OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Microbiology is 25. 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
My Life as a Pioneering Woman Scientist in a Golden Age of Science and Society	44
The Biology of Akkermansia	44
Introduction	44
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	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
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
Cellular Olympics: Ultrafast Cellular Motility Across the Tree of Life	36
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	35
Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	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