OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Microbial Genomics is 25. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Helicobacter cinaedi is a human-adapted lineage in the Helicobacter cinaedi/canicola/‘magdeburgensis’ complex	83
Genomic and pathogenicity analyses to identify the causative agent from multiple serogroups of non-O1, non-O139 Vibrio cholerae in foodborne outbreaks	79
Development and validation of a core-genome multilocus sequence typing scheme for Legionella longbeachae	77
Molecular characterization of Coxsackievirus A2 isolated from hand, foot and mouth disease in eastern China	74
Evaluating the impact of genomic epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on hospital infection prevention and control decisions	69
Transcriptional landscape of Burkholderia pseudomallei cultured under environmental and clinical conditions	57
Development of a novel streamlined workflow (AACRE) and database (inCREDBle) for genomic analysis of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales	51
Analysis of genome instability and implications for the consequent phenotype in Plasmodium falciparum containing mutated MSH2-1 (P513T)	46
Identifying gene-level mechanisms of successful dispersal of Vibrio parahaemolyticus during El Niño events	44
Comparative genomics of a poinsettia-associated phytoplasma and functional validation of its SAP11-homologous effectors that induce plant branching	43
Assembly collapsing versus heterozygosity oversizing: detection of homokaryotic and heterokaryotic Laccaria trichodermophora strains by hybrid genome assembly	41
Acquisition of Type I methyltransferase via horizontal gene transfer increases the drug resistance of Aeromonas veronii	41
Genomic features of pneumococcal strains isolated from paediatric patients with invasive disease during pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction in Lima, Peru	37
Comparative genomics of a novel Erwinia species associated with the Highland midge (Culicoides impunctatus)	32
Multiple independent losses of sporulation and peptidoglycan in the Mycoplasmatales and related orders of the class Bacilli	31
Novel emm4 lineage associated with an upsurge in invasive group A streptococcal disease in the Netherlands, 2022	31
The clinical, genomic, and microbiological profile of invasive multi-drug resistant Escherichia coli in a major teaching hospital in the United Kingdom	31
The primate gut microbiota contributes to interspecific differences in host metabolism	31
A metagenomic approach to One Health surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in a UK veterinary centre	30
Optimization of high-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing: an assessment of PCR pooling, mastermix use and contamination	28
Assessing the safety of microbiome perturbations	27
Novel diversity of polar Cyanobacteria revealed by genome-resolved metagenomics	26
Identification of further variation at the lipooligosaccharide outer core locus in Acinetobacter baumannii genomes and extension of the OCL reference sequence database for Kaptive	26
A systematic review of economic evaluations of whole-genome sequencing for the surveillance of bacterial pathogens	26
On the limits of 16S rRNA gene-based metagenome prediction and functional profiling	25

Birmingham-group IncP-1α plasmids revisited: RP4, RP1 and RK2 are identical and their remnants can be detected in environmental isolates