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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Constraints on Paleoproterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels.

Eric J Bellefroid, Ashleigh V S Hood, Paul F Hoffman, Matthew D Thomas, Christopher T Reinhard, Noah J Planavsky

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
21.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 123 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Revisiting the greatness of Earth's great oxidation.Communications earth & environment · 2026
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  3. Atmospheric oxygen and methane on the early Earth.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  5. Constraining the oxygen requirements for modern microbial eukaryote diversity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  7. Strong evidence for a weakly oxygenated ocean-atmosphere system during the Proterozoic.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  8. Triple oxygen isotope constraints on atmospheric OProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  10. Petrographic carbon in ancient sediments constrains Proterozoic Era atmospheric oxygen levels.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  14. A productivity collapse to end Earth's Great Oxidation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Eric J BellefroidDepartment of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511; eric.bellefroid@yale.edu paulfhoffman@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-5787-6693
Ashleigh V S HoodDepartment of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.ORCID 0000-0002-1430-2371
Paul F HoffmanSchool of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8P 3E6 Canada; eric.bellefroid@yale.edu paulfhoffman@gmail.com.
Matthew D ThomasDepartment of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.
Christopher T ReinhardSchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332.
Noah J PlanavskyDepartment of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.
Yale University · USUniversity of California, Riverside · USUniversity of Victoria · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The oxygenation of Earth's surface environment dramatically altered key biological and geochemical cycles and ultimately ushered in the rise of an ecologically diverse biosphere. However, atmospheric oxygen partial pressures (

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Ce anomaliesCe oxidationoxygenationProterozoicrare earth elements

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PMID30038009
PMCPMC6094116
OpenAlexW2884809501

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