OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The bacterial sulfur cycle in expanding dysoxic and euxinic marine waters	142
The plant endosphere world – bacterial life within plants	141
Rare taxa maintain the stability of crop mycobiomes and ecosystem functions	123
Contrasting patterns and drivers of soil bacterial and fungal diversity across a mountain gradient	115
Salinity controls soil microbial community structure and function in coastal estuarine wetlands	109
Experimental evidence of microbial inheritance in plants and transmission routes from seed to phyllosphere and root	99
The diversity and distribution of endophytes across biomes, plant phylogeny and host tissues: how far have we come and where do we go from here?	91
Distinct assembly mechanisms underlie similar biogeographical patterns of rare and abundant bacteria in Tibetan Plateau grassland soils	74
Vibrio natriegens: an ultrafast‐growing marine bacterium as emerging synthetic biology chassis	70
Rhizosphere microbiome functional diversity and pathogen invasion resistance build up during plant development	66
Iterative subtractive binning of freshwater chronoseries metagenomes identifies over 400 novel species and their ecologic preferences	66
Community succession of the grapevine fungal microbiome in the annual growth cycle	66
Sulphide addition favours respiratory ammonification (DNRA) over complete denitrification and alters the active microbial community in salt marsh sediments	65
Vibrio–bivalve interactions in health and disease	65
Revisiting the virulence hallmarks of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a chronicle through the perspective of quorum sensing	63
Genomic characterization of three novel Desulfobacterota classes expand the metabolic and phylogenetic diversity of the phylum	63
In hot water: effects of climate change on Vibrio–human interactions	59
Diversity and potential biogeochemical impacts of viruses in bulk and rhizosphere soils	59
Farm animals and aquaculture: significant reservoirs of mobile colistin resistance genes	59
Contribution of stochastic processes to the microbial community assembly on field‐collected microplastics	58
Vesiduction: the fourth way of HGT	57
Global analysis of the apple fruit microbiome: are all apples the same?	56
The genetic and ecophysiological diversity of Microcystis	55
Iron‐biomineralizing organelle in magnetotactic bacteria: function, synthesis and preservation in ancient rock samples	54
Fertilization alters protistan consumers and parasites in crop‐associated microbiomes	52

Environmental parameters associated with incidence and transmission of pathogenic Vibrio spp.	50
Metabolic mechanism of colistin resistance and its reverting in Vibrio alginolyticus	50
Initial butyrate producers during infant gut microbiota development are endospore formers	49
The importance of naturally attenuated SARS‐CoV‐2in the fight against COVID‐19	48
The Vibrio cholerae type VI secretion system: toxins, regulators and consequences	48
Metabolic strategies of marine subseafloor Chloroflexi inferred from genome reconstructions	48
Factors shaping community patterns of protists and bacteria on a European scale	48
The landscape of lysogeny across microbial community density, diversity and energetics	47
Eutrophication as a driver of microbial community structure in lake sediments	47
Reduced ROS‐mediated antibiotic resistance and its reverting by glucose in Vibrio alginolyticus	47
Contrasting community assembly processes structure lotic bacteria metacommunities along the river continuum	47
Global emergence of environmental non‐O1/O139Vibrio cholerae infections linked with climate change: a neglected research field?	47
The infection cushion of Botrytis cinerea: a fungal ‘weapon’ of plant‐biomass destruction	46
Metagenomic insights into soil microbial communities involved in carbon cycling along an elevation climosequences	45
Paenibacillus polymyxa, a Jack of all trades	45
Back to our roots: exploring the role of root morphology as a mediator of beneficial plant–microbe interactions	44
The evolutionary trade‐offs in phage‐resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae entail cross‐phage sensitization and loss of multidrug resistance	43
Methyl/alkyl‐coenzyme M reductase‐based anaerobic alkane oxidation in archaea	43
COVID‐19: vaccination problems	43
Infection‐competent monkeypox virus contamination identified in domestic settings following an imported case of monkeypox into the UK	43