Subfield · Insect Science
Most cited papers in Insect Science
What are the most cited papers in Insect Science?
The most cited paper in Insect Science is "UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection" (R. C. Edgar, Brian J. Haas, José Carlos Clemente et al., 2011), with 15,726 citations. Next come "ITS primers with enhanced specificity for basidiomycetes ‐ application to the identification of mycorrhizae and rusts" (10,561) and "The Role of Superoxide Anion in the Autoxidation of Epinephrine and a Simple Assay for Superoxide Dismutase" (9,109).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,806 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection R. C. Edgar, Brian J. Haas, José Carlos Clemente et al. · Bioinformatics | 23 Jun 2011 | 15,726 |
| 2 | ITS primers with enhanced specificity for basidiomycetes ‐ application to the identification of mycorrhizae and rusts Monique Gardes, Thomas D. Bruns · Molecular Ecology | Apr 1993 | 10,561 |
| 3 | The Role of Superoxide Anion in the Autoxidation of Epinephrine and a Simple Assay for Superoxide Dismutase Hara Prasad Misra, Irwin Fridovich · Journal of Biological Chemistry | May 1972 | 9,109 |
| 4 | SPECIES ASSEMBLAGES AND INDICATOR SPECIES:THE NEED FOR A FLEXIBLE ASYMMETRICAL APPROACH Marc Dufrêne, Pierre Legendre · Ecological Monographs | Aug 1997 | 7,453 |
| 5 | Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops Alexandra‐Maria Klein, Bernard E Vaissiere, James H. Cane et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 27 Oct 2006 | 7,273 |
| 6 | Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers Simon Geoffrey Potts, Jacobus Christiaan Biesmeijer, Claire Kremen et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 25 Feb 2010 | 6,497 |
| 7 | Update on the environmental and economic costs associated with alien-invasive species in the United States David Mayke da Silva Pimentel, Rodolfo Zuniga, Doug Morrison · Ecological Economics | 30 Dec 2004 | 4,821 |
| 8 | Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems Nick M. Haddad et al. · Science Advances | 6 Mar 2015 | 4,812 |
| 9 | FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild Nhu Nguyen, Zewei Song, Scott Thomas Bates et al. · Fungal ecology | 22 Jul 2015 | 4,678 |
| 10 | Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers Dave Goulson, Elizabeth Nicholls, Cristina Botías et al. · Science | 26 Feb 2015 | 4,110 |
| 11 | Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning Richard D. Bardgett, Wim H. van der Putten · Nature | Nov 2014 | 4,064 |
| 12 | The Dorsoventral Regulatory Gene Cassette spätzle/Toll/cactus Controls the Potent Antifungal Response in Drosophila Adults Bruno Lemaître, Émmanuelle Nicolas, Lydia Michaut et al. · Cell | Sep 1996 | 4,045 |
| 13 | Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity Andrés Baselga · Global Ecology and Biogeography | Oct 2009 | 4,034 |
| 14 | BOTANICAL INSECTICIDES, DETERRENTS, AND REPELLENTS IN MODERN AGRICULTURE AND AN INCREASINGLY REGULATED WORLD Murray B. Isman · Annual Review of Entomology | 11 Jul 2005 | 3,850 |
| 15 | Global diversity and geography of soil fungi Leho Tedersoo et al. · Science | 28 Nov 2014 | 3,776 |
| 16 | Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) quantitative assay of immunoglobulin G Eva Olsson Engvall, Peter Perlmann · Immunochemistry | Sep 1971 | 3,774 |
| 17 | The Sublethal Effects of Pesticides on Beneficial Arthropods Nicolas Desneux, Axel Decourtye, Jean‐Marie Delpuech · Annual Review of Entomology | 14 Jul 2006 | 3,590 |
| 18 | Mycorrhizal fungal diversity determines plant biodiversity, ecosystem variability and productivity Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, John N. Klironomos, Margot Ursic et al. · Nature | Nov 1998 | 3,587 |
| 19 | Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers Francisco Sánchez‐Bayo, Kris A. G. Wyckhuys · Biological Conservation | 31 Jan 2019 | 3,527 |
| 20 | Transdermal drug delivery Mark R. Prausnitz, Róbert Langer · Nature Biotechnology | Nov 2008 | 3,525 |
| 21 | The Host Defense of Drosophila melanogaster Bruno Lemaître, Jules A. Hoffmann · Annual Review of Immunology | 13 Jan 2007 | 3,426 |
| 22 | Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum Jérôme Chave, David A. Coomes, Steven Jansen et al. · Ecology Letters | 20 Feb 2009 | 3,277 |
| 23 | Materials fabrication from Bombyx mori silk fibroin Danielle N. Rockwood, Rucsanda C. Preda, Tuna Yücel et al. · Nature Protocols | 22 Sep 2011 | 3,106 |
| 24 | Ecological impacts of invasive alien plants: a meta-analysis of their effects on species, communities and ecosystems Montserrat Vilà, José L. Espinar, Martin Hejda et al. · Ecology Letters | 19 May 2011 | 3,098 |
