OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Microbiology is 34. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Imaging Infection Across Scales of Size: From Whole Animals to Single Molecules	198
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	138
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	137
The History of Microbiology—A Personal Interpretation	136
Epigenetic Reprogramming in Host-Parasite Coevolution: TheToxoplasmaParadigm	73
Collab or Cancel? Bacterial Influencers of Inflammasome Signaling	65
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	64
Reconstructing Early Microbial Life	59
Cytoskeleton Organization in Formation and Motility of Apicomplexan Parasites	58
Habitat Transition in the Evolution of Bacteria and Archaea	57
Recent Advances in Understanding the Human Fungal Pathogen Hypoxia Response in Disease Progression	56
How Apicomplexa Parasites Secrete and Build Their Invasion Machinery	55
Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion	51
Toxin-Antitoxin Systems as Phage Defense Elements	48
Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses	48
Microbiome Assembly in Fermented Foods	47
Plasmodium vivax Latent Liver Stage Infection and Relapse: Biological Insights and New Experimental Tools	46
Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades	44
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	44
Growth and Division of the Peptidoglycan Matrix	43
Function of the Omp85 Superfamily of Outer Membrane Protein Assembly Factors and Polypeptide Transporters	43
Evolution and Physiology of Amphibious Yeasts	42
Mining Fatty Acid Biosynthesis for New Antimicrobials	42
Understanding Fungi in Glacial and Hypersaline Environments	41
Causative Microbes in Host-Microbiome Interactions	40

The Bacterial Hsp90 Chaperone: Cellular Functions and Mechanism of Action	40
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	40
Roadmap to Success: How Oomycete Plant Pathogens Invade Tissues and Deliver Effectors	39
Unpacking Alternative Features of the Bacterial Chemotaxis System	38
Sirtuins in Epigenetic Silencing and Control of Gene Expression in Model and Pathogenic Fungi	38
The Brucella Cell Envelope	36
Diversity and Evolution of Methane-Related Pathways in Archaea	34
Metabolic Reprogramming and Longevity in Quiescence	34
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	34
Interdependency and Redundancy Add Complexity and Resilience to Biogenesis of Bacterial Ribosomes	34
The Microbe, the Infection Enigma, and the Host	34