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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Imaging Infection Across Scales of Size: From Whole Animals to Single Molecules	176
How Apicomplexa Parasites Secrete and Build Their Invasion Machinery	130
The History of Microbiology—A Personal Interpretation	129
Epigenetic Reprogramming in Host-Parasite Coevolution: TheToxoplasmaParadigm	116
Function of the Omp85 Superfamily of Outer Membrane Protein Assembly Factors and Polypeptide Transporters	61
Plasmodium vivax Latent Liver Stage Infection and Relapse: Biological Insights and New Experimental Tools	57
Collab or Cancel? Bacterial Influencers of Inflammasome Signaling	56
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	53
Habitat Transition in the Evolution of Bacteria and Archaea	47
Recent Advances in Understanding the Human Fungal Pathogen Hypoxia Response in Disease Progression	47
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	46
Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses	46
Growth and Division of the Peptidoglycan Matrix	45
Toxin-Antitoxin Systems as Phage Defense Elements	43
Microbiome Assembly in Fermented Foods	42
Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades	40
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	39
Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion	39
Mining Fatty Acid Biosynthesis for New Antimicrobials	38
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	37
Reconstructing Early Microbial Life	36
Cytoskeleton Organization in Formation and Motility of Apicomplexan Parasites	36
Evolution and Physiology of Amphibious Yeasts	33
The Brucella Cell Envelope	33
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	32

Understanding Fungi in Glacial and Hypersaline Environments	32
Interdependency and Redundancy Add Complexity and Resilience to Biogenesis of Bacterial Ribosomes	31
Metabolic Reprogramming and Longevity in Quiescence	31
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	30
Quorum Sensing in Fungal Species	30
The Bacterial Hsp90 Chaperone: Cellular Functions and Mechanism of Action	29
Roadmap to Success: How Oomycete Plant Pathogens Invade Tissues and Deliver Effectors	27
Causative Microbes in Host-Microbiome Interactions	27
Methanobactins: Structures, Biosynthesis, and Microbial Diversity	26
The Microbe, the Infection Enigma, and the Host	25
Unpacking Alternative Features of the Bacterial Chemotaxis System	24
Diversity and Evolution of Methane-Related Pathways in Archaea	24
Metals at the Host–Fungal Pathogen Battleground	24
Sirtuins in Epigenetic Silencing and Control of Gene Expression in Model and Pathogenic Fungi	23
License to Clump: Secretory IgA Structure–Function Relationships Across Scales	23
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Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	21
The ChvG-ChvI Regulatory Network: A Conserved Global Regulatory Circuit Among the Alphaproteobacteria with Pervasive Impacts on Host Interactions and Diverse Cellular Processes	21
From Chaos Comes Order: Genetics and Genome Biology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi	21
Biogenesis and Functionality of Sortase-Assembled Pili in Gram-Positive Bacteria	20
Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	20
Dickeya Diversity and Pathogenic Mechanisms	19
Emerging Concepts in Cholera Vaccine Design	18
Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts	18
Beyond Restriction Modification: Epigenomic Roles of DNA Methylation in Prokaryotes	17
Division and Transmission: Malaria Parasite Development in the Mosquito	16
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	16
Similarities and Dissimilarities of COVID-19 and Other Coronavirus Diseases	15
Cell Wall Biology of Vibrio cholerae	15
Epigenetic Regulation and Chromatin Remodeling in Malaria Parasites	15
Unique Properties of Apicomplexan Mitochondria	15
Transporter Proteins as Ecological Assets and Features of Microbial Eukaryotic Pangenomes	15
Malassezia: A Commensal, Pathogen, and Mutualist of Human and Animal Skin	14
Wrapped Up: The Motility of Polarly Flagellated Bacteria	14
Genomic Approaches to Antifungal Drug Target Identification and Validation	13
Factors Affecting Variation of the Human Gut Phageome	13
The Versatile Roles of Type III Secretion Systems in Rhizobium-Legume Symbioses	12
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	12
Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	12
Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators	12
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Origin and Early Evolution of the Eukaryotic Cell	11
Introduction	11
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