OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review of Microbiology is 37. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	217
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	133
Horizontal Gene Transfer and Recombination in Cyanobacteriota	122
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	113
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	113
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	103
Clock Regulation and Fungal Physiology: Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning the Timely Control of Just About Everything	101
Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators	92
Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts	91
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Circadian Biology in Parasites: Beyond Known Mechanisms	77
Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human Gut Microbiome	75
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	70
Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle	67
My Life as a Pioneering Woman Scientist in a Golden Age of Science and Society	65
Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses	63
Introduction	59
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	59
Microbial Specialized Metabolites in Phytopathogen–Host Citrus Interactions	55
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	55
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	54
The Biology of Akkermansia	54
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	53
Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive In Vitro Lichen	52
The Brucella Cell Envelope	52

Cellular Olympics: Ultrafast Cellular Motility Across the Tree of Life	51
Carbon Metabolism of Intracellular Parasitic Protists	50
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	49
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	48
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	45
Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	44
From an Interest in Molecules to a Fascination with Microbes	44
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Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	41
Opportunistic Fungal Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa	39
The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria	37