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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental stress destabilizes microbial networks	664
Erosion reduces soil microbial diversity, network complexity and multifunctionality	412
Soil microbial diversity–biomass relationships are driven by soil carbon content across global biomes	277
Soil plastispheres as hotspots of antibiotic resistance genes and potential pathogens	206
Bacillus velezensis stimulates resident rhizosphere Pseudomonas stutzeri for plant health through metabolic interactions	198
Ecology and evolution of antimicrobial resistance in bacterial communities	182
Nonnutritive sweeteners can promote the dissemination of antibiotic resistance through conjugative gene transfer	172
Open challenges for microbial network construction and analysis	163
Key bacterial taxa and metabolic pathways affecting gut short-chain fatty acid profiles in early life	157
Food or just a free ride? A meta-analysis reveals the global diversity of the Plastisphere	146
Chlorine disinfection facilitates natural transformation through ROS-mediated oxidative stress	144
Enrichment and physiological characterization of a novel comammox Nitrospira indicates ammonium inhibition of complete nitrification	143
Deep sea sediments associated with cold seeps are a subsurface reservoir of viral diversity	142
Salt-induced recruitment of specific root-associated bacterial consortium capable of enhancing plant adaptability to salt stress	139
Stainless steel corrosion via direct iron-to-microbe electron transfer by Geobacter species	136
Viromes outperform total metagenomes in revealing the spatiotemporal patterns of agricultural soil viral communities	129
Conserved and reproducible bacterial communities associate with extraradical hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	125
Metabolic flexibility allows bacterial habitat generalists to become dominant in a frequently disturbed ecosystem	124
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea possess a wide range of cellular ammonia affinities	123
Genome wide association study reveals plant loci controlling heritability of the rhizosphere microbiome	122
Increasing flavonoid concentrations in root exudates enhance associations between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and an invasive plant	121
Unraveling negative biotic interactions determining soil microbial community assembly and functioning	116
Metagenomic analysis reveals a dynamic microbiome with diversified adaptive functions to utilize high lignocellulosic forages in the cattle rumen	112
Engineering rhizobacteria for sustainable agriculture	112
Prokaryotic taxonomy and nomenclature in the age of big sequence data	111

“Candidatus Dechloromonas phosphoritropha” and “Ca. D. phosphorivorans”, novel polyphosphate accumulating organisms abundant in wastewater treatment systems	107
Niche-adaptation in plant-associated Bacteroidetes favours specialisation in organic phosphorus mineralisation	106
Non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals promote the transmission of multidrug resistance plasmids through intra- and intergenera conjugation	102
Synthetic bacterial community derived from a desert rhizosphere confers salt stress resilience to tomato in the presence of a soil microbiome	100
Verrucomicrobiota are specialist consumers of sulfated methyl pentoses during diatom blooms	100
Potential virus-mediated nitrogen cycling in oxygen-depleted oceanic waters	97
The temperature sensitivity of soil: microbial biodiversity, growth, and carbon mineralization	96
The soil microbial food web revisited: Predatory myxobacteria as keystone taxa?	94
Solutions in microbiome engineering: prioritizing barriers to organism establishment	93
Trophic interactions between predatory protists and pathogen-suppressive bacteria impact plant health	92
Reconfiguration of metabolic fluxes in Pseudomonas putida as a response to sub-lethal oxidative stress	89
Microbial metabolism and necromass mediated fertilization effect on soil organic carbon after long-term community incubation in different climates	88
Mercury methylation by metabolically versatile and cosmopolitan marine bacteria	87
Fecal filtrate transplantation protects against necrotizing enterocolitis	87
Persistent microbiome members in the common bean rhizosphere: an integrated analysis of space, time, and plant genotype	87
Organochlorine contamination enriches virus-encoded metabolism and pesticide degradation associated auxiliary genes in soil microbiomes	84
Artificial sweeteners stimulate horizontal transfer of extracellular antibiotic resistance genes through natural transformation	84
Depth-discrete metagenomics reveals the roles of microbes in biogeochemical cycling in the tropical freshwater Lake Tanganyika	83
Forest tree growth is linked to mycorrhizal fungal composition and function across Europe	83
Insight into the function and evolution of the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway in Actinobacteria	83
Sucrose triggers a novel signaling cascade promoting Bacillus subtilis rhizosphere colonization	82
Large-scale protein level comparison of Deltaproteobacteria reveals cohesive metabolic groups	81
Interspecies bacterial competition regulates community assembly in the C. elegans intestine	80
Candida albicans promotes tooth decay by inducing oral microbial dysbiosis	79
Variable influences of soil and seed-associated bacterial communities on the assembly of seedling microbiomes	79
Social networks strongly predict the gut microbiota of wild mice	77
Flavonoid-attracted Aeromonas sp. from the Arabidopsis root microbiome enhances plant dehydration resistance	77
In vitro interaction network of a synthetic gut bacterial community	77
Intracellular bacteria are common and taxonomically diverse in cultured and in hospite algal endosymbionts of coral reefs	75
Nitrogen cycling and microbial cooperation in the terrestrial subsurface	74
Metabolic versatility of the nitrite-oxidizing bacterium Nitrospira marina and its proteomic response to oxygen-limited conditions	73
CRISPR-Cas systems restrict horizontal gene transfer in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	73
A genomic view of the microbiome of coral reef demosponges	73
Plant-microbe interactions in the phyllosphere: facing challenges of the anthropocene	72
Plasmid- and strain-specific factors drive variation in ESBL-plasmid spread in vitro and in vivo	72
Plant neighborhood shapes diversity and reduces interspecific variation of the phyllosphere microbiome	68
Soil microbial legacies differ following drying-rewetting and freezing-thawing cycles	68
Small changes in rhizosphere microbiome composition predict disease outcomes earlier than pathogen density variations	68
Diversity and distribution of viruses inhabiting the deepest ocean on Earth	67
Distinct composition and metabolic functions of human gut microbiota are associated with cachexia in lung cancer patients	67
Biosynthetic potential of uncultured Antarctic soil bacteria revealed through long-read metagenomic sequencing	65