OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Microbiology is 33. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
	87
Genomic differentiation of three pico‐phytoplankton species in the Mediterranean Sea	81
Enhanced ability of freshwater bacteria to secrete extracellular vesicles upon interaction with virus	77
Issue Information	76
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	70
Single‐amplified genomes reveal most streamlined free‐living marine bacteria	62
Intra‐genomic rRNA gene variability of Nassellaria and Spumellaria (Rhizaria, Radiolaria) assessed by Sanger, MinION	61
The carnitine degradation pathway of Acinetobacter baumannii and its role in virulence	60
The toxicological spectrum of the Bacillus cereus toxin cereulide points towards niche‐specific specialisation	55
Hydrologic History Regulates Microbial Biofilm Diversity and Ecosystem Function	53
Integrons, transposons and IS elements promote diversification of multidrug resistance plasmids and adaptation of their hosts to antibiotic pollutant	51
Genomic and Transcriptomic Insights Into the Autotrophic Metabolism on H ₂	51
How does metal soil pollution change the plant mycobiome?	50
Hunting for pigments in bacterial settlers of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch	47
Late Pleistocene‐dated divergence between South Hemisphere populations of the non‐conventional yeast L . cidri	46
Beyond purified dietary fibre supplements: Compositional variation between cell wall fibre from different plants influences human faecal microbiota activity and growth in vitro	46
One substrate, many fates: different ways of methanol utilization in the acetogen Acetobacterium woodii	46
Validation of key sponge symbiont pathways using genome‐centric metatranscriptomics	44
When the going gets tough, the tough get going—Novel bacterial AAA + disaggregases provide extreme heat resistance	43
Assembly and comparative analyses of the Geosiphon pyriformis metagenome	40
Microbe–sediment interactions in Great Lakes recreational waters: Implications for human health risk	39
Microbial community origin and fate through a rural wastewater treatment plant	38
Prescribed fire selects for a pyrophilous soil sub‐community in a northern California mixed conifer forest	36
A lipopolysaccharide‐dependent phage infects a pseudomonad phytopathogen and can evolve to evade phage resistance	36
Edible Fungi Are a Hidden Source of Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide	35

Virus ecology and 7‐year temporal dynamics across a permafrost thaw gradient	35
Effects of chaotropic salts on global proteome stability in halophilic archaea: Implications for life signatures on Mars	35
Volatile Organic Compounds of Diverse Origins and Their Changes Associated With Cultivar Decay in a Fungus‐Farming Termite	34
High diversity of pathogenic Escherichia coli clones carrying mcr‐1 among gulls underlines the need for st	34
Anaerobic methanotrophy is stimulated by graphene oxide in a brackish urban canal sediment	34
Discovery of the non‐cosmopolitan lineages in Candidatus Thermoprofundales	33
Issue Information	33
Prophages carrying Zot toxins on different Vibrio genomes: A comprehensive assessment using multilayer	33