OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Microbiology is 40. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Clostridioides difficile spore germination: initiation to DPA release	104
Nothing makes sense in drug resistance except in the light of evolution	103
Editorial overview: “All in all, it is not just another brick in the wall”: new concepts and mechanisms on how bacteria build their wall	96
Editorial Board	89
Editorial Board	72
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	69
Editorial overview: Two to tango: The intricate communications between host and bacteria	65
Editorial Board	65
Editorial overview: Recent advances in fundamental and translational research on parasitic protists	63
Editorial Board	61
Post-translational lipid modifications in Plasmodium parasites	60
Hybrids unleashed: exploring the emergence and genomic insights of pathogenic yeast hybrids	59
Reframing antimicrobial resistance as a continuous spectrum of manifestations	58
Beyond resistance: antifungal heteroresistance and antifungal tolerance in fungal pathogens	57
In vivo studies on Citrobacter rodentium and host cell death pathways	57
D-galactonate metabolism in enteric bacteria: a molecular and physiological perspective	57
PII-like signaling proteins: a new paradigm in orchestrating cellular homeostasis	56
Control engineering and synthetic biology: working in synergy for the analysis and control of microbial systems	56
Editorial overview: Antibiotics special issue	54
Synergy and regulation of antiphage systems: toward the existence of a bacterial immune system?	54
Functional ecology of bacteriophages in the environment	53
Safeguarding wheat yields from cereal fungal invaders in the postgenomic era	52
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	51
Introducing noncanonical amino acids for studying and engineering bacterial microcompartments	50
Anchoring surface proteins to the bacterial cell wall by sortase enzymes: how it started and what we know now	50

Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	49
Transport of lipopolysaccharides and phospholipids to the outer membrane	49
Utilization of microbial cocultures for converting mixed substrates to valuable bioproducts	48
Archaea oxidizing alkanes through alkyl-coenzyme M reductases	48
Incorporating plasmid biology and metagenomics into a holistic model of the human gut microbiome	47
Human intestinal organoids as models to study enteric bacteria and viruses	47
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	45
Homeostasis of the Gram-negative cell envelope	45
The intestinal mycobiome as a determinant of host immune and metabolic health	44
Genetic and environmental factors shape the host response to Helicobacter hepaticus: insights into IBD pathogenesis	42
Host-pathogen interactions: lessons from phagocytic predation on fungi	42
A cell–cell atlas approach for understanding symbiotic interactions between microbes	41
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	41
The blueprint for building a biofilm the Clostridioides difficile way	41
Citrobacter rodentium(ϕStx2dact), a murine infection model for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	41
New targets for antimalarial drug discovery	40
A brief guide to machine learning for antibiotic discovery	40