Elad Chiel

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Elad Chiel is a scholar working on Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Elad Chiel has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Insect Science, 7 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Elad Chiel's work include Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (21 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (18 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (16 papers). Elad Chiel is often cited by papers focused on Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (21 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (18 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (16 papers). Elad Chiel collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and France. Elad Chiel's co-authors include Einat Zchori‐Fein, Yuval Gottlieb, Murad Ghanim, Moshe Inbar, Martha S. Hunter, Nurit Katzir, Suzanne E. Kelly, Tetsuya Adachi-Hagimori, Svetlana Kontsedalov and Netta Mozes‐Daube and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Elad Chiel

27 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Rapid Spread of a Bacterial Symbiont in an Invasive Whitefly Is Driven by Fitness Benefits and Female Bias

2011 388 citations Anna G. Himler, Tetsuya Adachi-Hagimori et al. Science profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elad Chiel Israel	13	1.5k	505	291	145	96	29	1.6k
MyLo Ly Thao United States	13	1.1k 0.7×	478 0.9×	217 0.7×	143 1.0×	145 1.5×	19	1.4k
Alejandro Manzano‐Marín Austria	17	750 0.5×	184 0.4×	211 0.7×	232 1.6×	73 0.8×	29	934
Hisashi Anbutsu Japan	21	939 0.6×	245 0.5×	152 0.5×	148 1.0×	45 0.5×	27	1.0k
Diego Santos-García Israel	16	732 0.5×	259 0.5×	103 0.4×	68 0.5×	43 0.4×	29	879
J. R. Milne Thailand	13	891 0.6×	330 0.7×	160 0.5×	55 0.4×	33 0.3×	20	1.0k
Francisco J. Beitia Spain	19	1.1k 0.7×	735 1.5×	323 1.1×	58 0.4×	21 0.2×	79	1.4k
Belén Belliure Spain	15	488 0.3×	486 1.0×	150 0.5×	40 0.3×	21 0.2×	22	668
Adi Kliot Israel	12	756 0.5×	546 1.1×	70 0.2×	69 0.5×	35 0.4×	18	946
Joaquim Martins Brazil	12	199 0.1×	517 1.0×	92 0.3×	112 0.8×	98 1.0×	25	771
Dadbeh Rouhbakhsh United States	8	493 0.3×	185 0.4×	124 0.4×	114 0.8×	35 0.4×	10	602

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Weiß, Benjamin, et al.. (2025). Maternal symbiont transmission via envenomation in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni. Current Biology. 35(8). 1693–1705.e4.

James, Ian, et al.. (2024). Sodalis praecaptivus subsp. spalangiae subsp. nov., a nascent bacterial endosymbiont isolated from the parasitoid wasp, Spalangia cameroni. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 74(10). 2 indexed citations

Weiß, Benjamin, et al.. (2020). Effects, interactions, and localization of Rickettsia and Wolbachia in the house fly parasitoid, Spalangia endius. Microbial Ecology. 80(3). 718–728. 12 indexed citations

Chiel, Elad, et al.. (2020). Horizontal Transmission of Microbial Symbionts Within a Guild of Fly Parasitoids. Microbial Ecology. 81(3). 818–827. 5 indexed citations

Lalzar, Maya, et al.. (2020). Wolbachia influence on the fitness of Anagyrus vladimiri (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), a bio‐control agent of mealybugs. Pest Management Science. 77(2). 1023–1034. 7 indexed citations

Chiel, Elad, et al.. (2019). Autodissemination of pyriproxyfen as a method for controlling the house fly Musca domestica. Journal of Pest Science. 92(3). 1283–1292. 3 indexed citations

Geden, Christopher J., et al.. (2019). Effect of Fluctuating High Temperatures on House Flies (Diptera: Muscidae) and Their Principal Parasitoids (Muscidifurax spp. and Spalangia spp. [Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae]) From the United States. Journal of Medical Entomology. 56(6). 1650–1660. 9 indexed citations

Gomez‐Polo, Priscila, Matthew J. Ballinger, Maya Lalzar, et al.. (2017). An exceptional family: Ophiocordyceps‐allied fungus dominates the microbiome of soft scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccidae). Molecular Ecology. 26(20). 5855–5868. 23 indexed citations

Kishinevsky, Miriam, Tamar Keasar, Ally R. Harari, & Elad Chiel. (2017). A comparison of naturally growing vegetation vs. border-planted companion plants for sustaining parasitoids in pomegranate orchards. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 246. 117–123. 12 indexed citations

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Kishinevsky, Miriam, et al.. (2017). Sugar feeding of parasitoids in an agroecosystem: effects of community composition, habitat and vegetation. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 11(1). 50–57. 28 indexed citations

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Chiel, Elad, et al.. (2015). Diversity and Abundance of House Fly Pupal Parasitoids in Israel, with First Records of TwoSpalangiaSpecies. Environmental Entomology. 45(2). 283–291. 11 indexed citations

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Sher, Noa, et al.. (2015). Do Bacterial Symbionts Govern Aphid's Dropping Behavior?. Environmental Entomology. 44(3). 588–592. 5 indexed citations

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Chiel, Elad, Suzanne E. Kelly, Marco Gebiola, et al.. (2014). Characteristics, Phenotype, and Transmission ofWolbachiain the Sweet Potato Whitefly,Bemisia tabaci(Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), and Its ParasitoidEretmocerussp. nr.emiratus(Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Environmental Entomology. 43(2). 353–362. 4 indexed citations

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Chiel, Elad, et al.. (2012). Contagious sterility in the parasitoid waspEretmocerus mundus(Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Biocontrol Science and Technology. 22(1). 61–66. 2 indexed citations

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Himler, Anna G., Tetsuya Adachi-Hagimori, Suzanne E. Kelly, et al.. (2011). Rapid Spread of a Bacterial Symbiont in an Invasive Whitefly Is Driven by Fitness Benefits and Female Bias. Science. 332(6026). 254–256. 388 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gueguen, Gwénaelle, Fabrice Vavre, Olivier Gnankiné, et al.. (2010). Endosymbiont metacommunities, mtDNA diversity and the evolution of the Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) species complex. Molecular Ecology. 19(19). 4365–4376. 205 indexed citations

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Chiel, Elad, Einat Zchori‐Fein, Moshe Inbar, et al.. (2009). Almost There: Transmission Routes of Bacterial Symbionts between Trophic Levels. PLoS ONE. 4(3). e4767–e4767. 99 indexed citations

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Kontsedalov, Svetlana, Einat Zchori‐Fein, Elad Chiel, et al.. (2008). The presence of Rickettsia is associated with increased susceptibility of Bemisia tabaci (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) to insecticides. Pest Management Science. 64(8). 789–792. 180 indexed citations

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Chiel, Elad, Yuval Gottlieb, Einat Zchori‐Fein, et al.. (2007). Biotype-dependent secondary symbiont communities in sympatric populations of Bemisia tabaci. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 97(4). 407–413. 232 indexed citations

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Gottlieb, Yuval, Murad Ghanim, Elad Chiel, et al.. (2006). Identification and Localization of a Rickettsia sp. in Bemisia tabaci (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae). Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72(5). 3646–3652. 254 indexed citations

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