OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Microbiology Reports is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
Microbial communities reveal niche partitioning across the slope and bottom zones of the challenger deep	212
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Prevalence, Distribution and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Enterobacteriaceae and Non‐Fermenting Gram‐Negative Bacilli Isolated From Environmental Samples in a Veterinary Clinical Hospital in	58
Microbial Communities in Agave Fermentations Vary by Local Biogeographic Regions	40
Global 16S rRNA diversity of provannid snail endosymbionts from Indo‐Pacific deep‐sea hydrothermal vents	37
Pressure‐dependent growth controls 3D architecture of Pseudomonas putida microcolonies	30
Feeding strategy and feed protein level affect the gut microbiota of common carp (Cyprinus carpio)	28
Cyanobacterial community composition and their functional shifts associated with biocrust succession in the Gurbantunggut Desert	27
Tolerance to environmental pollution in the freshwater crustacean Asellus aquaticus: A role for the microbiome	27
Seasonal and interannual variability of the free‐living and particle‐associated bacteria of a coastal microbiome	25
Identifying Potential Geochemical and Microbial Impacts of Hydrogen Storage in a Deep Saline Aquifer	24
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Isolation of Acanthamoeba Species and Bacterial Symbiont Variability in Puna Salt Plains, Argentina	20
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Rooting for Success: The Role of Microorganisms in Promoting Growth and Resilience in Black Alder Seedlings	18
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Carbon metabolism and adaptation of hyperalkaliphilic microbes in serpentinizing spring of Manleluag, the Philippines	17
Regulation of nitrogen transformation and microbial community by inoculation during livestock manure composting	16
A genome–proteome‐based approach for xylan degradation by Cohnella sp. AR92	16
Sulfur cycling likely obscures dynamic biologically‐driven iron redox cycling in contemporary methane seep environments	16
Succession and assembly mechanisms of seawater prokaryotic communities along an extremely wide salinity gradient	16
Microorganism community structure: A characterisation of agrosystems from Madeira Archipelago	15
A novel, divergent alkane monooxygenase (alkB) clade involved in crude oil biodegradation	15
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Herbivory shapes the rhizosphere bacterial microbiota in potato plants	14
Microbiomes in agroecosystem: Diversity, function and assembly mechanisms	14
Activity and abundance of methanotrophic bacteria in a northern mountainous gradient of wetlands	14
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Bacterial endophytic community composition varies by hemp cultivar in commercially sourced seed	13
Unveiling Short‐Scale Responses: How Pico‐ and Nanoeukaryotic Plankton Navigate Environmental Variability in a Coastal Upwelling System	13
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A new metabolic trait in an acetogen: Mixed acid fermentation of fructose in a methylene‐tetrahydrofolate reductase mutant of Acetobacterium woodii	13
Year‐Round Quantification, Structure and Dynamics of Epibacterial Communities From Diverse Macroalgae Reveal a Persistent Core Microbiota and Strong Host Specificities	13
More Than a Stick in the Mud: Eelgrass Leaf and Root Bacterial Communities Are Distinct From Those on Physical Mimics	13
Dust sprinkling as an effective method for infecting layer chickens with wild‐type SalmonellaTyphimurium and changes in host gut microbiota	13
Dehalococcoides mccartyi strain NIT01 grows more stably in vessels made of pure titanium rather than the stainless alloy SUS304	13
Thermodynamics shapes the biogeography of propionate‐oxidizing syntrophs in paddy field soils	12
Population structure and pathogen interaction of Escherichia coli in freshwater: Implications of land‐use for water quality and public health in Aotearoa New Zealand	12
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Paracoccus kondratievae produces poly(3‐hydroxybutyrate) under elevated temperature conditions	12
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Whole‐cell studies of substrate and inhibitor specificity of isoprene monooxygenase and related enzymes	11
How do high phosphate concentrations affect soil microbial communities after a century of ecosystem self‐reclamation?	11
