OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Microbiology is 33. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Nematode-Killing Fungi: Model Systems for Fungal–Animal Interactions	226
Common Strategies Governing Temperate Phage and α-Herpesvirus Persistence	142
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	132
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	118
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	117
Horizontal Gene Transfer and Recombination in Cyanobacteriota	115
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	106
Clock Regulation and Fungal Physiology: Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning the Timely Control of Just About Everything	106
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	97
Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts	95
Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators	85
Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human Gut Microbiome	83
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Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle	70
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	70
Circadian Biology in Parasites: Beyond Known Mechanisms	70
My Life as a Pioneering Woman Scientist in a Golden Age of Science and Society	67
Introduction	63
Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses	63
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	62
Convergent Evolution of Cellular Weaponry	60
Microbial Specialized Metabolites in Phytopathogen–Host Citrus Interactions	59
The Biology of Akkermansia	58
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	56
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	55

When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	55
Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive In Vitro Lichen	53
Cellular Olympics: Ultrafast Cellular Motility Across the Tree of Life	53
The Brucella Cell Envelope	52
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	51
From an Interest in Molecules to a Fascination with Microbes	51
Carbon Metabolism of Intracellular Parasitic Protists	48
Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	47
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	43
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	42
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Opportunistic Fungal Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa	35
Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	35
Genetic Exchange in Leishmania: Understanding the Cryptic Sexual Cycle	33
The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria	33