OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Microbiology is 53. 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
Subscription and Copyright Information	629
Likelihood of amyloid formation in COVID-19-induced ARDS	401
Advisory Board and Contents	179
Advisory Board and Contents	173
Advisory Board and Contents	172
Advisory Board and Contents	152
Subscription and Copyright Information	140
Klebsiella pneumoniae emerging anti-immunology paradigms: from stealth to evasion	125
Sulfur traits in the plant microbiome: implications for sustainable agriculture	121
The HIPS 2024 symposium: highlighting advances in pharmaceutical sciences in infection research	102
Senescent cell: the ‘factory of viral amplification’	95
Advisory Board and Contents	94
Revisiting AMPylation through the lens of Fic enzymes	93
RNase III-CLASH brings bacterial RNA networks into focus	91
Starvation helps transition to abundance – a ferrosome story	88
Transposon-Associated CRISPR-Cas System: A Powerful DNA Insertion Tool	87
Geminiviruses also encode small proteins with specific functions	83
Projecting global biological N2 fixation under climate warming across land and ocean	83
Programming therapeutic probiotics by self-tunable sense-and-respond genetic circuits	81
Loading and unloading plasmid cargoes	80
Unearthing terrestrial extreme microbiomes for searching terrestrial-like life in the Solar System	79
Nuclear antiviral innate responses at the intersection of DNA sensing and DNA repair	77
Disease-causing human viruses: novelty and legacy	76
Better together? Lessons on sociality from Trichodesmium	75
The roles of calcium signaling and calcium deposition in microbial multicellularity	73

Masking of typical TLR4 and TLR5 ligands modulates inflammation and resolution by Helicobacter pylori	72
Molecular mechanisms and drivers of pathogen emergence	71
Tradeoffs and constraints on the evolution of tailocins	70
Metabolic flux phenotyping of secondary metabolism in cyanobacteria	69
Early-life chemical exposome and gut microbiome development: African research perspectives within a global environmental health context	68
Emerging Role for MAIT Cells in Control of Antimicrobial Resistance	68
Cross-correlation of virome–bacteriome–host–metabolome to study respiratory health	68
Reductive biomining of pyrite by methanogens	68
Biological interactions with Prochlorococcus: implications for the marine carbon cycle	67
Toward an integrative framework for microbial community coalescence	64
Deep-sea microbial genetic resources: new frontiers for bioprospecting	62
Advisory Board and Contents	61
Subscription and Copyright Information	61
HCV egress – unconventional secretion of assembled viral particles	60
Advisory Board and Contents	60
Revisiting methane-dependent denitrification	59
Moonlighting antibiotics: the extra job of modulating biofilm formation	58
Recent advances in modelling Shigella infection	58
Cutting-edge tools for unveiling the dynamics of plasmid–host interactions	58
Advisory Board and Contents	57
CIFAR humans and the microbiome: Banff meeting report	56
Aspergillus nidulans	56
Interplay between endogenous and exogenous human retroviruses	55
Exploring the shared pathogenic strategies of independently evolved effectors across distinct plant viruses	54
Synergy between microalgae and microbiome in polluted waters	54
Microbial nanowires: type IV pili or cytochrome filaments?	53
Severe respiratory viral infections: T-cell functions diverging from immunity to inflammation	53
Microbiome selection and evolution within wild and domesticated plants	53