OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ISME Journal is 55. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Resurrection of a diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment	343
SLC24A-mediated calcium exchange as an indispensable component of the diatom cell density-driven signaling pathway	197
Physiological and evolutionary contexts of a new symbiotic species from the nitrogen-recycling gut community of turtle ants	151
Inositol phosphates as an overlooked phosphorous source in marine ecosystems	147
Plant and soil biodiversity sustain root mycorrhizal fungal richness under drought stress	139
Correction to: Integrated overview of stramenopile ecology, taxonomy, and heterotrophic origin	137
Understanding prokaryotic adaptation through advanced DNA methylation detection techniques	128
Biotic interactions between benthic infauna and aerobic methanotrophs mediate methane fluxes from coastal sediments	125
Aminolipids in bacterial membranes and the natural environment	122
Localized coevolution between microbial predator and prey alters community-wide gene expression and ecosystem function	114
Co-cultivation rescues suicidal Paenibacillus amylolyticus swarms	111
Sinking particles exporting diatoms and Hacrobia predict the magnitude of oceanic POC flux	105
Novel order-level lineage of ammonia-oxidizing archaea widespread in marine and terrestrial environments	99
Increased genetic diversity loss and genetic differentiation in a model marine diatom adapted to ocean warming compared to high CO2	99
Endosymbionts modulate virus effects on aphid-plant interactions	97
Offensive role of the Bacillus extracellular matrix in driving metabolite-mediated dialogue and adaptive strategies with the fungus <	96
Land use drives drug resistance in an airborne human fungal pathogen	92
Microbial invasion of a toxic medium is facilitated by a resident community but inhibited as the community co-evolves	90
Distinct transcriptomic strategies underlie differential heat tolerance in Symbiodiniaceae symbionts	89
Pulsed, continuous or somewhere in between? Resource dynamics matter in the optimisation of microbial communities	87
Revisiting biocrystallization: purine crystalline inclusions are widespread in eukaryotes	87
Holocene and contemporary marine dinoflagellate community patterns predict expansion of generalist dinoflagellate blooms in warming oceans	86
In vivo evolution of antimicrobial resistance in a biofilm model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection	85
Emergent antibiotic persistence in a spatially structured synthetic microbial mutualism	84
Viral lysing can alleviate microbial nutrient limitations and accumulate recalcitrant dissolved organic matter components in soil	82

Rice gs3 allele and low-nitrogen conditions enrich rhizosphere microbiota that mitigate methane emissions and promote beneficial crop traits	78
Hyphosphere microorganisms facilitate hyphal spreading and root colonization of plant symbiotic fungus in ammonium-enriched soil	75
Long-term metagenomic insights into the roles of antiviral defense systems in stabilizing activated sludge bacterial communities	74
Priority effects shape the structure of infant-type Bifidobacterium communities on human milk oligosaccharides	74
Colonization history of snow algae on Hawai‘i island	73
Fireworms are a reservoir and potential vector for coral-infecting apicomplexans	71
Divergent molecular strategies drive evolutionary adaptation to competitive fitness in biofilm formation	70
Flavobacterial exudates disrupt cell cycle progression and metabolism of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana	68
Transportome remodeling of a symbiotic microalga inside a planktonic host	68
Drug delivery dynamics dictate evolution of bacterial antibiotic responses	67
Siderophores as an iron source for picocyanobacteria in deep chlorophyll maximum layers of the oligotrophic ocean	66
Asgard ESCRT-III and VPS4 reveal conserved chromatin binding properties of the ESCRT machinery	66
Beneficial and detrimental fungi within the culturable mycobiome of the Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata	65
Metabolic potential of Nitrososphaera-associated clades	65
Dynamics and activity of an ammonia-oxidizing archaea bloom in South San Francisco Bay	65
Diurnal transcriptional variation is reduced in a nitrogen-fixing diatom endosymbiont	64
Gut microbiota contribute to variations in honey bee foraging intensity	64
Bacterial type VI secretion system helps prevent cheating in microbial communities	64
Catabolic protein degradation in marine sediments confined to distinct archaea	62
Phyllosphere symbiont promotes plant growth through ACC deaminase production	61
Genetic and species rearrangements in microbial consortia impact biodegradation potential	60
Laminarin stimulates single cell rates of sulfate reduction whereas oxygen inhibits transcriptomic activity in coastal marine sediment	59
Cryptochrome PtCPF1 regulates high temperature acclimation of marine diatoms through coordination of iron and phosphorus uptake	58
Climate change-related warming reduces thermal sensitivity and modifies metabolic activity of coastal benthic bacterial communities	57
Dominance of phage particles carrying antibiotic resistance genes in the viromes of retail food sources	56
MicroRNA-mediated regulation of lipid metabolism in virus-infected Emiliania huxleyi	56
Hot moment of N2O emissions in seasonally frozen peatlands	56
Microbial cross-feeding stabilized by segregation of a dependent mutant from its independent ancestor	56
Replicated life-history patterns and subsurface origins of the bacterial sister phyla Nitrospirota and Nitrospinota	56
Celebrating 15 years of The ISME Journal	55