OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews is 20. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Reduction of Transcriptional Regulation in Aquatic Oligotrophic Microorganisms Enhances Fitness in Nutrient-Poor Environments	122
Human coronaviruses: activation and antagonism of innate immune responses	120
Mechanisms of action of microbicides commonly used in infection prevention and control	113
Evolutionary trajectory for nuclear functions of ciliary transport complex proteins	93
Revisiting cattle respiratory health: key roles of the gut-lung axis in the dynamics of respiratory tract pathobiome	91
Interplay between group A Streptococcus and host innate immune responses	88
Resolving spatiotemporal dynamics in bacterial multicellular populations: approaches and challenges	88
Lipoic acid attachment to proteins: stimulating new developments	80
The intersection of host in vivo metabolism and immune responses to infection with kinetoplastid and apicomplexan parasites	74
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	66
Hepatitis B virus entry, assembly, and egress	66
Computational Tools for the Analysis of Uncultivated Phage Genomes	48
Outer Membrane Vesicles: Biogenesis, Functions, and Issues	42
HIV reservoirs in lymphomagenesis: hidden driver in the era of viral suppression?	39
Vesicle-driven endomembrane systems in fungi	39
Molecular pathogenesis of Haemophilus ducreyi infection in human volunteers	38
How It All Begins: Bacterial Factors Mediating the Colonization of Invertebrate Hosts by Beneficial Symbionts	38
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	33
Bacterial cell volume regulation and the importance of cyclic di-AMP	32
The biology and pathogenicity of Clostridium perfringens type F: a common human enteropathogen with a new(ish) name	31
Building the bacterial flagellum: coordinating regulation, dynamic assembly, and function	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	28
Aminoglycoside uptake, stress, and potentiation in Gram-negative bacteria: new therapies with old molecules	28
Vesicular mechanisms of drug resistance in apicomplexan parasites	27
Do RND efflux pumps require protomeric cooperativity within the trimer to mediate antimicrobial resistance?	27
2025 Acknowledgment of MMBR Reviewers	25
Programmed chromosome fragmentation in ciliated protozoa: multiple means to chromosome ends	25
Lessons Learned and Yet-to-Be Learned on the Importance of RNA Structure in SARS-CoV-2 Replication	24
Recent developments in Aspergillus fumigatus research: diversity, drugs, and disease	24
CRISPRi functional genomics in bacteria and its application to medical and industrial research	23
Host specificity of gut microbiota associated with social bees: patterns and processes	23
Velvet regulators as master integrators of development, metabolism, and pathogenicity in filamentous fungi	22
The polinton-like supergroup of viruses: evolution, molecular biology, and taxonomy	22
Editorial Board	22
Viral factors underlying the pandemic potential of influenza viruses	22
Reconsidering the blood-brain barrier: histopathology and microanatomy of cryptococcal CNS infection	22
Fatty acid synthesis and utilization in gram-positive bacteria: insights from Bacillus subtilis	22
Structural analysis of resistance-nodulation cell division transporters	21
Genetic and environmental control of parasexual reproduction in the pathogenic Candida species	20
Creating the “Dew Drop on a Rose Petal”: the Molecular Pathogenesis of Varicella-Zoster Virus Skin Lesions	20
New chemicals fuel the evolution of microbial biodegradation	20
Candida auris : host interactions, antifungal drug resistance, and diagnostics	20
The ArcAB Two-Component System: Function in Metabolism, Redox Control, and Infection	20