OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Microbiology is 10. 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
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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
Microbial Specialized Metabolites in Phytopathogen–Host Citrus Interactions	48
Introduction	48
The Biology of Akkermansia	47
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	47
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	47
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	42
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	41
The Brucella Cell Envelope	40
Cellular Olympics: Ultrafast Cellular Motility Across the Tree of Life	40

Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive In Vitro Lichen	39
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	39
Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	39
Carbon Metabolism of Intracellular Parasitic Protists	38
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	36
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Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	35
Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	35
The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria	34
Opportunistic Fungal Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa	33
Compartmentalization of RNA Degradosomes in Bacteria Controls Accessibility to Substrates and Ensures Concerted Degradation of mRNA to Nucleotides	29
Kin Recognition Systems and Their Role in Multicellular Behaviors	29
Genetic Exchange in Leishmania: Understanding the Cryptic Sexual Cycle	28
The Origin of Metazoan Multicellularity: A Potential Microbial Black Swan Event	26
Are Bacteria Leaky? Mechanisms of Metabolite Externalization in Bacterial Cross-Feeding	26
Targeting Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetases for Antimalarial Drug Development	24
Mechanisms of Virulence Reprogramming in Bacterial Pathogens	24
Oxygenases as Powerful Weapons in the Microbial Degradation of Pesticides	23
Evolution and Ecology of Streptomyces	22
The Structure and Mechanism of Energy Transfer in Phycobilisomes	21
Microbiome Assembly in Fermented Foods	21
Epigenetic Regulation and Chromatin Remodeling in Malaria Parasites	20
The Corrinoid Model for Dissecting Microbial Community Interactions Across Scales	20
Commensal Neisseria and Antimicrobial-Resistant Gonorrhea	20
Introduction	19
Emerging Concepts in Cholera Vaccine Design	19
Structural Insights into Type III Secretion Systems of the Bacterial Flagellum and Injectisome	19
Temperature as a Driver of Phage Ecology and Evolution	19
Regulation of Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Degradation inPseudomonas aeruginosa	19
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP): From Biochemistry to Global Ecological Significance	18
Marine Bacterial Biofilms: Shaping Surface Communities	18
Introduction	17
Microbial Interspecies Interactions and Their Impact on the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance	17
DNA Phosphorothioate Modification Systems and Associated Phage Defense Systems	17
Electron Transfer Beyond the Outer Membrane: Putting Electrons to Rest	16
Cyanobacteriochromes: A Rainbow of Photoreceptors	15
Past, Present, and Future of Extracytoplasmic Function σ Factors: Distribution and Regulatory Diversity of the Third Pillar of Bacterial Signal Transduction	15
Prokaryotic Circadian Systems: Cyanobacteria and Beyond	14
Collab or Cancel? Bacterial Influencers of Inflammasome Signaling	14
A Comparative Analysis: Molecular Mechanisms of Carbon Catabolite Repression in Bacteria	13
Habitat Transition in the Evolution of Bacteria and Archaea	12
Recent Advances in Understanding the Human Fungal Pathogen Hypoxia Response in Disease Progression	12
Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion	11
Interdependency and Redundancy Add Complexity and Resilience to Biogenesis of Bacterial Ribosomes	10
Division and Transmission: Malaria Parasite Development in the Mosquito	10
Motility in Filamentous Cyanobacteria	10
From Chaos Comes Order: Genetics and Genome Biology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi	10
Roles of Marine Microbial Natural Products	10