OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Microbiology is 86. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Metabolic sensing tips the balance of drug tolerance in fungal meningitis	626
Rebound virus in the cerebrospinal fluid reveals a possible HIV-1 reservoir	434
Molecular factors shaping whether HCMV infection is productive or latent	377
Flipping the magic switch to persistence via GTP depletion	345
Prodrug florfenicol amine is activated by intrinsic resistance to target Mycobacterium abscessus	310
Salmonella-derived haem inhibits macrophage phagocytosis and promotes infection in mice	242
Mosquitoes provide a transmission route between possums and humans for Buruli ulcer in southeastern Australia	241
Climate extremes disrupt fungal–bacterial interactions	215
Therapeutic efficacy of monoclonal antibodies and antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 in Syrian hamsters	210
The fast-evolving FIKK kinase family of Plasmodium falciparum can be inhibited by a single compound	208
A phosphotransferase system promotes growth of zoonotic Streptococcus species in the brain	203
Gut microbial enzymes shape the health benefits of dietary phytonutrients	197
Explainable artificial intelligence evolves antimicrobial peptides	197
Proteins containing photosynthetic reaction centre domains modulate FtsZ-based archaeal cell division	196
Double recombinant nOPV2 vaccine	191
Mechanistic basis for potent neutralization of Sin Nombre hantavirus by a human monoclonal antibody	190
Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections	188
Ancient origin and constrained evolution of the division and cell wall gene cluster in Bacteria	184
A dynamic subpopulation of CRISPR–Cas overexpressers allows Streptococcus pyogenes to rapidly respond to phage	183
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein O-phosphorylation landscape	173
Single mutation makes Escherichia coli an insect mutualist	173
Assessing critical thresholds in terrestrial microbiomes	171
The structure of the complete extracellular bacterial flagellum reveals the mechanism of flagellin incorporation	171
Horizontal gene transfer explains unusual traits of Armillaria fungi	169
Microbiome association with coral growth and survival	164

Sickle cell trait enhances malaria transmission	163
Dietary exclusion of major food groups shapes the gut microbiome and may influence health	159
A high-throughput and low-waste viability assay for microbes	151
Host range, transmissibility and antigenicity of a pangolin coronavirus	150
Particular genomic and virulence traits associated with preterm infant-derived toxigenic Clostridium perfringens strains	149
Organ-on-chip models for infectious disease research	148
Cytoplasmic contractile injection systems mediate cell death in Streptomyces	144
Mycobacterium abscessus pathogenesis identified by phenogenomic analyses	143
Integrated host-microbe plasma metagenomics for sepsis diagnosis in a prospective cohort of critically ill adults	142
Bridging classical and continuous directed evolution	141
The IFIT2–IFIT3 antiviral complex targets short 5’ untranslated regions on viral mRNAs for translation inhibition	139
Wall teichoic acids regulate peptidoglycan synthesis to maintain rod shape in Bacillus subtilis	139
Aspergillus fumigatus dsRNA virus promotes fungal fitness and pathogenicity in the mammalian host	138
Candida albicans extracellular vesicles trigger type I IFN signalling via cGAS and STING	134
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection-induced epithelial trained immunity impacts urinary tract disease outcome	133
The Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis via iron sequestration	131
Recent gene selection and drug resistance underscore clinical adaptation across Candida species	127
OPENPichia: licence-free Komagataella phaffii chassis strains and toolkit for protein expression	126
Structure of a functional archaellum in Bacteria of the Chloroflexota phylum	125
Sulfated bile acid produced by a human gut commensal alleviates paediatric sepsis in mice	124
CRISPR-influenced symbiosis	123
Mineral-eating microorganisms at extinct hydrothermal vents	123
Double-stranded RNA sequencing reveals distinct riboviruses associated with thermoacidophilic bacteria from hot springs in Japan	123
Prioritizing mentorship	122
Call for papers on the clinical microbiome	121
Blockade of endothelin receptors mitigates SARS-CoV-2-induced osteoarthritis	120
Extracellular vesicles block viral entryways	119
Archaeal symbioses all the way down	117
Bacteroides fragilis uses toxins for gut success	116
The complex path towards herpesvirus vaccines	116
Neutralization mechanism of a human antibody with pan-coronavirus reactivity including SARS-CoV-2	116
Rational attenuation of RNA viruses with zinc finger antiviral protein	115
Structure-guided design of a synthetic bile acid that inhibits Clostridioides difficile TcdB toxin	115
Coronavirus sampling and surveillance in bats from 1996–2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis	113
Decoding the impact of nuclear organization on antigenic variation in parasites	111
Dietary- and host-derived metabolites are used by diverse gut bacteria for anaerobic respiration	111
Candida auris skin tropism and antifungal resistance are mediated by carbonic anhydrase Nce103	110
Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and type III secretion spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection	109
Risk–reward trade-off during carbon starvation generates dichotomy in motility endurance among marine bacteria	107
Microbial collagenase activity is linked to oral–gut translocation in advanced chronic liver disease	107
Exceeding expectations out in the cold with Colwellia	106
Nuclease–NTPase antiphage defence systems use conserved molecular features to control bacterial immunity	106
Host factors dictate gut microbiome alterations in chronic kidney disease more strongly than kidney function	106
Synthesis of lipid-linked precursors of the bacterial cell wall is governed by a feedback control mechanism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	104
Intragenic viral silencer element regulates HTLV-1 latency via RUNX complex recruitment	102
Skin androgens regulate Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity via quorum sensing	102
Initial sites of SIV rebound after antiretroviral treatment cessation in rhesus macaques	99
Author Correction: A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data	99
Expanding known viral diversity in the healthy infant gut	98
SAMPL-seq reveals micron-scale spatial hubs in the human gut microbiome	98

Transforming tuberculosis diagnosis	98
Plasmids promote antimicrobial resistance through insertion sequence-mediated gene inactivation	98
Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus induces mitochondrial fission to evade host immune responses and promote viral production	97
Benchmarking of shotgun sequencing depth reveals the potential and limitations of shallow metagenomics and strain-level analysis	95
Streptomyces polyketides mediate bacteria–fungi interactions across soil environments	94
Placental Streptococcus agalactiae DNA is associated with neonatal unit admission and foetal pro-inflammatory cytokines in term infants	93
The gut–liver axis in HCV infection	92
Non-canonical start codons confer context-dependent advantages in carbohydrate utilization for commensal E. coli in the murine gut	91
Characterization of inositol lipid metabolism in gut-associated Bacteroidetes	88
Voices of our past editors	87
From farm to factory to fork	87