OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Microbiology is 43. 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
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	204
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	169
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	125
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	123
Harnessing ‘phage training’ to bolster the therapeutic potential of bacteriophages	109
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	105
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	103
Starvation as a weapon in fungal–plant warfare	102
Corrigendum to “Assembly and maturation of methyl-coenzyme M reductase in methanogenic archaea” [Curr Opin Microbiol, 87 (2025) 102637]	99
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	98
Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities	93
The mass spectrometry of microbiome-mediated metabolism of food: challenges and opportunities	92
Interplay between bacterial outer membranes and S-layers	89
Innate immune responses to Rickettsia: emerging themes and contrasts between species	88
Transient microbial architects: tracing the legacy effects of ephemeral taxa during plant microbiome assembly	87
Editorial Board	85
Control of bacterial second messenger signaling and motility by heme-based direct oxygen-sensing proteins	76
Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents	71
Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	71
Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	70
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	70
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	66
Crosstalk between (p)ppGpp and other nucleotide second messengers	66
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	66
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	66

Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	63
Insights into Alphaproteobacterial regulators of cell envelope remodeling	61
Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	59
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	56
Pathways of mRNA decay in trypanosomes	56
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	56
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	53
tRNAs as toxin targets in phage defence and a focus of counter-defence against abortive infection	52
Connecting microbial community assembly and function	50
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	50
Phagosome maturation during fungal infection	48
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	47
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	46
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	46
Neuroinvasion and neurotropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	45
Trace gas oxidation as a novel microbial dispersal trait	44
Editorial Board	44
Assembly of the exosporium layer in Clostridioides difficile spores	44
Decoding the epigenetic blueprint behind Toxoplasma (pre)sexual commitment and chronic persistence	43