OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Insect Science is 32. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Institutional and policy bottlenecks to IPM	83
Pathogen within-host dynamics and disease outcome: what can we learn from insect studies?	75
Publisher's Note	74
Foreword	71
Time memory in social insects with a special focus on honey bees	67
Blowfly genomics: current insights, knowledge gaps, and future perspectives	67
Editorial overview: Special section on vector sensory ecology (2024)	62
Editorial overview: Classical, novel and underrated regulators of development in the omics era	61
Semiochemicals modulating bed bug behaviour	58
Editorial Board	57
Evolution of chemical interactions between ants and their mutualist partners	55
Editorial Board	54
Decoding sex differences: how GABA shapes Drosophila behavior	48
The social brain of ‘non-eusocial’ insects	47
Global change in marine coastal habitats impacts insect populations and communities	47
Chemical communication in ant-hemipteran mutualism: potential implications for ant invasions	47
Impact of parasitoid-associated polydnaviruses on plant-mediated herbivore interactions	45
Direct sequencing of insect symbionts via nanopore adaptive sampling	44
Extent and impacts of winter breeding in the North American monarch butterfly	42
Is the genetic architecture of behavior exceptionally complex?	42
‘Junk’ that matters: the role of transposable elements in bumblebee genome evolution	40
Parallel evolutionary paths of rove beetle myrmecophiles: replaying a deep-time tape of life	40
Monocot crop–aphid interactions: plant resilience and aphid adaptation	39
Extracting spatial information from temporal odor patterns: insights from insects	39
Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa includes winners and losers under future climate	36

The impact of volatiles on tick-host interaction and vector competence	36
Immune interactions between mosquitoes and microbes during midgut colonization	36
The benefits to sub-Saharan Africa of the biological control of weeds: already considerable, but could be far greater	35
Tracking technologies: advances driving new insights into monarch migration	35
Glucose aversion: a behavioral resistance mechanism in the German cockroach	34
Facing the flames: insect responses to megafires and changing fire regimes	33
Population dynamics and drivers of the eastern monarch (Danaus plexippus) across its full annual cycle: a cross-scale synthesis of a model migratory species	33
Microbiome toxicology — bacterial activation and detoxification of insecticidal compounds	32