OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of npj Biofilms and Microbiomes is 48. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Dual-functionality of Nocardiopsis alba B57 in biocontrol and plant growth: a metabolomic approach to agricultural sustainability	193
Machine learning and the role of the vaginal and fecal microbiome in miscarriage: a matched case-control study	164
Diverse polysaccharide production and biofilm formation abilities of clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae	135
Partial convergence of the human vaginal and rectal maternal microbiota in late gestation and early post-partum	112
Emerging non-antibiotic strategies for implant-associated biofilm infections by reprogramming the dysregulated immune microenvironment	109
Lactobacillus plantarum L168 improves hyperoxia-induced pulmonary inflammation and hypoalveolarization in a rat model of bronchopulmonary dysplasia	107
Iron limitation-induced endophytic Ammoniphilus assemblage promotes root apoplastic iron remobilization by attenuation of salicylic acid pathways	104
A colon mimetic screening approach reveals Lactobacillus fermentum as a microbiome-based therapy for COPD	90
Dietary copper-driven colonic dysbiosis mediates oxidative stress and butyrate deficiency to facilitate the spread of resistome in pigs	87
Disruption of IgA-mediated aggregation at weaning favors mucus encroachment by commensal bacteria	85
Targeted metabolomics reveals bioactive inflammatory mediators from gut into blood circulation in children with NAFLD	84
Pharmacodynamics of interspecies interactions in polymicrobial infections	82
Evolution of genotypic and phenotypic diversity in multispecies biofilms	79
Microbial messengers: decoding the gut microbiota’s role in bone health through immunomodulation and exosomal signaling	78
Akkermansia muciniphila inhibited the periodontitis caused by Fusobacterium nucleatum	78
One-year supplementation with Lactobacillus reuteri ATCC PTA 6475 counteracts a degradation of gut microbiota in older women with low bone mineral density	76
Neutralization of ionic interactions by dextran-based single-chain nanoparticles improves tobramycin diffusion into a mature biofilm	75
Plasticity of the gut microbiome of golden snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in response to seasonal variation in diet	73
Gene horizontal transfers and functional diversity negatively correlated with bacterial taxonomic diversity along a nitrogen gradient	73
An in vitro fermentation model to study the impact of bacteriophages targeting Shiga toxin-encoding Escherichia coli on the colonic microbiota	73
In situ monitoring of Lentilactobacillus parabuchneri biofilm formation via real-time infrared spectroscopy	72
In silico identification of two peptides with antibacterial activity against multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus	70
Fusobacterium nucleatum is enriched in invasive biofilms in colorectal cancer	70
Alternate-day fasting ameliorates α-synuclein pathology and suppresses inflammation via the gut-brain axis in an MPTP-induced subacute mouse model of Parkinson’s disease	66
Bacteria contribute exopolysaccharides to an algal-bacterial joint extracellular matrix	66

Simulation of catalase-dependent tolerance of microbial biofilm to hydrogen peroxide with a biofilm computer model	65
Microbiota-host crosstalk: the role of short-term dietary restriction in neurological and metabolic dysregulation	65
Colonization with ubiquitous protist Blastocystis ST1 ameliorates DSS-induced colitis and promotes beneficial microbiota and immune outcomes	64
The impact of antioxidant-ciprofloxacin combinations on the evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	63
Beyond the matrix: rethinking antibiotic tolerance in CF biofilms using 3D models	62
Native microbiome dominates over host factors in shaping the probiotic genetic evolution in the gut	60
pH regulates gut bacterial tryptophan metabolism	60
Multi-omics atlas of the bovine coronavirus-infected calf jejunum: reduction of Phocaeicola coprophilus and deoxycholic acid linked to Th17/Treg imbalance	60
Protecting the piglet gut microbiota against ETEC-mediated post-weaning diarrhoea using specific binding proteins	59
Harnessing vaginal inflammation and microbiome: a machine learning model for predicting IVF success	59
Instance-based transfer learning enables cross-cohort early detection of colorectal cancer	58
Donor-recipient specificity and age-dependency in fecal microbiota therapy and probiotic resolution of gastrointestinal symptoms	56
The gut microbiota modulate locomotion via vagus-dependent glucagon-like peptide-1 signaling	56
Interspecies competition in oral biofilms mediated by Streptococcus gordonii extracellular deoxyribonuclease SsnA	56
Diffusion-based mechanism explains spatial organization in cross-feeding biofilms	55
Enzymes-enhanced antibiotic therapy reduces biofilms to undetectable levels in an implant-associated infection model	53
Ex vivo intestinal permeability assay (X-IPA) for tracking barrier function dynamics	53
The dynamics of microbiome and virome in migratory birds of southwest China	52
Secreted nucleases reclaim extracellular DNA during biofilm development	50
The skin microbiome stratifies patients with cutaneous T cell lymphoma and determines event-free survival	49
Modulation of gut microbiota and its metabolite Equol by Huaier granule suppresses hepatocellular carcinoma via the gut-liver axis	49
Host specificity and cophylogeny in the “animal-gut bacteria-phage” tripartite system	49
Clostridium difficile-derived membrane vesicles promote fetal growth restriction via inhibiting trophoblast motility through PPARγ/RXRα/ANGPTL4 axis	49
ToxR is a c-di-GMP binding protein that modulates surface-associated behaviour in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	48