OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Insects As Food and Feed is 7. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Nutritional value of insects and ways to manipulate their composition	105
Regulations on insects as food and feed: a global comparison	70
A literature review of consumer research on edible insects: recent evidence and new vistas from 2019 studies	68
Current scenario in the European edible-insect industry: a preliminary study	62
Integrating insect frass biofertilisers into sustainable peri-urban agro-food systems	62
Beyond the protein concept: health aspects of using edible insects on animals	57
Use of black soldier fly and house fly in feed to promote sustainable poultry production	56
Standardisation of quantitative resource conversion studies with black soldier fly larvae	55
Environmental aspects of insect mass production	51
Edible insect processing pathways and implementation of emerging technologies	50
Biological contaminants in insects as food and feed	47
A meta-analysis on the nutritional value of insects in aquafeeds	42
Insects as feed: house fly or black soldier fly?	40
Profitability of insect farms	39
Edible insects: cricket farming and processing as an emerging market	39
How many people on our planet eat insects: 2 billion?	36
Insects as a source of phenolic compounds and potential health benefits	35
Advancing edible insects as food and feed in a circular economy	34
Chemical food safety hazards of insects reared for food and feed	34
Cricket (Acheta domesticus) protein hydrolysates’ impact on the physicochemical, structural and sensory properties of tortillas and tortilla chips	32
Edible insects and food safety: allergy	32
Bioactive properties of insect products for monogastric animals – a review	30
Substrate as insect feed for bio-mass production	29
Fruit, vegetable, and starch mixtures on the nutritional quality of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae and resulting frass	29
Effect of using insects as feed on animals: pet dogs and cats	29

Diseases in edible insect rearing systems	29
Black soldier fly larval meal in feed enhances growth performance, carcass yield and meat quality of finishing pigs	28
Use of insect products in pig diets	28
Drying methods differentially alter volatile profiles of edible locusts and silkworms	27
The new packaged food products containing insects as an ingredient	27
Chemical food safety of using former foodstuffs for rearing black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens) for feed and food use	27
Finnish consumers’ intentions to consume insect-based foods	26
Protein hydrolysates from Alphitobius diaperinus and Hermetia illucens larvae treated with commercial proteases	26
Exploration of consumer acceptance of insects as food in Poland	25
Edible crickets, but which species?	25
Impacts of insect consumption on human health	24
Nutritional plasticity of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) in response to artificial diets varying in protein and carbohydrate concentrations	24
Insect consumption in the Czech Republic: what the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over	23
Application of laboratory methods for understanding fish responses to black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) based diets	23
Chemical safety of black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens), knowledge gaps and recommendations for future research: a critical review	23
Performance of black soldier fly frass fertiliser on maize (Zea mays L.) growth, yield, nutritional quality, and economic returns	22
Correlates of the willingness to consume insects: a meta-analysis	22
Edible insects unlikely to contribute to transmission of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2	22
Welfare of farmed insects	21
Influence of larval density, substrate moisture content and feedstock ratio on life history traits of black soldier fly larvae	21
Comparison of black soldier fly larvae pre-treatments and drying techniques on the microbial load and physico-chemical characteristics	21
Insect left-over substrate as plant fertiliser	20
Information and taste interventions for improving consumer acceptance of edible insects: a pilot study	20
Welfare considerations for farming black soldier flies, Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae): a model for the insects as food and feed industry	19
How information affects consumers’ purchase intention and willingness to pay for poultry farmed with insect-based meal and live insects	19
Entomophagy knowledge, behaviours and motivations: the case of French Quebeckers	19
Genetic and genomic selection in insects as food and feed	19
Consumer attitude and acceptance toward fish fed with insects: a focus on the new generations	19
Strain matters: strain effect on the larval growth and performance of the yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitor L.	18
The yellow mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) genome: a resource for the emerging insects as food and feed industry	18
Challenges and opportunities for the development of an edible insect food industry in Latin America	18
