OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Microbiology-SGM is 20. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Wild ciliates differ in susceptibility to Legionella pneumophila JR32	67
FocA and its central role in fine-tuning pH homeostasis of enterobacterial formate metabolism	60
Functional characterization of a gene cluster responsible for inositol catabolism associated with hospital-adapted isolates of Enterococcus faecium	60
Enhanced production of Shiga toxin 1 in enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli by oxygen	59
Idification and structural characterisation of a catecholate-type siderophore produced by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia K279a	46
Mutational hotspots lead to robust but suboptimal adaptive outcomes in certain environments	34
Genetic and mutational analysis of virulence traits and their modulation in an environmental toxigenic Vibrio cholerae non-O1/non-O139 strain, VCE232	32
A historical sequence deletion in a commonly used Bacillus subtilis chromosome integration vector generates undetected loss-of-function mutations	31
Genome-wide analysis of genes involved in efflux function and regulation within Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium	31
The Salmonella Typhi SPI-2 injectisome enigma	28
Biochemical and functional characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ketol-acid reductoisomerase	27
Importance of transmembrane helix 4 of l-alanine exporter AlaE in oligomer formation and substrate export activity in Escherichia coli	27
A CRISPRi-based investigation reveals that multiple promoter elements drive gene expression from the genome of mycobacteriophage D29	25
Methionyl-tRNA formyltransferase utilizes 10-formyldihydrofolate as an alternative substrate and impacts antifolate drug action	24
Corrigendum: Characterisation of anhydro-sialic acid transporters from mucosa-associated bacteria	24
A novel hemA mutation is responsible for a small-colony-variant phenotype in Escherichia coli	23
Investigating zinc toxicity responses in marine Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus	23
Cross-species activation of hydrogen cyanide production by a promiscuous quorum-sensing receptor promotes Chromobacterium subtsugae competition in a dual-species model	22
Growth rate and nutrient limitation as key drivers of extracellular quorum sensing signal molecule accumulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	21
Seasonal variation in the stomach microbiota of two sympatrically breeding Pygoscelis penguin species at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands	20
Corrigendum: Identification and structural characterisation of a catecholate-type siderophore produced by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia K279a	20