OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Astrobiology 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.)

Article	Citations
A brief epistemological discussion of astrotheology in the light of astrobiology	31
Information gain as a tool for assessing biosignature missions	25
Research programmes arising from ‘Oumuamua considered as an alien craft	15
How we can mine asteroids for space food	12
Bacterial influence on the formation of hematite: implications for Martian dormant life	10
Computer simulations of biotic chiral selection scenarios	10
Presence of liquid water during the evolution of exomoons orbiting ejected free-floating planets	8
A non-anthropocentric solution to the Fermi paradox	8
Analysis of microbial lipids deposited on Mars Global Simulant (MGS-1) by geomatrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry	7
Complex structures synthesized in shock processing of nucleobases – implications to the origins of life	6
Succession of the fungal community of a spacecraft assembly clean room when enriched in brines relevant to Mars	6
Psychological aspects in unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) witnesses	6
On biosignatures for Mars	6
Identifying optimal decision-making strategies and determining effective messaging to maximize the expected outcomes of potential human–extraterrestrial encounters	5
The social science perspective on the Fermi paradox	5
Fungal biomarkers are detectable in Martian rock-analogues after space exposure: implications for the search of life on Mars	5
Children of time: the geological recency of intelligence and its implications for SETI	5
On the first probe to transit between two interstellar civilizations	5
Observation of significant photosynthesis in garden cress and cyanobacteria under simulated illumination from a K dwarf star	5
Iron reduction as a viable metabolic pathway in Enceladus’ ocean	4
Reaching out to early-career astrobiologists: AbGradE's actions and perspectives	4
Presence of water on exomoons orbiting free-floating planets: a case study	4
Hype, skin in the game, and the stability of cooperative science	4
Abiogenesis: the Carter argument reconsidered	4
Alien technology, conjunction and ergodicity	4

If extraterrestrial intelligence exists, it is unable to recognize humans as intelligent beings	4
Black holes as tools for quantum computing by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations	4
Heat-induced changes in molecular biosignatures and the influence of Mars-relevant minerals	4
Drosophila melanogaster: a promising system for space biology research	3
Nucleic acids and melanin pigments after exposure to high doses of gamma rays: a biosignature robustness test	3
Planetary geodynamics and age constraints on circumstellar habitable zones around main sequence stars	3
Submarine hydrothermal vent systems: the relevance of dynamic systems in chemical evolution and prebiotic chemistry experiments	3
Prebiotic decluttering: the thermodynamic tail-wind to asymmetric autocatalysis	3
A case for the moral duty of specific human germline genetic engineering	3
The future of intelligence in the Universe: a call for humility	3
Detection of pre-industrial societies on exoplanets – ERRATUM	3
The Noonday argument: fine-graining, indexicals, and the nature of Copernican reasoning	3
Detection and prebiotic chemistry of possible glycine precursor molecule methylenimine towards the hot molecular core G10.47+0.03	3
An approximation to determine the source of the WOW! Signal	3
Martian stick-like structures are not trace fossils: a new protocol for testing ichnogenicity synthesized from paleosol ichnology	2
Self-replicating probes are imminent – implications for SETI	2
Where will they be: hidden implications of solutions to the Fermi paradox	2
The potential of Deception Island, Antarctica, as a multifunctional Martian analogue of astrobiological interest	2
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists, it is unable to recognize humans as intelligent beings – ERRATUM	2
Biomarkers in the Atacama Desert along the moisture gradient and the depth in the hyperarid zone: Phosphatase activity as trace of microbial activity	2
Mars: new insights and unresolved questions – Corrigendum	2
Communicating extraterrestrial intelligence (CETI) interaction models based on the Drake equation	2
Space ectogenesis: securing survival of humans and Earth life with minimal risks – reply to Szocik	2
Do SETI optimists have a fine-tuning problem?	2
Environmental constraints on the origin of life based on membrane formation: the role of salinity	2
Protecting ocean worlds: Europa Clipper planetary protection inputs to a probabilistic risk-based approach	2
Megatsunamis and microbial life on early Mars	2
Astrophysical existential threats: a comparative analysis	2
Long-read sequencing reveals increased occurrence of genomic variants and adenosine methylation in Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032 after long-duration flight exposure onboard the International Space	2
Atmospheric entry of sub-millimetre-sized grains into Mars atmosphere: white soft mineral micrometeoroids	1
Intelligence as a planetary scale process	1
Survival of Xanthoria parietina in simulated space conditions: vitality assessment and spectroscopic analysis	1
On possible life-dispersal patterns beyond the Earth	1
Behaviour of glycine aqueous solution exposed to ionizing radiation: numerical model based on chemical kinetics	1
Habitability constraints by nutrient availability in atmospheres of rocky exoplanets	1
Succession of the bacterial community from a spacecraft assembly clean room when enriched in brines relevant to Mars	1
Formalizing the Fermi paradox and combining consistent explanatory hypotheses	1
Astrobioethical reflections on humanity and its consideration as multi- and interplanetary	1
Houston, we have a problem…or do we? The trajectory of astrobioethics and Indigenous thought	1
Microbial protocols for spacecraft: 2. Biocidal effects of Delrin and nylon in sealed compartments may enhance bioburden reductions in planetary spacecraft	1
Astrobiological applications of μ-mapping X-ray fluorescence spectrometry	1
Searching for biosignatures by their rotational spectrum: global fit and methyl group internal rotation features of dimethylsulphoxide up to 116 GHz	1
Conceptual discussion around the notion of the human being as an inter and multiplanetary species	1
Astrobiologists are rational but not Bayesian	1
Applications of microbial bioplastic polyhydroxyalkanoates as biosignatures for astrobiological detection	1
Evaluation of pathogenesis and biofilm formation ability of Yersinia pestis after 40-day exposure to simulated microgravity	1
Dehydrated thin film media to rapidly estimate bioburden for planetary protection flight implementation	1
Fossil and present-day stromatolite ooids contain a meteoritic polymer of glycine and iron	1
Role of horizontal gene transfers and microbial ecology in the evolution of fluxes through the tricarboxylic acid cycle	1
Planetary biotechnospheres, biotechnosignatures and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence	1

Extraterrestrial intelligence and moral standing	1
Humanity should colonize space in order to survive but not with embryo space colonization	1
Extraterrestrial nature reserves (ETNRs)	1
Inferring their minds and analysing our beliefs: on the contribution of (exo)psychology to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence	1