OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Microbiology is 35. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Specificity and genetic polymorphism in the Vfm quorum sensing system of plant pathogenic bacteria of the genus Dickeya	118
Intra‐genomic rRNA gene variability of Nassellaria and Spumellaria (Rhizaria, Radiolaria) assessed by Sanger, MinION	89
Beyond purified dietary fibre supplements: Compositional variation between cell wall fibre from different plants influences human faecal microbiota activity and growth in vitro	75
Hunting for pigments in bacterial settlers of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch	68
The carnitine degradation pathway of Acinetobacter baumannii and its role in virulence	67
Integrons, transposons and IS elements promote diversification of multidrug resistance plasmids and adaptation of their hosts to antibiotic pollutant	62
Validation of key sponge symbiont pathways using genome‐centric metatranscriptomics	60
Microbial community origin and fate through a rural wastewater treatment plant	59
A lipopolysaccharide‐dependent phage infects a pseudomonad phytopathogen and can evolve to evade phage resistance	58
Microbe–sediment interactions in Great Lakes recreational waters: Implications for human health risk	55
One substrate, many fates: different ways of methanol utilization in the acetogen Acetobacterium woodii	53
The toxicological spectrum of the Bacillus cereus toxin cereulide points towards niche‐specific specialisation	50
Prescribed fire selects for a pyrophilous soil sub‐community in a northern California mixed conifer forest	48
Genomic differentiation of three pico‐phytoplankton species in the Mediterranean Sea	47
Long‐Term Impact of the Largest Environmental Disaster in Latin America (Fundão Dam Failure) on Microbial Communities in Lakes of the Doce River Basin, Brazil	47
Issue Information	47
Late Pleistocene‐dated divergence between South Hemisphere populations of the non‐conventional yeast L . cidri	45
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Enhanced ability of freshwater bacteria to secrete extracellular vesicles upon interaction with virus	45
Assembly and comparative analyses of the Geosiphon pyriformis metagenome	44
Single‐amplified genomes reveal most streamlined free‐living marine bacteria	43
When the going gets tough, the tough get going—Novel bacterial AAA + disaggregases provide extreme heat resistance	43
How does metal soil pollution change the plant mycobiome?	43
Fossilisation of Fish Soft Tissue in Oxidative Microniches of Anoxic Sediments	42
Sulfidic acetate mineralization at 45°C by an aquifer microbial community: key players and effects of heat changes on activity and community structure	42

Virus ecology and 7‐year temporal dynamics across a permafrost thaw gradient	41
Composition, Growth, Succession, and Function in the Cladophora Microbiome: Insights From Quantita	41
Biodegradation of pollutants by exoelectrogenic bacteria is not always performed extracellularly	39
Carbon substrate re‐orders relative growth of a bacterium using Mo‐, V‐, or Fe‐nitrogenase for nitrogen fixation	38
Effects of chaotropic salts on global proteome stability in halophilic archaea: Implications for life signatures on Mars	38
Drivers of fungal diversity and community biogeography differ between green roofs and adjacent ground‐level green space	36
The Bacterial Genus Ramlibacter : Betaproteobacteria Capable of Surviving in Oligotrophic Environments Thanks to Several Shared Genetic Adaptation Traits	35
The acetoin assimilation pathway of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is regulated b	35
Impact of salinity origin on microbial communities in saline springs within the Illinois Basin, USA	35
Coupled C, H, N, S and Fe biogeochemical cycles operating in the continental deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt	35
Volatile Organic Compounds of Diverse Origins and Their Changes Associated With Cultivar Decay in a Fungus‐Farming Termite	35