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Research on scale insects

Research on scale insects is a research topic within Insect Science. Science Explorer counts 5.6k 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 biology, systematics, management, and impact of scale insects, with a particular emphasis on mealybugs. It covers topics such as the use of pheromones for monitoring and mating disruption, biological control strategies, taxonomy and phylogeny, invasive species threats, and the effects of environmental factors on population dynamics.

  • Scale Insects
  • Mealybug
  • Pheromone
  • Biological Control
  • Taxonomy
  • Phylogeny
  • Invasive Species
  • Host Plants
  • Morphology
  • Population Dynamics
Research works
5.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
561
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Research on scale insects

Which countries lead Research on scale insects research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (158 and 141 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 158 works
  2. 2 India 141 works
  3. 3 China 101 works
  4. 4 Brazil 68 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 60 works
  6. 6 Italy 38 works
  7. 7 Egypt 32 works
  8. 8 Japan 30 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 27 works
  10. 10 Russia 26 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: 23.1%India: 20.7%China: 14.9%Brazil: 10.0%6 others listed: 31.3%23%largest
United States158 · 23.1%India141 · 20.7%China101 · 14.9%Brazil68 · 10.0%6 others listed214 · 31.3%

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

Which institutions lead Research on scale insects research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Research on scale insects research, followed by University of Idaho and United States Department of Agriculture.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 35 works
  2. 2 University of IdahoUnited States 21 works
  3. 3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 19 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 18 works
  5. 5 Agricultural Research CenterEgypt 13 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 13 works
  7. 7 Natural History MuseumUnited Kingdom 11 works
  8. 8 Institute of Natural SciencesBelgium 10 works
  9. 9 Cukurova UniversityTürkiye 10 works
  10. 10 University of FloridaUnited States 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Research on scale insects?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Research on scale insects include Fredrik Ronquist, Teja Tscharntke and Kim C. Worley.

  1. 1 Fredrik Ronquist Sweden 107k citations
  2. 2 Teja Tscharntke Germany 99k citations
  3. 3 Kim C. Worley United States 95k citations
  4. 4 Paul D. N. Hebert Canada 93k citations
  5. 5 Ary A. Hoffmann Australia 81k citations
  6. 6 Rajeev Kumar Varshney India 81k 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 Research on scale insects?

The most cited paper in Research on scale insects is "BIOLOGY OF BACTERIOCYTE-ASSOCIATED ENDOSYMBIONTS OF PLANT SAP-SUCKING INSECTS" (Paul Baumann, 2005), with 1,108 citations. Next come "ScaleNet: a literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics" (695) and "The Bemisia tabaci species complex" (655).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 BIOLOGY OF BACTERIOCYTE-ASSOCIATED ENDOSYMBIONTS OF PLANT SAP-SUCKING INSECTS Paul Baumann · Annual Review of Microbiology Review 9 Sep 2005 1,108
2 ScaleNet: a literature-based model of scale insect biology and systematics Mayrolin García Morales, BARBARA D. DENNO, Douglass R. Miller et al. · Database Open access 9 Feb 2016 695
3 The Bemisia tabaci species complex Thomas M. Perring · Crop Protection Nov 2001 655
4 The susceptibility of small fruits and cherries to the spotted‐wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii Jana C. Lee, Denny Joseph Bruck, Hannah Curry et al. · Pest Management Science 27 Jun 2011 502
5 Horizontal Gene Transfer from Diverse Bacteria to an Insect Genome Enables a Tripartite Nested Mealybug Symbiosis Filip Husník, Naruo Nikoh, Ryuichi Koga et al. · Cell Open access Jun 2013 460
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Where is Research on scale insects research done?

The largest centres of Research on scale insects research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (United States), Bengaluru (India) and Giza (Egypt). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Moscow.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 27 works
  2. 2 MoscowUnited States 21 works
  3. 3 BengaluruIndia 18 works
  4. 4 GizaEgypt 17 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 14 works
  6. 6 BrusselsBelgium 14 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 13 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 12 works
  9. 9 Saint PetersburgRussia 12 works
  10. 10 GainesvilleUnited States 11 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MoscowUS · 21.2 works166×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Research on scale insects than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Research on scale insects?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Florida, University of Idaho and Cukurova 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.

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
1University of FloridaUnited States 52.214.4%8.6×9 -11.3%
2University of IdahoUnited States 51.20.4%187.0×21 -
3Cukurova UniversityTürkiye 32.72.7%41.4×10 +105.5%

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 Research on scale insects, country by country

Is Research on scale insects research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Research on scale insects.

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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 Research on scale insects as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0035% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Research on scale insects 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%Research on scale insects9.1% 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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