OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Microbiology is 36. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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One substrate, many fates: different ways of methanol utilization in the acetogen Acetobacterium woodii	110
How does metal soil pollution change the plant mycobiome?	83
Late Pleistocene‐dated divergence between South Hemisphere populations of the non‐conventional yeast L. cidri	68
Sulfidic acetate mineralization at 45°C by an aquifer microbial community: key players and effects of heat changes on activity and community structure	68
Prevalence, complete genome, and metabolic potentials of a phylogenetically novel cyanobacterial symbiont in the coral‐killing sponge, Terpios hoshinota	63
Specificity and genetic polymorphism in the Vfm quorum sensing system of plant pathogenic bacteria of the genus Dickeya	62
A lipopolysaccharide‐dependent phage infects a pseudomonad phytopathogen and can evolve to evade phage resistance	60
Intra‐genomic rRNA gene variability of Nassellaria and Spumellaria (Rhizaria, Radiolaria) assessed by Sanger, MinION and Illumina sequencing	58
Microbial community origin and fate through a rural wastewater treatment plant	56
Enhanced ability of freshwater bacteria to secrete extracellular vesicles upon interaction with virus	55
The carnitine degradation pathway ofAcinetobacter baumanniiand its role in virulence	53
Microbe–sediment interactions in Great Lakes recreational waters: Implications for human health risk	50
The toxicological spectrum of the Bacillus cereus toxin cereulide points towards niche‐specific specialisation	50
Enrichment of nosZ‐type denitrifiers by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi mitigates N₂O emissions from soybean stubbles	50
Genomic differentiation of three pico‐phytoplankton species in the Mediterranean Sea	50
When the going gets tough, the tough get going—Novel bacterial AAA+ disaggregases provide extreme heat resistance	48
Assembly and comparative analyses of the Geosiphon pyriformis metagenome	45
Issue Information	45
Hunting for pigments in bacterial settlers of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch	45
Validation of key sponge symbiont pathways using genome‐centric metatranscriptomics	44
Beyond purified dietary fibre supplements: Compositional variation between cell wall fibre from different plants influences human faecal microbiota activity and growth in vitro	43
Prescribed fire selects for a pyrophilous soil sub‐community in a northern California mixed conifer forest	43
Integrons, transposons and IS elements promote diversification of multidrug resistance plasmids and adaptation of their hosts to antibiotic pollutants from pharmaceutical companies	43
An atlas of bacterial secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters	43

ArsV and ArsW provide synergistic resistance to the antibiotic methylarsenite	42
Single‐amplified genomes reveal most streamlined free‐living marine bacteria	42
Impact of salinity origin on microbial communities in saline springs within the Illinois Basin, USA	41
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Effects of chaotropic salts on global proteome stability in halophilic archaea: Implications for life signatures on Mars	40
Response of the plant core microbiome to Fusarium oxysporum infection and identification of the pathobiome	40
Toward an accurate mechanistic understanding of Wolbachia‐induced cytoplasmic incompatibility	39
Environmental vibrio phage–bacteria interaction networks reflect the genetic structure of host populations	39
Coral holobiont research needs spatial analyses at the microbial scale	36
Anaerobic methanotrophy is stimulated by graphene oxide in a brackish urban canal sediment	36
The Bacterial Genus Ramlibacter: Betaproteobacteria Capable of Surviving in Oligotrophic Environments Thanks to Several Shared Genetic Adaptation Traits	36