OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of mBio is 52. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The same but different: impact of animal facility sanitary status on a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease	166
Short-range C-signaling restricts cheating behavior during Myxococcus xanthus development	147
Viral tropism is a cornerstone in the spread and spillover of avian influenza viruses	129
Inbred SJL mice recapitulate human resistance to Cryptococcus infection due to differential immune activation	126
An exciting future for microbial molecular biology and physiology	126
Phenotypic and transcriptional changes in peripheral blood mononuclear cells during alphavirus encephalitis in mice	120
Analysis of justification for author order and gender bias in author order among those contributing equally	112
Intestinal microbiome dysbiosis in alcohol-dependent patients and its effect on rat behaviors	97
RNA toehold switch-based reporter assay to assess bacterial uptake of antisense oligomers	95
Mac1-Dependent Copper Sensing Promotes Histoplasma Adaptation to the Phagosome during Adaptive Immunity	92
Synthetic C ₁ metabolism in Pseudomonas putida enables strict formatotrophy and methylotrophy via the reductive glycine pathway	91
Cobalamin Riboswitches Are Broadly Sensitive to Corrinoid Cofactors to Enable an Efficient Gene Regulatory Strategy	90
Spatiotemporal Variations in Antarctic Protistan Communities Highlight Phytoplankton Diversity and Seasonal Dominance by a Novel Cryptophyte Lineage	86
Candida albicans colonization modulates murine ethanol consumption and behavioral responses through elevation of serum prostaglandin E ₂ and impac	82
ACE-2-like enzymatic activity in COVID-19 convalescents with persistent pulmonary symptoms associated with immunoglobulin	80
A refined low-dose murine model of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection to assess integrated immune networks in Buruli ulcer pathogenesis	78
Progression of ampC amplification during de novo amoxicillin resistance development in E. coli	76
A CRISPRi-based genetic resource to study essential Staphylococcus aureus genes	73
Rapid and strain-specific resistance evolution of Staphylococcus aureus against inhibitory molecules secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa	73
Multivalent Interactions Drive the Toxoplasma AC9:AC10:ERK7 Complex To Concentrate ERK7 in the Apical Cap	72
Toxoplasma gondii GRA28 Is Required for Placenta-Specific Induction of the Regulatory Chemokine CCL22 in Human and Mouse	71
Key fungal coinfections: epidemiology, mechanisms of pathogenesis, and beyond	71
Inactivated Vaccine-Induced SARS-CoV-2 Variant-Specific Immunity in Children	71
Large diversity in the O-chain biosynthetic cluster within populations of Pelagibacterales	69
Cleavage-Polyadenylation Factor Cft1 and SPX Domain Proteins Are Agents of Inositol Pyrophosphate Toxicosis in Fission Yeast	69

CotG Mediates Spore Surface Permeability in Bacillus subtilis	69
Evidence for Quinol Oxidation Activity of ImoA, a Novel NapC/NirT Family Protein from the Neutrophilic Fe(II)-Oxidizing Bacterium Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1	69
Global Annotation, Expression Analysis, and Stability of Candidate sRNAs in Group B Streptococcus	67
The Globular C1q Receptor Is Required for Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling during Candida albicans Infection	67
A DOT1B/Ribonuclease H2 Protein Complex Is Involved in R-Loop Processing, Genomic Integrity, and Antigenic Variation in Trypanosoma brucei	67
Considerations for viral co-infection studies in human populations	65
Fetal Loss in Pregnant Rabbits Infected with Genotype 3 Hepatitis E Virus Is Associated with Altered Inflammatory Responses, Enhanced Virus Replication, and Extrahepatic Virus Dissemination with Posit	65
Ubiquitination of acetyltransferase Gcn5 contributes to fungal virulence in Fusarium graminearum	63
Nothing about Us without Us: the Roles of Diverse Stakeholders in Scientific Publishing	61
Mrs4 loss of function in fungi during adaptation to the cystic fibrosis lung	61
Multiple variables influence the finely calibrated antioxidant defenses of Clostridioides difficile	60
Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi uses two type 3 secretion systems to replicate in human macrophages and colonize humanized mice	60
Type III interferon drives pathogenicity to Staphylococcus aureus via the airway epithelium	59
Metabolic Promiscuity of an Orphan Small Alarmone Hydrolase Facilitates Bacterial Environmental Adaptation	58
On the virome’s hidden diversity: lessons from RHDV	57
The robustness of porin-cytochrome gene clusters from Geobacter metallireducens in extracellular electron transfer	57
Dehydration-induced Ae-Aper50 regulates midgut infection in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes	56
Unsaturated fatty acid perturbation combats emerging triazole antifungal resistance in the human fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus	56
Erratum for Dilucca et al., “Guanylate-Binding Protein-Dependent Noncanonical Inflammasome Activation Prevents Burkholderia thailandensis-Induced Multinucleated Giant Cell Formation”	55
Not gently down the stream: flow induces amyloid bonding in environmental and pathological fungal biofilms	55
The New SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Their Epidemiological Impact in Mexico	54
T Cell-Specific STAT1 Expression Promotes Lytic Replication and Supports the Establishment of Gammaherpesvirus Latent Reservoir in Splenic B Cells	54
SARS-CoV-2 infectivity can be modulated through bacterial grooming of the glycocalyx	53
Chlamydia trachomatis exploits sphingolipid metabolic pathways during infection of phagocytes	53
Characterization of non-standard viral genomes during arenavirus infections identifies prominent S RNA intergenic region deletions	53
Engineering T-Cell Resistance to HIV-1 Infection via Knock-In of Peptides from the Heptad Repeat 2 Domain of gp41	53
Dysregulated pulmonary inflammatory responses exacerbate the outcome of secondary aspergillosis following influenza	52
Selective expression of Pneumocystis antigens in different patients during a suspected outbreak of Pneumocystis pneumonia	52
CD9 co-operation with syndecan-1 is required for a major staphylococcal adhesion pathway	52