OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Microbiology is 16. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
From genome structure to function: insights into structural variation in microbiology	149
Control engineering and synthetic biology: working in synergy for the analysis and control of microbial systems	94
Host-pathogen interactions: lessons from phagocytic predation on fungi	86
Archaeal key-residents within the human microbiome: characteristics, interactions and involvement in health and disease	86
Introducing noncanonical amino acids for studying and engineering bacterial microcompartments	79
Editorial overview: “All in all, it is not just another brick in the wall”: new concepts and mechanisms on how bacteria build their wall	77
Editorial Board	75
Editorial Board	60
Editorial overview: Fungal diversity: Now for something completely different	54
Resolving metabolic interaction mechanisms in plant microbiomes	52
Recurring and emerging themes in prokaryotic innate immunity	51
Genetic and environmental factors shape the host response to Helicobacter hepaticus: insights into IBD pathogenesis	50
Editorial overview: Two to tango: The intricate communications between host and bacteria	50
The blueprint for building a biofilm the Clostridioides difficile way	50
Editorial Board	49
Editorial overview: Recent advances in fundamental and translational research on parasitic protists	48
Editorial Board	48
A cell–cell atlas approach for understanding symbiotic interactions between microbes	47
Post-translational lipid modifications in Plasmodium parasites	45
Nutritional control of bacterial DNA replication	45
Capers with caspases: Toxoplasma gondii tales of inflammation and survival	45
Fungal pathogens and COVID-19	43
Vertebrate and invertebrate animal infection models of Candida auris pathogenicity	43
Hybrids unleashed: exploring the emergence and genomic insights of pathogenic yeast hybrids	42
Host immune response against fungal biofilms	42

Gear up! An overview of the molecular equipment used by Myxococcus to move, kill, and divide in prey colonies	42
D-galactonate metabolism in enteric bacteria: a molecular and physiological perspective	42
Incorporating plasmid biology and metagenomics into a holistic model of the human gut microbiome	40
Reframing antimicrobial resistance as a continuous spectrum of manifestations	39
Yersinia interactions with regulated cell death pathways	39
SOS-independent bacterial DNA damage responses: diverse mechanisms, unifying function	39
Nothing makes sense in drug resistance except in the light of evolution	39
Renal implications of coronavirus disease 2019: insights into viral tropism and clinical outcomes	38
Host determinants and responses underlying SARS-CoV-2 liver tropism	38
The intestinal mycobiome as a determinant of host immune and metabolic health	37
Emergence and adaptation of the cellular machinery directing antigenic variation in the African trypanosome	37
PhoU: a multifaceted regulator in microbial signaling and homeostasis	36
Convergence in domesticated fungi used for cheese and dry-cured meat maturation: beneficial traits, genomic mechanisms, and degeneration	36
PII-like signaling proteins: a new paradigm in orchestrating cellular homeostasis	35
Synergy and regulation of antiphage systems: toward the existence of a bacterial immune system?	35
Making sense of drug-efflux transporters in the physiological environment	34
New targets for antimalarial drug discovery	34
Modelling of microbial interactions in anaerobic digestion: from black to glass box	34
Editorial overview: Antibiotics special issue	34
Virulence-associated factors as targets for phage infection	33
Regulation and function of class A Penicillin-binding proteins	33
Innovative approaches in the discovery of terpenoid natural products	33
Safeguarding wheat yields from cereal fungal invaders in the postgenomic era	32
The metabolic pathways and transporters of the plastid organelle in Apicomplexa	32
Lessons from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genomes	31
Citrobacter rodentium(ϕStx2dact), a murine infection model for enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	31
Commensal inter-bacterial interactions shaping the microbiota	31
Anchoring surface proteins to the bacterial cell wall by sortase enzymes: how it started and what we know now	31
The mycobiome: interactions with host and implications in diseases	31
Insights into the role of the respiratory tract microbiome in defense against bacterial pneumonia	30
Transport of lipopolysaccharides and phospholipids to the outer membrane	30
The emerging complexity of Chlamydia trachomatis interactions with host cells as revealed by molecular genetic approaches	30
Clostridioides difficile spore germination: initiation to DPA release	30
Functional ecology of bacteriophages in the environment	29
Global dispersal and diversity of rust fungi in the context of plant health	29
The ‘ins and outs’ of Brucella intracellular journey	29
Cardiac damage and tropism of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2	29
