OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Insect Science is 10. 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
Institutional and policy bottlenecks to IPM	83
Pathogen within-host dynamics and disease outcome: what can we learn from insect studies?	75
Publisher's Note	74
Foreword	71
Time memory in social insects with a special focus on honey bees	67
Blowfly genomics: current insights, knowledge gaps, and future perspectives	67
Editorial overview: Special section on vector sensory ecology (2024)	62
Editorial overview: Classical, novel and underrated regulators of development in the omics era	61
Semiochemicals modulating bed bug behaviour	58
Editorial Board	57
Evolution of chemical interactions between ants and their mutualist partners	55
Editorial Board	54
Decoding sex differences: how GABA shapes Drosophila behavior	48
The social brain of ‘non-eusocial’ insects	47
Global change in marine coastal habitats impacts insect populations and communities	47
Chemical communication in ant-hemipteran mutualism: potential implications for ant invasions	47
Impact of parasitoid-associated polydnaviruses on plant-mediated herbivore interactions	45
Direct sequencing of insect symbionts via nanopore adaptive sampling	44
Extent and impacts of winter breeding in the North American monarch butterfly	42
Is the genetic architecture of behavior exceptionally complex?	42
‘Junk’ that matters: the role of transposable elements in bumblebee genome evolution	40
Parallel evolutionary paths of rove beetle myrmecophiles: replaying a deep-time tape of life	40
Monocot crop–aphid interactions: plant resilience and aphid adaptation	39
Extracting spatial information from temporal odor patterns: insights from insects	39
Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa includes winners and losers under future climate	36

The impact of volatiles on tick-host interaction and vector competence	36
Immune interactions between mosquitoes and microbes during midgut colonization	36
The benefits to sub-Saharan Africa of the biological control of weeds: already considerable, but could be far greater	35
Tracking technologies: advances driving new insights into monarch migration	35
Glucose aversion: a behavioral resistance mechanism in the German cockroach	34
Facing the flames: insect responses to megafires and changing fire regimes	33
Population dynamics and drivers of the eastern monarch (Danaus plexippus) across its full annual cycle: a cross-scale synthesis of a model migratory species	33
Microbiome toxicology — bacterial activation and detoxification of insecticidal compounds	32
Editorial Board	29
Editorial Board	29
Towards integrated pest and pollinator management in tropical crops	29
Addressing context dependence in studies of plant diversity to improve the understanding of natural enemy conservation	29
The within-host ecology of insects and their parasites: integrating experiments and mathematical models	28
Emerging patterns in social wasp invasions	28
Insect resistance management facing African smallholder farmers under climate change	26
Potential distribution of invasive crop pests under climate change: incorporating mitigation responses of insects into prediction models	25
Editorial overview: Diverse actions of GABA in insect nervous systems	25
Feasibility of sand fly control based on knowledge of sensory ecology	25
Untangling plastic responses to combined thermal and dietary stress in insects	24
Circadian and daily rhythms of disease vector mosquitoes	24
Beyond the Bite: How Mosquito Salivary Proteins Modulate Midgut Biology and Malaria Parasite Transmission	24
The case for integrated pest management in Africa: transition from a pesticide-based approach	24
Food web engineering: ecology and evolution to improve biological pest control	24
How protection of honey bees can help and hinder bee conservation	23
Multimodal floral recognition by bumblebees	22
Microbial influence on reproduction, conversion, and growth of mass produced insects	22
Aphid hologenomics: current status and future challenges	22
Contaminant fluxes across ecosystems mediated by aquatic insects	22
New insight into molecular mechanisms underlying division of labor in honeybees	21
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and One Health — a call for action to integrate	21
Using AI to prevent the insect apocalypse: toward new environmental risk assessment procedures	21
The importance of fat accumulation and reserves for insect overwintering	21
Adaptations and counter-adaptations in Drosophila host–parasitoid interactions: advances in the molecular mechanisms	20
Host plant resistance in wheat to barley yellow dwarf viruses and their aphid vectors: a review	20
Epigenetic processes in insect adaptation to environmental stress	19
Viviparity and obligate blood feeding: tsetse flies as a unique research system to study climate change	19
Impact of the social environment in insect sensory systems	19
Endogenous viral elements in mosquito genomes: current knowledge and outstanding questions	18
Behavioral, ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying caterpillar-ant symbioses	18
Hybridization and invasiveness in social insects — The good, the bad and the hybrid	18
