OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Microbiology is 40. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The plant endosphere world – bacterial life within plants	182
The bacterial sulfur cycle in expanding dysoxic and euxinic marine waters	156
Rare taxa maintain the stability of crop mycobiomes and ecosystem functions	154
Salinity controls soil microbial community structure and function in coastal estuarine wetlands	138
Experimental evidence of microbial inheritance in plants and transmission routes from seed to phyllosphere and root	114
Revisiting the virulence hallmarks of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a chronicle through the perspective of quorum sensing	89
Back to our roots: exploring the role of root morphology as a mediator of beneficial plant–microbe interactions	79
Genomic characterization of three novel Desulfobacterota classes expand the metabolic and phylogenetic diversity of the phylum	77
Contribution of stochastic processes to the microbial community assembly on field‐collected microplastics	73
The genetic and ecophysiological diversity of Microcystis	72
Global analysis of the apple fruit microbiome: are all apples the same?	71
Contrasting community assembly processes structure lotic bacteria metacommunities along the river continuum	70
Environmental parameters associated with incidence and transmission of pathogenic Vibrio spp.	65
The landscape of lysogeny across microbial community density, diversity and energetics	61
The infection cushion of Botrytis cinerea: a fungal ‘weapon’ of plant‐biomass destruction	61
Metagenomic insights into soil microbial communities involved in carbon cycling along an elevation climosequences	59
Fertilization alters protistan consumers and parasites in crop‐associated microbiomes	59
Paenibacillus polymyxa, a Jack of all trades	56
Microplastics reduce soil microbial network complexity and ecological deterministic selection	52
COVID‐19: vaccination problems	52
Metagenomic assessment of the global diversity and distribution of bacteria and fungi	52
Genomic and proteomic profiles of biofilms on microplastics are decoupled from artificial surface properties	51
The evolutionary trade‐offs in phage‐resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae entail cross‐phage sensitization and loss of multidrug resistance	51
Balanced stochastic versus deterministic assembly processes benefit diverse yet uneven ecosystem functions in representative agroecosystems	49
Gene family expansions and transcriptome signatures uncover fungal adaptations to wood decay	49

Communal living: glycan utilization by the human gut microbiota	47
Formate metabolism in the acetogenic bacterium Acetobacterium woodii	47
Individual Microcystis colonies harbour distinct bacterial communities that differ by Microcystis oligotype and with time	46
Dysfunction of FadA‐cAMP signalling decreases Aspergillus flavus resistance to antimicrobial natural preservative Perillaldehyde and AFB1 biosynthesis	45
Novel Alcaligenes ammonioxydans sp. nov. from wastewater treatment sludge oxidizes ammonia to N₂ with a previously unknown pathway	44
Interactions between soil properties, agricultural management and cultivar type drive structural and functional adaptations of the wheat rhizosphere microbiome to drought	44
Infection‐competent monkeypox virus contamination identified in domestic settings following an imported case of monkeypox into the UK	44
High soilpHenhances the network interactions among bacterial and archaeal microbiota in alpine grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau	43
Particle‐associated and free‐living bacterial communities in an oligotrophic sea are affected by different environmental factors	43
Wide distribution of Phycisphaera‐like planctomycetes from WD2101 soil group in peatlands and genome analysis of the first cultivated representative	43
Microbial transformation of distinct exogenous substrates into analogous composition of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter	42
Unravelling lactate‐acetate and sugar conversion into butyrate by intestinal Anaerobutyricum and Anaerostipes species by comparative proteogenomics	42
Microbial ecology of sulfur cycling near the sulfate–methane transition of deep‐sea cold seep sediments	42
Comprehensive single‐PCR 16S and 18S rRNA community analysis validated with mock communities, and estimation of sequencing bias against 18S	41
Mechanisms of triazole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus	40
Root exudates increase soil respiration and alter microbial community structure in alpine permafrost and active layer soils	40