OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Microbiology is 14. 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
Cyclic di-AMP Signaling in Bacteria	104
Bacterial Quorum Sensing During Infection	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
Regulation of Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Degradation inPseudomonas aeruginosa	37
From Input to Output: The Lap/c-di-GMP Biofilm Regulatory Circuit	37
Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion	36
Bacterial Multicellularity: The Biology of Escherichia coli Building Large-Scale Biofilm Communities	36
Microbes as Biosensors	35
Quorum Sensing in Fungal Species	34
ToxoplasmaMechanisms for Delivery of Proteins and Uptake of Nutrients Across the Host-Pathogen Interface	34
Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of the Human Microbiome in the Era of Personalized Medicine	33
Transcriptional Pausing as a Mediator of Bacterial Gene Regulation	33
Expanding Archaeal Diversity and Phylogeny: Past, Present, and Future	33
Two P or Not Two P: Understanding Regulation by the Bacterial Second Messengers (p)ppGpp	32
Molecular Basis of Lysis–Lysogeny Decisions in Gram-Positive Phages	31
Antimicrobial Activity of Metals and Metalloids	31
Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation Regulate Social Interactions in Filamentous Fungi	29
Structure and Function of the Mycobacterial Type VII Secretion Systems	29
Trypanosome Signaling—Quorum Sensing	28
Origin and Early Evolution of the Eukaryotic Cell	28
Plasmodium vivax Latent Liver Stage Infection and Relapse: Biological Insights and New Experimental Tools	28
How Food Affects Colonization Resistance Against Enteropathogenic Bacteria	27
Structural Basis of Hydrogenotrophic Methanogenesis	27
Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses	27
Prospects and Pitfalls: Next-Generation Tools to Control Mosquito-Transmitted Disease	25
Archaeal DNA Replication	25
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	25
Virulence and Pathogenicity of Chytrid Fungi Causing Amphibian Extinctions	24
The Making of a Heterocyst in Cyanobacteria	23
How Apicomplexa Parasites Secrete and Build Their Invasion Machinery	21
Anaerobic Degradation of Alkanes by Marine Archaea	21
Multiscale Dynamic Structuring of Bacterial Chromosomes	20
Implications of the Evolutionary Trajectory of Centromeres in the Fungal Kingdom	20
Division and Transmission: Malaria Parasite Development in the Mosquito	20
Defining and Disrupting Species Boundaries inSaccharomyces	20
Hostile Takeover: How Viruses Reprogram Prokaryotic Metabolism	18
Amyloid Signaling in Filamentous Fungi and Bacteria	18
Function of the Omp85 Superfamily of Outer Membrane Protein Assembly Factors and Polypeptide Transporters	18
Wrapped Up: The Motility of Polarly Flagellated Bacteria	17
The Versatile Roles of Type III Secretion Systems in Rhizobium-Legume Symbioses	15
Horizontal Gene Transfer in Archaea—From Mechanisms to Genome Evolution	15
The Bacterial Hsp90 Chaperone: Cellular Functions and Mechanism of Action	15
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	15
Quantitative Control for Stoichiometric Protein Synthesis	14
Malassezia: A Commensal, Pathogen, and Mutualist of Human and Animal Skin	14
Candida auris Genetics and Emergence	14
Cellular Adaptations to Cytoplasmic Mg²⁺ Limitation	14

Regulation of Host-Pathogen Interactions via the Ubiquitin System