Legislative landscape of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) as feed	18
Fertiliser effect on Swiss chard of black soldier fly larvae-frass compost made from food waste and faeces	17
Manipulation of the black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens; Diptera: Stratiomyidae) fatty acid profile through the substrate	17
The influence of wet feed distribution on the density, growth rate and growth variability of Tenebrio molitor	17
Microbial communities and food safety aspects of crickets (Acheta domesticus) reared under controlled conditions	17
Comparative evaluation of Hermetia illucens larvae reared on different substrates for red tilapia diet: effect on growth and body composition	16
The effect of including full-fat dried black soldier fly larvae in laying hen diet on egg quality and sensory characteristics	16
Preliminary project design for insect production: part 4 – facility considerations	15
Insect pests as food and feed	15
Upcycling of manure with insects: current and future prospects	15
Industrial processing technologies for insect larvae	15
Preliminary project design for insect production: part 1 – overall mass and energy/heat balances	15
A simple and rapid protocol for measuring the chitin content of Hermetia illucens (L.) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) larvae	15
Probiotic properties of an indigenous Pediococcus pentosaceus strain on Tenebrio molitor larval growth and survival	15
Insect-based protein feed: from fork to farm	14
Agricultural by-products from Greece as feed for yellow mealworm larvae: circular economy at a local level	14
Nutrient composition of Chinese oak silkworm, Antheraea pernyi, a traditional edible insect in China: a review	14
Health of the black soldier fly and house fly under mass-rearing conditions: innate immunity and the role of the microbiome	13
Hermetia illucens adults are susceptible to infection by the fungus Beauveria bassiana in laboratory experiments	12

Digestibility of defatted insect meals for rainbow trout aquafeeds	12
Economic and ecological values of frass fertiliser from black soldier fly agro-industrial waste processing	12
The effect of Rhodococcus rhodochrous supplementation on black soldier fly (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) development, nutrition, and waste conversion	12
Impact of age, size, and sex on adult black soldier fly [Hermetia illucens L. (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)] thermal preference	12
Effects of light intensity on mating of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens, Diptera: Stratiomyidae)	11
A hungry need for knowledge on the black soldier fly digestive system	11
Black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens L.): effect on the fat integrity using different approaches to the killing of the prepupae	11
Rapid discrimination and classification of edible insect powders using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy combined with multivariate analysis	11
Preliminary project design for insect production: part 3 – sub-process types and reactors	11
Effects of adult body size on mating success of the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (L.) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)	11
Eating insects – from acceptable to desirable consumer products	11
Behaviour of two fly species reared for livestock feed: optimising production and insect welfare	11
The Brazilians’ sensorial perceptions for novel food – cookies with insect protein	10
Preliminary project design for insect production: part 2 – organism kinetics, system dynamics and the role of modelling & simulation	10
A dynamic hop to cricket consumption: factors influencing willingness to try insect-based food	10
Interaction of age and temperature on heat shock protein expression, sperm count, and sperm viability of the adult black soldier fly (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)	10
Edible insects as foods: mapping scientific publications and product launches in the global market (1996-2021)	10
Insects in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) diets – comparison between full-fat, defatted, and de-chitinised meals, and oil and exoskeleton fractions	10
Towards circular agriculture – exploring insect waste streams as a crop and soil health promoter	10
Life on a piece of cake: performance and fatty acid profiles of black soldier fly larvae fed oilseed by-products	10
Effect of red clover-only diets on house crickets (Acheta domesticus) growth and survival	10
Physical, nutritional, and sensory properties of spray-dried and oven-roasted cricket (Acheta domesticus) powders	10
Temperature-modified density effects in the black soldier fly: low larval density leads to large size, short development time and high fat content	10
Traditional rearing techniques of the edible Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia Smith) and its socio-economic perspective in Nagaland, India	9
Characterisation of fatty acid profiles of Tenebrio molitor larvae reared on diets enriched with edible oils	9
