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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	183
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	99
Horizontal Gene Transfer and Recombination in Cyanobacteriota	93
Clock Regulation and Fungal Physiology: Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning the Timely Control of Just About Everything	90
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	90
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	81
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	71
Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators	69
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Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts	65
Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human Gut Microbiome	64
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	62
Circadian Biology in Parasites: Beyond Known Mechanisms	53
Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle	49
Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses	46
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	44
My Life as a Pioneering Woman Scientist in a Golden Age of Science and Society	44
The Biology of Akkermansia	44
Introduction	44
Microbial Specialized Metabolites in Phytopathogen–Host Citrus Interactions	43
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	42
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	41
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	39
The Brucella Cell Envelope	38
Cellular Olympics: Ultrafast Cellular Motility Across the Tree of Life	36

Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	36
Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive In Vitro Lichen	36
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	36
Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	35
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	35
Carbon Metabolism of Intracellular Parasitic Protists	34
The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria	33
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Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	29
Opportunistic Fungal Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa	27
Genetic Exchange in Leishmania: Understanding the Cryptic Sexual Cycle	25
Compartmentalization of RNA Degradosomes in Bacteria Controls Accessibility to Substrates and Ensures Concerted Degradation of mRNA to Nucleotides	25
Are Bacteria Leaky? Mechanisms of Metabolite Externalization in Bacterial Cross-Feeding	24
Kin Recognition Systems and Their Role in Multicellular Behaviors	23
The Origin of Metazoan Multicellularity: A Potential Microbial Black Swan Event	23
Oxygenases as Powerful Weapons in the Microbial Degradation of Pesticides	22
Evolution and Ecology of Streptomyces	21
Mechanisms of Virulence Reprogramming in Bacterial Pathogens	19
Targeting Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetases for Antimalarial Drug Development	19
Commensal Neisseria and Antimicrobial-Resistant Gonorrhea	18
The Structure and Mechanism of Energy Transfer in Phycobilisomes	18
The Corrinoid Model for Dissecting Microbial Community Interactions Across Scales	18
Microbiome Assembly in Fermented Foods	18
Epigenetic Regulation and Chromatin Remodeling in Malaria Parasites	18
Emerging Concepts in Cholera Vaccine Design	17
Temperature as a Driver of Phage Ecology and Evolution	17
Microbial Interspecies Interactions and Their Impact on the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance	17
Introduction	17
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP): From Biochemistry to Global Ecological Significance	17
Marine Bacterial Biofilms: Shaping Surface Communities	16
Structural Insights into Type III Secretion Systems of the Bacterial Flagellum and Injectisome	16
Introduction	15
Regulation of Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Degradation inPseudomonas aeruginosa	15
Past, Present, and Future of Extracytoplasmic Function σ Factors: Distribution and Regulatory Diversity of the Third Pillar of Bacterial Signal Transduction	14
Electron Transfer Beyond the Outer Membrane: Putting Electrons to Rest	14
DNA Phosphorothioate Modification Systems and Associated Phage Defense Systems	14
Cyanobacteriochromes: A Rainbow of Photoreceptors	13
Habitat Transition in the Evolution of Bacteria and Archaea	12
Collab or Cancel? Bacterial Influencers of Inflammasome Signaling	12
A Comparative Analysis: Molecular Mechanisms of Carbon Catabolite Repression in Bacteria	12
Recent Advances in Understanding the Human Fungal Pathogen Hypoxia Response in Disease Progression	12
Interdependency and Redundancy Add Complexity and Resilience to Biogenesis of Bacterial Ribosomes	10
Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion	10
Roles of Marine Microbial Natural Products	10
Prokaryotic Circadian Systems: Cyanobacteria and Beyond	10