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 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
My Life as a Pioneering Woman Scientist in a Golden Age of Science and Society	58
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	58
Bacterial Multicellularity: The Biology of Escherichia coli Building Large-Scale Biofilm Communities	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
The Biology of Akkermansia	52
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	52
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	52
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	51

When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	50
Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of the Human Microbiome in the Era of Personalized Medicine	50
The Brucella Cell Envelope	49
Cellular Olympics: Ultrafast Cellular Motility Across the Tree of Life	45
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	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
Genetic Exchange in Leishmania: Understanding the Cryptic Sexual Cycle	37
Kin Recognition Systems and Their Role in Multicellular Behaviors	36
The Origin of Metazoan Multicellularity: A Potential Microbial Black Swan Event	36
Are Bacteria Leaky? Mechanisms of Metabolite Externalization in Bacterial Cross-Feeding	36
Evolution and Ecology of Streptomyces	35
Oxygenases as Powerful Weapons in the Microbial Degradation of Pesticides	35
Hostile Takeover: How Viruses Reprogram Prokaryotic Metabolism	34
Culturing Human Gut Microbiomes in the Laboratory	33
Targeting Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetases for Antimalarial Drug Development	32
Mechanisms of Virulence Reprogramming in Bacterial Pathogens	32
Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades	31
Expanding Archaeal Diversity and Phylogeny: Past, Present, and Future	31
Growth and Division of the Peptidoglycan Matrix	31
The History of Microbiology—A Personal Interpretation	31
Microbiome Assembly in Fermented Foods	30
Evolution and Physiology of Amphibious Yeasts	29
The Structure and Mechanism of Energy Transfer in Phycobilisomes	25
Cell Wall Biology of Vibrio cholerae	25
Epigenetic Regulation and Chromatin Remodeling in Malaria Parasites	23
The Corrinoid Model for Dissecting Microbial Community Interactions Across Scales	23
Emerging Concepts in Cholera Vaccine Design	23
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP): From Biochemistry to Global Ecological Significance	22
Beyond Restriction Modification: Epigenomic Roles of DNA Methylation in Prokaryotes	22
Introduction	21
Microbial Interspecies Interactions and Their Impact on the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance	20
Two P or Not Two P: Understanding Regulation by the Bacterial Second Messengers (p)ppGpp	20
Origin and Early Evolution of the Eukaryotic Cell	18
Marine Bacterial Biofilms: Shaping Surface Communities	16
Introduction	16
Structural Insights into Type III Secretion Systems of the Bacterial Flagellum and Injectisome	16
DNA Phosphorothioate Modification Systems and Associated Phage Defense Systems	16
Regulation of Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Degradation inPseudomonas aeruginosa	16
Cyanobacteriochromes: A Rainbow of Photoreceptors	15
Imaging Infection Across Scales of Size: From Whole Animals to Single Molecules	15
Electron Transfer Beyond the Outer Membrane: Putting Electrons to Rest	15

Past, Present, and Future of Extracytoplasmic Function σ Factors: Distribution and Regulatory Diversity of the Third Pillar of Bacterial Signal Transduction	15
Virulence and Pathogenicity of Chytrid Fungi Causing Amphibian Extinctions	15
Habitat Transition in the Evolution of Bacteria and Archaea	15
Prokaryotic Circadian Systems: Cyanobacteria and Beyond	14
Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion	14
Recent Advances in Understanding the Human Fungal Pathogen Hypoxia Response in Disease Progression	14