OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Microbiology is 36. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
The Plant Microbiome: From Ecology to Reductionism and Beyond	231
Toward a Fully Resolved Fungal Tree of Life	164
Assembly of Bacterial Capsular Polysaccharides and Exopolysaccharides	159
Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria	143
Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles: From Discovery to Applications	130
Cyclic di-AMP Signaling in Bacteria	116
Bacterial Quorum Sensing During Infection	112
Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades	111
Growth and Division of the Peptidoglycan Matrix	110
Toxin-Antitoxin Systems as Phage Defense Elements	106
Polymorphic Toxins and Their Immunity Proteins: Diversity, Evolution, and Mechanisms of Delivery	74
Bacterial Volatile Compounds: Functions in Communication, Cooperation, and Competition	64
Fungal Volatile Organic Compounds: More Than Just a Funky Smell?	63
Structures and Strategies of Anti-CRISPR-Mediated Immune Suppression	63
What Is Metagenomics Teaching Us, and What Is Missed?	57
Similarities and Dissimilarities of COVID-19 and Other Coronavirus Diseases	55
Surface Sensing and Adaptation in Bacteria	55
Iron-Only and Vanadium Nitrogenases: Fail-Safe Enzymes or Something More?	53
Shaping an Endospore: Architectural Transformations During Bacillus subtilis Sporulation	51
Membrane Dynamics in Phototrophic Bacteria	50
Epigenetic Regulation of Virulence and Immunoevasion by Phase-Variable Restriction-Modification Systems in Bacterial Pathogens	49
Assembly and Dynamics of the Bacterial Flagellum	48
Chemical Mediators at the Bacterial-Fungal Interface	48
Clostridioides difficile Spore Formation and Germination: New Insights and Opportunities for Intervention	47
Diversity and Evolution of Methane-Related Pathways in Archaea	46

Ape Origins of Human Malaria	46
A Bacterial Tower of Babel: Quorum-Sensing Signaling Diversity and Its Evolution	45
From Input to Output: The Lap/c-di-GMP Biofilm Regulatory Circuit	43
The Influence of Bacteria on Animal Metamorphosis	42
Regulation of Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Degradation inPseudomonas aeruginosa	42
Beyond Restriction Modification: Epigenomic Roles of DNA Methylation in Prokaryotes	41
The Ingenuity of Bacterial Genomes	41
The Type VII Secretion System ofStaphylococcus	41
Bacterial Multicellularity: The Biology of Escherichia coli Building Large-Scale Biofilm Communities	40
Quorum Sensing in Fungal Species	38
Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of the Human Microbiome in the Era of Personalized Medicine	37
ToxoplasmaMechanisms for Delivery of Proteins and Uptake of Nutrients Across the Host-Pathogen Interface	36
Microbes as Biosensors	36
Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses	36
Transcriptional Pausing as a Mediator of Bacterial Gene Regulation	36
Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion	36