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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Publisher's Note	108
Direct sequencing of insect symbionts via nanopore adaptive sampling	90
Is the genetic architecture of behavior exceptionally complex?	88
Untangling plastic responses to combined thermal and dietary stress in insects	75
Editorial Board	69
Population dynamics and drivers of the eastern monarch (Danaus plexippus) across its full annual cycle: a cross-scale synthesis of a model migratory species	68
Origin of eusociality in termites: was genetic monogamy essential?	57
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	49
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	40
Contaminant fluxes across ecosystems mediated by aquatic insects	39
The social brain of ‘non-eusocial’ insects	38
Extent and impacts of winter breeding in the North American monarch butterfly	38
Editorial overview: Global change biology (2023) — Novel perspectives on futures, mechanisms, and the human element of insect conservation in the Anthropocene	38
Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest geometrid outbreaks	37
Floral nectar and honeydew microbial diversity and their role in biocontrol of insect pests and pollination	37
Genomics of insect natural enemies in agroecosystems	37
Environmentally responsive reproduction: neuroendocrine signalling and the evolution of eusociality	36
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: Aedes-borne viral disease transmission: vector dynamics, plasticity, and prospects for control	34
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: an integrative view	33
Editorial Board	33
Experimental platforms for functional genomics in ticks	33
Parasitoid speciation and diversification	31

Tick chemosensation and implications for novel control strategies	31
Large-scale omics analyses of nutrition-responsive mechanisms of female germline stem cell proliferation and maintenance in Drosophila melanogaster	30
Recent advances in agroecological research for increasing scope of areawide pest management of arthropods in cropping systems	28