OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Microbiology is 39. 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
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Prevalence, complete genome, and metabolic potentials of a phylogenetically novel cyanobacterial symbiont in the coral‐killing sponge, Terpios hoshinota	99
Issue Information	99
ArsV and ArsW provide synergistic resistance to the antibiotic methylarsenite	98
Specificity and genetic polymorphism in the Vfm quorum sensing system of plant pathogenic bacteria of the genus Dickeya	95
When the going gets tough, the tough get going—Novel bacterial AAA+ disaggregases provide extreme heat resistance	90
Assembly and comparative analyses of the Geosiphon pyriformis metagenome	78
Hunting for pigments in bacterial settlers of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch	78
Iron corrosion by methanogenic archaea characterized by stable isotope effects and crust mineralogy	74
Particle‐associated and free‐living bacterial communities in an oligotrophic sea are affected by different environmental factors	64
Validation of key sponge symbiont pathways using genome‐centric metatranscriptomics	61
Microbe–sediment interactions in Great Lakes recreational waters: Implications for human health risk	57
Sulfidic acetate mineralization at 45°C by an aquifer microbial community: key players and effects of heat changes on activity and community structure	56
Intra‐genomic rRNA gene variability of Nassellaria and Spumellaria (Rhizaria, Radiolaria) assessed by Sanger, MinION and Illumina sequencing	54
The carnitine degradation pathway ofAcinetobacter baumanniiand its role in virulence	53
Enrichment of nosZ‐type denitrifiers by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi mitigates N₂O emissions from soybean stubbles	53
Late Pleistocene‐dated divergence between South Hemisphere populations of the non‐conventional yeast L. cidri	50
An atlas of bacterial secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters	50
Enhanced ability of freshwater bacteria to secrete extracellular vesicles upon interaction with virus	50
A lipopolysaccharide‐dependent phage infects a pseudomonad phytopathogen and can evolve to evade phage resistance	49
Genomic differentiation of three pico‐phytoplankton species in the Mediterranean Sea	49
Prescribed fire selects for a pyrophilous soil sub‐community in a northern California mixed conifer forest	49
One substrate, many fates: different ways of methanol utilization in the acetogen Acetobacterium woodii	49
PeMetR‐mediated sulfur assimilation is essential for virulence and patulin biosynthesis in Penicillium expansum	47
How does metal soil pollution change the plant mycobiome?	46

Distinctive features of the Gac‐Rsm pathway in plant‐associated Pseudomonas	46
Integrons, transposons and IS elements promote diversification of multidrug resistance plasmids and adaptation of their hosts to antibiotic pollutants from pharmaceutical companies	44
Single‐amplified genomes reveal most streamlined free‐living marine bacteria	43
Beyond purified dietary fibre supplements: Compositional variation between cell wall fibre from different plants influences human faecal microbiota activity and growth in vitro	43
The toxicological spectrum of the Bacillus cereus toxin cereulide points towards niche‐specific specialisation	42
The Bacterial Genus Ramlibacter: Betaproteobacteria Capable of Surviving in Oligotrophic Environments Thanks to Several Shared Genetic Adaptation Traits	41
Microbial community origin and fate through a rural wastewater treatment plant	41
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Issue Information	40
Impact of salinity origin on microbial communities in saline springs within the Illinois Basin, USA	40
Oak Wilt Disease May Reduce the Initial Decay Rate of Dead Quercus serrata Stems by Altering Fungal Communities in the Wood	40
New Insight Into the Mechanism of Nitrite Enhancement on Heterotrophic Nitrification and Aerobic Denitrification Bacterium in Gene Expression	40
Volatile Organic Compounds of Diverse Origins and Their Changes Associated With Cultivar Decay in a Fungus‐Farming Termite	39
Coupled C, H, N, S and Fe biogeochemical cycles operating in the continental deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt	39
Carbon substrate re‐orders relative growth of a bacterium using Mo‐, V‐, or Fe‐nitrogenase for nitrogen fixation	39