OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of mSphere is 27. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Comprehensive analysis of repetitive extragenic palindrome sequences identified in bacteria and archaea using a new web-based tool, RepRanger	141
Vaborbactam increases meropenem susceptibility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates displaying MexXY and AmpC upregulation	62
Natural Competence in the Filamentous, Heterocystous Cyanobacterium Chlorogloeopsis fritschii PCC 6912	55
A dual-mechanism antimicrobial peptide with antimutagenic activity targets the replisome and induces cell envelope stress	52
Virulent Brucella nosferati infecting Desmodus rotundus has emerging potential due to the broad foraging range of its bat host for humans	41
Taxonomic and functional assembly cues enrich the endophytic tobacco microbiota across epiphytic compartments	41
The Lipid Raft-Associated Protein Stomatin Is Required for Accumulation of Dectin-1 in the Phagosomal Membrane and for Full Activity of Macrophages against Aspergillus fumigatus	38
Advanced genetic techniques in fungal pathogen research	38
Transcriptional and metabolic modeling analyses of developing Aspergillus fumigatus biofilms reveal metabolic shifts required for biofilm maturation	38
Preceding Host History of Conjugative Resistance Plasmids Affects Intra- and Interspecific Transfer Potential from Biofilm	38
Mycothione reductase as a potential target in the fight against Mycobacterium abscessus infections	38
Neutrophil prime unique transcriptional responses in intestinal organoids during infection with nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica serovars	37
Large-Scale Evaluation of a Rapid Fully Automated Analysis Platform to Detect and Refute Outbreaks Based on MRSA Genome Comparisons	36
The complete genome sequence of the crayfish pathogen Candidatus Paracoxiella cheracis n.g. n.sp. provides insight into pathogenesis and the phylogeny of the Coxiellacea	36
Structural determination of Rickettsia lipid A without chemical extraction confirms shorter acyl chains in later-evolving spotted fever group pathogens	35
mSphere of Influence: Pertussis Vaccination and Antibodies in Mothers and Infants	34
Comparison of O-specific polysaccharide responses in patients following infection with Vibrio cholerae O139 versus vaccination with a bivalent (O1/O139) oral killed chol	33
Straining to define a healthy microbiome	32
Comparative genomic and phenotypic analysis of potential beneficial properties of Bifidobacterium adolescentis	31
The multidrug efflux pump regulator AcrR directly represses motility in Escherichia coli	30
Single-spore germination analyses reveal that calcium released during Clostridioides difficile germination functions in a feedforward loop	30
Association between Pregestational Vaginal Dysbiosis and Incident Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Risk: a Nested Case-Control Study	30
Endosymbiosis in trypanosomatids: the bacterium regulates the intermediate and oxidative metabolism of the host cell	29
Biological Microbial Interactions from Cooccurrence Networks in a High Mountain Lacustrine District	28
miR-451a Regulates Neuronal Apoptosis by Modulating 14-3-3ζ-JNK Axis upon Flaviviral Infection	27

Toward a deeper understanding of dengue: novel method for quantification and isolation of envelope protein epitope-specific antibodies	27
Dynamics and quantitative contribution of the aminoglycoside 6′- N -acetyltransferase type Ib to amikacin resistance	27
CTG clade-specific proteins of the RSC chromatin-remodeling complex regulate cell cycle progression of a critical priority fungal pathogen, Candida albicans	27
Deep metagenomic characterization of the gut virome in pregnant women with preeclampsia	27