OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Microbiology-SGM 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The nisin O cluster: species dissemination, candidate leader peptide proteases and the role of regulatory systems	301
Characterization of tigurilysin, a novel human CD59-specific cholesterol-dependent cytolysin, reveals a role for host specificity in augmenting toxin activity	182
Mutation of putative glycosyl transferases PslC and PslI confers susceptibility to antibiotics and leads to drastic reduction in biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	99
Culturomics from field-grown crop plants using dilution to extinction, two-step library preparation and amplicon sequencing	84
Pharmaco-psychiatry and gut microbiome: a systematic review of effects of psychotropic drugs for bipolar disorder	68
Combined effect of SAR-endolysin LysKpV475 with polymyxin B and Salmonella bacteriophage phSE-5	56
Genome-wide analysis of genes involved in efflux function and regulation within Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium	55
Antibiotic use in rural Kenyan livestock: navigating misuse, experience gaps and AMR risks	48
Erratum: The type-VI secretion system of the beneficial symbiont Vibrio fischeri	48
Recruitment of C4b-binding protein is not a complement evasion strategy employed by Staphylococcus aureus	43
Difficult-to-culture micro-organisms specifically isolated using the liquid-liquid co-culture method – towards the identification of bacterial species and metabolites supporting their growth	42
Comments on the tolerance of Clostridioides difficile spores to disinfection with sodium hypochlorite disinfectant	41
Suppressor mutants demonstrate the metabolic plasticity of unsaturated fatty acid synthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1	40
Phages for One Health: regulatory and product life cycle considerations	39
The impact of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulators on the pulmonary microbiota	38
Evolution of cyclic di-GMP signalling on a short and long term time scale	38
Microbe Profile: Durusdinium trenchii: a thermotolerant coral symbiont	38
Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene expression changes during established biofilm infection in a cystic fibrosis lung model	37
Purification and characterization of a novel antibacterial peptide against Clostridium perfringens	36
Development of a long-read next generation sequencing workflow for improved characterization of fastidious respiratory mycoplasmas	36
Commonly prescribed medicines antagonise anti-MRSA antibiotics and select for resistance	35
Sweet and sour synergy: exploring the antibacterial and antibiofilm activity of acetic acid and vinegar combined with medical-grade honeys	32
Natural products from food sources can alter the spread of antimicrobial resistance plasmids in Enterobacterales	28
Microbial Primer: Biosurfactants – the ABCs of microbial surface-active metabolites	28
Generation of tools for expression and purification of the phage-encoded Type I restriction enzyme inhibitor, Ocr	28

Aspartate aminotransferase of Rhizobium leguminosarum has extended substrate specificity and metabolizes aspartate to enable N2 fixation in pea nodules	26
Host prenylation promotes membrane association of the Salmonella effector GtgE during infection	26
Bacterial secretion system functions: evidence of interactions and downstream implications	26