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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Subscription and Copyright Information	324
Advisory Board and Contents	284
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 4	211
Subscription and Copyright Information	174
Loading and unloading plasmid cargoes	170
Disease-causing human viruses: novelty and legacy	165
Unearthing terrestrial extreme microbiomes for searching terrestrial-like life in the Solar System	163
Game of microbes: a wildling’s guide	163
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 15	137
Navigating trust and science: microbiome research in the Amazon	136
Biological interactions with Prochlorococcus: implications for the marine carbon cycle	132
RNase III-CLASH brings bacterial RNA networks into focus	124
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 2	124
Senescent cell: the ‘factory of viral amplification’	118
Subscription and Copyright Information	112
Advisory Board and Contents	105
Advisory Board and Contents	100
Advisory Board and Contents	100
Programming therapeutic probiotics by self-tunable sense-and-respond genetic circuits	96
Klebsiella pneumoniae emerging anti-immunology paradigms: from stealth to evasion	95
Masking of typical TLR4 and TLR5 ligands modulates inflammation and resolution by Helicobacter pylori	95
Nuclear antiviral innate responses at the intersection of DNA sensing and DNA repair	94
Chemical dialogues at the crossroads of host–bacteria interactions	92
The roles of calcium signaling and calcium deposition in microbial multicellularity	90
Toward an integrative framework for microbial community coalescence	89

The HIPS 2024 symposium: highlighting advances in pharmaceutical sciences in infection research	86
Starvation helps transition to abundance – a ferrosome story	85
Projecting global biological N2 fixation under climate warming across land and ocean	85
Advancing equity in antimicrobial resistance research and policy	82
Metabolic flux phenotyping of secondary metabolism in cyanobacteria	81
Better together? Lessons on sociality from Trichodesmium	80
Molecular mechanisms and drivers of pathogen emergence	79
Reductive biomining of pyrite by methanogens	78
Tradeoffs and constraints on the evolution of tailocins	76
Early-life chemical exposome and gut microbiome development: African research perspectives within a global environmental health context	73
Sulfur traits in the plant microbiome: implications for sustainable agriculture	73
Advisory Board and Contents	72
Subscription and Copyright Information	67
Interplay between endogenous and exogenous human retroviruses	67
Bacterial dual phototrophy was demystified	67
Subscription and Copyright Information	66
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 9	66
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 10	66
Advisory Board and Contents	65
Fast phages outcompete by depleting host resources	65
CIFAR humans and the microbiome: Banff meeting report	65
Retaining African networks is urgent for global health	64
Revisiting methane-dependent denitrification	64
Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms	63
Exploring the shared pathogenic strategies of independently evolved effectors across distinct plant viruses	63
Recent advances in modelling Shigella infection	63
Synergy between microalgae and microbiome in polluted waters	63
Microbial nanowires: type IV pili or cytochrome filaments?	63
Deep-sea microbial genetic resources: new frontiers for bioprospecting	57
Microbiome selection and evolution within wild and domesticated plants	56
Disentangling the microbial ecological factors impacting honey bee susceptibility to Paenibacillus larvae infection	56
Cutting-edge tools for unveiling the dynamics of plasmid–host interactions	56