OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Insectes Sociaux is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Better fed wasps are more selfish	55
Nesting biology and social organisation of a silk wasp (Microstigmus rosae) from the North–West Ecuadorian Choco	23
Rapid elimination of symbiotic intestinal protists during the neotenic differentiation in a subterranean termite, Reticulitermes speratus	21
Inter-gall dispersal in a socially parasitic aphid	13
ANTS by Gary J. Skinner and Andrew P. Jarman. 2025	12
My early encounters with Ants and Hamilton’s inclusive fitness theory	10
Nutrition induced direct fitness for workers in a primitively eusocial wasp	10
Sociality in the North African small carpenter bee, Ceratina albosticta	9
Endopolyploidy and its role in shaping ant castes and colony dynamics: a study on Camponotus aff. balzani (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)	9
Swarming rate and timing of unmanaged honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera carnica) in a forest environment	9
Colony composition, phasic reproduction, caste dimorphism, and prey preferences of the oriental non-army doryline ant Yunodorylus eguchii (Borowiec, 2009) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae)	9
What if you can control whom your queen mates with?	8
Olfactory associative learning in the Australian stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria	8
Behavioral interactions in two ant species in the Southeast United States and evidence for a native supercolony	8
The functional role of eversible tentacle organs in a myrmecophilous riodinid caterpillar and their impact on ant behavior	8
Seasonal nutrient fluctuations in Reticulitermes flavipes workers and soldiers	7
The queens of the stingless bees: from egg to adult	7
Natural history and daily rhythm activity of the myrmecophytic ant, Pseudomyrmex concolor Smith (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)	7
Rate of molecular evolution and life history traits of social insects	7
Ants (Lasius niger) deposit more pheromone close to food sources and further from the nest but do not attempt to update erroneous pheromone trails	6
The influence of illumination regimes on the structure of ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) community composition in urban habitats	6
Reassembly of ground-dwelling ant communities in reforestation plots in SW Costa Rica	6
Special Issue: Sociable arthropods: broadening conceptions about social insects	6
Behavioral and morphological traits influencing variation in task performance of Camponotus vagus ants	5
Tool use in pavement battles between ants: first report of Tetramorium immigrans (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) using soil-dropping as an interference strategy	5

Correction to: Visual associative learning and olfactory preferences of the greater banded hornet, Vespa tropica	5
Burying beetles as a model organism to study sex differences in parental care	5
Age-related variation of homing range in honeybee males (Apis mellifera)	5
Urban structures are poor stepping stones for crevice-nesting ants in fragmented landscapes	5
Nest-founding by red imported fire ant queens (Solenopsis invicta) is not limited by Solenopsis thief ant populations	5
Sociable arthropods: broadening conceptions about social insects	5
Beyond busy workers: exploring the sensitivity of inactive ants to environmental cues	5
Climatological influences on flight activity of Lepidotrigona flavibasis Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Meliponini)	5
Temnothorax longispinosus acorn ant colonies respond to parasitic raids by emigrating	4
Red imported fire ant Solenopsis invicta buren workers do not have ovaries	4
Brain plasticity indicates key cognitive demands in an animal society: caste comparisons in dampwood termites	4
Ovary activation correlates with the reproductive potential of honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers if they are in a foreign colony	4
In-nest behavior by tandem recruiters of the ant Temnothorax rugatulus: effects of context and quality	4
Conference contributions by section members of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) at international IUSSI conferences (1952–2022) are not in accordance with membership numb	4
Diversity hidden in nests: worldwide account of nidicolous silverfish (Insecta: Zygentoma)	4
Colony life history of the tropical arboreal ant, Cephalotes goniodontus De Andrade, 1999	4
Reexamining how ecology shapes the ontogeny of colony size and caste composition in social insects: insights from turtle ants in the arboreal realm	4
Impact of empty flowers on foraging choice and movement within floral patches by the honey bee, Apis mellifera	4
Visual associative learning and olfactory preferences of the greater banded hornet, Vespa tropica	4
Under pressure: the effect of long-term fungal infection on the encapsulation response in ants	4
Correction to: Description of nest architecture and ecological notes on the bumblebee Bombus (Pyrobombus) lapponicus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini)	3
Workers require more cognitive skills than soldiers, queens and kings	3
Financial report: international union for the study of social insects 2023	3
Notes on the biology of Protanilla sp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) collected in Ulu Gombak, Peninsular Malaysia	3
Characterization of cuticular hydrocarbons in a subsocial bee, Ceratina calcarata	3
Development of a standard medium for culturing the termite Reticulitermes speratus	3
Occupation of twigs by ants in the leaf litter: is there a relationship between the morphology of the castes and the entrance hole?	3
Correction: Busy as a bee—or not?	3
Find and then forget: the pheromone dilemma in ants	3
Innate visual attraction in wood ants is a hardwired behavior seen across different motivational and ecological contexts	3
Best Paper Announcement for 2023	3
Myrmecophily among mesostigmatid mites	3
Correction to: Mutagenesis mediated by CRISPR/Cas9 in the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta	3
Nest protection and foraging behaviour in solitary and social nests of the socially polymorphic orchid bee Euglossa viridissima	3
Mutual avoidance at resources by the native winter ant and the invasive Argentine ant	2
No short-term effects of fire on termite diversity in a tropical mountain	2