Heat-shock responses: systemic and essential ways of malaria parasite survival	28
Rhizosphere bacterial interactions and impact on plant health	28
Current approaches to malaria vaccines	28
Harnessing gut microbial communities to unravel microbiome functions	28
Culturomics, a potential approach paving the way toward bacteriotherapy	27
Homeostasis of the Gram-negative cell envelope	27
Archaea oxidizing alkanes through alkyl-coenzyme M reductases	26
Structure-guided metagenome mining to tap microbial functional diversity	26
Bacterial CRISPR screens for gene function	26
Chemical communication in plant–microbe beneficial interactions: a toolbox for precise management of beneficial microbes	25
Beyond resistance: antifungal heteroresistance and antifungal tolerance in fungal pathogens	25
Argonaute proteins confer immunity in all domains of life	25
Utilization of microbial cocultures for converting mixed substrates to valuable bioproducts	24

In vivo studies on Citrobacter rodentium and host cell death pathways	24
Genetic mechanisms governing sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile	24
Is Cryptococcus neoformans a pleomorphic fungus?	23
Synthesis and recycling of the mycobacterial cell envelope	23
Climate change and plant pathogens	23
Seizing the moment: now is the time for integrated global surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater environments	23
Biological and bioinformatic tools for the discovery of unknown phage–host combinations	23
A perfect fit: Bacteriophage receptor-binding proteins for diagnostic and therapeutic applications	23
A brief guide to machine learning for antibiotic discovery	23
How do bacteria tune transcription termination efficiency?	23
Mycoviruses and their role in fungal pathogenesis	23
Natural recreational waters and the risk that exposure to antibiotic resistant bacteria poses to human health	23
Human intestinal organoids as models to study enteric bacteria and viruses	23
Phenotypic heterogeneity in Streptomyces colonies	22
Central role of metabolism in Trypanosoma cruzi tropism and Chagas disease pathogenesis	21
Integrated control of surface adaptation by the bacterial flagellum	21
Surface-displayed glycopolymers of Clostridioides difficile	21
Ethanolamine bacterial microcompartments: from structure, function studies to bioengineering applications	20
Hungry for control: metabolite signaling to chromatin in Plasmodium falciparum	20
Fungus–insect interactions beyond bilateral regimes: the importance and strategy to outcompete host ectomicrobiomes by fungal parasites	20
Batrachochytrium fungi: stealth invaders in amphibian skin	19
Function of autophagy genes in innate immune defense against mucosal pathogens	19
Molecular basis of synchronous replication of malaria parasites in the blood stage	19
Advances in constraint-based models: methods for improved predictive power based on resource allocation constraints	18
Interactions of Vibrio phages and their hosts in aquatic environments	18
Control of bacterial second messenger signaling and motility by heme-based direct oxygen-sensing proteins	18
Type III secretion system effector subnetworks elicit distinct host immune responses to infection	18
Within-host evolution of the gut microbiome	18
The potential of using E. coli as an indicator for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment	18
Deciphering mechanisms and implications of bacterial translocation in human health and disease	18
Inflammasome activation by Salmonella	18
Antimicrobial resistance acquisition via natural transformation: context is everything	18
Emergent CRISPR–Cas-based technologies for engineering non-model bacteria	17
The need for unrealistic experiments in global change biology	17
Coevolution of a generalist pathogen with many hosts: the case of the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis	17
Editorial Board	17
The microbial and host factors that govern Candida gastrointestinal colonization and dissemination	17
Microbial eco-evolutionary dynamics in the plant rhizosphere	17
Histone code: a common language and multiple dialects to meet the different developmental requirements of apicomplexan parasites	17
Use of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic approaches for dose optimization: a case study of plazomicin	17
Stochastic response of bacterial cells to antibiotics: its mechanisms and implications for population and evolutionary dynamics	16
From a parts list to assembly instructions and an operating manual: how small host models can re-write microbiome theory	16
Bacterial lipid biophysics and membrane organization	16
Innate immune responses to Listeria in vivo	16
Advanced genome-editing technologies enable rapid and large-scale generation of genetic variants for strain engineering and synthetic biology	16
Regulation of Citrobacter rodentium colonization: virulence, immune response and microbiota interactions	16
Increasing the PACE of characterising novel transporters by functional genomics	16
Evolutionary ecology theory — microbial population structure	16
Manipulation of host cell plasma membranes by intracellular bacterial pathogens	16