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Karim Benzerara

Karim Benzerara

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
62
Citations
11735
World Ranking
1717
National Ranking
104

Karim Benzerara publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Karim Benzerara sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 281 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Karim Benzerara D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Karim Benzerara sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Karim Benzerara is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on topics such as paleontology, biomaterials, molecular biology, and geochemistry. Their research encompasses subfields including astronomy and astrophysics, paleontology, biomaterials, molecular biology, and geochemistry and petrology.

The scientist's work spans several core research areas: paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, calcium carbonate crystallization and inhibition, planetary science and exploration, astro and planetary science, geochemistry and elemental analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, and geological and geochemical analysis.

Karim Benzerara has participated in numerous scientific publications across a range of distinguished venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Biogeosciences

Among the recent published papers are:

  • The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the NASA Mars 2020 Rover: Body Unit and Combined System Tests (2020, Space Science Reviews)
  • The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the Mars 2020 Rover: Science Objectives and Mast-Unit Description (2021, Space Science Reviews)
  • Aqueously altered igneous rocks sampled on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars (2022, Science)
  • Compositionally and density stratified igneous terrain in Jezero crater, Mars (2022, Science Advances)
  • The diversity of molecular mechanisms of carbonate biomineralization by bacteria (2020, Discover Materials)

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Benzerara's research activity, working frequently with several co-authors, including Purificación López-García, David Moreira, Élodie Duprat, Fériel Skouri-Panet, and Olivier Beyssac, each contributing to a notable number of joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Iron biomineralization by anaerobic neutrophilic iron-oxidizing bacteria

    Jennyfer Miot;Karim Benzerara;Guillaume Morin;Andreas Kappler

  • An Early-Branching Freshwater Cyanobacterium at the Origin of Plastids

    Rafael I. Ponce-Toledo;Philippe Deschamps;Purificación López-García;Yvan Zivanovic

  • Precipitation of amorphous CaCO3 (aragonite-like) by cyanobacteria: A STXM study of the influence of EPS on the nucleation process

    M. Obst;M. Obst;J.J. Dynes;J.J. Dynes;J.R. Lawrence;G.D.W. Swerhone

  • Multidisciplinary Evidences that Synechocystis PCC6803 Exopolysaccharides Operate in Cell Sedimentation and Protection against Salt and Metal Stresses

    Thichakorn Jittawuttipoka;Mariane Planchon;Olivier Spalla;Karim Benzerara

  • The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the NASA Mars 2020 Rover: Body Unit and Combined System Tests

    Roger C. Wiens;Sylvestre Maurice;Scott H. Robinson;Anthony E. Nelson

  • An Early-Branching Microbialite Cyanobacterium Forms Intracellular Carbonates

    Estelle Couradeau;Karim Benzerara;Emmanuelle Gérard;David Moreira

  • Intracellular Ca-carbonate biomineralization is widespread in cyanobacteria

    Karim Benzerara;Feriel Skouri-Panet;Jinhua Li;Céline Férard

  • The desert of Tataouine: an extreme environment that hosts a wide diversity of microorganisms and radiotolerant bacteria

    Angélique Chanal;Virginie Chapon;Karim Benzerara;Karim Benzerara;Mohamed Barakat

  • Nanoscale detection of organic signatures in carbonate microbialites.

    Karim Benzerara;Nicolas Menguy;Purificación López-García;Tae-Hyun Yoon

  • The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the Mars 2020 Rover: Science Objectives and Mast-Unit Description

    Sylvestre Maurice;R. Wiens;P. Bernardi;P. Caïs

  • Green rust formation during Fe(II) oxidation by the nitrate-reducing Acidovorax sp. strain BoFeN1.

    Claudia Pantke;Martin Obst;Karim Benzerara;Guillaume Morin

  • Scanning transmission X‐ray microscopy study of microbial calcification

    K. Benzerara;T. H. Yoon;T. Tyliszczak;B. Constantz

  • Significance, mechanisms and environmental implications of microbial biomineralization

    Karim Benzerara;Jennyfer Miot;Guillaume Morin;Georges Ona-Nguema

  • Extracellular Iron Biomineralization by Photoautotrophic Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria

    Jennyfer Miot;Karim Benzerara;Martin Obst;Martin Obst;Andreas Kappler

  • Graphite formation by carbonate reduction during subduction

    Matthieu E. Galvez;Matthieu E. Galvez;Matthieu E. Galvez;Olivier Beyssac;Isabelle Martinez;Karim Benzerara

  • Bacterial diversity and carbonate precipitation in the giant microbialites from the highly alkaline Lake Van, Turkey

    Purificación López-García;Józef Kazmierczak;Karim Benzerara;Karim Benzerara;Stephan Kempe

  • Formation of Cell-Iron-Mineral Aggregates by Phototrophic and Nitrate-Reducing Anaerobic Fe(II)-Oxidizing Bacteria

    S. Schädler;C. Burkhardt;F. Hegler;K. L. Straub

  • Microbially influenced formation of 2,724-million-year-old stromatolites

    Kevin Lepot;Karim Benzerara;Gordon E. Brown;Pascal Philippot

  • Compositionally and density stratified igneous terrain in Jezero crater, Mars

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  • Biomineralization of iron-phosphates in the water column of Lake Pavin (Massif Central, France)

    Julie Cosmidis;Julie Cosmidis;Karim Benzerara;Guillaume Morin;Vincent Busigny

  • Exceptional preservation of fossil plant spores in high-pressure metamorphic rocks

    Sylvain Bernard;Karim Benzerara;Olivier Beyssac;Nicolas Menguy

  • The link between biomineralization and fossilization of bacteria: Insights from field and experimental studies

    Jinhua Li;Karim Benzerara;Sylvain Bernard;Olivier Beyssac

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon E. Brown
Gordon E. Brown Stanford University
Nicolas Menguy
Nicolas Menguy Sorbonne University
François Guyot
François Guyot French National Museum of Natural History
Purificación López-García
Purificación López-García University of Paris-Saclay
David Moreira
David Moreira University of Paris-Saclay
Olivier Beyssac
Olivier Beyssac Sorbonne University
Guillaume Morin
Guillaume Morin Sorbonne University
Tolek Tyliszczak
Tolek Tyliszczak Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Andreas Kappler
Andreas Kappler University of Tübingen
Alfred M. Spormann
Alfred M. Spormann Stanford University

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