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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Subscription and Copyright Information	363
Advisory Board and Contents	231
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 2	210
Senescent cell: the ‘factory of viral amplification’	192
Advisory Board and Contents	187
Advisory Board and Contents	178
Advisory Board and Contents	178
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 4	155
Advancing equity in antimicrobial resistance research and policy	155
Subscription and Copyright Information	152
Loading and unloading plasmid cargoes	129
Starvation helps transition to abundance – a ferrosome story	120
The HIPS 2024 symposium: highlighting advances in pharmaceutical sciences in infection research	114
Metabolic flux phenotyping of secondary metabolism in cyanobacteria	112
Navigating trust and science: microbiome research in the Amazon	112
Better together? Lessons on sociality from Trichodesmium	110
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 15	110
Chemical dialogues at the crossroads of host–bacteria interactions	107
Game of microbes: a wildling’s guide	104
Disease-causing human viruses: novelty and legacy	102
Nuclear antiviral innate responses at the intersection of DNA sensing and DNA repair	101
Early-life chemical exposome and gut microbiome development: African research perspectives within a global environmental health context	98
Masking of typical TLR4 and TLR5 ligands modulates inflammation and resolution by Helicobacter pylori	98
Toward an integrative framework for microbial community coalescence	91
Spatial engineering for improved microbial cell factories	91

Biological interactions with Prochlorococcus: implications for the marine carbon cycle	89
Programming therapeutic probiotics by self-tunable sense-and-respond genetic circuits	87
The roles of calcium signaling and calcium deposition in microbial multicellularity	86
Advisory Board and Contents	85
Reductive biomining of pyrite by methanogens	83
Projecting global biological N2 fixation under climate warming across land and ocean	82
Sulfur traits in the plant microbiome: implications for sustainable agriculture	82
Tradeoffs and constraints on the evolution of tailocins	81
RNase III-CLASH brings bacterial RNA networks into focus	81
Klebsiella pneumoniae emerging anti-immunology paradigms: from stealth to evasion	79
How do bacteria recognize fungal competitors?	78
Unearthing terrestrial extreme microbiomes for searching terrestrial-like life in the Solar System	77
Molecular mechanisms and drivers of pathogen emergence	76
Advisory Board and Contents	74
Fast phages outcompete by depleting host resources	73
Advisory Board and Contents	73
CIFAR humans and the microbiome: Banff meeting report	72
Subscription and Copyright Information	72
Subscription and Copyright Information	69
Retaining African networks is urgent for global health	69
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 10	67
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 9	66
Revisiting methane-dependent denitrification	66
Interplay between endogenous and exogenous human retroviruses	63
Bacterial dual phototrophy was demystified	62
Disentangling the microbial ecological factors impacting honey bee susceptibility to Paenibacillus larvae infection	59
Recent advances in modelling Shigella infection	59
Aspergillus nidulans	59
Moonlighting antibiotics: the extra job of modulating biofilm formation	58
When ferroptosis meets pathogenic infections	57
Exploring the shared pathogenic strategies of independently evolved effectors across distinct plant viruses	56