OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of mSystems is 37. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Dispersal shapes compositional and functional diversity in aquatic microbial communities	147
Dissecting the genetic features and evolution of Staphylococcus aureus sequence type 88: a global perspective	90
MetaProClust-MS1: an MS1 Profiling Approach for Large-Scale Microbiome Screening	88
Diverse non-canonical electron bifurcating [FeFe]-hydrogenases of separate evolutionary origins in Hydrogenedentota	83
Botrytis cinerea Transcription Factor BcXyr1 Regulates (Hemi-)Cellulase Production and Fungal Virulence	72
Genome-Scale Modeling Specifies the Metabolic Capabilities of Rhizophagus irregularis	68
Visualizing the pH in Escherichia coli Colonies via the Sensor Protein mCherryEA Allows High-Throughput Screening of Mutant Libraries	68
Disturbance–diversity relationships of microbial communities change based on growth substrate	68
Carbapenem triggers dissemination of chromosomally integrated carbapenemase genes via conjugative plasmids in Escherichia coli	67
PhoPQ-mediated lipopolysaccharide modification governs intrinsic resistance to tetracycline and glycylcycline antibiotics in Escherichia coli	62
Announcing the mSystems special collection on microbial dormancy	60
Gut Metabolites Are More Predictive of Disease and Cohoused States than Gut Bacterial Features in a Polycystic Ovary Syndrome-Like Mouse Model	57
An Elemental Diet Enriched in Amino Acids Alters the Gut Microbial Community and Prevents Colonic Mucus Degradation in Mice with Colitis	57
A simple BLASTn-based approach generates novel insights into the regulation and biological function of type I toxin-antitoxins	55
Uncharacterized and lineage-specific accessory genes within the Proteus mirabilis pan-genome landscape	53
The functional small RNA interactome reveals targets for the vancomycin-responsive sRNA RsaOI in vancomycin-tolerant Staphylococcus aureus	52
Phenotypic and Genomic Comparison of Staphylococcus aureus Highlight Virulence and Host Adaptation Favoring the Success of Epidemic Clones	51
Probiotics Bifidobacterium lactis M8 and Lactobacillus rhamnosus M9 prevent high blood pressure via modulating the gut microbiota composit	49
Cultured Bacteria Provide Insight into the Functional Potential of the Coral-Associated Microbiome	49
Insights into the metabolic specificities of pathogenic strains from the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex	49
Investigating the gut bacteria structure and function of hibernating bats through 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing and culturomics	47
In vitro and ex vivo proteomics of Mycobacterium marinum biofilms and the development of biofilm-binding synthetic nano	47
Ancient Metagenomic Studies: Considerations for the Wider Scientific Community	46
Comparative Genomics of Cyclic di-GMP Metabolism and Chemosensory Pathways in Shewanella algae Strains: Novel Bacterial Sensory Domains and Functional Insights into Lifestyle Regulation	45
Mucin alleviates colonic barrier dysfunction by promoting spermine accumulation through enhanced arginine metabolism in Limosilactobacillus mucosae	44

Natural Green Spaces, Sensitization to Allergens, and the Role of Gut Microbiota during Infancy	43
Gut phageome in Mexican Americans: a population at high risk for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and diabetes	42
More Than Just a Spearhead: Diverse Functions of PAAR for Assembly and Delivery of Toxins of the Contractile Injection Systems	42
Variations in the oral microbiome and metabolome of methamphetamine users	41
Compositionally Aware Phylogenetic Beta-Diversity Measures Better Resolve Microbiomes Associated with Phenotype	41
A Metagenomic Investigation of Spatial and Temporal Changes in Sewage Microbiomes across a University Campus	40
Regulatory networks of FUR and NtcA are intertwined by transcriptional regulators, two-component systems, serine/threonine kinases, and sigma factors in Anabaena sp. PCC	40
Deciphering the antigen specificities of antibodies by clustering their complementarity determining region sequences	39
Cell-Cell Signaling Proteobacterial LuxR Solos: a Treasure Trove of Subgroups Having Different Origins, Ligands, and Ecological Roles	38
Gut microbiota contribute to high-altitude adaptation in tree sparrows	38
Insights into Adaptive Mechanisms of Extreme Acidophiles Based on Quorum Sensing/Quenching-Related Proteins	38
Seasonality and longer-term development generate temporal dynamics in the Populus microbiome	37
Microbial Diversity and Interaction Specificity in Kombucha Tea Fermentations	37
Clade-specific long-read sequencing increases the accuracy and specificity of the gyrB phylogenetic marker gene	37
Sepsis-Induced Gut Dysbiosis Mediates the Susceptibility to Sepsis-Associated Encephalopathy in Mice	37
STENSL: Microbial Source Tracking with ENvironment SeLection	37
Metabolic capabilities are highly conserved among human nasal-associated Corynebacterium species in pangenomic analyses	37
Sodium butyrate facilitates CRHR2 expression to alleviate HPA axis hyperactivity in autism-like rats induced by prenatal lipopolysaccharides through histone deacetylase inhibition	37