OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of npj Biofilms and Microbiomes is 35. 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
Analysis of microbial compositions: a review of normalization and differential abundance analysis	150
Altered oral and gut microbiota and its association with SARS-CoV-2 viral load in COVID-19 patients during hospitalization	131
Three faces of biofilms: a microbial lifestyle, a nascent multicellular organism, and an incubator for diversity	125
Economic significance of biofilms: a multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral challenge	121
Metagenomic analysis revealed the potential role of gut microbiome in gout	117
Interactions of plasma-activated water with biofilms: inactivation, dispersal effects and mechanisms of action	106
Seasonal dynamics of diet–gut microbiota interaction in adaptation of yaks to life at high altitude	94
Berberine attenuates choline-induced atherosclerosis by inhibiting trimethylamine and trimethylamine-N-oxide production via manipulating the gut microbiome	92
Diversity, function and assembly of mangrove root-associated microbial communities at a continuous fine-scale	81
Microbial co-occurrence network topological properties link with reactor parameters and reveal importance of low-abundance genera	81
Host development overwhelms environmental dispersal in governing the ecological succession of zebrafish gut microbiota	76
Who put the film in biofilm? The migration of a term from wastewater engineering to medicine and beyond	70
Integrated metagenomics identifies a crucial role for trimethylamine-producing Lachnoclostridium in promoting atherosclerosis	64
Burns and biofilms: priority pathogens and in vivo models	59
Biofilm viability checker: An open-source tool for automated biofilm viability analysis from confocal microscopy images	58
Shotgun sequencing of the vaginal microbiome reveals both a species and functional potential signature of preterm birth	57
Emergent bacterial community properties induce enhanced drought tolerance in Arabidopsis	55
Bacterial vaginosis and health-associated bacteria modulate the immunometabolic landscape in 3D model of human cervix	55
Western and non-western gut microbiomes reveal new roles of Prevotella in carbohydrate metabolism and mouth–gut axis	52
Chinese gut microbiota and its associations with staple food type, ethnicity, and urbanization	50
Host-microbiome interactions: Gut-Liver axis and its connection with other organs	50
Biofilms harbour Clostridioides difficile, serving as a reservoir for recurrent infection	50
Improved functionality of Ligilactobacillus salivarius Li01 in alleviating colonic inflammation by layer-by-layer microencapsulation	49
Exposure of Salmonella biofilms to antibiotic concentrations rapidly selects resistance with collateral tradeoffs	49
Identification of small molecules that interfere with c-di-GMP signaling and induce dispersal of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	48

Compartmentalization of bacterial and fungal microbiomes in the gut of adult honeybees	47
The biofilm matrix scaffold of Pseudomonas aeruginosa contains G-quadruplex extracellular DNA structures	47
Interactions between gut microbiota and metabolites modulate cytokine network imbalances in women with unexplained miscarriage	46
Gut microbiota determines the social behavior of mice and induces metabolic and inflammatory changes in their adipose tissue	43
Synergistic action of phage phiIPLA-RODI and lytic protein CHAPSH3b: a combination strategy to target Staphylococcus aureus biofilms	42
Lung microbiota associations with clinical features of COPD in the SPIROMICS cohort	41
Soil microbiome manipulation triggers direct and possible indirect suppression against Ralstonia solanacearum and Fusarium oxysporum	40
Atherosclerosis amelioration by allicin in raw garlic through gut microbiota and trimethylamine-N-oxide modulation	38
Real-time monitoring of ruminal microbiota reveals their roles in dairy goats during subacute ruminal acidosis	38
The pivotal roles of gut microbiota in insect plant interactions for sustainable pest management	36
Human organoid biofilm model for assessing antibiofilm activity of novel agents	35
Identification of essential genes for Escherichia coli aryl polyene biosynthesis and function in biofilm formation	35
Disrupting quorum sensing alters social interactions in Chromobacterium violaceum	35