OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Microbiology is 30. 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.)

Article	Citations
Schistosomes go single cell	2825
Gender justice and prioritizing women and girls in the HIV response	1853
Adapting to host life	1233
Honey bee symbiont gives larvae a boost	853
Viruses on the move	852
Viral spillback	808
Measles is resurging in the Americas and the world is watching	748
Author Correction: Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: progress and challenges	745
Sticky Candida auris	700
Gut–brain axis in ageing	660
Genetics, ecology and evolution of phage satellites	653
Finding the lock to fit the key: Ebola virus entry	601
Author Correction: Priority effects in microbiome assembly	565
Commensalism and pathogenesis of Candida albicans at the mucosal interface	538
The soil plastisphere	521
Clostridioides difficile toxins: mechanisms of action and antitoxin therapeutics	516
Microbial diversity in extreme environments	462
Designer viral receptors	417
Tracking E. coli’s systemic spread	416
Ending the COVID-19 pandemic	413
Parasitic control of wolf behaviour	408
A microbial metabolite to master inflammation	396
The intruders that stole the master key	391
The endosymbiotic box of protective tricks	376
Sewer biofilms and SARS-CoV-2	346

Indirect intervention	344
Taking the jump to humans	338
Viruses unveil the mechanisms of nuclear entry	338
Pioneering microbiome engineering	335
Scavenging a pyrimidine to thrive	332
Prevention, treatment and cure of HIV infection	327
Microbial secondary metabolites: advancements to accelerate discovery towards application	317
Microbiome-based therapeutics	315
Microorganisms, climate change, and the Sustainable Development Goals: progress and challenges	302
Microbial adaptability in changing environments	301
Translating eco-evolutionary biology into therapy to tackle antibiotic resistance	301
Satellite RNA takes flight	294
Bacteria like it soft	293
Rediscovering plasmid-dependent phages	286
Phages get snappy	271
Microbiota in disease-transmitting vectors	265
Influenza lineage extinction during the COVID-19 pandemic?	261
Bacterial siderophores: diversity, uptake pathways and applications	260
The role of bacterial metabolism in antimicrobial resistance	258
SARS-CoV-2 viral load and shedding kinetics	254
Avian influenza takes flight in humans by evading restriction	252
Bacterial longevity	228
Copper contraceptive induces dysbiosis	220
Engineered Mycoplasma fight lung infections	212
How flaviviruses infect both humans and insects	208
Defending against plasmids	205
Bottleneck and spread of Treponema pallidum	203
Anti-defence islands in plasmids	200
Coronavirus research: knowledge gaps and research priorities	199
Antigenic evolution will lead to new SARS-CoV-2 variants with unpredictable severity	196
Challenges and strategies for addressing antibacterial drug resistance in LMICs	193
Microplastics impair seabird gut microbiomes	186
Bacterial small molecule metabolites implicated in gastrointestinal cancer development	183
Fitting into your niche	173
Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus outbreak in cattle: the knowns and unknowns	172
The gut–airway microbiome axis in health and respiratory diseases	168
The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world	165
Enterocloster undermine cancer immunotherapy	160
A manipulating pair	147
Outgrowing antibiotic action	146
PrEPping the skin	146
Cooperating to resist	146
Uropathogenic E. coli creates a memory	142
A gut bacterium trims mucosal immunity	138
Decisions, decisions…	137
Whisperings from not so silent mutations	136
Illuminating microbial defence systems in extreme environments	133
Intelligent bacteria for IBD	126
Cells and computers, better together	126
Aspergillus fumigatus biology, immunopathogenicity and drug resistance	124

Author Correction: Pathogenesis, epidemiology and control of Group A Streptococcus infection	122
Co-evolution of immunity and seasonal influenza viruses	121
Addressing the fungal diagnostic gap in LMICs	120
Extracellular niche establishment by plant pathogens	119
The biofilm life cycle: expanding the conceptual model of biofilm formation	116
Bacterial DNA excision repair pathways	116
The rapid emergence of antifungal-resistant human-pathogenic fungi	114
H. pylori evolution during disease	113
In tandem towards resistance	110
From B to Z in the matrix	110
From soil to battling antimicrobial resistance	109
Metagenomics distilled: new k-mer-based methods	104
Anthropogenic impacts on the terrestrial subsurface biosphere	102
Blurred lines in the mycorrhiza world	101
The microbial carbon pump and climate change	100
Immune evasion and provocation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis	99
The rising mpox crisis	94
A tale of two codes	90
Novel metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors	88
Author Correction: Examining the healthy human microbiome concept	88
Off to a new host	86
Cross-kingdom defence proteins	85
Spreading out of the lung	85
Capturing glycans	82
Motor-powered trafficking	81
Bee-saving symbionts	80
Reviving colistin	79
Dose-dependent COVID-19 symptoms	79
Overcoming supply issues	79
Skin-deep AMR hotspots in nursing homes	76
Blasting away a fungal pathogen	76
Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe	74
Monitoring pathogens in wastewater	74
Emergence, transmission dynamics and mechanisms of artemisinin partial resistance in malaria parasites in Africa	69
Infectious disease in an era of global change	67
The ecological roles of bacterial chemotaxis	64
Building climate-resilient agriculture through science and local action	64
The honeybee microbiota and its impact on health and disease	62
Recording the gut transit	62
Preventing programmed destruction	61
A driver of monkeypox virus evolution?	57
Finding protection in the community	56
Microbiome cartography	55
Quality MAGnified	55
Mapping the microbiome milieu	54
Salmonella Enteritidis: chicken or egg?	53
Campylobacter spreads colorectal cancer	53
Coordinated action by individuals orchestrates infection through the division of labour	52
Epstein–Barr virus pathogenesis and emerging control strategies	51
Antimicrobial peptides: structure, functions and translational applications	50
Gradients and consequences of heterogeneity in biofilms	49
Lactobacilli biology, applications and host interactions	49
Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward	49
Bacterial architects build the biofilm structures	49
The gut microbiota and its biogeography	48
Long-term control of HIV	45
Termite mounds are hydrogen sinks	44
Chemotaxis in the ocean	44
Microbiome shift in degrading soil	44
Novel C. difficile toxin receptor	43
Wolbachia likes it hot	43
Settling with the motion	42
Busy symbionts during hibernation	41
Keep calm with ammonia-producing microbiota	39
Bioplastic builders	39
Lassoing bacterial ribosomes	38
Lassoing OMVs with an LPS receptor	38
Infectious diseases and the Sustainable Development Goals: progress, challenges and future directions	37
The pathobiology of human fungal infections	36
The HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein: structure, function and interactions with neutralizing antibodies	36
Evasion of plant immunity by microbial pathogens	34
The branches of the tree of life	34
Unravelling the genome of giants	33
The bodily distribution of monkeypox virus	33
A potential new player in gastric cancer	32
Unearthing the story of the first antifungal drugs	31
Gut phages fuel food addiction	30
SARS-CoV-2 genomics as a springboard for future disease mitigation in LMICs	30
Shigella sonnei: epidemiology, evolution, pathogenesis, resistance and host interactions	30