OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Microbiology is 30. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
	91
Genomic differentiation of three pico‐phytoplankton species in the Mediterranean Sea	82
Enhanced ability of freshwater bacteria to secrete extracellular vesicles upon interaction with virus	79
Issue Information	71
Long‐Term Impact of the Largest Environmental Disaster in Latin America (Fundão Dam Failure) on Microbial Communities in Lakes of the Doce River Basin, Brazil	63
Late Pleistocene‐dated divergence between South Hemisphere populations of the non‐conventional yeast L . cidri	63
Intra‐genomic rRNA gene variability of Nassellaria and Spumellaria (Rhizaria, Radiolaria) assessed by Sanger, MinION	62
How does metal soil pollution change the plant mycobiome?	56
Assembly and comparative analyses of the Geosiphon pyriformis metagenome	55
Microbe–sediment interactions in Great Lakes recreational waters: Implications for human health risk	52
The carnitine degradation pathway of Acinetobacter baumannii and its role in virulence	50
Single‐amplified genomes reveal most streamlined free‐living marine bacteria	45
Beyond purified dietary fibre supplements: Compositional variation between cell wall fibre from different plants influences human faecal microbiota activity and growth in vitro	41
Hunting for pigments in bacterial settlers of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch	40
Edible Fungi Are a Hidden Source of Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide	38
Prescribed fire selects for a pyrophilous soil sub‐community in a northern California mixed conifer forest	37
When the going gets tough, the tough get going—Novel bacterial AAA + disaggregases provide extreme heat resistance	36
Integrons, transposons and IS elements promote diversification of multidrug resistance plasmids and adaptation of their hosts to antibiotic pollutant	36
Genomic and Transcriptomic Insights Into the Autotrophic Metabolism on H ₂	34
The toxicological spectrum of the Bacillus cereus toxin cereulide points towards niche‐specific specialisation	34
Hydrologic History Regulates Microbial Biofilm Diversity and Ecosystem Function	34
Validation of key sponge symbiont pathways using genome‐centric metatranscriptomics	34
Fossilisation of Fish Soft Tissue in Oxidative Microniches of Anoxic Sediments	33
A lipopolysaccharide‐dependent phage infects a pseudomonad phytopathogen and can evolve to evade phage resistance	33
Effects of chaotropic salts on global proteome stability in halophilic archaea: Implications for life signatures on Mars	33

Physiological stage drives fungal community dynamics and diversity in Leptospermum scoparium (mānu	33
Oak Wilt Disease May Reduce the Initial Decay Rate of Dead Quercus serrata Stems by Altering Funga	32
Coupled C, H, N, S and Fe biogeochemical cycles operating in the continental deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt	31
Composition, Growth, Succession, and Function in the Cladophora Microbiome: Insights From Quantita	31
Response of the plant core microbiome to Fusarium oxysporum infection and identification of the pa	31
New Insight Into the Mechanism of Nitrite Enhancement on Heterotrophic Nitrification and Aerobic Denitrification Bacterium in Gene Expression	30
Leached Nitrate Reduces the Abundance of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Deep Soil Layers up to 10 m	30
Toward an accurate mechanistic understanding of Wolbachia‐ induced cytoplasmic incompatibility	30