OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ISME Journal is 57. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Novel order-level lineage of ammonia-oxidizing archaea widespread in marine and terrestrial environments	489
Understanding prokaryotic adaptation through advanced DNA methylation detection techniques	179
Localized coevolution between microbial predator and prey alters community-wide gene expression and ecosystem function	174
Pulsed, continuous or somewhere in between? Resource dynamics matter in the optimisation of microbial communities	163
SLC24A-mediated calcium exchange as an indispensable component of the diatom cell density-driven signaling pathway	136
Biotic interactions between benthic infauna and aerobic methanotrophs mediate methane fluxes from coastal sediments	130
Endosymbionts modulate virus effects on aphid-plant interactions	130
Correction to: Integrated overview of stramenopile ecology, taxonomy, and heterotrophic origin	128
Warming mitigates root exudate-induced priming effects via changes to microbial biomass, community structure, and gene abundance	123
Rice gs3 allele and low-nitrogen conditions enrich rhizosphere microbiota that mitigate methane emissions and promote beneficial crop traits	119
Microbial invasion of a toxic medium is facilitated by a resident community but inhibited as the community co-evolves	115
Increased genetic diversity loss and genetic differentiation in a model marine diatom adapted to ocean warming compared to high CO2	114
Viral lysing can alleviate microbial nutrient limitations and accumulate recalcitrant dissolved organic matter components in soil	113
In vivo evolution of antimicrobial resistance in a biofilm model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection	106
Land use drives drug resistance in an airborne human fungal pathogen	103
Sinking particles exporting diatoms and Hacrobia predict the magnitude of oceanic POC flux	101
Eco-evolutionary dynamics sustain a potent yet rare antibiotic gene cluster in Streptomyces	94
Inositol phosphates as an overlooked phosphorous source in marine ecosystems	88
Plant and soil biodiversity sustain root mycorrhizal fungal richness under drought stress	88
Offensive role of the Bacillus extracellular matrix in driving metabolite-mediated dialog and adaptive strategies with the fungus	86
Priority effects shape the structure of infant-type Bifidobacterium communities on human milk oligosaccharides	86
Distinct transcriptomic strategies underlie differential heat tolerance in Symbiodiniaceae symbionts	83
Revisiting biocrystallization: purine crystalline inclusions are widespread in eukaryotes	82
Hyphosphere microorganisms facilitate hyphal spreading and root colonization of plant symbiotic fungus in ammonium-enriched soil	82
Co-cultivation rescues suicidal Paenibacillus amylolyticus swarms	82

Resurrection of a diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment	80
Emergent antibiotic persistence in a spatially structured synthetic microbial mutualism	80
Aminolipids in bacterial membranes and the natural environment	79
Physiological and evolutionary contexts of a new symbiotic species from the nitrogen-recycling gut community of turtle ants	76
Holocene and contemporary marine dinoflagellate community patterns predict expansion of generalist dinoflagellate blooms in warming oceans	76
Colonization history of snow algae on Hawai‘i island	74
Genetic and species rearrangements in microbial consortia impact biodegradation potential	73
Drug delivery dynamics dictate evolution of bacterial antibiotic responses	73
Asgard ESCRT-III and VPS4 reveal conserved chromatin binding properties of the ESCRT machinery	72
Cryptochrome PtCPF1 regulates high temperature acclimation of marine diatoms through coordination of iron and phosphorus uptake	72
Rapid resistance evolution against phage cocktails	71
Transportome remodeling of a symbiotic microalga inside a planktonic host	70
Dynamics and activity of an ammonia-oxidizing archaea bloom in South San Francisco Bay	70
Metabolic potential of Nitrososphaera-associated clades	67
Symbiont diversity within Loripes orbiculatus and the case for multiple hosts	66
Hot moment of N2O emissions in seasonally frozen peatlands	66
Divergent molecular strategies drive evolutionary adaptation to competitive fitness in biofilm formation	66
Laminarin stimulates single cell rates of sulfate reduction whereas oxygen inhibits transcriptomic activity in coastal marine sediment	66
Mutations in legume genes that influence symbiosis create a complex selective landscape for rhizobial symbionts	65
Climate change-related warming reduces thermal sensitivity and modifies metabolic activity of coastal benthic bacterial communities	65
Flavobacterial exudates disrupt cell cycle progression and metabolism of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana	64
Fireworms are a reservoir and potential vector for coral-infecting apicomplexans	63
Long-term metagenomic insights into the roles of antiviral defense systems in stabilizing activated sludge bacterial communities	63
Gut microbiota contribute to variations in honey bee foraging intensity	63
Dominance of phage particles carrying antibiotic resistance genes in the viromes of retail food sources	62
Replicated life-history patterns and subsurface origins of the bacterial sister phyla Nitrospirota and Nitrospinota	61
Bacterial type VI secretion system helps prevent cheating in microbial communities	61
Phyllosphere symbiont promotes plant growth through ACC deaminase production	60
Diurnal transcriptional variation is reduced in a nitrogen-fixing diatom endosymbiont	60
Beneficial and detrimental fungi within the culturable mycobiome of the Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata	60
Mixed heavy metal stress induces global iron starvation response	59
MicroRNA-mediated regulation of lipid metabolism in virus-infected Emiliania huxleyi	59
Safeguarding microbial biodiversity: microbial conservation specialist group within the species survival commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature	57