OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Microbiology is 105. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-03-01 to 2023-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Origin and evolution of pathogenic coronaviruses	3193
Evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems: a burst of class 2 and derived variants	936
Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change	796
Bacteria and archaea on Earth and their abundance in biofilms	677
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: an overview of basic and clinical research	670
Electroactive microorganisms in bioelectrochemical systems	646
Fungal secondary metabolism: regulation, function and drug discovery	549
Definitions and guidelines for research on antibiotic persistence	500
Bacterial quorum sensing in complex and dynamically changing environments	446
Types and origins of bacterial membrane vesicles	446
Soil microbiomes and climate change	425
Fusobacterium nucleatum — symbiont, opportunist and oncobacterium	424
Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and identification of fungi	411
Diet–microbiota interactions and personalized nutrition	391
Drug combinations: a strategy to extend the life of antibiotics in the 21st century	373
The global preclinical antibacterial pipeline	311
Bacterial siderophores in community and host interactions	303
Microbial genes and pathways in inflammatory bowel disease	298
Host and viral determinants of influenza A virus species specificity	263
An evolving view of methane metabolism in the Archaea	251
Interplay between β-lactamases and new β-lactamase inhibitors	241
Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes	228
The pan-immune system of bacteria: antiviral defence as a community resource	227
Type IV pili: dynamics, biophysics and functional consequences	221
The cost of antimicrobial resistance	216
Pushing the envelope: LPS modifications and their consequences	203
Mechanisms and clinical relevance of bacterial heteroresistance	183
The ancestral and industrialized gut microbiota and implications for human health	183
Fungi in aquatic ecosystems	182
Biofilm-associated infection by enterococci	181
Latency and lytic replication in Epstein–Barr virus-associated oncogenesis	179
Whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: current standards and open issues	167
Origins and evolutionary consequences of ancient endogenous retroviruses	163
Coral microbiome dynamics, functions and design in a changing world	160
Metabolic and biogeochemical consequences of viral infection in aquatic ecosystems	159
Porins and small-molecule translocation across the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria	151
CRISPR–Cas in mobile genetic elements: counter-defence and beyond	149
Molecular mechanisms of CRISPR–Cas spacer acquisition	149
The microbiomes of deep-sea hydrothermal vents: distributed globally, shaped locally	148
Antibiotic development — economic, regulatory and societal challenges	144
Developmental roadmap for antimicrobial susceptibility testing systems	143
The mycobacterial cell envelope — a moving target	141
Protein post-translational modifications in bacteria	132
Simple animal models for microbiome research	128
Respiratory syncytial virus entry and how to block it	120
Origin of viruses: primordial replicators recruiting capsids from hosts	120
The role of microbial motility and chemotaxis in symbiosis	114
Evolution and ecology of plant viruses	113
The bacterial epigenome	112
Light sensing and responses in fungi	109
Viral RNA structure-based strategies to manipulate translation	105