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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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Widespread mineralization of soft‐bodied insects in Cretaceous amber	67
An experimental study on post‐mortem dissolution and overgrowth processes affecting coccolith assemblages: A rapid and complex process	29
The role of clay minerals in the preservation of Precambrian organic‐walled microfossils	27
Morphogenesis of digitate structures in hot spring silica sinters of the El Tatio geothermal field, Chile	24
A Spatially Restricted Distribution of Thermophilic Endospores in Laptev Sea Shelf Sediments Suggests a Limited Dispersal by Local Geofluids	19
Physiology, Not Nutrient Availability, May Have Limited Primary Productivity After the Emergence of Oxygenic Photosynthesis	18
Kinetics and mechanisms of cyanobacterially induced precipitation of magnesium silicate	16
Iron‐mediated anaerobic ammonium oxidation recorded in the early Archean ferruginous ocean	16
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Effects of RuBisCO and CO₂ concentration on cyanobacterial growth and carbon isotope fractionation	14
Microbially promoted calcite precipitation in the pelagic redoxcline: Elucidating the formation of the turbid layer	14
Organic preservation of vase‐shaped microfossils from the late Tonian Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA	14
The diagenetic fate of collagen as revealed by analytical pyrolysis of fossil fish scales from deep time	14
Dynamics of the osmotic lysis of mineral protocells and its avoidance at the origins of life	13
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Comprehensive molecular‐isotopic characterization of archaeal lipids in the Black Sea water column and underlying sediments	12
Branching archaeocyaths as ecosystem engineers during the Cambrian radiation	12
Oceanic and Sedimentary Microbial Sulfur Cycling Controlled by Local Organic Matter Flux During the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion in the Three Gorges Area, South China	12
The interplay of environmental constraints and bioturbation on matground development along the marine depositional profile during the Ordovician Radiation	11
Divergence time estimates for the hypoxia‐inducible factor‐1 alpha (HIF1α) reveal an ancient emergence of animals in low‐oxygen environments	11
Enameloid‐bound δ¹⁵N reveals large trophic separation among Late Cretaceous sharks in the northern Gulf of Mexico	10
Terrestrial surface stabilisation by modern analogues of the earliest land plants: A multi‐dimensional imaging study	10
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	10
Stromatolitic Mounds in Tidal‐Facies Sandstones of the Paleoarchean Moodies Group (Barberton Greenstone Belt, Eswatini)	10
Reduction in animal abundance and oxygen availability during and after the end‐Triassic mass extinction	10

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Metabarcoding reveals high diversity of benthic foraminifera linked to water masses circulation at coastal Svalbard	10
A sedimentary record of the evolution of the global marine phosphorus cycle	10
Protracted oxygenation across the Cambrian–Ordovician transition: A key initiator of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event?	9
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Exploring the secondary mineral products generated by microbial iron respiration in Archean ocean simulations	9
New Insights Into Upper Messinian Microbial Carbonates: A Dendrolite‐Thrombolite Build‐Up From the Salento Peninsula, Central Mediterranean	9
Carbon reservoir perturbations induced by Deccan volcanism: Stable isotope and biomolecular perspectives from shallow marine environment in Eastern India	9
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Early‐Branching Cyanobacteria Grow Faster and Upregulate Superoxide Dismutase Activity Under a Simulated Early Earth Anoxic Atmosphere	9
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Interplay between abiotic and microbial biofilm‐mediated processes for travertine formation: Insights from a thermal spring (Piscine Carletti, Viterbo, Italy)	8
Impact of steroid biosynthesis on the aerobic adaptation of eukaryotes	8
The Dziani Dzaha Lake: A long‐awaited modern analogue for superheavy pyrites	8
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Elevated δ¹⁵N Linked to Inhibited Nitrification Coupled to Ammonia Volatilization in Sediments of Shallow Alkaline‐Hypersaline Lakes	8
Environmental and temporal patterns in bioturbation in the Cambrian–Ordovician of Western Newfoundland	8
A 1 Ma sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) record of catchment vegetation changes and the developmental history of tropical Lake Towuti (Sulawesi, Indonesia)	7
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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	7
New keratose sponges after the end‐Permian extinction provide insights into biotic recoveries	7
