Maxence Gérard

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 909 citations indexed

About

Maxence Gérard is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Maxence Gérard has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 909 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 32 papers in Genetics and 27 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Maxence Gérard's work include Plant and animal studies (38 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (32 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (27 papers). Maxence Gérard is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (38 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (32 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (27 papers). Maxence Gérard collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Sweden and France. Maxence Gérard's co-authors include Denis Michez, Maryse Vanderplanck, Thomas J. Wood, Baptiste Martinet, Pierre Rasmont, Emily Baird, Guillaume Ghisbain, Nicolas J. Vereecken, Guy Smagghe and Leon Marshall and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Maxence Gérard

40 papers receiving 889 citations

Hit Papers

Global warming and plant–pollinator mismatches 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Global warming and plant–pollinator mismatches
    2020 174 citations Maxence Gérard, Maryse Vanderplanck et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Maxence Gérard Belgium 17 775 549 518 177 136 43 909
Tiago Maurício Francoy Brazil 22 1.0k 1.3× 837 1.5× 934 1.8× 97 0.5× 130 1.0× 64 1.3k
Hannes Baur Switzerland 15 505 0.7× 421 0.8× 252 0.5× 118 0.7× 87 0.6× 57 782
Snežana Radenković Serbia 21 1.1k 1.5× 796 1.4× 357 0.7× 53 0.3× 44 0.3× 90 1.2k
Márcio Luiz de Oliveira Brazil 16 782 1.0× 537 1.0× 431 0.8× 164 0.9× 71 0.5× 91 847
André Nemésio Brazil 17 752 1.0× 536 1.0× 229 0.4× 200 1.1× 91 0.7× 43 867
Martin A. Schäfer Switzerland 18 559 0.7× 242 0.4× 469 0.9× 45 0.3× 49 0.4× 41 838
Athayde Tonhasca Brazil 18 688 0.9× 717 1.3× 478 0.9× 300 1.7× 122 0.9× 30 1.0k
Andrzej Oleksa Poland 15 428 0.6× 430 0.8× 424 0.8× 164 0.9× 88 0.6× 42 687
Elder Ferreira Morato Brazil 16 666 0.9× 453 0.8× 374 0.7× 173 1.0× 120 0.9× 42 739
Antonella Soro Germany 15 572 0.7× 399 0.7× 465 0.9× 134 0.8× 56 0.4× 27 694

Countries citing papers authored by Maxence Gérard

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Fields of papers citing papers by Maxence Gérard

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maxence Gérard

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gérard, Maxence, et al.. (2025). Wild bee diversity of the National Park of the Semois Valley (Belgium). Biodiversity Data Journal. 13. e144223–e144223.
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Gérard, Maxence, et al.. (2025). Underlying mechanisms shaping wild bee decline. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 145(4). 1 indexed citations
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Gérard, Maxence, et al.. (2024). Experimental elevated temperature affects bumblebee foraging and flight speed. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2033). 4 indexed citations
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Gérard, Maxence, et al.. (2024). Copper-accelerated pupation in larvae of the buff-tailed bumble bee. Apidologie. 56(1).
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Ghisbain, Guillaume, et al.. (2024). Towards unbiased interpretations of interactive effects in ecotoxicological studies. Environmental Research. 259. 119572–119572. 1 indexed citations
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Gérard, Maxence, et al.. (2024). Gestion Des Déchets Biomédicaux En Milieu Hospitalier De La Ville Province De Kinshasa. Cas De L’Hôpital De Référence De Kitambo. International Journal of Progressive Sciences and Technologies. 46(1). 366–366.
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Gérard, Maxence, et al.. (2023). Elevated developmental temperatures impact the size and allometry of morphological traits of the bumblebeeBombus terrestris. Journal of Experimental Biology. 226(8). 13 indexed citations
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Gérard, Maxence, Maryse Vanderplanck, Carlos E. Restrepo, & Emily Baird. (2023). Sensory perception and behaviour of insect pollinators under climate change. Nature Climate Change. 13(7). 596–598. 6 indexed citations
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Gérard, Maxence, et al.. (2023). Bumblebee cognitive abilities are robust to changes in colony size. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 77(2). 2 indexed citations
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Gérard, Maxence, et al.. (2023). Resilience of bumblebee foraging behavior despite colony size reduction. Frontiers in Insect Science. 2. 1073380–1073380. 2 indexed citations
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Ghisbain, Guillaume, Maxence Gérard, Thomas J. Wood, Heather M. Hines, & Denis Michez. (2021). Expanding insect pollinators in the Anthropocene. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 96(6). 2755–2770. 50 indexed citations
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Schatz, Bertrand, Mickaël Henry, Benoît Geslin, et al.. (2021). Pollinator conservation in the context of global changes with a focus on France and Belgium. Acta Oecologica. 112. 103765–103765. 15 indexed citations
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Ghisbain, Guillaume, Baptiste Martinet, Thomas J. Wood, et al.. (2021). A worthy conservation target? Revising the status of the rarest bumblebee of Europe. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 14(5). 661–674. 11 indexed citations
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Baird, Emily, et al.. (2021). Higher developmental temperature increases queen production and decreases worker body size in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris. Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 88. 39–49. 23 indexed citations
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Wood, Thomas J., Denis Michez, Robert J. Paxton, et al.. (2020). Managed honey bees as a radar for wild bee decline?. Apidologie. 51(6). 1100–1116. 73 indexed citations
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Gérard, Maxence, et al.. (2020). Beyond the Decline of Wild Bees: Optimizing Conservation Measures and Bringing Together the Actors. Insects. 11(9). 649–649. 54 indexed citations
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Gérard, Maxence, et al.. (2020). The utility of wing morphometrics for assigning type specimens to cryptic bumblebee species. Systematic Entomology. 45(4). 849–856. 8 indexed citations
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Engel, Michael S., Maxence Gérard, A. Murat Aytekin, et al.. (2019). Morphometric analysis of fossil bumble bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombini) reveals their taxonomic affinities. ZooKeys. 891. 71–118. 29 indexed citations
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Lecocq, Thomas, Denis Michez, Maxence Gérard, et al.. (2018). Divergent geographic patterns of genetic diversity among wild bees: Conservation implications. Diversity and Distributions. 24(12). 1860–1868. 4 indexed citations
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Dellicour, Simon, et al.. (2017). Distribution and predictors of wing shape and size variability in three sister species of solitary bees. PLoS ONE. 12(3). e0173109–e0173109. 35 indexed citations

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