OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Microbiology is 21. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	121
Editorial Board	117
Editorial overview: Antibiotics special issue	116
Citrobacter rodentium(ϕStx2dact), a murine infection model for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	106
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	97
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	84
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	77
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	75
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	72
Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments	71
Genetic and environmental factors shape the host response to Helicobacter hepaticus: insights into IBD pathogenesis	69
Commensal inter-bacterial interactions shaping the microbiota	68
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	68
In vivo studies on Citrobacter rodentium and host cell death pathways	68
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	68
Editorial overview: Unraveling microbiome complexity	66
Citrobacter rodentium infection at the gut–brain axis interface	63
Molecular basis of synchronous replication of malaria parasites in the blood stage	62
Editorial Board	61
Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	61
Ca2+-calmodulin signalling at the host-pathogen interface	61
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	59
Insights into Alphaproteobacterial regulators of cell envelope remodeling	58
The impact of the host microbiota on Candida albicans infection	56
Crosstalk between (p)ppGpp and other nucleotide second messengers	55

Co-opting bacterial viruses for DNA exchange: structure and regulation of gene transfer agents	54
Increasing the PACE of characterising novel transporters by functional genomics	53
Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	53
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	53
Control of bacterial second messenger signaling and motility by heme-based direct oxygen-sensing proteins	53
Fungal effectors: past, present, and future	50
Editorial overview: Human fungal pathogens: An increasing threat	49
Advances in regulation of homeostasis through chromatin modifications by airway commensals	49
Assembly of the exosporium layer in Clostridioides difficile spores	48
Bottlenecks and opportunities in antibiotic discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis	48
Neuroinvasion and neurotropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	48
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	48
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	47
Group 3 innate lymphoid cells mediate host defense against attaching and effacing pathogens	47
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	47
Connecting microbial community assembly and function	46
Editorial overview: Bacterial microcompartments to the fore as metabolism is put in its place	46
Editorial Board	46
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	46
Activation of complement-like antiparasitic responses in Anopheles mosquitoes	45
Host control by SPβ phage regulatory switch as potential manipulation strategy	44
Pain killers: the interplay between nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and Clostridioides difficile infection	43
Conditionally unutilized proteins and their profound effects on growth and adaptation across microbial species	39
Ready, STAT3, Go! Bacteria in the race for M2 macrophage polarisation	39
Toward merging bottom–up and top–down model-based designing of synthetic microbial communities	39
How do interactions between mobile genetic elements affect horizontal gene transfer?	39
The maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy and its role in maternal and infant health	39
The human vaginal microbiota: from clinical medicine to models to mechanisms	38
The longitudinal and cross-sectional heterogeneity of the intestinal microbiota	37
Ecological and functional roles of bacteriophages in contrasting environments: marine, terrestrial and human gut	37
Cell cycle regulation in Escherichia coli: from governing principles, checkpoints, and control variables to molecular mechanisms	36
Bacteriophage communities are a reservoir of unexplored microbial diversity in neonatal health and disease	36
The power of the small: the underestimated role of small proteins in bacterial and archaeal physiology	36
Protein stoichiometry, structural plasticity and regulation of bacterial microcompartments	36
What’s for dinner? How Citrobacter rodentium’s metabolism helps it thrive in the competitive gut	35
Dissecting skin microbiota and microenvironment for the development of therapeutic strategies	35
Toothpicks, logic, and next-generation sequencing: systematic investigation of bacteriophage-host interactions	34
Environmental adaptation and diversification of bacterial two-component systems	34
Differences and similarities between innate immune evasion strategies of human coronaviruses	34
Editorial Board	33
Editorial overview: Turtles all the way down: Bacterial cell regulation across scales	33
Editorial overview: There and back again: a phage’s tale	32
Antibiotic tolerance: targeting bacterial survival	31
A tale of two nitrous oxide reductases: a cautionary perspective	31
Second messenger signaling in Clostridioides difficile	31
Regulation of para-cresol production in Clostridioides difficile	30
Cell cycle-regulated ApiAP2s and parasite development: the Toxoplasma paradigm	30
Reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance in the context of One Health	30
Phage transmission strategies: are phages farming their host?	30
The intricate organizational strategy of nucleus-forming phages	30

New targets for antimalarial drug discovery	29
Editorial overview: Recent advances in fundamental and translational research on parasitic protists	29
Archaeal key-residents within the human microbiome: characteristics, interactions and involvement in health and disease	28
Mycoviruses and their role in fungal pathogenesis	28
Is Cryptococcus neoformans a pleomorphic fungus?	28
Host-pathogen interactions: lessons from phagocytic predation on fungi	28
Biological and bioinformatic tools for the discovery of unknown phage–host combinations	28
PII-like signaling proteins: a new paradigm in orchestrating cellular homeostasis	27
Emergence and adaptation of the cellular machinery directing antigenic variation in the African trypanosome	27
The importance of persistence and dormancy in Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas disease	27
Beyond resistance: antifungal heteroresistance and antifungal tolerance in fungal pathogens	27
The metabolic pathways and transporters of the plastid organelle in Apicomplexa	27
Virulence-associated factors as targets for phage infection	27
SOS-independent bacterial DNA damage responses: diverse mechanisms, unifying function	27
Editorial overview: Return of the phages — a new golden era of molecular discovery and synthetic biology	26
Activation of the extracytoplasmic function σ factor σV by lysozyme in Clostridioides difficile	26
Chemical communication in plant–microbe beneficial interactions: a toolbox for precise management of beneficial microbes	26
Predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance	26
Editorial overview: emerging avenues in antimicrobial research	26
Surface-displayed glycopolymers of Clostridioides difficile	25
Temporospatial control of topoisomerases by essential cellular processes	25
Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual?	25
Evolutionary ecology theory — microbial population structure	25
Ethanolamine bacterial microcompartments: from structure, function studies to bioengineering applications	24
Clostridioides difficile peptidoglycan modifications	24
Strains to go: interactions of the skin microbiome beyond its species	24
Gram-positive pathogens, inflammation, and the host lipid environment	24
Deciphering mechanisms and implications of bacterial translocation in human health and disease	24
The ribosome as a small-molecule sensor	23
Editorial Board	23
Cooperative defenses during enteropathogenic infection	23
Editorial overview: Microbial cell regulation across multiple scales	23
Immune-metabolic interactions between Leishmania and macrophage host	23
Editorial Board	22
Microbiome rescue: directing resilience of environmental microbial communities	22
Horizontal gene transfer and beyond: the delivery of biological matter by bacterial membrane vesicles to host and bacterial cells	22
The promise of CRISPR-associated transposons for bacterial functional genomics	22
Plasmids of Clostridioides difficile	22
Host genetics regulate the plant microbiome	22
Host-directed therapies for malaria: possible applications and lessons from other indications	22
The immune response to airway mycosis	22
Prokaryote pangenomes are dynamic entities	22
The promise of copper ionophores as antimicrobials	21
Phage defense origin of animal immunity	21
Editorial overview: current state and future of the microbiome field: why context matters	21
Engineering genetic circuits: advancements in genetic design automation tools and standards for synthetic biology	21
Evolutionary relationships among shell proteins of carboxysomes and metabolosomes	21