Astrobiology

Papers
(The H4-Index of Astrobiology is 23. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Oxygenation, Life, and the Planetary System during Earth's Middle History: An Overview91
Oxia Planum: The Landing Site for the ExoMars “Rosalind Franklin” Rover Mission: Geological Context and Prelanding Interpretation85
The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere70
The Role of Meteorite Impacts in the Origin of Life67
Toward the RNA-World in the Interstellar Medium—Detection of Urea and Search of 2-Amino-oxazole and Simple Sugars66
Mars Extant Life: What's Next? Conference Report54
Fluvial Regimes, Morphometry, and Age of Jezero Crater Paleolake Inlet Valleys and Their Exobiological Significance for the 2020 Rover Mission Landing Site48
Phosphine on Venus Cannot Be Explained by Conventional Processes47
Venus, an Astrobiology Target43
Discriminating Abiotic and Biotic Fingerprints of Amino Acids and Fatty Acids in Ice Grains Relevant to Ocean Worlds41
Catalytic Synthesis of Polyribonucleic Acid on Prebiotic Rock Glasses36
Morphological and Spectral Diversity of the Clay-Bearing Unit at the ExoMars Landing Site Oxia Planum36
Elements for the Origin of Life on Land: A Deep-Time Perspective from the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia35
Cometary Delivery of Hydrogen Cyanide to the Early Earth32
Understanding Hypervelocity Sampling of Biosignatures in Space Missions30
Water Activities of Acid Brine Lakes Approach the Limit for Life29
Simulating Mars Drilling Mission for Searching for Life: Ground-Truthing Lipids and Other Complex Microbial Biomarkers in the Iron-Sulfur Rich Río Tinto Analog29
Earth-like Habitable Environments in the Subsurface of Mars28
A Reconstructed Subaerial Hot Spring Field in the ∼3.5 Billion-Year-Old Dresser Formation, North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia26
Potential for Phototrophy in Venus' Clouds25
The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life is Rare24
Science Objectives for Flagship-Class Mission Concepts for the Search for Evidence of Life at Enceladus24
Magma Ocean Evolution of the TRAPPIST-1 Planets24
BioSentinel: Long-Term Saccharomyces cerevisiae Preservation for a Deep Space Biosensor Mission23
Phosphine Generation Pathways on Rocky Planets23
One-Pot Hydrogen Cyanide-Based Prebiotic Synthesis of Canonical Nucleobases and Glycine Initiated by High-Velocity Impacts on Early Earth23
Lipid Biomarker Record of the Serpentinite-Hosted Ecosystem of the Samail Ophiolite, Oman and Implications for the Search for Biosignatures on Mars23
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