OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Microbiology is 41. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	110
Editorial Board	106
In vivo studies on Citrobacter rodentium and host cell death pathways	101
Editorial overview: Antibiotics special issue	92
Genetic and environmental factors shape the host response to Helicobacter hepaticus: insights into IBD pathogenesis	78
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	68
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	67
Citrobacter rodentium(ϕStx2dact), a murine infection model for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	66
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	63
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	62
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	61
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	61
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	61
Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments	61
Commensal inter-bacterial interactions shaping the microbiota	60
Control of bacterial second messenger signaling and motility by heme-based direct oxygen-sensing proteins	58
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	57
Crosstalk between (p)ppGpp and other nucleotide second messengers	57
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	57
Citrobacter rodentium infection at the gut–brain axis interface	55
Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents	55
Molecular basis of synchronous replication of malaria parasites in the blood stage	54
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	51
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	51
Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	50

Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	50
Increasing the PACE of characterising novel transporters by functional genomics	50
Editorial Board	50
Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	49
Insights into Alphaproteobacterial regulators of cell envelope remodeling	48
Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	47
Neuroinvasion and neurotropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	46
Assembly of the exosporium layer in Clostridioides difficile spores	44
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	43
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	43
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	43
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	43
Connecting microbial community assembly and function	42
Group 3 innate lymphoid cells mediate host defense against attaching and effacing pathogens	42
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	42
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	42
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	41
Pain killers: the interplay between nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and Clostridioides difficile infection	41
Editorial Board	41