Nature Reviews Microbiology

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Microbiology is 27. 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
Fitting into your niche192
Bacterial longevity192
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
Co-evolution of immunity and seasonal influenza viruses106
Bacterial DNA excision repair pathways106
The biofilm life cycle: expanding the conceptual model of biofilm formation104
H. pylori evolution during disease103
When anaerobes encounter oxygen: mechanisms of oxygen toxicity, tolerance and defence103
A tale of capsules, phages and plasmids103
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
Spreading out of the lung73
Searching for relatives of SARS-CoV-2 in bats73
Capturing glycans73
Bee-saving symbionts70
Motor-powered trafficking70
Overcoming supply issues68
Dose-dependent COVID-19 symptoms68
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
Emergence, transmission dynamics and mechanisms of artemisinin partial resistance in malaria parasites in Africa52
Recording the gut transit52
Preventing programmed destruction52
A driver of monkeypox virus evolution?52
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
Wolbachia likes it hot36
Novel C. difficile toxin receptor36
Settling with the motion36
Busy symbionts during hibernation35
Keep calm with ammonia-producing microbiota34
Bioplastic builders33
Lassoing bacterial ribosomes33
Lassoing OMVs with an LPS receptor33
Infectious diseases and the Sustainable Development Goals: progress, challenges and future directions29
The pathobiology of human fungal infections28
Evasion of plant immunity by microbial pathogens28
The branches of the tree of life28
Gut microbiota and depression27
The bodily distribution of monkeypox virus27
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