OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ISME Journal is 69. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental stress destabilizes microbial networks	594
Erosion reduces soil microbial diversity, network complexity and multifunctionality	366
Biodiversity of key-stone phylotypes determines crop production in a 4-decade fertilization experiment	252
Soil microbial diversity–biomass relationships are driven by soil carbon content across global biomes	251
Disruption of Firmicutes and Actinobacteria abundance in tomato rhizosphere causes the incidence of bacterial wilt disease	228
Soil plastispheres as hotspots of antibiotic resistance genes and potential pathogens	188
Bacillus velezensis stimulates resident rhizosphere Pseudomonas stutzeri for plant health through metabolic interactions	175
Ecology and evolution of antimicrobial resistance in bacterial communities	164
Nonnutritive sweeteners can promote the dissemination of antibiotic resistance through conjugative gene transfer	157
Key bacterial taxa and metabolic pathways affecting gut short-chain fatty acid profiles in early life	150
Open challenges for microbial network construction and analysis	142
Enrichment and physiological characterization of a novel comammox Nitrospira indicates ammonium inhibition of complete nitrification	137
Food or just a free ride? A meta-analysis reveals the global diversity of the Plastisphere	133
Stainless steel corrosion via direct iron-to-microbe electron transfer by Geobacter species	131
Chlorine disinfection facilitates natural transformation through ROS-mediated oxidative stress	127
Deep sea sediments associated with cold seeps are a subsurface reservoir of viral diversity	127
Comparative genomics reveals insights into cyanobacterial evolution and habitat adaptation	125
Salt-induced recruitment of specific root-associated bacterial consortium capable of enhancing plant adaptability to salt stress	122
Viromes outperform total metagenomes in revealing the spatiotemporal patterns of agricultural soil viral communities	119
Conserved and reproducible bacterial communities associate with extraradical hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	113
Increasing flavonoid concentrations in root exudates enhance associations between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and an invasive plant	112
Air pollution could drive global dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes	110
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea possess a wide range of cellular ammonia affinities	109
Genome wide association study reveals plant loci controlling heritability of the rhizosphere microbiome	108
Metabolic flexibility allows bacterial habitat generalists to become dominant in a frequently disturbed ecosystem	108

Life-history strategies of soil microbial communities in an arid ecosystem	105
A network approach to elucidate and prioritize microbial dark matter in microbial communities	104
Prokaryotic taxonomy and nomenclature in the age of big sequence data	104
Engineering rhizobacteria for sustainable agriculture	104
Unraveling negative biotic interactions determining soil microbial community assembly and functioning	103
Metagenomic analysis reveals a dynamic microbiome with diversified adaptive functions to utilize high lignocellulosic forages in the cattle rumen	101
“Candidatus Dechloromonas phosphoritropha” and “Ca. D. phosphorivorans”, novel polyphosphate accumulating organisms abundant in wastewater treatment systems	99
Niche-adaptation in plant-associated Bacteroidetes favours specialisation in organic phosphorus mineralisation	98
Resource partitioning of phytoplankton metabolites that support bacterial heterotrophy	95
Non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals promote the transmission of multidrug resistance plasmids through intra- and intergenera conjugation	94
The soil microbial food web revisited: Predatory myxobacteria as keystone taxa?	91
Potential virus-mediated nitrogen cycling in oxygen-depleted oceanic waters	91
Achieving similar root microbiota composition in neighbouring plants through airborne signalling	89
Reconfiguration of metabolic fluxes in Pseudomonas putida as a response to sub-lethal oxidative stress	89
Synthetic bacterial community derived from a desert rhizosphere confers salt stress resilience to tomato in the presence of a soil microbiome	89
Verrucomicrobiota are specialist consumers of sulfated methyl pentoses during diatom blooms	86
Mercury methylation by metabolically versatile and cosmopolitan marine bacteria	86
Solutions in microbiome engineering: prioritizing barriers to organism establishment	83
Trophic interactions between predatory protists and pathogen-suppressive bacteria impact plant health	81
Persistent microbiome members in the common bean rhizosphere: an integrated analysis of space, time, and plant genotype	81
The temperature sensitivity of soil: microbial biodiversity, growth, and carbon mineralization	81
Large-scale protein level comparison of Deltaproteobacteria reveals cohesive metabolic groups	80
Sucrose triggers a novel signaling cascade promoting Bacillus subtilis rhizosphere colonization	80
Interspecies bacterial competition regulates community assembly in the C. elegans intestine	80
Fecal filtrate transplantation protects against necrotizing enterocolitis	78
Insight into the function and evolution of the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway in Actinobacteria	78
Autotrophic and mixotrophic metabolism of an anammox bacterium revealed by in vivo 13C and 2H metabolic network mapping	78
Candida albicans promotes tooth decay by inducing oral microbial dysbiosis	78
Depth-discrete metagenomics reveals the roles of microbes in biogeochemical cycling in the tropical freshwater Lake Tanganyika	78
In vitro interaction network of a synthetic gut bacterial community	77
Social networks strongly predict the gut microbiota of wild mice	77
Forest tree growth is linked to mycorrhizal fungal composition and function across Europe	77
Microbial metabolism and necromass mediated fertilization effect on soil organic carbon after long-term community incubation in different climates	76
Artificial sweeteners stimulate horizontal transfer of extracellular antibiotic resistance genes through natural transformation	76
Relationships between nitrogen cycling microbial community abundance and composition reveal the indirect effect of soil pH on oak decline	75
Variable influences of soil and seed-associated bacterial communities on the assembly of seedling microbiomes	72
Protists as catalyzers of microbial litter breakdown and carbon cycling at different temperature regimes	71
Bridging the membrane lipid divide: bacteria of the FCB group superphylum have the potential to synthesize archaeal ether lipids	71
Plasmid- and strain-specific factors drive variation in ESBL-plasmid spread in vitro and in vivo	70
Organochlorine contamination enriches virus-encoded metabolism and pesticide degradation associated auxiliary genes in soil microbiomes	70
Plant-microbe interactions in the phyllosphere: facing challenges of the anthropocene	70
A genomic view of the microbiome of coral reef demosponges	70
Metabolic versatility of the nitrite-oxidizing bacterium Nitrospira marina and its proteomic response to oxygen-limited conditions	69
Intracellular bacteria are common and taxonomically diverse in cultured and in hospite algal endosymbionts of coral reefs	69