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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	128
Editorial Board	120
Citrobacter rodentium(ϕStx2dact), a murine infection model for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	119
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	113
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	99
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	87
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	79
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	77
In vivo studies on Citrobacter rodentium and host cell death pathways	75
Editorial overview: Antibiotics special issue	74
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	74
Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities	73
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	73
The mass spectrometry of microbiome-mediated metabolism of food: challenges and opportunities	72
Commensal inter-bacterial interactions shaping the microbiota	70
Genetic and environmental factors shape the host response to Helicobacter hepaticus: insights into IBD pathogenesis	67
Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments	66
Citrobacter rodentium infection at the gut–brain axis interface	65
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	65
Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents	64
Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	62
Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	61
Molecular basis of synchronous replication of malaria parasites in the blood stage	61
Editorial Board	60
Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	58

Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	57
Crosstalk between (p)ppGpp and other nucleotide second messengers	56
Control of bacterial second messenger signaling and motility by heme-based direct oxygen-sensing proteins	56
Insights into Alphaproteobacterial regulators of cell envelope remodeling	55
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	54
Increasing the PACE of characterising novel transporters by functional genomics	52
Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	51
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	51
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	51
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	50
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	50
Neuroinvasion and neurotropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	49
Assembly of the exosporium layer in Clostridioides difficile spores	49
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	48
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	47
Group 3 innate lymphoid cells mediate host defense against attaching and effacing pathogens	46
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	46
Editorial Board	46
Connecting microbial community assembly and function	46
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	46