OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Microbiology is 25. 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

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
Recent Advances in Understanding the Human Fungal Pathogen Hypoxia Response in Disease Progression	47
Habitat Transition in the Evolution of Bacteria and Archaea	47
Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses	46
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	46
Toxin-Antitoxin Systems as Phage Defense Elements	45
Microbiome Assembly in Fermented Foods	43
Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades	42
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	40
Mining Fatty Acid Biosynthesis for New Antimicrobials	39
Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion	39
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	38
Reconstructing Early Microbial Life	37
Growth and Division of the Peptidoglycan Matrix	36
Cytoskeleton Organization in Formation and Motility of Apicomplexan Parasites	36
The Brucella Cell Envelope	33
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	33
Evolution and Physiology of Amphibious Yeasts	32

Quorum Sensing in Fungal Species	32
Causative Microbes in Host-Microbiome Interactions	31
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	31
Understanding Fungi in Glacial and Hypersaline Environments	30
The Bacterial Hsp90 Chaperone: Cellular Functions and Mechanism of Action	30
Interdependency and Redundancy Add Complexity and Resilience to Biogenesis of Bacterial Ribosomes	29
Metabolic Reprogramming and Longevity in Quiescence	27
Diversity and Evolution of Methane-Related Pathways in Archaea	27
Sirtuins in Epigenetic Silencing and Control of Gene Expression in Model and Pathogenic Fungi	26
Roadmap to Success: How Oomycete Plant Pathogens Invade Tissues and Deliver Effectors	25