OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geobiology 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
A Spatially Restricted Distribution of Thermophilic Endospores in Laptev Sea Shelf Sediments Suggests a Limited Dispersal by Local Geofluids	79
An experimental study on post‐mortem dissolution and overgrowth processes affecting coccolith assemblages: A rapid and complex process	36
The role of clay minerals in the preservation of Precambrian organic‐walled microfossils	35
Iron‐mediated anaerobic ammonium oxidation recorded in the early Archean ferruginous ocean	28
Kinetics and mechanisms of cyanobacterially induced precipitation of magnesium silicate	24
Physiology, Not Nutrient Availability, May Have Limited Primary Productivity After the Emergence of Oxygenic Photosynthesis	20
Widespread mineralization of soft‐bodied insects in Cretaceous amber	20
Dynamics of the osmotic lysis of mineral protocells and its avoidance at the origins of life	19
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Microbially promoted calcite precipitation in the pelagic redoxcline: Elucidating the formation of the turbid layer	17
The diagenetic fate of collagen as revealed by analytical pyrolysis of fossil fish scales from deep time	16
Oceanic and Sedimentary Microbial Sulfur Cycling Controlled by Local Organic Matter Flux During the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion in the Three Gorges Area, South China	16
Organic preservation of vase‐shaped microfossils from the late Tonian Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA	15
Comprehensive molecular‐isotopic characterization of archaeal lipids in the Black Sea water column and underlying sediments	13
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Stromatolitic Mounds in Tidal‐Facies Sandstones of the Paleoarchean Moodies Group (Barberton Greenstone Belt, Eswatini)	12
Enameloid‐bound δ¹⁵N reveals large trophic separation among Late Cretaceous sharks in the northern Gulf of Mexico	12
Effects of RuBisCO and CO ₂ concentration on cyanobacterial growth and carbon isotope fractionation	12
Branching archaeocyaths as ecosystem engineers during the Cambrian radiation	12
New Insights Into Upper Messinian Microbial Carbonates: A Dendrolite‐Thrombolite Build‐Up From the Salento Peninsula, Central Mediterranean	11
Metabarcoding reveals high diversity of benthic foraminifera linked to water masses circulation at coastal Svalbard	11
Reduction in animal abundance and oxygen availability during and after the end‐Triassic mass extinction	11
Divergence time estimates for the hypoxia‐inducible factor‐1 alpha (HIF1α) reveal an ancient emergence of animals in low‐oxygen environments	11
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A sedimentary record of the evolution of the global marine phosphorus cycle	11

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Early‐Branching Cyanobacteria Grow Faster and Upregulate Superoxide Dismutase Activity Under a Simulated Early Earth Anoxic Atmosphere	11
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	11
The Dziani Dzaha Lake: A long‐awaited modern analogue for superheavy pyrites	10
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Terrestrial surface stabilisation by modern analogues of the earliest land plants: A multi‐dimensional imaging study	10
Impact of steroid biosynthesis on the aerobic adaptation of eukaryotes	9
Protracted oxygenation across the Cambrian–Ordovician transition: A key initiator of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event?	9
Elevated δ¹⁵N Linked to Inhibited Nitrification Coupled to Ammonia Volatilization in Sediments of Shallow Alkaline‐Hypersaline Lakes	9
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Exploring the secondary mineral products generated by microbial iron respiration in Archean ocean simulations	9
Interplay between abiotic and microbial biofilm‐mediated processes for travertine formation: Insights from a thermal spring (Piscine Carletti, Viterbo, Italy)	8
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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)	8
New keratose sponges after the end‐Permian extinction provide insights into biotic recoveries	8
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Oxygenation and Alkalinity Drive the Lacustrine Nitrogen Isotope Record Throughout the Past 3.2 Billion Years	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	7
Production of diverse brGDGTs by Acidobacterium Solibacter usitatus in response to temperature, pH, and O₂ provides a culturing perspective on brGDGT proxies an	7
A Flourishing Planktonic Microbial Community in an Interglacial Offshore Environment: Silicified Microfossils From the Cryogenian Datangpo Formation, South China	7
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Biogeochemical transformations after the emergence of oxygenic photosynthesis and conditions for the first rise of atmospheric oxygen	6
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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
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Biogeochemistry of an Iron‐ and Manganese‐Rich Stratified Lake: Tasik Biru, Malaysia, as a Modern Model Habitat for the Ancient Ocean	6
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