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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Gene–drug potency screening in M. tuberculosis	590
Sickle cell trait enhances malaria transmission	387
Metabolic sensing tips the balance of drug tolerance in fungal meningitis	295
Author Correction: DART takes aim at community editing	290
Rebound virus in the cerebrospinal fluid reveals a possible HIV-1 reservoir	278
Molecular factors shaping whether HCMV infection is productive or latent	276
Dietary exclusion of major food groups shapes the gut microbiome and may influence health	274
Prodrug florfenicol amine is activated by intrinsic resistance to target Mycobacterium abscessus	271
The fast-evolving FIKK kinase family of Plasmodium falciparum can be inhibited by a single compound	222
Flipping the magic switch to persistence via GTP depletion	222
Microbiome association with coral growth and survival	220
Structure of a functional archaellum in Bacteria of the Chloroflexota phylum	200
Cytoplasmic contractile injection systems mediate cell death in Streptomyces	199
The IFIT2–IFIT3 antiviral complex targets short 5’ untranslated regions on viral mRNAs for translation inhibition	196
Single mutation makes Escherichia coli an insect mutualist	196
Mechanistic basis for potent neutralization of Sin Nombre hantavirus by a human monoclonal antibody	188
Aspergillus fumigatus dsRNA virus promotes fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host	185
Double-stranded RNA sequencing reveals distinct riboviruses associated with thermoacidophilic bacteria from hot springs in Japan	179
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein O-phosphorylation landscape	179
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection-induced epithelial trained immunity impacts urinary tract disease outcome	172
Assessing critical thresholds in terrestrial microbiomes	168
Explainable artificial intelligence evolves antimicrobial peptides	168
Integrated host-microbe plasma metagenomics for sepsis diagnosis in a prospective cohort of critically ill adults	166
Climate extremes disrupt fungal–bacterial interactions	164
Therapeutic efficacy of monoclonal antibodies and antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 in Syrian hamsters	162

Mycobacterium abscessus pathogenesis identified by phenogenomic analyses	162
Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections	158
The Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis via iron sequestration	157
Horizontal gene transfer explains unusual traits of Armillaria fungi	155
A dynamic subpopulation of CRISPR–Cas overexpressers allows Streptococcus pyogenes to rapidly respond to phage	154
Proteins containing photosynthetic reaction centre domains modulate FtsZ-based archaeal cell division	149
Recent gene selection and drug resistance underscore clinical adaptation across Candida species	148
OPENPichia: licence-free Komagataella phaffii chassis strains and toolkit for protein expression	148
Candida albicans extracellular vesicles trigger type I IFN signalling via cGAS and STING	144
Particular genomic and virulence traits associated with preterm infant-derived toxigenic Clostridium perfringens strains	144
Ancient origin and constrained evolution of the division and cell wall gene cluster in Bacteria	143
The structure of the complete extracellular bacterial flagellum reveals the mechanism of flagellin incorporation	139
A high-throughput and low-waste viability assay for microbes	138
Host range, transmissibility and antigenicity of a pangolin coronavirus	137
Organ-on-chip models for infectious disease research	133
Mosquitoes provide a transmission route between possums and humans for Buruli ulcer in southeastern Australia	130
Exceeding expectations out in the cold with Colwellia	129
Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and type III secretion spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection	126
Structure-guided design of a synthetic bile acid that inhibits Clostridioides difficile TcdB toxin	125
SAMPL-seq reveals micron-scale spatial hubs in the human gut microbiome	124
Risk–reward trade-off during carbon starvation generates dichotomy in motility endurance among marine bacteria	123
Transforming tuberculosis diagnosis	123
Neutralization mechanism of a human antibody with pan-coronavirus reactivity including SARS-CoV-2	122
Candida auris skin tropism and antifungal resistance are mediated by carbonic anhydrase Nce103	119
Microbial collagenase activity is linked to oral–gut translocation in advanced chronic liver disease	118
Dietary- and host-derived metabolites are used by diverse gut bacteria for anaerobic respiration	118
Mineral-eating microorganisms at extinct hydrothermal vents	117
CRISPR-influenced symbiosis	117
Prioritizing mentorship	116
Archaeal symbioses all the way down	115
Extracellular vesicles block viral entryways	115
Call for papers on the clinical microbiome	115
Author Correction: A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data	112
The complex path towards herpesvirus vaccines	112
Bacteroides fragilis uses toxins for gut success	110
Intragenic viral silencer element regulates HTLV-1 latency via RUNX complex recruitment	109
Decoding the impact of nuclear organization on antigenic variation in parasites	108
Coronavirus sampling and surveillance in bats from 1996–2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis	108
Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus induces mitochondrial fission to evade host immune responses and promote viral production	107
Blockade of endothelin receptors mitigates SARS-CoV-2-induced osteoarthritis	106
Synthesis of lipid-linked precursors of the bacterial cell wall is governed by a feedback control mechanism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	105
Streptomyces polyketides mediate bacteria–fungi interactions across soil environments	103
Rational attenuation of RNA viruses with zinc finger antiviral protein	103
Switching on cyclic di-GMP heterogeneity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	102
Expanding known viral diversity in the healthy infant gut	102
SARS and synapses	101
Placental Streptococcus agalactiae DNA is associated with neonatal unit admission and foetal pro-inflammatory cytokines in term infants	99
From farm to factory to fork	98
Publisher Correction: Identification and structure of an extracellular contractile injection system from the marine bacterium Algoriphagus machipongonensis	98
A nitrogen-fixing bacterium forms symbioses on land and at sea	97

Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals microbiome diversity across 48 tick species	97
Precipitation legacy effects on soil microbiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants	96
Interkingdom sensing of fungal tyrosol promotes bacterial antifungal T6SS activity in the murine gut	96
Sensitive poliovirus detection using nested PCR and nanopore sequencing: a prospective validation study	96
The gut–liver axis in HCV infection	95
Hunting emerging viruses through participatory community science	94
Discovery of an orally active benzoxaborole prodrug effective in the treatment of Chagas disease in non-human primates	91
Parasite and vector circadian clocks mediate efficient malaria transmission	91
CryoEM reveals that ribosomes in microsporidian spores are locked in a dimeric hibernating state	89
Non-canonical start codons confer context-dependent advantages in carbohydrate utilization for commensal E. coli in the murine gut	89
Cell envelope diversity and evolution across the bacterial tree of life	89
An expanded metabolic pathway for androgen production by commensal bacteria	86
Characterization of inositol lipid metabolism in gut-associated Bacteroidetes	86
Mycobacterium tuberculosis as teacher	86