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Contrasting nutrient availability between marine and brackish waters in the late Mesoproterozoic: Evidence from the Paranoá Group, Brazil	7
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The paleoredox context of early eukaryotic evolution: insights from the Tonian Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup, Canada	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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Morphological and Microbial Diversity of Hydromagnesite Microbialites in Lake Salda: A Mars Analog Alkaline Lake	6
The illusion of balance in the history of the biosphere	6
Biogeochemical transformations after the emergence of oxygenic photosynthesis and conditions for the first rise of atmospheric oxygen	6
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Evaporative silicification in floating microbial mats: patterns of oxygen production and preservation potential in silica‐undersaturated streams, El Tatio, Chile	6
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Lipid biomarkers recording marine microbial community structure changes through the Frasnian‐Famennian mass extinction event	6
Endospores associated with deep seabed geofluid features in the eastern Gulf of Mexico	6
Major contribution of sulfide‐derived sulfur to the benthic food web in a large freshwater lake	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
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
Two Worlds on a Stone: Arctic Desert Hypoliths and Epiliths Show Spatial Niche Differentiation	5
Mesoproterozoic surface oxygenation accompanied major sedimentary manganese deposition at 1.4 and 1.1 Ga	5
Inferred ancestry of scytonemin biosynthesis proteins in cyanobacteria indicates a response to Paleoproterozoic oxygenation	5
Sulfide Oxidation Products Support Microbial Metabolism at Interface Environments in a Marine‐Like Serpentinizing Spring in Northern California	4
Neoproterozoic syn‐glacial carbonate precipitation and implications for a snowball Earth	4
Hydrogeological controls on microbial activity and habitability in the Precambrian continental crust	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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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
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
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White and green rust chimneys accumulate RNA in a ferruginous chemical garden	4
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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
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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Isotopic evidence of environmental changes during the Devonian–Carboniferous transition in South China and its implications for the biotic crisis	3
Microbial chemolithotrophic oxidation of pyrite in a subsurface shale weathering environment: Geologic considerations and potential mechanisms	3
Bioavailability of mineral‐associated trace metals as cofactors for nitrogen fixation by Azotobacter vinelandii	3
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Microbial biosignatures in ancient deep‐sea hydrothermal sulfides	3
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Ultrastructural Perspectives on the Biology and Taphonomy of Tonian Microfossils From the Draken Formation, Spitsbergen	3
Potential role for microbial ureolysis in the rapid formation of carbonate tufa mounds	3
Metagenomic analysis of microbial communities across a transect from low to highly hydrocarbon‐contaminated soils in King George Island, Maritime Antarctica	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
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Bacterial community structure and metabolic potential in microbialite‐forming mats from South Australian saline lakes	2
Pyritic stromatolites from the Paleoarchean Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton: Resolving biogenicity and hydrothermally influenced ecosystem dynamics	2
Cyanobacteria Boring Limestones in Freshwater Settings—Their Pioneering Role in Sculpturing Pebbles and Carbonate Dissolution	2
A Biofilm Channel Origin for Vermiform Microstructure in Carbonate Microbialites	2
Absence of canonical trophic levels in a microbial mat	2
Multiple sulphur isotope record of Paleoarchean sedimentary rocks across the Onverwacht Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa	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
Nubecularia‐coralline algal‐serpulid‐microbial bioherms of the Paratethys Sea—Distribution and paleoecological significance (upper Serravallian, upper Sarmatian, Middle Miocene)	2
Microbial diversity and authigenic siderite mediation in sediments surrounding the Kedr‐1 mud volcano, Lake Baikal	2
Lateral redox variability in ca. 1.9 Ga marine environments indicated by organic carbon and nitrogen isotope compositions	2