Anthropo-entomophagy and ethno-entomology among the ethnic Mao-Naga and Poumai-Naga tribes of Manipur, Northeast India	9
Fermentation technology applied in the insect value chain: making a win-win between microbes and insects	9
Can farm weeds improve the growth and microbiological quality of crickets (Gryllus bimaculatus)?	9
The effects of density on the growth, survival and feed conversion of Tenebrio molitor larvae	9
Organic side streams: using microbes to make substrates more fit for mass producing insects for use as feed	9
Influence of ultrasonic treatment on functional properties and structure of tussah pupa protein isolate	9
Lipid fingerprinting of yellow mealworm Tenebrio molitor by untargeted liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry	9
Characterisation of pH-shift-produced protein isolates from sago palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) larvae	9
Practices of entomophagy and entomotherapy in Bangladesh	9
Edible insect marketing in Western countries: wisely weighing the foodstuff, the foodie, and the foodscape	9
Harvesting desert locusts for food and feed may contribute to crop protection but will not suppress upsurges and plagues	9
The effect of relative humidity on the survival and growth rate of the yellow mealworm larvae (Tenebrio molitor, Linnaeus 1758)	9
Suitable extraction conditions for determination of total anti-oxidant capacity and phenolic compounds in Ruspolia differens Serville	8
Effect of the house cricket (Acheta domesticus) inclusion and process temperature on extrudate snack properties	8
Valorisation of agri-food waste and mealworms rearing residues for improving the sustainability of Tenebrio molitor industrial production	8
Effect of carrot supplementation on nutritional value of insects: a case study with Jamaican field cricket (Gryllus assimilis)	8
Can insects be used in the nutrition of ruminants?	8
Unravelling the potential of cricket-based hydrolysed sourdough on the quality of an innovative bakery product	8
Impact of starvation on fat content and microbial load in edible crickets (Acheta domesticus)	8
Effects of rearing system and microbial inoculation on black soldier fly larvae growth and microbiota when reared on agri-food by-products	8
Insects used as foodstuff by indigenous groups in Morelos, Mexico	8
Partial substitution of soy protein isolates with cricket flour during extrusion affects firmness and in vitro protein digestibility	8
Supercritical-CO2 for defatting and production of bioactive extracts from black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae	8
Performance, nutrient digestibility and selected gut health parameters of broilers fed with black soldier fly, lesser mealworm and yellow mealworm	8
Edible insects in the Adamawa and eastern regions of Cameroon: collection, processing and consumption	8
Gatekeepers in the food industry: acceptability of edible insects	7
Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) as a feed for beef cattle: a hedonic pricing model	7
Omega-3 on the fly: long-legged fly Machaerium maritimae as a potential source of eicosapentaenoic acid for aquafeeds	7
Colonisation of finfish substrate inhabited by black soldier fly larvae by blow flies, bacteria, and fungi	7
Techno-biofunctional aspect of seasoning powder from farm-raised sago palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) larvae	7
Exploring edible insects’ acceptance through subjective perceptions: a visual Q study	7
Facing the challenge of discarded fish: improving nutritional quality of two insect species larvae for use as feed and food	7
Black soldier fly meal effects on meagre health condition: gut morphology, gut microbiota and humoral immune response	7
Impact of some local organic by-products on Acheta domesticus growth and meal production	7
Cannibalism, oviposition and egg development in the edible long-horned grasshopper, Ruspolia differens (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) under laboratory conditions	7
Stable isotope ratio analysis for the characterisation of edible insects	7
Biofortification of selenium in black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) prepupae reared on seaweed or selenium enriched substrates	7
Feeding black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens) reared on organic rest streams alters gut characteristics of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)	7
Mineral composition in black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae and resulting frass from fruit and their peels	7
Use of distillery by-products as Tenebrio molitor mealworm feed supplement	7
Microbial contaminants in wild harvested and traded edible long-horned grasshopper, Ruspolia differens (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) in Uganda	7
Substrates most preferred for black soldier fly Hermetia illucens (L.) oviposition are not the most suitable for their larval development	7
Edible insects: non-food and non-feed industrial applications	7
The mitochondrial genome of Qinghuang_1, the first modern improved strain of Chinese oak silkworm, Antheraea pernyi (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)	7