Nature Reviews Microbiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Reviews Microbiology is 1. 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
Sewer biofilms and SARS-CoV-2315
Pioneering microbiome engineering315
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
Microbiome-based therapeutics286
Sharing the pollen286
Phages get snappy278
Sensing when to colonize276
Satellite RNA takes flight271
Bacteria like it soft268
Rediscovering plasmid-dependent phages259
Microbial adaptability in changing environments250
Microbiota in disease-transmitting vectors250
Translating eco-evolutionary biology into therapy to tackle antibiotic resistance250
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
The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world175
Microplastics impair seabird gut microbiomes175
Bacterial small molecule metabolites implicated in gastrointestinal cancer development174
Antigenic evolution will lead to new SARS-CoV-2 variants with unpredictable severity162
The importance of molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases in low-resource settings162
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
Illuminating microbial defence systems in extreme environments122
Whisperings from not so silent mutations122
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
A tale of capsules, phages and plasmids103
H. pylori evolution during disease103
When anaerobes encounter oxygen: mechanisms of oxygen toxicity, tolerance and defence103
In tandem towards resistance98
From B to Z in the matrix98
From soil to battling antimicrobial resistance97
Anthropogenic impacts on the terrestrial subsurface biosphere96
Optimizing antimicrobial use: challenges, advances and opportunities94
Metagenomics distilled: new k-mer-based methods93
The microbial carbon pump and climate change91
Immune evasion and provocation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis90
Structure and function of retroviral integrase85
The rising mpox crisis84
Beating in on a stable partnership82
A tale of two codes82
Monitoring pathogens in wastewater79
Author Correction: Examining the healthy human microbiome concept78
Novel metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors76
Off to a new host75
Cross-kingdom defence proteins74
Capturing glycans73
Spreading out of the lung73
Searching for relatives of SARS-CoV-2 in bats73
Bee-saving symbionts70
Motor-powered trafficking70
Dose-dependent COVID-19 symptoms68
Overcoming supply issues68
Reviving colistin66
Blasting away a fungal pathogen64
Skin-deep AMR hotspots in nursing homes62
Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe59
The ecological roles of bacterial chemotaxis57
Infectious disease in an era of global change54
The honeybee microbiota and its impact on health and disease53
A driver of monkeypox virus evolution?52
Emergence, transmission dynamics and mechanisms of artemisinin partial resistance in malaria parasites in Africa52
Recording the gut transit52
Preventing programmed destruction52
Finding protection in the community51
Microbiome cartography49
Mapping the microbiome milieu49
Quality MAGnified49
Salmonella Enteritidis: chicken or egg?46
Campylobacter spreads colorectal cancer45
Epstein–Barr virus pathogenesis and emerging control strategies44
Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward43
Gradients and consequences of heterogeneity in biofilms43
Bacterial architects build the biofilm structures43
The gut microbiota and its biogeography42
Chemotaxis in the ocean40
Long-term control of HIV40
Termite mounds are hydrogen sinks39
Microbiome shift in degrading soil38
Phytophthora cuts into plant hosts38
Settling with the motion36
Wolbachia likes it hot36
Novel C. difficile toxin receptor36
Busy symbionts during hibernation35
Keep calm with ammonia-producing microbiota34
Lassoing OMVs with an LPS receptor33
Bioplastic builders33
Lassoing bacterial ribosomes33
Infectious diseases and the Sustainable Development Goals: progress, challenges and future directions29
The branches of the tree of life28
The pathobiology of human fungal infections28
Evasion of plant immunity by microbial pathogens28
The bodily distribution of monkeypox virus27
Gut microbiota and depression27
Unravelling the genome of giants26
Unearthing the story of the first antifungal drugs26
A potential new player in gastric cancer26
SARS-CoV-2 genomics as a springboard for future disease mitigation in LMICs25
Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements25
Gut phages fuel food addiction25
