OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ISME Journal is 55. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Polymerization of dietary fructans differentially affects interactions among intestinal microbiota of colitis mice	250
Resurrection of a diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment	235
Genome diversification of symbiotic fungi in beetle-fungus mutualistic symbioses	187
Strain identity effects contribute more to Pseudomonas community functioning than strain interactions	176
Copper stress shapes the dynamic behavior of amoebae and their associated bacteria	160
Revisiting biocrystallization: purine crystalline inclusions are widespread in eukaryotes	156
Complex extracellular biology drives surface competition during colony expansion in Bacillus subtilis	150
Bacterial growth and environmental adaptation via thiamine biosynthesis and thiamine-mediated metabolic interactions	144
Growth rate is a dominant factor predicting the rhizosphere effect	135
Long-term climate establishes functional legacies by altering microbial traits	128
Plankton community changes during the last 124 000 years in the subarctic Bering Sea derived from sedimentary ancient DNA	127
Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteriocin A37 kills natural competitors with a unique mechanism of action	122
Aerobic methylation of hydrogen sulfide to dimethylsulfide in diverse microorganisms and environments	121
Probiotic model for studying rhizosphere interactions of root exudates and the functional microbiome	117
Priority effects shape the structure of infant-typeBifidobacteriumcommunities on human milk oligosaccharides	109
Endosymbiont Tremblaya phenacola influences the reproduction of cotton mealybugs by regulating the mechanistic target of rapamycin pathway	108
Linking methanotroph phenotypes to genotypes using a simple spatially resolved model ecosystem	106
Correction to: Internal carbon recycling by heterotrophic prokaryotes compensates for mismatches between phytoplankton production and heterotrophic consumption	101
Conditions for the spread of CRISPR-Cas immune systems into bacterial populations	100
Resource partitioning and amino acid assimilation in a terrestrial geothermal spring	99
Seasonality of parasitic and saprotrophic zoosporic fungi: linking sequence data to ecological traits	99
Soil minerals affect taxon-specific bacterial growth	98
Nitrogen fixation and diazotroph diversity in groundwater systems	96
Symbiotic bacteria and fungi proliferate in diapause and may enhance overwintering survival in a solitary bee	92
Heterotrophic nitrification by Alcaligenes faecalis links organic and inorganic nitrogen metabolism	92

Metabolic resource overlap impacts competition among phyllosphere bacteria	91
Correlating phylogenetic and functional diversity of the nod-free but nodulating Bradyrhizobium phylogroup	84
Novel order-level lineage of ammonia-oxidizing archaea widespread in marine and terrestrial environments	81
Iron limitation of heterotrophic bacteria in the California Current System tracks relative availability of organic carbon and iron	80
Correction to 29 articles due to inaccurate manuscript submission dates	79
Asgard archaeal selenoproteome reveals a roadmap for the archaea-to-eukaryote transition of selenocysteine incorporation machinery	79
Bacteria of the order Burkholderiales are original environmental hosts of type II trimethoprim resistance genes (dfrB)	76
Rapid growth rate responses of terrestrial bacteria to field warming on the Antarctic Peninsula	74
Substrate control of sulphur utilisation and microbial stoichiometry in soil: Results of 13C, 15N, 14C, and 35S quad labelling	74
Ecological dynamics of the gut microbiome in response to dietary fiber	74
Siderophores and competition for iron govern myxobacterial predation dynamics	73
Correction to: Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae employs genomic island encoded toxins against bacterial competitors in the gut	73
Marine phytoplankton downregulate core photosynthesis and carbon storage genes upon rapid mixed layer shallowing	73
Genome-resolved metaproteogenomic and nanosolid characterization of an inactive vent chimney densely colonized by enigmatic DPANN archaea	72
Host-specific viral predation network on coral reefs	72
Ecological significance of extracellular vesicles in modulating host-virus interactions during algal blooms	71
Declines in ice cover are accompanied by light limitation responses and community change in freshwater diatoms	71
Trophic modulation of endophytes by rhizosphere protists	69
Biotic interactions between benthic infauna and aerobic methanotrophs mediate methane fluxes from coastal sediments	69
Algae-fungi symbioses and bacteria-fungi co-exclusion drive tree species-specific differences in canopy bark microbiomes	65
Correction: Genomic insights from Monoglobus pectinilyticus: a pectin-degrading specialist bacterium in the human colon	65
Soil microbiome feedbacks during disturbance-driven forest ecosystem conversion	62
Entomopathogenic pseudomonads can share an insect host with entomopathogenic nematodes and their mutualistic bacteria	62
Bacterial adenine cross-feeding stems from a purine salvage bottleneck	61
Rhizobium determinants of rhizosphere persistence and root colonization	59
Emergent antibiotic persistence in a spatially structured synthetic microbial mutualism	59
Phylosymbiosis shapes skin bacterial communities and pathogen-protective function in Appalachian salamanders	59
Evolutionary history of tyrosine-supplementing endosymbionts in pollen-feeding beetles	57
Rhizobacterial syntrophy between a helper and a beneficiary promotes tomato plant health	56
Chlamydiae as symbionts of photosynthetic dinoflagellates	55
Divergent marine anaerobic ciliates harbor closely related Methanocorpusculum endosymbionts	55