Most cited papers in Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
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).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,188 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Jun 1973 | 4,540 |
| 5 | The genetical evolution of social behaviour. II William D. O. Hamilton · Journal of Theoretical Biology | Jul 1964 | 4,202 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude Curtis Anthony Deutsch, Joshua J. Tewksbury, Raymond B. Huey et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 5 May 2008 | 3,891 |
| 8 | Positive interactions in communities Mark D. Bertness, Ragan M. Callaway · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | May 1994 | 3,885 |
| 9 | SPERM COMPETITION AND ITS EVOLUTIONARY CONSEQUENCES IN THE INSECTS George A. Parker · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | Nov 1970 | 3,681 |
| 10 | The Sublethal Effects of Pesticides on Beneficial Arthropods Nicolas Desneux, Axel Decourtye, Jean‐Marie Delpuech · Annual Review of Entomology | 14 Jul 2006 | 3,590 |
| 11 | Geometry for the selfish herd William D. O. Hamilton · Journal of Theoretical Biology | May 1971 | 3,494 |
| 12 | A movement ecology paradigm for unifying organismal movement research Ran Nathan, Wayne Marcus Getz, Eloy Revilla et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 5 Dec 2008 | 3,071 |
| 13 | THE MAJOR TRANSITIONS OF EVOLUTION Egbert Giles Leigh · Evolution | Dec 1995 | 3,004 |
| 14 | Effective leadership and decision-making in animal groups on the move Iain D. Couzin, Jens Krause, Nigel R. Franks et al. · Nature | Feb 2005 | 2,860 |
| 15 | Adhesive force of a single gecko foot-hair Kellar Autumn, Yiching A. Liang, S. Tonia Hsieh et al. · Nature | Jun 2000 | 2,768 |
| 16 | The gut microbiota of insects – diversity in structure and function Philipp Engel, Nancy A. Moran · FEMS Microbiology Reviews | 21 May 2013 | 2,714 |
| 17 | Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance Lucas A. Garibaldi et al. · Science | Mar 2013 | 2,688 |
| 18 | Water-repellent legs of water striders Xuefeng Gao, Lei Jiang · Nature | 3 Nov 2004 | 2,604 |
| 19 | The nested assembly of plant–animal mutualistic networks Jordi Bascompte, Pedro Jordano, Carlos J. Melián et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 24 Jul 2003 | 2,545 |
| 20 | Costs and limits of phenotypic plasticity Thomas J. DeWitt, Andrew Sih, David Sloan Wilson · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Feb 1998 | 2,345 |
| 21 | DNA methylation and epigenetic inheritance Robin Holliday · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences | 30 Jan 1990 | 2,292 |
| 22 | Scientists' warning on invasive alien species Petr Pyšek et al. · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | 25 Jun 2020 | 2,260 |
| 23 | Animal Communication: When I’m Calling You, Will You Answer Too? Neil J. Vickers · Current Biology | Jul 2017 | 2,237 |
| 24 | A new dawn for citizen science JONATHAN W. SILVERTOWN · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 7 Jul 2009 | 2,230 |
| 25 | Arms races between and within species Richard Dawkins, John Richard Krebs · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 21 Sep 1979 | 2,222 |
| 26 | MAKER: An easy-to-use annotation pipeline designed for emerging model organism genomes Brandi L. Cantarel, Ian F. Korf, Sofia M. C. Robb et al. · Genome Research | 19 Nov 2007 | 2,195 |
| 27 | Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being Simon Geoffrey Potts, Vera Lúcia Imperatriz-Fonseca, Hien T. Ngo et al. · Nature | 28 Nov 2016 | 2,175 |
| 28 | Sperm Competition and Sexual Selection Anders Pope Møller · Elsevier eBooks | 1998 | 2,088 |
