OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Insects As Food and Feed 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Nutritional value of insects and ways to manipulate their composition	124
Regulations on insects as food and feed: a global comparison	83
A literature review of consumer research on edible insects: recent evidence and new vistas from 2019 studies	81
Beyond the protein concept: health aspects of using edible insects on animals	69
Use of black soldier fly and house fly in feed to promote sustainable poultry production	63
Edible insect processing pathways and implementation of emerging technologies	58
Environmental aspects of insect mass production	57
A meta-analysis on the nutritional value of insects in aquafeeds	52
Biological contaminants in insects as food and feed	49
Insects as a source of phenolic compounds and potential health benefits	42
Profitability of insect farms	42
Chemical food safety hazards of insects reared for food and feed	41
How many people on our planet eat insects: 2 billion?	41
Advancing edible insects as food and feed in a circular economy	39
Cricket (Acheta domesticus) protein hydrolysates’ impact on the physicochemical, structural and sensory properties of tortillas and tortilla chips	35
Diseases in edible insect rearing systems	35
Fruit, vegetable, and starch mixtures on the nutritional quality of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae and resulting frass	34
Edible insects and food safety: allergy	33
Substrate as insect feed for bio-mass production	33
Effect of using insects as feed on animals: pet dogs and cats	33
Nutritional plasticity of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) in response to artificial diets varying in protein and carbohydrate concentrations	32
Welfare considerations for farming black soldier flies, Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae): a model for the insects as food and feed industry	32
The new packaged food products containing insects as an ingredient	32
Impacts of insect consumption on human health	30
Black soldier fly larval meal in feed enhances growth performance, carcass yield and meat quality of finishing pigs	30

Performance of black soldier fly frass fertiliser on maize (Zea mays L.) growth, yield, nutritional quality, and economic returns	30
Use of insect products in pig diets	29
Comparison of black soldier fly larvae pre-treatments and drying techniques on the microbial load and physico-chemical characteristics	29
Bioactive properties of insect products for monogastric animals – a review	29