OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Microbiology is 51. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Subscription and Copyright Information	690
Advisory Board and Contents	434
Advisory Board and Contents	202
Advisory Board and Contents	200
Advisory Board and Contents	183
Subscription and Copyright Information	158
Advisory Board and Contents	141
Revisiting AMPylation through the lens of Fic enzymes	127
RNase III-CLASH brings bacterial RNA networks into focus	121
Loading and unloading plasmid cargoes	117
Nuclear antiviral innate responses at the intersection of DNA sensing and DNA repair	108
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 4	106
Molecular mechanisms and drivers of pathogen emergence	98
Starvation helps transition to abundance – a ferrosome story	96
Projecting global biological N2 fixation under climate warming across land and ocean	95
Unearthing terrestrial extreme microbiomes for searching terrestrial-like life in the Solar System	95
Geminiviruses also encode small proteins with specific functions	94
Likelihood of amyloid formation in COVID-19-induced ARDS	92
Senescent cell: the ‘factory of viral amplification’	89
The HIPS 2024 symposium: highlighting advances in pharmaceutical sciences in infection research	86
Cross-correlation of virome–bacteriome–host–metabolome to study respiratory health	84
Biological interactions with Prochlorococcus: implications for the marine carbon cycle	83
Sulfur traits in the plant microbiome: implications for sustainable agriculture	82
Metabolic flux phenotyping of secondary metabolism in cyanobacteria	78
Disease-causing human viruses: novelty and legacy	77

Early-life chemical exposome and gut microbiome development: African research perspectives within a global environmental health context	75
Better together? Lessons on sociality from Trichodesmium	74
Tradeoffs and constraints on the evolution of tailocins	73
Masking of typical TLR4 and TLR5 ligands modulates inflammation and resolution by Helicobacter pylori	72
Reductive biomining of pyrite by methanogens	71
Toward an integrative framework for microbial community coalescence	71
The roles of calcium signaling and calcium deposition in microbial multicellularity	70
Programming therapeutic probiotics by self-tunable sense-and-respond genetic circuits	70
Klebsiella pneumoniae emerging anti-immunology paradigms: from stealth to evasion	69
Advisory Board and Contents	67
Subscription and Copyright Information	65
Revisiting methane-dependent denitrification	64
Advisory Board and Contents	64
Bacterial dual phototrophy was demystified	63
A role for bacterial experimental evolution in coral bleaching mitigation?	63
Fast phages outcompete by depleting host resources	62
Advisory Board and Contents	59
CIFAR humans and the microbiome: Banff meeting report	58
HCV egress – unconventional secretion of assembled viral particles	57
The ambivalent role of Bacteroides in enteric infections	56
Moonlighting antibiotics: the extra job of modulating biofilm formation	55
Microbial nanowires: type IV pili or cytochrome filaments?	54
Severe respiratory viral infections: T-cell functions diverging from immunity to inflammation	54
Aspergillus nidulans	52
Microbiome selection and evolution within wild and domesticated plants	52
Disentangling the microbial ecological factors impacting honey bee susceptibility to Paenibacillus larvae infection	52
When ferroptosis meets pathogenic infections	51
Interplay between endogenous and exogenous human retroviruses	51
Synergy between microalgae and microbiome in polluted waters	51