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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of cytochrome P450-mediated detoxification in insect adaptation to xenobiotics	166
Insect olfactory communication in a complex and changing world	74
Processing insects for use in the food and feed industry	64
(More than) Hitchhikers through the network: the shared microbiome of bees and flowers	64
The effects of urbanisation on ecological interactions	64
Control of the insect metamorphic transition by ecdysteroid production and secretion	62
Globalization and the anthropogenic spread of invasive social insects	56
Edible insect farming as an emerging and profitable enterprise in East Africa	54
Stingless bees and microbial interactions	52
Host plant resistance in wheat to barley yellow dwarf viruses and their aphid vectors: a review	50
The effect of climate change on invasive crop pests across biomes	49
Short term transcriptional responses of P450s to phytochemicals in insects and mites	45
Regulation of insect P450s in response to phytochemicals	45
Heterologous expression of insect P450 enzymes that metabolize xenobiotics	45
Direct and indirect effects of altered temperature regimes and phenological mismatches on insect populations	43
Newer characters, same story: neonicotinoid insecticides disrupt food webs through direct and indirect effects	43
Pollinator decline: what do we know about the drivers of solitary bee declines?	42
Genetic and molecular understanding of host rice resistance and Nilaparvata lugens adaptation	42
Climate change and elevational range shifts in insects	41
The managed-to-invasive species continuum in social and solitary bees and impacts on native bee conservation	40
Measuring and modelling crop yield losses due to invasive insect pests under climate change	40
Osmoregulatory capacity at low temperature is critical for insect cold tolerance	39
Integrating microbes into pollination	39
How stage identity is established in insects: the role of the Metamorphic Gene Network	37
Plant volatiles as regulators of plant defense and herbivore immunity: molecular mechanisms and unanswered questions	34

How protection of honey bees can help and hinder bee conservation	33
The complexity of global change and its effects on insects	33
Floral traits affecting the transmission of beneficial and pathogenic pollinator-associated microbes	32
Breeding structure and invasiveness in social insects	31
Artificial light at night disrupts species interactions and changes insect communities	31
Temperature impacts all behavioral interactions during insect and arachnid reproduction	30
How does climate change affect social insects?	30