OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Microbiology is 14. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Nematode-Killing Fungi: Model Systems for Fungal–Animal Interactions	226
Common Strategies Governing Temperate Phage and α-Herpesvirus Persistence	142
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	132
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	118
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	117
Horizontal Gene Transfer and Recombination in Cyanobacteriota	115
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	106
Clock Regulation and Fungal Physiology: Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning the Timely Control of Just About Everything	106
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	97
Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts	95
Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators	85
Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human Gut Microbiome	83
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The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	70
Circadian Biology in Parasites: Beyond Known Mechanisms	70
Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle	70
My Life as a Pioneering Woman Scientist in a Golden Age of Science and Society	67
Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses	63
Introduction	63
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	62
Convergent Evolution of Cellular Weaponry	60
Microbial Specialized Metabolites in Phytopathogen–Host Citrus Interactions	59
The Biology of Akkermansia	58
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	56
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	55

Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	55
Cellular Olympics: Ultrafast Cellular Motility Across the Tree of Life	53
Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive In Vitro Lichen	53
The Brucella Cell Envelope	52
From an Interest in Molecules to a Fascination with Microbes	51
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	51
Carbon Metabolism of Intracellular Parasitic Protists	48
Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	47
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	43
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	42
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Opportunistic Fungal Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa	35
Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	35
Genetic Exchange in Leishmania: Understanding the Cryptic Sexual Cycle	33
The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria	33
Kin Recognition Systems and Their Role in Multicellular Behaviors	32
Targeting Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetases for Antimalarial Drug Development	31
Are Bacteria Leaky? Mechanisms of Metabolite Externalization in Bacterial Cross-Feeding	31
Compartmentalization of RNA Degradosomes in Bacteria Controls Accessibility to Substrates and Ensures Concerted Degradation of mRNA to Nucleotides	31
Oxygenases as Powerful Weapons in the Microbial Degradation of Pesticides	31
The Origin of Metazoan Multicellularity: A Potential Microbial Black Swan Event	31
Mechanisms of Virulence Reprogramming in Bacterial Pathogens	29
Evolution and Ecology of Streptomyces	27
Extracellular Vesicles and Cell Communication in Eukaryotic Microorganisms	27
Microbiome Assembly in Fermented Foods	27
The Structure and Mechanism of Energy Transfer in Phycobilisomes	27
Commensal Neisseria and Antimicrobial-Resistant Gonorrhea	26
Emerging Concepts in Cholera Vaccine Design	26
Erratum: Prokaryotic Circadian Systems: Cyanobacteria and Beyond	26
Epigenetic Regulation and Chromatin Remodeling in Malaria Parasites	25
The Corrinoid Model for Dissecting Microbial Community Interactions Across Scales	24
Temperature as a Driver of Phage Ecology and Evolution	24
Introduction	22
Microbial Interspecies Interactions and Their Impact on the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance	21
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP): From Biochemistry to Global Ecological Significance	21
Structural Insights into Type III Secretion Systems of the Bacterial Flagellum and Injectisome	21
Marine Bacterial Biofilms: Shaping Surface Communities	21
Electron Transfer Beyond the Outer Membrane: Putting Electrons to Rest	20
Introduction	20
Regulation of Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Degradation inPseudomonas aeruginosa	20
Past, Present, and Future of Extracytoplasmic Function σ Factors: Distribution and Regulatory Diversity of the Third Pillar of Bacterial Signal Transduction	18
Cyanobacteriochromes: A Rainbow of Photoreceptors	18
DNA Phosphorothioate Modification Systems and Associated Phage Defense Systems	18
Recent Advances in Understanding the Human Fungal Pathogen Hypoxia Response in Disease Progression	17
Collab or Cancel? Bacterial Influencers of Inflammasome Signaling	17
Habitat Transition in the Evolution of Bacteria and Archaea	16
Prokaryotic Circadian Systems: Cyanobacteria and Beyond	15
Roles of Marine Microbial Natural Products	15
A Comparative Analysis: Molecular Mechanisms of Carbon Catabolite Repression in Bacteria	15
Interdependency and Redundancy Add Complexity and Resilience to Biogenesis of Bacterial Ribosomes	15

Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion	15
Motility in Filamentous Cyanobacteria	14
Unique Properties of Apicomplexan Mitochondria	14
Bacterial Physiology in the Context of Algal Partners	14