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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Commensal bacteria fight colorectal cancer3005
The cost of resistance2434
A. muciniphila boosts metabolic health1547
A giant factory for virion production1041
Searching for relatives of SARS-CoV-2 in bats712
Leaving your polar bear host behind703
Cross-kingdom defence proteins666
A conserved role for bacterial TIR domains631
Microbial strategist of metastasis621
Overcoming supply issues607
Toxin–antitoxin to the rescue against phages567
Honey bee symbiont gives larvae a boost489
Motor-powered trafficking454
Sugar-fuelled plasmid exchanges446
Run Vibrio, run!425
CIStematic cell death423
A novel single-agent antibiotic423
Argonaute fends off invaders386
Diet underlying autism–microbiome association380
Bee-saving symbionts378
Sticky Candida auris376
Viral spillback361
The cost of biofilms344
Capturing glycans338
Scooping up all the drugs332
The HIV epidemic 40 years on322
Adapting to host life318
Skin-deep AMR hotspots in nursing homes318
Drosophila sperm sabotage by Wolbachia prophage310
Blasting away a fungal pathogen301
Jumping between hosts298
A never-ending defence fight296
Arming the host289
Unique bile acid metabolism in centenarians282
Antibiotics predispose to nosocomial infections281
Dose-dependent COVID-19 symptoms271
Fungi feed bacteria for biodegradation264
Root bacterium protects plants from drought262
Gut commensals produce retinoids260
Fitness cost of antifungal resistance259
Off to a new host258
The rising mpox crisis247
Spreading out of the lung246
Phages to the rescue244
Novel metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors234
Evaluating an RSV inhibitor234
Author Correction: Priority effects in microbiome assembly232
Infection marks gut commensals227
Gut–brain axis in ageing222
Bacterial contact killing214
A gut microbiome-restoring diet211
Reviving colistin210
Viruses on the move209
A mosquito symbiont controls flaviviruses204
A tale of two codes193
Monitoring pathogens in wastewater190
Gender justice and prioritizing women and girls in the HIV response177
Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe173
Author Correction: Examining the healthy human microbiome concept170
Linking innate immune evasion to pandemic potential168
Beating in on a stable partnership167
Taking metagenomics under the wings165
A toolkit for microbial community editing162
Author Correction: Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: progress and challenges161
Schistosomes go single cell159
Small RNAs and their mighty roles in plasmid replication152
Unveiling plasmid diversity in nature151
Clostridioides difficile toxins: mechanisms of action and antitoxin therapeutics150
Across the mucus149
Conservation and similarity of bacterial and eukaryotic innate immunity140
Dispersing biofilm myths138
Host specificity of the gut microbiome136
African microbiomes matter135
Ecological and evolutionary mechanisms driving within-patient emergence of antimicrobial resistance131
Foodborne bacterial pathogens: genome-based approaches for enduring and emerging threats in a complex and changing world130
Author Correction: Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19130
Emergence, transmission dynamics and mechanisms of artemisinin partial resistance in malaria parasites in Africa126
A lasting symbiosis: how the Hawaiian bobtail squid finds and keeps its bioluminescent bacterial partner121
Towards SARS-CoV-2 serotypes?121
Beneficial applications of biofilms119
Genetics, ecology and evolution of phage satellites116
Ecology, global diversity and evolutionary mechanisms in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex111
Respiratory syncytial virus infection and novel interventions110
Antibiotic-induced collateral damage to the microbiota and associated infections110
A molecular understanding of alphavirus entry and antibody protection110
The honeybee microbiota and its impact on health and disease109
Bacteriocin diversity, function, discovery and application as antimicrobials108
Examining horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities107
Bacterial defences: mechanisms, evolution and antimicrobial resistance106
Effects of climate change and human activities on vector-borne diseases105
Lassa fever — the road ahead104
The microbiome-shaping roles of bacteriocins101
ESKAPE pathogens: antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology, clinical impact and therapeutics97
Roles of the gut microbiome in weight management97
Horizontal gene transfer and adaptive evolution in bacteria96
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