OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Apidologie is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Perspectives on hygienic behavior in Apis mellifera and other social insects	50
Response mechanisms to heat stress in bees	39
The stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini): a review of the current threats to their survival	38
Stingless bee honey (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini): a review of quality control, chemical profile, and biological potential	35
Capacity of honeybees to remove heavy metals from nectar and excrete the contaminants from their bodies	35
How diverse is the chemistry and plant origin of Brazilian propolis?	33
Scientific note: often quoted, but not factual data about propolis composition	30
Genetic past, present, and future of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) in the United States of America	25
Wide genetic diversity in Old World honey bees threaten by introgression	24
Changes in the wing-beat frequency of bees and wasps depending on environmental conditions: a study with optical sensors	19
Overview of the testing and assessment of effects of microbial pesticides on bees: strengths, challenges and perspectives	17
Nutrigenetic comparison of two Varroa-resistant honey bee stocks fed pollen and spirulina microalgae	16
How city traits affect taxonomic and functional diversity of urban wild bee communities: insights from a worldwide analysis	16
Thermoregulation in the large carpenter bee Xylocopa frontalis in the face of climate change in the Neotropics	15
Effects of late miticide treatments on foraging and colony productivity of European honey bees (Apis mellifera)	15
Elevated recapping behaviour and reduced Varroa destructor reproduction in natural Varroa resistant Apis mellifera honey bees from the UK	14
Temporal and spatial foraging patterns of three Asian honey bee species in Bangalore, India	14
Image recognition using convolutional neural networks for classification of honey bee subspecies	14
Acute toxicity of sublethal concentrations of thiacloprid and clothianidin to immune response and oxidative status of honey bees	14
You are what you eat: relative importance of diet, gut microbiota and nestmates for honey bee, Apis mellifera, worker health	13
Vitellogenin in the honey bee midgut	13
The Bee Chromosome database (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	12
Efficacy and temperature dependence of 60% and 85% formic acid treatment against Varroa destructor	12
Nuclear translocation of vitellogenin in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)	12
Red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) thermal preferences for nest sites and their effects on offspring survival	11

Three pillars of Varroa control	11
Side effects of imidacloprid, ethion, and hexaflumuron on adult and larvae of honey bee Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera, Apidae)	11
Estimating bee abundance: can mark-recapture methods validate common sampling protocols?	10
Crushing corn pollen grains increased diet digestibility and hemolymph protein content while decreasing honey bee consumption	10
Lower pollen nutritional quality delays nest building and egg laying in Bombus terrestris audax micro-colonies leading to reduced biomass gain	9
A gene drive does not spread easily in populations of the honey bee parasite Varroa destructor	9
Changes in innate immune response and detoxification in Melipona quadrifasciata (Apinae: Meliponini) on oral exposure to azadirachtin and spinosad	9
Immediate and long-term effects of induced brood interruptions on the reproductive success of Varroa destructor	9
Cold stress induces specific antioxidant responses in honey bee brood	9
Apis laboriosa confirmed by morphometric and genetic analyses of giant honey bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae) from sites of sympatry in Arunachal Pradesh, North East India	9
Reproduction of Varroa destructor does not elicit varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH) or recapping behaviour in honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera)	9
Natural habitat cover and fragmentation per se influence orchid-bee species richness in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado	9
Influence of honey bee seasonal phenotype and emerging conditions on diet behavior and susceptibility to imidacloprid	9
The geographical origin, refugia, and diversification of honey bees (Apis spp.) based on biogeography and niche modeling	9
Fatty acid homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera) fed commercial diet supplements	9
Varroa resistance in Apis cerana: a review	9
Stingless bees in urban areas: low body size and high frequency of diploid males at mating congregations of Nannotrigona perilampoides (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) in Mérida, Yucatán, México	8
Protection of honeybees and other pollinators: one global study	8
