Nature Reviews Microbiology

Papers
(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Microbiology is 92. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Schistosomes go single cell2903
Gender justice and prioritizing women and girls in the HIV response1913
Adapting to host life1285
Honey bee symbiont gives larvae a boost888
Viruses on the move871
Measles is resurging in the Americas and the world is watching837
Sticky Candida auris771
Gut–brain axis in ageing764
Author Correction: Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: progress and challenges732
Finding the lock to fit the key: Ebola virus entry692
Genetics, ecology and evolution of phage satellites683
Commensalism and pathogenesis of Candida albicans at the mucosal interface628
Author Correction: Priority effects in microbiome assembly613
Viral spillback564
The soil plastisphere550
Microbial diversity in extreme environments548
Clostridioides difficile toxins: mechanisms of action and antitoxin therapeutics437
Designer viral receptors435
Tracking E. coli’s systemic spread425
Ending the COVID-19 pandemic425
Parasitic control of wolf behaviour414
A microbial metabolite to master inflammation408
The intruders that stole the master key392
The endosymbiotic box of protective tricks361
Sewer biofilms and SARS-CoV-2358
Microbial secondary metabolites: advancements to accelerate discovery towards application349
Indirect intervention345
Taking the jump to humans344
Viruses unveil the mechanisms of nuclear entry338
Pioneering microbiome engineering332
Microorganisms, climate change, and the Sustainable Development Goals: progress and challenges326
Scavenging a pyrimidine to thrive320
Prevention, treatment and cure of HIV infection317
The human skin microbiome: from metagenomes to therapeutics313
Microbiome-based therapeutics308
Microbial adaptability in changing environments297
Satellite RNA takes flight292
Bacteria like it soft286
Rediscovering plasmid-dependent phages277
Phages get snappy275
Translating eco-evolutionary biology into therapy to tackle antibiotic resistance274
Bacterial siderophores: diversity, uptake pathways and applications263
The role of bacterial metabolism in antimicrobial resistance254
SARS-CoV-2 viral load and shedding kinetics247
Influenza lineage extinction during the COVID-19 pandemic?236
Microbiota in disease-transmitting vectors226
Avian influenza takes flight in humans by evading restriction224
Copper contraceptive induces dysbiosis223
Engineered Mycoplasma fight lung infections221
How flaviviruses infect both humans and insects221
Defending against plasmids211
Bottleneck and spread of Treponema pallidum210
Anti-defence islands in plasmids200
Fitting into your niche192
Challenges and strategies for addressing antibacterial drug resistance in LMICs190
Microplastics impair seabird gut microbiomes180
Coronavirus research: knowledge gaps and research priorities178
A molecular decoy for phage defence177
Bacterial small molecule metabolites implicated in gastrointestinal cancer development175
The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world169
The gut–airway microbiome axis in health and respiratory diseases167
Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus outbreak in cattle: the knowns and unknowns159
Antigenic evolution will lead to new SARS-CoV-2 variants with unpredictable severity157
Enterocloster undermine cancer immunotherapy154
A manipulating pair150
Outgrowing antibiotic action148
Cooperating to resist143
PrEPping the skin139
Uropathogenic E. coli creates a memory137
A gut bacterium trims mucosal immunity135
Decisions, decisions…131
Whisperings from not so silent mutations130
Illuminating microbial defence systems in extreme environments129
Addressing the fungal diagnostic gap in LMICs127
Intelligent bacteria for IBD126
Author Correction: Pathogenesis, epidemiology and control of Group A Streptococcus infection123
Extracellular niche establishment by plant pathogens122
Aspergillus fumigatus biology, immunopathogenicity and drug resistance119
Bacterial DNA excision repair pathways117
The rapid emergence of antifungal-resistant human-pathogenic fungi116
Co-evolution of immunity and seasonal influenza viruses116
The biofilm life cycle: expanding the conceptual model of biofilm formation112
H. pylori evolution during disease110
From soil to battling antimicrobial resistance108
In tandem towards resistance108
Metagenomics distilled: new k-mer-based methods106
Blurred lines in the mycorrhiza world103
Anthropogenic impacts on the terrestrial subsurface biosphere102
From B to Z in the matrix100
Immune evasion and provocation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis96
The microbial carbon pump and climate change95
The rising mpox crisis94
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