OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical and Veterinary Entomology is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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How to repel a killer; chemical identification and effective repellent activity of commercial essential oils against kissing bugs	21
Effects of habitat and sampling time on bacterial community composition and diversity in the gut of the female house fly, Musca domestica Linnaeus (Diptera: Muscidae)	20
Calibrating insect age at eclosion by size in a gregarious carrion beetle Thanatophilus sinuatus (Staphylinidae: Silphinae)	17
Arthropod ectoparasites of synanthropic rodents in northern‐central Italy	16
A circumpolar parasite: Evidence of a cryptic undescribed species of sucking louse, Linognathus sp., collected from Arctic foxes, Vulpes lagopus, in Nunavut (Canada) and Svalbard (Norway	16
Wild birds as hosts of ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) and Anaplasmataceae (Rickettsiales) in the Atlantic rainforest ecoregion, Argentina	16
Molecular characterization of anopheline mosquitoes from the goat malaria‐endemic areas of Thailand	15
Alpha‐Gal, epitope responsible for allergy to red meat, in the Mediterranean tick Hyalomma lusitanicum	15
Protein abundance in the midgut of wild tsetse flies (Glossina palpalis palpalis) naturally infected by Trypanosoma congolense s.l.	14
Potential interaction between clorsulon and ivermectin for malaria vector control	13
The impact of adverse weather events on cockroaches and flies, and the possible effects on disease	12
Larval anatomy of the digestive and excretory systems of the pharyngeal bot fly, Pharyngomyia picta (Diptera: Oestridae)	12
Analysis of the bacterial communities associated with pupae and winged or wingless adults ofLipoptena fortisetosacollected from cervids in Italy	12
Synomones in necrophagous larvae of the blow flies Lucilia sericata and Calliphora vomitoria	12
Next generation sequencing improves the resolution of detecting mixed host blood meal sources in field collected arboviral mosquito vectors	12
Aedes aegypti control in breeding sites through an insecticidal coating with dual effect: Laboratory trials and safety assessment	11
Occurrence and genotyping of Theileria equi in dogs and associated ticks in Egypt	11
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Chewing lice of passerine birds in reed beds in Slovakia, with a special focus onPanurus biarmicus	10
Pasture dragging fails to reliably suppress the emergence of horn flies (Haematobia irritans) and face flies (Musca autumnalis) from dung pats in aMid‐AtlanticNorth American c	10
Preimaginal development of Aedes aegypti L. (Diptera: Culicidae) in brackish water gives rise to adult mosquitoes with thicker cuticles and greater insec	10
Limited detection of shared zoonotic pathogens in deer keds and blacklegged ticks co‐parasitizing white‐tailed deer in the eastern United States	10
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the density of Borrelia burgdorferi‐infected Ixodes ricinus ticks across a landscape: A 5‐year study in southern England	10

An ecological and epidemiological single‐season survey of Anaplasma and Ehrlichia positive ticks in Victoria Falls National Park, Zimbabwe	10
Phenotypic and genetic variation of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Thailand and its global relationships: Insights from wing morphometric and mitochondrial COI gene analyses	10
Morphology, biology and molecular characterisation of the endemic Canary Islands blowfly Calliphora splendens Macquart, 1838 (Diptera: Cal	9
Morphological analysis and lipid composition of the stable fly Stomoxys calcitrans salivary glands reinforce important features of feeding behaviour	9
Lethal and repellent effect of amitraz, eugenol and thymol against Triatoma infestans, the main vector of Trypanosoma cruzi in the southern of America	9
Potential distributions of the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi and its vector Dipetalogaster maxima highlight areas at risk of Chagas disease transmission in Baja California Sur, Mexico, unde	9
Epidemiological assessment of ectoparasite prevalence in the dromedary camel ( Camelus dromedarius ) in the Sahara Desert	8
Small dams drive Anopheles abundance during the dry season in a high malaria burden area of Malawi	8
Tick‐borne pathogens from ruminant ticks in a Mediterranean ecosystem from Eastern Spain	8
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Post‐mortem interval determinations using insects collected from illegally hunted and dehorned rhinoceros in the Republic of South Africa from 2014 to 2021	7
What happens when the insecticide does not kill? A review of sublethal toxicology and insecticide resistance in triatomines	7
Automated identification of spotted‐fever tick vectors using convolutional neural networks	7
Current and potential distribution of the neotropical hard tick Amblyomma patinoi (Ixodida: Ixodidae)	7
Detection and genetic characterization of arboviruses and other viruses from mosquitoes collected in southeastern and central Senegal, October 2022	7
Citizen science reveals host‐switching in louse flies and keds (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) during a period of anthropogenic change	7
Polyubiquitin protein of Aedes aegypti as an interacting partner of dengue virus envelope protein	7
Investigating the influence of blood meal sources on the composition of culturable haemolytic gut bacteria of a wild‐caught BTV vector Culicoides oxystoma Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopog	7
Novel use of a servosphere to study apodous insects: Investigation of blow fly post‐feeding larval dispersal	7
Land use and cover changes and sand fly (Diptera: Psychodidae) assemblages in an emerging focus of leishmaniasis	7
Machine learning analysis of wing venation patterns accurately identifies Sarcophagidae, Calliphoridae and Muscidae fly species	6
Seasonal variation and intra urban heterogeneity of the entomological risk of transmission of dengue and yellow fever in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire	6
Evidence on the prevalence of emerging and re‐emerging tick‐ and flea‐borne rickettsial agents in acute encephalitis syndrome endemic areas of northeast Uttar Pradesh, India	6
Influence of bacterial strains on oviposition and larval development of two BTV vector species of Culicoides	6
