OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews is 19. 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
A Reduction of Transcriptional Regulation in Aquatic Oligotrophic Microorganisms Enhances Fitness in Nutrient-Poor Environments	110
DNA Repair in Staphylococcus aureus	87
Mechanisms of action of microbicides commonly used in infection prevention and control	83
Human coronaviruses: activation and antagonism of innate immune responses	81
Interplay between group A Streptococcus and host innate immune responses	75
The intersection of host in vivo metabolism and immune responses to infection with kinetoplastid and apicomplexan parasites	68
Evolutionary trajectory for nuclear functions of ciliary transport complex proteins	67
The Facts and Family Secrets of Plasmids That Replicate via the Rolling-Circle Mechanism	61
Resolving spatiotemporal dynamics in bacterial multicellular populations: approaches and challenges	60
Lipoic acid attachment to proteins: stimulating new developments	55
EcoSal Plus will become a part of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	47
Type III Secretion in Chlamydia	43
Understanding the gut microbiota by considering human evolution: a story of fire, cereals, cooking, molecular ingenuity, and functional cooperation	42
Hepatitis B virus entry, assembly, and egress	41
Computational Tools for the Analysis of Uncultivated Phage Genomes	39
Outer Membrane Vesicles: Biogenesis, Functions, and Issues	37
How It All Begins: Bacterial Factors Mediating the Colonization of Invertebrate Hosts by Beneficial Symbionts	35
Genotypic diversity, virulence, and molecular genetic tools in Histoplasma	35
Bacterial cell volume regulation and the importance of cyclic di-AMP	34
Aminoglycoside uptake, stress, and potentiation in Gram-negative bacteria: new therapies with old molecules	34
Mating-Type Switching in Budding Yeasts, from Flip/Flop Inversion to Cassette Mechanisms	34
Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperones in Viral Infection: Therapeutic Perspectives	34
Membrane and organelle rearrangement during ascospore formation in budding yeast	33
Chemotropism and Cell-Cell Fusion in Fungi	32
Editorial Board	31

Structural and functional diversity of Resistance-Nodulation-Division (RND) efflux pump transporters with implications for antimicrobial resistance	29
The biology and pathogenicity of Clostridium perfringens type F: a common human enteropathogen with a new(ish) name	29
CRISPRi functional genomics in bacteria and its application to medical and industrial research	28
Vesicular mechanisms of drug resistance in apicomplexan parasites	27
Lessons Learned and Yet-to-Be Learned on the Importance of RNA Structure in SARS-CoV-2 Replication	26
Host specificity of gut microbiota associated with social bees: patterns and processes	25
Recent developments in Aspergillus fumigatus research: diversity, drugs, and disease	25
Editorial Board	24
Programmed chromosome fragmentation in ciliated protozoa: multiple means to chromosome ends	24
The polinton-like supergroup of viruses: evolution, molecular biology, and taxonomy	22
Structural analysis of resistance-nodulation cell division transporters	20
Viral factors underlying the pandemic potential of influenza viruses	20
Fatty acid synthesis and utilization in gram-positive bacteria: insights from Bacillus subtilis	19