OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Microbial Ecology is 30. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Bacteriocin-Producing Enterococci Modulate Cheese Microbial Diversity	183
Impacts of Thermal Drainage on Bacterial Diversity and Community Construction in Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant	90
Effects of Hyphomonas Strains on the Growth of Red Algae Pyropia Species by Attaching Specifically to Their Rhizoids	88
Polyurethane-Degrading Potential of Alkaline Groundwater Bacteria	70
Response of Alternaria and Fusarium Species to Low Precipitation in a Drought-Tolerant Plant in Morocco	67
Sources of Fungal Symbionts in the Microbiome of a Mobile Insect Host, Spodoptera frugiperda	61
Distinguishable Influence of the Delivery Mode, Feeding Pattern, and Infant Sex on Dynamic Alterations in the Intestinal Microbiota in the First Year of Life	56
Sediment DNA Records the Critical Transition of Bacterial Communities in the Arid Lake	49
Mechanisms Driving the Distribution and Activity of Mineralization and Nitrification in the Reservoir Riparian Zone	48
Highly Diverse Symbiodiniaceae Types Hosted by Corals in a Global Hotspot of Marine Biodiversity	46
Diverse Microbial Hot Spring Mat Communities at Black Canyon of the Colorado River	45
Quantitative Amplicon Sequencing Is Necessary to Identify Differential Taxa and Correlated Taxa Where Population Sizes Differ	44
Elevated O3 Exerts Stronger Effects than Elevated CO2 on the Functional Guilds of Fungi, but Collectively Increase the Structural Complexity of Fungi in a Paddy Soil	43
Prokaryotic Diversity and Community Distribution in the Complex Hydrogeological System of the Añana Continental Saltern	43
Metagenomic Analysis of Rhizospheric Bacterial Community of Citrus Trees Expressing Phloem-Directed Antimicrobials	41
Succession of Fungal Communities and Their Functional Profiles in a Decaying Foundation Species	40
Uncovering the Role of Autochthonous Deteriogenic Biofilm Community: Rožanec Mithraeum Monument (Slovenia)	39
Nitrogen Fertilization Increases Soil Microbial Biomass and Alters Microbial Composition Especially Under Low Soil Water Availability	38
Comparative Genomics Reveal the High Conservation and Scarce Distribution of Nitrogen Fixation nif Genes in the Plant-Associated Genus Herbaspirillum	38
Peanut-based Rotation Stabilized Diazotrophic Communities and Increased Subsequent Wheat Yield	36
Marine Heatwave Caused Differentiated Dysbiosis in Photosymbiont Assemblages of Corals and Hydrocorals During El Niño 2015/2016	35
Microbial Diversity and Activity of Biofilms from Geothermal Springs in Croatia	35
Selected Bacteria Are Critical for Karst River Carbon Sequestration via Integrating Multi-omics and Hydrochemistry Data	34
Role of Fungi in Imparting General Disease Suppressiveness in Soil from Organic Field	33
Paenibacillus as a Biocontrol Agent for Fungal Phytopathogens: Is P. polymyxa the Only One Worth Attention?	33

Cyanosphere Dynamic During Dolichospermum Bloom: Potential Roles in Cyanobacterial Proliferation	33
Effects of Vineyard Agro-management Practices on Soil Bacterial Community Composition, and Diversity	32
A Matter of Metals: Copper but Not Cadmium Affects the Microbial Alpha-Diversity of Soils and Sediments — a Meta-analysis	31
Potential Plant-To-Plant Transmission: Shared Endophytic Bacterial Community Between Ziziphus lotus and Its Parasite Cuscuta epithymum	30
Stochastic Processes Dominate in the Water Mass–Based Segregation of Diazotrophs in a High Arctic Fjord (Svalbard)	30
Paired Root-Soil Samples and Metabarcoding Reveal Taxon-Based Colonization Strategies in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Communities in Japanese Cedar and Cypress Stands	30