| 29 | Ant colonies for the travelling salesman problem Marco Dorigo, Luca Maria Gambardella · Biosystems | Jul 1997 | 2,030 |
| 30 | A comprehensive survey: artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm and applications Derviş Karaboğa, Beyza Görkemli, Celal Öztürk et al. · Artificial Intelligence Review | 10 Mar 2012 | 1,987 |
| 31 | Potential of Insects as Food and Feed in Assuring Food Security A. van Huis · Annual Review of Entomology | 30 Sep 2012 | 1,958 |
| 32 | Citizen Science as an Ecological Research Tool: Challenges and Benefits Janis L. Dickinson, Benjamin Zuckerberg, David N. Bonter · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics | 2 Nov 2010 | 1,957 |
| 33 | Crop pollination from native bees at risk from agricultural intensification Claire Kremen, Neal M. Williams, Robbin W. Thorp · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 16 Dec 2002 | 1,926 |
| 34 | Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera George M. Weinstock et al. · Nature | 26 Oct 2006 | 1,908 |
| 35 | REVIEW: An overview of the environmental risks posed by neonicotinoid insecticides Dave Goulson · Journal of Applied Ecology | 13 Jun 2013 | 1,861 |
| 36 | Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts Nancy A. Moran, John P. McCutcheon, Atsushi Nakabachi · Annual Review of Genetics | 13 Oct 2008 | 1,840 |
| 37 | Systemic insecticides (neonicotinoids and fipronil): trends, uses, mode of action and metabolites Noa Simon‐Delso et al. · Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 18 Sep 2014 | 1,834 |
| 38 | AN AUTOMATIC VOLUMETRIC SPORE TRAP J. M. Hirst · Annals of Applied Biology | Jun 1952 | 1,814 |
| 39 | A Metagenomic Survey of Microbes in Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder Diana Cox-Foster et al. · Science | 6 Sep 2007 | 1,792 |
| 40 | Odorant Reception in Insects: Roles of Receptors, Binding Proteins, and Degrading Enzymes Walter S. Leal · Annual Review of Entomology | 30 Sep 2012 | 1,768 |
| 41 | The Fourth Dimension of Life: Fractal Geometry and Allometric Scaling of Organisms Geoffrey B. West, James H. Brown, Brian Joseph Enquist · Science | 4 Jun 1999 | 1,751 |
| 42 | A REVIEW OF TRAIT-MEDIATED INDIRECT INTERACTIONS IN ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES Earl E. Werner, Scott D. Peacor · Ecology | May 2003 | 1,718 |
| 43 | Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission Ary A. Hoffmann, Brian L. Montgomery, Jean Popovici et al. · Nature | Aug 2011 | 1,711 |
| 44 | Biology and control of Varroa destructor Peter Rosenkranz, Pia Aumeier, Bettina Ziegelmann · Journal of Invertebrate Pathology | 12 Nov 2009 | 1,697 |
| 45 | A GAL4-Driver Line Resource for Drosophila Neurobiology Arnim Jenett et al. · Cell Reports | Oct 2012 | 1,670 |
| 46 | Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees Sydney A. Cameron, Jeffrey D. Lozier, James P. Strange et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 3 Jan 2011 | 1,652 |
| 47 | Phenotypic Plasticity in the Interactions and Evolution of Species Anurag A. Agrawal · Science | 12 Oct 2001 | 1,643 |
| 48 | A framework for soil food web diagnostics: extension of the nematode faunal analysis concept Helena Ann Ferris, Tom Bongers, R.G.M. de Goede · Applied Soil Ecology | Sep 2001 | 1,619 |
| 49 | Soil invertebrates and ecosystem services P. Lavelle, Thibaud Decaëns, Michaël Aubert et al. · European Journal of Soil Biology | 18 Oct 2006 | 1,597 |
| 50 | The evolution of polyandry: multiple mating and female fitness in insects Göran Arnqvist, Tina Nilsson · Animal Behaviour | Aug 2000 | 1,586 |
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