OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Microbiology is 87. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Gene–drug potency screening in M. tuberculosis	570
Sickle cell trait enhances malaria transmission	372
Metabolic sensing tips the balance of drug tolerance in fungal meningitis	360
Author Correction: DART takes aim at community editing	279
Rebound virus in the cerebrospinal fluid reveals a possible HIV-1 reservoir	257
Cytoplasmic contractile injection systems mediate cell death in Streptomyces	252
Molecular factors shaping whether HCMV infection is productive or latent	248
Horizontal gene transfer explains unusual traits of Armillaria fungi	243
Dietary exclusion of major food groups shapes the gut microbiome and may influence health	208
Single mutation makes Escherichia coli an insect mutualist	205
Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections	204
Assessing critical thresholds in terrestrial microbiomes	200
The structure of the complete extracellular bacterial flagellum reveals the mechanism of flagellin incorporation	198
Aspergillus fumigatus dsRNA virus promotes fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host	194
Structure of a functional archaellum in Bacteria of the Chloroflexota phylum	179
Particular genomic and virulence traits associated with preterm infant-derived toxigenic Clostridium perfringens strains	178
Appressorium-mediated plant infection by Magnaporthe oryzae is regulated by a Pmk1-dependent hierarchical transcriptional network	175
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein O-phosphorylation landscape	173
Flipping the magic switch to persistence via GTP depletion	163
Explainable artificial intelligence evolves antimicrobial peptides	160
Therapeutic efficacy of monoclonal antibodies and antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 in Syrian hamsters	157
The Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis via iron sequestration	154
Host range, transmissibility and antigenicity of a pangolin coronavirus	153
Mosquitoes provide a transmission route between possums and humans for Buruli ulcer in southeastern Australia	152
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection-induced epithelial trained immunity impacts urinary tract disease outcome	152

Double-stranded RNA sequencing reveals distinct riboviruses associated with thermoacidophilic bacteria from hot springs in Japan	148
Climate extremes disrupt fungal–bacterial interactions	147
Organ-on-chip models for infectious disease research	147
Recent gene selection and drug resistance underscore clinical adaptation across Candida species	146
Ancient origin and constrained evolution of the division and cell wall gene cluster in Bacteria	139
Candida albicans extracellular vesicles trigger type I IFN signalling via cGAS and STING	139
A high-throughput and low-waste viability assay for microbes	138
Mechanistic basis for potent neutralization of Sin Nombre hantavirus by a human monoclonal antibody	135
Mycobacterium abscessus pathogenesis identified by phenogenomic analyses	134
Proteins containing photosynthetic reaction centre domains modulate FtsZ-based archaeal cell division	133
A dynamic subpopulation of CRISPR–Cas overexpressers allows Streptococcus pyogenes to rapidly respond to phage	130
Microbiome association with coral growth and survival	129
The fast-evolving FIKK kinase family of Plasmodium falciparum can be inhibited by a single compound	128
Exceeding expectations out in the cold with Colwellia	127
Integrated host-microbe plasma metagenomics for sepsis diagnosis in a prospective cohort of critically ill adults	127
Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and type III secretion spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection	127
OPENPichia: licence-free Komagataella phaffii chassis strains and toolkit for protein expression	127
Rational attenuation of RNA viruses with zinc finger antiviral protein	126
Decoding the impact of nuclear organization on antigenic variation in parasites	126
CRISPR-influenced symbiosis	126
Regulators unite to enable plant entry	124
Publisher Correction: Breastfeeding promotes bifidobacterial immunomodulatory metabolites	123
Prioritizing mentorship	117
Mineral-eating microorganisms at extinct hydrothermal vents	117
Call for papers on the clinical microbiome	116
Risk–reward trade-off during carbon starvation generates dichotomy in motility endurance among marine bacteria	112
Blockade of endothelin receptors mitigates SARS-CoV-2-induced osteoarthritis	110
Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus induces mitochondrial fission to evade host immune responses and promote viral production	110
Bacteroides fragilis uses toxins for gut success	109
Extracellular vesicles block viral entryways	108
Transforming tuberculosis diagnosis	107
Synthesis of lipid-linked precursors of the bacterial cell wall is governed by a feedback control mechanism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	107
Neutralization mechanism of a human antibody with pan-coronavirus reactivity including SARS-CoV-2	107
SAMPL-seq reveals micron-scale spatial hubs in the human gut microbiome	107
Intragenic viral silencer element regulates HTLV-1 latency via RUNX complex recruitment	106
Dietary- and host-derived metabolites are used by diverse gut bacteria for anaerobic respiration	104
Expanding known viral diversity in the healthy infant gut	103
Using animation to mediate scientific discourse	101
Streptomyces polyketides mediate bacteria–fungi interactions across soil environments	101
Coronavirus sampling and surveillance in bats from 1996–2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis	101
SARS and synapses	100
Switching on cyclic di-GMP heterogeneity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	100
Placental Streptococcus agalactiae DNA is associated with neonatal unit admission and foetal pro-inflammatory cytokines in term infants	98
Combining antibiotics to tackle antimicrobial resistance	97
SARS-CoV-2 infection induces pro-fibrotic and pro-thrombotic foam cell formation	97
Publisher Correction: Identification and structure of an extracellular contractile injection system from the marine bacterium Algoriphagus machipongonensis	97
Dietary fibre counters the oncogenic potential of colibactin-producing Escherichia coli in colorectal cancer	97
Publisher Correction: 2021 in review	97
Parasite and vector circadian clocks mediate efficient malaria transmission	96
Non-canonical start codons confer context-dependent advantages in carbohydrate utilization for commensal E. coli in the murine gut	95

From farm to factory to fork	93
CryoEM reveals that ribosomes in microsporidian spores are locked in a dimeric hibernating state	93
Hunting emerging viruses through participatory community science	92
The gut–liver axis in HCV infection	92
Increased small particle aerosol transmission of B.1.1.7 compared with SARS-CoV-2 lineage A in vivo	91
Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals microbiome diversity across 48 tick species	90
Cell envelope diversity and evolution across the bacterial tree of life	89
Characterization of inositol lipid metabolism in gut-associated Bacteroidetes	89
A nitrogen-fixing bacterium forms symbioses on land and at sea	89
Outbreak dynamics of foodborne pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus over a seventeen year period implies hidden reservoirs	88
Phages with a broad host range are common across ecosystems	88
Self-assembling viral histones are evolutionary intermediates between archaeal and eukaryotic nucleosomes	88
Mycobacterium tuberculosis as teacher	87