Nature Reviews Microbiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Reviews Microbiology is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Schistosomes go single cell3036
Gender justice and prioritizing women and girls in the HIV response2533
Author Correction: Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: progress and challenges1626
Adapting to host life1087
Honey bee symbiont gives larvae a boost757
Viruses on the move746
Arming the host685
Viral spillback668
Genetics, ecology and evolution of phage satellites653
Sticky Candida auris626
Gut–brain axis in ageing596
Author Correction: Priority effects in microbiome assembly533
Commensalism and pathogenesis of Candida albicans at the mucosal interface489
The soil plastisphere472
A lasting symbiosis: how the Hawaiian bobtail squid finds and keeps its bioluminescent bacterial partner453
Clostridioides difficile toxins: mechanisms of action and antitoxin therapeutics449
Microbial diversity in extreme environments434
Designer viral receptors432
Tracking E. coli’s systemic spread402
Sewer biofilms and SARS-CoV-2399
Defeating dengue with Wolbachia387
Ending the COVID-19 pandemic378
Parasitic control of wolf behaviour364
A microbial metabolite to master inflammation356
The intruders that stole the master key354
Prevention, treatment and cure of HIV infection340
Scavenging a pyrimidine to thrive335
The endosymbiotic box of protective tricks330
Indirect intervention314
Taking the jump to humans307
Viruses unveil the mechanisms of nuclear entry303
Microbial secondary metabolites: advancements to accelerate discovery towards application298
Pioneering microbiome engineering298
Microorganisms, climate change, and the Sustainable Development Goals: progress and challenges294
Salmonella Typhimurium and inflammation: a pathogen-centric affair283
Microbiome-based therapeutics283
Sharing the pollen275
Phages get snappy270
Sensing when to colonize266
Satellite RNA takes flight265
Bacteria like it soft262
Rediscovering plasmid-dependent phages260
Translating eco-evolutionary biology into therapy to tackle antibiotic resistance246
Influenza lineage extinction during the COVID-19 pandemic?244
SARS-CoV-2 viral load and shedding kinetics241
Microbiota in disease-transmitting vectors237
Bacterial siderophores: diversity, uptake pathways and applications232
The role of bacterial metabolism in antimicrobial resistance228
Microbial adaptability in changing environments220
Avian influenza takes flight in humans by evading restriction214
Fitting into your niche211
Bacterial longevity196
Copper contraceptive induces dysbiosis182
Coronavirus research: knowledge gaps and research priorities177
Engineered Mycoplasma fight lung infections177
How flaviviruses infect both humans and insects177
Defending against plasmids175
Microplastics impair seabird gut microbiomes174
Bottleneck and spread of Treponema pallidum170
Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus outbreak in cattle: the knowns and unknowns169
Anti-defence islands in plasmids169
The importance of molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases in low-resource settings168
Challenges and strategies for addressing antibacterial drug resistance in LMICs166
The gut–airway microbiome axis in health and respiratory diseases164
The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world161
Antigenic evolution will lead to new SARS-CoV-2 variants with unpredictable severity161
Bacterial small molecule metabolites implicated in gastrointestinal cancer development158
Enterocloster undermine cancer immunotherapy153
A manipulating pair141
Outgrowing antibiotic action140
Decisions, decisions…136
Cooperating to resist135
IgA makes gut fungi friendlier133
PrEPping the skin129
Guarding against colorectal cancer127
Uropathogenic E. coli creates a memory122
Selfish gene leaves bacteria behind121
A gut bacterium trims mucosal immunity120
Getting ahead of the competition118
Whisperings from not so silent mutations117
Illuminating microbial defence systems in extreme environments116
Cells and computers, better together115
Intelligent bacteria for IBD113
Bacterial DNA excision repair pathways112
Extracellular niche establishment by plant pathogens112
When anaerobes encounter oxygen: mechanisms of oxygen toxicity, tolerance and defence112
Co-evolution of immunity and seasonal influenza viruses112
The rapid emergence of antifungal-resistant human-pathogenic fungi109
Author Correction: Pathogenesis, epidemiology and control of Group A Streptococcus infection107
H. pylori evolution during disease101
The biofilm life cycle: expanding the conceptual model of biofilm formation101
A tale of capsules, phages and plasmids100
In tandem towards resistance97
From B to Z in the matrix97
Structure and function of retroviral integrase96
From soil to battling antimicrobial resistance96
Anthropogenic impacts on the terrestrial subsurface biosphere96
Optimizing antimicrobial use: challenges, advances and opportunities91
Immune evasion and provocation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis91
The microbial carbon pump and climate change84
Beating in on a stable partnership84
The rising mpox crisis84
A tale of two codes81
Monitoring pathogens in wastewater80
Author Correction: Examining the healthy human microbiome concept78
Novel metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors78
Off to a new host76
Cross-kingdom defence proteins75
Searching for relatives of SARS-CoV-2 in bats74
Spreading out of the lung74
Capturing glycans73
Motor-powered trafficking72
Bee-saving symbionts71
Overcoming supply issues69
Dose-dependent COVID-19 symptoms68
Blasting away a fungal pathogen67
Reviving colistin67
Skin-deep AMR hotspots in nursing homes63
Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe63
The ecological roles of bacterial chemotaxis61
Emergence, transmission dynamics and mechanisms of artemisinin partial resistance in malaria parasites in Africa57
The honeybee microbiota and its impact on health and disease56
Infectious disease in an era of global change55
Preventing programmed destruction53
Recording the gut transit53