Shigella sonnei: epidemiology, evolution, pathogenesis, resistance and host interactions24
Hyphae promote Candida albicans fitness and commensalism in the gut24
Testing fast with uRAST23
From the soil to the clinic: the impact of microbial secondary metabolites on antibiotic tolerance and resistance21
Pertussis vaccines, epidemiology and evolution21
Insights into the assembly and regulation of the bacterial divisome20
Forest microbiome and global change20
Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities20
The dynamic lung microbiome in health and disease19
Antibiotic resistance in the environment17
Multimodal interactions of drugs, natural compounds and pollutants with the gut microbiota16
Overcoming the cost of plasmid carriage15
The microbiome’s diet choice15
Reaching your destination14
Bornaviruses from the Cretaceous14
Putting a twist in syphilis vaccine development14
Twenty years of Nature Reviews Microbiology13
Methanogens implicated by DNA evidence13
Commensals find their niche12
Author Correction: Ecology, evolution and spillover of coronaviruses from bats10
Machine learning sheds light on microbial dark proteins10
Pathogenesis of human cytomegalovirus in the immunocompromised host10
Types and functions of heterogeneity in mycobacteria8
A toxin in bubble wrap8
SARS-CoV-2 biology and host interactions8
Microbial extracellular polymeric substances in the environment, technology and medicine8
Alternative therapeutic strategies to treat antibiotic-resistant pathogens8
Harnessing the plant microbiome for sustainable crop production8
Balancing commensals7
Routes of soil microbiome dispersal7
A solution for mercury pollution?7
Latent EBV gets stuck7
Fibre-deprived Akkermansia worsens food allergy7
An amoeba and a cyanobacterium walk into a bar...7
The mycobiota feeds into bacterial infections7
Gut commensals activate digestion7
Immune targeting of HIV-1 reservoir cells: a path to elimination strategies and cure6
The origins of pathogenesis6
Rise in global antibiotic use6
Drug delivery strategies for antibiofilm therapy6
Chloramphenicol resistance is too hot to handle6
The evolution of SARS-CoV-26
A lasting symbiosis: how Vibrio fischeri finds a squid partner and persists within its natural host6
Achieving sustainable access to antibiotics is more than just a last mile challenge6
RNA evolution shapes SARS-CoV-2 success6
Tackling the emerging threat of antifungal resistance to human health5
Fungi feed bacteria for biodegradation5
Co‐evolution of early Earth environments and microbial life5
Unveiling plasmid diversity in nature5
Fitness cost of antifungal resistance4
Phages to the rescue4
Lassa fever — the road ahead4
Beneficial applications of biofilms4
Conservation and similarity of bacterial and eukaryotic innate immunity4
Dispersing biofilm myths4
The HIV epidemic 40 years on4
Drosophila sperm sabotage by Wolbachia prophage4
A molecular understanding of alphavirus entry and antibody protection4
ESKAPE pathogens: antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology, clinical impact and therapeutics4
A gut microbiome-restoring diet4
Unique bile acid metabolism in centenarians4
Horizontal gene transfer and adaptive evolution in bacteria4
Roles of the gut microbiome in weight management4
Biology and evolution of bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems4
Shaking up that sick feeling with biofilm sugars3
Author Correction: Molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance revisited3
Cellular souvenirs in viral luggage3
Effects of climate change and human activities on vector-borne diseases3
Motivation for exercise from the gut3
Mobilizing resistance genes in the human gut3
Stopping Marburg virus in its tracks3
Alternative functions of CRISPR–Cas systems in the evolutionary arms race3
Inheriting traits3
No viral rebound3
A new wrinkle in biofilm structure3
Contact-dependent killing by Myxococcus3
Staphylococcus aureus gets itchy3
A deadly escape3
Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: progress and challenges3
Staphylococcus epidermidis and its dual lifestyle in skin health and infection3
ICSP response to ‘Science depends on nomenclature, but nomenclature is not science’3
Ciliate symbionts create the flow3
Pili go with the flow3
Circulating leprosy in the wild3
SURFing SARS-CoV-2 inhibition3
Publisher Correction: The marine nitrogen cycle: new developments and global change3
The wound microbiota: microbial mechanisms of impaired wound healing and infection2
Antibodies versus P. aeruginosa2
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