Thierry Brévault

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
116 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Thierry Brévault is a scholar working on Insect Science, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thierry Brévault has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Insect Science, 58 papers in Plant Science and 57 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Thierry Brévault's work include Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (58 papers), Insect Resistance and Genetics (54 papers) and Insect Pest Control Strategies (35 papers). Thierry Brévault is often cited by papers focused on Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (58 papers), Insect Resistance and Genetics (54 papers) and Insect Pest Control Strategies (35 papers). Thierry Brévault collaborates with scholars based in France, Senegal and Cameroon. Thierry Brévault's co-authors include Yves Carrière, Bruce E. Tabashnik, Jérôme Carletto, Flavie Vanlerberghe‐Masutti, Serigne Sylla, Thibaud Martin, Serge Quilici, Karamoko Diarra, Maurice Vaissayre and Nicolas Desneux and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Thierry Brévault

105 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Insect resistance to Bt crops: lessons from the first billion acres

2013 737 citations Thierry Brévault, Yves Carrière et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thierry Brévault France	27	2.1k	1.7k	1.7k	512	202	116	3.0k
Roger Day Kenya	22	1.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	272 0.5×	252 1.2×	68	2.7k
Fritz Schulthess Kenya	35	2.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.5×	980 0.6×	506 1.0×	190 0.9×	136	3.3k
Samira A. Mohamed Kenya	30	2.9k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	691 0.4×	523 1.0×	461 2.3×	184	3.4k
Brian A. Nault United States	33	2.2k 1.0×	2.3k 1.4×	762 0.5×	655 1.3×	129 0.6×	163	3.1k
David W. Onstad United States	29	2.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.1×	217 0.4×	184 0.9×	98	2.7k
Shelby J. Fleischer United States	29	2.1k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	706 1.4×	365 1.8×	118	3.2k
Jorge B. Torres Brazil	32	3.3k 1.5×	2.0k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 2.1×	205 1.0×	232	3.8k
Georg Goergen Benin	25	2.4k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	2.0k 1.2×	357 0.7×	260 1.3×	91	3.3k
Peter C. Ellsworth United States	25	2.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	994 0.6×	433 0.8×	148 0.7×	110	2.5k
Philip A. Stansly United States	40	4.4k 2.1×	4.2k 2.5×	621 0.4×	803 1.6×	256 1.3×	260	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Thierry Brévault

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thierry Brévault

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Detrain, Claire, et al.. (2025). Can the African weaver ant be used as a vector of entomopathogenic fungi to bolster the biological control of tephritid fruit fly pests?. Biological Control. 202. 105722–105722. 2 indexed citations

Brévault, Thierry, Antony Champion, Nicolas Nègre, et al.. (2025). Nested PCR to optimize rpoB metabarcoding for low-concentration and host-associated bacterial DNA. Microbiology Spectrum. 13(9). e0141725–e0141725.

Javal, Marion, et al.. (2024). Tuta absoluta 's population genetic structure across Africa: Two well‐delineated but weakly differentiated groups suggesting few introductions and significant gene flow. Agricultural and Forest Entomology. 27(2). 223–240.

Piry, Sylvain, Marie‐Pierre Chapuis, Émile Faye, et al.. (2024). Hierarchizing multi-scale environmental effects on agricultural pest population dynamics: a case study on the annual onset of Bactrocera dorsalis population growth in Senegalese orchards. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 1 indexed citations

Ye, Wenfeng, Armelle Vallat, Gaétan Glauser, et al.. (2024). Plant‐to‐plant defence induction in cotton is mediated by delayed release of volatiles upon herbivory. New Phytologist. 244(6). 2505–2517. 9 indexed citations

Hilliou, Frédérique, et al.. (2024). Adaptive evolution of invasive fall armyworms to maize with potential involvement of Cytochrome P450 genes. BMC Genomics. 25(1). 949–949. 1 indexed citations

Dassou, Anicet G., Yêyinou Laura Estelle Loko, Joelle Toffa, et al.. (2023). Within-field crop diversity and landscape complexity decrease the abundance of fall armyworm larvae in maize cropping systems. Biological Control. 183. 105260–105260. 4 indexed citations

Silvie, Pierre, et al.. (2023). Effect of maize seed treatment on oviposition preference, larval performance and foliar damage of the fall armyworm. Journal of Applied Entomology. 147(5). 299–306. 2 indexed citations

Ndiaye, Awa, et al.. (2023). Inventory of the entomofauna associated with the cultivation of sweet corn in Senegal: Report of the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies. 11(3). 19–23.

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Llandrés, Ana L., et al.. (2023). Cotton topping reduces the performance of aphids on topped and neighbor plants under greenhouse conditions. Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 17(2). 173–184. 6 indexed citations

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Mortveit, Henning, Madhav Marathe, Mateus Ribeiro de Campos, et al.. (2019). Assessing the multi-pathway threat from an invasive agricultural pest: Tuta absoluta in Asia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1913). 20191159–20191159. 20 indexed citations

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Sow, Ahmadou, Thierry Brévault, Laure Benoit, et al.. (2019). Deciphering host-parasitoid interactions and parasitism rates of crop pests using DNA metabarcoding. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 3646–3646. 48 indexed citations

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Brévault, Thierry, et al.. (2016). Cotton topping as a way to reduce farmer's reliance on insecticides in Mali. Agritrop (Cirad). 1 indexed citations

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Brévault, Thierry, et al.. (2011). Assessing the role of non‐cotton refuges in delaying Helicoverpa armigera resistance to Bt cotton in West Africa. Evolutionary Applications. 5(1). 53–65. 26 indexed citations

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Ketoh, Guillaume Koffivi, et al.. (2010). Insecticide resistance in field populations of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in West Africa. Pest Management Science. 66(11). 1181–1185. 96 indexed citations

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Carletto, Jérôme, Thibaud Martin, Flavie Vanlerberghe‐Masutti, & Thierry Brévault. (2009). Insecticide resistance traits differ among and within host races in Aphis gossypii. Pest Management Science. 66(3). 301–307. 108 indexed citations

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Brévault, Thierry, et al.. (2009). Inheritance and stability of pyrethroid resistance in the cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Central Africa. Pest Management Science. 66(2). 137–141. 39 indexed citations

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Brévault, Thierry, et al.. (2008). Genetic structure of the polyphagous pest Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) across the Sub-Saharan cotton belt.. PubMed. 73(3). 433–7. 11 indexed citations

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Brévault, Thierry, et al.. (2008). Tracking pyrethroid resistance in the polyphagous bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), in the shifting landscape of a cotton-growing area. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 98(6). 565–573. 31 indexed citations

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Brévault, Thierry & S. Quilici. (2007). Influence of habitat pattern on orientation during host fruit location in the tomato fruit fly,Neoceratitis cyanescens. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 97(6). 637–642. 22 indexed citations

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