VectorBase.org updates: bioinformatic resources for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens and related organisms	18
A role for glia in cellular and systemic metabolism: insights from the fly	18
RNA virus EVEs in insect genomes	18
NLRs are highly relevant resistance genes for aphid pests	17
Editorial overview: Vectors, symbionts, and pathogen interactions: prospects for controlling vector-borne diseases	17
Metal ions in insect reproduction: a crosstalk between reproductive physiology and immunity	17
Editorial Board	17
An insect’s energy bar: the potential role of plant guttation on biological control	17
Highlights, challenges, and perspectives in basic and applied chemical ecology of triatomines	17
Genomic complexity of parasites and vectors challenges malaria control in Southeast Asia	16

Parasitoid speciation and diversification	16
An integrative framework for tick management: the need to connect wildlife science, One Health, and interdisciplinary perspectives	16
Advances in research on arboviral acquisition from hosts to mosquitoes	16
Neuropeptide regulations on behavioral plasticity in social insects	16
Microbe-mediated alterations in floral nectar: consequences for insect parasitoids	16
Chemically mediated trophic interactions of invasive herbivorous insects and their applications for monitoring and management	16
Molecular physiology of manganese in insects	15
Newer characters, same story: neonicotinoid insecticides disrupt food webs through direct and indirect effects	15
Host–parasitoid trophic webs in complex agricultural systems	15
Editorial overview: From neurons to ecology: how sensory information guides insect behaviour	15
Context and the functional use of information in insect sensory ecology	14
Firefly genomes illuminate the evolution of beetle bioluminescent systems	14
Regional dynamics of tick vectors of human disease	14
Body part-specific development in termite caste differentiation: crosstalk between hormonal actions and developmental toolkit genes	14
Genomics reveals widespread hybridization across insects with ramifications for species boundaries and invasive species	14
The sustainability of industrial insect mass rearing for food and feed production: zero waste goals through by-product utilization	14
Emerging technologies for pollinator monitoring	14
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: an integrative view	13
Gene editing in agricultural, health, and veterinary pest arthropods: recent advances	13
Parasitoid–host association in invaded communities	13
Integrating computer vision and molecular neurobiology to bridge the gap between behavior and the brain	13
Clines of resistance to parasitoids: the multifarious effects of temperature on defensive symbioses in insects	13
Collective decision-making during reproduction in social insects: a conceptual model for queen supersedure in honey bees (Apis mellifera)	13
Defining cell types and lineage in the Drosophila midgut using single cell transcriptomics	12
Molecular basis for epithelial morphogenesis and ion transport in the Malpighian tubule	12
Conflicts of interest and improvement through peer review: the case of IPBES report on pollinators	12
Plant Resistance to Cereal and Food Legume Insect pests in North Africa, West and Central Asia: Challenges and Achievements	12
Chromosomal inversions and their impact on insect evolution	12
The complexity of global change and its effects on insects	12
Experimental platforms for functional genomics in ticks	11
Termite primary queen — ancestral, but highly specialized eusocial phenotype	11
Agonist-dependent action of the juvenile hormone receptor	11
Interactions between parasitism and migration in monarch butterflies	11
The neurobiology of the Monarch butterfly compass	11
Chemical ecology of nectar–mosquito interactions: recent advances and future directions	11
Phenomenon of reproductive plasticity in ants	11
Dramatically increased accessibility and decreased cost-per-person impacts are needed for scaling IPM in Africa	11
Strengthening adult mosquito surveillance in Africa for disease control: learning from the present	11
Social aphids: emerging model for studying insect sociality	11
Parallel olfactory processing in a hemimetabolous insect	11
Advances in data-collection tools and analytics for crop pest and disease management	10
Chilled, starved or frozen: insect mitochondrial adaptations to overcome the cold	10
Editorial overview: Vectors and medical and veterinary entomology: Aedes-borne viral disease transmission: vector dynamics, plasticity, and prospects for control	10
Environmentally responsive reproduction: neuroendocrine signalling and the evolution of eusociality	10
Urban insect bioarks of the 21st century	10
Transporters and tubule crystals in the insect Malpighian tubule	10
Global change calls for novel plant protection: reviewing the potential of omnivorous plant-inhabiting arthropods as predators and plant defence inducers	10
Variations on a theme: factors regulating interaction between Diaphorina citri and “Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus” vector and pathogen of citrus huanglongbing	10
The variable effects of global change on insect mutualisms	10
Polarization vision in invertebrates: beyond the boundaries of navigation	10