OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Apidologie is 6. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Managed honey bees as a radar for wild bee decline?	57
Perspectives on hygienic behavior in Apis mellifera and other social insects	46
The stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini): a review of the current threats to their survival	31
Stingless bee honey (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini): a review of quality control, chemical profile, and biological potential	30
Response mechanisms to heat stress in bees	28
Capacity of honeybees to remove heavy metals from nectar and excrete the contaminants from their bodies	28
Scientific note: often quoted, but not factual data about propolis composition	26
Nutritional and prebiotic efficacy of the microalga Arthrospira platensis (spirulina) in honey bees	26
How diverse is the chemistry and plant origin of Brazilian propolis?	25
A brief review of monolecty in bees and benefits of a broadened definition	22
Differences in honey bee bacterial diversity and composition in agricultural and pristine environments – a field study	22
Wide genetic diversity in Old World honey bees threaten by introgression	21
Genetic past, present, and future of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) in the United States of America	20
Don’t stay out too long! Thermal tolerance of the stingless bees Melipona subnitida decreases with increasing exposure time to elevated temperatures	19
Effects of selection and local adaptation on resilience and economic suitability in Apis mellifera carnica	18
Thermoregulation in the large carpenter bee Xylocopa frontalis in the face of climate change in the Neotropics	15
Nutrigenetic comparison of two Varroa-resistant honey bee stocks fed pollen and spirulina microalgae	15
Testis development and spermatogenesis in drones of the honey bee, Apis mellifera L.	14
Changes in the wing-beat frequency of bees and wasps depending on environmental conditions: a study with optical sensors	14
Body size but not age influences phototaxis in bumble bee (Bombus terrestris, L.) workers	13
Changes of selected biochemical parameters of the honeybee under the influence of an electric field at 50 Hz and variable intensities	13
A short history of studies on intelligence and brain in honeybees	13
Effects of late miticide treatments on foraging and colony productivity of European honey bees (Apis mellifera)	12
Vitellogenin in the honey bee midgut	12
Elevated recapping behaviour and reduced Varroa destructor reproduction in natural Varroa resistant Apis mellifera honey bees from the UK	12

Overview of the testing and assessment of effects of microbial pesticides on bees: strengths, challenges and perspectives	12
Effects of residual doses of neonicotinoid (imidacloprid) on metabolic rate of queen honey bees Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	12
Genome-wide characterization of coding and non-coding RNAs in the ovary of honeybee workers and queens	12
Synthetic and natural acaricides impair hygienic and foraging behaviors of honey bees	11
Efficacy and temperature dependence of 60% and 85% formic acid treatment against Varroa destructor	11
Island bees: do wood nesting bees have better island dispersal abilities?	11
Image recognition using convolutional neural networks for classification of honey bee subspecies	11
Hyperthermic stress resistance of bumblebee males: test case of Belgian species	11
Glyphosate commercial formulation negatively affects the reproductive success of solitary wild bees in a Pampean agroecosystem	11
How city traits affect taxonomic and functional diversity of urban wild bee communities: insights from a worldwide analysis	11
Temporal and spatial foraging patterns of three Asian honey bee species in Bangalore, India	11
Decline of native bees (Apidae: Euglossa) in a tropical forest of Panama	10
Scientific note on small hive beetle infestation of stingless bee (Tetragonula carbonaria) colony following a heat wave	9
The geographical origin, refugia, and diversification of honey bees (Apis spp.) based on biogeography and niche modeling	9
The Bee Chromosome database (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	9
Immediate and long-term effects of induced brood interruptions on the reproductive success of Varroa destructor	9
Estimating bee abundance: can mark-recapture methods validate common sampling protocols?	9
A gene drive does not spread easily in populations of the honey bee parasite Varroa destructor	9
Sterol addition during pollen collection by bees: another possible strategy to balance nutrient deficiencies?	9
Red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) thermal preferences for nest sites and their effects on offspring survival	8
Lower pollen nutritional quality delays nest building and egg laying in Bombus terrestris audax micro-colonies leading to reduced biomass gain	8
Reproduction of Varroa destructor does not elicit varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH) or recapping behaviour in honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera)	8
The energetic and survival costs of Varroa parasitism in honeybees	8
Insights into Ethiopian honey bee diversity based on wing geomorphometric and mitochondrial DNA analyses	8
Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals regulatory genes involved in cold tolerance and hypoxic adaptation of high-altitude Tibetan bumblebees	8
Scientific note: Imidacloprid found in wild plants downstream permanent greenhouses in Sweden	8
Nuclear translocation of vitellogenin in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)	8
Valorization of hop leaves for development of eco-friendly bee pesticides	8
Genetic diversity of wild and managed honey bees (Apis mellifera) in Southwestern Pennsylvania, and prevalence of the microsporidian gut pathogens Nosema ceranae and N. apis	8
Acute toxicity of sublethal concentrations of thiacloprid and clothianidin to immune response and oxidative status of honey bees	8
Side effects of imidacloprid, ethion, and hexaflumuron on adult and larvae of honey bee Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera, Apidae)	7
Species turnover and low stability in a community of euglossine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) sampled within 28 years in an urban forest fragment	7
Beyond brood: the potential impacts of insect growth disruptors on the long-term health and performance of honey bee colonies	7
Fatty acid homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera) fed commercial diet supplements	7
Natural habitat cover and fragmentation per se influence orchid-bee species richness in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado	7
Identification and functional characterization of AcerOBP15 from Apis cerana cerana (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	7
Influence of honey bee seasonal phenotype and emerging conditions on diet behavior and susceptibility to imidacloprid	7
Apis laboriosa confirmed by morphometric and genetic analyses of giant honey bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae) from sites of sympatry in Arunachal Pradesh, North East India	7
Changes in innate immune response and detoxification in Melipona quadrifasciata (Apinae: Meliponini) on oral exposure to azadirachtin and spinosad	7
Cold stress induces specific antioxidant responses in honey bee brood	7
Mild thermal stress does not negatively affect immune gene expression in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris	6
Differences in pre-imaginal development of the honey bee Apis mellifera between in vitro and in-hive contexts	6
Karyotypic variation in the stingless bee Trigona spinipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) from different geographical regions of Brazil	6
Winter activity unrelated to introgression in British bumblebee Bombus terrestris audax	6
Evidence of sociality in European small Carpenter bees (Ceratina)	6
Biome variation, not distance between populations, explains morphological variability in the orchid bee Eulaema nigrita (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Euglossini)	6
Climate-associated shifts in color and body size for a tropical bee pollinator	6
Species diversity, morphometrics, and nesting biology of Chinese stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini)	6
The dose makes the poison: feeding of antibiotic-treated winter honey bees, Apis mellifera, with probiotics and b-vitamins	6
Stingless bees in urban areas: low body size and high frequency of diploid males at mating congregations of Nannotrigona perilampoides (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) in Mérida, Yucatán, México	6

Genetic diversity of the complementary sex-determiner (csd) gene in two closed breeding stocks of Varroa -resistant honey bees	6
You are what you eat: relative importance of diet, gut microbiota and nestmates for honey bee, Apis mellifera, worker health	6
The honey bee genome-- what has it been good for?	6
Alcohol intoxication resistance and alcohol dehydrogenase levels differ between the honeybee castes	6
Comparative cytogenetic analysis of three species of the genus Partamona (Apidae, Meliponini)	6
Three pillars of Varroa control	6
The upward tilt of honeycomb cells increases the carrying capacity of the comb and is not to prevent the outflow of honey	6
Crushing corn pollen grains increased diet digestibility and hemolymph protein content while decreasing honey bee consumption	6