OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Insect Science is 10. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Emerging patterns in social wasp invasions	89
Publisher's Note	76
Facing the flames: insect responses to megafires and changing fire regimes	74
Direct sequencing of insect symbionts via nanopore adaptive sampling	69
Is the genetic architecture of behavior exceptionally complex?	65
Decoding sex differences: how GABA shapes Drosophila behavior	62
Untangling plastic responses to combined thermal and dietary stress in insects	60
Population dynamics and drivers of the eastern monarch (Danaus plexippus) across its full annual cycle: a cross-scale synthesis of a model migratory species	60
Editorial Board	59
The within-host ecology of insects and their parasites: integrating experiments and mathematical models	58
Extent and impacts of winter breeding in the North American monarch butterfly	52
The social brain of ‘non-eusocial’ insects	50
Host plant resistance in wheat to barley yellow dwarf viruses and their aphid vectors: a review	50
Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa includes winners and losers under future climate	48
Contaminant fluxes across ecosystems mediated by aquatic insects	47
Breeding structure and invasiveness in social insects	46
Editorial overview: Global change biology (2023) — Novel perspectives on futures, mechanisms, and the human element of insect conservation in the Anthropocene	46
Tick chemosensation and implications for novel control strategies	42
Pollinator conservation requires a stronger and broader application of the precautionary principle	41
Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest geometrid outbreaks	38
Parasitoid speciation and diversification	37
Floral nectar and honeydew microbial diversity and their role in biocontrol of insect pests and pollination	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	36
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: an integrative view	36

Experimental platforms for functional genomics in ticks	35
Genomics of insect natural enemies in agroecosystems	34
Editorial Board	34
Large-scale omics analyses of nutrition-responsive mechanisms of female germline stem cell proliferation and maintenance in Drosophila melanogaster	30
Plant–pollinator conservation from the perspective of systems-ecology	30
Climate change, temperature extremes, and impacts on hyperparasitoids	29
How does climate change affect social insects?	28
Recent advances in agroecological research for increasing scope of areawide pest management of arthropods in cropping systems	28
MicroRNAs in the developmental toolbox — a comparative approach to understanding their role in regulating insect development	27
An integrative genomic toolkit for studying the genetic, evolutionary, and molecular underpinnings of eusociality in insects	27
Editorial Board	26
The neuroecology of olfaction in bees	26
Acylsugar-mediated resistance as part of a multilayered defense against thrips, orthotospoviruses, and beyond	25
Editorial overview: Spotlight on monarch butterflies: A treasure trove of biology to preserve	25
Induced plant resistance and its influence on natural enemy use of plant-derived foods	24
Editorial Board	24
A call to arms: novel strategies for thrips and tospovirus control	24
Processing insects for use in the food and feed industry	24
Editorial Board	23
Editorial Board	23
Post-transcriptional regulation of behavior plasticity in social insects	22
Metabolomics as a tool to elucidate biochemical cold adaptation in insects	22
The monarch butterfly in Mexico: a conservation model	21
Plasticity of the olfactory behaviors in Bactrocera dorsalis under various physiological states and environmental conditions	21
Flipping indirect defense: chemical cues from natural enemies mediate multitrophic interactions	21
The impact of female mating strategies on the success of insect control technologies	21
Investigating the role of chemical ecology in plant-pathogen, vector, and secondary consumer interactions and their consequences for integrated pest management	21
Evolution of visual system specialization in predatory arthropods	20
Honeydew management to promote biological control	20
Osmoregulatory capacity at low temperature is critical for insect cold tolerance	20
Updates on ion and water transport by the Malpighian tubule	20
Genetic and viral approaches to record or manipulate neurons in insects	20
Repetitive DNAs: the ‘invisible’ regulators of insect adaptation and speciation	20
The effects of urbanisation on ecological interactions	20
Community change and population outbreak of grasshoppers driven by climate change	20
Vector microbiota and immunity: modulating arthropod susceptibility to vertebrate pathogens	19
Editorial overview: How do social insects know their tasks?	19
Editorial overview: Development and regulation: Lessons from a multispecies approach	19
Foe to frenemy: predacious ant nest beetles use multiple strategies to fully integrate into ant nests	19
Vibration receptor organs in the insect leg: neuroanatomical diversity and functional principles	18
Insect olfactory neurons: receptors, development, and function	18
Cold-induced immune activation in chill-susceptible insects	18
