OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Insects is 39. 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
The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Insect Pests	503
Overview of Bee Pollination and Its Economic Value for Crop Production	191
Synthetic and Natural Insecticides: Gas, Liquid, Gel and Solid Formulations for Stored-Product and Food-Industry Pest Control	83
Nutritional Composition of Black Soldier Fly Larvae (Hermetia illucens L.) and Its Potential Uses as Alternative Protein Sources in Animal Diets: A Review	78
Fat Body—Multifunctional Insect Tissue	77
Plant-Based Bioinsecticides for Mosquito Control: Impact on Insecticide Resistance and Disease Transmission	77
The Contribution of Silk Fibroin in Biomedical Engineering	77
Supporting Bees in Cities: How Bees Are Influenced by Local and Landscape Features	76
Plant Allelochemicals as Sources of Insecticides	75
Latest Developments in Insect Sex Pheromone Research and Its Application in Agricultural Pest Management	66
Likely Geographic Distributional Shifts among Medically Important Tick Species and Tick-Associated Diseases under Climate Change in North America: A Review	64
Resistance in the Genus Spodoptera: Key Insect Detoxification Genes	63
Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases of Livestock in the Middle East and North Africa: A Review	58
A Qualitative Analysis of Beekeepers’ Perceptions and Farm Management Adaptations to the Impact of Climate Change on Honey Bees	57
Global Habitat Suitability of Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae): Key Parasitoids Considered for Its Biological Control	56
Global Distribution of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in a Climate Change Scenario of Regional Rivalry	54
Tephritid Fruit Fly Semiochemicals: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives	53
Edible Insects and Sustainable Development Goals	52
A Literature Review of Host Feeding Patterns of Invasive Aedes Mosquitoes in Europe	51
Resin Use by Stingless Bees: A Review	50
Resistance to Bt Maize by Western Corn Rootworm: Effects of Pest Biology, the Pest–Crop Interaction and the Agricultural Landscape on Resistance	50
Edible Insect Farming in the Context of the EU Regulations and Marketing—An Overview	48
Indigenous Knowledge about Consumption of Edible Insects in South Africa	48
Geographical Distribution and Selection of European Honey Bees Resistant to Varroa destructor	47
The Impact of Deforestation, Urbanization, and Changing Land Use Patterns on the Ecology of Mosquito and Tick-Borne Diseases in Central America	46

Coffee Berry Borer (Hypothenemus hampei), a Global Pest of Coffee: Perspectives from Historical and Recent Invasions, and Future Priorities	45
Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) and Its Applications	45
Bemisia tabaci on Vegetables in the Southern United States: Incidence, Impact, and Management	45
Lipids from Insects in Cosmetics and for Personal Care Products	44
The Influence of Food Waste Rearing Substrates on Black Soldier Fly Larvae Protein Composition: A Systematic Review	44
Assessing the Distribution of Exotic Egg Parasitoids of Halyomorpha halys in Europe with a Large-Scale Monitoring Program	44
Post-Mortem Interval Estimation Based on Insect Evidence: Current Challenges	44
The Essential and Enigmatic Role of ABC Transporters in Bt Resistance of Noctuids and Other Insect Pests of Agriculture	43
Phenotypic Plasticity: What Has DNA Methylation Got to Do with It?	41
Sterile Insect Technique: Successful Suppression of an Aedes aegypti Field Population in Cuba	41
Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) against Aedes Species Mosquitoes: A Roadmap and Good Practice Framework for Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Pilot Field Trials	40
Effectiveness of Entomopathogenic Fungi on Immature Stages and Feeding Performance of Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Larvae	40
Parasitoid Distribution and Parasitism of the Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Different Maize Producing Regions of Uganda	40
Conversion of Spent Coffee and Donuts by Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) Larvae into Potential Resources for Animal and Plant Farming	39
Possible Spillover of Pathogens between Bee Communities Foraging on the Same Floral Resource	39
Effect of Climate Change on Introduced and Native Agricultural Invasive Insect Pests in Europe	39
Detection of Phosphine Resistance in Field Populations of Four Key Stored-Grain Insect Pests in Pakistan	39