OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews is 25. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Mechanisms of action of microbicides commonly used in infection prevention and control	219
Human coronaviruses: activation and antagonism of innate immune responses	97
A Reduction of Transcriptional Regulation in Aquatic Oligotrophic Microorganisms Enhances Fitness in Nutrient-Poor Environments	81
The CD8⁺T Cell Noncytotoxic Antiviral Responses	72
DNA Repair in Staphylococcus aureus	72
Interplay between group A Streptococcus and host innate immune responses	66
The Facts and Family Secrets of Plasmids That Replicate via the Rolling-Circle Mechanism	58
Resolving spatiotemporal dynamics in bacterial multicellular populations: approaches and challenges	57
Lipoic acid attachment to proteins: stimulating new developments	52
The intersection of host in vivo metabolism and immune responses to infection with kinetoplastid and apicomplexan parasites	47
Evolutionary trajectory for nuclear functions of ciliary transport complex proteins	39
Genotypic diversity, virulence, and molecular genetic tools in Histoplasma	38
Hepatitis B virus entry, assembly, and egress	37
Understanding the gut microbiota by considering human evolution: a story of fire, cereals, cooking, molecular ingenuity, and functional cooperation	37
Computational Tools for the Analysis of Uncultivated Phage Genomes	37
Outer Membrane Vesicles: Biogenesis, Functions, and Issues	34
Type III Secretion in Chlamydia	33
Correction for Poggi and Richard, “Alternative DNA Structures In Vivo : Molecular Evidence and Remaining Questions”	33
Mating-Type Switching in Budding Yeasts, from Flip/Flop Inversion to Cassette Mechanisms	32
How It All Begins: Bacterial Factors Mediating the Colonization of Invertebrate Hosts by Beneficial Symbionts	30
Bacterial cell volume regulation and the importance of cyclic di-AMP	29
Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperones in Viral Infection: Therapeutic Perspectives	29
Structural and functional diversity of Resistance-Nodulation-Division (RND) efflux pump transporters with implications for antimicrobial resistance	26
Chemotropism and Cell-Cell Fusion in Fungi	26
Editorial Board	26