OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Microbiology is 86. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Metabolic sensing tips the balance of drug tolerance in fungal meningitis	451
Rebound virus in the cerebrospinal fluid reveals a possible HIV-1 reservoir	418
Molecular factors shaping whether HCMV infection is productive or latent	326
Flipping the magic switch to persistence via GTP depletion	265
Prodrug florfenicol amine is activated by intrinsic resistance to target Mycobacterium abscessus	242
Climate extremes disrupt fungal–bacterial interactions	229
A phosphotransferase system promotes growth of zoonotic Streptococcus species in the brain	226
Gut microbial enzymes shape the health benefits of dietary phytonutrients	218
Double recombinant nOPV2 vaccine	211
Horizontal gene transfer explains unusual traits of Armillaria fungi	209
Dietary exclusion of major food groups shapes the gut microbiome and may influence health	207
Sickle cell trait enhances malaria transmission	207
Mycobacterium abscessus pathogenesis identified by phenogenomic analyses	202
Microbiome association with coral growth and survival	195
A dynamic subpopulation of CRISPR–Cas overexpressers allows Streptococcus pyogenes to rapidly respond to phage	190
Sulfated bile acid produced by a human gut commensal alleviates paediatric sepsis in mice	190
Bridging classical and continuous directed evolution	189
Salmonella-derived haem inhibits macrophage phagocytosis and promotes infection in mice	182
Mosquitoes provide a transmission route between possums and humans for Buruli ulcer in southeastern Australia	179
Wall teichoic acids regulate peptidoglycan synthesis to maintain rod shape in Bacillus subtilis	178
Host range, transmissibility and antigenicity of a pangolin coronavirus	165
Single mutation makes Escherichia coli an insect mutualist	161
Explainable artificial intelligence evolves antimicrobial peptides	157
A high-throughput and low-waste viability assay for microbes	154
Cytoplasmic contractile injection systems mediate cell death in Streptomyces	151

The IFIT2–IFIT3 antiviral complex targets short 5’ untranslated regions on viral mRNAs for translation inhibition	149
Ancient origin and constrained evolution of the division and cell wall gene cluster in Bacteria	149
Structure of a functional archaellum in Bacteria of the Chloroflexota phylum	149
Mechanistic basis for potent neutralization of Sin Nombre hantavirus by a human monoclonal antibody	148
Assessing critical thresholds in terrestrial microbiomes	145
Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections	143
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein O-phosphorylation landscape	138
Proteins containing photosynthetic reaction centre domains modulate FtsZ-based archaeal cell division	137
Recent gene selection and drug resistance underscore clinical adaptation across Candida species	136
Candida albicans extracellular vesicles trigger type I IFN signalling via cGAS and STING	135
Particular genomic and virulence traits associated with preterm infant-derived toxigenic Clostridium perfringens strains	134
The Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis via iron sequestration	134
The fast-evolving FIKK kinase family of Plasmodium falciparum can be inhibited by a single compound	130
The structure of the complete extracellular bacterial flagellum reveals the mechanism of flagellin incorporation	130
Bacterial cell division protein FtsZ complexes with a phage protein to activate bacterial immunity	129
Organ-on-chip models for infectious disease research	128
OPENPichia: licence-free Komagataella phaffii chassis strains and toolkit for protein expression	128
Double-stranded RNA sequencing reveals distinct riboviruses associated with thermoacidophilic bacteria from hot springs in Japan	128
Aspergillus fumigatus dsRNA virus promotes fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host	128
Integrated host-microbe plasma metagenomics for sepsis diagnosis in a prospective cohort of critically ill adults	127
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection-induced epithelial trained immunity impacts urinary tract disease outcome	126
CRISPR-influenced symbiosis	124
Mineral-eating microorganisms at extinct hydrothermal vents	123
Call for papers on the clinical microbiome	123
Prioritizing mentorship	123
Blockade of endothelin receptors mitigates SARS-CoV-2-induced osteoarthritis	122
Archaeal symbioses all the way down	121
The complex path towards herpesvirus vaccines	120
Bacteroides fragilis uses toxins for gut success	119
Coronavirus sampling and surveillance in bats from 1996–2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis	117
Exceeding expectations out in the cold with Colwellia	116
Decoding the impact of nuclear organization on antigenic variation in parasites	114
Author Correction: A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data	113
Nuclease–NTPase antiphage defence systems use conserved molecular features to control bacterial immunity	112
Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus induces mitochondrial fission to evade host immune responses and promote viral production	110
Extracellular vesicles block viral entryways	109
Synthesis of lipid-linked precursors of the bacterial cell wall is governed by a feedback control mechanism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	108
Benchmarking of shotgun sequencing depth reveals the potential and limitations of shallow metagenomics and strain-level analysis	107
Rational attenuation of RNA viruses with zinc finger antiviral protein	107
Streptomyces polyketides mediate bacteria–fungi interactions across soil environments	106
Microbial collagenase activity is linked to oral–gut translocation in advanced chronic liver disease	104
Structure-guided design of a synthetic bile acid that inhibits Clostridioides difficile TcdB toxin	104
Risk–reward trade-off during carbon starvation generates dichotomy in motility endurance among marine bacteria	103
Plasmids promote antimicrobial resistance through insertion sequence-mediated gene inactivation	103
Expanding known viral diversity in the healthy infant gut	101
Initial sites of SIV rebound after antiretroviral treatment cessation in rhesus macaques	101
Host factors dictate gut microbiome alterations in chronic kidney disease more strongly than kidney function	99
Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and type III secretion spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection	98
Dietary- and host-derived metabolites are used by diverse gut bacteria for anaerobic respiration	97
Skin androgens regulate Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity via quorum sensing	94

Intragenic viral silencer element regulates HTLV-1 latency via RUNX complex recruitment	94
All-trans retinoic acid suppresses systemic inflammation induced by severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in mice	93
SAMPL-seq reveals micron-scale spatial hubs in the human gut microbiome	92
Transforming tuberculosis diagnosis	92
Candida auris skin tropism and antifungal resistance are mediated by carbonic anhydrase Nce103	90
Sensitive poliovirus detection using nested PCR and nanopore sequencing: a prospective validation study	89
Therapeutics for COVID-19	87
Self-assembling viral histones are evolutionary intermediates between archaeal and eukaryotic nucleosomes	87
Discovery of an orally active benzoxaborole prodrug effective in the treatment of Chagas disease in non-human primates	87
Interkingdom sensing of fungal tyrosol promotes bacterial antifungal T6SS activity in the murine gut	86
Phages with a broad host range are common across ecosystems	86
Non-canonical start codons confer context-dependent advantages in carbohydrate utilization for commensal E. coli in the murine gut	86