Geraldine A. Wright

8.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
107 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

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Geraldine A. Wright is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Geraldine A. Wright has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 60 papers in Insect Science and 48 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Geraldine A. Wright's work include Plant and animal studies (70 papers), Insect and Pesticide Research (54 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (48 papers). Geraldine A. Wright is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (70 papers), Insect and Pesticide Research (54 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (48 papers). Geraldine A. Wright collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Geraldine A. Wright's co-authors include Sally M. Williamson, Sue W. Nicolson, Philip C. Stevenson, Brian H. Smith, Florian P. Schiestl, Julie A. Mustard, Daniel Stabler, Sharoni Shafir, Sarah E. Gartside and Jane C. Stout and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Geraldine A. Wright

100 papers receiving 5.3k citations

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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.

Bees prefer foods containing neonicotinoid pesticides

2015 368 citations Sébastien Kessler, Geraldine A. Wright et al. profile →
Nutritional Physiology and Ecology of Honey Bees

2017 242 citations Geraldine A. Wright, Sharoni Shafir et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Geraldine A. Wright United Kingdom	41	3.9k	3.7k	2.6k	1.1k	808	107	5.4k
Andrew B. Barron Australia	45	3.8k 1.0×	3.5k 0.9×	3.4k 1.3×	517 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	143	6.2k
Johannes Spaethe Germany	32	2.9k 0.7×	1.5k 0.4×	1.8k 0.7×	757 0.7×	814 1.0×	88	3.3k
Daniel R. Papaj United States	40	4.8k 1.2×	3.4k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	1.7k 1.5×	602 0.7×	130	6.3k
Nigel E. Raıne United Kingdom	43	5.9k 1.5×	4.4k 1.2×	4.0k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	324 0.4×	93	6.9k
Adrian G. Dyer Australia	42	4.8k 1.2×	1.5k 0.4×	2.3k 0.9×	1.7k 1.5×	1.3k 1.7×	175	6.3k
Jürgen Tautz Germany	39	3.4k 0.9×	2.6k 0.7×	3.2k 1.2×	380 0.4×	799 1.0×	81	4.5k
Coby Schal United States	49	3.1k 0.8×	4.7k 1.3×	4.7k 1.8×	1.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.8×	363	9.2k
Markus Knaden Germany	41	1.9k 0.5×	2.0k 0.5×	2.1k 0.8×	611 0.6×	2.6k 3.2×	113	4.4k
Christer Löfstedt Sweden	45	2.8k 0.7×	4.5k 1.2×	2.9k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	2.6k 3.2×	201	7.2k
Stefano Turillazzi Italy	44	5.0k 1.3×	3.9k 1.1×	5.3k 2.1×	484 0.4×	640 0.8×	255	6.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pattrick, Jonathan G., et al.. (2025). The concentration and energetic content of floral nectar sugars: calculation, conversions, and common confusions. Journal of Pollination Ecology. 38. 161–170.

Lamborn, Ellen, et al.. (2025). Pollen sterols are highly diverse but phylogenetically conserved. New Phytologist. 248(2). 936–952.

Jones, Hannah, et al.. (2025). Bumblebees learn to use antennal and tarsal taste to predict the presence of nectar rewards in flowers. Journal of Experimental Biology. 228(20).

Power, Eileen F., et al.. (2025). Do pollinators play a role in shaping the essential amino acids found in nectar?. New Phytologist. 245(5). 2279–2291. 4 indexed citations

Furse, Samuel, Hauke Koch, Geraldine A. Wright, & Philip C. Stevenson. (2023). Sterol and lipid metabolism in bees. Metabolomics. 19(9). 78–78. 13 indexed citations

Jones, Hannah, et al.. (2023). Mouthparts of the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) exhibit poor acuity for the detection of pesticides in nectar. eLife. 12.

Jones, Hannah, et al.. (2023). Mouthparts of the bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) exhibit poor acuity for the detection of pesticides in nectar. eLife. 12. 7 indexed citations

Wright, Geraldine A., et al.. (2022). Behavioural regulation of mineral salt intake in honeybees: a self-selection approach. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1853). 20210169–20210169. 17 indexed citations

Wright, Geraldine A., et al.. (2022). Macronutrient balance has opposing effects on cognition and survival in honey bees. Functional Ecology. 36(10). 2558–2568. 14 indexed citations

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Kessler, Sébastien, et al.. (2022). Temporal responses of bumblebee gustatory neurons to sugars. iScience. 25(7). 104499–104499. 7 indexed citations

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Zu, Pengjuan, Hauke Koch, Orlando Schwery, et al.. (2021). Pollen sterols are associated with phylogeny and environment but not with pollinator guilds. New Phytologist. 230(3). 1169–1184. 35 indexed citations

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Mustard, Julie A., et al.. (2020). Honeybees fail to discriminate floral scents in a complex learning task after consuming a neonicotinoid pesticide. Journal of Experimental Biology. 223(Pt 5). 40 indexed citations

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Stabler, Daniel, et al.. (2020). Regulation of dietary intake of protein and lipid by nurse-age adult worker honeybees. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224(Pt 3). 28 indexed citations

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Power, Eileen F., Daniel Stabler, Anne M. Borland, Jeremy Barnes, & Geraldine A. Wright. (2017). Analysis of nectar from low‐volume flowers: A comparison of collection methods for free amino acids. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(3). 734–743. 29 indexed citations

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Stabler, Daniel, Eileen F. Power, Anne M. Borland, Jeremy D. Barnes, & Geraldine A. Wright. (2017). A method for analysing small samples of floral pollen for free and protein‐bound amino acids. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(2). 430–438. 22 indexed citations

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Kessler, Sébastien, et al.. (2016). A Novel Behavioral Assay to Investigate Gustatory Responses of Individual, Freely-moving Bumble Bees (<em>Bombus terrestris</em>). Journal of Visualized Experiments. 16 indexed citations

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Gray, Helen, et al.. (2014). Single amino acids in sucrose rewards modulate feeding and associative learning in the honeybee. Journal of Insect Physiology. 69. 41–48. 38 indexed citations

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Wright, Geraldine A., Daniel D. Baker, Mary J. Palmer, et al.. (2013). Caffeine in Floral Nectar Enhances a Pollinator's Memory of Reward. Science. 339(6124). 1202–1204. 250 indexed citations

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Simpson, Stephen J., David Raubenheimer, Spencer T. Behmer, Andrew Whitworth, & Geraldine A. Wright. (2002). A comparison of nutritional regulation in solitarious- and gregarious-phase nymphs of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria. Journal of Experimental Biology. 205(1). 121–129. 129 indexed citations

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Wright, Geraldine A., Bethany Skinner, & Brian H. Smith. (2002). Ability of Honeybee, Apis mellifera, to Detect and Discriminate Odors of Varieties of Canola (Brassica rapa and Brassica napus) and Snapdragon Flowers (Antirrhinum majus). Journal of Chemical Ecology. 28(4). 721–740. 63 indexed citations

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