OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Microbiology is 97. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19	3126
SARS-CoV-2 variants, spike mutations and immune escape	2586
Coronavirus biology and replication: implications for SARS-CoV-2	1973
Gut microbiota in human metabolic health and disease	1962
Plant–microbiome interactions: from community assembly to plant health	1368
Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations	1088
The gut microbiota–brain axis in behaviour and brain disorders	866
Antibiotic resistance in the environment	786
Nanomaterial-based therapeutics for antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections	627
Considerations for diagnostic COVID-19 tests	552
Gut microbial metabolites as multi-kingdom intermediates	548
Infectious disease in an era of global change	514
Transmissibility and transmission of respiratory viruses	434
Biofilm dispersion	433
SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis	411
Regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis and remodelling	342
The biofilm life cycle: expanding the conceptual model of biofilm formation	331
Tolerance and resistance of microbial biofilms	325
Tackling the emerging threat of antifungal resistance to human health	320
An evolving view on biogeochemical cycling of iron	298
Bat-borne virus diversity, spillover and emergence	294
Life and death in the soil microbiome: how ecological processes influence biogeochemistry	291
The population genetics of pathogenic Escherichia coli	270
Unique and common traits in mycorrhizal symbioses	263
Mechano-bactericidal actions of nanostructured surfaces	262

Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2 and implications for therapeutic development	260
The human virome: assembly, composition and host interactions	258
The evolution of SARS-CoV-2	254
Host–microbiota interactions in immune-mediated diseases	252
Prevotella diversity, niches and interactions with the human host	250
Innovations to culturing the uncultured microbial majority	250
Pathogenesis of human cytomegalovirus in the immunocompromised host	247
Microbial volatile organic compounds in intra-kingdom and inter-kingdom interactions	235
The role of vaccines in combatting antimicrobial resistance	232
Electromicrobiology: the ecophysiology of phylogenetically diverse electroactive microorganisms	228
Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology	227
Diversity within species: interpreting strains in microbiomes	216
Pseudomonas aeruginosa adaptation and evolution in patients with cystic fibrosis	212
Horizontal gene transfer and adaptive evolution in bacteria	210
Bacillus subtilis biofilm formation and social interactions	209
Molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance revisited	205
The stringent response and physiological roles of (pp)pGpp in bacteria	203
Ecology and genomics of Actinobacteria: new concepts for natural product discovery	192
Beyond horizontal gene transfer: the role of plasmids in bacterial evolution	191
Interactions between bacterial and phage communities in natural environments	190
Influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2: pathogenesis and host responses in the respiratory tract	189
Xanthomonas diversity, virulence and plant–pathogen interactions	182
Priority effects in microbiome assembly	182
Biology and evolution of bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems	175
The structural basis of herpesvirus entry	171
Antimicrobial use, drug-resistant infections and COVID-19	170
Soil microbiomes and one health	170
Bacterial motility: machinery and mechanisms	169
Skeletal infections: microbial pathogenesis, immunity and clinical management	168
Microbiome-based therapeutics	164
Crop microbiome and sustainable agriculture	163
Infections at the maternal–fetal interface: an overview of pathogenesis and defence	160
Reconstructing organisms in silico: genome-scale models and their emerging applications	158
SARS-CoV-2 variant biology: immune escape, transmission and fitness	156
Microbial diversity in extreme environments	155
The microbiome-shaping roles of bacteriocins	149
Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics in microbiome investigations	146
The rumen microbiome: balancing food security and environmental impacts	145
Anti-tuberculosis treatment strategies and drug development: challenges and priorities	144
Nutritional immunity: the battle for nutrient metals at the host–pathogen interface	144
Bile acids and the gut microbiota: metabolic interactions and impacts on disease	141
Treatment strategies for cryptococcal infection: challenges, advances and future outlook	140
The biofilm matrix: multitasking in a shared space	139
Carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) in the gut microbiome	138
Examining horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities	138
Proximate and ultimate causes of the bactericidal action of antibiotics	134
Evasion of plant immunity by microbial pathogens	133
Human papillomaviruses: diversity, infection and host interactions	130
Antibiofilm activity of host defence peptides: complexity provides opportunities	130
Immune evasion and provocation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis	129

SARS-CoV-2 variant evasion of monoclonal antibodies based on in vitro studies	129
Microbial evolution and transitions along the parasite–mutualist continuum	126
Microbial production of advanced biofuels	126
Epstein–Barr virus and multiple sclerosis	123
The host-associated archaeome	121
Learning from the past: development of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines	118
Evolutionary causes and consequences of bacterial antibiotic persistence	115
Physical properties of the bacterial outer membrane	114
Formation and function of bacterial organelles	112
Interactions between Borrelia burgdorferi and ticks	110
Salmonella Typhimurium and inflammation: a pathogen-centric affair	109
When anaerobes encounter oxygen: mechanisms of oxygen toxicity, tolerance and defence	106
Ecology and impacts of white-nose syndrome on bats	106
Ecology, evolution and spillover of coronaviruses from bats	106
Staphylococcus aureus host interactions and adaptation	103
Resisting antimicrobial resistance	103
Toxoplasma gondii infection and its implications within the central nervous system	102
Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward	102
Nanomaterials arising amid antibiotic resistance	102
Target protection as a key antibiotic resistance mechanism	98
The dynamic lung microbiome in health and disease	98
Architecture of bacterial respiratory chains	97