OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Microbiology is 39. 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
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Microbe–sediment interactions in Great Lakes recreational waters: Implications for human health risk	96
Prescribed fire selects for a pyrophilous soil sub‐community in a northern California mixed conifer forest	96
PeMetR‐mediated sulfur assimilation is essential for virulence and patulin biosynthesis in Penicillium expansum	94
Issue Information	93
The carnitine degradation pathway ofAcinetobacter baumanniiand its role in virulence	87
Iron corrosion by methanogenic archaea characterized by stable isotope effects and crust mineralogy	77
ArsV and ArsW provide synergistic resistance to the antibiotic methylarsenite	76
Prevalence, complete genome, and metabolic potentials of a phylogenetically novel cyanobacterial symbiont in the coral‐killing sponge, Terpios hoshinota	70
Hunting for pigments in bacterial settlers of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch	60
Integrons, transposons and IS elements promote diversification of multidrug resistance plasmids and adaptation of their hosts to antibiotic pollutants from pharmaceutical companies	59
The toxicological spectrum of the Bacillus cereus toxin cereulide points towards niche‐specific specialisation	59
Microbial community origin and fate through a rural wastewater treatment plant	58
When the going gets tough, the tough get going—Novel bacterial AAA+ disaggregases provide extreme heat resistance	54
An atlas of bacterial secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters	53
A lipopolysaccharide‐dependent phage infects a pseudomonad phytopathogen and can evolve to evade phage resistance	53
Beyond purified dietary fibre supplements: Compositional variation between cell wall fibre from different plants influences human faecal microbiota activity and growth in vitro	52
Assembly and comparative analyses of the Geosiphon pyriformis metagenome	52
Enrichment of nosZ‐type denitrifiers by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi mitigates N₂O emissions from soybean stubbles	52
Enhanced ability of freshwater bacteria to secrete extracellular vesicles upon interaction with virus	51
Single‐amplified genomes reveal most streamlined free‐living marine bacteria	49
Validation of key sponge symbiont pathways using genome‐centric metatranscriptomics	48
Distinctive features of the Gac‐Rsm pathway in plant‐associated Pseudomonas	48
Comparative genomics reveals a core gene toolbox for lifestyle transitions in Hypocreales fungi	48
How does metal soil pollution change the plant mycobiome?	47

One substrate, many fates: different ways of methanol utilization in the acetogen Acetobacterium woodii	47
Late Pleistocene‐dated divergence between South Hemisphere populations of the non‐conventional yeast L. cidri	46
Genomic differentiation of three pico‐phytoplankton species in the Mediterranean Sea	46
Particle‐associated and free‐living bacterial communities in an oligotrophic sea are affected by different environmental factors	46
Specificity and genetic polymorphism in the Vfm quorum sensing system of plant pathogenic bacteria of the genus Dickeya	45
Sulfidic acetate mineralization at 45°C by an aquifer microbial community: key players and effects of heat changes on activity and community structure	44
Intra‐genomic rRNA gene variability of Nassellaria and Spumellaria (Rhizaria, Radiolaria) assessed by Sanger, MinION and Illumina sequencing	42
Life strategies and metabolic interactions of core microbes during thiosulphate‐based denitrification	42
The Bacterial Genus Ramlibacter: Betaproteobacteria Capable of Surviving in Oligotrophic Environments Thanks to Several Shared Genetic Adaptation Traits	42
Drivers of fungal diversity and community biogeography differ between green roofs and adjacent ground‐level green space	41
The acetoin assimilation pathway of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is regulated by overlapping global regulatory elements that respond to nutritional cues	41
A meta‐analysis study of the robustness and universality of gut microbiota–shrimp diseases relationship	40
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Physiological stage drives fungal community dynamics and diversity in Leptospermum scoparium (mānuka) flowers	39