Wee Tek Tay

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Wee Tek Tay is a scholar working on Insect Science, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Wee Tek Tay has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Insect Science, 52 papers in Molecular Biology and 37 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Wee Tek Tay's work include Insect Resistance and Genetics (50 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (46 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (30 papers). Wee Tek Tay is often cited by papers focused on Insect Resistance and Genetics (50 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (46 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (30 papers). Wee Tek Tay collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Brazil. Wee Tek Tay's co-authors include Tom Walsh, Karl Gordon, G. T. Behere, Sharon Downes, Robert J. Paxton, Craig Anderson, Cecília Czepak, David G. Heckel, Philip Batterham and Paul J. De Barro and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Wee Tek Tay

91 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Spodoptera frugiperda: Ecology, Evolution, and Management Options of an Invasive Species

2022 142 citations Wee Tek Tay, Cecília Czepak et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wee Tek Tay Australia	35	2.6k	2.0k	1.5k	719	698	97	3.5k
František Marec Czechia	38	1.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.7k 1.2×	1.1k 1.5×	2.0k 2.8×	121	4.3k
Wanzhi Cai China	30	1.4k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	1.7k 2.3×	682 1.0×	263	3.3k
Shu‐Jun Wei China	29	1.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	731 0.5×	1.2k 1.6×	1.0k 1.5×	158	3.1k
Owain R. Edwards Australia	32	2.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	2.1k 1.4×	684 1.0×	548 0.8×	105	4.0k
Xue‐Xin Chen China	34	2.9k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	1.6k 2.3×	989 1.4×	322	4.4k
Jenny S. Cory Canada	32	2.6k 1.0×	2.1k 1.1×	699 0.5×	576 0.8×	595 0.9×	94	3.7k
Brad S. Coates United States	28	1.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	904 0.6×	369 0.5×	637 0.9×	117	2.4k
J. K. Pell United Kingdom	37	4.6k 1.8×	1.7k 0.8×	2.5k 1.6×	960 1.3×	736 1.1×	126	5.2k
Hu Li China	29	1.2k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	959 0.6×	1.4k 1.9×	687 1.0×	187	3.2k
Giuliano Gasperi Italy	35	2.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	928 0.6×	763 1.1×	419 0.6×	105	3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wee Tek Tay

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Mainali, Bishwo P., Phillip W. Taylor, John M. K. Roberts, et al.. (2025). Mining novel Bacillus thuringiensis toxins and secondary metabolites for invasive fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) control. Austral Entomology. 64(1).

Mainali, Bishwo P., et al.. (2025). Characterisation of the Pathogenicity of Beauveria sp. and Metarhizium sp. Fungi Against the Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Agriculture. 15(2). 170–170. 1 indexed citations

Polaszek, Andrew, M. Otim, Andrew G. Briscoe, et al.. (2025). Morphological and molecular description, and draft mitogenome, of a new Encarsia species (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), a parasitoid of the Bemisia tabaci species complex (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) on cassava in Uganda. Journal of Natural History. 59(41-44). 2441–2461. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Zheng, Wee Tek Tay, Karl Gordon, et al.. (2025). Knockout of the SfVipR1 gene confers high‐level resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Vip3Aa toxin in Spodoptera frugiperda . Pest Management Science. 82(1). 270–277.

Czepak, Cecília, et al.. (2025). Phthorimaea absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) draft mitogenomes and insecticide resistance gene characterisation support multiple maternal lineages in invasive African, Asian, and European populations. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 115(4). 437–451. 1 indexed citations

Hoffmann, Benjamin D., et al.. (2024). Biosecurity interceptions of coconut rhinoceros beetle Oryctes rhinoceros. Management of Biological Invasions. 15(3). 437–443. 2 indexed citations

Tay, Wee Tek, et al.. (2024). Lure specificity, phenology, and damage caused by Epiphyas moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in Western Australian apple orchards. Journal of Economic Entomology. 117(5). 1959–1967.

Tay, Wee Tek, Sean D. G. Marshall, Glenn F. J. Dulla, et al.. (2024). Alternative DNA Markers to Detect Guam-Specific CRB-G (Clade I) Oryctes rhinoceros (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Indicate That the Beetle Did Not Disperse from Guam to the Solomon Islands or Palau. Diversity. 16(10). 634–634. 2 indexed citations

Alibu, Vincent Pius, Wee Tek Tay, Pamela Paparu, et al.. (2022). Population Genetic Structure of the Bean Leaf Beetle Ootheca mutabilis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Uganda. Insects. 13(6). 543–543. 1 indexed citations

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Tay, Wee Tek, et al.. (2021). A high‐throughput amplicon sequencing approach for population‐wide species diversity and composition survey. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(5). 1706–1724. 7 indexed citations

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Otim, M., et al.. (2021). Parasitoid Distribution and Parasitism of the Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Different Maize Producing Regions of Uganda. Insects. 12(2). 121–121. 48 indexed citations

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Valencia‐Montoya, Wendy A., Samia Elfékih, Henry L. North, et al.. (2020). Adaptive Introgression across Semipermeable Species Boundaries between Local Helicoverpa zea and Invasive Helicoverpa armigera Moths. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(9). 2568–2583. 66 indexed citations

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Guan, Fang, Jianpeng Zhang, Xingliang Wang, et al.. (2020). Whole‐genome sequencing to detect mutations associated with resistance to insecticides and Bt proteins in Spodoptera frugiperda. Insect Science. 28(3). 627–638. 80 indexed citations

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Arnemann, Jonas André, Stephen H. Roxburgh, Tom Walsh, et al.. (2019). Multiple incursion pathways for Helicoverpa armigera in Brazil show its genetic diversity spreading in a connected world. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 19380–19380. 26 indexed citations

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Otim, M., Wee Tek Tay, Tom Walsh, et al.. (2018). Detection of sister-species in invasive populations of the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from Uganda. PLoS ONE. 13(4). e0194571–e0194571. 92 indexed citations

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Walsh, Tom, Nicole Joußen, Kai Tian, et al.. (2018). Multiple recombination events between two cytochrome P450 loci contribute to global pyrethroid resistance in Helicoverpa armigera. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0197760–e0197760. 46 indexed citations

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Tay, Wee Tek & Karl Gordon. (2018). Going global – genomic insights into insect invasions. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 31. 123–130. 50 indexed citations

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Tay, Wee Tek, Tom Walsh, Sharon Downes, et al.. (2017). Mitochondrial DNA and trade data support multiple origins of Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) in Brazil. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 45302–45302. 53 indexed citations

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Tay, Wee Tek, Samia Elfékih, Leon Court, et al.. (2017). The Trouble with MEAM2: Implications of Pseudogenes on Species Delimitation in the Globally Invasive Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) Cryptic Species Complex. Genome Biology and Evolution. 9(10). 2732–2738. 31 indexed citations

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Tay, Wee Tek, Peter J. Kerr, & Lars S. Jermiin. (2016). Population Genetic Structure and Potential Incursion Pathways of the Bluetongue Virus Vector Culicoides brevitarsis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Australia. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0146699–e0146699. 14 indexed citations

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