OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Geobiology 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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Sulfur isotopes of hydrothermal vent fossils and insights into microbial sulfur cycling within a lower Paleozoic (Ordovician‐early Silurian) vent community	60
Low oxygen levels with high redox heterogeneity in the late Ediacaran shallow ocean: Constraints from I/(Ca + Mg) and Ce/Ce* of the Dengying Formation, South China	34
Iron‐mediated anaerobic ammonium oxidation recorded in the early Archean ferruginous ocean	24
Widespread seafloor anoxia during generation of the Ediacaran Shuram carbon isotope excursion	23
Contrasting nutrient availability between marine and brackish waters in the late Mesoproterozoic: Evidence from the Paranoá Group, Brazil	20
The occurrence of 2‐methylhopanoids in modern bacteria and the geological record	18
Widespread mineralization of soft‐bodied insects in Cretaceous amber	18
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Contrasting morphology and growth habits of Frutexites in Late Devonian reef complexes of the Canning Basin, northwestern Australia	15
An experimental study on post‐mortem dissolution and overgrowth processes affecting coccolith assemblages: A rapid and complex process	14
Influences of pH and substrate supply on the ratio of iron to sulfate reduction	13
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Copper mobilisation from Cu sulphide minerals by methanobactin: Effect of pH, oxygen and natural organic matter	13
Distinguishing cellular from abiotic spheroidal microstructures in the ca. 3.4 Ga Strelley Pool Formation	13
White and green rust chimneys accumulate RNA in a ferruginous chemical garden	13
Sedimentary pyrite sulfur isotope compositions preserve signatures of the surface microbial mat environment in sediments underlying low‐oxygen cyanobacterial mats	12
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Deep water cuspate stromatolites of the Cryogenian Trezona Formation	11
Stable carbon isotope values of syndepositional carbonate spherules and micrite record spatial and temporal changes in photosynthesis intensity	11
New keratose sponges after the end‐Permian extinction provide insights into biotic recoveries	11
Neoproterozoic syn‐glacial carbonate precipitation and implications for a snowball Earth	11
Kinetics and mechanisms of cyanobacterially induced precipitation of magnesium silicate	10
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Nitrogen‐based symbioses, phosphorus availability, and accounting for a modern world more productive than the Paleozoic	10
Dubiofossils from a Mars‐analogue subsurface palaeoenvironment: The limits of biogenicity criteria	10
Hydrogeological controls on microbial activity and habitability in the Precambrian continental crust	10
A Spatially Restricted Distribution of Thermophilic Endospores in Laptev Sea Shelf Sediments Suggests a Limited Dispersal by Local Geofluids	9
Fossil Geyserite and Testate Amoebae in Geothermal Spring Vent Pools: Paleoecology and Variable Preservation Quality in Jurassic Sinter of Patagonia (Deseado Massif, Argentina)	9
Physiology, Not Nutrient Availability, May Have Limited Primary Productivity After the Emergence of Oxygenic Photosynthesis	9
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Volcanic controls on the microbial habitability of Mars‐analogue hydrothermal environments	8
The biogeochemical cycling of chlorine	8
An Anaerobic Microbial Community Mediates Epigenetic Native Sulfur and Carbonate Formation During Replacement of Messinian Gypsum at Monte Palco, Sicily	8
Messinian bottom‐grown selenitic gypsum: An archive of microbial life	7
Active and dormant microorganisms on glacier surfaces	7
Microbial biosignatures in ancient deep‐sea hydrothermal sulfides	7
Morphogenesis of digitate structures in hot spring silica sinters of the El Tatio geothermal field, Chile	7
The role of clay minerals in the preservation of Precambrian organic‐walled microfossils	7
Evaluating Serpentinization as a Source of Phosphite to Microbial Communities in Hydrothermal Vents	7
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The diagenetic fate of collagen as revealed by analytical pyrolysis of fossil fish scales from deep time	6
Nanoscale chemical mapping of exometabolites at fungal–mineral interfaces	6
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Hematite‐promoted nitrate‐reducing Fe(II) oxidation by Acidovorax sp. strain BoFeN1: Roles of mineral catalysis and cell encrustation	6
The Impact of Early Diagenesis on Biosignature Preservation in Sulfate Evaporites: Insights From Messinian (Late Miocene) Gypsum	6
Dynamics of the osmotic lysis of mineral protocells and its avoidance at the origins of life	6
Inverse hydrogen isotope fractionation indicates heterotrophic microbial production of long‐chain n‐alkyl lipids in desolate Antarctic ponds	6
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Production of diverse brGDGTs by Acidobacterium Solibacter usitatus in response to temperature, pH, and O₂ provides a culturing perspective on brGDGT proxies an	6
Living in Their Heyday: Iron‐Oxidizing Bacteria Bloomed in Shallow‐Marine, Subtidal Environments at ca. 1.88 Ga	6
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Deep subsurface microbial life in impact‐altered Late Paleozoic granitoid rocks from the Chicxulub impact crater	6
Carbon cycle dynamics and ecology revealed by the carbon isotopic composition of single organic microfossils during the Late Devonian Biotic Crisis	5
Molecular dating of the blood pigment hemocyanin provides new insight into the origin of animals	5
Fire activity across Cretaceous/Paleogene transition: Evidence from pyrogenic biomarkers preserved in the Mahadeo‐Cherrapunji section, Meghalaya, India	5
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Microbial chemolithotrophic oxidation of pyrite in a subsurface shale weathering environment: Geologic considerations and potential mechanisms	5
