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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Seasonal and interannual variability of the free‐living and particle‐associated bacteria of a coastal microbiome	61
Microbial communities reveal niche partitioning across the slope and bottom zones of the challenger deep	59
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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	38
Microbial Communities in Agave Fermentations Vary by Local Biogeographic Regions	30
Tolerance to environmental pollution in the freshwater crustacean Asellus aquaticus: A role for the microbiome	28
Feeding strategy and feed protein level affect the gut microbiota of common carp (Cyprinus carpio)	28
Global 16S rRNA diversity of provannid snail endosymbionts from Indo‐Pacific deep‐sea hydrothermal vents	28
Pressure‐dependent growth controls 3D architecture of Pseudomonas putida microcolonies	26
Cyanobacterial community composition and their functional shifts associated with biocrust succession in the Gurbantunggut Desert	24
Identifying Potential Geochemical and Microbial Impacts of Hydrogen Storage in a Deep Saline Aquifer	23
Chromium‐Tanned Leather and Microbial Consortia: Identification of Taxa With Biodegradation Potential and Chromium Tolerance	22
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Isolation of Acanthamoeba Species and Bacterial Symbiont Variability in Puna Salt Plains, Argentina	18
Rooting for Success: The Role of Microorganisms in Promoting Growth and Resilience in Black Alder Seedlings	18
Carbon metabolism and adaptation of hyperalkaliphilic microbes in serpentinizing spring of Manleluag, the Philippines	16
Herbivory shapes the rhizosphere bacterial microbiota in potato plants	16
Microbiomes in agroecosystem: Diversity, function and assembly mechanisms	16
Succession and assembly mechanisms of seawater prokaryotic communities along an extremely wide salinity gradient	16
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Microorganism community structure: A characterisation of agrosystems from Madeira Archipelago	15
A genome–proteome‐based approach for xylan degradation by Cohnella sp. AR92	15
Microbiome Dynamics in Early Life Stages of the Precious Mediterranean Red Coral Corallium rubrum	14

Activity and abundance of methanotrophic bacteria in a northern mountainous gradient of wetlands	14
Regulation of nitrogen transformation and microbial community by inoculation during livestock manure composting	14
Integrated Analysis of Gene Expression, Protein Synthesis, and Epigenetic Modifications in Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2 Under Iron Limitation	14
A novel, divergent alkane monooxygenase (alkB) clade involved in crude oil biodegradation	14
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Year‐Round Quantification, Structure and Dynamics of Epibacterial Communities From Diverse Macroalgae Reveal a Persistent Core Microbiota and Strong Host Specificities	13
Sulfur cycling likely obscures dynamic biologically‐driven iron redox cycling in contemporary methane seep environments	13
Unveiling Short‐Scale Responses: How Pico‐ and Nanoeukaryotic Plankton Navigate Environmental Variability in a Coastal Upwelling System	13
Paracoccus kondratievae produces poly(3‐hydroxybutyrate) under elevated temperature conditions	13
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Bacterial endophytic community composition varies by hemp cultivar in commercially sourced seed	13
Dust sprinkling as an effective method for infecting layer chickens with wild‐type SalmonellaTyphimurium and changes in host gut microbiota	13
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
More Than a Stick in the Mud: Eelgrass Leaf and Root Bacterial Communities Are Distinct From Those on Physical Mimics	12
A new metabolic trait in an acetogen: Mixed acid fermentation of fructose in a methylene‐tetrahydrofolate reductase mutant of Acetobacterium woodii	11
Dehalococcoides mccartyi strain NIT01 grows more stably in vessels made of pure titanium rather than the stainless alloy SUS304	11
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Conserved infections and reproductive phenotypes of Wolbachia symbionts in Asian tortrix moths	10
Trophic interrelationships of bacteria are important for shaping soil protist communities	10
Symbioses of alvinocaridid shrimps from the South West Pacific: No chemosymbiotic diets but conserved gut microbiomes	10
Whole‐cell studies of substrate and inhibitor specificity of isoprene monooxygenase and related enzymes	10
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How do high phosphate concentrations affect soil microbial communities after a century of ecosystem self‐reclamation?	10
Metabolic versatility of aerobic methane‐oxidizing bacteria under anoxia in aquatic ecosystems	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
The potential of Pseudomonas for bioremediation of oxyanions	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
New bacterial strains for ibuprofen biodegradation: Drug removal, transformation, and potential catabolic genes	9
Wolbachia modify host cell metabolite profiles in response to short‐term temperature stress	9
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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
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In it together: Candida–bacterial oral biofilms and therapeutic strategies	9
Wolbachia in Antarctic terrestrial invertebrates: Absent or undiscovered?	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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Genotypes and phenotypes of methicillin‐resistant staphylococci isolated from shrimp aquaculture farms	9
