| Lack of well-maintained natural history collections and taxonomists in megadiverse developing countries hampers global biodiversity exploration O Paknia, H Rajaei Sh, A Koch Organisms Diversity & Evolution 15, 619-629, 2015 | 134 | 2015 |
| Climate mediates the effects of disturbance on ant assemblage structure H Gibb, NJ Sanders, RR Dunn, S Watson, M Photakis, S Abril, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1808), 20150418, 2015 | 93 | 2015 |
| A preliminary checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Iran O Paknia, A Radchenko, H Alipanah, M Pfeiffer Myrmecological news 11, 151-159, 2008 | 91 | 2008 |
| The marker choice: Unexpected resolving power of an unexplored CO1 region for layered DNA barcoding approaches J Rach, T Bergmann, O Paknia, R DeSalle, B Schierwater, H Hadrys PloS one 12 (4), e0174842, 2017 | 62 | 2017 |
| New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran O Paknia, A Radchenko, M Pfeiffer Di it d i iti Diversity and species composition of ants in arid and semi …, 2010 | 50 | 2010 |
| Hierarchical partitioning of ant diversity: implications for conservation of biogeographical diversity in arid and semi‐arid areas O Paknia, M Pfeiffer Diversity and Distributions 17 (1), 122-131, 2011 | 48 | 2011 |
| A global database of ant species abundances H Gibb, RR Dunn, NJ Sanders, BF Grossman, M Photakis, S Abril, ... Ecology 98 (3), 883-884, 2017 | 47 | 2017 |
| Dominance–diversity relationships in ant communities differ with invasion X Arnan, AN Andersen, H Gibb, CL Parr, NJ Sanders, RR Dunn, E Angulo, ... Global Change Biology 24 (10), 4614-4625, 2018 | 43 | 2018 |
| Steppe versus desert: multi‐scale spatial patterns in diversity of ant communities in Iran O Paknia, M Pfeiffer Insect Conservation and Diversity 4 (4), 297-306, 2011 | 32 | 2011 |
| Repeated evolution of queen parthenogenesis and social hybridogenesis in Cataglyphis desert ants A Kuhn, H Darras, O Paknia, S Aron Molecular ecology 29 (3), 549-564, 2020 | 29 | 2020 |
| Distribution of the introduced ponerine ant Pachycondyla sennaarensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Iran O Paknia Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8, 235-238, 2006 | 25 | 2006 |
| Two new species of the genus Cataglyphis Foerster, 1850 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran A Radchenko, O Paknia Annales Zoologici 60 (1), 69-76, 2010 | 23 | 2010 |
| Geographical patterns of species richness and beta diversity of Larentiinae moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in two temperate biodiversity hotspots O Paknia, H Rajaei Sh Journal of Insect Conservation 19, 729-739, 2015 | 18 | 2015 |
| Global habitat suitability and ecological niche separation in the phylum Placozoa O Paknia, B Schierwater PLoS One 10 (11), e0140162, 2015 | 14 | 2015 |
| Niche-based processes and temporal variation of environment drive beta diversity of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in dryland ecosystems of Iran O Paknia, M Pfeiffer Myrmecological News 20, 15-23, 2014 | 14 | 2014 |
| First record of the ponerine ant Pachycondyla sennaarensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Iran, with notes on its ecology S Tirgari, O Paknia Zoology in the Middle East 34 (1), 67-70, 2005 | 14 | 2005 |
| A new species of the ant genus Aphaenogaster Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran K Kiran, H Alipanah, O Paknia Asian myrmecology 5 (1), 45-51, 2013 | 13 | 2013 |
| New and additional record for Formicid (Hymenoptera: Insecta) fauna of Iran O Paknia, HG Kami Zoology in the Middle East 40, 85-90, 2007 | 13 | 2007 |
| The most primitive metazoan animals, the placozoans, show high sensitivity to increasing ocean temperatures and acidities D Schleicherová, K Dulias, HJ Osigus, O Paknia, H Hadrys, B Schierwater Ecology and Evolution 7 (3), 895-904, 2017 | 12 | 2017 |
| Some ‘ant’swers: Application of a layered barcode approach to problems in ant taxonomy O Paknia, T Bergmann, H Hadrys Molecular ecology resources 15 (6), 1262-1274, 2015 | 12 | 2015 |
