OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews is 18. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Mechanisms of action of microbicides commonly used in infection prevention and control	102
Human coronaviruses: activation and antagonism of innate immune responses	90
A Reduction of Transcriptional Regulation in Aquatic Oligotrophic Microorganisms Enhances Fitness in Nutrient-Poor Environments	83
DNA Repair in Staphylococcus aureus	83
Evolutionary trajectory for nuclear functions of ciliary transport complex proteins	76
The Facts and Family Secrets of Plasmids That Replicate via the Rolling-Circle Mechanism	75
The intersection of host in vivo metabolism and immune responses to infection with kinetoplastid and apicomplexan parasites	71
Resolving spatiotemporal dynamics in bacterial multicellular populations: approaches and challenges	54
Interplay between group A Streptococcus and host innate immune responses	53
Revisiting cattle respiratory health: key roles of the gut-lung axis in the dynamics of respiratory tract pathobiome	53
Lipoic acid attachment to proteins: stimulating new developments	51
HIV reservoirs in lymphomagenesis: hidden driver in the era of viral suppression?	51
EcoSal Plus will become a part of Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews	50
Type III Secretion in Chlamydia	49
Understanding the gut microbiota by considering human evolution: a story of fire, cereals, cooking, molecular ingenuity, and functional cooperation	49
Computational Tools for the Analysis of Uncultivated Phage Genomes	46
Genotypic diversity, virulence, and molecular genetic tools in Histoplasma	44
Hepatitis B virus entry, assembly, and egress	43
Outer Membrane Vesicles: Biogenesis, Functions, and Issues	38
Neurotransmitter signaling in molecular and behavioral immune responses to pathogens in C. elegans	38
Molecular pathogenesis of Haemophilus ducreyi infection in human volunteers	37
Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperones in Viral Infection: Therapeutic Perspectives	34
Mating-Type Switching in Budding Yeasts, from Flip/Flop Inversion to Cassette Mechanisms	34
Bacterial cell volume regulation and the importance of cyclic di-AMP	34
How It All Begins: Bacterial Factors Mediating the Colonization of Invertebrate Hosts by Beneficial Symbionts	33

Chemotropism and Cell-Cell Fusion in Fungi	29
Editorial Board	29
Building the bacterial flagellum: coordinating regulation, dynamic assembly, and function	28
Membrane and organelle rearrangement during ascospore formation in budding yeast	27
The biology and pathogenicity of Clostridium perfringens type F: a common human enteropathogen with a new(ish) name	26
Structural and functional diversity of Resistance-Nodulation-Division (RND) efflux pump transporters with implications for antimicrobial resistance	25
Aminoglycoside uptake, stress, and potentiation in Gram-negative bacteria: new therapies with old molecules	24
Host specificity of gut microbiota associated with social bees: patterns and processes	24
Lessons Learned and Yet-to-Be Learned on the Importance of RNA Structure in SARS-CoV-2 Replication	23
Vesicular mechanisms of drug resistance in apicomplexan parasites	22
Programmed chromosome fragmentation in ciliated protozoa: multiple means to chromosome ends	21
CRISPRi functional genomics in bacteria and its application to medical and industrial research	20
Editorial Board	19
The polinton-like supergroup of viruses: evolution, molecular biology, and taxonomy	19
Recent developments in Aspergillus fumigatus research: diversity, drugs, and disease	19
Reconsidering the blood-brain barrier: histopathology and microanatomy of cryptococcal CNS infection	19
The ArcAB Two-Component System: Function in Metabolism, Redox Control, and Infection	18
Fatty acid synthesis and utilization in gram-positive bacteria: insights from Bacillus subtilis	18
New chemicals fuel the evolution of microbial biodegradation	18
Viral factors underlying the pandemic potential of influenza viruses	18
How fungi see the world: fungal photoreceptors and their role in the regulation of fungal biology	18
Structural analysis of resistance-nodulation cell division transporters	18
Genetic and environmental control of parasexual reproduction in the pathogenic Candida species	18