OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ISME Journal is 65. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental stress destabilizes microbial networks	428
Erosion reduces soil microbial diversity, network complexity and multifunctionality	265
Biodiversity of key-stone phylotypes determines crop production in a 4-decade fertilization experiment	200
Disruption of Firmicutes and Actinobacteria abundance in tomato rhizosphere causes the incidence of bacterial wilt disease	198
Chlorine disinfection promotes the exchange of antibiotic resistance genes across bacterial genera by natural transformation	194
Soil microbial diversity–biomass relationships are driven by soil carbon content across global biomes	181
Novel phosphate-solubilizing bacteria enhance soil phosphorus cycling following ecological restoration of land degraded by mining	180
Variation in rhizosphere microbial communities and its association with the symbiotic efficiency of rhizobia in soybean	152
Predicting disease occurrence with high accuracy based on soil macroecological patterns of Fusarium wilt	150
Spatiotemporal dynamics of the archaeal community in coastal sediments: assembly process and co-occurrence relationship	144
Soil plastispheres as hotspots of antibiotic resistance genes and potential pathogens	143
Non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals enhance the transmission of exogenous antibiotic resistance genes through bacterial transformation	129
Nonnutritive sweeteners can promote the dissemination of antibiotic resistance through conjugative gene transfer	128
Ecology and evolution of antimicrobial resistance in bacterial communities	126
Key bacterial taxa and metabolic pathways affecting gut short-chain fatty acid profiles in early life	121
Bacillus velezensis stimulates resident rhizosphere Pseudomonas stutzeri for plant health through metabolic interactions	117
Enrichment and physiological characterization of a novel comammox Nitrospira indicates ammonium inhibition of complete nitrification	110
Stainless steel corrosion via direct iron-to-microbe electron transfer by Geobacter species	109
Open challenges for microbial network construction and analysis	109
Food or just a free ride? A meta-analysis reveals the global diversity of the Plastisphere	107
Comparative genomics reveals insights into cyanobacterial evolution and habitat adaptation	106
Environmental heterogeneity determines the ecological processes that govern bacterial metacommunity assembly in a floodplain river system	103
Salt-induced recruitment of specific root-associated bacterial consortium capable of enhancing plant adaptability to salt stress	101
Genome diversification in globally distributed novel marine Proteobacteria is linked to environmental adaptation	101
Chlorine disinfection facilitates natural transformation through ROS-mediated oxidative stress	99

Viromes outperform total metagenomes in revealing the spatiotemporal patterns of agricultural soil viral communities	97
The gut microbiota contributes to the development of Staphylococcus aureus-induced mastitis in mice	95
Comammox Nitrospira within the Yangtze River continuum: community, biogeography, and ecological drivers	94
Air pollution could drive global dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes	93
Deep sea sediments associated with cold seeps are a subsurface reservoir of viral diversity	90
High functional diversity among Nitrospira populations that dominate rotating biological contactor microbial communities in a municipal wastewater treatment plant	90
Increasing flavonoid concentrations in root exudates enhance associations between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and an invasive plant	89
A network approach to elucidate and prioritize microbial dark matter in microbial communities	88
Conserved and reproducible bacterial communities associate with extraradical hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	86
Genome wide association study reveals plant loci controlling heritability of the rhizosphere microbiome	85
Metagenomic analysis reveals a dynamic microbiome with diversified adaptive functions to utilize high lignocellulosic forages in the cattle rumen	84
Engineering rhizobacteria for sustainable agriculture	84
Metabolic flexibility allows bacterial habitat generalists to become dominant in a frequently disturbed ecosystem	82
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea possess a wide range of cellular ammonia affinities	82
Achieving similar root microbiota composition in neighbouring plants through airborne signalling	81
Life-history strategies of soil microbial communities in an arid ecosystem	81
Prokaryotic taxonomy and nomenclature in the age of big sequence data	81
Island biogeography of soil bacteria and fungi: similar patterns, but different mechanisms	79
A novel bacterial thiosulfate oxidation pathway provides a new clue about the formation of zero-valent sulfur in deep sea	76
Reconfiguration of metabolic fluxes in Pseudomonas putida as a response to sub-lethal oxidative stress	76
The microbiome and resistome of chimpanzees, gorillas, and humans across host lifestyle and geography	76
Linking perturbations to temporal changes in diversity, stability, and compositions of neonatal calf gut microbiota: prediction of diarrhea	75
“Candidatus Dechloromonas phosphoritropha” and “Ca. D. phosphorivorans”, novel polyphosphate accumulating organisms abundant in wastewater treatment systems	75
Resource partitioning of phytoplankton metabolites that support bacterial heterotrophy	75
Unraveling negative biotic interactions determining soil microbial community assembly and functioning	74
Niche-adaptation in plant-associated Bacteroidetes favours specialisation in organic phosphorus mineralisation	73
Non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals promote the transmission of multidrug resistance plasmids through intra- and intergenera conjugation	73
Mercury methylation by metabolically versatile and cosmopolitan marine bacteria	71
Heterotrophy in the earliest gut: a single-cell view of heterotrophic carbon and nitrogen assimilation in sponge-microbe symbioses	71
The soil microbial food web revisited: Predatory myxobacteria as keystone taxa?	71
Drought and plant litter chemistry alter microbial gene expression and metabolite production	70
Large-scale protein level comparison of Deltaproteobacteria reveals cohesive metabolic groups	70
Persistent microbiome members in the common bean rhizosphere: an integrated analysis of space, time, and plant genotype	70
Potential virus-mediated nitrogen cycling in oxygen-depleted oceanic waters	69
Depth-discrete metagenomics reveals the roles of microbes in biogeochemical cycling in the tropical freshwater Lake Tanganyika	68
Candida albicans promotes tooth decay by inducing oral microbial dysbiosis	66
Interspecies bacterial competition regulates community assembly in the C. elegans intestine	66
Plasmid- and strain-specific factors drive variation in ESBL-plasmid spread in vitro and in vivo	66
A genomic view of the microbiome of coral reef demosponges	65
Taxon-specific microbial growth and mortality patterns reveal distinct temporal population responses to rewetting in a California grassland soil	65