OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annual Review of Microbiology is 39. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses	255
Plasmodium vivax Latent Liver Stage Infection and Relapse: Biological Insights and New Experimental Tools	161
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	157
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	150
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	84
The Bacterial Hsp90 Chaperone: Cellular Functions and Mechanism of Action	82
Clock Regulation and Fungal Physiology: Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning the Timely Control of Just About Everything	78
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	77
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	76
Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts	63
Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators	62
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Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human Gut Microbiome	59
Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle	58
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	58
Bacterial Multicellularity: The Biology of Escherichia coli Building Large-Scale Biofilm Communities	54
My Life as a Pioneering Woman Scientist in a Golden Age of Science and Society	54
Molecular Basis of Lysis–Lysogeny Decisions in Gram-Positive Phages	54
Introduction	53
Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses	53
Microbial Specialized Metabolites in Phytopathogen–Host Citrus Interactions	52
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	51
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	50
Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of the Human Microbiome in the Era of Personalized Medicine	49
The Biology of Akkermansia	48

Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	48
The Brucella Cell Envelope	47
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	47
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	44
Trypanosome Signaling—Quorum Sensing	42
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	42
Opportunistic Fungal Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa	42
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	42
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Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	42
Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	41
The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria	41
Compartmentalization of RNA Degradosomes in Bacteria Controls Accessibility to Substrates and Ensures Concerted Degradation of mRNA to Nucleotides	40
Genetic Exchange in Leishmania: Understanding the Cryptic Sexual Cycle	39