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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The nisin O cluster: species dissemination, candidate leader peptide proteases and the role of regulatory systems	269
Characterization of tigurilysin, a novel human CD59-specific cholesterol-dependent cytolysin, reveals a role for host specificity in augmenting toxin activity	166
Mutation of putative glycosyl transferases PslC and PslI confers susceptibility to antibiotics and leads to drastic reduction in biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	92
Genome-wide analysis of genes involved in efflux function and regulation within Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium	76
Culturomics from field-grown crop plants using dilution to extinction, two-step library preparation and amplicon sequencing	60
Pharmaco-psychiatry and gut microbiome: a systematic review of effects of psychotropic drugs for bipolar disorder	57
Microbe Profile: Nitrosopumilus maritimus	55
Combined effect of SAR-endolysin LysKpV475 with polymyxin B and Salmonella bacteriophage phSE-5	52
Antibiotic use in rural Kenyan livestock: navigating misuse, experience gaps and AMR risks	49
Erratum: The type-VI secretion system of the beneficial symbiont Vibrio fischeri	45
Recruitment of C4b-binding protein is not a complement evasion strategy employed by Staphylococcus aureus	43
Generation of tools for expression and purification of the phage-encoded Type I restriction enzyme inhibitor, Ocr	39
Purification and characterization of a novel antibacterial peptide against Clostridium perfringens	38
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	38
Comments on the tolerance of Clostridioides difficile spores to disinfection with sodium hypochlorite disinfectant	37
Fitness costs of CRISPR-Cas systems in bacteria	37
Sweet and sour synergy: exploring the antibacterial and antibiofilm activity of acetic acid and vinegar combined with medical-grade honeys	35
Suppressor mutants demonstrate the metabolic plasticity of unsaturated fatty acid synthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1	35
Microbial Primer: Biosurfactants – the ABCs of microbial surface-active metabolites	35
Microbe Profile: Durusdinium trenchii: a thermotolerant coral symbiont	35
Natural products from food sources can alter the spread of antimicrobial resistance plasmids in Enterobacterales	35
Phages for One Health: regulatory and product life cycle considerations	35
Evolution of cyclic di-GMP signalling on a short and long term time scale	34
Lactobacilli and human dental caries: more than mechanical retention	32
Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene expression changes during established biofilm infection in a cystic fibrosis lung model	26

The impact of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulators on the pulmonary microbiota