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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Mechanisms of action of microbicides commonly used in infection prevention and control	99
A Reduction of Transcriptional Regulation in Aquatic Oligotrophic Microorganisms Enhances Fitness in Nutrient-Poor Environments	85
DNA Repair in Staphylococcus aureus	81
Human coronaviruses: activation and antagonism of innate immune responses	80
The intersection of host in vivo metabolism and immune responses to infection with kinetoplastid and apicomplexan parasites	76
Evolutionary trajectory for nuclear functions of ciliary transport complex proteins	74
Resolving spatiotemporal dynamics in bacterial multicellular populations: approaches and challenges	68
The Facts and Family Secrets of Plasmids That Replicate via the Rolling-Circle Mechanism	51
Interplay between group A Streptococcus and host innate immune responses	50
Lipoic acid attachment to proteins: stimulating new developments	50
HIV reservoirs in lymphomagenesis: hidden driver in the era of viral suppression?	46
Revisiting cattle respiratory health: key roles of the gut-lung axis in the dynamics of respiratory tract pathobiome	46
EcoSal Plus will become a part of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	45
Understanding the gut microbiota by considering human evolution: a story of fire, cereals, cooking, molecular ingenuity, and functional cooperation	45
Hepatitis B virus entry, assembly, and egress	45
Genotypic diversity, virulence, and molecular genetic tools in Histoplasma	45
Computational Tools for the Analysis of Uncultivated Phage Genomes	44
Outer Membrane Vesicles: Biogenesis, Functions, and Issues	41
Type III Secretion in Chlamydia	37
Bacterial cell volume regulation and the importance of cyclic di-AMP	36
Molecular pathogenesis of Haemophilus ducreyi infection in human volunteers	34
Neurotransmitter signaling in molecular and behavioral immune responses to pathogens in C. elegans	34
Mating-Type Switching in Budding Yeasts, from Flip/Flop Inversion to Cassette Mechanisms	33
How It All Begins: Bacterial Factors Mediating the Colonization of Invertebrate Hosts by Beneficial Symbionts	31
Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperones in Viral Infection: Therapeutic Perspectives	31

Aminoglycoside uptake, stress, and potentiation in Gram-negative bacteria: new therapies with old molecules	28
Editorial Board	28
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
Chemotropism and Cell-Cell Fusion in Fungi	25
The biology and pathogenicity of Clostridium perfringens type F: a common human enteropathogen with a new(ish) name	24
Host specificity of gut microbiota associated with social bees: patterns and processes	24
Programmed chromosome fragmentation in ciliated protozoa: multiple means to chromosome ends	22
CRISPRi functional genomics in bacteria and its application to medical and industrial research	22
Vesicular mechanisms of drug resistance in apicomplexan parasites	21
Lessons Learned and Yet-to-Be Learned on the Importance of RNA Structure in SARS-CoV-2 Replication	21
Reconsidering the blood-brain barrier: histopathology and microanatomy of cryptococcal CNS infection	19
Editorial Board	19
The polinton-like supergroup of viruses: evolution, molecular biology, and taxonomy	19
Recent developments in Aspergillus fumigatus research: diversity, drugs, and disease	19
Viral factors underlying the pandemic potential of influenza viruses	18
Fatty acid synthesis and utilization in gram-positive bacteria: insights from Bacillus subtilis	18