OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ISME Journal is 53. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Localized coevolution between microbial predator and prey alters community-wide gene expression and ecosystem function	283
Spatial separation of ribosomes and DNA in Asgard archaeal cells	276
Endosymbionts modulate virus effects on aphid-plant interactions	159
Role of the flagellar hook in the structural development and antibiotic tolerance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	158
Understanding Prokaryotic Adaptation through Advanced DNA Methylation Detection Techniques	139
Physiological and evolutionary contexts of a new symbiotic species from the nitrogen-recycling gut community of turtle ants	126
Viral lysing can alleviate microbial nutrient limitations and accumulate recalcitrant dissolved organic matter components in soil	125
Priority effects shape the structure of infant-typeBifidobacteriumcommunities on human milk oligosaccharides	121
Phage co-transport with hyphal-riding bacteria fuels bacterial invasion in a water-unsaturated microbial model system	118
Revisiting biocrystallization: purine crystalline inclusions are widespread in eukaryotes	117
Holocene and contemporary marine dinoflagellate community patterns predict expansion of generalist dinoflagellate blooms in warming oceans	116
Novel order-level lineage of ammonia-oxidizing archaea widespread in marine and terrestrial environments	114
In vivo evolution of antimicrobial resistance in a biofilm model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection	110
Resurrection of a diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment	102
SLC24A-mediated calcium exchange as an indispensable component of the diatom cell density-driven signaling pathway	101
Sinking particles exporting diatoms and Hacrobia predict the magnitude of oceanic POC flux	99
Plant and soil biodiversity sustain root mycorrhizal fungal richness under drought stress	94
Emergent antibiotic persistence in a spatially structured synthetic microbial mutualism	90
Aminolipids in bacterial membranes and the natural environment	87
Correction to: Integrated overview of stramenopile ecology, taxonomy, and heterotrophic origin	86
Biotic interactions between benthic infauna and aerobic methanotrophs mediate methane fluxes from coastal sediments	83
Increased genetic diversity loss and genetic differentiation in a model marine diatom adapted to ocean warming compared to high CO2	82
Pulsed, continuous or somewhere in between? Resource dynamics matter in the optimisation of microbial communities	79
Microbial invasion of a toxic medium is facilitated by a resident community but inhibited as the community co-evolves	79
Climate change-related warming reduces thermal sensitivity and modifies metabolic activity of coastal benthic bacterial communities	78

Hyphosphere microorganisms facilitate hyphal spreading and root colonization of plant symbiotic fungus in ammonium-enriched soil	78
Asgard ESCRT-III and VPS4 reveal conserved chromatin binding properties of the ESCRT machinery	77
Whole genome sequences reveal the Xanthomonas perforans population is shaped by the tomato production system	77
Bolstering fitness via CO2 fixation and organic carbon uptake: mixotrophs in modern groundwater	76
Catabolic protein degradation in marine sediments confined to distinct archaea	76
Flavobacterial exudates disrupt cell cycle progression and metabolism of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana	76
Replicated life-history patterns and subsurface origins of the bacterial sister phyla Nitrospirota and Nitrospinota	75
Hot moment of N2O emissions in seasonally frozen peatlands	73
Diurnal transcriptional variation is reduced in a nitrogen-fixing diatom endosymbiont	73
Divergent molecular strategies drive evolutionary adaptation to competitive fitness in biofilm formation	68
Laminarin stimulates single cell rates of sulfate reduction whereas oxygen inhibits transcriptomic activity in coastal marine sediment	67
Drug delivery dynamics dictate evolution of bacterial antibiotic responses	66
Beneficial and detrimental fungi within the culturable mycobiome of the Red Sea coral Stylophora pistilatta	64
Metabolic potential of Nitrososphaera-associated clades	63
Phyllosphere symbiont promotes plant growth through ACC deaminase production	62
Long-term metagenomic insights into the roles of antiviral defense systems in stabilizing activated sludge bacterial communities	62
Transcriptional responses of Trichodesmium to natural inverse gradients of Fe and P availability	61
Dynamics and activity of an ammonia-oxidizing archaea bloom in South San Francisco Bay	60
Fireworms are a reservoir and potential vector for coral-infecting apicomplexans	59
Correction: Non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals enhance the transmission of exogenous antibiotic resistance genes through bacterial transformation	58
Genetic and species rearrangements in microbial consortia impact biodegradation potential	56
Gut microbiota contribute to variations in honey bee foraging intensity	55
Siderophores as an iron source for picocyanobacteria in deep chlorophyll maximum layers of the oligotrophic ocean	55
Transportome remodeling of a symbiotic microalga inside a planktonic host	55
Dominance of phage particles carrying antibiotic resistance genes in the viromes of retail food sources	55
Cryptochrome PtCPF1 regulates high temperature acclimation of marine diatoms through coordination of iron and phosphorus uptake	55
Chlorine redox chemistry is widespread in microbiology	54
Bacterial type VI secretion system helps prevent cheating in microbial communities	54
Correction: Limits to the cellular control of sequestered cryptophyte prey in the marine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum	53
Celebrating 15 years of The ISME Journal	53