Metabolic versatility of aerobic methane‐oxidizing bacteria under anoxia in aquatic ecosystems	10
Symbioses of alvinocaridid shrimps from the South West Pacific: No chemosymbiotic diets but conserved gut microbiomes	10
Trophic interrelationships of bacteria are important for shaping soil protist communities	10
Wolbachia in Antarctic terrestrial invertebrates: Absent or undiscovered?	10
Conserved infections and reproductive phenotypes of Wolbachia symbionts in Asian tortrix moths	10
Synergistic mechanisms of humic acid and biomineralization in cadmium remediation using Lysinibacillus fusiformis	9
A quantitative sequencing method using synthetic internal standards including functional and phylogenetic marker genes	9
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Increased Nutrient Levels Enhance Bacterial Exopolysaccharides Production in the Context of Algae	9
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The potential of Pseudomonas for bioremediation of oxyanions	9
Genome‐resolved metagenomics identifies novel active microbes in biogeochemical cycling within methanol‐enriched soil	9
In silico analysis of diversity, specificity and molecular evolution of Stenotrophomonas phages	9
Withdrawn: The two‐component system RstAB regulates production of a polysaccharide capsule with a role in virulence in the marine pathogen Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae<	9
Wolbachia modify host cell metabolite profiles in response to short‐term temperature stress	9
Genome‐resolved metagenomics revealed novel microbial taxa with ancient metabolism from macroscopic microbial mat structures inhabiting anoxic deep reefs of a Maldivian Blue Hole	9
Evidence of a putative CO₂ delivery system to the chromatophore in the photosynthetic amoeba Paulinella	9
Global expansion of Vibrio spp. in hot water	9
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In it together: Candida–bacterial oral biofilms and therapeutic strategies	8
Acid stress in microbes: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology	8
Acidophilic sulphate‐reducing bacteria: Diversity, ecophysiology, and applications	8
‘Candidatus Gromoviella agglomerans’, a novel intracellular Holosporaceae parasite of the ciliate Paramecium showing marked genome reduction	8
New bacterial strains for ibuprofen biodegradation: Drug removal, transformation, and potential catabolic genes	8
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The contribution of beneficial wheat seed fungal communities beyond disease‐causing fungi: Advancing heritable mycobiome‐based plant breeding	8
Ecology and Pathogenicity for Honey Bee Brood of Recently Described Paenibacillus melissococcoides and Comparison With Paenibacillus dendritiformis, Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus	8
Is the gut microbiome of insects a potential source to meet UN sustainable development goals to eliminate plastic pollution?	8
The impacts of water quality on the amphibian chytrid fungal pathogen: A systematic review	8
Carbon dioxide fixation by microbes: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology	8
Desert plants, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and associated bacteria: Exploring the diversity and role of symbiosis under drought	8

Genotypes and phenotypes of methicillin‐resistant staphylococci isolated from shrimp aquaculture farms	8
O‐acetylesterase activity of Bifidobacterium bifidum sialidase facilities the liberation of sialic acid and encourages the proliferation of sialic acid scavenging Bifidobacterium brev	8
Pyricularia oryzae enhances Streptomyces griseus growth via non‐volatile alkaline metabolites	7
Unique episymbiotic relationship between Candidatus Patescibacteria and Zoogloea in activated sludge flocs at a municipal wastewater treatment plant	7
Bacterial rather than fungal diversity and community assembly drive soil multifunctionality in a subtropical forest ecosystem	7
Persistent tissue‐specific resident microbiota in oysters across a broad geographical range	7
Differential requirement for RecFOR pathway components in Thermus thermophilus	7
Urbanisation and Lockdown Impact on Airborne Fungal Communities in Tropical Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Urban and Peri‐Urban Environments	7
Discovery of a new bacterium, Microbacterium betulae sp. nov., in birch wood associated with hypersensitivity pneumonitis in woodworkers	7
Anaerobic oxidation of methane mediated by microbial extracellular respiration	7
