OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Gut Microbes is 50. 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
Upregulation of Lactobacillus spp . in gut microbiota as a novel mechanism for environmental eustress-induced anti-pancreatic cancer effects	209
The gut microbiota: an emerging modulator of drug resistance in hepatocellular carcinoma	186
The human gut serves as a reservoir of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae	184
Microbiota-directed biotherapeutics: considerations for quality and functional assessment	168
Bile acid profiling as an effective biomarker for staging in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease	140
The effects of gut microbiota on appetite regulation and the underlying mechanisms	133
Faecal (or intestinal) microbiota transplant: a tool for repairing the gut microbiome	127
Antigenic operon fragmentation and diversification mechanism in Bacteroidota impacts gut metagenomics and pathobionts in Crohn's disease microlesions	101
Utilization of glycosaminoglycans by the human gut microbiota: participating bacteria and their enzymatic machineries	97
Depletion of butyrate-producing microbes of the Firmicutes predicts nonresponse to FMT therapy in patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection	96
GPR120 promotes neutrophil control of intestinal bacterial infection	86
Intestinal TLR4 deletion exacerbates acute pancreatitis through gut microbiota dysbiosis and Paneth cells deficiency	84
Engineered Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 with urate oxidase and an oxygen-recycling system for hyperuricemia treatment	81
A high fiber diet or supplementation with Lactococcus lactis subspecies cremoris to pregnant mice confers protection against intestinal injury in adult offspring	80
Effects of Prevotella copri on insulin, gut microbiota and bile acids	75
E. coli Common pili promote the fitness and virulence of a hybrid aEPEC/ExPEC strain within diverse host environments	75
Campylobacter jejuni benefits from the bile salt deoxycholate under low-oxygen condition in a PldA dependent manner	75
Gut microbiota in mucosa and feces of newly diagnosed, treatment-naïve adult inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome patients	73
Microbiota and plasticity of antigen-presenting ILC3s: impact on antitumor immune response	72
Gut microbiota metabolite indole-3-acetic acid maintains intestinal epithelial homeostasis through mucin sulfation	72
Interactions and substrate selectivity within the SctRST complex of the type III secretion system of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli	72
Gut microbiota links to serum ferritin and cognition	69
L. rhamnosus CNCM I-3690 survival, adaptation, and small bowel microbiome impact in human	67
Microbial succinate promotes the response to metformin by upregulating secretory immunoglobulin a in intestinal immunity	66
Synergistic and off-target effects of bacteriocins in a simplified human intestinal microbiome: implications for Clostridioides difficile infection control	65

Lactiplantibacillus plantarum (CECT7484 and CECT7485) and Pedioccoccus acidilactici (CECT7483) enhance actin cytoskeleton and CYP1A1 expression restor	64
Interplay of m6A RNA methylation and gut microbiota in modulating gut injury	63
Mucosal washes are useful for sampling intestinal mucus-associated microbiota despite low biomass	63
Helicobacter pylori infection induces DNA double-strand breaks through the ACVR1/IRF3/POLD1 signaling axis to drive gastric tumorigenesis	63
Increased dietary protein stimulates amino acid catabolism via the gut microbiota and secondary bile acid production	62
The immune response modulated by inoculation of commensal bacteria at birth impacts the gut microbiota and prevents Salmonella colonization	62
Microbial bile salt hydrolase activity influences gene expression profiles and gastrointestinal maturation in infant mice	61
From intestinal colonization to systemic infections: Candida albicans translocation and dissemination	60
Host-mycobiome metabolic interactions in health and disease	59
MlrA, a MerR family regulator in Vibrio cholerae , senses the anaerobic signal in the small intestine of the host to promote bacterial intestinal colonization	59
Salmonella enterica subsp. II serovar 4,5,12:a:- may cause gastroenteritis infections in humans	57
Modeling spatial interaction networks of the gut microbiota	57
Preterm infants at low risk for early-onset sepsis differ in early fecal microbiome assembly	57
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells prevent disruption of the gut barrier, preserve microbiota composition, and potentiate immunoregulatory pathways in a rat model of experimental autoimmune encephalomye	57
Dietary fiber-based regulation of bile salt hydrolase activity in the gut microbiota and its relevance to human disease	56
Loss-of-function SLC30A2 mutants are associated with gut dysbiosis and alterations in intestinal gene expression in preterm infants	55
Compensatory intestinal antibody response against pro-inflammatory microbiota after bariatric surgery	54
Helicobacter pylori PldA modulates TNFR1-mediated p38 signaling pathways to regulate macrophage responses for its survival	52
Detection of Klebsiella pneumoniae human gut carriage: a comparison of culture, qPCR, and whole metagenomic sequencing methods	52
Gut microbiota and microbial metabolites for osteoporosis	51
EspH interacts with the host active Bcr related (ABR) protein to suppress RhoGTPases	51
Effect of diet on the evolution of gut commensal bacteria	51
The neonatal gut microbiome and global health	51
Microbiota during pregnancy and early life: role in maternal−neonatal outcomes based on human evidence	50
Genomic island-encoded LmiA regulates acid resistance and biofilm formation in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7	50
Muropeptides and muropeptide transporters impact on host immune response	50
Intestinal flora: a potential pathogenesis mechanism and treatment strategy for type 1 diabetes mellitus	50