OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Microbiology is 34. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Plant Microbiome: From Ecology to Reductionism and Beyond	212
Toward a Fully Resolved Fungal Tree of Life	155
Assembly of Bacterial Capsular Polysaccharides and Exopolysaccharides	141
Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria	120
Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles: From Discovery to Applications	112
Bacterial Quorum Sensing During Infection	104
Cyclic di-AMP Signaling in Bacteria	104
Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades	97
Growth and Division of the Peptidoglycan Matrix	89
Toxin-Antitoxin Systems as Phage Defense Elements	87
Polymorphic Toxins and Their Immunity Proteins: Diversity, Evolution, and Mechanisms of Delivery	68
Structures and Strategies of Anti-CRISPR-Mediated Immune Suppression	61
Bacterial Volatile Compounds: Functions in Communication, Cooperation, and Competition	59
Fungal Volatile Organic Compounds: More Than Just a Funky Smell?	58
What Is Metagenomics Teaching Us, and What Is Missed?	53
Iron-Only and Vanadium Nitrogenases: Fail-Safe Enzymes or Something More?	50
Similarities and Dissimilarities of COVID-19 and Other Coronavirus Diseases	49
Surface Sensing and Adaptation in Bacteria	48
Epigenetic Regulation of Virulence and Immunoevasion by Phase-Variable Restriction-Modification Systems in Bacterial Pathogens	47
Chemical Mediators at the Bacterial-Fungal Interface	45
Shaping an Endospore: Architectural Transformations During Bacillus subtilis Sporulation	45
A Bacterial Tower of Babel: Quorum-Sensing Signaling Diversity and Its Evolution	45
Membrane Dynamics in Phototrophic Bacteria	45
Clostridioides difficile Spore Formation and Germination: New Insights and Opportunities for Intervention	42
Ape Origins of Human Malaria	42

The Influence of Bacteria on Animal Metamorphosis	42
Assembly and Dynamics of the Bacterial Flagellum	42
The Ingenuity of Bacterial Genomes	39
The Type VII Secretion System ofStaphylococcus	39
Beyond Restriction Modification: Epigenomic Roles of DNA Methylation in Prokaryotes	38
Diversity and Evolution of Methane-Related Pathways in Archaea	38
From Input to Output: The Lap/c-di-GMP Biofilm Regulatory Circuit	37
Regulation of Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Degradation inPseudomonas aeruginosa	37
Bacterial Multicellularity: The Biology of Escherichia coli Building Large-Scale Biofilm Communities	36
Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion	36
Microbes as Biosensors	35
ToxoplasmaMechanisms for Delivery of Proteins and Uptake of Nutrients Across the Host-Pathogen Interface	34
Quorum Sensing in Fungal Species	34