OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Microbiology is 36. 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
PANoptosis in microbial infection	132
Hepatitis E virus: host tropism and zoonotic infection	94
The potential of using E. coli as an indicator for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment	81
Mycoviruses and their role in fungal pathogenesis	77
Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments	72
The antiviral activities of TRIM proteins	68
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	62
The assembly of β-barrel outer membrane proteins	60
How antibiotics work together: molecular mechanisms behind combination therapy	55
The challenges of estimating the human global burden of disease of antimicrobial resistant bacteria	50
Bacterial CRISPR screens for gene function	50
Antibiotic resistance in the commensal human gut microbiota	50
PAS domains in bacterial signal transduction	49
Fungal endophytes in plants and their relationship to plant disease	48
Antimicrobial resistance acquisition via natural transformation: context is everything	47
Eradicating biofilm infections: an update on current and prospective approaches	45
Salmonella effector driven invasion of the gut epithelium: breaking in and setting the house on fire	44
Pseudomonas aeruginosa: an antibiotic resilient pathogen with environmental origin	44
Ecological and functional roles of bacteriophages in contrasting environments: marine, terrestrial and human gut	43
Commensal inter-bacterial interactions shaping the microbiota	43
The antimalarial resistome – finding new drug targets and their modes of action	42
Antibiotic persistence and tolerance: not just one and the same	42
Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis associated with viral pneumonitis	42
Natural recreational waters and the risk that exposure to antibiotic resistant bacteria poses to human health	42
The ever-expanding world of bacterial cyclic oligonucleotide second messengers	41

Role of pollution on the selection of antibiotic resistance and bacterial pathogens in the environment	40
The evolutionary success of regulated cell death in bacterial immunity	40
More than propellers: how flagella shape bacterial motility behaviors	39
Climate change and plant pathogens	39
New discoveries expand possibilities for carboxysome engineering	39
Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapies	39
Microbial communities and their enzymes facilitate degradation of recalcitrant polymers in anaerobic digestion	38
The molecular and genetic basis of antifungal resistance in the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris	38
Diversity of bacterial chemosensory systems	37
Glycan processing in gut microbiomes	37
Rhizosphere bacterial interactions and impact on plant health	36
The multifaceted lifestyle of enterococci: genetic diversity, ecology and risks for public health	36
Synthesis and recycling of the mycobacterial cell envelope	36
Mother–infant transmission of human microbiota	36