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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Human coronaviruses: activation and antagonism of innate immune responses	104
Mechanisms of action of microbicides commonly used in infection prevention and control	82
DNA Repair in Staphylococcus aureus	75
A Reduction of Transcriptional Regulation in Aquatic Oligotrophic Microorganisms Enhances Fitness in Nutrient-Poor Environments	73
The Facts and Family Secrets of Plasmids That Replicate via the Rolling-Circle Mechanism	72
Resolving spatiotemporal dynamics in bacterial multicellular populations: approaches and challenges	61
The intersection of host in vivo metabolism and immune responses to infection with kinetoplastid and apicomplexan parasites	60
Evolutionary trajectory for nuclear functions of ciliary transport complex proteins	55
Interplay between group A Streptococcus and host innate immune responses	49
Lipoic acid attachment to proteins: stimulating new developments	47
Hepatitis B virus entry, assembly, and egress	44
Genotypic diversity, virulence, and molecular genetic tools in Histoplasma	41
Understanding the gut microbiota by considering human evolution: a story of fire, cereals, cooking, molecular ingenuity, and functional cooperation	38
Type III Secretion in Chlamydia	36
Computational Tools for the Analysis of Uncultivated Phage Genomes	35
Outer Membrane Vesicles: Biogenesis, Functions, and Issues	34
How It All Begins: Bacterial Factors Mediating the Colonization of Invertebrate Hosts by Beneficial Symbionts	32
Mating-Type Switching in Budding Yeasts, from Flip/Flop Inversion to Cassette Mechanisms	31
Bacterial cell volume regulation and the importance of cyclic di-AMP	31
Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperones in Viral Infection: Therapeutic Perspectives	30
Chemotropism and Cell-Cell Fusion in Fungi	27
Aminoglycoside uptake, stress, and potentiation in Gram-negative bacteria: new therapies with old molecules	27
Editorial Board	27
Membrane and organelle rearrangement during ascospore formation in budding yeast	27
Structural and functional diversity of Resistance-Nodulation-Division (RND) efflux pump transporters with implications for antimicrobial resistance	25

Host specificity of gut microbiota associated with social bees: patterns and processes	24
Vesicular mechanisms of drug resistance in apicomplexan parasites	24
The biology and pathogenicity of Clostridium perfringens type F: a common human enteropathogen with a new(ish) name	24
Recent developments in Aspergillus fumigatus research: diversity, drugs, and disease	24
Programmed chromosome fragmentation in ciliated protozoa: multiple means to chromosome ends	23
Lessons Learned and Yet-to-Be Learned on the Importance of RNA Structure in SARS-CoV-2 Replication	23
CRISPRi functional genomics in bacteria and its application to medical and industrial research	23
The polinton-like supergroup of viruses: evolution, molecular biology, and taxonomy	22
Editorial Board	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	18