OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annual Review of Microbiology is 30. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-11-01 to 2023-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Plant Microbiome: From Ecology to Reductionism and Beyond	186
Toward a Fully Resolved Fungal Tree of Life	141
Assembly of Bacterial Capsular Polysaccharides and Exopolysaccharides	112
Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria	100
Bacterial Quorum Sensing During Infection	92
Cyclic di-AMP Signaling in Bacteria	88
Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades	87
Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles: From Discovery to Applications	74
Growth and Division of the Peptidoglycan Matrix	65
Polymorphic Toxins and Their Immunity Proteins: Diversity, Evolution, and Mechanisms of Delivery	59
Toxin-Antitoxin Systems as Phage Defense Elements	57
Structures and Strategies of Anti-CRISPR-Mediated Immune Suppression	56
Bacterial Volatile Compounds: Functions in Communication, Cooperation, and Competition	50
Fungal Volatile Organic Compounds: More Than Just a Funky Smell?	49
Iron-Only and Vanadium Nitrogenases: Fail-Safe Enzymes or Something More?	43
Similarities and Dissimilarities of COVID-19 and Other Coronavirus Diseases	43
A Bacterial Tower of Babel: Quorum-Sensing Signaling Diversity and Its Evolution	42
What Is Metagenomics Teaching Us, and What Is Missed?	42
Chemical Mediators at the Bacterial-Fungal Interface	41
Surface Sensing and Adaptation in Bacteria	40
The Influence of Bacteria on Animal Metamorphosis	39
Epigenetic Regulation of Virulence and Immunoevasion by Phase-Variable Restriction-Modification Systems in Bacterial Pathogens	39
Clostridioides difficile Spore Formation and Germination: New Insights and Opportunities for Intervention	37
Membrane Dynamics in Phototrophic Bacteria	36
The Ingenuity of Bacterial Genomes	35

From Input to Output: The Lap/c-di-GMP Biofilm Regulatory Circuit	33
Assembly and Dynamics of the Bacterial Flagellum	33
Shaping an Endospore: Architectural Transformations During Bacillus subtilis Sporulation	33
Ape Origins of Human Malaria	32
The Type VII Secretion System ofStaphylococcus	31
Microbes as Biosensors	30