OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Microbiology is 54. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Subscription and Copyright Information	271
Advisory Board and Contents	247
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 4	221
Subscription and Copyright Information	181
Disease-causing human viruses: novelty and legacy	150
Loading and unloading plasmid cargoes	147
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 2	142
RNase III-CLASH brings bacterial RNA networks into focus	136
Senescent cell: the ‘factory of viral amplification’	132
Advisory Board and Contents	113
Subscription and Copyright Information	113
Advisory Board and Contents	112
Advisory Board and Contents	112
Revisiting AMPylation through the lens of Fic enzymes	108
Cross-correlation of virome–bacteriome–host–metabolome to study respiratory health	108
Advancing equity in antimicrobial resistance research and policy	105
Projecting global biological N2 fixation under climate warming across land and ocean	104
The HIPS 2024 symposium: highlighting advances in pharmaceutical sciences in infection research	98
Metabolic flux phenotyping of secondary metabolism in cyanobacteria	93
Starvation helps transition to abundance – a ferrosome story	88
Unearthing terrestrial extreme microbiomes for searching terrestrial-like life in the Solar System	88
Navigating trust and science: microbiome research in the Amazon	86
Biological interactions with Prochlorococcus: implications for the marine carbon cycle	85
The roles of calcium signaling and calcium deposition in microbial multicellularity	84
Reductive biomining of pyrite by methanogens	82

Masking of typical TLR4 and TLR5 ligands modulates inflammation and resolution by Helicobacter pylori	80
Better together? Lessons on sociality from Trichodesmium	78
Programming therapeutic probiotics by self-tunable sense-and-respond genetic circuits	77
Sulfur traits in the plant microbiome: implications for sustainable agriculture	75
Molecular mechanisms and drivers of pathogen emergence	75
Klebsiella pneumoniae emerging anti-immunology paradigms: from stealth to evasion	73
Tradeoffs and constraints on the evolution of tailocins	72
Nuclear antiviral innate responses at the intersection of DNA sensing and DNA repair	72
Toward an integrative framework for microbial community coalescence	71
Early-life chemical exposome and gut microbiome development: African research perspectives within a global environmental health context	71
Advisory Board and Contents	68
Advisory Board and Contents	68
The ambivalent role of Bacteroides in enteric infections	67
Disentangling the microbial ecological factors impacting honey bee susceptibility to Paenibacillus larvae infection	65
Interplay between endogenous and exogenous human retroviruses	64
Microbiome selection and evolution within wild and domesticated plants	62
Fast phages outcompete by depleting host resources	61
Microbial nanowires: type IV pili or cytochrome filaments?	61
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 10	61
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 9	59
Subscription and Copyright Information	59
Subscription and Copyright Information	58
Aspergillus nidulans	58
CIFAR humans and the microbiome: Banff meeting report	58
A role for bacterial experimental evolution in coral bleaching mitigation?	57
Moonlighting antibiotics: the extra job of modulating biofilm formation	56
Exploring the shared pathogenic strategies of independently evolved effectors across distinct plant viruses	55
Retaining African networks is urgent for global health	55
On the biological meaning of the population pangenome	54
Revisiting methane-dependent denitrification	54
Bacterial dual phototrophy was demystified	54
Severe respiratory viral infections: T-cell functions diverging from immunity to inflammation	54
Cutting-edge tools for unveiling the dynamics of plasmid–host interactions	54