Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior

Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior is a research topic within Genetics. Science Explorer counts 59k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the genomic insights into social insects, particularly ants, termites, and honeybees, focusing on their symbiotic relationships, division of labor, and the genetic basis of eusociality. It also delves into the microbiota of these insects and their role in ecological interactions.

Social Insects
Genomics
Symbiosis
Ants
Termites
Honeybees
Microbiota
Division of Labor
Mutualism
Eusociality

Research works: 59k
In the world top 10%: 5.8k
Top-10% rate: 9.9%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +6%
Largest producer: United States

Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior

Which countries lead Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.7k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1.7k works
2 China 1.2k works
3 Brazil 719 works
4 Germany 487 works
5 India 448 works
6 France 359 works
7 Japan 358 works
8 United Kingdom 350 works
9 Australia 243 works
10 Italy 235 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States1,685 · 27.6%China1,219 · 20.0%Brazil719 · 11.8%Germany487 · 8.0%6 others listed1,993 · 32.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and United States Department of Agriculture.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 139 works
2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 138 works
3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 100 works
4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 95 works
5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 95 works
6 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 54 works
7 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 50 works
8 University of FloridaUnited States 45 works
9 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 38 works
10 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior include Richard M. Durbin, Peer Bork and Jun Wang.

1 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
2 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
3 Jun Wang China 340k citations
4 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
5 Koichiro Tamura Japan 268k citations
6 Mark A. Bradford United States 268k citations
7 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
8 Didier Raoult France 232k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior?

The most cited paper in Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior is "Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem" (Marco Dorigo, Luca Maria Gambardella, 1997), with 8,098 citations. Next come "Conservation evaluation and phylogenetic diversity" (5,933) and "Ant colony optimization" (5,332).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem Marco Dorigo, Luca Maria Gambardella · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	Apr 1997	8,098
2	Conservation evaluation and phylogenetic diversity Daniel P. Faith · Biological Conservation	1992	5,933
3	Ant colony optimization Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari, Thomas Stützle · IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine	Nov 2006	5,332
4	Visual perception of biological motion and a model for its analysis Gunnar Johansson · Perception & Psychophysics Open access	Jun 1973	4,540
5	The genetical evolution of social behaviour. II William D. O. Hamilton · Journal of Theoretical Biology	Jul 1964	4,202

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Where is Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior research done?

The largest centres of Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), São Paulo (Brazil) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in České Budějovice and Viçosa.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 296 works
2 ParisFrance 147 works
3 São PauloBrazil 121 works
4 TokyoJapan 92 works
5 Washington D.C.United States 75 works
6 GuangzhouChina 74 works
7 MoscowRussia 72 works
8 SydneyAustralia 66 works
9 New YorkUnited States 62 works
10 LondonUnited Kingdom 59 works

Where it is the local speciality

České BudějoviceCZ · 30.4 works23×
ViçosaBR · 36.4 works15×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, University of Würzburg and Rockefeller University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands	68.6	17.9%	8.4×	25	+3.1%
2	University of WürzburgGermany	67.7	18.1%	13.4×	35	+4.2%
3	Rockefeller UniversityUnited States	66.9	32.4%	21.1×	11	+65.6%
4	Cornell UniversityUnited States	66.8	13.4%	3.4×	37	+22.4%
5	China Agricultural UniversityChina	59.9	21.9%	5.4×	25	+26.2%
6	Macquarie UniversityAustralia	59.8	13.7%	8.4×	26	+13.1%
7	Aarhus UniversityDenmark	57.6	15.3%	3.4×	24	+13.2%
8	Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina	57.4	23.5%	5.7×	18	+59.6%
9	Stockholm UniversitySweden	57.3	21.0%	4.4×	12	+22.6%
10	Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina	56.7	15.6%	13.3×	25	+18.3%
11	University of California, RiversideUnited States	54.9	10.8%	13.6×	32	-7.6%
12	University of LausanneSwitzerland	54.5	22.2%	4.7×	18	-14.7%
13	University of ArizonaUnited States	53.0	10.9%	3.8×	20	+14.7%
14	University of California, DavisUnited States	52.8	15.9%	4.1×	27	-13.2%
15	Université LavalCanada	52.5	29.2%	2.7×	10	+71.1%
16	South China Agricultural UniversityChina	51.8	12.2%	8.8×	25	+42.6%
17	University of FloridaUnited States	51.2	10.9%	5.1×	45	-34.4%
18	University of CopenhagenDenmark	51.2	16.7%	2.5×	19	-3.8%
19	University of ExeterUnited Kingdom	51.2	14.9%	5.2×	18	-8.4%
20	South China Normal UniversityChina	50.8	28.4%	2.9×	8	+56.6%
21	Stanford UniversityUnited States	50.7	24.2%	0.9×	11	+12.0%
22	Lund UniversitySweden	50.6	14.7%	3.8×	18	-6.8%
23	Yangzhou UniversityChina	50.5	23.9%	3.1×	14	+112.0%
24	Czech University of Life Sciences PragueCzechia	50.3	10.4%	16.8×	14	+20.8%
25	University of MonsBelgium	50.2	6.1%	13.5×	21	+42.2%
26	Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden	50.2	17.2%	10.0×	13	-22.4%
27	University of GuelphCanada	50.1	21.0%	6.8×	16	-1.0%
28	Universidade Federal de ViçosaBrazil	50.0	9.1%	17.3×	36	-8.7%
29	Victoria University of WellingtonNew Zealand	49.9	20.8%	6.5×	11	+47.2%
30	Arizona State UniversityUnited States	48.6	9.1%	5.5×	30	-13.2%
31	University of SussexUnited Kingdom	48.6	19.6%	6.9×	14	-20.0%
32	University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina	48.2	21.3%	1.1×	14	+27.2%
33	University of TurinItaly	47.7	31.9%	2.2×	10	-5.6%
34	York UniversityCanada	47.6	17.2%	6.0×	18	-5.6%
35	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States	47.4	27.3%	1.9×	13	-15.4%
36	University of GeorgiaUnited States	47.1	15.3%	5.8×	21	-12.5%
37	Friedrich Schiller University JenaGermany	46.7	14.1%	5.1×	13	+22.1%
38	Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States	46.4	12.7%	3.0×	27	-30.7%
39	University of British ColumbiaCanada	46.2	15.0%	1.8×	18	+4.4%
40	University of ZurichSwitzerland	45.9	18.8%	1.6×	10	-0.2%
41	Universidade de São PauloBrazil	45.2	3.8%	3.0×	50	-21.3%
42	University of BernSwitzerland	45.2	12.0%	2.8×	12	+10.9%
43	University of HohenheimGermany	43.8	9.5%	12.1×	10	+37.0%
44	University of Life Sciences in LublinPoland	43.5	19.1%	13.0×	9	+43.7%
45	Shandong Agricultural UniversityChina	43.2	10.6%	10.3×	15	+49.8%
46	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate UniversityJapan	42.4	11.4%	26.1×	11	-7.7%
47	Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil	41.7	6.1%	5.5×	38	-24.4%
48	University of Hong KongChina	40.2	10.2%	1.2×	10	+36.3%
49	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom	35.5	12.8%	1.2×	10	-7.3%
50	KU LeuvenBelgium	35.2	13.0%	1.6×	13	-42.9%
51	King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia	32.0	7.0%	1.5×	12	+4.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, country by country

Is Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.043% in 2024.

Fractional works of Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

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Which countries lead Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior?

What are the most cited papers in Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior?

Where is Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior?

Is Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion