OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Microbiology is 82. 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
A rhesus macaque model of human norovirus infection	637
Data availability is the golden rule in research	503
Horizontal gene transfer explains unusual traits of Armillaria fungi	373
Author Correction: Aspergillus cvjetkovicii protects against phytopathogens through interspecies chemical signalling in the phyllosphere	362
Rethinking concepts of virulence with Neisseria gonorrhoeae	335
Microplastic research must consider microbes	308
CryoEM structures reveal how the bacterial flagellum rotates and switches direction	297
Therapeutic efficacy of monoclonal antibodies and antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 in Syrian hamsters	283
Rebound virus in the cerebrospinal fluid reveals a possible HIV-1 reservoir	261
Organ-on-chip models for infectious disease research	250
Longitudinal population-level HIV epidemiologic and genomic surveillance highlights growing gender disparity of HIV transmission in Uganda	241
Cryo-EM structure of the bacterial divisome core complex and antibiotic target FtsWIQBL	214
Seed-borne bacteria drive wheat rhizosphere microbiome assembly via niche partitioning and facilitation	206
Stage-specific transcription activator ESB1 regulates monoallelic antigen expression in Trypanosoma brucei	203
Mycobacterium abscessus pathogenesis identified by phenogenomic analyses	195
Explainable artificial intelligence evolves antimicrobial peptides	191
Streptomyces secretes a siderophore that sensitizes competitor bacteria to phage infection	179
KorB switching from DNA-sliding clamp to repressor mediates long-range gene silencing in a multi-drug resistance plasmid	177
A divergent bacterium lives in association with bacterivorous protists in the ocean	172
Introducing Microbe Matters	167
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection-induced epithelial trained immunity impacts urinary tract disease outcome	153
Akkermansia muciniphila exacerbates food allergy in fibre-deprived mice	149
Virulence of banana wilt-causing fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum tropical race 4 is mediated by nitric oxide biosynthesis and accessory genes	147
Towards a unifying system for the naming of cultured and uncultured prokaryotes	145
Characterization of interactions of dietary cholesterol with the murine and human gut microbiome	145

When specialized clones go global	142
Psychosocial stress and the gut microbiota	141
Factors associated with oral HPV infection among a large multinational cohort of men	139
Microbiome alterations in autism spectrum disorder	136
Small organisms with big climate impact	136
Molecular factors shaping whether HCMV infection is productive or latent	136
Author Correction: Genetic mapping of microbial and host traits reveals production of immunomodulatory lipids by Akkermansia muciniphila in the murine gut	135
Use microbes to tackle food insecurity	132
Parkinson’s disease kinase LRRK2 coordinates a cell-intrinsic itaconate-dependent defence pathway against intracellular Salmonella	132
Dietary exclusion of major food groups shapes the gut microbiome and may influence health	130
Mechanistic basis for potent neutralization of Sin Nombre hantavirus by a human monoclonal antibody	126
Fine-tuning fungal effector secretion	125
Microsporidian spores contain hibernating dimeric ribosomes	124
Assessing critical thresholds in terrestrial microbiomes	121
Sickle cell trait enhances malaria transmission	120
Bacteroides fragilis toxin expression enables lamina propria niche acquisition in the developing mouse gut	116
Author Correction: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi heterokaryons have two nuclear populations with distinct roles in host–plant interactions	116
Symbiosis for rhizobia is not an easy ride	115
Proteins containing photosynthetic reaction centre domains modulate FtsZ-based archaeal cell division	112
Autophagy promotes efficient T cell responses to restrict high-dose Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in mice	109
Crimean–Congo haemorrhagic fever virus uses LDLR to bind and enter host cells	108
DMSOP-cleaving enzymes are diverse and widely distributed in marine microorganisms	108
Recent gene selection and drug resistance underscore clinical adaptation across Candida species	107
Genome-wide association study identifies human genetic variants associated with fatal outcome from Lassa fever	106
Expanded phylogeny of extremely halophilic archaea shows multiple independent adaptations to hypersaline environments	106
SARS-CoV-2-related bat viruses evade human intrinsic immunity but lack efficient transmission capacity	105
Talented microbes unlatch peatland carbon	105
Microbiome–metabolite linkages drive greenhouse gas dynamics over a permafrost thaw gradient	103
Continental-scale associations of Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere members with host genotype and drought	102
Staphylococcus aureus adapts to exploit collagen-derived proline during chronic infection	102
The Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis via iron sequestration	98
Engineering Toxoplasma gondii secretion systems for intracellular delivery of multiple large therapeutic proteins to neurons	98
The host–parasite–virus triad	98
Persistent viral RNA and protein contribute to post-acute pathology	96
Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in the murine central nervous system drives viral diversification	96
A non-human primate model for human norovirus infection	95
Systematic mapping of antibiotic cross-resistance and collateral sensitivity with chemical genetics	93
Metabolic sensing tips the balance of drug tolerance in fungal meningitis	93
Ancient origin and constrained evolution of the division and cell wall gene cluster in Bacteria	92
A widespread phage-encoded kinase enables evasion of multiple host antiphage defence systems	89
Expanding the arsenal of bacterial spearguns	89
Linking DNA replication to the Z ring	89
Chromosome organization affects genome evolution in Sulfolobus archaea	88
Growth temperature and chromatinization in archaea	88
A talent network of Black microbiologists	87
Angiopoietin-like 4 protects against endothelial dysfunction during bacterial sepsis	87
Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe outcomes with variants of concern in Ontario	87
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli subverts mitochondrial metabolism to enable intracellular bacterial pathogenesis in urinary tract infection	87
Author Correction: Differential neutralizing antibody responses elicited by CoronaVac and BNT162b2 against SARS-CoV-2 Lambda in Chile	86
Bacterial divisome protein FtsA forms curved antiparallel double filaments when binding to FtsN	86

Gene–drug potency screening in M. tuberculosis	86
Spacer prioritization in CRISPR–Cas9 immunity is enabled by the leader RNA	86
Mycobiota and diet-derived fungal xenosiderophores promote Salmonella gastrointestinal colonization	85
CRISPR-based oligo recombineering prioritizes apicomplexan cysteines for drug discovery	84
The potential of genomics for infectious disease forecasting	84
Multitasking to prevent viral haemorrhagic fevers	84
PCRCR complex is essential for invasion of human erythrocytes by Plasmodium falciparum	82