Nature Reviews Microbiology

Papers
(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Microbiology is 95. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Schistosomes go single cell3061
Gender justice and prioritizing women and girls in the HIV response2645
Author Correction: Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: progress and challenges1693
Adapting to host life1133
Honey bee symbiont gives larvae a boost781
Viruses on the move773
Arming the host715
Viral spillback704
Sticky Candida auris681
Gut–brain axis in ageing654
Author Correction: Priority effects in microbiome assembly613
Commensalism and pathogenesis of Candida albicans at the mucosal interface566
Genetics, ecology and evolution of phage satellites523
Clostridioides difficile toxins: mechanisms of action and antitoxin therapeutics493
A lasting symbiosis: how the Hawaiian bobtail squid finds and keeps its bioluminescent bacterial partner481
Microbial diversity in extreme environments474
The soil plastisphere471
Measles is resurging in the Americas and the world is watching426
Designer viral receptors414
Tracking E. coli’s systemic spread394
Defeating dengue with Wolbachia390
Ending the COVID-19 pandemic383
Parasitic control of wolf behaviour378
A microbial metabolite to master inflammation372
The intruders that stole the master key362
The endosymbiotic box of protective tricks348
Indirect intervention347
Taking the jump to humans323
Viruses unveil the mechanisms of nuclear entry317
Pioneering microbiome engineering315
Sewer biofilms and SARS-CoV-2315
Scavenging a pyrimidine to thrive308
Microorganisms, climate change, and the Sustainable Development Goals: progress and challenges306
Prevention, treatment and cure of HIV infection291
Microbial secondary metabolites: advancements to accelerate discovery towards application290
Sharing the pollen286
Microbiome-based therapeutics286
Phages get snappy278
Sensing when to colonize276
Satellite RNA takes flight271
Bacteria like it soft268
Rediscovering plasmid-dependent phages259
Translating eco-evolutionary biology into therapy to tackle antibiotic resistance250
Microbial adaptability in changing environments250
Microbiota in disease-transmitting vectors250
Influenza lineage extinction during the COVID-19 pandemic?239
The role of bacterial metabolism in antimicrobial resistance228
SARS-CoV-2 viral load and shedding kinetics227
Bacterial siderophores: diversity, uptake pathways and applications203
Avian influenza takes flight in humans by evading restriction201
Bacterial longevity192
Fitting into your niche192
Copper contraceptive induces dysbiosis191
Engineered Mycoplasma fight lung infections190
Coronavirus research: knowledge gaps and research priorities186
How flaviviruses infect both humans and insects184
Defending against plasmids183
Bottleneck and spread of Treponema pallidum181
Anti-defence islands in plasmids179
Challenges and strategies for addressing antibacterial drug resistance in LMICs178
Microplastics impair seabird gut microbiomes175
The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world175
Bacterial small molecule metabolites implicated in gastrointestinal cancer development174
The importance of molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases in low-resource settings162
Antigenic evolution will lead to new SARS-CoV-2 variants with unpredictable severity162
Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus outbreak in cattle: the knowns and unknowns154
The gut–airway microbiome axis in health and respiratory diseases147
Enterocloster undermine cancer immunotherapy146
A manipulating pair141
Outgrowing antibiotic action138
Decisions, decisions…136
Cooperating to resist135
IgA makes gut fungi friendlier130
PrEPping the skin129
Uropathogenic E. coli creates a memory128
A gut bacterium trims mucosal immunity126
Getting ahead of the competition125
Whisperings from not so silent mutations122
Illuminating microbial defence systems in extreme environments122
Cells and computers, better together118
Intelligent bacteria for IBD116
Extracellular niche establishment by plant pathogens115
Aspergillus fumigatus biology, immunopathogenicity and drug resistance114
Author Correction: Pathogenesis, epidemiology and control of Group A Streptococcus infection113
The rapid emergence of antifungal-resistant human-pathogenic fungi112
Bacterial DNA excision repair pathways106
Co-evolution of immunity and seasonal influenza viruses106
The biofilm life cycle: expanding the conceptual model of biofilm formation104
H. pylori evolution during disease103
When anaerobes encounter oxygen: mechanisms of oxygen toxicity, tolerance and defence103
A tale of capsules, phages and plasmids103
In tandem towards resistance98
From B to Z in the matrix98
From soil to battling antimicrobial resistance97
Anthropogenic impacts on the terrestrial subsurface biosphere96
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