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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Subscription and Copyright Information	222
Advisory Board and Contents	211
Advisory Board and Contents	192
Advisory Board and Contents	158
Advisory Board and Contents	143
Advisory Board and Contents	130
Subscription and Copyright Information	130
RNase III-CLASH brings bacterial RNA networks into focus	126
Loading and unloading plasmid cargoes	116
Projecting global biological N2 fixation under climate warming across land and ocean	113
Unearthing terrestrial extreme microbiomes for searching terrestrial-like life in the Solar System	104
Geminiviruses also encode small proteins with specific functions	102
Senescent cell: the ‘factory of viral amplification’	101
The HIPS 2024 symposium: highlighting advances in pharmaceutical sciences in infection research	99
Cross-correlation of virome–bacteriome–host–metabolome to study respiratory health	98
Sulfur traits in the plant microbiome: implications for sustainable agriculture	96
Disease-causing human viruses: novelty and legacy	92
Tradeoffs and constraints on the evolution of tailocins	87
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 4	86
Programming therapeutic probiotics by self-tunable sense-and-respond genetic circuits	86
The roles of calcium signaling and calcium deposition in microbial multicellularity	82
Klebsiella pneumoniae emerging anti-immunology paradigms: from stealth to evasion	80
Early-life chemical exposome and gut microbiome development: African research perspectives within a global environmental health context	79
Starvation helps transition to abundance – a ferrosome story	76
Nuclear antiviral innate responses at the intersection of DNA sensing and DNA repair	76

Reductive biomining of pyrite by methanogens	75
Better together? Lessons on sociality from Trichodesmium	74
Biological interactions with Prochlorococcus: implications for the marine carbon cycle	74
Molecular mechanisms and drivers of pathogen emergence	73
Revisiting AMPylation through the lens of Fic enzymes	72
Metabolic flux phenotyping of secondary metabolism in cyanobacteria	71
Masking of typical TLR4 and TLR5 ligands modulates inflammation and resolution by Helicobacter pylori	70
Likelihood of amyloid formation in COVID-19-induced ARDS	67
Toward an integrative framework for microbial community coalescence	67
Subscription and Copyright Information	66
Advisory Board and Contents	66
Advisory Board and Contents	66
Revisiting methane-dependent denitrification	65
Bacterial dual phototrophy was demystified	63
Fast phages outcompete by depleting host resources	61
Moonlighting antibiotics: the extra job of modulating biofilm formation	59
A role for bacterial experimental evolution in coral bleaching mitigation?	59
When ferroptosis meets pathogenic infections	58
Cutting-edge tools for unveiling the dynamics of plasmid–host interactions	57
Advisory Board and Contents	57
Exploring the shared pathogenic strategies of independently evolved effectors across distinct plant viruses	56
On the biological meaning of the population pangenome	55
Interplay between endogenous and exogenous human retroviruses	53
Disentangling the microbial ecological factors impacting honey bee susceptibility to Paenibacillus larvae infection	53
Subscription and Copyright Information	52
Retaining African networks is urgent for global health	52
The ambivalent role of Bacteroides in enteric infections	51
HCV egress – unconventional secretion of assembled viral particles	51
CIFAR humans and the microbiome: Banff meeting report	51
Aspergillus nidulans	51