OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ISME Journal is 52. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Localized coevolution between microbial predator and prey alters community-wide gene expression and ecosystem function	291
Role of the flagellar hook in the structural development and antibiotic tolerance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	185
Understanding Prokaryotic Adaptation through Advanced DNA Methylation Detection Techniques	169
Physiological and evolutionary contexts of a new symbiotic species from the nitrogen-recycling gut community of turtle ants	143
Phage co-transport with hyphal-riding bacteria fuels bacterial invasion in a water-unsaturated microbial model system	133
Revisiting biocrystallization: purine crystalline inclusions are widespread in eukaryotes	125
Holocene and contemporary marine dinoflagellate community patterns predict expansion of generalist dinoflagellate blooms in warming oceans	124
In vivo evolution of antimicrobial resistance in a biofilm model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection	122
SLC24A-mediated calcium exchange as an indispensable component of the diatom cell density-driven signaling pathway	119
Sinking particles exporting diatoms and Hacrobia predict the magnitude of oceanic POC flux	119
Plant and soil biodiversity sustain root mycorrhizal fungal richness under drought stress	116
Aminolipids in bacterial membranes and the natural environment	109
Correction to: Integrated overview of stramenopile ecology, taxonomy, and heterotrophic origin	105
Pulsed, continuous or somewhere in between? Resource dynamics matter in the optimisation of microbial communities	100
Inositol phosphates as an overlooked phosphorous source in marine ecosystems	96
Biotic interactions between benthic infauna and aerobic methanotrophs mediate methane fluxes from coastal sediments	96
Microbial invasion of a toxic medium is facilitated by a resident community but inhibited as the community co-evolves	91
Hyphosphere microorganisms facilitate hyphal spreading and root colonization of plant symbiotic fungus in ammonium-enriched soil	91
Emergent antibiotic persistence in a spatially structured synthetic microbial mutualism	90
Endosymbionts modulate virus effects on aphid-plant interactions	88
Increased genetic diversity loss and genetic differentiation in a model marine diatom adapted to ocean warming compared to high CO2	88
Resurrection of a diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment	83
Priority effects shape the structure of infant-typeBifidobacteriumcommunities on human milk oligosaccharides	82
Novel order-level lineage of ammonia-oxidizing archaea widespread in marine and terrestrial environments	81
Viral lysing can alleviate microbial nutrient limitations and accumulate recalcitrant dissolved organic matter components in soil	81

Asgard ESCRT-III and VPS4 reveal conserved chromatin binding properties of the ESCRT machinery	80
Siderophores as an iron source for picocyanobacteria in deep chlorophyll maximum layers of the oligotrophic ocean	79
Metabolic potential of Nitrososphaera-associated clades	78
Whole genome sequences reveal the Xanthomonas perforans population is shaped by the tomato production system	78
Diurnal transcriptional variation is reduced in a nitrogen-fixing diatom endosymbiont	77
Genetic and species rearrangements in microbial consortia impact biodegradation potential	76
Divergent molecular strategies drive evolutionary adaptation to competitive fitness in biofilm formation	73
Bolstering fitness via CO2 fixation and organic carbon uptake: mixotrophs in modern groundwater	72
Dominance of phage particles carrying antibiotic resistance genes in the viromes of retail food sources	71
Transportome remodeling of a symbiotic microalga inside a planktonic host	66
Cryptochrome PtCPF1 regulates high temperature acclimation of marine diatoms through coordination of iron and phosphorus uptake	65
Bacterial type VI secretion system helps prevent cheating in microbial communities	64
Dynamics and activity of an ammonia-oxidizing archaea bloom in South San Francisco Bay	62
Flavobacterial exudates disrupt cell cycle progression and metabolism of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana	61
Transcriptional responses of Trichodesmium to natural inverse gradients of Fe and P availability	61
Catabolic protein degradation in marine sediments confined to distinct archaea	60
Laminarin stimulates single cell rates of sulfate reduction whereas oxygen inhibits transcriptomic activity in coastal marine sediment	59
Beneficial and detrimental fungi within the culturable mycobiome of the Red Sea coral Stylophora pistilatta	58
Drug delivery dynamics dictate evolution of bacterial antibiotic responses	58
Long-term metagenomic insights into the roles of antiviral defense systems in stabilizing activated sludge bacterial communities	57
Climate change-related warming reduces thermal sensitivity and modifies metabolic activity of coastal benthic bacterial communities	56
Fireworms are a reservoir and potential vector for coral-infecting apicomplexans	56
Replicated life-history patterns and subsurface origins of the bacterial sister phyla Nitrospirota and Nitrospinota	55
Phyllosphere symbiont promotes plant growth through ACC deaminase production	54
Gut microbiota contribute to variations in honey bee foraging intensity	53
Chlorine redox chemistry is widespread in microbiology	53
Hot moment of N2O emissions in seasonally frozen peatlands	53
Comprehensive profile of the companion animal gut microbiome integrating reference-based and reference-free methods	52
Celebrating 15 years of The ISME Journal	52
Large-scale single-virus genomics uncovers hidden diversity of river water viruses and diversified gene profiles	52
Correction: Limits to the cellular control of sequestered cryptophyte prey in the marine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum	52