Finding protection in the community52
A driver of monkeypox virus evolution?52
Microbiome cartography50
Quality MAGnified48
Salmonella Enteritidis: chicken or egg?47
Mapping the microbiome milieu47
Campylobacter spreads colorectal cancer46
Epstein–Barr virus pathogenesis and emerging control strategies46
Gradients and consequences of heterogeneity in biofilms45
Bacterial architects build the biofilm structures45
The gut microbiota and its biogeography43
Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward41
Long-term control of HIV40
Chemotaxis in the ocean40
Infectious diseases and the Sustainable Development Goals: progress, challenges and future directions39
Termite mounds are hydrogen sinks39
Microbiome shift in degrading soil38
Phytophthora cuts into plant hosts38
Wolbachia likes it hot37
Bacteria on the hunt37
Novel C. difficile toxin receptor36
Settling with the motion34
Busy symbionts during hibernation33
Keep calm with ammonia-producing microbiota32
Make it personal to beat vaccine hesitancy32
Bioplastic builders31
Lassoing OMVs with an LPS receptor30
The pathobiology of human fungal infections27
Lassoing bacterial ribosomes27
Evasion of plant immunity by microbial pathogens26
The branches of the tree of life25
Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities25
Gut microbiota and depression24
A potential new player in gastric cancer24
The bodily distribution of monkeypox virus24
Unravelling the genome of giants24
Unearthing the story of the first antifungal drugs24
SARS-CoV-2 genomics as a springboard for future disease mitigation in LMICs23
Gut phages fuel food addiction23
Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements21
Multimodal interactions of drugs, natural compounds and pollutants with the gut microbiota21
Shigella sonnei: epidemiology, evolution, pathogenesis, resistance and host interactions20
Hyphae promote Candida albicans fitness and commensalism in the gut20
Pertussis vaccines, epidemiology and evolution19
Testing fast with uRAST19
Insights into the assembly and regulation of the bacterial divisome19
From the soil to the clinic: the impact of microbial secondary metabolites on antibiotic tolerance and resistance18
Antibiotic resistance in the environment17
Forest microbiome and global change17
The dynamic lung microbiome in health and disease16
The microbiome’s diet choice15
Overcoming the cost of plasmid carriage14
Putting a twist in syphilis vaccine development13
Reaching your destination13
Bornaviruses from the Cretaceous13
Methanogens implicated by DNA evidence12
Author Correction: Ecology, evolution and spillover of coronaviruses from bats12
Twenty years of Nature Reviews Microbiology12
Commensals find their niche11
Pathogenesis of human cytomegalovirus in the immunocompromised host10
Machine learning sheds light on microbial dark proteins10
Harnessing the plant microbiome for sustainable crop production10
Types and functions of heterogeneity in mycobacteria10
SARS-CoV-2 biology and host interactions9
Microbial extracellular polymeric substances in the environment, technology and medicine8
Alternative therapeutic strategies to treat antibiotic-resistant pathogens8
A toxin in bubble wrap8
The mycobiota feeds into bacterial infections7
Fibre-deprived Akkermansia worsens food allergy7
Balancing commensals7
Latent EBV gets stuck7
Routes of soil microbiome dispersal7
Chloramphenicol resistance is too hot to handle6
A solution for mercury pollution?6
Rise in global antibiotic use6
The origins of pathogenesis6
Gut commensals activate digestion6
RNA evolution shapes SARS-CoV-2 success6
An amoeba and a cyanobacterium walk into a bar...6
Achieving sustainable access to antibiotics is more than just a last mile challenge5
Immune targeting of HIV-1 reservoir cells: a path to elimination strategies and cure5
Drug delivery strategies for antibiofilm therapy5
A lasting symbiosis: how Vibrio fischeri finds a squid partner and persists within its natural host5
The evolution of SARS-CoV-25
Co‐evolution of early Earth environments and microbial life5
Tackling the emerging threat of antifungal resistance to human health5
Fitness cost of antifungal resistance4
Drosophila sperm sabotage by Wolbachia prophage4
Roles of the gut microbiome in weight management4
Biology and evolution of bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems4
Fungi feed bacteria for biodegradation4
Unique bile acid metabolism in centenarians4
The HIV epidemic 40 years on4
Beneficial applications of biofilms4
Conservation and similarity of bacterial and eukaryotic innate immunity4
A gut microbiome-restoring diet4
Unveiling plasmid diversity in nature4
Dispersing biofilm myths4
A molecular understanding of alphavirus entry and antibody protection4
Lassa fever — the road ahead4
Phages to the rescue4
Mobilizing resistance genes in the human gut3
Motivation for exercise from the gut3
Horizontal gene transfer and adaptive evolution in bacteria3
A deadly escape3
Shaking up that sick feeling with biofilm sugars3
Staphylococcus epidermidis and its dual lifestyle in skin health and infection3
Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: progress and challenges3
ICSP response to ‘Science depends on nomenclature, but nomenclature is not science’3
Circulating leprosy in the wild3
Effects of climate change and human activities on vector-borne diseases3
ESKAPE pathogens: antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology, clinical impact and therapeutics3
Ciliate symbionts create the flow3
Stopping Marburg virus in its tracks3
Alternative functions of CRISPR–Cas systems in the evolutionary arms race3
Author Correction: Molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance revisited3
Publisher Correction: The marine nitrogen cycle: new developments and global change3
Staphylococcus aureus gets itchy3
Contact-dependent killing by Myxococcus3
A new wrinkle in biofilm structure3
SURFing SARS-CoV-2 inhibition3
Pili go with the flow3
Human microbiome acquisition and transmission3
Cellular souvenirs in viral luggage3
No viral rebound3
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