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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Schistosomes go single cell2825
Gender justice and prioritizing women and girls in the HIV response1853
Adapting to host life1233
Honey bee symbiont gives larvae a boost853
Viruses on the move852
Viral spillback808
Measles is resurging in the Americas and the world is watching748
Author Correction: Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: progress and challenges745
Sticky Candida auris700
Gut–brain axis in ageing660
Genetics, ecology and evolution of phage satellites653
Finding the lock to fit the key: Ebola virus entry601
Author Correction: Priority effects in microbiome assembly565
Commensalism and pathogenesis of Candida albicans at the mucosal interface538
The soil plastisphere521
Clostridioides difficile toxins: mechanisms of action and antitoxin therapeutics516
Microbial diversity in extreme environments462
Designer viral receptors417
Tracking E. coli’s systemic spread416
Ending the COVID-19 pandemic413
Parasitic control of wolf behaviour408
A microbial metabolite to master inflammation396
The intruders that stole the master key391
The endosymbiotic box of protective tricks376
Sewer biofilms and SARS-CoV-2346
Indirect intervention344
Viruses unveil the mechanisms of nuclear entry338
Taking the jump to humans338
Pioneering microbiome engineering335
Scavenging a pyrimidine to thrive332
Prevention, treatment and cure of HIV infection327
Microbial secondary metabolites: advancements to accelerate discovery towards application317
Microbiome-based therapeutics315
Microorganisms, climate change, and the Sustainable Development Goals: progress and challenges302
Microbial adaptability in changing environments301
Translating eco-evolutionary biology into therapy to tackle antibiotic resistance301
Satellite RNA takes flight294
Bacteria like it soft293
Rediscovering plasmid-dependent phages286
Phages get snappy271
Microbiota in disease-transmitting vectors265
Influenza lineage extinction during the COVID-19 pandemic?261
Bacterial siderophores: diversity, uptake pathways and applications260
The role of bacterial metabolism in antimicrobial resistance258
SARS-CoV-2 viral load and shedding kinetics254
Avian influenza takes flight in humans by evading restriction252
Bacterial longevity228
Copper contraceptive induces dysbiosis220
Engineered Mycoplasma fight lung infections212
How flaviviruses infect both humans and insects208
Defending against plasmids205
Bottleneck and spread of Treponema pallidum203
Anti-defence islands in plasmids200
Coronavirus research: knowledge gaps and research priorities199
Antigenic evolution will lead to new SARS-CoV-2 variants with unpredictable severity196
Challenges and strategies for addressing antibacterial drug resistance in LMICs193
Microplastics impair seabird gut microbiomes186
Bacterial small molecule metabolites implicated in gastrointestinal cancer development183
Fitting into your niche173
Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus outbreak in cattle: the knowns and unknowns172
The gut–airway microbiome axis in health and respiratory diseases168
The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world165
Enterocloster undermine cancer immunotherapy160
A manipulating pair147
Cooperating to resist146
Outgrowing antibiotic action146
PrEPping the skin146
Uropathogenic E. coli creates a memory142
A gut bacterium trims mucosal immunity138
Decisions, decisions…137
Whisperings from not so silent mutations136
Illuminating microbial defence systems in extreme environments133
Intelligent bacteria for IBD126
Cells and computers, better together126
Aspergillus fumigatus biology, immunopathogenicity and drug resistance124
Author Correction: Pathogenesis, epidemiology and control of Group A Streptococcus infection122
Co-evolution of immunity and seasonal influenza viruses121
Addressing the fungal diagnostic gap in LMICs120
Extracellular niche establishment by plant pathogens119
The biofilm life cycle: expanding the conceptual model of biofilm formation116
Bacterial DNA excision repair pathways116
The rapid emergence of antifungal-resistant human-pathogenic fungi114
H. pylori evolution during disease113
In tandem towards resistance110
From B to Z in the matrix110
From soil to battling antimicrobial resistance109
Metagenomics distilled: new k-mer-based methods104
Anthropogenic impacts on the terrestrial subsurface biosphere102
Blurred lines in the mycorrhiza world101
The microbial carbon pump and climate change100
Immune evasion and provocation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis99
The rising mpox crisis94
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