Simone Tosi

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

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Simone Tosi is a scholar working on Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Tosi has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Insect Science, 30 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 25 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Simone Tosi's work include Insect and Pesticide Research (34 papers), Plant and animal studies (30 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (25 papers). Simone Tosi is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Pesticide Research (34 papers), Plant and animal studies (30 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (25 papers). Simone Tosi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Simone Tosi's co-authors include James C. Nieh, Piotr Mędrzycki, Fabio Sgolastra, Giovanni Burgio, Cecília Costa, Umberto Vesco, Edoardo Carnesecchi, Claudio Porrini, Riccardo Cabbri and Gherardo Bogo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Simone Tosi

32 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Lethal, sublethal, and combined effects of pesticides on bees: A meta-analysis and new risk assessment tools

2022 113 citations Simone Tosi, Edoardo Carnesecchi et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simone Tosi Italy	20	1.7k	1.5k	1.2k	209	148	34	1.9k
Matteo Marzaro Italy	9	1.7k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	771 0.7×	386 1.8×	298 2.0×	9	1.8k
Rodrigo Cupertino Bernardes Brazil	17	497 0.3×	378 0.3×	287 0.2×	189 0.9×	25 0.2×	45	685
Yingen Xue Canada	12	666 0.4×	329 0.2×	192 0.2×	285 1.4×	74 0.5×	20	763
Kumar Saurabh Singh United Kingdom	14	625 0.4×	315 0.2×	271 0.2×	230 1.1×	23 0.2×	37	966
G. M. Lorenz United States	19	772 0.5×	409 0.3×	200 0.2×	444 2.1×	28 0.2×	76	984
Frank J. Byrne United States	28	1.7k 1.0×	356 0.2×	99 0.1×	1.3k 6.1×	46 0.3×	75	2.0k
Junyu Luo China	23	865 0.5×	188 0.1×	198 0.2×	450 2.2×	21 0.1×	89	1.3k
Jun Tabata Japan	15	481 0.3×	224 0.2×	122 0.1×	196 0.9×	23 0.2×	59	675
Savitr Trakulnaleamsai Thailand	12	333 0.2×	293 0.2×	367 0.3×	168 0.8×	16 0.1×	21	819

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Popiela, Ewa, et al.. (2025). Romance in peril: A common pesticide impairs mating behaviours and male fertility of solitary bees (Osmia bicornis). Chemosphere. 377. 144335–144335.

Simon‐Delso, Noa, et al.. (2024). Beyond the urgency: pesticide Emergency Authorisations' exposure, toxicity, and risk for humans, bees, and the environment. The Science of The Total Environment. 947. 174217–174217. 6 indexed citations

Azpiazu, Celeste, Fabio Sgolastra, Alessio Ippolito, et al.. (2024). Chronic oral toxicity protocol for adult solitary bees (Osmia bicornis L.): Reduced survival under long-term exposure to a “bee-safe” insecticide. Environmental Pollution. 363(Pt 1). 125129–125129. 2 indexed citations

Chatterjee, Mainak, Arkaprava Banerjee, Simone Tosi, et al.. (2023). Machine learning - based q-RASAR modeling to predict acute contact toxicity of binary organic pesticide mixtures in honey bees. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 460. 132358–132358. 29 indexed citations

Dupont, Yoko Luise, Agnès Rortais, Alexandra Papanikolaou, et al.. (2022). High accuracy monitoring of honey bee colony development by a quantitative method. Journal of Apicultural Research. 62(4). 741–750. 6 indexed citations

Simon‐Delso, Noa, Piotr Mędrzycki, Fabio Sgolastra, et al.. (2022). Apitox - The COLOSS Task Force to Investigate the Impact of Pesticides on Bees. Bee World. 99(1). 32–34. 1 indexed citations

Straub, Lars, Simone Tosi, Annette Van Oystaeyen, et al.. (2021). Thiamethoxam as an inadvertent anti-aphrodisiac in male bees. Toxicology Reports. 9. 36–45. 11 indexed citations

Bocquet, Michel & Simone Tosi. (2021). A New COLOSS Task Force: Bee Nutrition. Bee World. 99(1). 35–36. 5 indexed citations

Tosi, Simone, James C. Nieh, Annely Brandt, et al.. (2021). Long-term field-realistic exposure to a next-generation pesticide, flupyradifurone, impairs honey bee behaviour and survival. Communications Biology. 4(1). 805–805. 55 indexed citations

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Strobl, Verena, Matthias Albrecht, Laura Villamar‐Bouza, et al.. (2021). The neonicotinoid thiamethoxam impairs male fertility in solitary bees, Osmia cornuta. Environmental Pollution. 284. 117106–117106. 27 indexed citations

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Traynor, Kirsten S., et al.. (2020). Pesticide and veterinary drug residues in Belgian beeswax: Occurrence, toxicity, and risk to honey bees. The Science of The Total Environment. 745. 141036–141036. 61 indexed citations

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Tosi, Simone, et al.. (2019). Honeybee and consumer’s exposure and risk characterisation to glyphosate-based herbicide (GBH) and its degradation product (AMPA): Residues in beebread, wax, and honey. The Science of The Total Environment. 704. 135312–135312. 58 indexed citations

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Tosi, Simone & James C. Nieh. (2019). Lethal and sublethal synergistic effects of a new systemic pesticide, flupyradifurone (Sivanto ^® ), on honeybees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1900). 20190433–20190433. 121 indexed citations

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Nieh, James C., et al.. (2019). Combined nutritional stress and a new systemic pesticide (flupyradifurone, Sivanto®) reduce bee survival, food consumption, flight success, and thermoregulation. Chemosphere. 237. 124408–124408. 81 indexed citations

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Tosi, Simone, et al.. (2017). A 3-year survey of Italian honey bee-collected pollen reveals widespread contamination by agricultural pesticides. The Science of The Total Environment. 615. 208–218. 208 indexed citations

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Tosi, Simone, James C. Nieh, Fabio Sgolastra, Riccardo Cabbri, & Piotr Mędrzycki. (2017). Neonicotinoid pesticides and nutritional stress synergistically reduce survival in honey bees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1869). 20171711–20171711. 159 indexed citations

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Tosi, Simone & James C. Nieh. (2017). A common neonicotinoid pesticide, thiamethoxam, alters honey bee activity, motor functions, and movement to light. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 15132–15132. 89 indexed citations

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Tosi, Simone, Giovanni Burgio, & James C. Nieh. (2017). A common neonicotinoid pesticide, thiamethoxam, impairs honey bee flight ability. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 1201–1201. 180 indexed citations

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Tosi, Simone, Fabien Démares, Sue W. Nicolson, et al.. (2016). Effects of a neonicotinoid pesticide on thermoregulation of African honey bees (Apis mellifera scutellata). Journal of Insect Physiology. 93-94. 56–63. 78 indexed citations

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Mędrzycki, Piotr, Fabio Sgolastra, Laura Bortolotti, et al.. (2009). Can pesticide acute toxicity for bumblebees be derived from honeybee LD50 values. Julius-Kühn-Archiv. 423(423). 69–70. 1 indexed citations

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