OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Geobiology is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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Morphogenesis of digitate structures in hot spring silica sinters of the El Tatio geothermal field, Chile	64
Kinetics and mechanisms of cyanobacterially induced precipitation of magnesium silicate	35
Widespread mineralization of soft‐bodied insects in Cretaceous amber	25
An experimental study on post‐mortem dissolution and overgrowth processes affecting coccolith assemblages: A rapid and complex process	24
Physiology, Not Nutrient Availability, May Have Limited Primary Productivity After the Emergence of Oxygenic Photosynthesis	23
A Spatially Restricted Distribution of Thermophilic Endospores in Laptev Sea Shelf Sediments Suggests a Limited Dispersal by Local Geofluids	20
Iron‐mediated anaerobic ammonium oxidation recorded in the early Archean ferruginous ocean	19
The role of clay minerals in the preservation of Precambrian organic‐walled microfossils	16
Metazoan activity facilitates passive sediment trapping in modern supratidal microbialites: Revealed using µ‐CT‐scanning and microscopy	14
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Comprehensive molecular‐isotopic characterization of archaeal lipids in the Black Sea water column and underlying sediments	14
Effects of RuBisCO and CO₂ concentration on cyanobacterial growth and carbon isotope fractionation	14
Oceanic and Sedimentary Microbial Sulfur Cycling Controlled by Local Organic Matter Flux During the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion in the Three Gorges Area, South China	14
Microbially promoted calcite precipitation in the pelagic redoxcline: Elucidating the formation of the turbid layer	13
The diagenetic fate of collagen as revealed by analytical pyrolysis of fossil fish scales from deep time	13
Organic preservation of vase‐shaped microfossils from the late Tonian Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA	13
Structural and chemical heterogeneity of Proterozoic organic microfossils of the ca. 1 Ga old Angmaat Formation, Baffin Island, Canada	12
Stromatolitic Mounds in Tidal‐Facies Sandstones of the Paleoarchean Moodies Group (Barberton Greenstone Belt, Eswatini)	12
Dynamics of the osmotic lysis of mineral protocells and its avoidance at the origins of life	12
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The interplay of environmental constraints and bioturbation on matground development along the marine depositional profile during the Ordovician Radiation	11
Branching archaeocyaths as ecosystem engineers during the Cambrian radiation	11
Early‐Branching Cyanobacteria Grow Faster and Upregulate Superoxide Dismutase Activity Under a Simulated Early Earth Anoxic Atmosphere	10
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Enameloid‐bound δ¹⁵N reveals large trophic separation among Late Cretaceous sharks in the northern Gulf of Mexico	10

Divergence time estimates for the hypoxia‐inducible factor‐1 alpha (HIF1α) reveal an ancient emergence of animals in low‐oxygen environments	10
Metabarcoding reveals high diversity of benthic foraminifera linked to water masses circulation at coastal Svalbard	10
Terrestrial surface stabilisation by modern analogues of the earliest land plants: A multi‐dimensional imaging study	9
New Insights Into Upper Messinian Microbial Carbonates: A Dendrolite‐Thrombolite Build‐Up From the Salento Peninsula, Central Mediterranean	9
Microbial mats and their palaeoenvironmental analysis in offshore – shelf facies of the Los Molles Formation (Toarcian – Lower Callovian) in the Chacay Melehue area, Neuquén Basin, Argentina	9
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Reduction in animal abundance and oxygen availability during and after the end‐Triassic mass extinction	9
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Elevated δ¹⁵N Linked to Inhibited Nitrification Coupled to Ammonia Volatilization in Sediments of Shallow Alkaline‐Hypersaline Lakes	8
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A sedimentary record of the evolution of the global marine phosphorus cycle	8
Protracted oxygenation across the Cambrian–Ordovician transition: A key initiator of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event?	8
Carbon reservoir perturbations induced by Deccan volcanism: Stable isotope and biomolecular perspectives from shallow marine environment in Eastern India	8
The Dziani Dzaha Lake: A long‐awaited modern analogue for superheavy pyrites	8
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Exploring the secondary mineral products generated by microbial iron respiration in Archean ocean simulations	8
Impact of steroid biosynthesis on the aerobic adaptation of eukaryotes	8
Environmental and temporal patterns in bioturbation in the Cambrian–Ordovician of Western Newfoundland	7
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	7
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A 1 Ma sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) record of catchment vegetation changes and the developmental history of tropical Lake Towuti (Sulawesi, Indonesia)	7
Interplay between abiotic and microbial biofilm‐mediated processes for travertine formation: Insights from a thermal spring (Piscine Carletti, Viterbo, Italy)	7
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Biogeochemical transformations after the emergence of oxygenic photosynthesis and conditions for the first rise of atmospheric oxygen	6
Morphological and Microbial Diversity of Hydromagnesite Microbialites in Lake Salda: A Mars Analog Alkaline Lake	6
Contrasting nutrient availability between marine and brackish waters in the late Mesoproterozoic: Evidence from the Paranoá Group, Brazil	6
New keratose sponges after the end‐Permian extinction provide insights into biotic recoveries	6
