OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews is 21. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Looking beyond the rumen: uncovering opportunities to improve health and performance by considering the whole gastrointestinal tract	127
A Reduction of Transcriptional Regulation in Aquatic Oligotrophic Microorganisms Enhances Fitness in Nutrient-Poor Environments	126
Mechanisms of action of microbicides commonly used in infection prevention and control	115
Human coronaviruses: activation and antagonism of innate immune responses	97
Evolutionary trajectory for nuclear functions of ciliary transport complex proteins	95
Revisiting cattle respiratory health: key roles of the gut-lung axis in the dynamics of respiratory tract pathobiome	91
Resolving spatiotemporal dynamics in bacterial multicellular populations: approaches and challenges	91
Interplay between group A Streptococcus and host innate immune responses	90
The intersection of host in vivo metabolism and immune responses to infection with kinetoplastid and apicomplexan parasites	79
Lipoic acid attachment to proteins: stimulating new developments	76
HIV reservoirs in lymphomagenesis: hidden driver in the era of viral suppression?	71
EcoSal Plus will become a part of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	71
Type III Secretion in Chlamydia	69
Genotypic diversity, virulence, and molecular genetic tools in Histoplasma	68
Understanding the gut microbiota by considering human evolution: a story of fire, cereals, cooking, molecular ingenuity, and functional cooperation	50
Computational Tools for the Analysis of Uncultivated Phage Genomes	42
Hepatitis B virus entry, assembly, and egress	41
Outer Membrane Vesicles: Biogenesis, Functions, and Issues	40
Vesicle-driven endomembrane systems in fungi	39
Molecular pathogenesis of Haemophilus ducreyi infection in human volunteers	39
Mating-Type Switching in Budding Yeasts, from Flip/Flop Inversion to Cassette Mechanisms	36
Neurotransmitter signaling in molecular and behavioral immune responses to pathogens in C. elegans	34
How It All Begins: Bacterial Factors Mediating the Colonization of Invertebrate Hosts by Beneficial Symbionts	33
Bacterial cell volume regulation and the importance of cyclic di-AMP	33
Roles of transcription factors and chromatin remodelers in regulating innate immune responses in Caenorhabditis elegans	31

The biology and pathogenicity of Clostridium perfringens type F: a common human enteropathogen with a new(ish) name	30
Structural and functional diversity of Resistance-Nodulation-Division (RND) efflux pump transporters with implications for antimicrobial resistance	29
Membrane and organelle rearrangement during ascospore formation in budding yeast	29
Aminoglycoside uptake, stress, and potentiation in Gram-negative bacteria: new therapies with old molecules	28
Building the bacterial flagellum: coordinating regulation, dynamic assembly, and function	28
2025 Acknowledgment of MMBR Reviewers	27
Do RND efflux pumps require protomeric cooperativity within the trimer to mediate antimicrobial resistance?	27
Vesicular mechanisms of drug resistance in apicomplexan parasites	25
Programmed chromosome fragmentation in ciliated protozoa: multiple means to chromosome ends	25
Host specificity of gut microbiota associated with social bees: patterns and processes	24
Turning defects into defenses: the potential and challenges of defective viral genome-based antiviral strategies	24
Lessons Learned and Yet-to-Be Learned on the Importance of RNA Structure in SARS-CoV-2 Replication	24
The polinton-like supergroup of viruses: evolution, molecular biology, and taxonomy	23
CRISPRi functional genomics in bacteria and its application to medical and industrial research	23
Velvet regulators as master integrators of development, metabolism, and pathogenicity in filamentous fungi	23
Recent developments in Aspergillus fumigatus research: diversity, drugs, and disease	23
Editorial Board	23
Fatty acid synthesis and utilization in gram-positive bacteria: insights from Bacillus subtilis	22
Viral factors underlying the pandemic potential of influenza viruses	22
Reconsidering the blood-brain barrier: histopathology and microanatomy of cryptococcal CNS infection	22
The ArcAB Two-Component System: Function in Metabolism, Redox Control, and Infection	21