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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Horizontal Gene Transfer and Recombination in Cyanobacteriota	215
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	128
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	121
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	110
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	110
Clock Regulation and Fungal Physiology: Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning the Timely Control of Just About Everything	98
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	97
Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts	89
Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators	87
	87
Circadian Biology in Parasites: Beyond Known Mechanisms	77
Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human Gut Microbiome	75
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	68
Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle	66
My Life as a Pioneering Woman Scientist in a Golden Age of Science and Society	65
Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses	61
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	57
Introduction	55
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	53
The Biology of Akkermansia	53
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	52
Microbial Specialized Metabolites in Phytopathogen–Host Citrus Interactions	52
Cellular Olympics: Ultrafast Cellular Motility Across the Tree of Life	51
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	51
Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive In Vitro Lichen	50

Carbon Metabolism of Intracellular Parasitic Protists	49
The Brucella Cell Envelope	49
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	49
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	44
Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	44
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	43
Opportunistic Fungal Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa	41
	41
The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria	41
Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	38
Compartmentalization of RNA Degradosomes in Bacteria Controls Accessibility to Substrates and Ensures Concerted Degradation of mRNA to Nucleotides	34