lucaogou Formation in the Junggar Basin, NW China22
Aromatic carotenoids and their aryl isoprenoid derivatives in the early Paleozoic rocks and crude oils of the Tarim Basin, China22
Methylation and demethylation of naphthalene homologs in highly thermal mature sediments21
On the validity of position specific carbon isotopic analysis (PSIA) of propane19
A maturation scale for molecular simulation of kerogen thermal degradation19
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Geochemistry Articles – August 202417
Characterization of diverse bacteriohopanepolyols in a permanently stratified, hyper-euxinic lake17
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Geochemistry Articles – December 202416
Heterotrophic origin and diverse sources of branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGMGTs) in peats and lignites16
Five series of benzohopanes in early Cretaceous sediments from the Chaoyang Basin, NE China15
Appraisal of paleoclimate indices based on bacterial 3-hydroxy fatty acids in 20 Chinese alkaline lakes14
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Modified rapid small-scale fractionation method for quantitatively separating pyrrolic nitrogen compounds, phenols-ketones and carboxylic acids fractions from petroleum14
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Experimental evidence suggests dominance of species effect on the variability in hydrogen isotope fractionation between leaf wax compounds and source water12
Direct evidence of gas flushing oil in deep reservoirs: Insight from integrated fluid inclusion analyses12
Geochemical rationalisation for the variable oil quality in the Orcutt reservoir, California, USA12
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Geochemistry articles – June, 202311
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GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – March 202210
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Molecular transformations of heteroatomic organic compounds in crude oils caused by biodegradation and subsequent thermal maturation: Insights from ESI FT-ICR MS10
Thermal maturity calculation in Type II-S source rocks using the alkyl dibenzothiophenes10
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Evaluation of the wider applications of the alkanol index BNA15 as temperature proxy in a broad distribution of peat deposits9
Complexity of the serpentinization lipidome9
Identification, distribution and geochemical significance of phenyldibenzofurans in coals9
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GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – January 20229
Geochemical behavior of aliphatic hydrocarbons during primary migration and implication for hydrocarbon expulsion: A case study in Qikou Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China9
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – September 20219
A distinct oil group in the Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China: New insights from norcholestane and triaromatic steroid analyses9
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – August 20239
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – July 20229
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GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – September 20229
Assessing marine communities and carbon cycling that sustained shallow-marine ecosystems on Silurian, reef-rimmed carbonate platforms9
Maturity characterization and formation mechanisms of nano-scale anisotropic pyrobitumen based on atomic force microscopy (AFM)8
A new method for the quantification of hydrogen contribution from water to methane during hydrous kerogen pyrolysis8
The impact of soil chemistry, moisture and temperature on branched and isoprenoid GDGTs in soils: A study using six globally distributed elevation transects8
Hydrocarbon sedimentary organic matter composition from different water-type floodplain lakes in the Brazilian Amazon8
The bacterial influencing mechanisms of salinity fluctuations in a brackish-water lake on the dissolved organic matter characteristics of pore water8
The giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta takes up dissolved organic matter from benthic cyanobacterial mats8
Novel methyl-branched alkenones with up to five double bonds in saline lakes7
Novel oxygenated fossil nor-diterpenoids from Cretaceous amber (South-Western France) as potential markers from Cupressaceae and/or Cheirolepidiaceae7
Interaction between peptide and solid lignin suggest mechanisms of abiotic covalent bond formation7
Geochemical evidence for biodegradation in high-rank coals from Qinshui Basin, North China7
Formation and distribution of ethanodiamondoids in deeply buried marine oil from the Tarim Basin, China7
In-situ provenance of brGDGTs in peat sediments: A case study from southern China and a comparison of global results7
Differential evolution of extracted bitumen and solid bitumen in a hybrid shale system7
Impact of water depth on the distributions and proxies of isoprenoidal hydroxylated GDGTs in the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea7
Early stages of Type I-S kerogen formation revealed by Rock-Eval® 7S analysis of sediment from a modern halo-alkaline lake (Dziani Dzaha, Mayotte)7
Group 2i Isochrysidales flourishes at exceedingly low growth temperatures (0 to 6 °C)7
Multiple isotopes (C-S-N-H) and bound biomarkers in asphaltenes: New constraints on the classification and genesis of reservoir bitumens from the northwestern Sichuan Basin, South China6
Advancing chemical lability assessments of organic matter using a synthesis of FT-ICR MS data across diverse environments and experiments6
Comparison of molecular distributions and carbon and hydrogen isotope compositions of n-alkanes from aquatic plants in shallow freshwater lakes along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River,6