Scientific note: Imidacloprid found in wild plants downstream permanent greenhouses in Sweden	8
The dose makes the poison: feeding of antibiotic-treated winter honey bees, Apis mellifera, with probiotics and b-vitamins	8
Possibility to change the body size in worker bees by a combination of small-cell and standard-cell combs in the same nest	8
Identification and functional characterization of AcerOBP15 from Apis cerana cerana (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	7
Chronic exposure to a field-realistic concentration of Closer® SC (24% sulfoxaflor) insecticide impacted the growth and foraging activity of honey bee colonies	7
A fully automatic classification of bee species from wing images	7
Beyond brood: the potential impacts of insect growth disruptors on the long-term health and performance of honey bee colonies	7
Karyotypic variation in the stingless bee Trigona spinipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) from different geographical regions of Brazil	7
Species diversity, morphometrics, and nesting biology of Chinese stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini)	7
Comparative cytogenetic analysis of three species of the genus Partamona (Apidae, Meliponini)	7
Climate-associated shifts in color and body size for a tropical bee pollinator	6
Field relevant doses of the fipronil affects gene expression in honey bees Apis mellifera	6
Is acetamiprid really not that harmful to bumblebees (Apidae: Bombus spp.)?	6
Interaction between Vespula germanica and Apis mellifera in Patagonia Argentina apiaries	6
Chronic in-hive exposure to a field-relevant concentration of Closer™ SC (24% sulfoxaflor) insecticide altered immunological and physiological markers of honey bee foragers (Apis mellifera)	6
Winter activity unrelated to introgression in British bumblebee Bombus terrestris audax	6
The honey bee genome-- what has it been good for?	6
Deconstructing and contextualizing foraging behavior in bumble bees and other central place foragers	6
Evaluating honey bee foraging behaviour and their impact on pollination success in a mixed almond orchard	6
Oil flowers of Malpighiaceae and its oil-collecting bees: loyalty and robbery in a highly specialized system	6
Genetic diversity and population genetic structure analysis of Apis mellifera subspecies in Algeria and Europe based on complementary sex determiner (CSD) gene	6
Rapid transformation of traditional beekeeping and colony marketing erode genetic differentiation in Apis mellifera simensis, Ethiopia	6
A scientific note defining allelic nomenclature standards for the highly diverse complementary sex-determiner (csd) locus in honey bees	6
Effect of stearin and paraffin adulteration of beeswax on brood survival	6
Coeffects of diet and neonicotinoid exposure on honeybee mobility and food choice	6
Oxidative stress and apoptosis in Asian honey bees (A. cerana) exposed to multiple pesticides in intensive agricultural landscape	6
Acaricidal activity of essential oils for the control of honeybee (Apis mellifera) mites Tropilaelaps mercedesae under laboratory and colony conditions	6
Evidence of sociality in European small Carpenter bees (Ceratina)	6
Sublethal effects of herbicides clethodim, haloxyfop-P-methyl, and their mixture on honey bee health	5
From neglect to stardom: how the rising popularity of stingless bees threatens diversity and meliponiculture in Mexico	5
Mite diversity is determined by the stingless bee host species	5
Lethal and sublethal effects of different biopesticides on Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	5

Synergistic effects of imidacloprid and high temperature on honey bee colonies	5
Effect of climate seasonality and vegetation cover on floral resource selection by two stingless bee species	5
A geometric morphometric method and web application for identifying honey bee species (Apis spp.) using only forewings	5
Environmental conditions and beekeeping practices associated with Nosema ceranae presence in Argentina	5
Inter- and intra-population B chromosome variability in Partamona helleri (Apidae: Meliponini)	5
Bee surveys in Brazil in the last six decades: a review and scientometrics	5
A new design of bee cage for laboratory experiments: nutritional assessment of supplemental diets in honey bees (Apis mellifera)	5
Monitoring of hive weight changes in various landscapes	5
Managed honeybee hives and the diversity of wild bees in a dryland nature reserve	5
Timing of drone flights and observations of other colony behaviors of Apis laboriosa in northern Vietnam	5
Hygroscopic larval provisions of bees absorb soil water vapor and release liquefied nutrients	5
Nectar concentrating behavior by bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila)	5
Current genetic diversity of managed and commercially produced Apis mellifera colonies in Argentina inferred by wing geometric morphometrics and COI-COII mtDNA locus	5
Meta-analysis on the effect of bacterial interventions on honey bee productivity and the treatment of infection	5