OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical and Veterinary Entomology is 3. 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
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New thinking for filth fly control: residual, non‐chemical wall spray from volcanic glass	20
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)	18
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Alpha‐Gal, epitope responsible for allergy to red meat, in the Mediterranean tick Hyalomma lusitanicum	15
Calibrating insect age at eclosion by size in a gregarious carrion beetle Thanatophilus sinuatus (Staphylinidae: Silphinae)	15
Wild birds as hosts of ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) and Anaplasmataceae (Rickettsiales) in the Atlantic rainforest ecoregion, Argentina	14
Protein abundance in the midgut of wild tsetse flies (Glossina palpalis palpalis) naturally infected by Trypanosoma congolense s.l.	13
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	13
How to repel a killer; chemical identification and effective repellent activity of commercial essential oils against kissing bugs	12
Molecular characterization of anopheline mosquitoes from the goat malaria‐endemic areas of Thailand	11
Synomones in necrophagous larvae of the blow flies Lucilia sericata and Calliphora vomitoria	10
Potential interaction between clorsulon and ivermectin for malaria vector control	10
Climate and the seasonal abundance of the tick Dermacentor reticulatus	10
Next generation sequencing improves the resolution of detecting mixed host blood meal sources in field collected arboviral mosquito vectors	10
Analysis of the bacterial communities associated with pupae and winged or wingless adults ofLipoptena fortisetosacollected from cervids in Italy	10
The impact of adverse weather events on cockroaches and flies, and the possible effects on disease	10
Aedes aegypti control in breeding sites through an insecticidal coating with dual effect: Laboratory trials and safety assessment	9
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the density of Borrelia burgdorferi‐infected Ixodes ricinus ticks across a landscape: A 5‐year study in southern England	9
Occurrence and genotyping of Theileria equi in dogs and associated ticks in Egypt	9
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Phenotypic and genetic variation of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Thailand and its global relationships: Insights from wing morphometric and mitochondrial COI gene analyses	8
Preimaginal development of Aedes aegypti L. (Diptera: Culicidae) in brackish water gives rise to adult mosquitoes with thicker cuticles and greater insecticide resistance	8
Morphological analysis and lipid composition of the stable fly Stomoxys calcitrans salivary glands reinforce important features of feeding behaviour	7

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	7
Lethal and repellent effect of amitraz, eugenol and thymol against Triatoma infestans, the main vector of Trypanosoma cruzi in the southern of America	7
Limited detection of shared zoonotic pathogens in deer keds and blacklegged ticks co‐parasitizing white‐tailed deer in the eastern United States	7
Chewing lice of passerine birds in reed beds in Slovakia, with a special focus onPanurus biarmicus	7
Larval anatomy of the digestive and excretory systems of the pharyngeal bot fly, Pharyngomyia picta (Diptera: Oestridae)	7
Small dams drive Anopheles abundance during the dry season in a high malaria burden area of Malawi	7
Morphology, biology and molecular characterisation of the endemic Canary Islands blowfly Calliphora splendens Macquart, 1838 (Diptera: Cal	7
An ecological and epidemiological single‐season survey of Anaplasma and Ehrlichia positive ticks in Victoria Falls National Park, Zimbabwe	7
Polyubiquitin protein of Aedes aegypti as an interacting partner of dengue virus envelope protein	6
Tick‐borne pathogens from ruminant ticks in a Mediterranean ecosystem from Eastern Spain	6
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	6
What happens when the insecticide does not kill? A review of sublethal toxicology and insecticide resistance in triatomines	6
Identifying potential candidate Culicoides spp. for the study of interactions with Candidatus Cardinium hertigii	6
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	6
Post‐mortem interval determinations using insects collected from illegally hunted and dehorned rhinoceros in the Republic of South Africa from 2014 to 2021	6
Introducing a new initiative to prevent exploitative research partnerships in Medical and Veterinary Entomology	5
Investigation on key aspects of mating biology in the mosquito Aedes koreicus	5
Machine learning analysis of wing venation patterns accurately identifies Sarcophagidae, Calliphoridae and Muscidae fly species	5
Land use and cover changes and sand fly (Diptera: Psychodidae) assemblages in an emerging focus of leishmaniasis	5
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	5
Effects of solid and aqueous dietary diflubenzuron ingestion on some biological parameters in synthetic pyrethroid‐resistant German cockroach, Blattella germanicaL. (	5
