OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Microbiology is 83. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Rebound virus in the cerebrospinal fluid reveals a possible HIV-1 reservoir	519
Assessing critical thresholds in terrestrial microbiomes	385
Recent gene selection and drug resistance underscore clinical adaptation across Candida species	338
The Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis via iron sequestration	316
Sickle cell trait enhances malaria transmission	310
Metabolic sensing tips the balance of drug tolerance in fungal meningitis	295
Author Correction: MX2-mediated innate immunity against HIV-1 is regulated by serine phosphorylation	263
Gene–drug potency screening in M. tuberculosis	252
Author Correction: DART takes aim at community editing	244
Molecular factors shaping whether HCMV infection is productive or latent	224
Climate extremes disrupt fungal–bacterial interactions	213
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection-induced epithelial trained immunity impacts urinary tract disease outcome	210
Dietary exclusion of major food groups shapes the gut microbiome and may influence health	202
Explainable artificial intelligence evolves antimicrobial peptides	199
Proteins containing photosynthetic reaction centre domains modulate FtsZ-based archaeal cell division	186
Horizontal gene transfer explains unusual traits of Armillaria fungi	178
Particular genomic and virulence traits associated with preterm infant-derived toxigenic Clostridium perfringens strains	176
OPENPichia: licence-free Komagataella phaffii chassis strains and toolkit for protein expression	174
Double-stranded RNA sequencing reveals distinct riboviruses associated with thermoacidophilic bacteria from hot springs in Japan	164
A dynamic subpopulation of CRISPR–Cas overexpressers allows Streptococcus pyogenes to rapidly respond to phage	158
Integrated host-microbe plasma metagenomics for sepsis diagnosis in a prospective cohort of critically ill adults	151
Host range, transmissibility and antigenicity of a pangolin coronavirus	149
Mechanistic basis for potent neutralization of Sin Nombre hantavirus by a human monoclonal antibody	149
Cytoplasmic contractile injection systems mediate cell death in Streptomyces	148
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein O-phosphorylation landscape	140

Mycobacterium abscessus pathogenesis identified by phenogenomic analyses	139
Therapeutic efficacy of monoclonal antibodies and antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 in Syrian hamsters	139
Single mutation makes Escherichia coli an insect mutualist	138
Mosquitoes provide a transmission route between possums and humans for Buruli ulcer in southeastern Australia	138
Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the human gut microbiome	136
Appressorium-mediated plant infection by Magnaporthe oryzae is regulated by a Pmk1-dependent hierarchical transcriptional network	135
Ancient origin and constrained evolution of the division and cell wall gene cluster in Bacteria	134
Candida albicans extracellular vesicles trigger type I IFN signalling via cGAS and STING	133
Tracking bacterial lineages in complex and dynamic environments with applications for growth control and persistence	132
Organ-on-chip models for infectious disease research	129
A high-throughput and low-waste viability assay for microbes	127
Exceeding expectations out in the cold with Colwellia	124
Prioritizing mentorship	122
Identification of Tse8 as a Type VI secretion system toxin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa that targets the bacterial transamidosome to inhibit protein synthesis in prey cells	120
Blockade of endothelin receptors mitigates SARS-CoV-2-induced osteoarthritis	117
Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and type III secretion spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection	114
Extracellular vesicles block viral entryways	114
CRISPR-influenced symbiosis	113
Rational attenuation of RNA viruses with zinc finger antiviral protein	111
Publisher Correction: Fungal biology: Fungal spores are future-proofed	111
Synthesis of lipid-linked precursors of the bacterial cell wall is governed by a feedback control mechanism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	110
Regulators unite to enable plant entry	110
Mineral-eating microorganisms at extinct hydrothermal vents	109
Publisher Correction: Breastfeeding promotes bifidobacterial immunomodulatory metabolites	109
Coronavirus sampling and surveillance in bats from 1996–2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis	106
Decoding the impact of nuclear organization on antigenic variation in parasites	106
Neutralization mechanism of a human antibody with pan-coronavirus reactivity including SARS-CoV-2	106
Streptomyces polyketides mediate bacteria–fungi interactions across soil environments	105
Dietary- and host-derived metabolites are used by diverse gut bacteria for anaerobic respiration	103
SAMPL-seq reveals micron-scale spatial hubs in the human gut microbiome	103
Transforming tuberculosis diagnosis	101
Expanding known viral diversity in the healthy infant gut	100
Bacteroides fragilis uses toxins for gut success	100
Publisher Correction: Identification and structure of an extracellular contractile injection system from the marine bacterium Algoriphagus machipongonensis	99
Switching on cyclic di-GMP heterogeneity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms	98
CryoEM reveals that ribosomes in microsporidian spores are locked in a dimeric hibernating state	98
Mycobacterium tuberculosis as teacher	97
SARS and synapses	95
Placental Streptococcus agalactiae DNA is associated with neonatal unit admission and foetal pro-inflammatory cytokines in term infants	93
Combining antibiotics to tackle antimicrobial resistance	93
Publisher Correction: 2021 in review	93
Using animation to mediate scientific discourse	91
Cell envelope diversity and evolution across the bacterial tree of life	91
Bacteriophages avoid autoimmunity from cognate immune systems as an intrinsic part of their life cycles	91
Parasite and vector circadian clocks mediate efficient malaria transmission	90
Discovery of an orally active benzoxaborole prodrug effective in the treatment of Chagas disease in non-human primates	90
Dietary fibre counters the oncogenic potential of colibactin-producing Escherichia coli in colorectal cancer	89
Dynamic diel proteome and daytime nitrogenase activity supports buoyancy in the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium	89
Sensitive poliovirus detection using nested PCR and nanopore sequencing: a prospective validation study	89
Species- and site-specific genome editing in complex bacterial communities	88

Self-assembling viral histones are evolutionary intermediates between archaeal and eukaryotic nucleosomes	88
An expanded metabolic pathway for androgen production by commensal bacteria	87
Clinical implications of preterm infant gut microbiome development	85
Characterization of inositol lipid metabolism in gut-associated Bacteroidetes	85
Hunting emerging viruses through participatory community science	84
The gut–liver axis in HCV infection	84
Non-canonical start codons confer context-dependent advantages in carbohydrate utilization for commensal E. coli in the murine gut	84
Connecting microbiome and menopause for healthy ageing	83