OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Microbiology is 50. 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
Microbial Regulation of Host Physiology by Short-chain Fatty Acids	504
Shaping the Future of Probiotics and Prebiotics	319
Oceanic Hitchhikers – Assessing Pathogen Risks from Marine Microplastic	283
Double-Membrane Vesicles as Platforms for Viral Replication	234
Carbapenem Resistance-Encoding and Virulence-Encoding Conjugative Plasmids in Klebsiella pneumoniae	153
Bacterial Coinfections in Coronavirus Disease 2019	137
Mitochondria-mediated oxidative stress during viral infection	134
The Role of Integrative and Conjugative Elements in Antibiotic Resistance Evolution	128
Cyanobacteria and biogeochemical cycles through Earth history	127
Bacillus cereus: Epidemiology, Virulence Factors, and Host–Pathogen Interactions	113
Making Sense of the Biodiversity and Virulence of Listeria monocytogenes	99
Microbial Symbiosis: A Network towards Biomethanation	97
Fusobacterium nucleatum, a key pathogenic factor and microbial biomarker for colorectal cancer	91
Missing Microbes in Bees: How Systematic Depletion of Key Symbionts Erodes Immunity	84
Functions of Bacterial tRNA Modifications: From Ubiquity to Diversity	83
Does Intraspecific Variation in rDNA Copy Number Affect Analysis of Microbial Communities?	82
Human Organs-on-Chips for Virology	82
Wall Teichoic Acid in Staphylococcus aureus Host Interaction	80
High-specificity local and global c-di-GMP signaling	80
Insights into endogenous Bifidobacterium species in the human gut microbiota during adulthood	80
Chlamydiae in the Environment	77
Avian gut microbiomes taking flight	74
Ecological and evolutionary solutions to the plasmid paradox	74
COVID-19 Antibody Tests: A Valuable Public Health Tool with Limited Relevance to Individuals	72
Gut microbiome-mediated mechanisms for reducing cholesterol levels: implications for ameliorating cardiovascular disease	69

Two Decades of Studying Functional Amyloids in Microorganisms	69
Dysregulation of Cell Signaling by SARS-CoV-2	69
How Microbes Evolved to Tolerate Oxygen	67
Conserved DNA Methyltransferases: A Window into Fundamental Mechanisms of Epigenetic Regulation in Bacteria	67
Type VII Toxin/Antitoxin Classification System for Antitoxins that Enzymatically Neutralize Toxins	65
The Molecular Language of the Cnidarian–Dinoflagellate Symbiosis	61
Enhancing Microbial Pollutant Degradation by Integrating Eco-Evolutionary Principles with Environmental Biotechnology	60
Microbial Inoculants: Silver Bullet or Microbial Jurassic Park?	60
Therapeutic Potential of Metformin in COVID-19: Reasoning for Its Protective Role	60
Complement Evasion by Lyme Disease Spirochetes	59
From seed to seed: the role of microbial inheritance in the assembly of the plant microbiome	59
New views on PII signaling: from nitrogen sensing to global metabolic control	59
Deep Learning for Imaging and Detection of Microorganisms	57
Neutrophil intrinsic and extrinsic regulation of NETosis in health and disease	56
Acinetobacter baumannii	56
Emerging Patterns of Microbial Functional Traits	55
Advances in the bacterial organelles for CO2 fixation	55
The Microbial Conveyor Belt: Connecting the Globe through Dispersion and Dormancy	54
Challenges of Studying the Human Virome – Relevant Emerging Technologies	54
The Oral Host–Microbial Interactome: An Ecological Chronometer of Health?	53
Diversity in the soil virosphere: to infinity and beyond?	53
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) cell entry: structural insights	53
Investigating the Concept and Origin of Viruses	53
Molecular Logic of Prokaryotic Surface Layer Structures	52
Towards efficient immunotherapy for bacterial infection	50
Microbiota regulation of viral infections through interferon signaling	50