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

Article	Citations
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	163
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	132
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	106
The mass spectrometry of microbiome-mediated metabolism of food: challenges and opportunities	98
Genetic and environmental factors shape the host response to Helicobacter hepaticus: insights into IBD pathogenesis	90
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	90
Synthetic microbial communities for studying and engineering the tree microbiome: challenges and opportunities	90
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	89
Citrobacter rodentium(ϕStx2dact), a murine infection model for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	88
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	85
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	81
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	74
Transient microbial architects: tracing the legacy effects of ephemeral taxa during plant microbiome assembly	69
Editorial Board	68
Editorial overview: Antibiotics special issue	68
Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	66
Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents	65
Crosstalk between (p)ppGpp and other nucleotide second messengers	64
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	64
Insights into Alphaproteobacterial regulators of cell envelope remodeling	62
Control of bacterial second messenger signaling and motility by heme-based direct oxygen-sensing proteins	60
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	59
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	58
Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	57
Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	56

Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	56
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	56
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	55
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	53
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	53
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	53
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	52
Neuroinvasion and neurotropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	52
Connecting microbial community assembly and function	50
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	49
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	49
Assembly of the exosporium layer in Clostridioides difficile spores	48
Host control by SPβ phage regulatory switch as potential manipulation strategy	46
Editorial Board	45
Conditionally unutilized proteins and their profound effects on growth and adaptation across microbial species	45
Circadian interactions between plants and microorganisms	44
The maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy and its role in maternal and infant health	41