OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Microbiology is 38. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	226
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	145
Plasmodium vivax Latent Liver Stage Infection and Relapse: Biological Insights and New Experimental Tools	145
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	144
Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses	76
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	73
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	72
The Bacterial Hsp90 Chaperone: Cellular Functions and Mechanism of Action	69
Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts	66
Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators	62
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Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle	58
Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human Gut Microbiome	56
Bacterial Multicellularity: The Biology of Escherichia coli Building Large-Scale Biofilm Communities	52
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	52
Molecular Basis of Lysis–Lysogeny Decisions in Gram-Positive Phages	51
Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses	50
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	50
Introduction	49
Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of the Human Microbiome in the Era of Personalized Medicine	49
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	48
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	48
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	47
The Brucella Cell Envelope	46
Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	43

Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	43
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	42
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	42
Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	41
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The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria	41
Trypanosome Signaling—Quorum Sensing	40
Compartmentalization of RNA Degradosomes in Bacteria Controls Accessibility to Substrates and Ensures Concerted Degradation of mRNA to Nucleotides	39
Targeting Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetases for Antimalarial Drug Development	38
Are Bacteria Leaky? Mechanisms of Metabolite Externalization in Bacterial Cross-Feeding	38
The Origin of Metazoan Multicellularity: A Potential Microbial Black Swan Event	38