Organic Geochemistry

Papers
(The TQCC of Organic Geochemistry is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
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Assessing the reliability of H-brGDGTs as terrestrial paleothermometers in Plio-Pleistocene fluvio-lacustrine deposits from Northern China25
Direct evidence of gas flushing oil in deep reservoirs: Insight from integrated fluid inclusion analyses22
On the validity of position specific carbon isotopic analysis (PSIA) of propane21
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 bit21
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Introduction to Xplorer, Hybrid and Early-Career Virtual Special Issue21
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Exceptionally high contents of rearranged hopanes in a late Permian section, southern Sydney Basin, Australia20
Complexity of the serpentinization lipidome20
The sources of the Paleozoic petroleum systems in the Tarim Basin as revealed by geochemistry of oils and extracts from ultra-deep reservoirs18
Thermal alteration of the aliphatic biopolymer cutan: implications for composition and degradation18
Differential evolution of extracted bitumen and solid bitumen in a hybrid shale system17
Origins of Paleozoic natural gas in the Ordos Basin, North China, and implications for carbon isotope reversal mechanism16
Environmental controls on the distribution of GDGT molecules in Lake Höglwörth, Southern Germany16
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)16
Analytical inconsistencies in the measurement and reporting of IP25, IPSO25 and related biomarkers for paleo sea ice reconstruction16
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Phosphorus limitation drives the deterministic assembly of dissolved organic matter and microbial activity in surface waters of urban lakes15
Distributions of vanadyl and nickel porphyrins in the Woodford Shale and selective chelation of metal species by different tetrapyrrole configurations15
Geochemistry Articles – April 202415
Geochemistry Articles – July 202415
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Three major types of trimethyl-alkylbenzenes and significance for the genesis of reservoir bitumens from the northwestern Sichuan Basin, South China14
Robert Alexander Obituary died 28th July 2023 (82 years)14
Chemodiversity of soil dissolved organic matter complementally improved by stepwise elution and electrospray ionization modes13
Impacts of temperature and fluid seepage on organic matter composition in sediments of an active hydrothermal basin13
Fire-induced shifts in stalagmite organic matter mapped using Synchrotron infrared microspectroscopy13
Assessment of branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraether (brGMGT)-based paleothermometry in the 250,000-year sediment record of Lake Chala, equatorial East Africa13
Molecular and carbon isotopic evidence for the possible origin of 13α(n-alkyl)-tricyclic terpanes in Mesoproterozoic bitumens from the Yanliao Rift, North China12
Annotation of DOM metabolomes with an ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry molecular formula library12
Comment: Suppression of vitrinite reflectance by bitumen generated from liptinite during hydrous pyrolysis of artificial source rock by Peters et al. (2018)12
Impact of silica on archaeal isoprenoid hydrocarbons and bacterial n-tricosenes under experimental hydrothermal conditions12
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 experiments12
Geochemistry Articles – April 202511
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Generation of carbazoles in Type II-S source rocks: Experimental analysis for kinetic parameters estimation11
Impact of organic carbon reworking upon GDGT temperature proxies during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum11
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 Bas11
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – June 202211
Comparison of Curie-point pyrolysis with tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) and base catalyzed methanolysis in leaf and root biomarker decomposition studies11
Intramolecular carbon isotopic rollover in propane from natural gas reservoirs of the Santanghu Basin: Insights into chemical structure of kerogen10
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Environmental indications and controls of bacterial membrane lipids in a tropical peatland from Panama10
Chlorophyceae contribution to the Permian Lucaogou shale by cross-validation of sequential stepwise pyrolysis of kerogen and cultured biomass10
Geochemistry Articles – January 202410
Polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles used as molecular markers in crude oils and source rocks10
Organic matter composition and thermal maturity evaluation of Mesoproterozoic source rocks in the Beetaloo Sub-Basin, Australia10
Mid- to Late-Holocene branched GDGT-based air temperatures from a crater lake in Cameroon (Central Africa)10
Geochemistry Articles – January 202610
Pyrolysis experiments of model compounds to explore carbon isotope fractionation in propane from natural gas9
Geochemistry Articles – October 20249
Contribution of abiotic methane polymerization of C2+ hydrocarbons in highly mature natural gas reservoirs9
Hydrogen isotope biogeochemistry of plant waxes in paired lake catchments9
A plethora of hopanoid transformation products co-exist in a thermally immature Jurassic black shale II: Oxo- and thiohopanoids9
The widespread occurrence and wide structural diversity of sulfurized diterpenoids in ambers9
Molecular and compound-specific δ13C signatures of terrigenous organic matter along the Southwestern Atlantic Margin9
Magma-induced thermal alteration in Devonian organic-rich rocks (Paraná Basin, Brazil): molecular transformations and clay-catalyzed maturation9
Reply to Comment by M.D. Lewan9
Bacterial physiology highlighted by the δ13C fractionation of bacteriohopanetetrol isomers9
Plant-wax n-alkanes from the central Congo Basin as palaeo-environmental and -climatic proxies9
Seasonality of amino acid enantiomers and microbial communities at MOLA time series in the NW Mediterranean Sea9
