OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ISME Journal is 54. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Localized coevolution between microbial predator and prey alters community-wide gene expression and ecosystem function	272
Emergent antibiotic persistence in a spatially structured synthetic microbial mutualism	267
Correction to: Integrated overview of stramenopile ecology, taxonomy, and heterotrophic origin	155
Microbial invasion of a toxic medium is facilitated by a resident community but inhibited as the community co-evolves	150
Physiological and evolutionary contexts of a new symbiotic species from the nitrogen-recycling gut community of turtle ants	142
Spatial separation of ribosomes and DNA in Asgard archaeal cells	134
Endosymbionts modulate virus effects on aphid-plant interactions	132
Hyphosphere microorganisms facilitate hyphal spreading and root colonization of plant symbiotic fungus in ammonium-enriched soil	120
Holocene and contemporary marine dinoflagellate community patterns predict expansion of generalist dinoflagellate blooms in warming oceans	119
In vivo evolution of antimicrobial resistance in a biofilm model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection	116
Sinking particles exporting diatoms and Hacrobia predict the magnitude of oceanic POC flux	115
Aminolipids in bacterial membranes and the natural environment	113
Plant and soil biodiversity sustain root mycorrhizal fungal richness under drought stress	111
Revisiting biocrystallization: purine crystalline inclusions are widespread in eukaryotes	109
SLC24A-mediated calcium exchange as an indispensable component of the diatom cell density-driven signaling pathway	107
Biotic interactions between benthic infauna and aerobic methanotrophs mediate methane fluxes from coastal sediments	105
Phage co-transport with hyphal-riding bacteria fuels bacterial invasion in a water-unsaturated microbial model system	98
Novel order-level lineage of ammonia-oxidizing archaea widespread in marine and terrestrial environments	97
Role of the flagellar hook in the structural development and antibiotic tolerance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	93
Pulsed, continuous or somewhere in between? Resource dynamics matter in the optimisation of microbial communities	90
Viral lysing can alleviate microbial nutrient limitations and accumulate recalcitrant dissolved organic matter components in soil	90
Resurrection of a diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment	87
Increased genetic diversity loss and genetic differentiation in a model marine diatom adapted to ocean warming compared to high CO2	84
Priority effects shape the structure of infant-typeBifidobacteriumcommunities on human milk oligosaccharides	81
Long-term metagenomic insights into the roles of antiviral defense systems in stabilizing activated sludge bacterial communities	80

Cryptochrome PtCPF1 regulates high temperature acclimation of marine diatoms through coordination of iron and phosphorus uptake	80
Climate change-related warming reduces thermal sensitivity and modifies metabolic activity of coastal benthic bacterial communities	77
Asgard ESCRT-III and VPS4 reveal conserved chromatin binding properties of the ESCRT machinery	77
Dynamics and activity of an ammonia-oxidizing archaea bloom in South San Francisco Bay	76
Hot moment of N2O emissions in seasonally frozen peatlands	76
Genetic and species rearrangements in microbial consortia impact biodegradation potential	74
Divergent molecular strategies drive evolutionary adaptation to competitive fitness in biofilm formation	73
Metabolic potential of Nitrososphaera-associated clades	72
Laminarin stimulates single cell rates of sulfate reduction whereas oxygen inhibits transcriptomic activity in coastal marine sediment	72
Siderophores as an iron source for picocyanobacteria in deep chlorophyll maximum layers of the oligotrophic ocean	71
Gut microbiota contribute to variations in honey bee foraging intensity	71
Whole genome sequences reveal the Xanthomonas perforans population is shaped by the tomato production system	70
Catabolic protein degradation in marine sediments confined to distinct archaea	70
Flavobacterial exudates disrupt cell cycle progression and metabolism of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana	65
Fireworms are a reservoir and potential vector for coral-infecting apicomplexans	65
Beneficial and detrimental fungi within the culturable mycobiome of the Red Sea coral Stylophora pistilatta	64
Diurnal transcriptional variation is reduced in a nitrogen-fixing diatom endosymbiont	64
Drug delivery dynamics dictate evolution of bacterial antibiotic responses	63
Correction: Non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals enhance the transmission of exogenous antibiotic resistance genes through bacterial transformation	62
Dominance of phage particles carrying antibiotic resistance genes in the viromes of retail food sources	60
Transcriptional responses of Trichodesmium to natural inverse gradients of Fe and P availability	60
Bolstering fitness via CO2 fixation and organic carbon uptake: mixotrophs in modern groundwater	60
Transportome remodeling of a symbiotic microalga inside a planktonic host	59
Unraveling negative biotic interactions determining soil microbial community assembly and functioning	57
Phyllosphere symbiont promotes plant growth through ACC deaminase production	57
Replicated life-history patterns and subsurface origins of the bacterial sister phyla Nitrospirota and Nitrospinota	57
Bacterial type VI secretion system helps prevent cheating in microbial communities	56
Large-scale single-virus genomics uncovers hidden diversity of river water viruses and diversified gene profiles	55
Chlorine redox chemistry is widespread in microbiology	54