Characterization of free and bound bitumen fractions in a thermal maturation shale sequence. Part 2: Structural evolution of kerogen and bitumen during shale oil generation, expulsion and retention6
Alkenones in Pleistocene Upper Bed I (1.803–1.900 Ma) sediments from Paleolake Olduvai, Tanzania6
Signals of low grade organic matter alteration in the Upper Permian Kupferschiefer (Spremberg area, Eastern Germany) – A by-product of copper mineralization?6
The impact of precipitation on the distributions of branched tetraethers in alkaline soils6
Exceptional molecular preservation in the Late Jurassic Claudia palaeo-geothermal field (Deseado Massif, Patagonia, Argentina)5
A matter of extraction – Extraction yields and ratios of faecal lipid biomarker from archaeological soils using Soxhlet, microwave-assisted and accelerated-solvent extraction5
Organic matter composition in sediments recording sea surface phytoplankton community structure in Prydz Bay of Antarctica5
Improved light hydrocarbons collection method for the pyrolysis of crude oil in gold tube closed system experiments5
Assessment of branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraether (brGMGT)-based paleothermometry in the 250,000-year sediment record of Lake Chala, equatorial East Africa5
Impacts of temperature and fluid seepage on organic matter composition in sediments of an active hydrothermal basin5
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Molecular composition of dissolved organic matter in saline lakes of the Qing-Tibetan Plateau5
Environmental controls on the distribution of GDGT molecules in Lake Höglwörth, Southern Germany5
Unravelling the impact of lithofacies on the composition of NSO compounds in residual and expelled fluids of the Barnett, Niobrara and Posidonia formations5
Compositions, structures, and confined pyrolysis of the alga Chlorella and its nonhydrolyzable fractions5
Large-scale accumulation of abiotic gases associated with subduction and volcanic activities in rift basins in eastern China5
Targeted and untargeted lipidomic analysis of haptophyte cultures reveals novel and divergent nutrient-stress adaptations5
Quantitative analysis of carbazoles and hydrocarbons in condensates and oils using comprehensive GC–MS/MS and comparative GC–MS analyses5
Insights into catalytic effects of clay minerals on hydrocarbon composition of generated liquid products during oil cracking from laboratory pyrolysis experiments5
Unusual 13C depletion in the central carbon of propane in the gases of Longmaxi shale in the Sichuan Basin5
Quantification of allochthonous and autochthonous organic carbon in large and shallow Lake Wuliangsu based on distribution patterns and δ13C signatures of n-alkanes5
Effects of fluid pressure on the occurrence of multi-phase oil and accumulation of light oil and condensate from crude oil cracking: Insights from modified gold tube pyrolysis experiments5
Geochemistry Articles – April 20245
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Modeling the decomposition signal and correcting bulk organic data from a peat deposit, a case study at low latitudes (Cameroon)4
First report of Early Permian Tasmanite oil shales in northern Pangea with global implications4
Organic geochemical heterogeneity of the Cretaceous Abu Gabra Formation and reassessment of oil sources in the Sufyan sub-basin, Sudan4
Identification, distribution and geochemical significance of dinaphthofurans in coals4
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – July 20214
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Distribution and carbon isotopic composition of diploptene from epiphytic bryophytes in Wuhan, central China4
Discussion on the studies of position-specific carbon isotopes of propane by Li et al. (2018), Zhang et al. (2022) and Shuai et al. (2023)4
Discerning diagenetic pathways for discrete sterol precursors4
Role of aromatic and non-protonated aromatic carbon in the stability of soil organic matter4
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – October 20214
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Distributions of vanadyl and nickel porphyrins in the Woodford Shale and selective chelation of metal species by different tetrapyrrole configurations4
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – May 20214
Incorporation of water-derived hydrogen into methane during artificial maturation of source rock under hydrothermal conditions4
Re-evaluation of the 13C isotope fractionation associated with lipids biosynthesis by position-specific isotope analysis of plant fatty acids4
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Integration of methyldibenzothiophene and pyrolysis techniques to determine thermal maturity in sulfur-rich Type II-S source rocks and oils4
Geochemistry Articles – September 20243
Molecular and carbon isotopic evidence for the possible origin of 13α(n-alkyl)-tricyclic terpanes in Mesoproterozoic bitumens from the Yanliao Rift, North China3
Revisiting the precursors of the most abundant natural products on Earth: A look back at 30+ years of bacteriohopanepolyol (BHP) research and ahead to new frontiers3
Unique distribution pattern and δ13C signature of des-A-triterpenoids from Lake Wuliangsu: Source and paleoenvironmental implications3
Source rock and climate model for the Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation, Kazuo Basin, China: Geochemistry and petrography3
Isotopic evidence for the formation of 25-norhopanes via in situ biodegradation in the Permian Lucaogou shales, southern Junggar Basin3
A new strategy to study geochemical characteristics and migration of crude oils in Zhu I Depression, Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea3
