OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Microbiology is 45. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	135
Editorial Board	128
In vivo studies on Citrobacter rodentium and host cell death pathways	124
Commensal inter-bacterial interactions shaping the microbiota	116
Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities	107
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	93
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	84
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	83
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	78
Editorial overview: Antibiotics special issue	77
Genetic and environmental factors shape the host response to Helicobacter hepaticus: insights into IBD pathogenesis	77
Citrobacter rodentium(ϕStx2dact), a murine infection model for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	76
The mass spectrometry of microbiome-mediated metabolism of food: challenges and opportunities	76
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	76
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	74
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	68
Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments	67
Editorial Board	67
Insights into Alphaproteobacterial regulators of cell envelope remodeling	66
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	65
Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	64
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	63
Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents	63
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	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
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	58
Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	57
Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	55
Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	55
Increasing the PACE of characterising novel transporters by functional genomics	55
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	53
Citrobacter rodentium infection at the gut–brain axis interface	53
Molecular basis of synchronous replication of malaria parasites in the blood stage	53
Neuroinvasion and neurotropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	52
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	52
Assembly of the exosporium layer in Clostridioides difficile spores	52
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	52
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	50
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	50
Group 3 innate lymphoid cells mediate host defense against attaching and effacing pathogens	49
Connecting microbial community assembly and function	48
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	47
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	47
Editorial Board	46
Editorial overview: Bacterial microcompartments to the fore as metabolism is put in its place	45