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Insect and Pesticide Research

Insect and Pesticide Research is a research topic within Insect Science. Science Explorer counts 79k 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 focuses on the impact of neonicotinoid insecticides, Varroa mites, viral pathogens, and pesticide exposure on honey bee health, including colony collapse disorder. It also explores the role of gut microbiota, immune system, and pollen nutrition in honey bee health. The environmental risks associated with pesticide use are also a key area of investigation.

  • Neonicotinoids
  • Honey Bees
  • Colony Collapse Disorder
  • Pesticide Exposure
  • Varroa Mites
  • Gut Microbiota
  • Viral Pathogens
  • Immune System
  • Pollen Nutrition
  • Environmental Risks
Research works
79k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
7.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Insect and Pesticide Research

Which countries lead Insect and Pesticide Research research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2k and 1.8k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2k works
  2. 2 United States 1.8k works
  3. 3 Brazil 925 works
  4. 4 India 846 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 502 works
  6. 6 Germany 384 works
  7. 7 France 360 works
  8. 8 Russia 331 works
  9. 9 Italy 327 works
  10. 10 Egypt 321 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.

China: 26.0%United States: 22.9%Brazil: 11.8%India: 10.8%6 others listed: 28.5%26%largest
China2,030 · 26.0%United States1,792 · 22.9%Brazil925 · 11.8%India846 · 10.8%6 others listed2,225 · 28.5%

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

Which institutions lead Insect and Pesticide Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Insect and Pesticide Research research, followed by United States Department of Agriculture and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 306 works
  2. 2 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 175 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 127 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 109 works
  5. 5 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 92 works
  6. 6 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 72 works
  7. 7 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 63 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 63 works
  9. 9 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 59 works
  10. 10 University of FloridaUnited States 57 works

Who are the leading researchers in Insect and Pesticide Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Insect and Pesticide Research include Rob Knight, Peer Bork and Albert Bandura.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  3. 3 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  4. 4 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  5. 5 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  6. 6 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  7. 7 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  8. 8 Koichiro Tamura Japan 268k 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 Pesticide Research?

The most cited paper in Insect and Pesticide Research is "The Role of Superoxide Anion in the Autoxidation of Epinephrine and a Simple Assay for Superoxide Dismutase" (Hara Prasad Misra, Irwin Fridovich, 1972), with 9,109 citations. Next come "Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops" (7,273) and "Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers" (6,497).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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 Open access May 1972 9,109
2 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 Open access 27 Oct 2006 7,273
3 Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers Simon Geoffrey Potts, Jacobus Christiaan Biesmeijer, Claire Kremen et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution Review 25 Feb 2010 6,497
4 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
5 BOTANICAL INSECTICIDES, DETERRENTS, AND REPELLENTS IN MODERN AGRICULTURE AND AN INCREASINGLY REGULATED WORLD Murray B. Isman · Annual Review of Entomology Review 11 Jul 2005 3,850
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Insect and Pesticide Research research done?

The largest centres of Insect and Pesticide Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), São Paulo (Brazil), Paris (France) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in České Budějovice and Bingöl.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 489 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 153 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 130 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 121 works
  5. 5 GizaEgypt 115 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 112 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 108 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 84 works
  9. 9 Buenos AiresArgentina 84 works
  10. 10 NanjingChina 82 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. České BudějoviceCZ · 32.6 works19×
  2. BingölTR · 22.4 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Insect and Pesticide Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Insect and Pesticide Research?

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

0%10%20%30%mean 19.89%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Guizhou UniversityChina Agricultural U…Wageningen Universit…Nanjing Agricultural…
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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.

Citation 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.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Guizhou UniversityChina 76.823.6%9.8×56 +189.5%
2China Agricultural UniversityChina 72.722.9%9.3×57 +1.3%
3Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 72.119.3%7.6×30 +17.7%
4Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 66.817.8%8.9×38 +27.9%
5Anhui Agricultural UniversityChina 61.522.6%12.4×24 +34.8%
6King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 60.610.7%3.3×36 +65.3%
7South China Agricultural UniversityChina 59.615.0%9.5×37 +29.8%
8University College DublinIreland 59.028.4%1.8×10 +197.9%
9University of SussexUnited Kingdom 57.326.9%5.2×14 -16.3%
10Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina 57.111.7%13.7×35 +16.3%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Pesticide Research, country by country

Is Insect and Pesticide Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Insect and Pesticide Research.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Insect and Pesticide Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.059% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Insect and Pesticide Research0.048% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Insect and Pesticide Research 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.

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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

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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