OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ISME Journal is 57. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Integrated overview of stramenopile ecology, taxonomy, and heterotrophic origin	596
Aminolipids in bacterial membranes and the natural environment	209
Inositol phosphates as an overlooked phosphorous source in marine ecosystems	189
Increased genetic diversity loss and genetic differentiation in a model marine diatom adapted to ocean warming compared to high CO2	183
Physiological and evolutionary contexts of a new symbiotic species from the nitrogen-recycling gut community of turtle ants	171
Land use drives drug resistance in an airborne human fungal pathogen	166
Hyphosphere microorganisms facilitate hyphal spreading and root colonization of plant symbiotic fungus in ammonium-enriched soil	134
SLC24A-mediated calcium exchange as an indispensable component of the diatom cell density-driven signaling pathway	126
Microbial invasion of a toxic medium is facilitated by a resident community but inhibited as the community co-evolves	123
Rapid adaptive evolution of oxylipin-based chemical defense against algicidal bacteria in a bloom-forming diatom	120
Co-cultivation rescues suicidal Paenibacillus amylolyticus swarms	111
Bile acid metabolism dysregulation following Helicobacter pylori eradication promotes plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance in the gut microbiome	111
Pulsed, continuous or somewhere in between? Resource dynamics matter in the optimisation of microbial communities	106
Eco-evolutionary dynamics sustain a potent yet rare antibiotic gene cluster in Streptomyces	100
Localized coevolution between microbial predator and prey alters community-wide gene expression and ecosystem function	96
Warming mitigates root exudate-induced priming effects via changes to microbial biomass, community structure, and gene abundance	94
Sinking particles exporting diatoms and Hacrobia predict the magnitude of oceanic POC flux	93
Rice gs3 allele and low-nitrogen conditions enrich rhizosphere microbiota that mitigate methane emissions and promote beneficial crop traits	93
Novel order-level lineage of ammonia-oxidizing archaea widespread in marine and terrestrial environments	92
Resurrection of a diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment	88
Plant and soil biodiversity sustain root mycorrhizal fungal richness under drought stress	88
Standardized and batch effect–independent technologies enable global collaboration in microbiome research	87
Architectural Intelligence: Toward a Spatial Framework for Interpreting Microbiome-Associated Human Disease.	86
Emergent antibiotic persistence in a spatially structured synthetic microbial mutualism	85
Distinct transcriptomic strategies underlie differential heat tolerance in Symbiodiniaceae symbionts	84

Deterministic Recruitment Limitation during Soybean Pod Development Shapes Seed-Transmitted Microbiota Assembly	83
Photosynthesis-driven interactions in the phycosphere enhance bacterial extracellular superoxide production	82
Endosymbionts modulate virus effects on aphid-plant interactions	82
Offensive role of the Bacillus extracellular matrix in driving metabolite-mediated dialog and adaptive strategies with the fungus	81
In vivo evolution of antimicrobial resistance in a biofilm model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection	80
Holocene and contemporary marine dinoflagellate community patterns predict expansion of generalist dinoflagellate blooms in warming oceans	80
Biotic interactions between benthic infauna and aerobic methanotrophs mediate methane fluxes from coastal sediments	78
Viral lysing can alleviate microbial nutrient limitations and accumulate recalcitrant dissolved organic matter components in soil	77
Understanding prokaryotic adaptation through advanced DNA methylation detection techniques	76
Dynamics and activity of an ammonia-oxidizing archaea bloom in South San Francisco Bay	76
Flavobacterial exudates disrupt cell cycle progression and metabolism of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana	75
Drug delivery dynamics dictate evolution of bacterial antibiotic responses	72
Beneficial and detrimental fungi within the culturable mycobiome of the Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata	68
Symbiont diversity within Loripes orbiculatus and the case for multiple hosts	68
Laminarin stimulates single cell rates of sulfate reduction whereas oxygen inhibits transcriptomic activity in coastal marine sediment	67
Rapid resistance evolution against phage cocktails	67
Fireworms are a reservoir and potential vector for coral-infecting apicomplexans	67
Colonization history of snow algae on Hawai‘i island	66
Climate change-related warming reduces thermal sensitivity and modifies metabolic activity of coastal benthic bacterial communities	66
Replicated life-history patterns and subsurface origins of the bacterial sister phyla Nitrospirota and Nitrospinota	65
Dominance of phage particles carrying antibiotic resistance genes in the viromes of retail food sources	64
Genetic and species rearrangements in microbial consortia impact biodegradation potential	64
Transportome remodeling of a symbiotic microalga inside a planktonic host	64
Upregulated jasmonate signaling shifts Arabidopsis microbiota interactions and stress adaptations through a positive feedback loop	63
Mutations in legume genes that influence symbiosis create a complex selective landscape for rhizobial symbionts	62
Asgard ESCRT-III and VPS4 reveal conserved chromatin binding properties of the ESCRT machinery	61
Divergent molecular strategies drive evolutionary adaptation to competitive fitness in biofilm formation	61
Hot moment of N2O emissions in seasonally frozen peatlands	60
Metabolic potential of Nitrososphaera-associated clades	60
Phyllosphere symbiont promotes plant growth through ACC deaminase production	59
Cryptochrome PtCPF1 regulates high temperature acclimation of marine diatoms through coordination of iron and phosphorus uptake	58
Diurnal transcriptional variation is reduced in a nitrogen-fixing diatom endosymbiont	57