OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Microbiology is 11. 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
The Type VII Secretion System ofStaphylococcus	45
Quorum Sensing in Fungal Species	45
Bacterial Multicellularity: The Biology of Escherichia coli Building Large-Scale Biofilm Communities	44
Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of the Human Microbiome in the Era of Personalized Medicine	40
Transcriptional Pausing as a Mediator of Bacterial Gene Regulation	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
The Making of a Heterocyst in Cyanobacteria	31
Multiscale Dynamic Structuring of Bacterial Chromosomes	31

Plasmodium vivax Latent Liver Stage Infection and Relapse: Biological Insights and New Experimental Tools	31
Anaerobic Degradation of Alkanes by Marine Archaea	30
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
Virulence and Pathogenicity of Chytrid Fungi Causing Amphibian Extinctions	27
Function of the Omp85 Superfamily of Outer Membrane Protein Assembly Factors and Polypeptide Transporters	26
Wrapped Up: The Motility of Polarly Flagellated Bacteria	26
How Apicomplexa Parasites Secrete and Build Their Invasion Machinery	24
Metabolic Reprogramming and Longevity in Quiescence	23
Hostile Takeover: How Viruses Reprogram Prokaryotic Metabolism	23
Malassezia: A Commensal, Pathogen, and Mutualist of Human and Animal Skin	23
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	22
Horizontal Gene Transfer in Archaea—From Mechanisms to Genome Evolution	21
Deciphering the Chitin Code in Plant Symbiosis, Defense, and Microbial Networks	21
Regulation of Host-Pathogen Interactions via the Ubiquitin System	21
Oxygenases as Powerful Weapons in the Microbial Degradation of Pesticides	20
The Bacterial Hsp90 Chaperone: Cellular Functions and Mechanism of Action	19
Cellular Adaptations to Cytoplasmic Mg²⁺ Limitation	18
Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle	18
Microbiome Assembly in Fermented Foods	17
Electron Transfer Beyond the Outer Membrane: Putting Electrons to Rest	17
Harnessing the Immune Response to Fungal Pathogens for Vaccine Development	16
Translating Microbiome Research From and To the Clinic	16
Mining Fatty Acid Biosynthesis for New Antimicrobials	16
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	16
TonB-Dependent Transport Across the Bacterial Outer Membrane	15
Causative Microbes in Host-Microbiome Interactions	15
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	15
Microbial Interspecies Interactions and Their Impact on the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance	15
Culturing Human Gut Microbiomes in the Laboratory	15
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	15
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	14
Quantitative Control for Stoichiometric Protein Synthesis	14
Structural Insights into Type III Secretion Systems of the Bacterial Flagellum and Injectisome	13
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	13
Compartmentalization of RNA Degradosomes in Bacteria Controls Accessibility to Substrates and Ensures Concerted Degradation of mRNA to Nucleotides	12
Understanding Fungi in Glacial and Hypersaline Environments	12
Targeting Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetases for Antimalarial Drug Development	11
Epigenetic Reprogramming in Host-Parasite Coevolution: TheToxoplasmaParadigm	11
The Origin of Metazoan Multicellularity: A Potential Microbial Black Swan Event	11
Cell Wall Biology of Vibrio cholerae	11