OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Insect Science is 30. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Publisher's Note	98
Is the genetic architecture of behavior exceptionally complex?	85
Direct sequencing of insect symbionts via nanopore adaptive sampling	85
Untangling plastic responses to combined thermal and dietary stress in insects	75
Population dynamics and drivers of the eastern monarch (Danaus plexippus) across its full annual cycle: a cross-scale synthesis of a model migratory species	72
Editorial Board	72
Origin of eusociality in termites: was genetic monogamy essential?	66
The social brain of ‘non-eusocial’ insects	64
Sex determination gene Doublesex in hemimetabolous insects	63
Decoding sex differences: how GABA shapes Drosophila behavior	56
Facing the flames: insect responses to megafires and changing fire regimes	53
The within-host ecology of insects and their parasites: integrating experiments and mathematical models	51
Extent and impacts of winter breeding in the North American monarch butterfly	51
Contaminant fluxes across ecosystems mediated by aquatic insects	50
Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa includes winners and losers under future climate	45
Viviparity and obligate blood feeding: tsetse flies as a unique research system to study climate change	45
Emerging patterns in social wasp invasions	43
Editorial overview: Global change biology (2023) — Novel perspectives on futures, mechanisms, and the human element of insect conservation in the Anthropocene	40
Pollinator conservation requires a stronger and broader application of the precautionary principle	39
Genomics of insect natural enemies in agroecosystems	37
Environmentally responsive reproduction: neuroendocrine signalling and the evolution of eusociality	37
Parasitoid speciation and diversification	37
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: Aedes-borne viral disease transmission: vector dynamics, plasticity, and prospects for control	37
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: an integrative view	36
Experimental platforms for functional genomics in ticks	36

Editorial Board	35
Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest geometrid outbreaks	33
Tick chemosensation and implications for novel control strategies	32
Floral nectar and honeydew microbial diversity and their role in biocontrol of insect pests and pollination	32
Breeding structure and invasiveness in social insects	31
Recent advances in agroecological research for increasing scope of areawide pest management of arthropods in cropping systems	30
Large-scale omics analyses of nutrition-responsive mechanisms of female germline stem cell proliferation and maintenance in Drosophila melanogaster	30
An integrative genomic toolkit for studying the genetic, evolutionary, and molecular underpinnings of eusociality in insects	30