| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Microbial Biofilms | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1995 | 4,494 |
| 2 | Quorum Sensing in Bacteria | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2001 | 4,088 |
| 3 | The Growth of Bacterial Cultures | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1949 | 3,608 |
| 4 | Plant-Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2009 | 3,036 |
| 5 | Bacterial Biofilms in Nature and Disease | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1987 | 2,864 |
| 6 | Biofilm Formation as Microbial Development | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2000 | 2,842 |
| 7 | Biofilms as Complex Differentiated Communities | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2002 | 2,485 |
| 8 | Enzymatic "Combustion": The Microbial Degradation of Lignin | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1987 | 2,425 |
| 9 | Microbial Ecology of the Gastrointestinal Tract | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1977 | 2,109 |
| 10 | Flavivirus Genome Organization, Expression, and Replication | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1990 | 1,829 |
| 11 | Pathways of Oxidative Damage | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2003 | 1,813 |
| 12 | Persister Cells | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2010 | 1,768 |
| 13 | The Uncultured Microbial Majority | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2003 | 1,679 |
| 14 | Cell Wall Chemistry, Morphogenesis, and Taxonomy of Fungi | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1968 | 1,538 |
| 15 | Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane: Progress with an Unknown Process | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2009 | 1,405 |
| 16 | Bacterial Biofilms: An Emerging Link to Disease Pathogenesis | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2003 | 1,362 |
| 17 | RNA VIRUS MUTATIONS AND FITNESS FOR SURVIVAL | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1997 | 1,335 |
| 18 | Iron Metabolism in Pathogenic Bacteria | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2000 | 1,305 |
| 19 | Measurement of in Situ Activities of Nonphotosynthetic Microorganisms in Aquatic and Terrestrial Habitats | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1985 | 1,267 |
| 20 | Biological Functions and Biogenesis of Secreted Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2010 | 1,190 |
| 21 | Pathogenicity Islands and the Evolution of Microbes | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2000 | 1,167 |
| 22 | Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria: A Model for Molecular Microbial Ecology | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2001 | 1,143 |
| 23 | Wolbachia Pipientis: Microbial Manipulator of Arthropod Reproduction | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1999 | 1,136 |
| 24 | BACTERIAL HEAVY METAL RESISTANCE: New Surprises | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1996 | 1,129 |
| 25 | (p)ppGpp: Still Magical? | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2008 | 1,096 |
| 26 | CENSUS AND CONSENSUS IN BACTERIAL ECOSYSTEMS: The LuxR-LuxI Family of Quorum-Sensing Transcriptional Regulators | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1996 | 1,095 |
| 27 | TRANSLATIONAL REGULATION OFGCN4AND THE GENERAL AMINO ACID CONTROL OF YEAST | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2005 | 1,091 |
| 28 | Type IV Pili and Twitching Motility | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2002 | 1,059 |
| 29 | MSCRAMM-Mediated Adherence of Microorganisms to Host Tissues | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1994 | 1,049 |
| 30 | Molecular Biology of the LysR Family of Transcriptional Regulators | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1993 | 1,042 |
| 31 | Horizontal Gene Transfer in Prokaryotes: Quantification and Classification | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2001 | 1,024 |
| 32 | Enzyme Recruitment in Evolution of New Function | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1976 | 1,001 |
| 33 | Bacteriocins: Evolution, Ecology, and Application | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2002 | 1,000 |
| 34 | The Bacterial Glycocalyx in Nature and Disease | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1981 | 998 |
| 35 | Curli Biogenesis and Function | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2006 | 987 |
| 36 | Bacterial Adherence in Oral Microbial Ecology | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1975 | 947 |
| 37 | Phototrophic Prokaryotes: The Cyanobacteria | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1977 | 939 |
| 38 | Microbial Ecology and Evolution: A Ribosomal RNA Approach | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1986 | 934 |
| 39 | Bacterial Biocatalysts: Molecular Biology, Three-Dimensional Structures, and Biotechnological Applications of Lipases | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1999 | 927 |
| 40 | Anthrax | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2001 | 926 |
| 41 | THE β-KETOADIPATE PATHWAY AND THE BIOLOGY OF SELF-IDENTITY | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1996 | 915 |
| 42 | Bistability, Epigenetics, and Bet-Hedging in Bacteria | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2008 | 907 |
| 43 | Bacterial Iron Sources: From Siderophores to Hemophores | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2004 | 901 |
| 44 | Viruses and Interferons | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2001 | 887 |
| 45 | Dissimilatory Metal Reduction | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1993 | 885 |
| 46 | BIOLOGY OF BACTERIOCYTE-ASSOCIATED ENDOSYMBIONTS OF PLANT SAP-SUCKING INSECTS | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2005 | 882 |
| 47 | How Bacteria Assemble Flagella | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2003 | 868 |
| 48 | Multiple Sigma Subunits and the Partitioning of Bacterial Transcription Space | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2003 | 864 |
| 49 | Translational Initiation in Prokaryotes | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1981 | 850 |
| 50 | Iron and Manganese in Anaerobic Respiration: Environmental Significance, Physiology, and Regulation | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1994 | 845 |
