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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	214
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	143
Plasmodium vivax Latent Liver Stage Infection and Relapse: Biological Insights and New Experimental Tools	141
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	141
Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses	75
The Bacterial Hsp90 Chaperone: Cellular Functions and Mechanism of Action	68
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	68
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	63
Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts	62
Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators	62
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Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human Gut Microbiome	56
Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle	53
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	51
Bacterial Multicellularity: The Biology of Escherichia coli Building Large-Scale Biofilm Communities	51
Molecular Basis of Lysis–Lysogeny Decisions in Gram-Positive Phages	49
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	48
Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses	48
Introduction	47
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	46
Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of the Human Microbiome in the Era of Personalized Medicine	46
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	45
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	44
The Brucella Cell Envelope	43
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	41

The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria	40
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Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	40
Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	40
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	40
Trypanosome Signaling—Quorum Sensing	40
Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	38
Compartmentalization of RNA Degradosomes in Bacteria Controls Accessibility to Substrates and Ensures Concerted Degradation of mRNA to Nucleotides	38
The Origin of Metazoan Multicellularity: A Potential Microbial Black Swan Event	37
Are Bacteria Leaky? Mechanisms of Metabolite Externalization in Bacterial Cross-Feeding	36
Mechanisms of Virulence Reprogramming in Bacterial Pathogens	36