Faunistic inventory of the genus Culicoides ( Diptera: Ceratopogonidae ) in M	6
Introducing a new initiative to prevent exploitative research partnerships in Medical and Veterinary Entomology	6
Correction to “D‐limonene nanoemulsion: Lousicidal activity, stability, and effect on the cuticle of Columbicola columbae”	6
Diversity of bartonellae in mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Macronyssidae and Spinturnicidae) of boreal forest bats: Association of host specificity of mites and habitat selection of	5
Discovery of a new inland population of Leptoconops noei in Italy with sequencing of the first complete mitochondrial genome for the genus	5
Prevalence of culicine salivary antibodies in non‐human primates living in national parks in Thailand	5
Phylogeny and spatial distribution of Japanese encephalitis virus vector species in Cambodia	5
The pederin‐producing bacteria density dynamics in Paederus fuscipes at different developmental stages	5
High climatic ancestral affinity between the lineages of the Leishmania vector Psathyromyia shannoni sensu stricto (Diptera: Phlebotominae)	5
Tick‐borne pathogens in ticks from urban and suburban areas of north‐western Spain: Importance of Ixodes frontalis harbouring zoonotic pathogens	5
Effects of solid and aqueous dietary diflubenzuron ingestion on some biological parameters in synthetic pyrethroid‐resistant German cockroach, Blattella germanicaL. (	5
Entomological surveillance for phlebotomines in the metropolitan region of Aracaju, Brazil	5
Effect of larval density and additional anchoring surface on the life‐history traits of a laboratory colonized Anopheles funestus strain	5
Effect of age on wingbeat frequency of Aedes aegypti and potential application for age estimation of mosquitoes	5
Isolation and comparative analysis of culturable bacterial communities associated with life stages, breeding and rearing substrates of Culicoides oxystomaKieffer (Diptera: Cerat	5
The first molecular confirmation of Culex pipiens complex as potential natural vectors of Dirofilaria immitis in Myanmar	5
Demodex murilegi and Demodex obliquus, two new specific skin mites from domestic cat Felis catus, with notes on parasitism	5
Investigation on key aspects of mating biology in the mosquito Aedes koreicus	5
Influence of blood meal source on the biological parameters ofTriatoma pallidipennis(Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Mexico	5
Preferences for livestock bedding as a development substrate of the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitransL. (Diptera: Muscidae), and potential application of entomopathogenic nematodes for	5
Correction to “Are Rattus rattus fleas invasive? Evaluation of flea communities in invasive and na	5
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Species delimitation of the Afrotropical and Palaearctic Calliphora Robineau‐Desvoidy and discover	5
A methodological approach to age estimation of the intra‐puparial period of the forensically relevant blow fly Calliphora vicina via Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy	5
Aedes aegyptioviposition‐sites choice under semi‐field conditions	5
Spatial distribution patterns of tick community structure in sympatric jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor) from three ecoregions in Mexico	5

Effect of detritus decomposition time on oviposition site selection and developmental success of Aedes aegypti	5
Overabundant single‐host settings as field labs to assess blood meal patterns of mosquitoes	5
Environmental mutations in the Campo focus challenge elimination of sleeping sickness transmission in Cameroon	4
Host–mosquito interactions in rural and urban equestrian facilities from temperate Argentina	4
Aedes albopictus colonies from different geographic origins differ in their sleep and activity levels but not in the time of peak activity	4
First record of ectoparasites (Phthiraptera and Acari) from the Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) in Colombia	4
Automated identification of Chagas disease vectors using AlexNet pre‐trained convolutional neural networks	4
Factors associated with the presence and abundance of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae): Perspectives from larval habitat‐scale and neighbourhood‐scale analyses in	4
Detection of pyrethroid resistance mutations and intron variants in the voltage‐gated sodium channel of Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus mosquitoes from Lao Peo	4
Trypanosomes and gut microbiota interactions in triatomine bugs and tsetse flies: A vectorial perspective	4
Latitudinal and anthropogenic effects on the structuring of networks linking blood‐feeding flies and their vertebrate hosts	4
A cross‐sectional study on phlebotomine sand flies in relation to disease transmission in the Republic of Kosovo	4
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Mitochondrial genome sequence comparisons indicate that the elephant louse Haematomyzus elephantis (Piaget, 1869) contains cryptic species	4
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Ctenocephalides orientis and Ctenocephalides felis in Thailand: Head geometry by species, sex and geography	4
Intra‐species quantification reveals differences in activity and sleep levels in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti	4
Identification of Rickettsia species in cattle ticks in selected regions of urban Ghana	4
Identification and distribution of some medico‐veterinary important pathogens in muscid flies in two geographical regions of Türkiye	4
Detection of Rickettsia spp. and Anaplasma ovis in Melophagus ovinus from southern Xinjiang, China	4
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A review of historical trends in Anopheles gambiaeGiles (Diptera: Culicidae) complex composition, collection trends and environmental effects from 2009 to 2021 in Mpumalanga	4
Spatiotemporal heterogeneity of Rhipicephalus microplus resistance to chemical acaricides at intra‐farm level: A case study using ivermectin	4
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Ecological variations in adult life table attributes of Aedes aegypti (L.) from the desert and coastal regions of India	4
First biochemical and behavioural analysis of the response of the scorpion Urophonius brachycentrus (Thorell: 1876) upon exposure to an organophosphate	4