OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Microbiology is 89. 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
Gene–drug potency screening in M. tuberculosis	622
Metabolic sensing tips the balance of drug tolerance in fungal meningitis	428
Rebound virus in the cerebrospinal fluid reveals a possible HIV-1 reservoir	355
Molecular factors shaping whether HCMV infection is productive or latent	332
Prodrug florfenicol amine is activated by intrinsic resistance to target Mycobacterium abscessus	304
The Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis via iron sequestration	303
Assessing critical thresholds in terrestrial microbiomes	238
Organ-on-chip models for infectious disease research	230
Horizontal gene transfer explains unusual traits of Armillaria fungi	215
Mosquitoes provide a transmission route between possums and humans for Buruli ulcer in southeastern Australia	213
Flipping the magic switch to persistence via GTP depletion	211
Explainable artificial intelligence evolves antimicrobial peptides	207
OPENPichia: licence-free Komagataella phaffii chassis strains and toolkit for protein expression	205
Salmonella-derived haem inhibits macrophage phagocytosis and promotes infection in mice	202
The structure of the complete extracellular bacterial flagellum reveals the mechanism of flagellin incorporation	193
A dynamic subpopulation of CRISPR–Cas overexpressers allows Streptococcus pyogenes to rapidly respond to phage	192
Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections	189
Ancient origin and constrained evolution of the division and cell wall gene cluster in Bacteria	188
Cytoplasmic contractile injection systems mediate cell death in Streptomyces	185
Candida albicans extracellular vesicles trigger type I IFN signalling via cGAS and STING	183
Aspergillus fumigatus dsRNA virus promotes fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host	182
Double-stranded RNA sequencing reveals distinct riboviruses associated with thermoacidophilic bacteria from hot springs in Japan	180
Particular genomic and virulence traits associated with preterm infant-derived toxigenic Clostridium perfringens strains	178
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein O-phosphorylation landscape	169
Single mutation makes Escherichia coli an insect mutualist	169

Integrated host-microbe plasma metagenomics for sepsis diagnosis in a prospective cohort of critically ill adults	167
The IFIT2–IFIT3 antiviral complex targets short 5’ untranslated regions on viral mRNAs for translation inhibition	166
Host range, transmissibility and antigenicity of a pangolin coronavirus	163
A high-throughput and low-waste viability assay for microbes	162
Gut microbial enzymes shape the health benefits of dietary phytonutrients	159
Sickle cell trait enhances malaria transmission	155
A phosphotransferase system promotes growth of zoonotic Streptococcus species in the brain	155
Mycobacterium abscessus pathogenesis identified by phenogenomic analyses	154
Double recombinant nOPV2 vaccine	149
Recent gene selection and drug resistance underscore clinical adaptation across Candida species	147
Climate extremes disrupt fungal–bacterial interactions	143
Structure of a functional archaellum in Bacteria of the Chloroflexota phylum	142
The fast-evolving FIKK kinase family of Plasmodium falciparum can be inhibited by a single compound	139
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection-induced epithelial trained immunity impacts urinary tract disease outcome	139
Therapeutic efficacy of monoclonal antibodies and antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 in Syrian hamsters	139
Proteins containing photosynthetic reaction centre domains modulate FtsZ-based archaeal cell division	138
Microbiome association with coral growth and survival	137
Mechanistic basis for potent neutralization of Sin Nombre hantavirus by a human monoclonal antibody	134
Dietary exclusion of major food groups shapes the gut microbiome and may influence health	133
Exceeding expectations out in the cold with Colwellia	132
Intragenic viral silencer element regulates HTLV-1 latency via RUNX complex recruitment	131
Decoding the impact of nuclear organization on antigenic variation in parasites	130
Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus induces mitochondrial fission to evade host immune responses and promote viral production	124
CRISPR-influenced symbiosis	124
Mineral-eating microorganisms at extinct hydrothermal vents	123
Call for papers on the clinical microbiome	121
Prioritizing mentorship	121
SAMPL-seq reveals micron-scale spatial hubs in the human gut microbiome	120
Initial sites of SIV rebound after antiretroviral treatment cessation in rhesus macaques	118
Archaeal symbioses all the way down	117
Extracellular vesicles block viral entryways	117
The complex path towards herpesvirus vaccines	117
Author Correction: A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data	116
Structure-guided design of a synthetic bile acid that inhibits Clostridioides difficile TcdB toxin	115
Coronavirus sampling and surveillance in bats from 1996–2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis	115
Benchmarking of shotgun sequencing depth reveals the potential and limitations of shallow metagenomics and strain-level analysis	113
Expanding known viral diversity in the healthy infant gut	112
Streptomyces polyketides mediate bacteria–fungi interactions across soil environments	111
Plasmids promote antimicrobial resistance through insertion sequence-mediated gene inactivation	111
Blockade of endothelin receptors mitigates SARS-CoV-2-induced osteoarthritis	111
Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and type III secretion spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection	110
Bacteroides fragilis uses toxins for gut success	107
Risk–reward trade-off during carbon starvation generates dichotomy in motility endurance among marine bacteria	106
Skin androgens regulate Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity via quorum sensing	106
Candida auris skin tropism and antifungal resistance are mediated by carbonic anhydrase Nce103	105
Neutralization mechanism of a human antibody with pan-coronavirus reactivity including SARS-CoV-2	103
Host factors dictate gut microbiome alterations in chronic kidney disease more strongly than kidney function	102
Nuclease–NTPase antiphage defence systems use conserved molecular features to control bacterial immunity	102
Dietary- and host-derived metabolites are used by diverse gut bacteria for anaerobic respiration	101
Microbial collagenase activity is linked to oral–gut translocation in advanced chronic liver disease	101

Synthesis of lipid-linked precursors of the bacterial cell wall is governed by a feedback control mechanism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	100
Rational attenuation of RNA viruses with zinc finger antiviral protein	99
Transforming tuberculosis diagnosis	99
From farm to factory to fork	97
The gut–liver axis in HCV infection	97
Placental Streptococcus agalactiae DNA is associated with neonatal unit admission and foetal pro-inflammatory cytokines in term infants	97
Cell envelope diversity and evolution across the bacterial tree of life	95
Non-canonical start codons confer context-dependent advantages in carbohydrate utilization for commensal E. coli in the murine gut	95
Characterization of inositol lipid metabolism in gut-associated Bacteroidetes	94
Bacteriophages avoid autoimmunity from cognate immune systems as an intrinsic part of their life cycles	92
Switching on cyclic di-GMP heterogeneity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	91
Voices of our past editors	91
Mycobacterium tuberculosis as teacher	90
Anoxia activates CRISPR–Cas immunity in the mouse intestine	89
Conserved CD4+ T cell staphylococcal and streptococcal epitopes enable broad-acting vaccines in mice	89