Impact of biodegradation on methyltrimethyltridecylchromans (MTTCs) in crude oils from the Bohai Bay Basin, China8
High abundances of degraded triterpenoids in Miocene turbiditic sediments of south-central Hokkaido, Japan8
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – August 20238
Laboratory cooking and degradation experiments to support interpretations of absorbed lipid residues arising from the processing of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) and animal products in archaeol8
GEOCHEMISTRY ARTICLES – October 20228
A potential new sea surface temperature proxy based on isomeric highly branched isoprenoid lipid biomarkers: EZ258
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Unravelling the ketone story. Secondary vessel use at the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney, Scotland8
Geochemistry Articles – June 20258
Obituary for Prof. Dr. Dietrich Welte (1935–2025)8
The global distribution of Isoprenoidal Glycerol Dialkyl Diethers (isoGDDs) is consistent with a predominant degradation origin8
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The giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta takes up dissolved organic matter from benthic cyanobacterial mats8
Geochemical fingerprints of Dongpu Depression crude oils in Bohai Bay Basin, northern China: Insights from biomarkers and isotopic compositions of selected alkylnaphthalenes and alkylphenanthrenes8
Five series of benzohopanes in early Cretaceous sediments from the Chaoyang Basin, NE China7
Improved procedures for the cleavage and reduction of GDGTs for hydrogen isotope analysis7
Distribution and carbon isotopic composition of diploptene from epiphytic bryophytes in Wuhan, central China7
The bacterial influencing mechanisms of salinity fluctuations in a brackish-water lake on the dissolved organic matter characteristics of pore water7
Characteristics of n-alkyl lipids in cultivated Sphagnum and their preservation potential in the topsoil of Sphagnum farmlands in southwest China7
Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether signatures in tropical mesotidal estuary sediments of Qua Iboe River, Gulf of Guinea7
Hydrous pyrolysis of Type III coal: I. Influence of temperature and time on gas generation potential and applicability to natural systems7
Heterotrophic origin and diverse sources of branched glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGMGTs) in peats and lignites7
A new method for the quantification of hydrogen contribution from water to methane during hydrous kerogen pyrolysis7
Fast quantitative analysis of n-alkanes, PAHs and alkenones in sediments7
Solvent effect in Soxhlet extraction of source rocks7
Geochemistry Articles – September 20237
Molecular hydrogen isotopic compositions of petroleum n-alkanes and its geological significance in the Mahu Sag, Junggar Basin, NW China7
Compositions, structures, and confined pyrolysis of the alga Chlorella and its nonhydrolyzable fractions7
Isoprenoidal GDGTs and GDDs associated with anoxic lacustrine environments7
Interaction between peptide and solid lignin suggest mechanisms of abiotic covalent bond formation7
Impact of water depth on the distributions and proxies of isoprenoidal hydroxylated GDGTs in the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea7
Metabolic flux controls on carbon isotope patterns in algal lipids7
Natural and laboratory-induced maturation of kerogen from the Vaca Muerta Formation: A comparison study7
C/H isotope fractionation of hydrocarbon gases from hydrogenation of organic matter: Insights from hydrothermal experiments7
Characteristics of light hydrocarbons under the superimposed influence of biodegradation and subsequent thermal maturation7
Reply to “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)”6
Reservoir oil geochemistry in the northern Western Desert of Egypt – High-resolution mass spectrometry and stable carbon isotope characterization6
A paleoenvironmental and ecological analysis of biomarkers from the Eocene Fossil Basin, Green River Formation, U.S.A.6
Seasonal temperature dependency of aquatic branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers: A mesocosm approach6
Geochemistry Articles – February 20266
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, Jung6
Dissolved oxygen concentrations influence the distribution of isoGDGTs in a deep Lake Fuxian in China: Implications for the use of TEX86 in stratified lakes6
Incorporation of wet gases to kerogen in petroleum formation and evolution6
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Origin of terrigenous-marine oils from the Xihu Sag, East China Sea Shelf Basin: Insights from biomarkers and carbon isotopes6
Dissolved organic matter molecular composition controls potential biodegradability6
Re-arranged hopanes and novel re-arranged tricyclic terpanes in Paleozoic rock extracts and oils in the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma6
Organic matter-mediated activation of Pb-Zn metals in black shale dual-source rock systems: The Mayuan MVT deposit6
Comparing extraction methods for analyzing n-alkyl lipids in shelf sediments from the China Sea6
Impact of terrestrial organic matter input on distributions of hydroxylated isoprenoidal GDGTs in marine sediments: Implications for OH-isoGDGT-based temperature proxies6
Geochemistry Articles – December 20236
Gas-phase reaction of CH4 and H2S – Evidence from pyrolysis experiments and case study from the Sichuan Basin6
Seasonal organic matter dynamics in thermokarst lakes of a degrading palsa-rich sporadic permafrost zone (Nunavik, Canada)6
The biological source and paleoenvironment implication of rare short-chain lanostanes in alkaline lacustrine sediments6
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Biodegradation sequence of coal organic matter and mechanism of biomethane formation in secondary biogenic gas accumulation areas6
Influence of vegetation type on brGDGTs: Results from surface soils beneath sub-alpine forest and grassland under the same climatic conditions6
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