OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of FEMS Microbiology Ecology is 10. 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
Alkaline soil pH affects bulk soil, rhizosphere and root endosphere microbiomes of plants growing in a Sandhills ecosystem	39
Exploring the abundance, metabolic potential and gene expression of subseafloor Chloroflexi in million-year-old oxic and anoxic abyssal clay	35
Responses of abundant and rare bacterioplankton to temporal change in a subtropical urban reservoir	34
Temporal changes in water temperature and salinity drive the formation of a reversible plastic-specific microbial community	32
Root exposure to apple replant disease soil triggers local defense response and rhizoplane microbiome dysbiosis	30
Multi-species relationships in legume roots: From pairwise legume-symbiont interactions to the plant – microbiome – soil continuum	23
Bacteria responsible for antimonite oxidation in antimony-contaminated soil revealed by DNA-SIP coupled to metagenomics	20
AHL-priming for enhanced resistance as a tool in sustainable agriculture	19
Insights into the structure and role of seed-borne bacteriome during maize germination	19
Sea foams are ephemeral hotspots for distinctive bacterial communities contrasting sea-surface microlayer and underlying surface water	18
Plant-associated fungal biofilms—knowns and unknowns	18
The proficiency of the original host species determines community-level plasmid dynamics	17
Soil microbial communities influencing organic phosphorus mineralization in a coastal dune chronosequence in New Zealand	16
Macroecological diversification and convergence in a clade of keystone symbionts	16
Marine sediments harbor diverse archaea and bacteria with the potential for anaerobic hydrocarbon degradation via fumarate addition	16
Multi-stable bacterial communities exhibit extreme sensitivity to initial conditions	16
Importance of environmental factors over habitat connectivity in shaping bacterial communities in microbial mats and bacterioplankton in an Antarctic freshwater system	15
Impacts of switching tillage to no-tillage and vice versa on soil structure, enzyme activities and prokaryotic community profiles in Argentinean semi-arid soils	15
Relative contributions of egg-associated and substrate-associated microorganisms to black soldier fly larval performance and microbiota	15
Synergistic interactions prevail in multispecies biofilms formed by the human gut microbiota on mucin	14
Safeguarding the fragile rice–wheat ecosystem of the Indo-Gangetic Plains through bio-priming and bioaugmentation interventions	14
Enhancement of antibiotic production by co-cultivation of two antibiotic producing marine Vibrionaceae strains	13
Fungal community structure and seasonal trajectories respond similarly to fire across pyrophilic ecosystems	13
Characterizing the culturable surface microbiomes of diverse marine animals	13
Microbiome variation during culture growth of the European house dust mite,Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus	13

Restoring degraded microbiome function with self-assembled communities	12
Gut microbiome composition predicts summer core range size in two divergent ungulates	11
Dysbiosis in marine aquaculture revealed through microbiome analysis: reverse ecology for environmental sustainability	11
The first sequencedSphaerotilus natansbacteriophage– characterization and potential to control its filamentous bacterium host	11
Factors influencing the biodiversity of three microbial groups within and among islands of the Baltic Sea	11
The association between initial adhesion and cyanobacterial biofilm development	10
Exploring microbial communities, assessment methodologies and applications of animal's carcass decomposition: a review	10
Gut bacteria formation and influencing factors	10