Sediment organic matter compositional changes in a tropical rift lake as a function of water depth and distance from shore3
Origin and preservation mechanisms of organic matter in carbonate concretions from Lower Cambrian black shales in South China3
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Robert Alexander Obituary died 28th July 2023 (82 years)3
Constraining multi-stage and protracted oil generation of alkaline lacustrine source rocks by heteroatomic compounds3
Variability and composition of amino acids and amino sugars in sediment cores of the Changjiang Estuary3
Geochemical evidences linking the Lower Cretaceous source rocks to the biodegraded bitumen seeps and tar sands in the Gulf of Guinea Basin3
Exploring the theoretical upper temperature limit of alkenone unsaturation indices: Implications for paleotemperature reconstructions3
Isoprenoidal GDGTs and GDDs associated with anoxic lacustrine environments3
Long-chain alkenones in the lake sediments of North-Minusinsk Valley (southern Siberia): implications for paleoclimate reconstructions3
Effects of environmental history and post-depositional processes on the organic matter record of Lake Łebsko, Poland3
Biodegradation effects on the distribution of aromatic carotenoids in crude oils3
Soil chemistry, temperature and bacterial community composition drive brGDGT distributions along a subarctic elevation gradient3
Characterization of crude oils derived from carbonate and siliciclastic source rocks using FTICR-MS3
Fast quantitative analysis of n-alkanes, PAHs and alkenones in sediments3
Natural and laboratory-induced maturation of kerogen from the Vaca Muerta Formation: A comparison study3
Release of carboxylic acids into the exometabolome during anaerobic growth of a denitrifying bacterium with single substrates or crude oil3
Aliphatic hydrocarbons in the lichen class Lecanoromycetes and their potential use as chemotaxonomic indicators and biomarkers3
Porphyrin protonation induces decoupling of trace metals in petroleum3
Characterisation by ESI FT-ICR MS of heteroatomic compounds in catalytic hydropyrolysates released from marine crude oil asphaltenes3
Fossil steroid acids can arise from microbial alteration of steranes3
Solvent effect in Soxhlet extraction of source rocks3
Root-derived carbon stocks in formerly deep-ploughed soils – A biomarker-based approach3
Genetic and source differences of gases in the Middle Permian Qixia and Maokou formations in the Sichuan Basin, SW China3
Predicting Rock-Eval® thermal analysis parameters of a soil layer based on samples from its sublayers; an experimental study on forest soils3
Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether signatures in tropical mesotidal estuary sediments of Qua Iboe River, Gulf of Guinea3
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Comment: Suppression of vitrinite reflectance by bitumen generated from liptinite during hydrous pyrolysis of artificial source rock by Peters et al. (2018)3
Influencing factors of hydrogen isotopic fractionation of light hydrocarbons during evaporation and implications2
Source and significance of Cretaceous oil seepage in the northern Ordos Basin, China2
Practical considerations for amino acid isotope analysis2
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Pairing plant-wax H and C isotopes with lake-area – A method for evaluating the local amount effect in northern China during the late Quaternary2
Geochemistry Articles – November 20242
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Field and laboratory study on the distribution, fate and transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the loess porous medium at a refinery polluted site: Understanding the soil-groundwater interf2
Molecular and carbon isotope composition of hydrocarbons from ambers of the Eocene Shenbei coalfield (Liaoning Province, NE China)2
Genetic significance of carbon isotope curve types of methane, ethane, and propane in natural gas2
Reproducibility of Rock-Eval® thermal analysis for soil organic matter characterization2
Geochemistry articles – April 20232
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Seasonal temperature dependency of aquatic branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers: A mesocosm approach2
A streamlined method for pressurized extraction and fractionation of leaf lipids2
Monoterpenylabietenoids, novel biomarkers from extant and fossil Taxodioideae and sedimentary rocks2
Microbial lipid signatures in Arctic deltaic sediments – Insights into methane cycling and climate variability2
Structural characterization and confined pyrolysis of resistant aliphatic biopolymer derived from cyanobacteria2
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – December 20212
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – March 20212
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – October 20232
Geochemistry Articles – July 20242
A new empirical approach for rapid quantification of organic and pyritic sulfur in sedimentary rocks using the Rock-Eval 7S2
Fatty acid biomarkers as indicators of organic matter origin and processes in recent turbidites: The case of the terminal lobe complex of the Congo deep-sea fan2
Characteristics of light hydrocarbons under the superimposed influence of biodegradation and subsequent thermal maturation2
Annotation of DOM metabolomes with an ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry molecular formula library2
Kilometer-scale Δ13CH3D profiles distinguish end-member mixing from methane production in deep marine sediments2
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GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – March 20232
Source, composition, and distributional pattern of branched tetraethers in sediments of northern Chinese marginal seas2
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Soil chemistry effect on GDGT abundances and their proxies in soils of the Okavango Delta2
