OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Astrobiology is 3. 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
A non-anthropocentric solution to the Fermi paradox	8
Presence of liquid water during the evolution of exomoons orbiting ejected free-floating planets	8
Analysis of microbial lipids deposited on Mars Global Simulant (MGS-1) by geomatrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry	7
Psychological aspects in unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) witnesses	6
On biosignatures for Mars	6
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
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
Identifying optimal decision-making strategies and determining effective messaging to maximize the expected outcomes of potential human–extraterrestrial encounters	5
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

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
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
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