| Limits of life and the habitability of Mars: the ESA space experiment BIOMEX on the ISS JP De Vera, M Alawi, T Backhaus, M Baqué, D Billi, U Böttger, T Berger, ... Astrobiology 19 (2), 145-157, 2019 | 166 | 2019 |
| Survival of lichens and bacteria exposed to outer space conditions–results of the Lithopanspermia experiments R de La Torre, LG Sancho, G Horneck, A de los Ríos, J Wierzchos, ... Icarus 208 (2), 735-748, 2010 | 152 | 2010 |
| Exposure of phototrophs to 548 days in low Earth orbit: microbial selection pressures in outer space and on early earth CS Cockell, P Rettberg, E Rabbow, K Olsson-Francis The ISME journal 5 (10), 1671-1682, 2011 | 130 | 2011 |
| Experimental methods for studying microbial survival in extraterrestrial environments K Olsson-Francis, CS Cockell Journal of microbiological methods 80 (1), 1-13, 2010 | 98 | 2010 |
| Bacteria in weathered basaltic glass, Iceland CS Cockell, K Olsson, F Knowles, L Kelly, A Herrera, T Thorsteinsson, ... Geomicrobiology Journal 26 (7), 491-507, 2009 | 96 | 2009 |
| Use of cyanobacteria for in-situ resource use in space applications K Olsson-Francis, CS Cockell Planetary and Space Science 58 (10), 1279-1285, 2010 | 83 | 2010 |
| The Dallol geothermal area, Northern Afar (Ethiopia)—An exceptional planetary field analog on Earth B Cavalazzi, R Barbieri, F Gómez, B Capaccioni, K Olsson-Francis, ... Astrobiology 19 (4), 553-578, 2019 | 74 | 2019 |
| Isolation of novel extreme-tolerant cyanobacteria from a rock-dwelling microbial community by using exposure to low Earth orbit K Olsson-Francis, R de la Torre, CS Cockell Applied and environmental microbiology 76 (7), 2115-2121, 2010 | 74 | 2010 |
| Alteration textures in terrestrial volcanic glass and the associated bacterial community CS Cockell, K Olsson‐Francis, A Herrera, A Meunier Geobiology 7 (1), 50-65, 2009 | 71 | 2009 |
| Bioenergetic Properties of the Thermoalkaliphilic Bacillus sp. Strain TA2.A1 K Olsson, S Keis, HW Morgan, P Dimroth, GM Cook Journal of bacteriology 185 (2), 461-465, 2003 | 66 | 2003 |
| The effect of rock composition on cyanobacterial weathering of crystalline basalt and rhyolite K Olsson‐Francis, AE Simpson, D Wolff‐Boenisch, CS Cockell Geobiology 10 (5), 434-444, 2012 | 64 | 2012 |
| Survival of akinetes (resting-state cells of cyanobacteria) in low Earth orbit and simulated extraterrestrial conditions K Olsson-Francis, R de La Torre, MC Towner, CS Cockell Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 39, 565-579, 2009 | 59 | 2009 |
| Nitrate-dependent iron oxidation: a potential Mars metabolism A Price, VK Pearson, SP Schwenzer, J Miot, K Olsson-Francis Frontiers in microbiology 9, 513, 2018 | 57 | 2018 |
| Mutants of Mycobacterium smegmatis unable to grow at acidic pH in the presence of the protonophore carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone SL Tran, M Rao, C Simmers, S Gebhard, K Olsson, GM Cook Microbiology 151 (3), 665-672, 2005 | 53 | 2005 |
| New simulants for martian regolith: Controlling iron variability NK Ramkissoon, VK Pearson, SP Schwenzer, C Schröder, T Kirnbauer, ... Planetary and Space Science 179, 104722, 2019 | 49 | 2019 |
| Microarray analysis of a microbe–mineral interaction K OLSSON‐FRANCIS, R Van Houdt, M Mergeay, N Leys, CS Cockell Geobiology 8 (5), 446-456, 2010 | 49 | 2010 |
| The identification of sulfide oxidation as a potential metabolism driving primary production on late Noachian Mars MC Macey, M Fox-Powell, NK Ramkissoon, BP Stephens, T Barton, ... Scientific reports 10 (1), 10941, 2020 | 45 | 2020 |
| Ultra-small microorganisms in the polyextreme conditions of the Dallol volcano, Northern Afar, Ethiopia F Gómez, B Cavalazzi, N Rodríguez, R Amils, GG Ori, K Olsson-Francis, ... Scientific reports 9 (1), 1-9, 2019 | 42 | 2019 |
| Multimicrobial kombucha culture tolerates Mars-like conditions simulated on low Earth orbit O Podolich, O Kukharenko, A Haidak, I Zaets, L Zaika, O Storozhuk, ... Astrobiology 19 (2), 183-196, 2019 | 41 | 2019 |
| Experimental and simulation efforts in the astrobiological exploration of exooceans RS Taubner, K Olsson-Francis, SD Vance, NK Ramkissoon, F Postberg, ... Space Science Reviews 216, 1-41, 2020 | 40 | 2020 |
