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ArticleNature communications2025

Onset of persistent surface ocean oxygenation during the Great Oxidation Event.

Andy W Heard, Chadlin M Ostrander, Yunchao Shu, Andrey Bekker, Simon W Poulton, Sune G Nielsen

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Revisiting the greatness of Earth's great oxidation.Communications earth & environment · 2026
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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.

Andy W HeardDepartment of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA. andrew.heard@whoi.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7593-644X
Chadlin M OstranderDepartment of Geology & Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9119-5127
Yunchao ShuLaoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0102-4170
Andrey BekkerDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1154-0585
Simon W PoultonSchool of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7621-189X
Sune G NielsenDepartment of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA.

Funding

ACS | American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS Petroleum Research Fund) 624840ND2Agouron Institute Fellowship in GeobiologyGouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et en Génie du Canada) Discovery and Accelerator GrantsNational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 80NSSC22K1628RCUK | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) NE/Z000122/1Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Postdoctoral Scholar Program
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Free oxygen (O

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PMID41365855
PMCPMC12690087

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