OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Applied and Environmental Microbiology is 34. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
mobileOG-db: a Manually Curated Database of Protein Families Mediating the Life Cycle of Bacterial Mobile Genetic Elements	122
Perspectives and Benefits of High-Throughput Long-Read Sequencing in Microbial Ecology	106
The Reliability of Metagenome-Assembled Genomes (MAGs) in Representing Natural Populations: Insights from Comparing MAGs against Isolate Genomes Derived from the Same Fecal Sample	104
UV Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 across the UVC Spectrum: KrCl* Excimer, Mercury-Vapor, and Light-Emitting-Diode (LED) Sources	93
The Effects of Soil Depth on the Structure of Microbial Communities in Agricultural Soils in Iowa (United States)	85
Cytochromes in Extracellular Electron Transfer in Geobacter	78
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	70
Determining Gut Microbial Dysbiosis: a Review of Applied Indexes for Assessment of Intestinal Microbiota Imbalances	70
Persistence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Virus and Viral RNA in Relation to Surface Type and Contamination Concentration	63
Encapsulation and Delivery of Therapeutic Phages	61
High Salinity Inhibits Soil Bacterial Community Mediating Nitrogen Cycling	60
The Ecology and Evolution of Amoeba-Bacterium Interactions	56
Growth Dynamics and Antibiotic Elimination of Symbiotic Rickettsia buchneri in the Tick Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae)	55
Carriage of Extended-Spectrum-Beta-Lactamase- and AmpC Beta-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli Strains from Humans and Pets in the Same Households	52
Viable but Nonculturable State of Yeast Candida sp. Strain LN1 Induced by High Phenol Concentrations	52
Correction for Zhu et al., “Bacteria and Metabolic Potential in Karst Caves Revealed by Intensive Bacterial Cultivation and Genome Assembly”	51
Volatile Organic Compound-Mediated Antifungal Activity of Pichia spp. and Its Effect on the Metabolic Profiles of Fermentation Communities	48
The Plant-Beneficial Rhizobacterium Bacillus velezensis FZB42 Controls the Soybean Pathogen Phytophthora sojae Due to Bacilysin Production	48
Severe Corrosion of Carbon Steel in Oil Field Produced Water Can Be Linked to Methanogenic Archaea Containing a Special Type of [NiFe] Hydrogenase	46
Variation in Root Exudate Composition Influences Soil Microbiome Membership and Function	46
RNA Viromics of Southern California Wastewater and Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Single-Nucleotide Variants	46
Mining the Factors Driving the Evolution of the Pit Mud Microbiome under the Impact of Long-Term Production of Strong-Flavor Baijiu	44
Development of Wastewater Pooled Surveillance of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from Congregate Living Settings	43
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants Mu, Beta, Gamma, Lambda, Delta, Alpha, and Omicron in Wastewater Settled Solids Using Mutation-Specific Assays Is Associated with Regional Detection of Variants in Cli	43
Outer Membrane c -Type Cytochromes OmcA and MtrC Play Distinct Roles in Enhancing the Attachment of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Cells to Go	39

Succession of the Resident Soil Microbial Community in Response to Periodic Inoculations	38
Utilization Efficiency of Human Milk Oligosaccharides by Human-Associated Akkermansia Is Strain Dependent	38
Forty Years of Oxalobacter formigenes, a Gutsy Oxalate-Degrading Specialist	38
Antifungal Volatile Organic Compounds from Streptomyces setonii WY228 Control Black Spot Disease of Sweet Potato	37
Therapeutic Application of Lantibiotics and Other Lanthipeptides: Old and New Findings	37
Variations among Viruses in Influent Water and Effluent Water at a Wastewater Plant over One Year as Assessed by Quantitative PCR and Metagenomics	36
Dilution-to-Stimulation/Extinction Method: a Combination Enrichment Strategy To Develop a Minimal and Versatile Lignocellulolytic Bacterial Consortium	36
Correlation of Key Physiological Properties of Methanosarcina Isolates with Environment of Origin	36
Genomes of Novel Myxococcota Reveal Severely Curtailed Machineries for Predation and Cellular Differentiation	36
Soybean Root Nodule and Rhizosphere Microbiome: Distribution of Rhizobial and Nonrhizobial Endophytes	34
Aminoglycosides Antagonize Bacteriophage Proliferation, Attenuating Phage Suppression of Bacterial Growth, Biofilm Formation, and Antibiotic Resistance	34
Adaptability of a Caproate-Producing Bacterium Contributes to Its Dominance in an Anaerobic Fermentation System	34
A Meta-Analysis Approach to Defining the Culturable Core of Plant Endophytic Bacterial Communities	34