OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Microbiology is 19. 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 Board	65
Editorial overview: Two to tango: The intricate communications between host and bacteria	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
In vivo studies on Citrobacter rodentium and host cell death pathways	57
D-galactonate metabolism in enteric bacteria: a molecular and physiological perspective	57
Beyond resistance: antifungal heteroresistance and antifungal tolerance in fungal pathogens	57
Control engineering and synthetic biology: working in synergy for the analysis and control of microbial systems	56
PII-like signaling proteins: a new paradigm in orchestrating cellular homeostasis	56
Synergy and regulation of antiphage systems: toward the existence of a bacterial immune system?	54
Editorial overview: Antibiotics special issue	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
Anchoring surface proteins to the bacterial cell wall by sortase enzymes: how it started and what we know now	50
Introducing noncanonical amino acids for studying and engineering bacterial microcompartments	50

Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	49
Transport of lipopolysaccharides and phospholipids to the outer membrane	49
Archaea oxidizing alkanes through alkyl-coenzyme M reductases	48
Utilization of microbial cocultures for converting mixed substrates to valuable bioproducts	48
Human intestinal organoids as models to study enteric bacteria and viruses	47
Incorporating plasmid biology and metagenomics into a holistic model of the human gut microbiome	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
The blueprint for building a biofilm the Clostridioides difficile way	41
Citrobacter rodentium(ϕStx2dact), a murine infection model for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	41
A cell–cell atlas approach for understanding symbiotic interactions between microbes	41
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	41
New targets for antimalarial drug discovery	40
A brief guide to machine learning for antibiotic discovery	40
Making sense of drug-efflux transporters in the physiological environment	39
Yersinia interactions with regulated cell death pathways	39
Capers with caspases: Toxoplasma gondii tales of inflammation and survival	38
Nutritional control of bacterial DNA replication	38
The emerging complexity of Chlamydia trachomatis interactions with host cells as revealed by molecular genetic approaches	38
Recurring and emerging themes in prokaryotic innate immunity	38
Heat-shock responses: systemic and essential ways of malaria parasite survival	38
Virulence-associated factors as targets for phage infection	37
Cardiac damage and tropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2	36
How do bacteria tune transcription termination efficiency?	36
Gear up! An overview of the molecular equipment used by Myxococcus to move, kill, and divide in prey colonies	36
Culturomics, a potential approach paving the way toward bacteriotherapy	35
Host determinants and responses underlying SARS-CoV-2 liver tropism	35
The ‘ins and outs’ of Brucella intracellular journey	35
From genome structure to function: insights into structural variation in microbiology	34
Structure-guided metagenome mining to tap microbial functional diversity	34
Regulation and function of class A Penicillin-binding proteins	34
Current approaches to malaria vaccines	34
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	33
Synthesis and recycling of the mycobacterial cell envelope	33
Resolving metabolic interaction mechanisms in plant microbiomes	32
SOS-independent bacterial DNA damage responses: diverse mechanisms, unifying function	32
Commensal inter-bacterial interactions shaping the microbiota	31
Rhizosphere bacterial interactions and impact on plant health	30
Fungal pathogens and COVID-19	30
Chemical communication in plant–microbe beneficial interactions: a toolbox for precise management of beneficial microbes	30
Emergence and adaptation of the cellular machinery directing antigenic variation in the African trypanosome	29
Harnessing gut microbial communities to unravel microbiome functions	29
Argonaute proteins confer immunity in all domains of life	29
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	29
The metabolic pathways and transporters of the plastid organelle in Apicomplexa	28
Lessons from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genomes	28
Is Cryptococcus neoformans a pleomorphic fungus?	28

Global dispersal and diversity of rust fungi in the context of plant health	28
Modelling of microbial interactions in anaerobic digestion: from black to glass box	28
Host immune response against fungal biofilms	28
Mycoviruses and their role in fungal pathogenesis	27
A perfect fit: Bacteriophage receptor-binding proteins for diagnostic and therapeutic applications	27
Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments	27
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	27
Archaeal key-residents within the human microbiome: characteristics, interactions and involvement in health and disease	27
Insights into the role of the respiratory tract microbiome in defense against bacterial pneumonia	27
Natural recreational waters and the risk that exposure to antibiotic resistant bacteria poses to human health	26
Climate change and plant pathogens	26
Advances in constraint-based models: methods for improved predictive power based on resource allocation constraints	25
Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	25
Surface-displayed glycopolymers of Clostridioides difficile	25
Deciphering mechanisms and implications of bacterial translocation in human health and disease	25
Biological and bioinformatic tools for the discovery of unknown phage–host combinations	25
Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual?	25
Editorial overview: emerging avenues in antimicrobial research	24
Histone code: a common language and multiple dialects to meet the different developmental requirements of apicomplexan parasites	23
Editorial overview: Systems and synthetic biology of microbial cells and communities	23
Editorial Board	23
Editorial Board	23
Editorial Board	22
Increasing the PACE of characterising novel transporters by functional genomics	22
Editorial Board	22
Studying antibiotic persistence in vivo using the model organism Salmonella Typhimurium	22
Editorial overview: A critical crossroad in microbiome research: Where do we go?	22
Editorial overview: Gene regulation mechanisms governing Clostridioides difficile physiology and virulence	22
Biofilms as more than the sum of their parts: lessons from developmental biology	21
Use of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic approaches for dose optimization: a case study of plazomicin	21
Leveraging laboratory and clinical studies to design effective antibiotic combination therapy	21
Ethanolamine bacterial microcompartments: from structure, function studies to bioengineering applications	21
Bacterial lipid biophysics and membrane organization	21
The microbial and host factors that govern Candida gastrointestinal colonization and dissemination	20
When the metabolism meets the cell cycle in bacteria	20
Batrachochytrium fungi: stealth invaders in amphibian skin	20
Quantitative biology of survival under antibiotic treatments	20
Stochastic response of bacterial cells to antibiotics: its mechanisms and implications for population and evolutionary dynamics	20
Central role of metabolism in Trypanosoma cruzi tropism and Chagas disease pathogenesis	19
The need for unrealistic experiments in global change biology	19
Evolutionary ecology theory — microbial population structure	19
Activation of the extracytoplasmic function σ factor σV by lysozyme in Clostridioides difficile	19
From a parts list to assembly instructions and an operating manual: how small host models can re-write microbiome theory	19
Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	19
Molecular basis of synchronous replication of malaria parasites in the blood stage	19
The upcycled roles of pseudoenzymes in two-component signal transduction	19
Microbial eco-evolutionary dynamics in the plant rhizosphere	19
Strains to go: interactions of the skin microbiome beyond its species	19
Citrobacter rodentium infection at the gut–brain axis interface	19
Regulation of Citrobacter rodentium colonization: virulence, immune response and microbiota interactions	19