Organic preservation of vase‐shaped microfossils from the late Tonian Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA	5
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The paleoredox context of early eukaryotic evolution: insights from the Tonian Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup, Canada	5
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Growth of microaerophilic Fe(II)‐oxidizing bacteria using Fe(II) produced by Fe(III) photoreduction	5
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Microbially promoted calcite precipitation in the pelagic redoxcline: Elucidating the formation of the turbid layer	4
Potential role for microbial ureolysis in the rapid formation of carbonate tufa mounds	4
Structural and chemical heterogeneity of Proterozoic organic microfossils of the ca. 1 Ga old Angmaat Formation, Baffin Island, Canada	4
Taphonomy of microorganisms and microbial microtextures at sulfidic hydrothermal vents: A case study from the Roman Ruins black smokers, Eastern Manus Basin	4
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Structure and function of Shark Bay microbial communities following tropical cyclone Olwyn: A metatranscriptomic and organic geochemical perspective	4
On the trail of iron uptake in ancestral Cyanobacteria on early Earth	4

Sulfur disproportionating microbial communities in a dynamic, microoxic‐sulfidic karst system	4
Groundwater microbial communities reflect geothermal activity on volcanic island	4
Growth of Microbial Mats on Hard Nuclei in Shallow Sandy Environments	4
Microbial Cycling of Sulfur and Other Redox‐Sensitive Elements in Porewaters of San Clemente Basin, California, and Cocos Ridge, Costa Rica	3
The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project	3
Metazoan activity facilitates passive sediment trapping in modern supratidal microbialites: Revealed using µ‐CT‐scanning and microscopy	3
Morphological and Microbial Diversity of Hydromagnesite Microbialites in Lake Salda: A Mars Analog Alkaline Lake	3
Effects of RuBisCO and CO₂ concentration on cyanobacterial growth and carbon isotope fractionation	3
Significance of lignin and fungal markers in the Devonian (407 Ma) Rhynie Chert	3
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Oceanic and Sedimentary Microbial Sulfur Cycling Controlled by Local Organic Matter Flux During the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion in the Three Gorges Area, South China	3
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Isotopic analyses of Ordovician–Silurian siliceous skeletons indicate silica‐depleted Paleozoic oceans	3
Fossilized giant sulfide‐oxidizing bacteria from the Devonian Hollard Mound seep deposit, Morocco	3
Living to Lithified: Construction and Preservation of Silicified Biomarkers	3
Comprehensive molecular‐isotopic characterization of archaeal lipids in the Black Sea water column and underlying sediments	3
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Geospatial insights into the controls of microbialite formation at Laguna Negra, Argentina	2
Isotopic evidence of environmental changes during the Devonian–Carboniferous transition in South China and its implications for the biotic crisis	2
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Evaporative silicification in floating microbial mats: patterns of oxygen production and preservation potential in silica‐undersaturated streams, El Tatio, Chile	2
A re‐examination of the mechanism of whiting events: A new role for diatoms in Fayetteville Green Lake (New York, USA)	2
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New geochemical tools for investigating resource and energy functions at deep‐sea cold seeps using amino acid δ¹⁵N in chemosymbiotic mussels (Bathymodiolus childressi)	2
Biogeochemical transformations after the emergence of oxygenic photosynthesis and conditions for the first rise of atmospheric oxygen	2
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Lipid biomarkers recording marine microbial community structure changes through the Frasnian‐Famennian mass extinction event	2
Preserved particulate organic carbon is likely derived from the subsurface sulfidic photic zone of the Proterozoic Ocean: evidence from a modern, oxygen‐deficient lake	1
A carbonate corrosion experiment at a marine methane seep: The role of aerobic methanotrophic bacteria	1
Ultrastructural Perspectives on the Biology and Taphonomy of Tonian Microfossils From the Draken Formation, Spitsbergen	1
A review of microbial‐environmental interactions recorded in Proterozoic carbonate‐hosted chert	1
Marine and terrestrial nitrifying bacteria are sources of diverse bacteriohopanepolyols	1
Metabarcoding reveals high diversity of benthic foraminifera linked to water masses circulation at coastal Svalbard	1
Enameloid‐bound δ¹⁵N reveals large trophic separation among Late Cretaceous sharks in the northern Gulf of Mexico	1
Inter‐domain horizontal gene transfer of nickel‐binding superoxide dismutase	1
The Effects of Plant–Microbe–Environment Interactions on Mineral Weathering Patterns in a Granular Basalt	1
Evolution of iron and oxygen biogeochemical cycles during the Precambrian	1
Intensified microbial sulfate reduction in the deep Dead Sea during the early Holocene Mediterranean sapropel 1 deposition	1
The illusion of balance in the history of the biosphere	1
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Microbial influence on dolomite and authigenic clay mineralisation in dolocrete profiles of NW Australia	1
Divergence time estimates for the hypoxia‐inducible factor‐1 alpha (HIF1α) reveal an ancient emergence of animals in low‐oxygen environments	1
Untangling the Primary Biotic and Abiotic Controls on Oxygen, Inorganic and Organic Carbon Isotope Signals in Modern Microbialites	1
Molecular and mineral responses of corals grown under artificial Calcite Sea conditions	1