OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Microbiology is 88. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Gene–drug potency screening in M. tuberculosis	577
Sickle cell trait enhances malaria transmission	373
Metabolic sensing tips the balance of drug tolerance in fungal meningitis	282
Author Correction: DART takes aim at community editing	270
Rebound virus in the cerebrospinal fluid reveals a possible HIV-1 reservoir	260
Molecular factors shaping whether HCMV infection is productive or latent	260
Horizontal gene transfer explains unusual traits of Armillaria fungi	254
Dietary exclusion of major food groups shapes the gut microbiome and may influence health	224
Structure of a functional archaellum in Bacteria of the Chloroflexota phylum	214
Cytoplasmic contractile injection systems mediate cell death in Streptomyces	211
The structure of the complete extracellular bacterial flagellum reveals the mechanism of flagellin incorporation	210
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein O-phosphorylation landscape	202
Candida albicans extracellular vesicles trigger type I IFN signalling via cGAS and STING	197
Proteins containing photosynthetic reaction centre domains modulate FtsZ-based archaeal cell division	186
Recent gene selection and drug resistance underscore clinical adaptation across Candida species	182
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection-induced epithelial trained immunity impacts urinary tract disease outcome	178
Aspergillus fumigatus dsRNA virus promotes fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host	177
Flipping the magic switch to persistence via GTP depletion	173
Explainable artificial intelligence evolves antimicrobial peptides	168
The Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis via iron sequestration	160
Microbiome association with coral growth and survival	158
Double-stranded RNA sequencing reveals distinct riboviruses associated with thermoacidophilic bacteria from hot springs in Japan	157
The fast-evolving FIKK kinase family of Plasmodium falciparum can be inhibited by a single compound	157
Climate extremes disrupt fungal–bacterial interactions	155
Assessing critical thresholds in terrestrial microbiomes	154

Mechanistic basis for potent neutralization of Sin Nombre hantavirus by a human monoclonal antibody	153
Mosquitoes provide a transmission route between possums and humans for Buruli ulcer in southeastern Australia	152
OPENPichia: licence-free Komagataella phaffii chassis strains and toolkit for protein expression	148
A high-throughput and low-waste viability assay for microbes	145
Host range, transmissibility and antigenicity of a pangolin coronavirus	144
Organ-on-chip models for infectious disease research	142
Ancient origin and constrained evolution of the division and cell wall gene cluster in Bacteria	142
A dynamic subpopulation of CRISPR–Cas overexpressers allows Streptococcus pyogenes to rapidly respond to phage	140
Single mutation makes Escherichia coli an insect mutualist	135
Mycobacterium abscessus pathogenesis identified by phenogenomic analyses	134
The IFIT2–IFIT3 antiviral complex targets short 5’ untranslated regions on viral mRNAs for translation inhibition	134
Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections	134
Prodrug florfenicol amine is activated by intrinsic resistance to target Mycobacterium abscessus	133
Therapeutic efficacy of monoclonal antibodies and antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 in Syrian hamsters	131
Integrated host-microbe plasma metagenomics for sepsis diagnosis in a prospective cohort of critically ill adults	130
Particular genomic and virulence traits associated with preterm infant-derived toxigenic Clostridium perfringens strains	130
Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and type III secretion spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection	129
Exceeding expectations out in the cold with Colwellia	129
Publisher Correction: Breastfeeding promotes bifidobacterial immunomodulatory metabolites	127
Mineral-eating microorganisms at extinct hydrothermal vents	127
CRISPR-influenced symbiosis	127
Prioritizing mentorship	122
Call for papers on the clinical microbiome	119
Blockade of endothelin receptors mitigates SARS-CoV-2-induced osteoarthritis	118
Bacteroides fragilis uses toxins for gut success	118
Extracellular vesicles block viral entryways	114
Synthesis of lipid-linked precursors of the bacterial cell wall is governed by a feedback control mechanism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	113
Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus induces mitochondrial fission to evade host immune responses and promote viral production	112
Intragenic viral silencer element regulates HTLV-1 latency via RUNX complex recruitment	112
Risk–reward trade-off during carbon starvation generates dichotomy in motility endurance among marine bacteria	112
SAMPL-seq reveals micron-scale spatial hubs in the human gut microbiome	112
Rational attenuation of RNA viruses with zinc finger antiviral protein	111
Dietary- and host-derived metabolites are used by diverse gut bacteria for anaerobic respiration	110
Decoding the impact of nuclear organization on antigenic variation in parasites	109
Transforming tuberculosis diagnosis	106
Archaeal symbioses all the way down	105
The complex path towards herpesvirus vaccines	105
Streptomyces polyketides mediate bacteria–fungi interactions across soil environments	104
Neutralization mechanism of a human antibody with pan-coronavirus reactivity including SARS-CoV-2	103
Expanding known viral diversity in the healthy infant gut	102
Coronavirus sampling and surveillance in bats from 1996–2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis	102
Switching on cyclic di-GMP heterogeneity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	102
SARS and synapses	101
Placental Streptococcus agalactiae DNA is associated with neonatal unit admission and foetal pro-inflammatory cytokines in term infants	100
Publisher Correction: Identification and structure of an extracellular contractile injection system from the marine bacterium Algoriphagus machipongonensis	99
Publisher Correction: 2021 in review	99
From farm to factory to fork	98
CryoEM reveals that ribosomes in microsporidian spores are locked in a dimeric hibernating state	98
SARS-CoV-2 infection induces pro-fibrotic and pro-thrombotic foam cell formation	97
Mycobacterium tuberculosis as teacher	97

A nitrogen-fixing bacterium forms symbioses on land and at sea	96
Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals microbiome diversity across 48 tick species	96
The gut–liver axis in HCV infection	94
Connecting microbiome and menopause for healthy ageing	94
Hunting emerging viruses through participatory community science	94
Sensitive poliovirus detection using nested PCR and nanopore sequencing: a prospective validation study	93
Therapeutics for COVID-19	92
Using animation to mediate scientific discourse	91
Phages with a broad host range are common across ecosystems	91
Parasite and vector circadian clocks mediate efficient malaria transmission	91
Self-assembling viral histones are evolutionary intermediates between archaeal and eukaryotic nucleosomes	90
An expanded metabolic pathway for androgen production by commensal bacteria	89
Anoxia activates CRISPR–Cas immunity in the mouse intestine	89
Combining antibiotics to tackle antimicrobial resistance	88
Plasmodium falciparum resistant to artemisinin and diagnostics have emerged in Ethiopia	88