OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Microbiology is 13. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Horizontal Gene Transfer and Recombination in Cyanobacteriota	215
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	128
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	121
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	110
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	110
Clock Regulation and Fungal Physiology: Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning the Timely Control of Just About Everything	98
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	97
Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts	89
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Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators	87
Circadian Biology in Parasites: Beyond Known Mechanisms	77
Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human Gut Microbiome	75
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	68
Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle	66
My Life as a Pioneering Woman Scientist in a Golden Age of Science and Society	65
Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses	61
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	57
Introduction	55
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	53
The Biology of Akkermansia	53
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	52
Microbial Specialized Metabolites in Phytopathogen–Host Citrus Interactions	52
Cellular Olympics: Ultrafast Cellular Motility Across the Tree of Life	51
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	51
Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive In Vitro Lichen	50

Carbon Metabolism of Intracellular Parasitic Protists	49
The Brucella Cell Envelope	49
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	49
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	44
Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	44
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	43
Opportunistic Fungal Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa	41
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The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria	41
Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	38
Compartmentalization of RNA Degradosomes in Bacteria Controls Accessibility to Substrates and Ensures Concerted Degradation of mRNA to Nucleotides	34
Kin Recognition Systems and Their Role in Multicellular Behaviors	33
The Origin of Metazoan Multicellularity: A Potential Microbial Black Swan Event	31
Are Bacteria Leaky? Mechanisms of Metabolite Externalization in Bacterial Cross-Feeding	31
Genetic Exchange in Leishmania: Understanding the Cryptic Sexual Cycle	31
Targeting Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetases for Antimalarial Drug Development	30
Evolution and Ecology of Streptomyces	29
Oxygenases as Powerful Weapons in the Microbial Degradation of Pesticides	29
Microbiome Assembly in Fermented Foods	28
Mechanisms of Virulence Reprogramming in Bacterial Pathogens	28
Epigenetic Regulation and Chromatin Remodeling in Malaria Parasites	26
The Structure and Mechanism of Energy Transfer in Phycobilisomes	26
The Corrinoid Model for Dissecting Microbial Community Interactions Across Scales	26
Emerging Concepts in Cholera Vaccine Design	25
Temperature as a Driver of Phage Ecology and Evolution	24
Introduction	23
Commensal Neisseria and Antimicrobial-Resistant Gonorrhea	23
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP): From Biochemistry to Global Ecological Significance	21
Regulation of Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Degradation inPseudomonas aeruginosa	21
Microbial Interspecies Interactions and Their Impact on the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance	21
Structural Insights into Type III Secretion Systems of the Bacterial Flagellum and Injectisome	20
Introduction	20
Marine Bacterial Biofilms: Shaping Surface Communities	20
Past, Present, and Future of Extracytoplasmic Function σ Factors: Distribution and Regulatory Diversity of the Third Pillar of Bacterial Signal Transduction	19
DNA Phosphorothioate Modification Systems and Associated Phage Defense Systems	19
Cyanobacteriochromes: A Rainbow of Photoreceptors	19
Electron Transfer Beyond the Outer Membrane: Putting Electrons to Rest	19
A Comparative Analysis: Molecular Mechanisms of Carbon Catabolite Repression in Bacteria	17
Prokaryotic Circadian Systems: Cyanobacteria and Beyond	16
Collab or Cancel? Bacterial Influencers of Inflammasome Signaling	16
Habitat Transition in the Evolution of Bacteria and Archaea	16
Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion	15
Recent Advances in Understanding the Human Fungal Pathogen Hypoxia Response in Disease Progression	15
Interdependency and Redundancy Add Complexity and Resilience to Biogenesis of Bacterial Ribosomes	14
Roles of Marine Microbial Natural Products	13
Unique Properties of Apicomplexan Mitochondria	13