OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Microbial Genomics is 24. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Helicobacter cinaedi is a human-adapted lineage in the Helicobacter cinaedi/canicola/‘magdeburgensis’ complex	544
Bilateral symmetry of linear streptomycete chromosomes	302
Genomic and pathogenicity analyses to identify the causative agent from multiple serogroups of non-O1, non-O139 Vibrio cholerae in foodborne outbreaks	119
Transcriptional landscape of Burkholderia pseudomallei cultured under environmental and clinical conditions	61
Comparative genomics of a novel Erwinia species associated with the Highland midge (Culicoides impunctatus)	60
A comparative study of pan-genome methods for microbial organisms: Acinetobacter baumannii pan-genome reveals structural variation in antimicrobial resistance-carrying plasmids	50
Identifying gene-level mechanisms of successful dispersal of Vibrio parahaemolyticus during El Niño events	50
Context-aware genomic surveillance reveals hidden transmission of a carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae	44
Genomic comparisons of Escherichia coli ST131 from Australia	38
Acquisition of Type I methyltransferase via horizontal gene transfer increases the drug resistance of Aeromonas veronii	37
The clinical, genomic, and microbiological profile of invasive multi-drug resistant Escherichia coli in a major teaching hospital in the United Kingdom	35
Assembly collapsing versus heterozygosity oversizing: detection of homokaryotic and heterokaryotic Laccaria trichodermophora strains by hybrid genome assembly	34
Development of a novel streamlined workflow (AACRE) and database (inCREDBle) for genomic analysis of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales	34
Analysis of genome instability and implications for the consequent phenotype in Plasmodium falciparum containing mutated MSH2-1 (P513T)	33
Assessing the safety of microbiome perturbations	31
Novel diversity of polar Cyanobacteria revealed by genome-resolved metagenomics	31
Distribution and genomic characterization of tigecycline-resistant tet(X4)-positive Escherichia coli of swine farm origin	30
Alterations in chromosomal genes nfsA, nfsB, and ribE are associated with nitrofurantoin resistance in Escherichia coli from the United Kingdom	29
Third generation cephalosporin resistance in clinical non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica in Germany and emergence of bla CTX-M-harbouring pESI plasmids	29
Evaluating the impact of genomic epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on hospital infection prevention and control decisions	29
Prophages encoding human immune evasion cluster genes are enriched in Staphylococcus aureus isolated from chronic rhinosinusitis patients with nasal polyps	28
Optimization of high-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing: an assessment of PCR pooling, mastermix use and contamination	28
Different evolutionary trends form the twilight zone of the bacterial pan-genome	26
Multiple independent losses of sporulation and peptidoglycan in the Mycoplasmatales and related orders of the class Bacilli	25
Identification of further variation at the lipooligosaccharide outer core locus in Acinetobacter baumannii genomes and extension of the OCL reference sequence database for Kaptive	24

Dairy streptococcal cell wall and exopolysaccharide genome diversity	24
The primate gut microbiota contributes to interspecific differences in host metabolism	24