OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Apidologie is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Topical exposure of honey bee queens to heat-inactivated Israeli acute paralysis virus does not protect their offspring against active infection	47
The impact of floral diversity on bumblebee colony development and pollination efficacy among foragers	42
Dietary dopamine supplementation has no effect on ovary activity in queen-less or queen-right honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers	38
A scientific note on flower search and floral handling pattern determining flower constancy in bumblebees	28
Bombus-plant interactions defined by bipartite network analysis in an underexplored Mediterranean island (Sicily)	27
Relative effectiveness of methods that sample worker honey bees to estimate Varroa destructor populations in Apis mellifera colonies	20
Natural viral infection, individual immunity, and flight performance in honey bee Apis mellifera drones	19
Vitellogenin in the honey bee midgut	17
The impact of chronic exposure to field-level thiamethoxam on sunflower visitation and yield for Apis cerana	17
Tropical stingless bees exhibit pronounced positive phototaxis to the ultraviolet component of sunlight	16
Effects of coumaphos on locomotor activities of different honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) subspecies and ecotypes	14
Cognitive impairment caused by abdominal exposure with fluvalinate in the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera	14
Scientific note: Phoretic interaction between Antherophagus (Coleoptera) and Bombus funebris (Hymenoptera), using Chuquiraga jussieui (Asteraceae) as transfer stations in the páramos	13
Correction to: Resistance to Varroa destructor is a trait mainly transmitted by the queen and not via worker learning	13
Nutritional profiling of common eastern North American pollen species with implications for bee diet and pollinator health	13
Eggs of the bee Osmia lignaria endure weeks of prolonged cold weather	12
Species redescription and nest architecture of Plebeia flavocincta (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)	12
The development of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay to detect American foulbrood in managed honey bee populations	12
Varroa resistance in Apis cerana: a review	12
Natural habitat cover and fragmentation per se influence orchid-bee species richness in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado	12
A filmed copulation of Ctenoplectra (Ctenoplectrini, Apidae) bees suggests that males may chemically mark females	11
Evidence of sociality in European small Carpenter bees (Ceratina)	11
Fuel provisioning for pollen collection by solitary bee, Andrena taraxaci orienticola	10
Markerless tracking of bumblebee foraging allows for new metrics of bee behavior and demonstrations of increased foraging efficiency with experience	10
A qPCR assay for sensitive and rapid detection of African A-lineage honey bees (Apis mellifera)	10

The use of drone congregation behaviour for population surveys of the honey bee Apis cerana	10
Correction to: Nearly half of spring-flying male Andrena bees consume pollen, but less than female conspecifics	10
Gene flow among populations of Xylocopa frontalis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopini) of islands and continent: is the sea a geographical barrier?	10
Males from multiple colonies improve queen mating success in the bumblebee Bombus lantschouensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	10
Age-performance and intensity of grooming behavior toward Varroa destructor in resistant and susceptible Apis mellifera colonies	9
Managed honeybee hives and the diversity of wild bees in a dryland nature reserve	9
Effect of Osmia bicornis supplemental pollination on seed yield of forest seed orchards	9
Crushing corn pollen grains increased diet digestibility and hemolymph protein content while decreasing honey bee consumption	9
Immediate and long-term effects of induced brood interruptions on the reproductive success of Varroa destructor	9
Patterns of virus coincidence between honey bees and bumble bees in the Pacific Northwest, USA	8
Nesting ecology of the bee Hylaeus (Hylaeopsis) platensis n. sp. (Colletidae, Hylaeinae) with description of its parasite, Grotea hylaeivora n. sp. (Ichneumonidae, Labeninae)	8
Effectiveness of an ethanol extract of jet black ant nests for combatting nosemosis in apiary honey bees	8
A scientific note on the differential handling behaviour of two large carpenter bees on an inverted keel flower	8
Effect of land-use intensity and adjacent semi-natural habitats on wild and honey bees of meadows	8
Nesting biology of Centris aethyctera (Centridini, Apidae) in an estuarine environment	8
Accessibility and resource quality drive flower visitation patterns among native perennial species	8
Haplotype diversity and Varroa destructor infestation patterns in commercial beekeeping operations across Southwestern Saudi Arabia	8
Disparate continental scale patterns in floral host breadth of Australian colletid bees (Colletidae: Hymenoptera)	7
Resistance to Varroa destructor is a trait mainly transmitted by the queen and not via worker learning	7
More than the usual suspect: diversity of pollinators of chayote (Sechium edule) at high elevations in Chiapas, Mexico	7
Toxicity of imidacloprid for stingless bees of the genus Tetragonisca (Meliponini)	7
The high Wolbachia infection does not drive Tetrapedia diversipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae) sex bias and population genetic structure	7