Novel use of a servosphere to study apodous insects: Investigation of blow fly post‐feeding larval dispersal	5
Early evidence of establishment of the tropical bedbug (Cimex hemipterus) in Central Europe	5
Correction to “D‐limonene nanoemulsion: Lousicidal activity, stability, and effect on the cuticle of Columbicola columbae”	5
Current and potential distribution of the neotropical hard tick Amblyomma patinoi (Ixodida: Ixodidae)	5
The pederin‐producing bacteria density dynamics in Paederus fuscipes at different developmental stages	4
Tick‐borne pathogens in ticks from urban and suburban areas of north‐western Spain: Importance of Ixodes frontalis harbouring zoonotic pathogens	4
Overabundant single‐host settings as field labs to assess blood meal patterns of mosquitoes	4
Preferences for livestock bedding as a development substrate of the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitransL. (Diptera: Muscidae), and potential application of entomopathogenic nematodes for	4
Demodex murilegi and Demodex obliquus, two new specific skin mites from domestic cat Felis catus, with notes on parasitism	4
Seasonal variation and intra urban heterogeneity of the entomological risk of transmission of dengue and yellow fever in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire	4
Effect of age on wingbeat frequency of Aedes aegypti and potential application for age estimation of mosquitoes	4
Spatial distribution patterns of tick community structure in sympatric jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor) from three ecoregions in Mexico	4
Aedes aegyptioviposition‐sites choice under semi‐field conditions	4
Sampling implications of variation in daily activity of the sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus at a coastal grassland site in the U.K.	4
Influence of blood meal source on the biological parameters ofTriatoma pallidipennis(Heteroptera: Reduviidae) from Mexico	4
High climatic ancestral affinity between the lineages of the Leishmania vector Psathyromyia shannoni sensu stricto (Diptera: Phlebotominae)	4
Diversity of bartonellae in mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Macronyssidae and Spinturnicidae) of boreal forest bats: Association of host specificity of mites and habitat selection of	4
Genotoxic and mutagenic effects of methyl ether dillapiole on the development of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)	4
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Ctenocephalides orientis and Ctenocephalides felis in Thailand: Head geometry by species, sex and geography	3
Intra‐species quantification reveals differences in activity and sleep levels in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti	3
Environmental mutations in the Campo focus challenge elimination of sleeping sickness transmission in Cameroon	3
Identification and distribution of some medico‐veterinary important pathogens in muscid flies in two geographical regions of Türkiye	3
Detection ofTrypanosoma cruziinfection byPCRinCanis lupus familiarisand their ectoparasites in Chile	3
Isolation and comparative analysis of culturable bacterial communities associated with life stages, breeding and rearing substrates of Culicoides oxystomaKieffer (Diptera: Cerat	3
Prevalence of culicine salivary antibodies in non‐human primates living in national parks in Thailand	3
Identification of Rickettsia species in cattle ticks in selected regions of urban Ghana	3
A cross‐sectional study on phlebotomine sand flies in relation to disease transmission in the Republic of Kosovo	3
First biochemical and behavioural analysis of the response of the scorpion Urophonius brachycentrus (Thorell: 1876) upon exposure to an organophosphate	3

Ecological variations in adult life table attributes of Aedes aegypti (L.) from the desert and coastal regions of India	3
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	3
Detection of Candidatus Bartonella odocoilei n. sp. in Lipoptena mazamae associated with white‐tailed deer in Campeche, Mexico	3
Effect of larval density and additional anchoring surface on the life‐history traits of a laboratory colonized Anopheles funestus strain	3
Phylogeny and spatial distribution of Japanese encephalitis virus vector species in Cambodia	3
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Molecular detection of zoonotic filarioids inCulexspp. from Portugal	3
Latitudinal and anthropogenic effects on the structuring of networks linking blood‐feeding flies and their vertebrate hosts	3
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First record of ectoparasites (Phthiraptera and Acari) from the Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) in Colombia	3
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The first molecular confirmation of Culex pipiens complex as potential natural vectors of Dirofilaria immitis in Myanmar	3
Host–mosquito interactions in rural and urban equestrian facilities from temperate Argentina	3
A methodological approach to age estimation of the intra‐puparial period of the forensically relevant blow fly Calliphora vicina via Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy	3