OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Microbiology is 39. 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
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	261
Plasmodium vivax Latent Liver Stage Infection and Relapse: Biological Insights and New Experimental Tools	164
Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses	161
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	154
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	89
Clock Regulation and Fungal Physiology: Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning the Timely Control of Just About Everything	85
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	85
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	80
The Bacterial Hsp90 Chaperone: Cellular Functions and Mechanism of Action	78
Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts	67
Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators	63
Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human Gut Microbiome	63
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Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle	62
Bacterial Multicellularity: The Biology of Escherichia coli Building Large-Scale Biofilm Communities	58
My Life as a Pioneering Woman Scientist in a Golden Age of Science and Society	58
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	58
Molecular Basis of Lysis–Lysogeny Decisions in Gram-Positive Phages	56
Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses	55
Introduction	54
Microbial Specialized Metabolites in Phytopathogen–Host Citrus Interactions	53
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	52
The Biology of Akkermansia	52
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	52
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	51

Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of the Human Microbiome in the Era of Personalized Medicine	50
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	50
The Brucella Cell Envelope	49
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	45
Cellular Olympics: Ultrafast Cellular Motility Across the Tree of Life	45
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	43
Carbon Metabolism of Intracellular Parasitic Protists	43
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	43
Trypanosome Signaling—Quorum Sensing	42
Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	42
Opportunistic Fungal Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa	42
The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria	42
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Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	41
Compartmentalization of RNA Degradosomes in Bacteria Controls Accessibility to Substrates and Ensures Concerted Degradation of mRNA to Nucleotides	39