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Lipid biomarkers recording marine microbial community structure changes through the Frasnian‐Famennian mass extinction event	6
Production of diverse brGDGTs by Acidobacterium Solibacter usitatus in response to temperature, pH, and O₂ provides a culturing perspective on brGDGT proxies an	6
The paleoredox context of early eukaryotic evolution: insights from the Tonian Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup, Canada	6
The illusion of balance in the history of the biosphere	6
Endospores associated with deep seabed geofluid features in the eastern Gulf of Mexico	6
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Ediacaran–Cambrianbioturbation did not extensively oxygenate sediments in shallow marine ecosystems	5
The role of iron in the formation of Ediacaran ‘death masks’	5
Mesoproterozoic surface oxygenation accompanied major sedimentary manganese deposition at 1.4 and 1.1 Ga	5
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Carbonate chimneys at the highly productive point Dume methane seep: Fine‐scale mineralogical, geochemical, and microbiological heterogeneity reflects dynamic and long‐lived methane‐metabolizing habit	5
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Inferred ancestry of scytonemin biosynthesis proteins in cyanobacteria indicates a response to Paleoproterozoic oxygenation	5
Evaporative silicification in floating microbial mats: patterns of oxygen production and preservation potential in silica‐undersaturated streams, El Tatio, Chile	5
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Major contribution of sulfide‐derived sulfur to the benthic food web in a large freshwater lake	5
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Physiological and metabolic responses of chemolithoautotrophic NO3− reducers to high hydrostatic pressure	4

Copper mobilisation from Cu sulphide minerals by methanobactin: Effect of pH, oxygen and natural organic matter	4
Sedimentary pyrite sulfur isotope compositions preserve signatures of the surface microbial mat environment in sediments underlying low‐oxygen cyanobacterial mats	4
Coral calcification and carbonate production in the eastern tropical Pacific: The role of branching and massive corals in the reef maintenance	4
An Anaerobic Microbial Community Mediates Epigenetic Native Sulfur and Carbonate Formation During Replacement of Messinian Gypsum at Monte Palco, Sicily	4
The biogeochemical cycling of chlorine	4
Influence of aphotic haloclines and euxinia on organic biomarkers and microbial communities in a thalassohaline and alkaline volcanic crater lake	4
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White and green rust chimneys accumulate RNA in a ferruginous chemical garden	4
The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project	3
Growth of microaerophilic Fe(II)‐oxidizing bacteria using Fe(II) produced by Fe(III) photoreduction	3
Redox Gradient Shapes the Chemical Composition of Peatland Microbial Communities	3
Cyanobacteria Boring Limestones in Freshwater Settings—Their Pioneering Role in Sculpturing Pebbles and Carbonate Dissolution	3
Volcanic controls on the microbial habitability of Mars‐analogue hydrothermal environments	3
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Potential role for microbial ureolysis in the rapid formation of carbonate tufa mounds	3
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Ultrastructural Perspectives on the Biology and Taphonomy of Tonian Microfossils From the Draken Formation, Spitsbergen	3
Metagenomic analysis of microbial communities across a transect from low to highly hydrocarbon‐contaminated soils in King George Island, Maritime Antarctica	3
Hydrogeological controls on microbial activity and habitability in the Precambrian continental crust	3
Microbial Cycling of Sulfur and Other Redox‐Sensitive Elements in Porewaters of San Clemente Basin, California, and Cocos Ridge, Costa Rica	3
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Microbial chemolithotrophic oxidation of pyrite in a subsurface shale weathering environment: Geologic considerations and potential mechanisms	3
Isotopic evidence of environmental changes during the Devonian–Carboniferous transition in South China and its implications for the biotic crisis	3
Neoproterozoic syn‐glacial carbonate precipitation and implications for a snowball Earth	3
Microbial biosignatures in ancient deep‐sea hydrothermal sulfides	3
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Dissolved silica affects the bulk iron redox state and recrystallization of minerals generated by photoferrotrophy in a simulated Archean ocean	2
Bioavailability of mineral‐associated trace metals as cofactors for nitrogen fixation by Azotobacter vinelandii	2
Bacterial community structure and metabolic potential in microbialite‐forming mats from South Australian saline lakes	2
Microbial diversity and authigenic siderite mediation in sediments surrounding the Kedr‐1 mud volcano, Lake Baikal	2
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Primary to post‐depositional microbial controls on the stable and clumped isotope record of shoreline sediments at Fayetteville Green Lake	2
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Silicate minerals as a direct source of limiting nutrients: Siderophore synthesis and uptake promote ferric iron bioavailability from olivine and microbial growth	2
Absence of canonical trophic levels in a microbial mat	2
Nubecularia‐coralline algal‐serpulid‐microbial bioherms of the Paratethys Sea—Distribution and paleoecological significance (upper Serravallian, upper Sarmatian, Middle Miocene)	2
A Biofilm Channel Origin for Vermiform Microstructure in Carbonate Microbialites	2
Lateral redox variability in ca. 1.9 Ga marine environments indicated by organic carbon and nitrogen isotope compositions	2
Multiple sulphur isotope record of Paleoarchean sedimentary rocks across the Onverwacht Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa	2