OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Microbiology is 42. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	194
Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities	162
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	124
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	123
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	105
Corrigendum to “Assembly and maturation of methyl-coenzyme M reductase in methanogenic archaea” [Curr Opin Microbiol, 87 (2025) 102637]	101
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	101
Starvation as a weapon in fungal–plant warfare	101
Transient microbial architects: tracing the legacy effects of ephemeral taxa during plant microbiome assembly	98
Harnessing ‘phage training’ to bolster the therapeutic potential of bacteriophages	96
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	92
The mass spectrometry of microbiome-mediated metabolism of food: challenges and opportunities	87
Editorial Board	85
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	85
Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	82
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	79
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	72
Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	69
Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	69
Insights into Alphaproteobacterial regulators of cell envelope remodeling	69
Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents	68
Control of bacterial second messenger signaling and motility by heme-based direct oxygen-sensing proteins	65
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	65
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	64
Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	64

Crosstalk between (p)ppGpp and other nucleotide second messengers	60
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	59
Neuroinvasion and neurotropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	57
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	55
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	54
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	53
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	52
Phagosome maturation during fungal infection	50
tRNAs as toxin targets in phage defence and a focus of counter-defence against abortive infection	49
Assembly of the exosporium layer in Clostridioides difficile spores	47
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	46
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	45
Connecting microbial community assembly and function	44
Editorial Board	43
Circadian interactions between plants and microorganisms	42
Activation of complement-like antiparasitic responses in Anopheles mosquitoes	42
Genetically engineered bacteriophages — their roles in combating intracellular bacterial infections and unraveling phage–eukaryote interactions	42
Decoding the epigenetic blueprint behind Toxoplasma (pre)sexual commitment and chronic persistence	42
Conditionally unutilized proteins and their profound effects on growth and adaptation across microbial species	42
Trace gas oxidation as a novel microbial dispersal trait	42