OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Microbiology is 38. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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One substrate, many fates: different ways of methanol utilization in the acetogen Acetobacterium woodii	104
How does metal soil pollution change the plant mycobiome?	103
Sulfidic acetate mineralization at 45°C by an aquifer microbial community: key players and effects of heat changes on activity and community structure	98
Prescribed fire selects for a pyrophilous soil sub‐community in a northern California mixed conifer forest	80
Single‐amplified genomes reveal most streamlined free‐living marine bacteria	67
Late Pleistocene‐dated divergence between South Hemisphere populations of the non‐conventional yeast L. cidri	65
Prevalence, complete genome, and metabolic potentials of a phylogenetically novel cyanobacterial symbiont in the coral‐killing sponge, Terpios hoshinota	61
ArsV and ArsW provide synergistic resistance to the antibiotic methylarsenite	61
Specificity and genetic polymorphism in the Vfm quorum sensing system of plant pathogenic bacteria of the genus Dickeya	58
A lipopolysaccharide‐dependent phage infects a pseudomonad phytopathogen and can evolve to evade phage resistance	56
Intra‐genomic rRNA gene variability of Nassellaria and Spumellaria (Rhizaria, Radiolaria) assessed by Sanger, MinION and Illumina sequencing	55
Microbial community origin and fate through a rural wastewater treatment plant	54
Enhanced ability of freshwater bacteria to secrete extracellular vesicles upon interaction with virus	53
Beyond purified dietary fibre supplements: Compositional variation between cell wall fibre from different plants influences human faecal microbiota activity and growth in vitro	50
The carnitine degradation pathway ofAcinetobacter baumanniiand its role in virulence	49
Genomic differentiation of three pico‐phytoplankton species in the Mediterranean Sea	48
The toxicological spectrum of the Bacillus cereus toxin cereulide points towards niche‐specific specialisation	47
Microbe–sediment interactions in Great Lakes recreational waters: Implications for human health risk	46
Enrichment of nosZ‐type denitrifiers by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi mitigates N₂O emissions from soybean stubbles	45
Validation of key sponge symbiont pathways using genome‐centric metatranscriptomics	44
PeMetR‐mediated sulfur assimilation is essential for virulence and patulin biosynthesis in Penicillium expansum	43
Issue Information	43
When the going gets tough, the tough get going—Novel bacterial AAA+ disaggregases provide extreme heat resistance	43
Hunting for pigments in bacterial settlers of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch	42

Assembly and comparative analyses of the Geosiphon pyriformis metagenome	42
An atlas of bacterial secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters	41
Impact of salinity origin on microbial communities in saline springs within the Illinois Basin, USA	41
Integrons, transposons and IS elements promote diversification of multidrug resistance plasmids and adaptation of their hosts to antibiotic pollutants from pharmaceutical companies	41
Bacterial community dynamics on bats and the implications for pathogen resistance	41
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The acetoin assimilation pathway of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is regulated by overlapping global regulatory elements that respond to nutritional cues	40
Carbon substrate re‐orders relative growth of a bacterium using Mo‐, V‐, or Fe‐nitrogenase for nitrogen fixation	40
Wolbachia in scale insects: a distinct pattern of infection frequencies and potential transfer routes via ant associates	39
Environmental vibrio phage–bacteria interaction networks reflect the genetic structure of host populations	39
Effects of chaotropic salts on global proteome stability in halophilic archaea: Implications for life signatures on Mars	39
Ornithine decarboxylase of the fungal pathogenColletotrichum higginsianumplays an important role in regulating global metabolic pathways and virulence	38
Biogeography of culturable marine bacteria from both poles reveals that ‘everything is not everywhere’ at the genomic level	38