The impacts of water quality on the amphibian chytrid fungal pathogen: A systematic review	8
Acidophilic sulphate‐reducing bacteria: Diversity, ecophysiology, and applications	8
Desert plants, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and associated bacteria: Exploring the diversity and role of symbiosis under drought	8
Carbon dioxide fixation by microbes: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology	8
‘Candidatus Gromoviella agglomerans’, a novel intracellular Holosporaceae parasite of the ciliate Paramecium showing marked genome reduction	8
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Increased Nutrient Levels Enhance Bacterial Exopolysaccharides Production in the Context of Algae	8
Ecology and Pathogenicity for Honey Bee Brood of Recently Described Paenibacillus melissococcoides and Comparison With Paenibacillus dendritiformis, Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus	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
Is the gut microbiome of insects a potential source to meet UN sustainable development goals to eliminate plastic pollution?	8
Seasonal Host Shifts for Legionella Within an Industrial Water‐Cooling System	8
The contribution of beneficial wheat seed fungal communities beyond disease‐causing fungi: Advancing heritable mycobiome‐based plant breeding	7
Differential requirement for RecFOR pathway components in Thermus thermophilus	7
Unique episymbiotic relationship between Candidatus Patescibacteria and Zoogloea in activated sludge flocs at a municipal wastewater treatment plant	7
Identification of ESBL‐Producing Enterobacterales From Vegetable Plants: Preliminary Findings From a Small Cross‐Sectional Study in a Rural Area of Madagascar	7
Bacterial rather than fungal diversity and community assembly drive soil multifunctionality in a subtropical forest ecosystem	7
Direct Evidence of Microbial Sunscreen Production by Scum‐Forming Cyanobacteria in the Baltic Sea	7
Pyricularia oryzae enhances Streptomyces griseus growth via non‐volatile alkaline metabolites	7
Acid stress in microbes: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology	7
Small RNAs in the Antarctic bacterium Pseudomonas extremaustralis responsive to oxygen availability and oxidative stress	7
Investigation of Suitable, Readily Available, Sources of Sulfate‐Reducing Bacteria Inoculum, and Evaluation of Sulfate Reduction Rates Achieved at Different pHs	6
Urbanisation and Lockdown Impact on Airborne Fungal Communities in Tropical Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Urban and Peri‐Urban Environments	6
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
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Novel angular naphthopyrone formation by Arp1p dehydratase involved in Aspergillus fumigatus melanin biosynthesis	6
Enhancing Biodiversity‐Function Relationships in Field Retting: Towards Key Microbial Indicators for Retting Control	6
The interactions and hierarchical effects of long‐term agricultural stressors on soil bacterial communities	6
Persistent tissue‐specific resident microbiota in oysters across a broad geographical range	6
Overwintering Does Not Affect Microbiota Diversity in Halyomorpha halys: Implications for Its Ecology and Management	6
Inactivation of siderophore iron‐chelating moieties by the fungal wheat root symbiont Pyrenophora biseptata	6
Microbes and climate change: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology	6
Effects of 5‐year experimental warming in the Alpine belt on soil Archaea: Multi‐omics approaches and prospects	6
Microbes controlling plant pathogens	6
Discovery of a new bacterium, Microbacterium betulae sp. nov., in birch wood associated with hypersensitivity pneumonitis in woodworkers	6
Anaerobic oxidation of methane mediated by microbial extracellular respiration	6
Phagotrophy in the nitrogen‐fixing haptophyte Braarudosphaera bigelowii	6
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Bacterial symbionts of the precious coral Corallium rubrum are differentially distributed across colony‐specific compartments and differ among colormorphs	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
National‐scale distribution of protists associated with sorghum leaves and roots	5
Utilization of lasso peptides for biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	5
Cocaine esterase occurrence in global wastewater microbiomes and potential for biotransformation of novel psychoactive substances	5
Microbial diversity in the arid and semi‐arid soils of Botswana	5
Subtle changes in topsoil microbial communities of drained forested peatlands after prolonged drought	5
The ‘microbiome counterattack’: Insights on the soil and root‐associated microbiome in diverse chickpea and lentil genotypes after an erratic rainfall event	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
Temporal and Depth‐Driven Variability of Pelagic Bacterial Communities in Lake Erie: Biofilm and Plankton Dynamics	5
At what cost? The impact of bacteriophage resistance on the growth kinetics and protein synthesis of Escherichia coli	5
The potential of bacterial microcompartment architectures for phytonanotechnology	5
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The ubiquitous soil verrucomicrobial clade ‘Candidatus Udaeobacter’ shows preferences for acidic pH	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
Environmental processes and health implications potentially mediated by dust‐borne bacteria	5
Nutrients mediate caffeine inhibition of Escherichia coli	5
Exploring Microbiological Dynamics in a Salt Cavern for Potential Hydrogen Storage Use	5
Microbes and hydrothermal environments: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology	5