Ruchira Sen

1.1k total citations
27 papers, 839 citations indexed

About

Ruchira Sen is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruchira Sen has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 839 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Genetics, 23 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 18 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Ruchira Sen's work include Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (25 papers), Plant and animal studies (22 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (15 papers). Ruchira Sen is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (25 papers), Plant and animal studies (22 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (15 papers). Ruchira Sen collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Panama. Ruchira Sen's co-authors include Ulrich G. Mueller, Heather D. Ishak, Scot E. Dowd, Rhitoban Raychoudhury, Michael E. Scharf, Eli Meyer, Yijun Sun, Yunpeng Cai, Katrin Kellner and Raghavendra Gadagkar and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ruchira Sen

25 papers receiving 821 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ruchira Sen United States 14 575 517 479 82 82 27 839
Ainslie E. F. Little United States 9 489 0.9× 382 0.7× 348 0.7× 224 2.7× 175 2.1× 9 853
Olivier Bonnard France 16 595 1.0× 641 1.2× 626 1.3× 27 0.3× 115 1.4× 24 944
Roger E. Gold United States 19 574 1.0× 467 0.9× 549 1.1× 62 0.8× 117 1.4× 104 1.2k
Rhitoban Raychoudhury United States 13 371 0.6× 608 1.2× 391 0.8× 137 1.7× 69 0.8× 22 830
Ilaria Negri Italy 19 287 0.5× 983 1.9× 333 0.7× 60 0.7× 41 0.5× 48 1.2k
Aram Mikaelyan United States 16 569 1.0× 629 1.2× 443 0.9× 217 2.6× 118 1.4× 34 1.1k
Katrin Kellner United States 13 382 0.7× 295 0.6× 333 0.7× 37 0.5× 55 0.7× 27 546
Patrick Maes United States 17 970 1.7× 1.3k 2.6× 1.1k 2.4× 77 0.9× 69 0.8× 18 1.5k
Brendon M. Mott United States 21 1.1k 2.0× 1.5k 2.8× 1.3k 2.7× 93 1.1× 79 1.0× 31 1.7k
Charunee Vongkaluang Thailand 10 448 0.8× 305 0.6× 383 0.8× 41 0.5× 51 0.6× 14 596

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruchira Sen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ruchira Sen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ruchira Sen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ruchira Sen. Ruchira Sen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sen, Ruchira, et al.. (2025). Fungus-farming termites can protect their crop by confining weeds with fungistatic soil boluses. Science. 389(6767). 1366–1371.
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Sen, Ruchira, et al.. (2023). A Review of Our Meagre Knowledge of Asian Polistes, and a Call for More Studies. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science. 103(4). 1049–1064. 1 indexed citations
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Sen, Ruchira, et al.. (2022). Bacterial supergroup‐specific “cost” of Wolbachia infections in Nasonia vitripennis. Ecology and Evolution. 12(9). e9219–e9219. 2 indexed citations
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Sen, Ruchira, et al.. (2022). Coping with the ‘Indian summer’: unique nesting cycle and nest architecture of the paper wasp, Polistes wattii. Die Naturwissenschaften. 109(3). 31–31. 5 indexed citations
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Sen, Ruchira, Rhitoban Raychoudhury, Yunpeng Cai, et al.. (2015). Molecular Signatures of Nicotinoid-Pathogen Synergy in the Termite Gut. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0123391–e0123391. 17 indexed citations
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Boucias, Drion G., Yunpeng Cai, Yijun Sun, et al.. (2013). The hindgut lumen prokaryotic microbiota of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes and its responses to dietary lignocellulose composition. Molecular Ecology. 22(7). 1836–1853. 89 indexed citations
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Raychoudhury, Rhitoban, et al.. (2012). Comparative metatranscriptomic signatures of wood and paper feeding in the gut of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes. 14 indexed citations
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Ishak, Heather D., Ruchira Sen, Katrin Kellner, et al.. (2011). Bacterial Diversity in Solenopsis invicta and Solenopsis geminata Ant Colonies Characterized by 16S amplicon 454 Pyrosequencing. Microbial Ecology. 61(4). 821–831. 163 indexed citations
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Ishak, Heather D., Jessica L. Miller, Ruchira Sen, et al.. (2011). Microbiomes of ant castes implicate new microbial roles in the fungus-growing ant Trachymyrmex septentrionalis. Scientific Reports. 1(1). 204–204. 64 indexed citations
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Sen, Ruchira, et al.. (2011). Males, but not females, mate with multiple partners: a laboratory study of a primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata. Insectes Sociaux. 59(1). 61–65. 5 indexed citations
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Mueller, Ulrich G., Alexander S. Mikheyev, Ruchira Sen, et al.. (2011). Evolution of cold-tolerant fungal symbionts permits winter fungiculture by leafcutter ants at the northern frontier of a tropical ant–fungus symbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(10). 4053–4056. 77 indexed citations
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Sen, Ruchira, et al.. (2010). Construction of chimaeric gardens through fungal intercropping: a symbiont choice experiment in the leafcutter ant Atta texana (Attini, Formicidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 64(7). 1125–1133. 15 indexed citations
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Mueller, Ulrich G., Heather D. Ishak, Jungchul Lee, Ruchira Sen, & Robin R. Gutell. (2010). Placement of attine ant-associated Pseudonocardia in a global Pseudonocardia phylogeny (Pseudonocardiaceae, Actinomycetales): a test of two symbiont-association models. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 98(2). 195–212. 33 indexed citations
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Sen, Ruchira, et al.. (2009). Generalized antifungal activity and 454-screening of Pseudonocardia and Amycolatopsis bacteria in nests of fungus-growing ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(42). 17805–17810. 182 indexed citations
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