OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of mSphere is 30. 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
Phylogenetic lineage dynamics of global parainfluenza virus type 3 post-COVID-19 pandemic	116
Human Milk Oligosaccharides versus Streptococcus: How a Human-Made Natural Product Protects Us from Pathogens	92
Comparison of O-specific polysaccharide responses in patients following infection with Vibrio cholerae O139 versus vaccination with a bivalent (O1/O139) oral killed chol	83
mSphere of Influence: Pertussis Vaccination and Antibodies in Mothers and Infants	79
Metatranscriptomic analysis of common mosquito vector species in the Canadian Prairies	68
Mycothione reductase as a potential target in the fight against Mycobacterium abscessus infections	65
Taxonomic and functional assembly cues enrich the endophytic tobacco microbiota across epiphytic compartments	62
Dynamics and quantitative contribution of the aminoglycoside 6′- N -acetyltransferase type Ib to amikacin resistance	56
Vaborbactam increases meropenem susceptibility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates displaying MexXY and AmpC upregulation	53
Association between Pregestational Vaginal Dysbiosis and Incident Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Risk: a Nested Case-Control Study	51
Deep metagenomic characterization of the gut virome in pregnant women with preeclampsia	51
Natural Competence in the Filamentous, Heterocystous Cyanobacterium Chlorogloeopsis fritschii PCC 6912	46
The Stickland Reaction Precursor trans -4-Hydroxy- l -Proline Differentially Impacts the Metabolism of Clostridioides difficile and Co	45
Neutrophil prime unique transcriptional responses in intestinal organoids during infection with nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica serovars	45
Single-spore germination analyses reveal that calcium released during Clostridioides difficile germination functions in a feedforward loop	43
Influenza Vaccination of Swine Reduces Public Health Risk at the Swine-Human Interface	43
Erratum for Markmann et al., “Sex Disparities and Neutralizing-Antibody Durability to SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Convalescent Individuals”	41
Predicted Functional and Structural Diversity of Receiver Domains in Fungal Two-Component Regulatory Systems	40
Control of Human Anelloviruses by Cytosine to Uracil Genome Editing	40
Antibacterial effectors in Dictyostelium discoideum : specific activity against different bacterial species	40
Cellular Management of Zinc in Group B Streptococcus Supports Bacterial Resistance against Metal Intoxication and Promotes Disseminated Infection	37
Large-Scale Evaluation of a Rapid Fully Automated Analysis Platform to Detect and Refute Outbreaks Based on MRSA Genome Comparisons	37
Structural determination of Rickettsia lipid A without chemical extraction confirms shorter acyl chains in later-evolving spotted fever group pathogens	36
The Cwr1 protein kinase localizes to the plasma membrane and mediates resistance to cell wall stress in Candida albicans	36
Biological Microbial Interactions from Cooccurrence Networks in a High Mountain Lacustrine District	35

Preceding Host History of Conjugative Resistance Plasmids Affects Intra- and Interspecific Transfer Potential from Biofilm	33
TgTKL4 Is a Novel Kinase That Plays an Important Role in Toxoplasma Morphology and Fitness	32
PUPpy: a primer design pipeline for substrain-level microbial detection and absolute quantification	31
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	31
Community organization and network complexity and stability: contrasting strategies of prokaryotic versus eukaryotic microbiomes in the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea	30
Toward a deeper understanding of dengue: novel method for quantification and isolation of envelope protein epitope-specific antibodies	30
ALIBY: ALFA Nanobody-Based Toolkit for Imaging and Biochemistry in Yeast	30