Corrigendum to “Anomalously low radiocarbon content of modern n-alkanes” [Org. Geochem. 152 (2021) 104170]2
The δ13C composition and genetic origin of a series straight long-chain alkyl naphthalene isomer pairs in the Upper Cretaceous lacustrine sediments of Songliao Basin, China2
Geochemistry Articles – February 20222
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – June 20222
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Validation of the U372
Impacts of natural irradiation on sedimentary organic matter–A review2
Fire-induced shifts in stalagmite organic matter mapped using Synchrotron infrared microspectroscopy2
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Geochemistry Articles – September 20232
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Formation mechanism of thiadiamondoids: evidence from thermochemical sulfate reduction simulation experiments with model compounds2
Determination and petroleum geochemical significance of short-chain alkylbenzenes in lacustrine source rocks2
Lipid biomarker comparison of relict and active microbial mats from the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica1
A GC/C/IRMS-based method for position-specific carbon isotopic analysis of saturated long chain fatty acids1
Characteristics of n-alkyl lipids in cultivated Sphagnum and their preservation potential in the topsoil of Sphagnum farmlands in southwest China1
Geochemistry Articles – January 20251
The temporal distributions of seed-plant terpanes in petroleum samples: Implications as oil age-diagnostic biomarkers for crude oils1
Unusually high production of C37:4 alkenone by an Arctic Gephyrocapsa huxleyi strain grown under nutrient-replete conditions1
Distinct sources of bacterial branched GMGTs in the Godavari River basin (India) and Bay of Bengal sediments1
The biological source and paleoenvironment implication of rare short-chain lanostanes in alkaline lacustrine sediments1
Abiotic chlorination of organic matter in the soil environment: A simulation study1
Organic matter accumulation driven by land-sea interactions during the Late Cretaceous: A geochemical study of the Nenjiang Formation, Songliao Basin1
The occurrence and geochemical origin of 9-alkyl HDBTs substituted by long isoprenoid alkyl chains in crude oil1
Dissolved oxygen concentrations influence the distribution of isoGDGTs in a deep Lake Fuxian in China: Implications for the use of TEX86 in stratified lakes1
Molecular fossil chronicles and geochemical probes of Paleogene coals from Meghalaya, India1
Evolution of kerogen structure during the carbonization stage1
Short-chain n-alkanes in benthic mats and mosses from the Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica1
A new and improved protocol for extraction of intact polar membrane lipids from archaea1
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Understanding the disparity in n-alkane production among angiosperms and gymnosperms from the higher Himalayas: Inferences drawn from a Machine Learning approach1
Correlations between biomarkers of varying bioavailability and putative hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria in an Early-Eocene marlstone sedimentary record1
Constraining the sources of archaeal tetraether lipids in multiple cold seep provinces of the Cascadia Margin1
Organic compounds in vent fluids from Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming1
Molecular mechanisms of solid bitumen and vitrinite reflectance suppression explored using hydrous pyrolysis of artificial source rock1
Comparing extraction methods for analyzing n-alkyl lipids in shelf sediments from the China Sea1
Changes of organic matter composition in surface sediments from the Pearl River estuary to the coastal South China Sea revealed by rapid molecular screening using FTICR-MS1
The preservation of photosynthetic and hydrological signals in the carbon and hydrogen isotope compositions of n-fatty acids in the seasonal wetland soils of the Okavango Delta (Botswana)1
Re-arranged hopanes and novel re-arranged tricyclic terpanes in Paleozoic rock extracts and oils in the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma1
Structural and chemical features of seed fossils from Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary strata1
The presence of free benzenepolycarboxylic acids (BPCAs) may result in the overestimation of dissolved black carbon in aqueous samples1
Possible explanations for the predominance of tricyclic terpanes over pentacyclic terpanes in oils and rock extracts1
Geochemical constraints on the hydrocarbon generation and expulsion in source rocks with different primary organic matter compositions: A case study on the Lucaogou Formation in the Jimusaer Sag, Jung1
C/H isotope fractionation of hydrocarbon gases from hydrogenation of organic matter: Insights from hydrothermal experiments1
Effects of inorganic sulfur species on hydrocarbon conversion and 34S isotope fractionation during thermal maturation of Type II kerogen1
Polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles used as molecular markers in crude oils and source rocks1
Controlling factors and geological applications of the drimane-skeleton compound content and composition of crude oils in complex petroleum systems: New insights from the Western Pearl River Mouth Bas1
Taraxerol abundance as a proxy for in situ mangrove sediment1
Study on the swelling of macromolecular geological organic matter with hydrocarbons and heteroatomic compounds1
Impact of organic carbon reworking upon GDGT temperature proxies during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum1
Organic matter composition and thermal maturity evaluation of Mesoproterozoic source rocks in the Beetaloo Sub-Basin, Australia1
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