OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Insect Science is 29. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Is the genetic architecture of behavior exceptionally complex?	118
Publisher's Note	95
Editorial Board	90
Dynamics and evolution of transposable elements in mosquito genomes	81
Viviparity and obligate blood feeding: tsetse flies as a unique research system to study climate change	73
Contaminant fluxes across ecosystems mediated by aquatic insects	72
Extent and impacts of winter breeding in the North American monarch butterfly	60
Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa includes winners and losers under future climate	58
Untangling plastic responses to combined thermal and dietary stress in insects	56
The social brain of ‘non-eusocial’ insects	49
The within-host ecology of insects and their parasites: integrating experiments and mathematical models	49
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
Leveraging Sex Determination Systems for Genetic Biocontrol of Dipteran Pests	41
Facing the flames: insect responses to megafires and changing fire regimes	41
Direct sequencing of insect symbionts via nanopore adaptive sampling	40
Decoding sex differences: how GABA shapes Drosophila behavior	40
Origin of eusociality in termites: was genetic monogamy essential?	40
Environmentally responsive reproduction: neuroendocrine signalling and the evolution of eusociality	38
Editorial Board	38
Floral nectar and honeydew microbial diversity and their role in biocontrol of insect pests and pollination	38
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: Aedes-borne viral disease transmission: vector dynamics, plasticity, and prospects for control	36
Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest geometrid outbreaks	35
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: an integrative view	34
Mosquito sex determination: recent advances and applications	33
Experimental platforms for functional genomics in ticks	33

Editorial overview: Global change biology (2023) — Novel perspectives on futures, mechanisms, and the human element of insect conservation in the Anthropocene	31
Tick chemosensation and implications for novel control strategies	30
Parasitoid speciation and diversification	29
Genomics of insect natural enemies in agroecosystems	29