Nature Reviews Microbiology

Papers
(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Microbiology is 93. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Adapting to host life2984
Honey bee symbiont gives larvae a boost1993
Schistosomes go single cell1341
Gender justice and prioritizing women and girls in the HIV response926
Viruses on the move901
Gut–brain axis in ageing877
Clostridioides difficile toxins: mechanisms of action and antitoxin therapeutics809
Finding the lock to fit the key: Ebola virus entry779
Measles is resurging in the Americas and the world is watching756
Author Correction: Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: progress and challenges754
Sticky Candida auris707
Commensalism and pathogenesis of Candida albicans at the mucosal interface676
Author Correction: Priority effects in microbiome assembly663
Viral spillback586
Microbial diversity in extreme environments583
The soil plastisphere574
Genetics, ecology and evolution of phage satellites464
Ending the COVID-19 pandemic457
Tracking E. coli’s systemic spread441
Designer viral receptors434
Parasitic control of wolf behaviour427
Viruses unveil the mechanisms of nuclear entry405
Pioneering microbiome engineering381
The human skin microbiome: from metagenomes to therapeutics372
Scavenging a pyrimidine to thrive367
Taking the jump to humans351
Microorganisms, climate change, and the Sustainable Development Goals: progress and challenges345
Indirect intervention345
The intruders that stole the master key344
The endosymbiotic box of protective tricks335
A microbial metabolite to master inflammation330
Sewer biofilms and SARS-CoV-2326
Prevention, treatment and cure of HIV infection322
Microbial secondary metabolites: advancements to accelerate discovery towards application320
Microbiome-based therapeutics314
Satellite RNA takes flight291
Bacteria like it soft288
Phages get snappy282
Rediscovering plasmid-dependent phages272
Microbial adaptability in changing environments271
Translating eco-evolutionary biology into therapy to tackle antibiotic resistance251
SARS-CoV-2 viral load and shedding kinetics244
The role of bacterial metabolism in antimicrobial resistance242
Microbiota in disease-transmitting vectors238
Bacterial siderophores: diversity, uptake pathways and applications238
Avian influenza takes flight in humans by evading restriction232
Copper contraceptive induces dysbiosis225
Engineered Mycoplasma fight lung infections220
How flaviviruses infect both humans and insects207
Anti-defence islands in plasmids201
Bottleneck and spread of Treponema pallidum198
Defending against plasmids195
Challenges and strategies for addressing antibacterial drug resistance in LMICs189
A molecular decoy for phage defence186
Fitting into your niche184
Bacterial small molecule metabolites implicated in gastrointestinal cancer development184
The gut–airway microbiome axis in health and respiratory diseases179
Coronavirus research: knowledge gaps and research priorities176
Microplastics impair seabird gut microbiomes174
The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world162
Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus outbreak in cattle: the knowns and unknowns157
Antigenic evolution will lead to new SARS-CoV-2 variants with unpredictable severity151
Enterocloster undermine cancer immunotherapy147
Cooperating to resist145
A manipulating pair142
Outgrowing antibiotic action141
PrEPping the skin137
A gut bacterium trims mucosal immunity134
Uropathogenic E. coli creates a memory133
Decisions, decisions…131
Whisperings from not so silent mutations130
Illuminating microbial defence systems in extreme environments127
Co-evolution of immunity and seasonal influenza viruses126
Extracellular niche establishment by plant pathogens125
Addressing the fungal diagnostic gap in LMICs124
Intelligent bacteria for IBD121
Biosynthesis and function of magnetic organelles in magnetotactic bacteria119
Author Correction: Pathogenesis, epidemiology and control of Group A Streptococcus infection118
The rapid emergence of antifungal-resistant human-pathogenic fungi118
The biofilm life cycle: expanding the conceptual model of biofilm formation115
Aspergillus fumigatus biology, immunopathogenicity and drug resistance115
Bacterial DNA excision repair pathways109
In tandem towards resistance109
H. pylori evolution during disease108
From soil to battling antimicrobial resistance106
Metagenomics distilled: new k-mer-based methods102
Anthropogenic impacts on the terrestrial subsurface biosphere101
From B to Z in the matrix100
Blurred lines in the mycorrhiza world96
Spreading out of the lung95
The microbial carbon pump and climate change95
Immune evasion and provocation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis95
Cross-kingdom defence proteins93
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