OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Insect Science is 28. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	130
Publisher's Note	93
Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa includes winners and losers under future climate	81
Is the genetic architecture of behavior exceptionally complex?	60
Decoding sex differences: how GABA shapes Drosophila behavior	55
Direct sequencing of insect symbionts via nanopore adaptive sampling	55
Viviparity and obligate blood feeding: tsetse flies as a unique research system to study climate change	52
Facing the flames: insect responses to megafires and changing fire regimes	46
Population dynamics and drivers of the eastern monarch (Danaus plexippus) across its full annual cycle: a cross-scale synthesis of a model migratory species	43
Sex determination gene Doublesex in hemimetabolous insects	42
Dynamics and evolution of transposable elements in mosquito genomes	42
Extent and impacts of winter breeding in the North American monarch butterfly	40
Contaminant fluxes across ecosystems mediated by aquatic insects	37
Untangling plastic responses to combined thermal and dietary stress in insects	37
Origin of eusociality in termites: was genetic monogamy essential?	34
Floral nectar and honeydew microbial diversity and their role in biocontrol of insect pests and pollination	33
The within-host ecology of insects and their parasites: integrating experiments and mathematical models	33
Editorial Board	33
Parasitoid speciation and diversification	31
Experimental platforms for functional genomics in ticks	30
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: an integrative view	30
Genomics of insect natural enemies in agroecosystems	30
Environmentally responsive reproduction: neuroendocrine signalling and the evolution of eusociality	28
Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest geometrid outbreaks	28
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: Aedes-borne viral disease transmission: vector dynamics, plasticity, and prospects for control	28

Tick chemosensation and implications for novel control strategies	28
Editorial overview: Global change biology (2023) — Novel perspectives on futures, mechanisms, and the human element of insect conservation in the Anthropocene	28
Mosquito sex determination: recent advances and applications	28