OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews is 18. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
A Reduction of Transcriptional Regulation in Aquatic Oligotrophic Microorganisms Enhances Fitness in Nutrient-Poor Environments	107
Mechanisms of action of microbicides commonly used in infection prevention and control	94
Human coronaviruses: activation and antagonism of innate immune responses	90
Lipoic acid attachment to proteins: stimulating new developments	81
Evolutionary trajectory for nuclear functions of ciliary transport complex proteins	77
Interplay between group A Streptococcus and host innate immune responses	73
The Facts and Family Secrets of Plasmids That Replicate via the Rolling-Circle Mechanism	62
The intersection of host in vivo metabolism and immune responses to infection with kinetoplastid and apicomplexan parasites	59
Resolving spatiotemporal dynamics in bacterial multicellular populations: approaches and challenges	55
Revisiting cattle respiratory health: key roles of the gut-lung axis in the dynamics of respiratory tract pathobiome	55
Type III Secretion in Chlamydia	54
HIV reservoirs in lymphomagenesis: hidden driver in the era of viral suppression?	53
EcoSal Plus will become a part of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	53
Hepatitis B virus entry, assembly, and egress	51
Computational Tools for the Analysis of Uncultivated Phage Genomes	40
Understanding the gut microbiota by considering human evolution: a story of fire, cereals, cooking, molecular ingenuity, and functional cooperation	38
Genotypic diversity, virulence, and molecular genetic tools in Histoplasma	36
Outer Membrane Vesicles: Biogenesis, Functions, and Issues	35
Molecular pathogenesis of Haemophilus ducreyi infection in human volunteers	35
Neurotransmitter signaling in molecular and behavioral immune responses to pathogens in C. elegans	34
Vesicle-driven endomembrane systems in fungi	31
How It All Begins: Bacterial Factors Mediating the Colonization of Invertebrate Hosts by Beneficial Symbionts	30
Bacterial cell volume regulation and the importance of cyclic di-AMP	29
Mating-Type Switching in Budding Yeasts, from Flip/Flop Inversion to Cassette Mechanisms	28
Editorial Board	27

Membrane and organelle rearrangement during ascospore formation in budding yeast	24
Chemotropism and Cell-Cell Fusion in Fungi	24
Building the bacterial flagellum: coordinating regulation, dynamic assembly, and function	23
Structural and functional diversity of Resistance-Nodulation-Division (RND) efflux pump transporters with implications for antimicrobial resistance	22
Aminoglycoside uptake, stress, and potentiation in Gram-negative bacteria: new therapies with old molecules	21
The biology and pathogenicity of Clostridium perfringens type F: a common human enteropathogen with a new(ish) name	21
2025 Acknowledgment of MMBR Reviewers	20
Vesicular mechanisms of drug resistance in apicomplexan parasites	20
Do RND efflux pumps require protomeric cooperativity within the trimer to mediate antimicrobial resistance?	20
Lessons Learned and Yet-to-Be Learned on the Importance of RNA Structure in SARS-CoV-2 Replication	20
Recent developments in Aspergillus fumigatus research: diversity, drugs, and disease	20
Programmed chromosome fragmentation in ciliated protozoa: multiple means to chromosome ends	20
CRISPRi functional genomics in bacteria and its application to medical and industrial research	19
Editorial Board	19
Host specificity of gut microbiota associated with social bees: patterns and processes	19
The polinton-like supergroup of viruses: evolution, molecular biology, and taxonomy	18
Reconsidering the blood-brain barrier: histopathology and microanatomy of cryptococcal CNS infection	18
Fatty acid synthesis and utilization in gram-positive bacteria: insights from Bacillus subtilis	18