Regulation of insect cuticular hydrocarbon biosynthesis	18
Virus and endogenous viral element-derived small non-coding RNAs and their roles in insect–virus interaction	18
Evolution and loss of ß-catenin and TCF-dependent axis specification in insects	18
Adaptation to urban environments	18
Edible insect farming as an emerging and profitable enterprise in East Africa	17
Anticipating evolutionary responses of mosquito mating systems to population suppression with mass-reared males	17
Novel mechanisms of epithelial ion transport: insights from the cryptonephridial system of lepidopteran larvae	17
Mosquito floral visitation and pollination	16

Editorial overview: Molecular physiology of ion transport	16
The self as part of the sensory ecology: how behavior affects sensation from the inside out	16
Editorial overview: Insecticide resistance mechanisms — from behavior and physiology to microbiome science	16
Editorial Board	16
Insect visual perception and pest control: opportunities and challenges	16
Editorial overview: Effects of global change on species interactions and biodiversity in natural and managed landscapes	16
Editorial Board	16
Measuring and modelling crop yield losses due to invasive insect pests under climate change	14
Editorial overview: Classical, novel and underrated regulators of development in the omics era	14
Insects and microbes: best friends from the nursery	14
Temperature impacts all behavioral interactions during insect and arachnid reproduction	14
Evolution of Odonata: genomic insights	14
Biogenic amines in honey bee cognition: Neurochemical pathways and stress impacts	13
New insight into molecular mechanisms underlying division of labor in honeybees	13
Extracting spatial information from temporal odor patterns: insights from insects	13
Behavioral, ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying caterpillar-ant symbioses	13
Microbial influence on reproduction, conversion, and growth of mass produced insects	13
Phenomenon of reproductive plasticity in ants	12
Chemical ecology of nectar–mosquito interactions: recent advances and future directions	12
VectorBase.org updates: bioinformatic resources for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens and related organisms	12
Invasive ant establishment, spread, and management with changing climate	12
Gene editing in agricultural, health, and veterinary pest arthropods: recent advances	12
Global change and adaptive biosecurity: managing current and emerging Aleurocanthus woglumi threats to Europe	12
Pathogen within-host dynamics and disease outcome: what can we learn from insect studies?	12
Collective decision-making during reproduction in social insects: a conceptual model for queen supersedure in honey bees (Apis mellifera)	12
Interactions between parasitism and migration in monarch butterflies	12
Monocot crop–aphid interactions: plant resilience and aphid adaptation	12
Genomics and genome editing techniques of crickets, an emerging model insect for biology and food science	11
Complexity, humility, and action: a current perspective on monarchs in Western North America	11
Heat stress and host–parasitoid interactions: lessons and opportunities in a changing climate	11
Genomics reveals widespread hybridization across insects with ramifications for species boundaries and invasive species	11
Advances in data-collection tools and analytics for crop pest and disease management	11
Elevated CO2, nutrition dilution, and shifts in Earth’s insect abundance	11
Anthropogenic noise affects insect and arachnid behavior, thus changing interactions within and between species	11
A cold and quiet brain: mechanisms of insect CNS arrest at low temperatures	11
Editorial overview: Arthropod population dynamics at regional scales: Novel approaches and emerging insights	11
Firefly genomes illuminate the evolution of beetle bioluminescent systems	11
Gene regulatory networks underlying the development and evolution of plasticity in horned beetles	10
Pollinator decline: what do we know about the drivers of solitary bee declines?	10
Honey robbing: could human changes to the environment transform a rare foraging tactic into a maladaptive behavior?	10
Chironomid midges (Diptera) provide insights into genome evolution in extreme environments	10
Parasitoids for biological control in dryland agroecosystems	10
Extrinsic and intrinsic regulation of blood feeding in mosquitoes	10
Editorial overview: The time is ripe for expanded research on mass production of insects as food and feed	10
Molecular physiology of copper in Drosophila melanogaster	10
Editorial overview: Behavioral ecology of insects in a changing world	10
Forecasting insect dynamics in a changing world	10
Editorial overview: Why modern research justifies the re-emergence of host-plant resistance as a focus for pest management	10
Insecticide resistance in social insects: assumptions, realities, and possibilities	10
Oviposition decisions under environment-induced physiological stress in parasitoids	10
Editorial Board	10
Metal ions in the physiology of insects	10
From Wolbachia genomics to phenotype: molecular models of cytoplasmic incompatibility must account for the multiplicity of compatibility types	10