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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses	255
Plasmodium vivax Latent Liver Stage Infection and Relapse: Biological Insights and New Experimental Tools	161
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	157
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	150
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	84
The Bacterial Hsp90 Chaperone: Cellular Functions and Mechanism of Action	82
Clock Regulation and Fungal Physiology: Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning the Timely Control of Just About Everything	78
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	77
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	76
Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts	63
Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators	62
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Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human Gut Microbiome	59
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	58
Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle	58
My Life as a Pioneering Woman Scientist in a Golden Age of Science and Society	54
Molecular Basis of Lysis–Lysogeny Decisions in Gram-Positive Phages	54
Bacterial Multicellularity: The Biology of Escherichia coli Building Large-Scale Biofilm Communities	54
Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses	53
Introduction	53
Microbial Specialized Metabolites in Phytopathogen–Host Citrus Interactions	52
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	51
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	50
Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of the Human Microbiome in the Era of Personalized Medicine	49
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	48

The Biology of Akkermansia	48
The Brucella Cell Envelope	47
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	47
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	44
Opportunistic Fungal Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa	42
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	42
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Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	42
Trypanosome Signaling—Quorum Sensing	42
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	42
Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	41
The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria	41
Compartmentalization of RNA Degradosomes in Bacteria Controls Accessibility to Substrates and Ensures Concerted Degradation of mRNA to Nucleotides	40
Genetic Exchange in Leishmania: Understanding the Cryptic Sexual Cycle	39
The Origin of Metazoan Multicellularity: A Potential Microbial Black Swan Event	38
Mechanisms of Virulence Reprogramming in Bacterial Pathogens	36
Are Bacteria Leaky? Mechanisms of Metabolite Externalization in Bacterial Cross-Feeding	36
Expanding Archaeal Diversity and Phylogeny: Past, Present, and Future	35
Oxygenases as Powerful Weapons in the Microbial Degradation of Pesticides	34
Hostile Takeover: How Viruses Reprogram Prokaryotic Metabolism	34
Targeting Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetases for Antimalarial Drug Development	33
Culturing Human Gut Microbiomes in the Laboratory	32
Growth and Division of the Peptidoglycan Matrix	31
The History of Microbiology—A Personal Interpretation	31
Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades	30
Microbiome Assembly in Fermented Foods	30
Cell Wall Biology of Vibrio cholerae	29
The Structure and Mechanism of Energy Transfer in Phycobilisomes	29
Evolution and Physiology of Amphibious Yeasts	29
Emerging Concepts in Cholera Vaccine Design	28
The Corrinoid Model for Dissecting Microbial Community Interactions Across Scales	25
Epigenetic Regulation and Chromatin Remodeling in Malaria Parasites	23
Beyond Restriction Modification: Epigenomic Roles of DNA Methylation in Prokaryotes	23
Introduction	22
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP): From Biochemistry to Global Ecological Significance	22
Structural Insights into Type III Secretion Systems of the Bacterial Flagellum and Injectisome	21
Two P or Not Two P: Understanding Regulation by the Bacterial Second Messengers (p)ppGpp	21
Origin and Early Evolution of the Eukaryotic Cell	20
Microbial Interspecies Interactions and Their Impact on the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance	20
Regulation of Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Degradation inPseudomonas aeruginosa	20
Introduction	18
Electron Transfer Beyond the Outer Membrane: Putting Electrons to Rest	16
Virulence and Pathogenicity of Chytrid Fungi Causing Amphibian Extinctions	16
Cyanobacteriochromes: A Rainbow of Photoreceptors	16
DNA Phosphorothioate Modification Systems and Associated Phage Defense Systems	16
Imaging Infection Across Scales of Size: From Whole Animals to Single Molecules	15
Past, Present, and Future of Extracytoplasmic Function σ Factors: Distribution and Regulatory Diversity of the Third Pillar of Bacterial Signal Transduction	15
Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion	14
Collab or Cancel? Bacterial Influencers of Inflammasome Signaling	14
Recent Advances in Understanding the Human Fungal Pathogen Hypoxia Response in Disease Progression	14

Habitat Transition in the Evolution of Bacteria and Archaea	14
Interdependency and Redundancy Add Complexity and Resilience to Biogenesis of Bacterial Ribosomes	14