OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Microbiology is 20. 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
Defining the expanding mechanisms of phage-mediated activation of bacterial immunity	43
Antifungal drug-resistance mechanisms in Candida biofilms	43
Innovative and potential treatments for fungal central nervous system infections	43
Soterobionts: disease-preventing microorganisms and proposed strategies to facilitate their discovery	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
Host control by SPβ phage regulatory switch as potential manipulation strategy	40
Activation of complement-like antiparasitic responses in Anopheles mosquitoes	40
Editorial overview: Bacterial microcompartments to the fore as metabolism is put in its place	40
The maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy and its role in maternal and infant health	39
Structure-based design of novel polyhedral protein nanomaterials	39
How do interactions between mobile genetic elements affect horizontal gene transfer?	39
Conditionally unutilized proteins and their profound effects on growth and adaptation across microbial species	39
What’s for dinner? How Citrobacter rodentium’s metabolism helps it thrive in the competitive gut	38
Toward merging bottom–up and top–down model-based designing of synthetic microbial communities	38
Ready, STAT3, Go! Bacteria in the race for M2 macrophage polarisation	36
Environmental adaptation and diversification of bacterial two-component systems	35
Ecological and functional roles of bacteriophages in contrasting environments: marine, terrestrial and human gut	35
The longitudinal and cross-sectional heterogeneity of the intestinal microbiota	35
Protein stoichiometry, structural plasticity and regulation of bacterial microcompartments	34
The human vaginal microbiota: from clinical medicine to models to mechanisms	34
The power of the small: the underestimated role of small proteins in bacterial and archaeal physiology	34
Toothpicks, logic, and next-generation sequencing: systematic investigation of bacteriophage-host interactions	33
Dissecting skin microbiota and microenvironment for the development of therapeutic strategies	32
Editorial overview: Turtles all the way down: Bacterial cell regulation across scales	32
Differences and similarities between innate immune evasion strategies of human coronaviruses	32
Bacteriophage communities are a reservoir of unexplored microbial diversity in neonatal health and disease	32
Editorial Board	31
Editorial overview: There and back again: a phage’s tale	31
Regulation of para-cresol production in Clostridioides difficile	31
Second messenger signaling in Clostridioides difficile	30
Phage transmission strategies: are phages farming their host?	30
The intricate organizational strategy of nucleus-forming phages	30
Cell cycle-regulated ApiAP2s and parasite development: the Toxoplasma paradigm	30
Antibiotic tolerance: targeting bacterial survival	29
Cell–cell communication through septal junctions in filamentous cyanobacteria	29
Reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance in the context of One Health	29

Emergence and adaptation of the cellular machinery directing antigenic variation in the African trypanosome	28
Introducing noncanonical amino acids for studying and engineering bacterial microcompartments	28
Is Cryptococcus neoformans a pleomorphic fungus?	28
Editorial overview: Recent advances in fundamental and translational research on parasitic protists	28
Beyond resistance: antifungal heteroresistance and antifungal tolerance in fungal pathogens	27
PII-like signaling proteins: a new paradigm in orchestrating cellular homeostasis	27
Host-pathogen interactions: lessons from phagocytic predation on fungi	27
Archaeal key-residents within the human microbiome: characteristics, interactions and involvement in health and disease	27
Virulence-associated factors as targets for phage infection	27
Biological and bioinformatic tools for the discovery of unknown phage–host combinations	27
New targets for antimalarial drug discovery	27
Chemical communication in plant–microbe beneficial interactions: a toolbox for precise management of beneficial microbes	26
SOS-independent bacterial DNA damage responses: diverse mechanisms, unifying function	25
Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual?	25
Mycoviruses and their role in fungal pathogenesis	25
Gram-positive pathogens, inflammation, and the host lipid environment	25
The metabolic pathways and transporters of the plastid organelle in Apicomplexa	25
Editorial overview: emerging avenues in antimicrobial research	24
Editorial overview: Return of the phages — a new golden era of molecular discovery and synthetic biology	24
Predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance	24
Clostridioides difficile peptidoglycan modifications	24
Temporospatial control of topoisomerases by essential cellular processes	23
Deciphering mechanisms and implications of bacterial translocation in human health and disease	23
Evolutionary ecology theory — microbial population structure	23
Integrated control of surface adaptation by the bacterial flagellum	23
Activation of the extracytoplasmic function σ factor σV by lysozyme in Clostridioides difficile	23
Surface-displayed glycopolymers of Clostridioides difficile	22
Ethanolamine bacterial microcompartments: from structure, function studies to bioengineering applications	22
Batrachochytrium fungi: stealth invaders in amphibian skin	22
Strains to go: interactions of the skin microbiome beyond its species	22
Cooperative defenses during enteropathogenic infection	22
The immune response to airway mycosis	21
The promise of CRISPR-associated transposons for bacterial functional genomics	21
Host genetics regulate the plant microbiome	21
Editorial Board	21
Immune-metabolic interactions between Leishmania and macrophage host	21
Plasmids of Clostridioides difficile	21
Editorial overview: Microbial cell regulation across multiple scales	21
Evolutionary relationships among shell proteins of carboxysomes and metabolosomes	21
Horizontal gene transfer and beyond: the delivery of biological matter by bacterial membrane vesicles to host and bacterial cells	20
Editorial overview: current state and future of the microbiome field: why context matters	20
The ribosome as a small-molecule sensor	20
Host-directed therapies for malaria: possible applications and lessons from other indications	20
Microbiome rescue: directing resilience of environmental microbial communities	20
Prokaryote pangenomes are dynamic entities	20
Phage defense origin of animal immunity	20