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 2021-09-01 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
Ending the COVID-19 pandemic425
Tracking E. coli’s systemic spread425
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
Co-evolution of immunity and seasonal influenza viruses116
The rapid emergence of antifungal-resistant human-pathogenic fungi116
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
Author Correction: Examining the healthy human microbiome concept90
A tale of two codes90
Off to a new host88
Cross-kingdom defence proteins85
Spreading out of the lung84
Capturing glycans83
Bee-saving symbionts82
Motor-powered trafficking82
Overcoming supply issues81
Blasting away a fungal pathogen80
Dose-dependent COVID-19 symptoms80
Skin-deep AMR hotspots in nursing homes79
Monitoring pathogens in wastewater78
Novel metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors76
Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe76
Building climate-resilient agriculture through science and local action71
Reviving colistin67
The ecological roles of bacterial chemotaxis65
The honeybee microbiota and its impact on health and disease65
Emergence, transmission dynamics and mechanisms of artemisinin partial resistance in malaria parasites in Africa65
Recording the gut transit64
Infectious disease in an era of global change64
Preventing programmed destruction59
Finding protection in the community58
A driver of monkeypox virus evolution?58
Microbiome cartography56
Quality MAGnified55
Mapping the microbiome milieu54
Salmonella Enteritidis: chicken or egg?53
Epstein–Barr virus pathogenesis and emerging control strategies52
Campylobacter spreads colorectal cancer52
Bacterial architects build the biofilm structures51
Lactobacilli biology, applications and host interactions51
Coordinated action by individuals orchestrates infection through the division of labour51
The gut microbiota and its biogeography50
Antimicrobial peptides: structure, functions and translational applications50
Gradients and consequences of heterogeneity in biofilms49
Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward47
Long-term control of HIV47
Chemotaxis in the ocean46
Microbiome shift in degrading soil45
Wolbachia likes it hot45
Novel C. difficile toxin receptor44
Settling with the motion43
Busy symbionts during hibernation43
Keep calm with ammonia-producing microbiota42
Bioplastic builders41
Lassoing OMVs with an LPS receptor40
The HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein: structure, function and interactions with neutralizing antibodies40
Lassoing bacterial ribosomes40
Infectious diseases and the Sustainable Development Goals: progress, challenges and future directions39
The pathobiology of human fungal infections38
The branches of the tree of life37
Evasion of plant immunity by microbial pathogens37
A potential new player in gastric cancer36
The bodily distribution of monkeypox virus36
Unravelling the genome of giants36
Unearthing the story of the first antifungal drugs32
SARS-CoV-2 genomics as a springboard for future disease mitigation in LMICs31
Gut phages fuel food addiction30
Testing fast with uRAST29
Hyphae promote Candida albicans fitness and commensalism in the gut28
Gut microbiota and depression26
Shigella sonnei: epidemiology, evolution, pathogenesis, resistance and host interactions25
From the soil to the clinic: the impact of microbial secondary metabolites on antibiotic tolerance and resistance24
Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements23
Pertussis vaccines, epidemiology and evolution23
Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities23
Insights into the assembly and regulation of the bacterial divisome21
Forest microbiome and global change20
The dynamic lung microbiome in health and disease20
Antibiotic resistance in the environment20
Multimodal interactions of drugs, natural compounds and pollutants with the gut microbiota19
Overcoming the cost of plasmid carriage18
The microbiome’s diet choice18
Putting a twist in syphilis vaccine development16
Methanogens implicated by DNA evidence16
Reaching your destination16
Clinical metagenomics for diagnosis and surveillance of viral pathogens15
Commensals find their niche15
Twenty years of Nature Reviews Microbiology15
Machine learning sheds light on microbial dark proteins14
Hunting archaeal viruses14
Author Correction: Ecology, evolution and spillover of coronaviruses from bats13
Harnessing the plant microbiome for sustainable crop production13
Types and functions of heterogeneity in mycobacteria13
Alternative therapeutic strategies to treat antibiotic-resistant pathogens12
SARS-CoV-2 biology and host interactions11
Microbial extracellular polymeric substances in the environment, technology and medicine10
The mycobiota feeds into bacterial infections10
Routes of soil microbiome dispersal10
Latent EBV gets stuck10
Balancing commensals10
A solution for mercury pollution?9
Gut commensals activate digestion9
Fibre-deprived Akkermansia worsens food allergy9
Rise in global antibiotic use8
An amoeba and a cyanobacterium walk into a bar...8
RNA evolution shapes SARS-CoV-2 success8
Achieving sustainable access to antibiotics is more than just a last mile challenge8
The origins of pathogenesis8
Drug delivery strategies for antibiofilm therapy7
A misplaced microbiome7
Tackling the emerging threat of antifungal resistance to human health7
Chloramphenicol resistance is too hot to handle7
Immune targeting of HIV-1 reservoir cells: a path to elimination strategies and cure6
Unveiling plasmid diversity in nature6
Fitness cost of antifungal resistance6
A gut microbiome-restoring diet6
The evolution of SARS-CoV-26
Fungi feed bacteria for biodegradation6
Phages to the rescue6
Co‐evolution of early Earth environments and microbial life6
Dispersing biofilm myths6
Drosophila sperm sabotage by Wolbachia prophage6
The HIV epidemic 40 years on5
Conservation and similarity of bacterial and eukaryotic innate immunity5
Plasmid and phage lifestyles in crAssphage5
Mobilizing resistance genes in the human gut4
Roles of the gut microbiome in weight management4
Beneficial applications of biofilms4
Horizontal gene transfer and adaptive evolution in bacteria4
Contact-dependent killing by Myxococcus4
Staphylococcus aureus gets itchy4
Biology and evolution of bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems4
ESKAPE pathogens: antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology, clinical impact and therapeutics4
Effects of climate change and human activities on vector-borne diseases4
A deadly escape4
Circulating leprosy in the wild4
Pili go with the flow4
A molecular understanding of alphavirus entry and antibody protection4
Lassa fever — the road ahead4
A new wrinkle in biofilm structure4
Motivation for exercise from the gut4
Inheriting traits3
Shaking up that sick feeling with biofilm sugars3
Publisher Correction: The marine nitrogen cycle: new developments and global change3
A small coat for satellites3
Tricking plants into starvation3
Gut bugs disrupt cancer drugs3
Discovering untapped biochemistry in microorganisms from hidden corners3
Alternative functions of CRISPR–Cas systems in the evolutionary arms race3
ICSP response to ‘Science depends on nomenclature, but nomenclature is not science’3
Stopping Marburg virus in its tracks3
Staphylococcus epidermidis and its dual lifestyle in skin health and infection3
Degrading the matrix3
A kill switch for tuberculosis3
The path of more resistance3
Cellular souvenirs in viral luggage3
Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: progress and challenges3
SURFing SARS-CoV-2 inhibition3
Author Correction: Molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance revisited3
When Helicobacter pylori spells gastric cancer3
Iron gatekeeper in malaria3
Black Death unravelled3
No viral rebound3
Case series of monkeypox infections2
A new strain of thought in gut metagenomics2
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