OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Insect Science is 11. 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
(More than) Hitchhikers through the network: the shared microbiome of bees and flowers	64
The effects of urbanisation on ecological interactions	64
Processing insects for use in the food and feed industry	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
How does climate change affect social insects?	30
Temperature impacts all behavioral interactions during insect and arachnid reproduction	30
Mechanisms of nitrogen excretion in insects	29
Conventional breeding of insect-resistant crop plants: still the best way to feed the world population	28
The diversity of endogenous viral elements in insects	28
Connectomics and the neural basis of behaviour	28
The roles of metals in insect–microbe interactions and immunity	27
Cytochromes P450: terpene detoxification and pheromone production in bark beetles	27
A neuronal arms race: the role of learning in parasitoid–host interactions	26
Cytochrome P450-mediated mycotoxin metabolism by plant-feeding insects	26
Potential distribution of invasive crop pests under climate change: incorporating mitigation responses of insects into prediction models	26
Temperature-sensitive development shapes insect phenological responses to climate change	26
VectorBase.org updates: bioinformatic resources for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens and related organisms	25
Yeast–nectar interactions: metacommunities and effects on pollinators	25
Spatial distribution of campaniform sensilla mechanosensors on wings: form, function, and phylogeny	24
The sustainability of industrial insect mass rearing for food and feed production: zero waste goals through by-product utilization	24
Epigenetic regulation of post-embryonic development	24
Interorgan communication in the control of metamorphosis	24
Mimicking nature’s flyers: a review of insect-inspired flying robots	24
Insect-machine hybrid robot	23
Chemical host-seeking cues of entomopathogenic nematodes	23
Pollinator conservation requires a stronger and broader application of the precautionary principle	23
Regulation and biological function of metal ions in Drosophila	22
Bracoviruses, ichnoviruses, and virus-like particles from parasitoid wasps retain many features of their virus ancestors	22
Insect-inspired jumping robots: challenges and solutions to jump stability	21
Geographic dispersion of invasive crop pests: the role of basal, plastic climate stress tolerance and other complementary traits in the tropics	21
Thermal biology of invasive Aedes mosquitoes in the context of climate change	20
Volatile microbial semiochemicals and insect perception at flowers	20
Nectar antimicrobial compounds and their potential effects on pollinators	20
Microbial influence on reproduction, conversion, and growth of mass produced insects	20
The science behind the ban: the outstanding impact of ecotoxicological research on the regulation of neonicotinoids	20
Urbanization as a disrupter and facilitator of insect herbivore behaviors and life cycles	19
Heat of the moment: extreme heat poses a risk to bee–plant interactions and crop yields	18
Impact of invasive insects on native insect communities	18
Anthropogenic noise affects insect and arachnid behavior, thus changing interactions within and between species	17
Signatures of selection and evolutionary relevance of cytochrome P450s in plant-insect interactions	17
RNA virus EVEs in insect genomes	17
Building effective policies to conserve pollinators: translating knowledge into policy	17
Host plant resistance to thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) – current state of art and future research avenues	16
Linking ecological specialisation to adaptations in butterfly brains and sensory systems	16
Tripartite interactions: how immunity, microbiota and pathogens interact and affect pathogen virulence evolution	16
Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS): polishing a rough diamond	16
Predicting ecological impacts of invasive termites	16
Updates on ion and water transport by the Malpighian tubule	16
Do amateurs and citizen science fill the gaps left by scientists?	16

Microbes and pollinator behavior in the floral marketplace	15
Nutritional ecology, infection and immune defence — exploring the mechanisms	15
Interactions and toxicity of non-essential heavy metals (Cd, Pb and Hg): lessons from Drosophila melanogaster	15
Adaptations and counter-adaptations in Drosophila host–parasitoid interactions: advances in the molecular mechanisms	15
Daily temperature fluctuations can magnify the toxicity of pesticides	15
Defining cell types and lineage in the Drosophila midgut using single cell transcriptomics	15
Endogenous viral elements in mosquito genomes: current knowledge and outstanding questions	15
Hybrid visual control in fly flight: insights into gaze shift via saccades	14
Integrated management of Spodoptera frugiperda 6 years post detection in Africa: a review	14
Biting insects in a rapidly changing Arctic	14
Influence of parasitoid-associated viral symbionts on plant–insect interactions and biological control	14
Hybridization and invasiveness in social insects — The good, the bad and the hybrid	14
Balancing sensitivity, risk, and immunopathology in immune regulation	14
Adaptation to urban environments	14
From genes to shape during metamorphosis: a history	14
New tools for Aedes control: mass trapping	14
Biodiversity of hymenopteran parasitoids	14
The future of tropical insect diversity: strategies to fill data and knowledge gaps	14
Insect egg morphology: evolution, development, and ecology	13
Emerging patterns in social wasp invasions	13
Insect lifestyle and evolution of brain morphology	13
Temporal and structural neural asymmetries in insects	13
Embracing the complexity of plant–microbe–insect interactions under a changing climate for sustainable agriculture	13
A phylogenetic perspective on parasitoid host ranges with implications for biological control	12
A cold and quiet brain: mechanisms of insect CNS arrest at low temperatures	12
The emerging role of epigenetic mechanisms in insect defense against pathogens	12
Atypical insects: molecular mechanisms of unusual life history strategies	12
Mechanisms underlying the control of dynamic regulatory element activity and chromatin accessibility during metamorphosis	12
The neuronal building blocks of the navigational toolkit in the central complex of insects	12
Monocot crop–aphid interactions: plant resilience and aphid adaptation	11
Insect resistance management facing African smallholder farmers under climate change	11
Aphid resistance is the future for soybean production, and has been since 2004: efforts towards a wider use of host plant resistance in soybean	11
Invasive ant establishment, spread, and management with changing climate	11
Contaminant fluxes across ecosystems mediated by aquatic insects	11
Metal ions in insect reproduction: a crosstalk between reproductive physiology and immunity	11
Recent advances in agroecological research for increasing scope of areawide pest management of arthropods in cropping systems	11
Transporters and tubule crystals in the insect Malpighian tubule	11
Behavioral, ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying caterpillar-ant symbioses	11
Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest insect populations under climate change	11
Towards a multi-level understanding in insect navigation	11