OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Microbiology is 31. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
	100
Genomic differentiation of three pico‐phytoplankton species in the Mediterranean Sea	87
Enhanced ability of freshwater bacteria to secrete extracellular vesicles upon interaction with virus	82
Issue Information	73
Beyond purified dietary fibre supplements: Compositional variation between cell wall fibre from different plants influences human faecal microbiota activity and growth in vitro	66
Microbe–sediment interactions in Great Lakes recreational waters: Implications for human health risk	66
Hunting for pigments in bacterial settlers of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch	62
Edible Fungi Are a Hidden Source of Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide	58
Prescribed fire selects for a pyrophilous soil sub‐community in a northern California mixed conifer forest	56
When the going gets tough, the tough get going—Novel bacterial AAA + disaggregases provide extreme heat resistance	54
Hydrologic History Regulates Microbial Biofilm Diversity and Ecosystem Function	44
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	43
The toxicological spectrum of the Bacillus cereus toxin cereulide points towards niche‐specific specialisation	42
How does metal soil pollution change the plant mycobiome?	38
A lipopolysaccharide‐dependent phage infects a pseudomonad phytopathogen and can evolve to evade phage resistance	38
Immune‐Inflammatory Imbalance in Mice Under High Humidity and Three Different Ambient Temperatures: Insights From Gut Microbiome and Serum Metabolomics	37
Different Ferromanganese Concretion Morphologies Host Distinct Microbial Communities and Metal Accumulation Patterns in the Baltic Sea	37
Correction to ‘Initially Coexisting Endosymbionts Migrate Into Different Tissues During Ontogeny of Host Cicadas’	37
Assembly and comparative analyses of the Geosiphon pyriformis metagenome	37
Single‐amplified genomes reveal most streamlined free‐living marine bacteria	36
Genomic and Transcriptomic Insights Into the Autotrophic Metabolism on H ₂	36
Validation of key sponge symbiont pathways using genome‐centric metatranscriptomics	36
Integrons, transposons and IS elements promote diversification of multidrug resistance plasmids and adaptation of their hosts to antibiotic pollutant	36
Composition, Growth, Succession, and Function in the Cladophora Microbiome: Insights From Quantita	34
Oak Wilt Disease May Reduce the Initial Decay Rate of Dead Quercus serrata Stems by Altering Funga	34

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Prophages carrying Zot toxins on different Vibrio genomes: A comprehensive assessment using multilayer	33
Issue Information	33
Anaerobic methanotrophy is stimulated by graphene oxide in a brackish urban canal sediment	31
Life strategies and metabolic interactions of core microbes during thiosulphate‐based denitrification	31
Impact of salinity origin on microbial communities in saline springs within the Illinois Basin, USA	31
The acetoin assimilation pathway of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is regulated b	31
Unveiling the Hidden Resistome: A Comprehensive Risk Assessment of Latent Antibiotic Resistance Genes in China's Wastewater	31