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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Gene–drug potency screening in M. tuberculosis	582
Sickle cell trait enhances malaria transmission	383
Metabolic sensing tips the balance of drug tolerance in fungal meningitis	288
Author Correction: DART takes aim at community editing	280
Rebound virus in the cerebrospinal fluid reveals a possible HIV-1 reservoir	269
Molecular factors shaping whether HCMV infection is productive or latent	267
Dietary exclusion of major food groups shapes the gut microbiome and may influence health	266
The IFIT2–IFIT3 antiviral complex targets short 5’ untranslated regions on viral mRNAs for translation inhibition	250
Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections	221
Prodrug florfenicol amine is activated by intrinsic resistance to target Mycobacterium abscessus	215
Flipping the magic switch to persistence via GTP depletion	214
Microbiome association with coral growth and survival	213
Aspergillus fumigatus dsRNA virus promotes fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host	198
Mosquitoes provide a transmission route between possums and humans for Buruli ulcer in southeastern Australia	190
Structure of a functional archaellum in Bacteria of the Chloroflexota phylum	190
Double-stranded RNA sequencing reveals distinct riboviruses associated with thermoacidophilic bacteria from hot springs in Japan	186
Cytoplasmic contractile injection systems mediate cell death in Streptomyces	182
Mechanistic basis for potent neutralization of Sin Nombre hantavirus by a human monoclonal antibody	182
The structure of the complete extracellular bacterial flagellum reveals the mechanism of flagellin incorporation	176
Host range, transmissibility and antigenicity of a pangolin coronavirus	166
Horizontal gene transfer explains unusual traits of Armillaria fungi	164
Single mutation makes Escherichia coli an insect mutualist	164
The Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis via iron sequestration	162
A high-throughput and low-waste viability assay for microbes	161
Integrated host-microbe plasma metagenomics for sepsis diagnosis in a prospective cohort of critically ill adults	161

The Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein O-phosphorylation landscape	160
Ancient origin and constrained evolution of the division and cell wall gene cluster in Bacteria	159
Organ-on-chip models for infectious disease research	156
Candida albicans extracellular vesicles trigger type I IFN signalling via cGAS and STING	152
A dynamic subpopulation of CRISPR–Cas overexpressers allows Streptococcus pyogenes to rapidly respond to phage	150
Recent gene selection and drug resistance underscore clinical adaptation across Candida species	148
Therapeutic efficacy of monoclonal antibodies and antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 in Syrian hamsters	146
Climate extremes disrupt fungal–bacterial interactions	146
OPENPichia: licence-free Komagataella phaffii chassis strains and toolkit for protein expression	144
The fast-evolving FIKK kinase family of Plasmodium falciparum can be inhibited by a single compound	140
Proteins containing photosynthetic reaction centre domains modulate FtsZ-based archaeal cell division	139
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection-induced epithelial trained immunity impacts urinary tract disease outcome	137
Particular genomic and virulence traits associated with preterm infant-derived toxigenic Clostridium perfringens strains	137
Assessing critical thresholds in terrestrial microbiomes	136
Explainable artificial intelligence evolves antimicrobial peptides	134
Mycobacterium abscessus pathogenesis identified by phenogenomic analyses	133
Exceeding expectations out in the cold with Colwellia	132
CRISPR-influenced symbiosis	130
Mineral-eating microorganisms at extinct hydrothermal vents	130
Prioritizing mentorship	129
Call for papers on the clinical microbiome	126
Rational attenuation of RNA viruses with zinc finger antiviral protein	123
Bacteroides fragilis uses toxins for gut success	122
Synthesis of lipid-linked precursors of the bacterial cell wall is governed by a feedback control mechanism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	120
Archaeal symbioses all the way down	117
Extracellular vesicles block viral entryways	117
Author Correction: A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data	117
The complex path towards herpesvirus vaccines	116
Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and type III secretion spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection	116
Risk–reward trade-off during carbon starvation generates dichotomy in motility endurance among marine bacteria	115
Intragenic viral silencer element regulates HTLV-1 latency via RUNX complex recruitment	114
Decoding the impact of nuclear organization on antigenic variation in parasites	114
Neutralization mechanism of a human antibody with pan-coronavirus reactivity including SARS-CoV-2	113
Streptomyces polyketides mediate bacteria–fungi interactions across soil environments	111
Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus induces mitochondrial fission to evade host immune responses and promote viral production	109
Blockade of endothelin receptors mitigates SARS-CoV-2-induced osteoarthritis	108
Dietary- and host-derived metabolites are used by diverse gut bacteria for anaerobic respiration	107
Coronavirus sampling and surveillance in bats from 1996–2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis	107
Transforming tuberculosis diagnosis	106
Expanding known viral diversity in the healthy infant gut	106
SAMPL-seq reveals micron-scale spatial hubs in the human gut microbiome	105
Structure-guided design of a synthetic bile acid that inhibits Clostridioides difficile TcdB toxin	104
SARS and synapses	102
Switching on cyclic di-GMP heterogeneity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	102
Placental Streptococcus agalactiae DNA is associated with neonatal unit admission and foetal pro-inflammatory cytokines in term infants	102
Publisher Correction: Identification and structure of an extracellular contractile injection system from the marine bacterium Algoriphagus machipongonensis	100
Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals microbiome diversity across 48 tick species	100
From farm to factory to fork	100
SARS-CoV-2 infection induces pro-fibrotic and pro-thrombotic foam cell formation	100
Mycobacterium tuberculosis as teacher	100

A nitrogen-fixing bacterium forms symbioses on land and at sea	99
Precipitation legacy effects on soil microbiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants	98
The gut–liver axis in HCV infection	96
Using animation to mediate scientific discourse	96
Hunting emerging viruses through participatory community science	96
Non-canonical start codons confer context-dependent advantages in carbohydrate utilization for commensal E. coli in the murine gut	94
CryoEM reveals that ribosomes in microsporidian spores are locked in a dimeric hibernating state	92
Parasite and vector circadian clocks mediate efficient malaria transmission	91
Cell envelope diversity and evolution across the bacterial tree of life	91
Characterization of inositol lipid metabolism in gut-associated Bacteroidetes	91
Species- and site-specific genome editing in complex bacterial communities	90
Connecting microbiome and menopause for healthy ageing	89
Bacteriophages avoid autoimmunity from cognate immune systems as an intrinsic part of their life cycles	88
An expanded metabolic pathway for androgen production by commensal bacteria	88