OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Microbiology is 21. 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
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
Commensal inter-bacterial interactions shaping the microbiota	65
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	64
Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments	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
Citrobacter rodentium infection at the gut–brain axis interface	58
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	58
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	57
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	57
Molecular basis of synchronous replication of malaria parasites in the blood stage	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
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	50
Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	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
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
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	46
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	45
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	45
Group 3 innate lymphoid cells mediate host defense against attaching and effacing pathogens	45
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
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
Activation of complement-like antiparasitic responses in Anopheles mosquitoes	43
Toward merging bottom–up and top–down model-based designing of synthetic microbial communities	42
Structure-based design of novel polyhedral protein nanomaterials	42
Host control by SPβ phage regulatory switch as potential manipulation strategy	42
Pain killers: the interplay between nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and Clostridioides difficile infection	41
How do interactions between mobile genetic elements affect horizontal gene transfer?	40
Conditionally unutilized proteins and their profound effects on growth and adaptation across microbial species	40
The maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy and its role in maternal and infant health	40
Differences and similarities between innate immune evasion strategies of human coronaviruses	39
The human vaginal microbiota: from clinical medicine to models to mechanisms	39
Protein stoichiometry, structural plasticity and regulation of bacterial microcompartments	38
Bacteriophage communities are a reservoir of unexplored microbial diversity in neonatal health and disease	37
The power of the small: the underestimated role of small proteins in bacterial and archaeal physiology	36
Ready, STAT3, Go! Bacteria in the race for M2 macrophage polarisation	36
Dissecting skin microbiota and microenvironment for the development of therapeutic strategies	35
What’s for dinner? How Citrobacter rodentium’s metabolism helps it thrive in the competitive gut	35
The longitudinal and cross-sectional heterogeneity of the intestinal microbiota	35
Toothpicks, logic, and next-generation sequencing: systematic investigation of bacteriophage-host interactions	35
Ecological and functional roles of bacteriophages in contrasting environments: marine, terrestrial and human gut	34
Editorial Board	33
Editorial overview: Turtles all the way down: Bacterial cell regulation across scales	33
Regulation of para-cresol production in Clostridioides difficile	33
Environmental adaptation and diversification of bacterial two-component systems	33
Second messenger signaling in Clostridioides difficile	32
Antibiotic tolerance: targeting bacterial survival	32
Editorial overview: There and back again: a phage’s tale	32
The intricate organizational strategy of nucleus-forming phages	32
Cell–cell communication through septal junctions in filamentous cyanobacteria	31
Phage transmission strategies: are phages farming their host?	31
Cell cycle-regulated ApiAP2s and parasite development: the Toxoplasma paradigm	31
Is Cryptococcus neoformans a pleomorphic fungus?	30

Reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance in the context of One Health	30
Editorial overview: Recent advances in fundamental and translational research on parasitic protists	29
Host-pathogen interactions: lessons from phagocytic predation on fungi	29
Introducing noncanonical amino acids for studying and engineering bacterial microcompartments	29
Archaeal key-residents within the human microbiome: characteristics, interactions and involvement in health and disease	28
New targets for antimalarial drug discovery	28
PII-like signaling proteins: a new paradigm in orchestrating cellular homeostasis	28
Beyond resistance: antifungal heteroresistance and antifungal tolerance in fungal pathogens	28
The metabolic pathways and transporters of the plastid organelle in Apicomplexa	27
Chemical communication in plant–microbe beneficial interactions: a toolbox for precise management of beneficial microbes	27
SOS-independent bacterial DNA damage responses: diverse mechanisms, unifying function	27
Emergence and adaptation of the cellular machinery directing antigenic variation in the African trypanosome	27
Mycoviruses and their role in fungal pathogenesis	26
Virulence-associated factors as targets for phage infection	26
Gram-positive pathogens, inflammation, and the host lipid environment	26
Biological and bioinformatic tools for the discovery of unknown phage–host combinations	26
Editorial overview: Return of the phages — a new golden era of molecular discovery and synthetic biology	26
Ethanolamine bacterial microcompartments: from structure, function studies to bioengineering applications	25
Batrachochytrium fungi: stealth invaders in amphibian skin	25
Predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance	25
Editorial overview: emerging avenues in antimicrobial research	25
Clostridioides difficile peptidoglycan modifications	25
Temporospatial control of topoisomerases by essential cellular processes	24
Evolutionary ecology theory — microbial population structure	24
Strains to go: interactions of the skin microbiome beyond its species	24
Activation of the extracytoplasmic function σ factor σV by lysozyme in Clostridioides difficile	24
Editorial Board	23
Surface-displayed glycopolymers of Clostridioides difficile	23
Integrated control of surface adaptation by the bacterial flagellum	23
The promise of CRISPR-associated transposons for bacterial functional genomics	23
Deciphering mechanisms and implications of bacterial translocation in human health and disease	23
Editorial overview: Microbial cell regulation across multiple scales	23
Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual?	23
Prokaryote pangenomes are dynamic entities	22
Horizontal gene transfer and beyond: the delivery of biological matter by bacterial membrane vesicles to host and bacterial cells	22
Plasmids of Clostridioides difficile	22
The ribosome as a small-molecule sensor	22
Cooperative defenses during enteropathogenic infection	22
The immune response to airway mycosis	22
Host-directed therapies for malaria: possible applications and lessons from other indications	21
Microbiome rescue: directing resilience of environmental microbial communities	21
Evolutionary relationships among shell proteins of carboxysomes and metabolosomes	21
Editorial overview: current state and future of the microbiome field: why context matters	21
Immune-metabolic interactions between Leishmania and macrophage host	21
Host genetics regulate the plant microbiome	21
Molecular mechanisms of cellular quiescence in apicomplexan parasites	21