OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Microbiology is 52. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Subscription and Copyright Information	248
Advisory Board and Contents	234
Loading and unloading plasmid cargoes	207
Navigating trust and science: microbiome research in the Amazon	154
Nuclear antiviral innate responses at the intersection of DNA sensing and DNA repair	141
Molecular mechanisms and drivers of pathogen emergence	137
Reductive biomining of pyrite by methanogens	132
Early-life chemical exposome and gut microbiome development: African research perspectives within a global environmental health context	126
Unearthing terrestrial extreme microbiomes for searching terrestrial-like life in the Solar System	114
Cross-correlation of virome–bacteriome–host–metabolome to study respiratory health	109
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 2	106
Projecting global biological N2 fixation under climate warming across land and ocean	106
Klebsiella pneumoniae emerging anti-immunology paradigms: from stealth to evasion	105
Likelihood of amyloid formation in COVID-19-induced ARDS	101
Geminiviruses also encode small proteins with specific functions	100
Revisiting AMPylation through the lens of Fic enzymes	97
Programming therapeutic probiotics by self-tunable sense-and-respond genetic circuits	94
Better together? Lessons on sociality from Trichodesmium	93
Advisory Board and Contents	93
Senescent cell: the ‘factory of viral amplification’	86
Subscription and Copyright Information	83
Advisory Board and Contents	82
Advisory Board and Contents	80
RNase III-CLASH brings bacterial RNA networks into focus	78
Masking of typical TLR4 and TLR5 ligands modulates inflammation and resolution by Helicobacter pylori	78

Starvation helps transition to abundance – a ferrosome story	78
The HIPS 2024 symposium: highlighting advances in pharmaceutical sciences in infection research	75
Sulfur traits in the plant microbiome: implications for sustainable agriculture	74
Subscription and Copyright Information	73
Tradeoffs and constraints on the evolution of tailocins	71
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 4	69
Toward an integrative framework for microbial community coalescence	68
Disease-causing human viruses: novelty and legacy	68
Biological interactions with Prochlorococcus: implications for the marine carbon cycle	67
The roles of calcium signaling and calcium deposition in microbial multicellularity	67
Metabolic flux phenotyping of secondary metabolism in cyanobacteria	67
Advisory Board and Contents	65
Fast phages outcompete by depleting host resources	61
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 9	60
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 10	60
On the biological meaning of the population pangenome	58
Subscription and Copyright Information	58
Retaining African networks is urgent for global health	57
Interplay between endogenous and exogenous human retroviruses	56
Microbiome selection and evolution within wild and domesticated plants	55
Recent advances in modelling Shigella infection	55
Bacterial dual phototrophy was demystified	55
CIFAR humans and the microbiome: Banff meeting report	54
Severe respiratory viral infections: T-cell functions diverging from immunity to inflammation	54
Disentangling the microbial ecological factors impacting honey bee susceptibility to Paenibacillus larvae infection	53
Aspergillus nidulans	53
Advisory Board and Contents	53
Advisory Board and Contents	52
Subscription and Copyright Information	52