OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of npj Biofilms and Microbiomes is 34. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Analysis of microbial compositions: a review of normalization and differential abundance analysis	123
Altered oral and gut microbiota and its association with SARS-CoV-2 viral load in COVID-19 patients during hospitalization	114
Three faces of biofilms: a microbial lifestyle, a nascent multicellular organism, and an incubator for diversity	95
Metagenomic analysis revealed the potential role of gut microbiome in gout	94
Economic significance of biofilms: a multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral challenge	89
Interactions of plasma-activated water with biofilms: inactivation, dispersal effects and mechanisms of action	88
Microbial predictors of healing and short-term effect of debridement on the microbiome of chronic wounds	85
Berberine attenuates choline-induced atherosclerosis by inhibiting trimethylamine and trimethylamine-N-oxide production via manipulating the gut microbiome	81
Seasonal dynamics of diet–gut microbiota interaction in adaptation of yaks to life at high altitude	74
Diversity, function and assembly of mangrove root-associated microbial communities at a continuous fine-scale	65
Host development overwhelms environmental dispersal in governing the ecological succession of zebrafish gut microbiota	63
The sources and transmission routes of microbial populations throughout a meat processing facility	63
Who put the film in biofilm? The migration of a term from wastewater engineering to medicine and beyond	59
Microbial co-occurrence network topological properties link with reactor parameters and reveal importance of low-abundance genera	57
Systematic analysis of gut microbiota in pregnant women and its correlations with individual heterogeneity	56
Shotgun sequencing of the vaginal microbiome reveals both a species and functional potential signature of preterm birth	51
Strong oral plaque microbiome signatures for dental implant diseases identified by strain-resolution metagenomics	50
Vaginal microbiota and human papillomavirus infection among young Swedish women	47
Parameters influencing the development of highly conductive and efficient biofilm during microbial electrosynthesis: the importance of applied potential and inorganic carbon source	46
Exposure of Salmonella biofilms to antibiotic concentrations rapidly selects resistance with collateral tradeoffs	45
Emergent bacterial community properties induce enhanced drought tolerance in Arabidopsis	45
Integrated metagenomics identifies a crucial role for trimethylamine-producing Lachnoclostridium in promoting atherosclerosis	44
Bacterial vaginosis and health-associated bacteria modulate the immunometabolic landscape in 3D model of human cervix	44
Burns and biofilms: priority pathogens and in vivo models	43
Biofilms harbour Clostridioides difficile, serving as a reservoir for recurrent infection	43

Compartmentalization of bacterial and fungal microbiomes in the gut of adult honeybees	42
Biofilm viability checker: An open-source tool for automated biofilm viability analysis from confocal microscopy images	41
The biofilm matrix scaffold of Pseudomonas aeruginosa contains G-quadruplex extracellular DNA structures	39
Improved functionality of Ligilactobacillus salivarius Li01 in alleviating colonic inflammation by layer-by-layer microencapsulation	39
Chinese gut microbiota and its associations with staple food type, ethnicity, and urbanization	38
Identification of small molecules that interfere with c-di-GMP signaling and induce dispersal of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	38
Interactions between gut microbiota and metabolites modulate cytokine network imbalances in women with unexplained miscarriage	36
Nonlinear rheological characteristics of single species bacterial biofilms	36
Host-microbiome interactions: Gut-Liver axis and its connection with other organs	34
Bio-priming with a hypovirulent phytopathogenic fungus enhances the connection and strength of microbial interaction network in rapeseed	34
Gut microbiota determines the social behavior of mice and induces metabolic and inflammatory changes in their adipose tissue	34
Intestinal release of biofilm-like microcolonies encased in calcium-pectinate beads increases probiotic properties of Lacticaseibacillus paracasei	34
Synergistic action of phage phiIPLA-RODI and lytic protein CHAPSH3b: a combination strategy to target Staphylococcus aureus biofilms	34