Tanja Bosak

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Tanja Bosak is a scholar working on Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tanja Bosak has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Paleontology, 27 papers in Atmospheric Science and 23 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Tanja Bosak's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (41 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (27 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers). Tanja Bosak is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (41 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (27 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers). Tanja Bosak collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Tanja Bosak's co-authors include Min Sub Sim, Shuhei Ono, Dianne K. Newman, Alexander P. Petroff, Sara B. Pruss, Andrew H. Knoll, Francis A. Macdonald, Biqing Liang, Daniel J. G. Lahr and G. Mariotti and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tanja Bosak

76 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Large Sulfur Isotope Fractionation Does Not Require Disproportionation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tanja Bosak United States	33	1.8k	1.1k	814	806	721	77	3.3k
Alexander S. Bradley United States	25	1.2k 0.7×	836 0.8×	658 0.8×	958 1.2×	809 1.1×	51	3.3k
Gernot Arp Germany	26	1.6k 0.9×	931 0.9×	511 0.6×	682 0.8×	678 0.9×	82	2.7k
Aubrey L. Zerkle United Kingdom	30	1.7k 0.9×	1.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	607 0.8×	975 1.4×	65	3.6k
Itay Halevy Israel	31	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	893 1.1×	714 0.9×	546 0.8×	81	3.2k
Ingunn H. Thorseth Norway	32	869 0.5×	836 0.8×	535 0.7×	1.3k 1.6×	1.3k 1.7×	71	3.2k
David Wacey Australia	31	1.7k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	689 0.8×	431 0.5×	412 0.6×	82	3.0k
Magali Ader France	33	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	636 0.8×	548 0.8×	114	3.4k
J. Kaźmierczak Poland	29	1.7k 0.9×	812 0.7×	581 0.7×	429 0.5×	506 0.7×	84	2.8k
Kirsten S. Habicht Denmark	18	855 0.5×	684 0.6×	844 1.0×	935 1.2×	775 1.1×	19	2.4k
Frank A. Corsetti United States	39	3.5k 1.9×	1.8k 1.6×	1.3k 1.5×	663 0.8×	606 0.8×	126	4.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tanja Bosak

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20 of 20 papers shown

Moore, Kelsey R., Tanja Bosak, Donald B. Dingwell, et al.. (2025). Heat flows solubilize apatite to boost phosphate availability for prebiotic chemistry. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1809–1809. 4 indexed citations

Herd, C. D. K., Tanja Bosak, Elisabeth M. Hausrath, et al.. (2025). Sampling Mars: Geologic context and preliminary characterization of samples collected by the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(2). e2404255121–e2404255121. 13 indexed citations

Kizovski, T. V., Eva L. Scheller, Tanja Bosak, et al.. (2024). Likely Ferromagnetic Minerals Identified by the Perseverance Rover and Implications for Future Paleomagnetic Analyses of Returned Martian Samples. Journal of Geophysical Research Planets. 129(9). 4 indexed citations

Barnes, Robert W., Kathleen C. Benison, A. J. Brown, et al.. (2024). DEPOSITIONAL HYPOTHESES FOR THE EMPLACEMENT OF THE MARGIN UNIT, JEZERO CRATER, MARS. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1 indexed citations

Tamura, Nobumichi, et al.. (2024). Microbial influences on the precipitation of hydrated magnesium carbonate minerals.

Bosak, Tanja, et al.. (2024). Predicted metabolic roles and stress responses provide insights into candidate phyla Hydrogenedentota and Sumerlaeota as members of the rare biosphere in biofilms from various environments. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 16(1). e13228–e13228. 3 indexed citations

Fournier, Gregory P., et al.. (2023). Assessing the Influence of HGT on the Evolution of Stress Responses in Microbial Communities from Shark Bay, Western Australia. Genes. 14(12). 2168–2168. 2 indexed citations

Gong, Jian, et al.. (2023). Organic‐rich bimineralic ooids record biological processes in Shark Bay, Western Australia. Geobiology. 21(5). 629–643. 1 indexed citations

Fournier, Gregory P., et al.. (2021). The Archean origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and extant cyanobacterial lineages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1959). 20210675–20210675. 79 indexed citations

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Daye, Mirna, Vanja Klepac‐Ceraj, Mihkel Pajusalu, et al.. (2019). Light-driven anaerobic microbial oxidation of manganese. Nature. 576(7786). 311–314. 101 indexed citations

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Moore, Kelsey R., Cara Magnabosco, Lily Momper, et al.. (2019). An Expanded Ribosomal Phylogeny of Cyanobacteria Supports a Deep Placement of Plastids. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 1612–1612. 48 indexed citations

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McMahon, Sean, Tanja Bosak, J. P. Grotzinger, et al.. (2018). A Field Guide to Finding Fossils on Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research Planets. 123(5). 1012–1040. 85 indexed citations

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Zaarur, Shikma, David T. Wang, Shuhei Ono, & Tanja Bosak. (2017). Influence of Phosphorus and Cell Geometry on the Fractionation of Sulfur Isotopes by Several Species of Desulfovibrio during Microbial Sulfate Reduction. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 890–890. 13 indexed citations

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Bosak, Tanja, Florence Schubotz, Jennifer V. Kuehl, et al.. (2016). System-Wide Adaptations of Desulfovibrio alaskensis G20 to Phosphate-Limited Conditions. PLoS ONE. 11(12). e0168719–e0168719. 18 indexed citations

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Mariotti, G., Sara B. Pruss, Vanja Klepac‐Ceraj, et al.. (2014). Where is the ooid factory. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Mariotti, G., Sara B. Pruss, J. Taylor Perron, & Tanja Bosak. (2014). Microbial shaping of sedimentary wrinkle structures. Nature Geoscience. 7(10). 736–740. 60 indexed citations

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Petroff, Alexander P., Ting‐Di Wu, Biqing Liang, et al.. (2011). Reaction–diffusion model of nutrient uptake in a biofilm: Theory and experiment. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 289. 90–95. 31 indexed citations

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Bosak, Tanja, John W. M. Bush, M. R. Flynn, et al.. (2009). Formation and stability of oxygen‐rich bubbles that shape photosynthetic mats. Geobiology. 8(1). 45–55. 99 indexed citations

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Bosak, Tanja, et al.. (2008). Aggregation Phenomena in Cyanobacterial Analogues of Ancient Stromatolites. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Bosak, Tanja, Sarah E. Greene, & Dianne K. Newman. (2007). A likely role for anoxygenic photosynthetic microbes in the formation of ancient stromatolites. Geobiology. 5(2). 119–126. 72 indexed citations

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