OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews is 26. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Human coronaviruses: activation and antagonism of innate immune responses	86
DNA Repair in Staphylococcus aureus	77
Mechanisms of action of microbicides commonly used in infection prevention and control	73
A Reduction of Transcriptional Regulation in Aquatic Oligotrophic Microorganisms Enhances Fitness in Nutrient-Poor Environments	69
Interplay between group A Streptococcus and host innate immune responses	64
Evolutionary trajectory for nuclear functions of ciliary transport complex proteins	64
Lipoic acid attachment to proteins: stimulating new developments	61
The Facts and Family Secrets of Plasmids That Replicate via the Rolling-Circle Mechanism	49
Resolving spatiotemporal dynamics in bacterial multicellular populations: approaches and challenges	45
The intersection of host in vivo metabolism and immune responses to infection with kinetoplastid and apicomplexan parasites	42
Understanding the gut microbiota by considering human evolution: a story of fire, cereals, cooking, molecular ingenuity, and functional cooperation	41
Hepatitis B virus entry, assembly, and egress	40
EcoSal Plus will become a part of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	40
Type III Secretion in Chlamydia	38
Outer Membrane Vesicles: Biogenesis, Functions, and Issues	38
Genotypic diversity, virulence, and molecular genetic tools in Histoplasma	37
Computational Tools for the Analysis of Uncultivated Phage Genomes	36
Bacterial cell volume regulation and the importance of cyclic di-AMP	35
Mating-Type Switching in Budding Yeasts, from Flip/Flop Inversion to Cassette Mechanisms	34
Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperones in Viral Infection: Therapeutic Perspectives	33
Molecular pathogenesis of Haemophilus ducreyi infection in human volunteers	32
How It All Begins: Bacterial Factors Mediating the Colonization of Invertebrate Hosts by Beneficial Symbionts	31
Membrane and organelle rearrangement during ascospore formation in budding yeast	30
Chemotropism and Cell-Cell Fusion in Fungi	29
Editorial Board	28

Aminoglycoside uptake, stress, and potentiation in Gram-negative bacteria: new therapies with old molecules	27
The biology and pathogenicity of Clostridium perfringens type F: a common human enteropathogen with a new(ish) name	26