Alessandro Cini

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Cini is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Cini has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Genetics, 49 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 36 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Cini's work include Plant and animal studies (47 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (41 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (24 papers). Alessandro Cini is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (47 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (41 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (24 papers). Alessandro Cini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Spain. Alessandro Cini's co-authors include Gianfranco Anfora, C. Ioriatti, Rita Cervo, Seirian Sumner, Leonardo Dapporto, Federico Cappa, Ugo Santosuosso, Alessio Papini, A. Grassi and L. A. Escudero‐Colomar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Cini

65 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A review of the invasion of Drosophila suzukii in Europe and a draft research agenda for integrated pest management.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alessandro Cini Italy	23	1.3k	1.0k	898	494	456	67	2.0k
Wolfgang Arthofer Austria	24	777 0.6×	493 0.5×	598 0.7×	289 0.6×	372 0.8×	77	1.6k
Jeffrey D. Lozier United States	24	2.0k 1.5×	2.2k 2.2×	1.5k 1.6×	552 1.1×	349 0.8×	64	2.8k
Oldřich Nedvěd Czechia	21	1.1k 0.8×	601 0.6×	402 0.4×	534 1.1×	593 1.3×	98	1.7k
Xavier Espadaler Spain	27	802 0.6×	1.8k 1.8×	1.6k 1.8×	536 1.1×	303 0.7×	188	2.4k
João Vasconcellos‐Neto Brazil	25	548 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	702 0.8×	371 0.8×	302 0.7×	116	1.7k
Dominique Mazzi Switzerland	23	697 0.5×	789 0.8×	442 0.5×	266 0.5×	462 1.0×	47	1.6k
Emmanuel Desouhant France	26	1.0k 0.8×	959 1.0×	412 0.5×	400 0.8×	410 0.9×	65	1.7k
Dmitry L. Musolin Russia	24	1.1k 0.8×	957 1.0×	435 0.5×	278 0.6×	534 1.2×	79	1.6k
Esteban Hasson Argentina	28	1.1k 0.8×	1000 1.0×	993 1.1×	503 1.0×	530 1.2×	128	2.4k
Jeffrey S. Bale United Kingdom	23	951 0.7×	631 0.6×	608 0.7×	398 0.8×	770 1.7×	40	1.8k

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Bruschini, Claudia, et al.. (2025). Bees, hoverflies and butterflies of Giannutri Island (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy), with the first record of Eumerus narcissi Smith, 1928 (Syrphidae) for Italy (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila, Diptera: Syrphidae, Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Journal of Insect Biodiversity. 61(2). 31–48.

Canale, Angelo, et al.. (2024). Ecotoxicity of bioinsecticides to social wasps. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health. 41. 100575–100575. 1 indexed citations

Iovinella, Immacolata, Francesco Barbieri, Elisa Biazzi, et al.. (2023). Antifeedant and insecticidal effects of alfalfa saponins in the management of the Japanese beetle Popillia japonica. Journal of Applied Entomology. 147(8). 651–660. 3 indexed citations

Menchetti, Mattia, et al.. (2023). Unstructured citizen science reduces the perception of butterfly local extinctions: the interplay between species traits and user effort. Biodiversity and Conservation. 32(14). 4701–4718. 4 indexed citations

Favreau, Emeline, Alessandro Cini, Daisy Taylor, et al.. (2023). Putting hornets on the genomic map. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 6232–6232. 5 indexed citations

Natali, Chiara, Marta Mariotti Lippi, Claúdio Ciofi, et al.. (2023). What’s in the bee nest holes? A single aggregation of Megachile parietina reveals and helps to fill up Eltonian shortfalls. Journal of Insect Conservation. 28(1). 15–25.

Cini, Alessandro, et al.. (2023). Assessing the aesthetic attractivity of European butterflies: A web-based survey protocol. PLoS ONE. 18(5). e0283360–e0283360. 4 indexed citations

Taylor, Benjamin A., Alessandro Cini, Christopher D. R. Wyatt, Max Reuter, & Seirian Sumner. (2021). The molecular basis of socially mediated phenotypic plasticity in a eusocial paper wasp. Nature Communications. 12(1). 775–775. 29 indexed citations

Cini, Alessandro, Federico Cappa, Iacopo Petrocelli, et al.. (2020). Increased immunocompetence and network centrality of allogroomer workers suggest a link between individual and social immunity in honeybees. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 8928–8928. 21 indexed citations

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Cini, Alessandro, Giovanni Bacci, Federico Cappa, et al.. (2020). Gut microbial composition in different castes and developmental stages of the invasive hornet Vespa velutina nigrithorax. The Science of The Total Environment. 745. 140873–140873. 28 indexed citations

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Iovinella, Immacolata, Federico Cappa, Alessandro Cini, et al.. (2018). Antennal Protein Profile in Honeybees: Caste and Task Matter More Than Age. Frontiers in Physiology. 9. 748–748. 17 indexed citations

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Campanaro, Alessandro, Lara Redolfi De Zan, Sönke Hardersen, et al.. (2017). Guidelines for the monitoring of Rosalia alpina. Nature Conservation. 20. 165–203. 13 indexed citations

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Tait, Gabriella, Silvia Vezzulli, Fabiana Sassù, et al.. (2017). Genetic variability in Italian populations of Drosophila suzukii. BMC Genetics. 18(1). 87–87. 19 indexed citations

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Dapporto, Leonardo, Alessandro Cini, Mattia Menchetti, et al.. (2017). Rise and fall of island butterfly diversity: Understanding genetic differentiation and extinction in a highly diverse archipelago. Diversity and Distributions. 23(10). 1169–1181. 38 indexed citations

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Cini, Alessandro. (2014). Reliability of yellow bodies as indexes of egg laying activity in the primitively eusocial wasp Polistes dominula. Redia-Giornale Di Zoologia. 97. 183–188. 1 indexed citations

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Cini, Alessandro, et al.. (2014). Facial markings in the social cuckoo wasp Polistes sulcifer: No support for the visual deception and the assessment hypotheses. Behavioural Processes. 111. 19–24. 4 indexed citations

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Bruschini, Claudia, Rita Cervo, Alessandro Cini, et al.. (2011). Cuticular Hydrocarbons Rather Than Peptides Are Responsible for Nestmate Recognition in Polistes dominulus. Chemical Senses. 36(8). 715–723. 19 indexed citations

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Dapporto, Leonardo, Elisabetta Palagi, Alessandro Cini, & Stefano Turillazzi. (2006). Prehibernating aggregations of Polistes dominulus: an occasion to study early dominance assessment in social insects. Die Naturwissenschaften. 93(7). 321–324. 19 indexed citations

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Dapporto, Leonardo, et al.. (2006). Behaviour and chemical signature of pre-hibernating females of Polistes dominulus infected by the strepsipteran Xenos vesparum. Parasitology. 134(4). 545–552. 22 indexed citations

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Dapporto, Leonardo, et al.. (2004). Do nest fidelity and tolerance decrease at the end of the colony cycle in Polistes dominulus (Christ.).. Redia-Giornale Di Zoologia. 87. 227–229. 1 indexed citations

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