OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Microbiology is 56. 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
Subscription and Copyright Information	338
Advisory Board and Contents	289
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 2	218
Senescent cell: the ‘factory of viral amplification’	180
Subscription and Copyright Information	176
Advisory Board and Contents	169
Advisory Board and Contents	168
Advisory Board and Contents	165
Advancing equity in antimicrobial resistance research and policy	147
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 4	145
Subscription and Copyright Information	137
Loading and unloading plasmid cargoes	126
Starvation helps transition to abundance – a ferrosome story	120
The HIPS 2024 symposium: highlighting advances in pharmaceutical sciences in infection research	113
Navigating trust and science: microbiome research in the Amazon	109
Metabolic flux phenotyping of secondary metabolism in cyanobacteria	104
Early-life chemical exposome and gut microbiome development: African research perspectives within a global environmental health context	102
Projecting global biological N2 fixation under climate warming across land and ocean	99
Toward an integrative framework for microbial community coalescence	98
Masking of typical TLR4 and TLR5 ligands modulates inflammation and resolution by Helicobacter pylori	97
Reductive biomining of pyrite by methanogens	97
Game of microbes: a wildling’s guide	92
Molecular mechanisms and drivers of pathogen emergence	92
Biological interactions with Prochlorococcus: implications for the marine carbon cycle	92
Chemical dialogues at the crossroads of host–bacteria interactions	92

Programming therapeutic probiotics by self-tunable sense-and-respond genetic circuits	91
RNase III-CLASH brings bacterial RNA networks into focus	88
Sulfur traits in the plant microbiome: implications for sustainable agriculture	88
Disease-causing human viruses: novelty and legacy	83
Nuclear antiviral innate responses at the intersection of DNA sensing and DNA repair	82
Better together? Lessons on sociality from Trichodesmium	80
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 15	80
Unearthing terrestrial extreme microbiomes for searching terrestrial-like life in the Solar System	79
Klebsiella pneumoniae emerging anti-immunology paradigms: from stealth to evasion	77
Tradeoffs and constraints on the evolution of tailocins	74
The roles of calcium signaling and calcium deposition in microbial multicellularity	74
Advisory Board and Contents	72
Advisory Board and Contents	71
Subscription and Copyright Information	70
Fast phages outcompete by depleting host resources	70
Recent advances in modelling Shigella infection	69
CIFAR humans and the microbiome: Banff meeting report	68
Deep-sea microbial genetic resources: new frontiers for bioprospecting	68
Subscription and Copyright Information	67
Bacterial dual phototrophy was demystified	66
Retaining African networks is urgent for global health	66
Interplay between endogenous and exogenous human retroviruses	65
Severe respiratory viral infections: T-cell functions diverging from immunity to inflammation	65
Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution	64
Exploring the shared pathogenic strategies of independently evolved effectors across distinct plant viruses	63
Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms	63
Cysteine and resistance to oxidative stress: implications for virulence and antibiotic resistance	59
Disentangling the microbial ecological factors impacting honey bee susceptibility to Paenibacillus larvae infection	59
Synergy between microalgae and microbiome in polluted waters	58
Microbial nanowires: type IV pili or cytochrome filaments?	57
Cutting-edge tools for unveiling the dynamics of plasmid–host interactions	57
On the biological meaning of the population pangenome	56