OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of mSphere is 29. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Neutrophil prime unique transcriptional responses in intestinal organoids during infection with nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica serovars	182
Structural determination of Rickettsia lipid A without chemical extraction confirms shorter acyl chains in later-evolving spotted fever group pathogens	74
mSphere of Influence: Pertussis Vaccination and Antibodies in Mothers and Infants	66
Comparison of O-specific polysaccharide responses in patients following infection with Vibrio cholerae O139 versus vaccination with a bivalent (O1/O139) oral killed chol	58
The Cwr1 protein kinase localizes to the plasma membrane and mediates resistance to cell wall stress in Candida albicans	47
Phylogenetic lineage dynamics of global parainfluenza virus type 3 post-COVID-19 pandemic	46
Association between Pregestational Vaginal Dysbiosis and Incident Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Risk: a Nested Case-Control Study	44
Toward a deeper understanding of dengue: novel method for quantification and isolation of envelope protein epitope-specific antibodies	44
Preceding Host History of Conjugative Resistance Plasmids Affects Intra- and Interspecific Transfer Potential from Biofilm	44
miR-451a Regulates Neuronal Apoptosis by Modulating 14-3-3ζ-JNK Axis upon Flaviviral Infection	42
Single-spore germination analyses reveal that calcium released during Clostridioides difficile germination functions in a feedforward loop	42
Deep metagenomic characterization of the gut virome in pregnant women with preeclampsia	42
Virulent Brucella nosferati infecting Desmodus rotundus has emerging potential due to the broad foraging range of its bat host for humans	41
Taxonomic and functional assembly cues enrich the endophytic tobacco microbiota across epiphytic compartments	40
Control of Human Anelloviruses by Cytosine to Uracil Genome Editing	39
TgTKL4 Is a Novel Kinase That Plays an Important Role in Toxoplasma Morphology and Fitness	39
The multidrug efflux pump regulator AcrR directly represses motility in Escherichia coli	38
Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged	36
Engineered Methylobacterium extorquens grows well on methoxylated aromatics due to its formaldehyde metabolism and stress response	35
The complete genome sequence of the crayfish pathogen Candidatus Paracoxiella cheracis n.g. n.sp. provides insight into pathogenesis and the phylogeny of the Coxiellacea	34
Community organization and network complexity and stability: contrasting strategies of prokaryotic versus eukaryotic microbiomes in the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea	34
Large-Scale Evaluation of a Rapid Fully Automated Analysis Platform to Detect and Refute Outbreaks Based on MRSA Genome Comparisons	33
Antibacterial effectors in Dictyostelium discoideum : specific activity against different bacterial species	31
Natural Competence in the Filamentous, Heterocystous Cyanobacterium Chlorogloeopsis fritschii PCC 6912	31
Advanced genetic techniques in fungal pathogen research	31

Mycothione reductase as a potential target in the fight against Mycobacterium abscessus infections	30
Vaborbactam increases meropenem susceptibility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates displaying MexXY and AmpC upregulation	30
PUPpy: a primer design pipeline for substrain-level microbial detection and absolute quantification	29
ALIBY: ALFA Nanobody-Based Toolkit for Imaging and Biochemistry in Yeast	29
Dynamics and quantitative contribution of the aminoglycoside 6′- N -acetyltransferase type Ib to amikacin resistance	29
The Lipid Raft-Associated Protein Stomatin Is Required for Accumulation of Dectin-1 in the Phagosomal Membrane and for Full Activity of Macrophages against Aspergillus fumigatus	29
Deciphering the in vitro mucin-driven interaction dynamics of a synthetic gut bacterial community	29