OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of npj Biofilms and Microbiomes is 40. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Early microbial markers of periodontal and cardiometabolic diseases in ORIGINS	188
Diverse polysaccharide production and biofilm formation abilities of clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae	185
Lactobacillus plantarum L168 improves hyperoxia-induced pulmonary inflammation and hypoalveolarization in a rat model of bronchopulmonary dysplasia	146
Pharmacodynamics of interspecies interactions in polymicrobial infections	146
Gene horizontal transfers and functional diversity negatively correlated with bacterial taxonomic diversity along a nitrogen gradient	109
Neutralization of ionic interactions by dextran-based single-chain nanoparticles improves tobramycin diffusion into a mature biofilm	94
An in vitro fermentation model to study the impact of bacteriophages targeting Shiga toxin-encoding Escherichia coli on the colonic microbiota	88
Partial convergence of the human vaginal and rectal maternal microbiota in late gestation and early post-partum	79
Bacteria contribute exopolysaccharides to an algal-bacterial joint extracellular matrix	77
In silico identification of two peptides with antibacterial activity against multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus	76
Akkermansia muciniphila inhibited the periodontitis caused by Fusobacterium nucleatum	73
Chinese gut microbiota and its associations with staple food type, ethnicity, and urbanization	69
In situ monitoring of Lentilactobacillus parabuchneri biofilm formation via real-time infrared spectroscopy	65
One-year supplementation with Lactobacillus reuteri ATCC PTA 6475 counteracts a degradation of gut microbiota in older women with low bone mineral density	65
Author Correction: Altered oral and gut microbiota and its association with SARS-CoV-2 viral load in COVID-19 patients during hospitalization	63
Colonization with ubiquitous protist Blastocystis ST1 ameliorates DSS-induced colitis and promotes beneficial microbiota and immune outcomes	63
The dynamics of microbiome and virome in migratory birds of southwest China	56
Donor-recipient specificity and age-dependency in fecal microbiota therapy and probiotic resolution of gastrointestinal symptoms	56
Secreted nucleases reclaim extracellular DNA during biofilm development	55
Simulation of catalase-dependent tolerance of microbial biofilm to hydrogen peroxide with a biofilm computer model	55
Ex vivo intestinal permeability assay (X-IPA) for tracking barrier function dynamics	51
The gut microbiota modulate locomotion via vagus-dependent glucagon-like peptide-1 signaling	50
Native microbiome dominates over host factors in shaping the probiotic genetic evolution in the gut	49
Protecting the piglet gut microbiota against ETEC-mediated post-weaning diarrhoea using specific binding proteins	47
Interspecies competition in oral biofilms mediated by Streptococcus gordonii extracellular deoxyribonuclease SsnA	47

The impact of antioxidant-ciprofloxacin combinations on the evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	47
Veillonellaceae family members uniquely alter the cervical metabolic microenvironment in a human three-dimensional epithelial model	47
Citizen-science reveals changes in the oral microbiome in Spain through age and lifestyle factors	46
Fluorescent nanosensors reveal dynamic pH gradients during biofilm formation	46
Alternating magnetic fields and antibiotics eradicate biofilm on metal in a synergistic fashion	45
ToxR is a c-di-GMP binding protein that modulates surface-associated behaviour in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	44
Integrative metagenomic and metabolomic analyses reveal the potential of gut microbiota to exacerbate acute pancreatitis	43
Host specificity and cophylogeny in the “animal-gut bacteria-phage” tripartite system	43
Social demographics determinants for resistome and microbiome variation of a multiethnic community in Southern Malaysia	43
Interaction between tissue-dwelling helminth and the gut microbiota drives mucosal immunoregulation	41
Large-scale metagenomic assembly provide new insights into the genetic evolution of gut microbiomes in plateau ungulates	40
Adaptation and phenotypic diversification of Bacillus thuringiensis biofilm are accompanied by fuzzy spreader morphotypes	40
Gut microbes modulate the effects of the flavonoid quercetin on atherosclerosis	40
Adaptation of a methanogen to Fe0 corrosion via direct contact	40
Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities	40