OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of mSystems is 49. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-11-01 to 2023-11-01.)

Article	Citations
SARS-CoV-2 Titers in Wastewater Are Higher than Expected from Clinically Confirmed Cases	460
2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Built Environment Considerations To Reduce Transmission	245
SARS-CoV-2 and ORF3a: Nonsynonymous Mutations, Functional Domains, and Viral Pathogenesis	169
Depletion of Blautia Species in the Microbiota of Obese Children Relates to Intestinal Inflammation and Metabolic Phenotype Worsening	164
phyloFlash: Rapid Small-Subunit rRNA Profiling and Targeted Assembly from Metagenomes	142
Gut Microbiota and Metabolome Alterations Associated with Parkinson’s Disease	132
Consistent Metagenome-Derived Metrics Verify and Delineate Bacterial Species Boundaries	108
MICOM: Metagenome-Scale Modeling To Infer Metabolic Interactions in the Gut Microbiota	106
Association of Flavonifractor plautii, a Flavonoid-Degrading Bacterium, with the Gut Microbiome of Colorectal Cancer Patients in India	97
High-Throughput Wastewater SARS-CoV-2 Detection Enables Forecasting of Community Infection Dynamics in San Diego County	87
Oscillations in U.S. COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality Data Reflect Diagnostic and Reporting Factors	86
Precise Species Identification for Enterobacter : a Genome Sequence-Based Study with Reporting of Two Novel Species, Enterobacter quasiroggenkampii	85
Integrated Meta-omics Approaches To Understand the Microbiome of Spontaneous Fermentation of Traditional Chinese Pu-erh Tea	80
Deciphering the Structural Diversity and Classification of the Mobile Tigecycline Resistance Gene tet (X)-Bearing Plasmidome among Bacteria	80
Rapid, Large-Scale Wastewater Surveillance and Automated Reporting System Enable Early Detection of Nearly 85% of COVID-19 Cases on a University Campus	77
Soil Microbial Biogeography in a Changing World: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives	75
Soil Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Cycling Microbial Populations and Their Resistance to Global Change Depend on Soil C:N:P Stoichiometry	74
Coupling Bacterial Community Assembly to Microbial Metabolism across Soil Profiles	73
Shotgun Metagenomics of Gut Microbiota in Humans with up to Extreme Longevity and the Increasing Role of Xenobiotic Degradation	71
Fermented-Food Metagenomics Reveals Substrate-Associated Differences in Taxonomy and Health-Associated and Antibiotic Resistance Determinants	70
Phylogenetic Distribution of Plastic-Degrading Microorganisms	69
Quantitative Models of Phage-Antibiotic Combination Therapy	67
Genome- and Community-Level Interaction Insights into Carbon Utilization and Element Cycling Functions of Hydrothermarchaeota in Hydrothermal Sediment	66
Linking Bacterial-Fungal Relationships to Microbial Diversity and Soil Nutrient Cycling	66
Bactopia: a Flexible Pipeline for Complete Analysis of Bacterial Genomes	65

Space Is More Important than Season when Shaping Soil Microbial Communities at a Large Spatial Scale	62
Human Skin, Oral, and Gut Microbiomes Predict Chronological Age	62
Complementary Roles of Wood-Inhabiting Fungi and Bacteria Facilitate Deadwood Decomposition	61
Early-Life Immune System Maturation in Chickens Using a Synthetic Community of Cultured Gut Bacteria	61
Validating the Cyc2 Neutrophilic Iron Oxidation Pathway Using Meta-omics of Zetaproteobacteria Iron Mats at Marine Hydrothermal Vents	59
Administration of Exogenous Melatonin Improves the Diurnal Rhythms of the Gut Microbiota in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet	58
Consumption of Fermented Foods Is Associated with Systematic Differences in the Gut Microbiome and Metabolome	57
Short-Chain Fatty Acid-Producing Gut Microbiota Is Decreased in Parkinson’s Disease but Not in Rapid-Eye-Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder	56
High-Frequency, High-Throughput Quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Wastewater Settled Solids at Eight Publicly Owned Treatment Works in Northern California Shows Strong Association with COVID-19 Inci	55
Abundant and Diverse RNA Viruses in Insects Revealed by RNA-Seq Analysis: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications	55
The Gut Microbial Diversity of Newly Diagnosed Diabetics but Not of Prediabetics Is Significantly Different from That of Healthy Nondiabetics	55
Spatial Variation in Soil Fungal Communities across Paddy Fields in Subtropical China	53
Energetic Basis of Microbial Growth and Persistence in Desert Ecosystems	53
Comparative Genomic Analysis of Rapidly Evolving SARS-CoV-2 Reveals Mosaic Pattern of Phylogeographical Distribution	53
High-Fiber, Whole-Food Dietary Intervention Alters the Human Gut Microbiome but Not Fecal Short-Chain Fatty Acids	53
Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals under Investigation for COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment	53
RRE-Finder: a Genome-Mining Tool for Class-Independent RiPP Discovery	52
Dominant Bacterial Phyla from the Human Gut Show Widespread Ability To Transform and Conjugate Bile Acids	51
Alterations in the Gut Microbiome in the Progression of Cirrhosis to Hepatocellular Carcinoma	51
Pivotal Roles for pH, Lactate, and Lactate-Utilizing Bacteria in the Stability of a Human Colonic Microbial Ecosystem	51
Correlations between α-Linolenic Acid-Improved Multitissue Homeostasis and Gut Microbiota in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet	50
Genome-Resolved Metagenomics Reveals Distinct Phosphorus Acquisition Strategies between Soil Microbiomes	50
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Is Associated with Reduced Dynamics of Gut Microbiota during the First Half of Pregnancy	50
Oral Microbiome Alterations Associated with Early Childhood Caries Highlight the Importance of Carbohydrate Metabolic Activities	49