OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Insects As Food and Feed is 28. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Nutritional value of insects and ways to manipulate their composition	102
Regulations on insects as food and feed: a global comparison	69
A literature review of consumer research on edible insects: recent evidence and new vistas from 2019 studies	66
Integrating insect frass biofertilisers into sustainable peri-urban agro-food systems	60
Standardisation of quantitative resource conversion studies with black soldier fly larvae	55
Beyond the protein concept: health aspects of using edible insects on animals	55
Current scenario in the European edible-insect industry: a preliminary study	55
Use of black soldier fly and house fly in feed to promote sustainable poultry production	54
Edible insect processing pathways and implementation of emerging technologies	49
Environmental aspects of insect mass production	49
Biological contaminants in insects as food and feed	46
A meta-analysis on the nutritional value of insects in aquafeeds	41
Edible insects: cricket farming and processing as an emerging market	39
Insects as feed: house fly or black soldier fly?	38
Profitability of insect farms	35
How many people on our planet eat insects: 2 billion?	35
Chemical food safety hazards of insects reared for food and feed	34
Insects as a source of phenolic compounds and potential health benefits	33
Edible insects and food safety: allergy	31
Cricket (Acheta domesticus) protein hydrolysates’ impact on the physicochemical, structural and sensory properties of tortillas and tortilla chips	31
Advancing edible insects as food and feed in a circular economy	31
Effect of using insects as feed on animals: pet dogs and cats	29
Diseases in edible insect rearing systems	29
Substrate as insect feed for bio-mass production	29
Use of insect products in pig diets	28

Black soldier fly larval meal in feed enhances growth performance, carcass yield and meat quality of finishing pigs	28
Fruit, vegetable, and starch mixtures on the nutritional quality of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae and resulting frass	28
Bioactive properties of insect products for monogastric animals – a review	28