Small RNAs in the Antarctic bacterium Pseudomonas extremaustralis responsive to oxygen availability and oxidative stress	7
Direct Evidence of Microbial Sunscreen Production by Scum‐Forming Cyanobacteria in the Baltic Sea	7
Investigation of Suitable, Readily Available, Sources of Sulfate‐Reducing Bacteria Inoculum, and Evaluation of Sulfate Reduction Rates Achieved at Different pHs	7
Microbes controlling plant pathogens	7
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Cocaine esterase occurrence in global wastewater microbiomes and potential for biotransformation of novel psychoactive substances	6
The interactions and hierarchical effects of long‐term agricultural stressors on soil bacterial communities	6
Inactivation of siderophore iron‐chelating moieties by the fungal wheat root symbiont Pyrenophora biseptata	6
Effects of 5‐year experimental warming in the Alpine belt on soil Archaea: Multi‐omics approaches and prospects	6
Bacterial symbionts of the precious coral Corallium rubrum are differentially distributed across colony‐specific compartments and differ among colormorphs	6
The potential of bacterial microcompartment architectures for phytonanotechnology	6
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Transinfected Wolbachia strains induce a complex of cytoplasmic incompatibility phenotypes: Roles of CI factor genes	6
Climate change and antibiotic resistance: A scoping review	6
Microbial diversity in the arid and semi‐arid soils of Botswana	6
Nutrients mediate caffeine inhibition of Escherichia coli	6
Investigating the infant gut microbiota in developing countries: worldwide metagenomic meta‐analysis involving infants living in sub‐urban areas of Côte d'Ivoire	6
Novel angular naphthopyrone formation by Arp1p dehydratase involved in Aspergillus fumigatus melanin biosynthesis	6
Phagotrophy in the nitrogen‐fixing haptophyte Braarudosphaera bigelowii	6
Microbes and climate change: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology	6
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At what cost? The impact of bacteriophage resistance on the growth kinetics and protein synthesis of Escherichia coli	5
Zoonotic bacterial and parasitic intestinal pathogens in foxes, raccoons and other predators from eastern Germany	5
High‐affinity amide‐lanthanide adsorption to gram‐positive soil bacteria	5
Utilization of lasso peptides for biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	5
Environmental processes and health implications potentially mediated by dust‐borne bacteria	5
The ubiquitous soil verrucomicrobial clade ‘Candidatus Udaeobacter’ shows preferences for acidic pH	5
Temporal and Depth‐Driven Variability of Pelagic Bacterial Communities in Lake Erie: Biofilm and Plankton Dynamics	5
Microbes and hydrothermal environments: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology	5
Metagenomic airborne resistome from urban hot spots through the One Health lens	5
Whole‐genome sequence analysis of Staphylococcus aureus from retail fish acknowledged the incidence of highly virulent ST672‐MRSA‐IVa/t1309, an emerging Indian clone, in Assam, India	5
Exploring Microbiological Dynamics in a Salt Cavern for Potential Hydrogen Storage Use	5
Strategies of organic phosphorus recycling by soil bacteria: acquisition, metabolism, and regulation	5
Bacteria on the foundational kelp in kelp forest ecosystems: Insights from culturing, whole genome sequencing and metabolic assays	5
The ‘microbiome counterattack’: Insights on the soil and root‐associated microbiome in diverse chickpea and lentil genotypes after an erratic rainfall event	5
Polysaccharide degradation by the Bacteroidetes: mechanisms and nomenclature	5
Subtle changes in topsoil microbial communities of drained forested peatlands after prolonged drought	5
Phthalate hydrolase: distribution, diversity and molecular evolution	5
Cereal leaf beetle‐associated bacteria enhance the survival of their host upon insecticide treatments and respond differently to insecticides with different modes of action	5
National‐scale distribution of protists associated with sorghum leaves and roots	5
The etherase system of Novosphingobium sp. MBES04 functions as a sensor of lignin fragments through phenylpropanone production to induce specific transcriptional responses	5
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Short‐term microbialite resurgence as indicator of ecological resilience against crises (Catamarca, Argentine Puna)	5