OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of mSystems is 38. 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
Gut phageome in Mexican Americans: a population at high risk for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and diabetes	163
Variations in the oral microbiome and metabolome of methamphetamine users	88
More Than Just a Spearhead: Diverse Functions of PAAR for Assembly and Delivery of Toxins of the Contractile Injection Systems	80
Gut microbiota contribute to high-altitude adaptation in tree sparrows	77
MetaProClust-MS1: an MS1 Profiling Approach for Large-Scale Microbiome Screening	76
Clade-specific long-read sequencing increases the accuracy and specificity of the gyrB phylogenetic marker gene	71
Probiotics Bifidobacterium lactis M8 and Lactobacillus rhamnosus M9 prevent high blood pressure via modulating the gut microbiota composit	68
Botrytis cinerea Transcription Factor BcXyr1 Regulates (Hemi-)Cellulase Production and Fungal Virulence	63
Insights into the metabolic specificities of pathogenic strains from the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex	59
Disturbance–diversity relationships of microbial communities change based on growth substrate	58
Phenotypic and Genomic Comparison of Staphylococcus aureus Highlight Virulence and Host Adaptation Favoring the Success of Epidemic Clones	58
Comparative Genomics of Cyclic di-GMP Metabolism and Chemosensory Pathways in Shewanella algae Strains: Novel Bacterial Sensory Domains and Functional Insights into Lifestyle Regulation	56
Investigating the gut bacteria structure and function of hibernating bats through 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing and culturomics	56
Ancient Metagenomic Studies: Considerations for the Wider Scientific Community	55
Sepsis-Induced Gut Dysbiosis Mediates the Susceptibility to Sepsis-Associated Encephalopathy in Mice	54
Cultured Bacteria Provide Insight into the Functional Potential of the Coral-Associated Microbiome	52
Deciphering the antigen specificities of antibodies by clustering their complementarity determining region sequences	52
Dispersal shapes compositional and functional diversity in aquatic microbial communities	51
An Elemental Diet Enriched in Amino Acids Alters the Gut Microbial Community and Prevents Colonic Mucus Degradation in Mice with Colitis	50
A simple BLASTn-based approach generates novel insights into the regulation and biological function of type I toxin-antitoxins	47
The functional small RNA interactome reveals targets for the vancomycin-responsive sRNA RsaOI in vancomycin-tolerant Staphylococcus aureus	46
Uncharacterized and lineage-specific accessory genes within the Proteus mirabilis pan-genome landscape	46
Diverse non-canonical electron bifurcating [FeFe]-hydrogenases of separate evolutionary origins in Hydrogenedentota	45
Announcing the mSystems special collection on microbial dormancy	45
PhoPQ-mediated lipopolysaccharide modification governs intrinsic resistance to tetracycline and glycylcycline antibiotics in Escherichia coli	45

Dissecting the genetic features and evolution of Staphylococcus aureus sequence type 88: a global perspective	44
Carbapenem triggers dissemination of chromosomally integrated carbapenemase genes via conjugative plasmids in Escherichia coli	44
In vitro and ex vivo proteomics of Mycobacterium marinum biofilms and the development of biofilm-binding synthetic nano	43
Genome-Scale Modeling Specifies the Metabolic Capabilities of Rhizophagus irregularis	43
Mucin alleviates colonic barrier dysfunction by promoting spermine accumulation through enhanced arginine metabolism in Limosilactobacillus mucosae	42
Seasonality and longer-term development generate temporal dynamics in the Populus microbiome	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
Visualizing the pH in Escherichia coli Colonies via the Sensor Protein mCherryEA Allows High-Throughput Screening of Mutant Libraries	40
Metabolic capabilities are highly conserved among human nasal-associated Corynebacterium species in pangenomic analyses	39
A systems-level insight into PHB-driven metabolic adaptation orchestrated by the PHB-binding transcriptional regulator AniA (PhaR)	39
A multi-omics analysis unveils functional and regulatory links between hydroxybenzene and aromatic amino acid metabolism in Candida albicans	39
Sodium butyrate facilitates CRHR2 expression to alleviate HPA axis hyperactivity in autism-like rats induced by prenatal lipopolysaccharides through histone deacetylase inhibition	38
A Metagenomic Investigation of Spatial and Temporal Changes in Sewage Microbiomes across a University Campus	38