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Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy

Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy is a research topic within Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Science Explorer counts 6.3k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the evolution, diversification, and biogeography of Orthopteran insects, with a focus on grasshoppers and crickets. It covers topics such as phylogeny, acoustic communication, speciation, taxonomy, and the impact of climatic changes on the evolutionary history of these insects.

  • Orthoptera
  • evolution
  • phylogeny
  • acoustic communication
  • biogeography
  • speciation
  • taxonomy
  • grasshoppers
  • crickets
  • phylogeography
Research works
6.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
642
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+64%
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Largest producer
China
20% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy

Which countries lead Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (208 and 180 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 208 works
  2. 2 India 180 works
  3. 3 United States 162 works
  4. 4 Russia 145 works
  5. 5 France 79 works
  6. 6 Brazil 69 works
  7. 7 Germany 56 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 51 works
  9. 9 South Korea 46 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 43 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: 20.1%India: 17.3%United States: 15.6%Russia: 13.9%6 others listed: 33.1%20%largest
China208 · 20.1%India180 · 17.3%United States162 · 15.6%Russia145 · 13.9%6 others listed343 · 33.1%

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

Which institutions lead Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 59 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 43 works
  3. 3 Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of TechnologyPhilippines 38 works
  4. 4 Sunchon National UniversitySouth Korea 35 works
  5. 5 Zoological Survey of IndiaIndia 26 works
  6. 6 Guangxi Normal UniversityChina 26 works
  7. 7 Yandex (Russia)Russia 23 works
  8. 8 University of TyumenRussia 23 works
  9. 9 University of MonsBelgium 21 works
  10. 10 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy include Barry S. Taylor, Richard Smith and David Bentley.

  1. 1 Barry S. Taylor United States 130k citations
  2. 2 Richard Smith United States 115k citations
  3. 3 David Bentley United Kingdom 110k citations
  4. 4 Paul D. N. Hebert Canada 93k citations
  5. 5 Charles Robert Darwin Indonesia 87k citations
  6. 6 Jagat Narula United States 85k 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 Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy?

The most cited paper in Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy is "Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of nuclear protein-coding sequences" (Jerome C. Regier, Jeffrey W. Shultz, Andreas Zwick et al., 2010), with 1,051 citations. Next come "Aggressiveness, Territoriality, and Sexual Behavior in Field Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)" (664) and "The insect cytochrome oxidase I gene: evolutionary patterns and conserved primers for phylogenetic studies" (638).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of nuclear protein-coding sequences Jerome C. Regier, Jeffrey W. Shultz, Andreas Zwick et al. · Nature Feb 2010 1,051
2 Aggressiveness, Territoriality, and Sexual Behavior in Field Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) Richard D. Alexander · Behaviour 1961 664
3 The insect cytochrome oxidase I gene: evolutionary patterns and conserved primers for phylogenetic studies David H. Lunt, De‐Xing Zhang, Jacek M. Szymura et al. · Insect Molecular Biology Aug 1996 638
4 Acoustically Orienting Parasitoids: Fly Phonotaxis to Cricket Song William H. Cade · Science 26 Dec 1975 569
5 Conflict between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA phylogenies of a recent species radiation: What mtDNA reveals and conceals about modes of speciation in Hawaiian crickets Kerry L. Shaw · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 25 Nov 2002 528
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Where is Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy research done?

The largest centres of Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Iligan City (Philippines), Paris (France) and Suncheon (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Suncheon, Iligan City and Tyumen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 46 works
  2. 2 Iligan CityPhilippines 38 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 36 works
  4. 4 SuncheonSouth Korea 35 works
  5. 5 KolkataIndia 34 works
  6. 6 Saint PetersburgRussia 31 works
  7. 7 GuilinChina 26 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 25 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 25 works
  10. 10 BaodingChina 25 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SuncheonKR · 34.8 works253×
  2. Iligan CityPH · 37.7 works190×
  3. TyumenRU · 23.1 works80×
  4. MonsBE · 20.9 works64×
  5. BaodingCN · 24.6 works32×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy?

Among universities, judged by research, Guangxi Normal University, Shaanxi Normal University and Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology 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%10%20%mean 8.73%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Guangxi Normal Unive…Shaanxi Normal Unive…University of CreteMindanao State Unive…
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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
1Guangxi Normal UniversityChina 82.419.0%79.8×26 +294.1%
2Shaanxi Normal UniversityChina 64.616.4%48.0×20 +11.1%
3Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of TechnologyPhilippines 63.56.8%612.6×38 -
4University of CreteGreece 54.07.1%101.8×18 -
5University of TyumenRussia 52.76.9%210.3×23 -
6University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaUnited States 47.96.9%229.0×18 -
7Hebei UniversityChina 47.710.5%60.2×20 -12.7%
8Sunchon National UniversitySouth Korea 44.30.0%281.3×35 -
9Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 42.413.1%5.6×8 +71.6%
10University of MonsBelgium 41.50.6%75.6×21 -

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 Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy, country by country

Is Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 64% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy.

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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 Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0041% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy0.0093% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy 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.

still counting5%10%15%Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy8.6% in 2025200020102020

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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