OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Microbiology is 26. 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.)

Article	Citations
Schistosomes go single cell	3036
Gender justice and prioritizing women and girls in the HIV response	2533
Author Correction: Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: progress and challenges	1626
Adapting to host life	1087
Honey bee symbiont gives larvae a boost	757
Viruses on the move	746
Arming the host	685
Viral spillback	668
Genetics, ecology and evolution of phage satellites	653
Sticky Candida auris	626
Gut–brain axis in ageing	596
Author Correction: Priority effects in microbiome assembly	533
Commensalism and pathogenesis of Candida albicans at the mucosal interface	489
The soil plastisphere	472
A lasting symbiosis: how the Hawaiian bobtail squid finds and keeps its bioluminescent bacterial partner	453
Clostridioides difficile toxins: mechanisms of action and antitoxin therapeutics	449
Microbial diversity in extreme environments	434
Designer viral receptors	432
Tracking E. coli’s systemic spread	402
Sewer biofilms and SARS-CoV-2	399
Defeating dengue with Wolbachia	387
Ending the COVID-19 pandemic	378
Parasitic control of wolf behaviour	364
A microbial metabolite to master inflammation	356
The intruders that stole the master key	354

Prevention, treatment and cure of HIV infection	340
Scavenging a pyrimidine to thrive	335
The endosymbiotic box of protective tricks	330
Indirect intervention	314
Taking the jump to humans	307
Viruses unveil the mechanisms of nuclear entry	303
Pioneering microbiome engineering	298
Microbial secondary metabolites: advancements to accelerate discovery towards application	298
Microorganisms, climate change, and the Sustainable Development Goals: progress and challenges	294
Microbiome-based therapeutics	283
Salmonella Typhimurium and inflammation: a pathogen-centric affair	283
Sharing the pollen	275
Phages get snappy	270
Sensing when to colonize	266
Satellite RNA takes flight	265
Bacteria like it soft	262
Rediscovering plasmid-dependent phages	260
Translating eco-evolutionary biology into therapy to tackle antibiotic resistance	246
Influenza lineage extinction during the COVID-19 pandemic?	244
SARS-CoV-2 viral load and shedding kinetics	241
Microbiota in disease-transmitting vectors	237
Bacterial siderophores: diversity, uptake pathways and applications	232
The role of bacterial metabolism in antimicrobial resistance	228
Microbial adaptability in changing environments	220
Avian influenza takes flight in humans by evading restriction	214
Fitting into your niche	211
Bacterial longevity	196
Copper contraceptive induces dysbiosis	182
Coronavirus research: knowledge gaps and research priorities	177
Engineered Mycoplasma fight lung infections	177
How flaviviruses infect both humans and insects	177
Defending against plasmids	175
Microplastics impair seabird gut microbiomes	174
Bottleneck and spread of Treponema pallidum	170
Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus outbreak in cattle: the knowns and unknowns	169
Anti-defence islands in plasmids	169
The importance of molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases in low-resource settings	168
Challenges and strategies for addressing antibacterial drug resistance in LMICs	166
The gut–airway microbiome axis in health and respiratory diseases	164
The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world	161
Antigenic evolution will lead to new SARS-CoV-2 variants with unpredictable severity	161
Bacterial small molecule metabolites implicated in gastrointestinal cancer development	158
Enterocloster undermine cancer immunotherapy	153
A manipulating pair	141
Outgrowing antibiotic action	140
Decisions, decisions…	136
Cooperating to resist	135
IgA makes gut fungi friendlier	133
PrEPping the skin	129
Guarding against colorectal cancer	127

Uropathogenic E. coli creates a memory	122
Selfish gene leaves bacteria behind	121
A gut bacterium trims mucosal immunity	120
Getting ahead of the competition	118
Whisperings from not so silent mutations	117
Illuminating microbial defence systems in extreme environments	116
Cells and computers, better together	115
Intelligent bacteria for IBD	113
Bacterial DNA excision repair pathways	112
Extracellular niche establishment by plant pathogens	112
When anaerobes encounter oxygen: mechanisms of oxygen toxicity, tolerance and defence	112
Co-evolution of immunity and seasonal influenza viruses	112
The rapid emergence of antifungal-resistant human-pathogenic fungi	109
Author Correction: Pathogenesis, epidemiology and control of Group A Streptococcus infection	107
The biofilm life cycle: expanding the conceptual model of biofilm formation	101
H. pylori evolution during disease	101
A tale of capsules, phages and plasmids	100
From B to Z in the matrix	97
In tandem towards resistance	97
Anthropogenic impacts on the terrestrial subsurface biosphere	96
Structure and function of retroviral integrase	96
From soil to battling antimicrobial resistance	96
Optimizing antimicrobial use: challenges, advances and opportunities	91
Immune evasion and provocation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis	91
Beating in on a stable partnership	84
The rising mpox crisis	84
The microbial carbon pump and climate change	84
A tale of two codes	81
Monitoring pathogens in wastewater	80
Novel metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors	78
Author Correction: Examining the healthy human microbiome concept	78
Off to a new host	76
Cross-kingdom defence proteins	75
Spreading out of the lung	74
Searching for relatives of SARS-CoV-2 in bats	74
Capturing glycans	73
Motor-powered trafficking	72
Bee-saving symbionts	71
Overcoming supply issues	69
Dose-dependent COVID-19 symptoms	68
Reviving colistin	67
Blasting away a fungal pathogen	67
Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe	63
Skin-deep AMR hotspots in nursing homes	63
The ecological roles of bacterial chemotaxis	61
Emergence, transmission dynamics and mechanisms of artemisinin partial resistance in malaria parasites in Africa	57
The honeybee microbiota and its impact on health and disease	56
Infectious disease in an era of global change	55
Recording the gut transit	53
Preventing programmed destruction	53
Finding protection in the community	52
A driver of monkeypox virus evolution?	52
Microbiome cartography	50
Quality MAGnified	48
Salmonella Enteritidis: chicken or egg?	47
Mapping the microbiome milieu	47
Epstein–Barr virus pathogenesis and emerging control strategies	46
Campylobacter spreads colorectal cancer	46
Bacterial architects build the biofilm structures	45
Gradients and consequences of heterogeneity in biofilms	45
The gut microbiota and its biogeography	43
Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward	41
Chemotaxis in the ocean	40
Long-term control of HIV	40
Termite mounds are hydrogen sinks	39
Infectious diseases and the Sustainable Development Goals: progress, challenges and future directions	39
Microbiome shift in degrading soil	38
Phytophthora cuts into plant hosts	38
Bacteria on the hunt	37
Wolbachia likes it hot	37
Novel C. difficile toxin receptor	36
Settling with the motion	34
Busy symbionts during hibernation	33
Keep calm with ammonia-producing microbiota	32
Make it personal to beat vaccine hesitancy	32
Bioplastic builders	31
Lassoing OMVs with an LPS receptor	30
Lassoing bacterial ribosomes	27
The pathobiology of human fungal infections	27
Evasion of plant immunity by microbial pathogens	26