OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of mSphere is 26. 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
Comprehensive analysis of repetitive extragenic palindrome sequences identified in bacteria and archaea using a new web-based tool, RepRanger	96
Advanced genetic techniques in fungal pathogen research	73
Metatranscriptomic analysis of common mosquito vector species in the Canadian Prairies	72
Natural Competence in the Filamentous, Heterocystous Cyanobacterium Chlorogloeopsis fritschii PCC 6912	46
Deep metagenomic characterization of the gut virome in pregnant women with preeclampsia	41
Taxonomic and functional assembly cues enrich the endophytic tobacco microbiota across epiphytic compartments	40
TgTKL4 Is a Novel Kinase That Plays an Important Role in Toxoplasma Morphology and Fitness	39
A dual-mechanism antimicrobial peptide with antimutagenic activity targets the replisome and induces cell envelope stress	36
Type I-E* CRISPR-Cas of Klebsiella pneumoniae upregulates bacterial virulence by targeting endogenous histidine utilization system	36
Engineered Methylobacterium extorquens grows well on methoxylated aromatics due to its formaldehyde metabolism and stress response	35
Association between Pregestational Vaginal Dysbiosis and Incident Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Risk: a Nested Case-Control Study	35
The Stickland Reaction Precursor trans -4-Hydroxy- l -Proline Differentially Impacts the Metabolism of Clostridioides difficile and Co	34
Biological Microbial Interactions from Cooccurrence Networks in a High Mountain Lacustrine District	34
Single-spore germination analyses reveal that calcium released during Clostridioides difficile germination functions in a feedforward loop	33
ALIBY: ALFA Nanobody-Based Toolkit for Imaging and Biochemistry in Yeast	32
Community organization and network complexity and stability: contrasting strategies of prokaryotic versus eukaryotic microbiomes in the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea	32
Control of Human Anelloviruses by Cytosine to Uracil Genome Editing	31
Phylogenetic lineage dynamics of global parainfluenza virus type 3 post-COVID-19 pandemic	30
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	29
Neutrophil prime unique transcriptional responses in intestinal organoids during infection with nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica serovars	29
The Cwr1 protein kinase localizes to the plasma membrane and mediates resistance to cell wall stress in Candida albicans	28
The GATA-like transcription factor Gat201 determines alkaline-restricted growth in Cryptococcus neoformans	28
PUPpy: a primer design pipeline for substrain-level microbial detection and absolute quantification	28
Human Milk Oligosaccharides versus Streptococcus: How a Human-Made Natural Product Protects Us from Pathogens	27
Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged	27

Toward a deeper understanding of dengue: novel method for quantification and isolation of envelope protein epitope-specific antibodies	26
Dynamics and quantitative contribution of the aminoglycoside 6′- N -acetyltransferase type Ib to amikacin resistance	26
Large-Scale Evaluation of a Rapid Fully Automated Analysis Platform to Detect and Refute Outbreaks Based on MRSA Genome Comparisons	26