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Insect behavior and control techniques

Insect behavior and control techniques is a research topic within Insect Science. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the invasion biology of fruit flies, particularly Drosophila suzukii and Bactrocera species, exploring topics such as their global spread, impact on agriculture, pest management strategies including sterile insect technique and biological control, population dynamics, host plant preferences, and the role of microbiota in their ecology.

  • Invasive Species
  • Fruit Fly
  • Drosophila Suzukii
  • Pest Management
  • Sterile Insect Technique
  • Bactrocera Dorsalis
  • Biological Control
  • Population Dynamics
  • Host Plant Preference
  • Microbiota
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
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Largest producer
United States
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Insect behavior and control techniques

Which countries lead Insect behavior and control techniques research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (469 and 330 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 469 works
  2. 2 China 330 works
  3. 3 India 304 works
  4. 4 Brazil 280 works
  5. 5 France 102 works
  6. 6 Mexico 92 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 83 works
  8. 8 Italy 79 works
  9. 9 Australia 76 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 75 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 States: 24.8%China: 17.5%India: 16.1%Brazil: 14.8%6 others listed: 26.8%25%largest
United States469 · 24.8%China330 · 17.5%India304 · 16.1%Brazil280 · 14.8%6 others listed506 · 26.8%

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

Which institutions lead Insect behavior and control techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Department of Agriculture publishes the most Insect behavior and control techniques research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 62 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 59 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 51 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 44 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 30 works
  6. 6 Institute of Natural SciencesBelgium 29 works
  7. 7 University of ZambiaZambia 28 works
  8. 8 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 26 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 23 works
  10. 10 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Insect behavior and control techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Insect behavior and control techniques include Koichiro Tamura, Noah Fierer and Irina Filip.

  1. 1 Koichiro Tamura Japan 268k citations
  2. 2 Noah Fierer United States 175k citations
  3. 3 Irina Filip United States 170k 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 behavior and control techniques?

The most cited paper in Insect behavior and control techniques is "DNA methylation and epigenetic inheritance" (Robin Holliday, 1990), with 2,292 citations. Next come "Drosophila: A laboratory handbook" (1,709) and "Life-Table Analysis Incorporating Both Sexes and Variable Development Rates Among Individuals" (1,589).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 DNA methylation and epigenetic inheritance Robin Holliday · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 30 Jan 1990 2,292
2 Drosophila: A laboratory handbook Michael Ashburner · Trends in Ecology & Evolution Nov 1990 1,709
3 Life-Table Analysis Incorporating Both Sexes and Variable Development Rates Among Individuals Hsin Chı · Environmental Entomology Feb 1988 1,589
4 Forensic Entomology: An Introduction Leon George Higley, Timothy E. Huntington · Journal of Medical Entomology Open access 28 Aug 2009 1,583
5 Possibilities of Insect Control or Eradication Through the Use of Sexually Sterile Males1 E. F. Knipling · Journal of Economic Entomology Aug 1955 1,385
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Where is Insect behavior and control techniques research done?

The largest centres of Insect behavior and control techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), São Paulo (Brazil), Washington D.C. (United States) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lusaka.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 84 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 47 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 37 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 36 works
  5. 5 BengaluruIndia 34 works
  6. 6 BrusselsBelgium 34 works
  7. 7 GizaEgypt 32 works
  8. 8 Buenos AiresArgentina 29 works
  9. 9 LusakaZambia 28 works
  10. 10 GainesvilleUnited States 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LusakaZM · 28.0 works31×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Insect behavior and control techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Insect behavior and control techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, Southwest University, Huazhong Agricultural University and South China Agricultural 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.

0%20%40%mean 17.64%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southwest UniversityWageningen Universit…South China Agricult…Huazhong Agricultura…
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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.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Southwest UniversityChina 63.843.1%7.0×11 +11.1%
2Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 58.022.2%12.3×12 +48.1%
3South China Agricultural UniversityChina 56.327.2%15.3×15 +12.0%
4Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 55.830.3%7.8×8 +15.6%
5University of ZambiaZambia 55.30.0%67.9×28 -
6University of ThessalyGreece 49.418.2%14.7×10 +28.3%
7University of IdahoUnited States 46.50.8%60.9×20 +683.1%
8Stellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa 45.49.2%9.7×11 +32.6%
9Universidade de São PauloBrazil 40.86.6%4.0×23 -14.1%
10China Agricultural UniversityChina 39.618.8%9.0×14 -35.4%

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 behavior and control techniques, country by country

Is Insect behavior and control techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Insect behavior and control techniques.

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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 behavior and control techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Insect behavior and control techniques 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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