OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ISME Journal is 59. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Isolation of a widespread giant virus implicated in cryptophyte bloom collapse	412
Polymerization of dietary fructans differentially affects interactions among intestinal microbiota of colitis mice	288
Resurrection of a diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment	222
Heterotrophic nitrification by Alcaligenes faecalis links organic and inorganic nitrogen metabolism	198
Distinct bacterial population dynamics and disease dissemination after biofilm dispersal and disassembly	172
Human milk oligosaccharides modify the strength of priority effects in the Bifidobacterium community assembly during infancy	170
Protist predation promotes antimicrobial resistance spread through antagonistic microbiome interactions	163
Pulsed, continuous or somewhere in between? Resource dynamics matter in the optimisation of microbial communities	150
Locally adapted gut microbiomes mediate host stress tolerance	142
Well-hidden methanogenesis in deep, organic-rich sediments of Guaymas Basin	139
Priority effects shape the structure of infant-typeBifidobacteriumcommunities on human milk oligosaccharides	136
Mortality by ribosomal sequencing (MoRS) provides a window into taxon-specific cell lysis	129
In vivo evolution of antimicrobial resistance in a biofilm model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection	128
Revisiting biocrystallization: purine crystalline inclusions are widespread in eukaryotes	125
Rhizobium determinants of rhizosphere persistence and root colonization	124
Aerobic methylation of hydrogen sulfide to dimethylsulfide in diverse microorganisms and environments	123
Diversity and distribution of viruses inhabiting the deepest ocean on Earth	122
Dynamic nitrogen fixation in an aerobic endophyte of Populus	116
Plankton community changes during the last 124 000 years in the subarctic Bering Sea derived from sedimentary ancient DNA	111
Microbial community structure in hadal sediments: high similarity along trench axes and strong changes along redox gradients	107
SLC24A-mediated calcium exchange as an indispensable component of the diatom cell density-driven signaling pathway	102
Phage co-transport with hyphal-riding bacteria fuels bacterial invasion in a water-unsaturated microbial model system	100
Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteriocin A37 kills natural competitors with a unique mechanism of action	100
Localized coevolution between microbial predator and prey alters community-wide gene expression and ecosystem function	96
Marine bacteroidetes use a conserved enzymatic cascade to digest diatom β-mannan	94

Single cell dynamics and nitrogen transformations in the chain forming diatom Chaetoceros affinis	93
Systematic discovery of pseudomonad genetic factors involved in sensitivity to tailocins	92
Rapid growth rate responses of terrestrial bacteria to field warming on the Antarctic Peninsula	88
Linking methanotroph phenotypes to genotypes using a simple spatially resolved model ecosystem	87
Functional conservation of microbial communities determines composition predictability in anaerobic digestion	87
Microbial metabolomic responses to changes in temperature and salinity along the western Antarctic Peninsula	84
Thermal acclimation of methanotrophs from the genusMethylobacter	84
Proteomes of native and non-native symbionts reveal responses underpinning host-symbiont specificity in the cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis	83
Correction to: Internal carbon recycling by heterotrophic prokaryotes compensates for mismatches between phytoplankton production and heterotrophic consumption	83
Gut microbiota carbon and sulfur metabolisms support Salmonella infections	83
Amino acid auxotrophies in human gut bacteria are linked to higher microbiome diversity and long-term stability	82
Cell surface carbohydrates of symbiotic dinoflagellates and their role in the establishment of cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis	81
Interspecies bacterial competition regulates community assembly in the C. elegans intestine	81
Emergent antibiotic persistence in a spatially structured synthetic microbial mutualism	80
Convergent evolution of a labile nutritional symbiosis in ants	78
Low-level resource partitioning supports coexistence among functionally redundant bacteria during successional dynamics	77
Mcr-dependent methanogenesis in Archaeoglobaceae enriched from a terrestrial hot spring	77
Soil microbiome feedbacks during disturbance-driven forest ecosystem conversion	77
Novel order-level lineage of ammonia-oxidizing archaea widespread in marine and terrestrial environments	75
Macroecological distributions of gene variants highlight the functional organization of soil microbial systems	72
Phages in the infant gut: a framework for virome development during early life	68
Changing expression patterns of TonB-dependent transporters suggest shifts in polysaccharide consumption over the course of a spring phytoplankton bloom	68
Growth rate is a dominant factor predicting the rhizosphere effect	67
Glycoside hydrolase from the GH76 family indicates that marine Salegentibacter sp. Hel_I_6 consumes alpha-mannan from fungi	67
Ecological significance of extracellular vesicles in modulating host-virus interactions during algal blooms	65
Metaplasmidome-encoded functions of Siberian low-centered polygonal tundra soils	64
Gastric acid and escape to systemic circulation represent major bottlenecks to host infection by Citrobacter rodentium	64
Endosymbiont Tremblaya phenacola influences the reproduction of cotton mealybugs by regulating the mechanistic target of rapamycin pathway	63
Iron limitation of heterotrophic bacteria in the California Current System tracks relative availability of organic carbon and iron	62
Virus–pathogen interactions improve water quality along the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Canal	61
Small phytoplankton contribute greatly to CO2-fixation after the diatom bloom in the Southern Ocean	60
Symbiotic bacteria mediate volatile chemical signal synthesis in a large solitary mammal species	59
Conserved bacterial de novo guanine biosynthesis pathway enables microbial survival and colonization in the environmental niche of the urinary tract	59
Symbiotic bacteria and fungi proliferate in diapause and may enhance overwintering survival in a solitary bee	59
Metabolic resource overlap impacts competition among phyllosphere bacteria	59