OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ACS Infectious Diseases is 30. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Antibiotic Alternatives Special Issue	85
Rapid Enzymatic Detection of Shiga-Toxin-Producing E. coli Using Fluorescence-Labeled Oligonucleotide Substrates	84
Implications of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Metabolic Adaptability on Drug Discovery and Development	82
1,3-Diarylpyrazolyl-acylsulfonamides Target HadAB/BC Complex in Mycobacterium tuberculosis	78
Role of Macrophage PIST Protein in Regulating Leishmania major Infection	70
Restricted Rotational Flexibility of the C5α-Methyl-Substituted Carbapenem NA-1-157 Leads to Potent Inhibition of the GES-5 Carbapenemase	66
2-Mercaptomethyl Thiazolidines (MMTZs) Inhibit All Metallo-β-Lactamase Classes by Maintaining a Conserved Binding Mode	66
Virulence and Adhesion of the Treponema pallidum Nichols Strain Simultaneously Decrease in a Continuous-Infection New Zealand White Rabbit Model	63
Cholesterol-Dependent Membrane Deformation by Metastable Viral Capsids Facilitates Entry	61
Mutagenesis-Guided Target Identification Reveals the Protein-Binding Domain of Nsp14 in Coronaviruses as the Target of a Labdane-Oxindole Compound	55
Ebola Virus Glycoprotein Impairs Human Retinal Pigment Epithelial Barrier Function via the PI3K/Akt-Nrf2 Pathway	54
Treponema pallidum Protein TpF1 Inhibits Migration by Impairing Actin Polymerization via Toll-Like Receptor 4/PI3K/AKT in Microglia	50
Heterogeneity and Compositional Diversities of Campylobacter jejuni Outer Membrane Vesicles (OMVs) Drive Multiple Cellular Uptake Processes	47
Phenotypic Landscape of Immune Cells in Sepsis: Insights from High-Dimensional Mass Cytometry	45
The Acinetobacter baumannii Autotransporter Adhesin Ata Recognizes Host Glycans as High-Affinity Receptors	43
Mitophagy Activation Targeting PINK1 Is an Effective Treatment to Inhibit Zika Virus Replication	41
Tea Tree Oil Nanoemulsion Potentiates Antibiotics against Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli	40
Starved of ACTION: A Critical Look at the Antimicrobial Resistance Action Plans of African Countries	39
From Magic Bullet to Magic Bomb: Reductive Bioactivation of Antiparasitic Agents	39
Students Against Superbugs (SAS) Africa	38
Transferring Microclusters of P. aeruginosa Biofilms to the Air–Liquid Interface of Bronchial Epithelial Cells for Repeated Deposition of Aerosolized Tobramycin	37
Salicylanilides Reduce SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Suppress Induction of Inflammatory Cytokines in a Rodent Model	37
Analyses of the Antibiofilm Activity of o-Phenanthroline Monohydrate against Enterococcus faecalis and Staphylococcus aureus and the Mechanisms Underlying These Effects	33
MptpB Inhibitor Improves the Action of Antibiotics against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterium avium Infections	33
Protein O-Fucosyltransferase Is Required for the Efficient Invasion of Hepatocytes by Plasmodium berghei Sporozoites	32

Disparate Regions of the Human Chemokine CXCL10 Exhibit Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Activity against Biodefense and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacterial Pathogens	32
Biochemical and Cellular Characterization of the Function of Fluorophosphonate-Binding Hydrolase H (FphH) in Staphylococcus aureus Support a Role in Bacterial Stress Response	32
Chitosan-Coated Silver Nanoparticles Inhibit Adherence and Biofilm Formation of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli	31
Cytoplasmic Delivery of an Antibiotic, Trimethoprim, with a Simple Bidentate Catechol Analog as a Siderophore Mimetic	31
Poly(l-ornithine)-Grafted Zinc Phthalocyanines as Dual-Functional Antimicrobial Agents with Intrinsic Membrane Damage and Photothermal Ablation Capacity	31
Enhanced Antimicrobial Screening Sensitivity Enabled the Identification of an Ultrashort Peptide KR-8 for Engineering of LL-37mini to Combat Drug-Resistant Pathogens	30
Issue Publication Information	30
Soft QPCs: Biscationic Quaternary Phosphonium Compounds as Soft Antimicrobial Agents	30