| 25 | Habitat Management to Conserve Natural Enemies of Arthropod Pests in Agriculture Douglas A. Landis, S. D. Wratten, Geoff M. Gurr · Annual Review of Entomology | 2000 | 3,086 |
| 26 | An RNA-directed nuclease mediates post-transcriptional gene silencing in Drosophila cells Scott M. Hammond, Emily Bernstein, David Beach et al. · Nature | Mar 2000 | 3,024 |
| 27 | Economic valuation of the vulnerability of world agriculture confronted with pollinator decline Nicola Gallai, Jean‐Michel Salles, Josef Settele et al. · Ecological Economics | 4 Aug 2008 | 2,977 |
| 28 | Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences Margaret McFall‐Ngai et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 7 Feb 2013 | 2,965 |
| 29 | Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology John H. Werren, Laura Baldo, Michael E. Clark · Nature Reviews Microbiology | 16 Sep 2008 | 2,957 |
| 30 | Bacillus thuringiensis and Its Pesticidal Crystal Proteins E. Schnepf, Neil Crickmore, Jeroen Van Rie et al. · Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | Sep 1998 | 2,947 |
| 31 | Post-glacial re-colonization of European biota Godfrey M. Hewitt · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | Sep 1999 | 2,876 |
| 32 | Role of plant heat-shock proteins and molecular chaperones in the abiotic stress response Wang‐Xia Wang, Basia Vinocur, Oded Shoseyov et al. · Trends in Plant Science | 20 Mar 2004 | 2,803 |
| 33 | Biotic homogenization: a few winners replacing many losers in the next mass extinction Michael L. McKinney, Julie L. Lockwood · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Nov 1999 | 2,732 |
| 34 | The gut microbiota of insects – diversity in structure and function Philipp Engel, Nancy A. Moran · FEMS Microbiology Reviews | 21 May 2013 | 2,714 |
| 35 | Jasmonates: biosynthesis, perception, signal transduction and action in plant stress response, growth and development. An update to the 2007 review in Annals of Botany Claus H. Wasternack, Bettina Hause · Annals of Botany | 4 Apr 2013 | 2,689 |
| 36 | Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance Lucas A. Garibaldi et al. · Science | Mar 2013 | 2,688 |
| 37 | Trade, transport and trouble: managing invasive species pathways in an era of globalization Philip Eric Hulme · Journal of Applied Ecology | 14 Jan 2009 | 2,670 |
| 38 | TOWARD A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF SELF‐INJURY Brian A. Iwata, Michael F. Dorsey, Keith J. Slifer et al. · Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis | Jun 1994 | 2,645 |
| 39 | An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems Kira S. Makarova et al. · Nature Reviews Microbiology | 28 Sep 2015 | 2,636 |
| 40 | A proposed unified framework for biological invasions Tim M. Blackburn, Petr Pyšek, Sven Bacher et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 23 May 2011 | 2,633 |
| 41 | Release of Ca2+ from a nonmitochondrial intracellular store in pancreatic acinar cells by inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate Hanspeter Streb, R.F. Irvine, Michael John Berridge et al. · Nature | Nov 1983 | 2,611 |
| 42 | JAZ repressor proteins are targets of the SCFCOI1 complex during jasmonate signalling Bryan C. Thines, Leron Katsir, Maeli Melotto et al. · Nature | 18 Jul 2007 | 2,597 |
| 43 | BUSCO Applications from Quality Assessments to Gene Prediction and Phylogenomics Robert Michael Waterhouse, Mathieu Seppey, Felipe A. Simão et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 5 Dec 2017 | 2,546 |
| 44 | The ecological role of biodiversity in agroecosystems Miguel Angel Altieri · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment | Jun 1999 | 2,522 |
| 45 | The JAZ family of repressors is the missing link in jasmonate signalling Andrea Chini, Sandra Fonseca, Gorka S. Fernandez et al. · Nature | 18 Jul 2007 | 2,512 |
| 46 | Assessment of suicidal intention: The Scale for Suicide Ideation. Aaron T. Beck, Mária Kovács, Arlene Weissman · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1979 | 2,477 |
| 47 | Plant Immunity to Insect Herbivores Gregg A. Howe, Georg Jander · Annual Review of Plant Biology | 21 Nov 2007 | 2,475 |
| 48 | A Robust CRISPR/Cas9 System for Convenient, High-Efficiency Multiplex Genome Editing in Monocot and Dicot Plants Xingliang Ma, Qunyu Zhang, Qinlong Zhu et al. · Molecular Plant | 23 Apr 2015 | 2,469 |
| 49 | Plant essential oils for pest and disease management Murray B. Isman · Crop Protection | Sep 2000 | 2,464 |
| 50 | Classifying drivers of global forest loss Philip G. Curtis, Christy M. Slay, Nancy L. Harris et al. · Science | 13 Sep 2018 | 2,373 |
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