OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Microbiology-SGM is 21. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Bacteria-induced mineral precipitation: a mechanistic review	60
A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans	58
Alternaria alternata as endophyte and pathogen	56
Polymyxin and lipopeptide antibiotics: membrane-targeting drugs of last resort	50
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is capable of natural transformation in biofilms	41
Predatory bacteria as living antibiotics – where are we now?	36
Role of bacterial efflux pumps in antibiotic resistance, virulence, and strategies to discover novel efflux pump inhibitors	34
Facultative methanotrophs – diversity, genetics, molecular ecology and biotechnological potential: a mini-review	34
Improved growth and morphological plasticity of Haloferax volcanii	31
Extreme genetic diversity in the type VII secretion system of Listeria monocytogenes suggests a role in bacterial antagonism	31
Bacteriophage infection of Escherichia coli leads to the formation of membrane vesicles via both explosive cell lysis and membrane blebbing	30
Bacterial protein secretion systems: Game of types	28
Evolution of horizontal transmission in antimicrobial resistance plasmids	27
Bacterial pore-forming toxins	27
The genetic basis of phage susceptibility, cross-resistance and host-range in Salmonella	27
Multiple holins contribute to extracellular DNA release in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	24
Presence and absence of type VI secretion systems in bacteria	24
A tale of two habitats: Bacteroides fragilis, a lethal pathogen and resident in the human gastrointestinal microbiome	23
Microcins reveal natural mechanisms of bacterial manipulation to inform therapeutic development	22
Adaptive laboratory evolution of Pseudomonas putida and Corynebacterium glutamicum to enhance anthranilate tolerance	22
The Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm type IV secretion system and its effectors	22
Roles for phthiocerol dimycocerosate lipids in Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis	21