OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annual Review of Microbiology is 34. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Horizontal Gene Transfer and Recombination in Cyanobacteriota	200
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	106
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	105
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	98
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	95
Clock Regulation and Fungal Physiology: Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning the Timely Control of Just About Everything	88
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	82
Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators	72
Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts	71
	71
Circadian Biology in Parasites: Beyond Known Mechanisms	69
Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle	68
Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human Gut Microbiome	56
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	54
My Life as a Pioneering Woman Scientist in a Golden Age of Science and Society	50
Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses	49
Introduction	48
Microbial Specialized Metabolites in Phytopathogen–Host Citrus Interactions	48
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	47
The Biology of Akkermansia	47
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	47
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	42
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	41
Cellular Olympics: Ultrafast Cellular Motility Across the Tree of Life	40
The Brucella Cell Envelope	40

Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	39
Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive In Vitro Lichen	39
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	39
Carbon Metabolism of Intracellular Parasitic Protists	38
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	36
Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	35
	35
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	35
The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria	34