OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Microbiology is 44. 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
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	111
Editorial Board	108
In vivo studies on Citrobacter rodentium and host cell death pathways	106
Editorial overview: Antibiotics special issue	94
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	87
Citrobacter rodentium(ϕStx2dact), a murine infection model for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	73
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	68
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	68
Commensal inter-bacterial interactions shaping the microbiota	65
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	65
Genetic and environmental factors shape the host response to Helicobacter hepaticus: insights into IBD pathogenesis	65
Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments	64
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	64
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	63
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	62
Control of bacterial second messenger signaling and motility by heme-based direct oxygen-sensing proteins	61
Crosstalk between (p)ppGpp and other nucleotide second messengers	59
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	58
Citrobacter rodentium infection at the gut–brain axis interface	58
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	57
Molecular basis of synchronous replication of malaria parasites in the blood stage	57
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	57
Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	54
Editorial Board	53
Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	53

Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	52
Increasing the PACE of characterising novel transporters by functional genomics	51
Insights into Alphaproteobacterial regulators of cell envelope remodeling	51
Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	50
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	50
Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents	48
Assembly of the exosporium layer in Clostridioides difficile spores	47
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	46
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	46
Connecting microbial community assembly and function	46
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	46
Group 3 innate lymphoid cells mediate host defense against attaching and effacing pathogens	45
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	45
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	45
Editorial overview: Bacterial microcompartments to the fore as metabolism is put in its place	44
Neuroinvasion and neurotropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	44
Editorial Board	44
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	44
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	44