OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Microbiology is 28. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	191
Horizontal Gene Transfer and Recombination in Cyanobacteriota	101
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	95
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	93
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	93
Clock Regulation and Fungal Physiology: Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning the Timely Control of Just About Everything	84
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	75
Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts	71
Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators	70
Circadian Biology in Parasites: Beyond Known Mechanisms	68
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Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human Gut Microbiome	67
Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle	54
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	53
My Life as a Pioneering Woman Scientist in a Golden Age of Science and Society	48
Introduction	47
Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses	47
The Biology of Akkermansia	46
Microbial Specialized Metabolites in Phytopathogen–Host Citrus Interactions	45
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	44
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	43
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	41
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	41
Cellular Olympics: Ultrafast Cellular Motility Across the Tree of Life	40
The Brucella Cell Envelope	39

Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive In Vitro Lichen	38
Carbon Metabolism of Intracellular Parasitic Protists	38
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	38
Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	37
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	35
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	35
The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria	33
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Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	32
Opportunistic Fungal Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa	29
The Origin of Metazoan Multicellularity: A Potential Microbial Black Swan Event	28
Compartmentalization of RNA Degradosomes in Bacteria Controls Accessibility to Substrates and Ensures Concerted Degradation of mRNA to Nucleotides	28