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 2021-08-01 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
Taking the jump to humans338
Viruses unveil the mechanisms of nuclear entry338
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
Outgrowing antibiotic action146
PrEPping the skin146
Cooperating to resist146
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
A tale of two codes90
Author Correction: Examining the healthy human microbiome concept88
Novel metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors88
Off to a new host86
Spreading out of the lung85
Cross-kingdom defence proteins85
Capturing glycans82
Motor-powered trafficking81
Bee-saving symbionts80
Dose-dependent COVID-19 symptoms79
Overcoming supply issues79
Reviving colistin79
Skin-deep AMR hotspots in nursing homes76
Blasting away a fungal pathogen76
Monitoring pathogens in wastewater74
Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe74
Emergence, transmission dynamics and mechanisms of artemisinin partial resistance in malaria parasites in Africa69
Infectious disease in an era of global change67
The ecological roles of bacterial chemotaxis64
Building climate-resilient agriculture through science and local action64
Recording the gut transit62
The honeybee microbiota and its impact on health and disease62
Preventing programmed destruction61
A driver of monkeypox virus evolution?57
Finding protection in the community56
Microbiome cartography55
Quality MAGnified55
Mapping the microbiome milieu54
Salmonella Enteritidis: chicken or egg?53
Campylobacter spreads colorectal cancer53
Coordinated action by individuals orchestrates infection through the division of labour52
Epstein–Barr virus pathogenesis and emerging control strategies51
Antimicrobial peptides: structure, functions and translational applications50
Lactobacilli biology, applications and host interactions49
Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward49
Bacterial architects build the biofilm structures49
Gradients and consequences of heterogeneity in biofilms49
The gut microbiota and its biogeography48
Long-term control of HIV45
Chemotaxis in the ocean44
Microbiome shift in degrading soil44
Termite mounds are hydrogen sinks44
Wolbachia likes it hot43
Novel C. difficile toxin receptor43
Settling with the motion42
Busy symbionts during hibernation41
Bioplastic builders39
Keep calm with ammonia-producing microbiota39
Lassoing OMVs with an LPS receptor38
Lassoing bacterial ribosomes38
Infectious diseases and the Sustainable Development Goals: progress, challenges and future directions37
The HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein: structure, function and interactions with neutralizing antibodies36
The pathobiology of human fungal infections36
Evasion of plant immunity by microbial pathogens34
The branches of the tree of life34
Unravelling the genome of giants33
The bodily distribution of monkeypox virus33
A potential new player in gastric cancer32
Unearthing the story of the first antifungal drugs31
Gut phages fuel food addiction30
SARS-CoV-2 genomics as a springboard for future disease mitigation in LMICs30
Shigella sonnei: epidemiology, evolution, pathogenesis, resistance and host interactions30
Testing fast with uRAST29
Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements29
Pertussis vaccines, epidemiology and evolution29
Hyphae promote Candida albicans fitness and commensalism in the gut28
Gut microbiota and depression23
Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities22
Antibiotic resistance in the environment21
The dynamic lung microbiome in health and disease19
Multimodal interactions of drugs, natural compounds and pollutants with the gut microbiota18
From the soil to the clinic: the impact of microbial secondary metabolites on antibiotic tolerance and resistance18
Forest microbiome and global change18
Insights into the assembly and regulation of the bacterial divisome18
The microbiome’s diet choice17
Reaching your destination16
Overcoming the cost of plasmid carriage16
Methanogens implicated by DNA evidence15
Twenty years of Nature Reviews Microbiology14
Machine learning sheds light on microbial dark proteins13
Author Correction: Ecology, evolution and spillover of coronaviruses from bats13
Commensals find their niche13
Types and functions of heterogeneity in mycobacteria13
Putting a twist in syphilis vaccine development12
Hunting archaeal viruses11
Alternative therapeutic strategies to treat antibiotic-resistant pathogens10
The mycobiota feeds into bacterial infections10
Harnessing the plant microbiome for sustainable crop production10
Latent EBV gets stuck10
Microbial extracellular polymeric substances in the environment, technology and medicine10
SARS-CoV-2 biology and host interactions10
A solution for mercury pollution?9
Routes of soil microbiome dispersal9
Gut commensals activate digestion9
Balancing commensals9
Fibre-deprived Akkermansia worsens food allergy9
RNA evolution shapes SARS-CoV-2 success8
Achieving sustainable access to antibiotics is more than just a last mile challenge8
An amoeba and a cyanobacterium walk into a bar...8
A misplaced microbiome8
Immune targeting of HIV-1 reservoir cells: a path to elimination strategies and cure8
Chloramphenicol resistance is too hot to handle8
The origins of pathogenesis8
Rise in global antibiotic use8
Drug delivery strategies for antibiofilm therapy7
Tackling the emerging threat of antifungal resistance to human health7
The evolution of SARS-CoV-27
Co‐evolution of early Earth environments and microbial life7
Unveiling plasmid diversity in nature7
A gut microbiome-restoring diet6
The HIV epidemic 40 years on6
Fungi feed bacteria for biodegradation6
Phages to the rescue6
Fitness cost of antifungal resistance6
Unique bile acid metabolism in centenarians6
Drosophila sperm sabotage by Wolbachia prophage5
Lassa fever — the road ahead5
A molecular understanding of alphavirus entry and antibody protection5
Dispersing biofilm myths5
Beneficial applications of biofilms4
ESKAPE pathogens: antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology, clinical impact and therapeutics4
Pili go with the flow4
Contact-dependent killing by Myxococcus4
Staphylococcus aureus gets itchy4
Effects of climate change and human activities on vector-borne diseases4
Biology and evolution of bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems4
A new wrinkle in biofilm structure4
Circulating leprosy in the wild4
SURFing SARS-CoV-2 inhibition4
Horizontal gene transfer and adaptive evolution in bacteria4
Conservation and similarity of bacterial and eukaryotic innate immunity4
Roles of the gut microbiome in weight management4
Motivation for exercise from the gut4
Mobilizing resistance genes in the human gut4
A deadly escape4
Gut bugs disrupt cancer drugs3
Human microbiome acquisition and transmission3
When Helicobacter pylori spells gastric cancer3
Alternative functions of CRISPR–Cas systems in the evolutionary arms race3
Shaking up that sick feeling with biofilm sugars3
Stopping Marburg virus in its tracks3
A small coat for satellites3
The gut–liver axis and gut microbiota in health and liver disease3
An uneven race: genome editing for parasitic worms3
A kill switch for tuberculosis3
Discovering untapped biochemistry in microorganisms from hidden corners3
Author Correction: Molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance revisited3
ICSP response to ‘Science depends on nomenclature, but nomenclature is not science’3
Degrading the matrix3
Inheriting traits3
Black Death unravelled3
Tricking plants into starvation3
Iron gatekeeper in malaria3
Staphylococcus epidermidis and its dual lifestyle in skin health and infection3
Cellular souvenirs in viral luggage3
Publisher Correction: The marine nitrogen cycle: new developments and global change3
No viral rebound3
The path of more resistance3
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