Ernest Chi Fru

1.2k total citations
58 papers, 822 citations indexed

About

Ernest Chi Fru is a scholar working on Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ernest Chi Fru has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 822 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology, 24 papers in Paleontology and 15 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ernest Chi Fru's work include Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (28 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (24 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (13 papers). Ernest Chi Fru is often cited by papers focused on Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (28 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (24 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (13 papers). Ernest Chi Fru collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and France. Ernest Chi Fru's co-authors include Stephanos Kilias, Kurt O. Konhauser, Rana Athar, Nolwenn Callac, Curt Broman, Abderrazak El Albani, Danielle Fortin, Magnus Ivarsson, Stefan V. Lalonde and K. Pedersen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ernest Chi Fru

55 papers receiving 794 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ernest Chi Fru United Kingdom 16 288 233 219 146 130 58 822
Carmen Aguilar United States 18 356 1.2× 169 0.7× 140 0.6× 494 3.4× 194 1.5× 32 1.3k
Yasumasa Ogawa Japan 16 247 0.9× 99 0.4× 136 0.6× 160 1.1× 39 0.3× 48 1.0k
S.P. Varnavas Greece 16 187 0.6× 68 0.3× 194 0.9× 172 1.2× 194 1.5× 33 806
Mohamad Hosein Mahmudy Gharaie Iran 15 225 0.8× 192 0.8× 76 0.3× 136 0.9× 35 0.3× 72 672
Goran Durn Croatia 20 309 1.1× 96 0.4× 60 0.3× 188 1.3× 63 0.5× 88 1.2k
Jutta Kleikemper Switzerland 11 253 0.9× 74 0.3× 378 1.7× 29 0.2× 325 2.5× 12 895
Josip Halamić Croatia 19 251 0.9× 110 0.5× 118 0.5× 246 1.7× 40 0.3× 60 1.2k
Ângela de Luca Rebello Wagener Brazil 21 118 0.4× 157 0.7× 133 0.6× 30 0.2× 151 1.2× 57 1.4k
Niko Finke Germany 16 167 0.6× 92 0.4× 402 1.8× 23 0.2× 395 3.0× 23 932
Teruki Iwatsuki Japan 21 365 1.3× 35 0.2× 346 1.6× 163 1.1× 278 2.1× 87 1.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Somogyi, Andréa, Ernest Chi Fru, Farid Saleh, et al.. (2025). A battle against arsenic toxicity by Earth’s earliest complex life forms. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4388–4388. 2 indexed citations
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Fru, Ernest Chi, Christine Destrigneville, Fleurice Parat, et al.. (2025). Iron-rich microband formation in marine sediments by hydrothermal iron cycling bacteria at Lucky Strike−. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations
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Fru, Ernest Chi, et al.. (2024). Hydrothermal seawater eutrophication triggered local macrobiological experimentation in the 2100 Ma Paleoproterozoic Francevillian sub-basin. Precambrian Research. 409. 107453–107453. 5 indexed citations
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Yu, Yanshuang, Yuanping Li, Xiuli Hao, et al.. (2023). A brief history of metal recruitment in protozoan predation. Trends in Microbiology. 32(5). 465–476. 2 indexed citations
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Albani, Abderrazak El, Kurt O. Konhauser, Andréa Somogyi, et al.. (2023). A search for life in Palaeoproterozoic marine sediments using Zn isotopes and geochemistry. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 612. 118169–118169. 8 indexed citations
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Fru, Ernest Chi, Abderrazzak El Albani, Alexandra J. Nederbragt, et al.. (2023). Transient fertilization of a post-Sturtian Snowball ocean margin with dissolved phosphate by clay minerals. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8418–8418. 9 indexed citations
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Amaral, Wagner da Silva, et al.. (2021). Paleoproterozoic manganese oxide precipitation in oxic seawater surface and reductive enrichment in anoxic seafloor. Chemical Geology. 588. 120655–120655. 5 indexed citations
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Fru, Ernest Chi, et al.. (2021). Early Neoproterozoic oxygenation dynamics along the northern margin of the West African Craton, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco. Chemical Geology. 581. 120404–120404. 1 indexed citations
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Bouougri, El Hafid, Ernest Chi Fru, Nasrrddine Youbi, et al.. (2020). A 571 million‐year‐old alkaline volcanic lake photosynthesizing microbial community, the Anti‐atlas, Morocco. Geobiology. 19(2). 105–124. 7 indexed citations
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Ivarsson, Magnus, Stephanos Kilias, Curt Broman, et al.. (2019). Exceptional Preservation of Fungi as H2-Bearing Fluid Inclusions in an Early Quaternary Paleo-Hydrothermal System at Cape Vani, Milos, Greece. Minerals. 9(12). 749–749. 10 indexed citations
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Fru, Ernest Chi, et al.. (2019). Mechanism of formation, mineralogy and geochemistry of the ooidal ironstone of Djebel Had, northeast Algeria. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 162. 103736–103736. 9 indexed citations
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Fantong, Wilson Y., et al.. (2019). Defluoridation of fluoride-rich groundwater in Mayo Tsanaga River Basin-Cameroon using locally produced bone char. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 15(1). 11–11. 1 indexed citations
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Albani, Abderrazak El, Ernest Chi Fru, Murray K. Gingras, et al.. (2018). Unusual microbial mat‐related structural diversity 2.1 billion years ago and implications for the Francevillian biota. Geobiology. 16(5). 476–497. 25 indexed citations
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Fru, Ernest Chi, Nolwenn Callac, Nicole R. Posth, et al.. (2018). Arsenic and high affinity phosphate uptake gene distribution in shallow submarine hydrothermal sediments. Biogeochemistry. 141(1). 41–62. 13 indexed citations
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Bonaglia, Stefano, et al.. (2017). Methane fluxes from coastal sediments are enhanced by macrofauna. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 13145–13145. 41 indexed citations
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Callac, Nolwenn, Nicole R. Posth, Jayne E. Rattray, et al.. (2017). Modes of carbon fixation in an arsenic and CO2-rich shallow hydrothermal ecosystem. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 14708–14708. 13 indexed citations
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Yamoah, Kweku Afrifa, Nolwenn Callac, Ernest Chi Fru, et al.. (2016). A 150-year record of phytoplankton community succession controlled by hydroclimatic variability in a tropical lake. Biogeosciences. 13(13). 3971–3980. 7 indexed citations
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Fru, Ernest Chi, et al.. (2012). Bioreactor studies predict whole microbial population dynamics in oil sands tailings ponds. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 97(7). 3215–3224. 29 indexed citations
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Fru, Ernest Chi, Neil Gray, Clare M. McCann, et al.. (2011). Effects of copper mineralogy and methanobactin on cell growth and sMMO activity in Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b. Biogeosciences. 8(10). 2887–2894. 20 indexed citations
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