Natural history of Camponotus renggeri and Camponotus rufipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in an Atlantic Forest reserve, Brazil	2
Evidence of queen-rearing suppression by mature queens in the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata	2
A new host for a new Rossomyrmex minuchae population	2
Busy as a bee—or not?	2
Best paper announcement for 2024	2
Survey of the exocrine glands in workers of the ant Leptanilla clypeata	2
Dumping behaviour of Australian desert ants (Melophorus bagoti) (Hymenoptera:Formicidae)	2
The original histological sections of myrmecophilous and termitophilous beetles of Erich Wasmann (1859–1931)	2
Quit bugging me: phorid fly parasitoids affect expression of an immune gene in foraging fire ant workers	2
Drivers of seed preferences and dispersal by granivorous ants in a semiarid grassland	2
Optimal fissioning strategies of social insects with respect to colony dynamics and nest founding probability	2
Eusociality is not a major evolutionary transition, and why that matters	2
Stingless bee (Apidae: Meliponini) foraging and predation at trunk resin sources: Rare observations captured with microcontroller-based camera traps in a lowland dipterocarp forest	2
Nest architecture, worker reproduction, and polygyny in the ponerine ant Harpegnathos venator	2

The evidence of temporary social parasitism by Polyrhachis lamellidens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in a Camponotus obscuripes colony (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)	1
Effect of intraspecific competition on the demography of leaf-cutting ants: a matrix model approach	1
Ant diversity studies in Brazil: an overview of the myrmecological research in a megadiverse country	1
Effects of simulated tropical heat waves during development on the morphological and reproductive traits of Africanized honey bee	1
Reproductive potentials of task-shifting workers in a queenless ant	1
Emergence of keystone individuals in the social networks of the ant Camponotus fellah	1
Reproductive inefficiency and increased behavioral variation are associated with large group size in the orchid bee, Euglossa dilemma	1
On the distribution and diversity of tissue-specific somatic mutations in honey bee (Apis mellifera) drones	1
Is disturbance stridulation in the passalid beetle Odontotaenius disjunctus a form of social communication?	1
Variability of nest relocation behavior among acorn ant species	1
Queens of the inquiline social parasite Acromyrmex insinuator can join nest-founding queens of its host, the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior	1
Changes in gene expression align with behavioural differences in reproductive choices in a social beetle	1
Special issue “The overlooked biodiversity of ant associates”	1
Climate, geography, and the mating phenology of ants	1
Bee-Ing positive about wasp-negative media reporting: the opinions of scientists and their influence on the media	1
Description of nest architecture and ecological notes on the bumblebee Bombus (Pyrobombus) lapponicus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini)	1
Facultative commensalism of gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Neoponera verenae Forel, 1922 (Formicidae: Ponerinae) nests	1
Origin of an evolutionary novelty: the worker phenotype of eusocial wasps	1
A practical approach to RNA interference for studying gene function in a refractory social insect (on a limited budget)	1
Adaptive significance of early reproduction in Vespula shidai social wasps	1
Do diesel exhaust particles in pollen affect colony founding in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris?	1
Comparison of foraging tool use in two species of myrmicine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)	1
Life history changes associated with myrmecophily: high longevity but low fecundity in a tiny cricket Myrmecophilus quadrispinus (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae) living in ant nests	1
Forest logging is associated with shape of males and gynes in the wood ant Formica aquilonia	1
Mite–termite interaction: does termite mortality mediate mite density?	1
Social eavesdropping by stingless bees	1
Disturbance impacts on ant interactions in different climatic regions	1
Incipient colonies of the neotropical termite Cornitermes cumulans (Isoptera: Termitidae): comparing monogamy and polygamy as reproductive strategies	1
The discovery of mixed colonies in Temnothorax ants supports the territoriality hypothesis of dulotic social parasite evolution in myrmicine ants	1
Virgin queen behaviour and controlled mating in the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria (Meliponini)	1
Unfavorable urban climatic conditions affects colony performance of an amazonian stingless bee (Apidae: Meliponini)	1
Colony structure, ecological correlates and nestmate recognition in the ant Odontomachus hastatus: a comparative study between populations with different social organisations	1
An antifungal compound secreted by termite workers, phenylacetic acid, inhibits the growth of both termite egg-mimicking fungus and entomopathogenic fungi	1
Does the history of option quality affect nest site choice in the Acorn ant?	1
Uncovering how behavioral variation underlying mutualist partner quality is partitioned within a species complex of keystone seed-dispersing ants	1
Communal behavior and its exploitation in Tamalia social gall aphids (Aphididae: Tamaliinae)	1
Well-coordinated cooperative transport in the invasive ant Anoplolepis gracilipes	1
Comparative genetic study of the colony structure and colony spatial distribution between the higher termite Amitermes parvulus and the lower, subterranean termite Reticulitermes flavipes in an urban	1
Temporal consistency and associations between behavioural responses of foragers of an Ectatominae ant in a multiple test set-up	1
A kleptoparasitic beetle larva (Hymenorus dorsalis) exploits vertical division of labor in nests of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius	1
No major difference in growth and productivity between monogynous and polygynous colonies in the ant Myrmecina graminicola	1
Co-occurrence of parasitoids from two distinct insect orders in a population of the myrmicine ant, Pheidole gouldi, in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico	1
Social insect colony size is correlated with rates of molecular evolution	1