OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annual Review of Microbiology is 27. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles: From Discovery to Applications	150
Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades	121
Growth and Division of the Peptidoglycan Matrix	118
Toxin-Antitoxin Systems as Phage Defense Elements	116
Similarities and Dissimilarities of COVID-19 and Other Coronavirus Diseases	57
Diversity and Evolution of Methane-Related Pathways in Archaea	56
Regulation of Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Degradation inPseudomonas aeruginosa	48
Beyond Restriction Modification: Epigenomic Roles of DNA Methylation in Prokaryotes	46
Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion	46
Quorum Sensing in Fungal Species	45
The Type VII Secretion System ofStaphylococcus	45
Bacterial Multicellularity: The Biology of Escherichia coli Building Large-Scale Biofilm Communities	44
Transcriptional Pausing as a Mediator of Bacterial Gene Regulation	40
Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of the Human Microbiome in the Era of Personalized Medicine	40
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	39
Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses	39
Antimicrobial Activity of Metals and Metalloids	38
Expanding Archaeal Diversity and Phylogeny: Past, Present, and Future	37
Two P or Not Two P: Understanding Regulation by the Bacterial Second Messengers (p)ppGpp	37
Molecular Basis of Lysis–Lysogeny Decisions in Gram-Positive Phages	36
Origin and Early Evolution of the Eukaryotic Cell	33
Candida auris Genetics and Emergence	32
Trypanosome Signaling—Quorum Sensing	32
Plasmodium vivax Latent Liver Stage Infection and Relapse: Biological Insights and New Experimental Tools	31
The Making of a Heterocyst in Cyanobacteria	31

Multiscale Dynamic Structuring of Bacterial Chromosomes	31
Anaerobic Degradation of Alkanes by Marine Archaea	30
Virulence and Pathogenicity of Chytrid Fungi Causing Amphibian Extinctions	27
The Versatile Roles of Type III Secretion Systems in Rhizobium-Legume Symbioses	27
Mobile Genetic Element Flexibility as an Underlying Principle to Bacterial Evolution	27
Division and Transmission: Malaria Parasite Development in the Mosquito	27