OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Microbiology is 15. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Plant Microbiome: From Ecology to Reductionism and Beyond	216
Toward a Fully Resolved Fungal Tree of Life	157
Assembly of Bacterial Capsular Polysaccharides and Exopolysaccharides	147
Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria	124
Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles: From Discovery to Applications	118
Cyclic di-AMP Signaling in Bacteria	109
Bacterial Quorum Sensing During Infection	104
Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades	100
Growth and Division of the Peptidoglycan Matrix	96
Toxin-Antitoxin Systems as Phage Defense Elements	94
Polymorphic Toxins and Their Immunity Proteins: Diversity, Evolution, and Mechanisms of Delivery	70
Structures and Strategies of Anti-CRISPR-Mediated Immune Suppression	61
Bacterial Volatile Compounds: Functions in Communication, Cooperation, and Competition	60
Fungal Volatile Organic Compounds: More Than Just a Funky Smell?	58
What Is Metagenomics Teaching Us, and What Is Missed?	55
Similarities and Dissimilarities of COVID-19 and Other Coronavirus Diseases	52
Iron-Only and Vanadium Nitrogenases: Fail-Safe Enzymes or Something More?	52
Surface Sensing and Adaptation in Bacteria	50
Epigenetic Regulation of Virulence and Immunoevasion by Phase-Variable Restriction-Modification Systems in Bacterial Pathogens	47
Membrane Dynamics in Phototrophic Bacteria	47
Shaping an Endospore: Architectural Transformations During Bacillus subtilis Sporulation	47
Chemical Mediators at the Bacterial-Fungal Interface	46
A Bacterial Tower of Babel: Quorum-Sensing Signaling Diversity and Its Evolution	45
Assembly and Dynamics of the Bacterial Flagellum	44
Ape Origins of Human Malaria	43

Clostridioides difficile Spore Formation and Germination: New Insights and Opportunities for Intervention	43
The Influence of Bacteria on Animal Metamorphosis	42
The Type VII Secretion System ofStaphylococcus	41
The Ingenuity of Bacterial Genomes	40
From Input to Output: The Lap/c-di-GMP Biofilm Regulatory Circuit	39
Regulation of Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Degradation inPseudomonas aeruginosa	39
Diversity and Evolution of Methane-Related Pathways in Archaea	39
Beyond Restriction Modification: Epigenomic Roles of DNA Methylation in Prokaryotes	39
Bacterial Multicellularity: The Biology of Escherichia coli Building Large-Scale Biofilm Communities	37
Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion	36
Microbes as Biosensors	36
ToxoplasmaMechanisms for Delivery of Proteins and Uptake of Nutrients Across the Host-Pathogen Interface	35
Quorum Sensing in Fungal Species	35
Transcriptional Pausing as a Mediator of Bacterial Gene Regulation	33
Expanding Archaeal Diversity and Phylogeny: Past, Present, and Future	33
Two P or Not Two P: Understanding Regulation by the Bacterial Second Messengers (p)ppGpp	33
Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of the Human Microbiome in the Era of Personalized Medicine	33
Antimicrobial Activity of Metals and Metalloids	32
Molecular Basis of Lysis–Lysogeny Decisions in Gram-Positive Phages	31
Origin and Early Evolution of the Eukaryotic Cell	31
Structure and Function of the Mycobacterial Type VII Secretion Systems	29
Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation Regulate Social Interactions in Filamentous Fungi	29
Plasmodium vivax Latent Liver Stage Infection and Relapse: Biological Insights and New Experimental Tools	29
Trypanosome Signaling—Quorum Sensing	29
Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses	29
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	28
Structural Basis of Hydrogenotrophic Methanogenesis	28
Archaeal DNA Replication	27
Prospects and Pitfalls: Next-Generation Tools to Control Mosquito-Transmitted Disease	27
How Food Affects Colonization Resistance Against Enteropathogenic Bacteria	27
The Making of a Heterocyst in Cyanobacteria	26
Virulence and Pathogenicity of Chytrid Fungi Causing Amphibian Extinctions	24
Anaerobic Degradation of Alkanes by Marine Archaea	22
Multiscale Dynamic Structuring of Bacterial Chromosomes	22
How Apicomplexa Parasites Secrete and Build Their Invasion Machinery	21
Division and Transmission: Malaria Parasite Development in the Mosquito	21
Defining and Disrupting Species Boundaries inSaccharomyces	20
Implications of the Evolutionary Trajectory of Centromeres in the Fungal Kingdom	20
Hostile Takeover: How Viruses Reprogram Prokaryotic Metabolism	19
Wrapped Up: The Motility of Polarly Flagellated Bacteria	19
Function of the Omp85 Superfamily of Outer Membrane Protein Assembly Factors and Polypeptide Transporters	18
Amyloid Signaling in Filamentous Fungi and Bacteria	18
Deciphering the Chitin Code in Plant Symbiosis, Defense, and Microbial Networks	17
Metabolic Reprogramming and Longevity in Quiescence	17
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	16
The Bacterial Hsp90 Chaperone: Cellular Functions and Mechanism of Action	16
Horizontal Gene Transfer in Archaea—From Mechanisms to Genome Evolution	15
The Versatile Roles of Type III Secretion Systems in Rhizobium-Legume Symbioses	15
Cellular Adaptations to Cytoplasmic Mg²⁺ Limitation	15
Regulation of Host-Pathogen Interactions via the Ubiquitin System	15