Effect of climate seasonality and vegetation cover on floral resource selection by two stingless bee species	7
The effects of instrumental insemination on selected and unselected breeding characteristics in honeybee (Apis mellifera L.)	7
Potential of whey protein as a nutritional intervention in alleviating manganese and paraquat-mediated oxidative stress in Apis mellifera meda	6
First report of phoresy by silken fungus beetles on Bombus funebris (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini) in the Southern Andes of Ecuador	6
Nuclear translocation of vitellogenin in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)	6
Acute toxicity of sublethal concentrations of thiacloprid and clothianidin to immune response and oxidative status of honey bees	6
Macroalgal extracts as an alternative for the control of Paenibacillus larvae	6
Rapid transformation of traditional beekeeping and colony marketing erode genetic differentiation in Apis mellifera simensis, Ethiopia	6
Possibility to change the body size in worker bees by a combination of small-cell and standard-cell combs in the same nest	6
Correction to: Wide genetic diversity in Old World honey bees threaten by introgression	6
The time of day matters when it comes to yellowjackets’ attacks on honey bees and lavender essential oil can deter wasps from hives	6
Varroa mites exhibit strong host fidelity despite spatial desegregation of mite and host species in Vietnam	6
Commercial honey bee keeping compromises wild bee conservation in Mediterranean nature reserves	6
Locomotion and searching behaviour in the honey bee larva depend on nursing interaction	6
Long-term monitoring of changes in the native bumblebee community after alien species (Bombus terrestris) invasion and estimation of factors affecting its abundance	6
Resin foraging interactions in stingless bees: an ecological synthesis using multilayer networks	6
The effect of forager loss on honeybee workers temporal polyethism and social network structure	6
Oxidative stress and apoptosis in Asian honey bees (A. cerana) exposed to multiple pesticides in intensive agricultural landscape	6
Biting behavior against Varroa mites in honey bees is associated with changes in mandibles, with tracking by a new mobile application for mite damage identification	5
Oil flowers of Malpighiaceae and its oil-collecting bees: loyalty and robbery in a highly specialized system	5
Scientific note: Polygyny and hierarchy among queens in the stingless bee Melipona quinquefasciata	5
Side effects of imidacloprid, ethion, and hexaflumuron on adult and larvae of honey bee Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera, Apidae)	5
Copper-accelerated pupation in larvae of the buff-tailed bumble bee	5
Interaction between Vespula germanica and Apis mellifera in Patagonia Argentina apiaries	5
Bee community composition, but not diversity, is influenced by floret size in cultivated sunflowers	5
Long-term Vespa velutina nigrithorax pressure: Honey bee risk survival to alien invasion	5
Sperm comet assay as a novel tool in assessing genotoxicity in high-mortality honey bee (Apis mellifera) populations	5
Asymmetry in the ovarioles, mandibular glands and hypopharyngeal glands of honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers developing in queenright or queenless colonies	5

A scientific note on neotropical bumblebees Bombus (Thoracobombus) excellens	4
Genetic parameters, trends, and inbreeding in a honeybee breeding program for royal jelly production and behavioral traits	4
Reproduction of Varroa destructor does not elicit varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH) or recapping behaviour in honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera)	4
Fatty acid homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera) fed commercial diet supplements	4
Honey bees in Chile: a national survey of ancestry and admixture	4
Stingless bee (Tetragonula carbonaria) foragers prioritise resin and reduce pollen foraging after hive splitting	4
Effects of queen excluders on the colony dynamics of honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) under biodynamic management	4
Effects of imidacloprid on survival and nest development in the neo-tropical bumblebee Bombus ephippiatus	4
Embryogenesis and apoptosis appears as key molecular pathways involved in Varroa destructor reproduction	4
Comparative prevalence of Nosema ceranae infection between wild and managed honey bee(Apis mellifera) colonies in South Texas	4
Lithium chloride leads to concentration dependent brood damages in honey bee hives (Apis mellifera) during control of the mite Varroa destructor	4
Honey bee-collected pollen richness and protein content across an agricultural land-use gradient	4
A scientific note on pollinators’ ability to overcome exploitation barriers: deep hummingbird-evolved corollas and small-sized bees	4
Monitoring of hive weight changes in various landscapes	4
Fatty acid profile of Apis mellifera workers in the face of an immune challenge	4
Comparative cytogenetic analysis reveals chromosomal variability in five stingless bees of the genus Trigona (Apidae, Apinae, Meliponini)	4
Age-related changes in cuticular hydrocarbon bouquet and same-sex sexual behavior of mason bee males (Osmia cornuta and O. bicornis)	4
Scientific note: Imidacloprid found in wild plants downstream permanent greenhouses in Sweden	4
Genetic diversity and population genetic structure analysis of Apis mellifera subspecies in Algeria and Europe based on complementary sex determiner (CSD) gene	4
Correction to: Minus-C subfamily has diverged from Classic odorant-binding proteins in honeybees	4