OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Applied and Environmental Microbiology is 41. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Gut Microbiota of Laying Hens and Its Manipulation with Prebiotics and Probiotics To Enhance Gut Health and Food Safety	146
The Reliability of Metagenome-Assembled Genomes (MAGs) in Representing Natural Populations: Insights from Comparing MAGs against Isolate Genomes Derived from the Same Fecal Sample	82
UV Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 across the UVC Spectrum: KrCl* Excimer, Mercury-Vapor, and Light-Emitting-Diode (LED) Sources	80
Perspectives and Benefits of High-Throughput Long-Read Sequencing in Microbial Ecology	79
Oral or Topical Exposure to Glyphosate in Herbicide Formulation Impacts the Gut Microbiota and Survival Rates of Honey Bees	78
The Effects of Soil Depth on the Structure of Microbial Communities in Agricultural Soils in Iowa (United States)	69
Time Evolution of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Wastewater during the First Pandemic Wave of COVID-19 in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, Spain	69
Fast and Facile Biodegradation of Polystyrene by the Gut Microbial Flora of Plesiophthalmus davidis Larvae	66
ESKAPE Bacteria and Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli Isolated from Wastewater and Process Water from German Poultry Slaughterhouses	64
Microbial Ecology of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Hatcheries: Impacts of the Built Environment on Fish Mucosal Microbiota	64
mobileOG-db: a Manually Curated Database of Protein Families Mediating the Life Cycle of Bacterial Mobile Genetic Elements	64
Divergent Co-occurrence Patterns and Assembly Processes Structure the Abundant and Rare Bacterial Communities in a Salt Marsh Ecosystem	64
Fish Skin and Gut Microbiomes Show Contrasting Signatures of Host Species and Habitat	62
Bacteria from the Genus Arcobacter Are Abundant in Effluent from Wastewater Treatment Plants	62
Neutral Processes Dominate Microbial Community Assembly in Atlantic Salmon, Salmo salar	61
Persistence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Virus and Viral RNA in Relation to Surface Type and Contamination Concentration	61
Synergistic Effect of Multiple Saccharifying Enzymes on Alcoholic Fermentation for Chinese Baijiu Production	60
Cytochromes in Extracellular Electron Transfer in Geobacter	57
A Soluble Fiber Diet Increases Bacteroides fragilis Group Abundance and Immunoglobulin A Production in the Gut	55
Encapsulation and Delivery of Therapeutic Phages	54
A Bottom-Up Approach To Develop a Synthetic Microbial Community Model: Application for Efficient Reduced-Salt Broad Bean Paste Fermentation	54
The Lizard Gut Microbiome Changes with Temperature and Is Associated with Heat Tolerance	52
Diazotrophic Anaeromyxobacter Isolates from Soils	52
Fatty Acid and Alcohol Metabolism in Pseudomonas putida: Functional Analysis Using Random Barcode Transposon Sequencing	52
Correction for Zhu et al., “Bacteria and Metabolic Potential in Karst Caves Revealed by Intensive Bacterial Cultivation and Genome Assembly”	51

Determining Gut Microbial Dysbiosis: a Review of Applied Indexes for Assessment of Intestinal Microbiota Imbalances	51
Persistence of Bacteriophage Phi 6 on Porous and Nonporous Surfaces and the Potential for Its Use as an Ebola Virus or Coronavirus Surrogate	50
Growth Dynamics and Antibiotic Elimination of Symbiotic Rickettsia buchneri in the Tick Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae)	49
Carriage of Extended-Spectrum-Beta-Lactamase- and AmpC Beta-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli Strains from Humans and Pets in the Same Households	49
Bacterial Glycogen Provides Short-Term Benefits in Changing Environments	49
DNA Damage Kills Bacterial Spores and Cells Exposed to 222-Nanometer UV Radiation	48
Inactivation Efficacies and Mechanisms of Gas Plasma and Plasma-Activated Water against Aspergillus flavus Spores and Biofilms: a Comparative Study	48
Inhibition of Ammonia Monooxygenase from Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea by Linear and Aromatic Alkynes	47
Modeling the Inactivation of Viruses from the Coronaviridae Family in Response to Temperature and Relative Humidity in Suspensions or on Surfaces	47
Engineered Reporter Phages for Rapid Bioluminescence-Based Detection and Differentiation of ViableListeriaCells	45
Streptomyces Endophytes Promote Host Health and Enhance Growth across Plant Species	44
Reviving the “Moore Swab”: a Classic Environmental Surveillance Tool Involving Filtration of Flowing Surface Water and Sewage Water To Recover Typhoidal Salmonella Bacte	43
The Ecology and Evolution of Amoeba-Bacterium Interactions	43
Deciphering the Root Endosphere Microbiome of the Desert Plant Alhagi sparsifolia for Drought Resistance-Promoting Bacteria	43
Viable but Nonculturable State of Yeast Candida sp. Strain LN1 Induced by High Phenol Concentrations	43
High Salinity Inhibits Soil Bacterial Community Mediating Nitrogen Cycling	42
Development of Wastewater Pooled Surveillance of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from Congregate Living Settings	41
Applications of Bacillus subtilis Spores in Biotechnology and Advanced Materials	41