OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Acta Chiropterologica is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Thermally-Assisted Monitoring of Bat Abundance in an Exceptional Cave in Brazil's Caatinga Drylands	21
Systematics of West African Miniopterus with the Description of a New Species	17
The Effect of Urbanization on Bats and Communities of Bat Flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae and Streblidae) in the Amazon, Northern Brazil	16
Bat Activity Rates do not Predict Bat Fatality Rates at Wind Energy Facilities	15
A Recent Survey of Bats with Descriptions of Echolocation Calls and New Records from the Western Himalayan Region of Uttarakhand, India	14
Moths Consumed by the Barbastelle Barbastella barbastellus Require Larval Host Plants that Occur within the Bat's Foraging Habitats	11
Prey Choice of Introduced Species by the Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) on an Atlantic Forest Land-Bridge Island	11
Use of Complementary Methods to Sample Bats in the Amazon	10
Bat Fatalities at Wind-Farms in the Lowland Mediterranean of Southern Spain	10
Structure of the Interaction Networks Between Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) and Ectoparasite Flies (Diptera: Streblidae, Nycteribiidae) on a Latitudinal Gradient	10
Cytogenetic Investigations in Emballonuroidea. I. Taphozoinae and Emballonurinae Karyotypes Evolve at Different Rates and Share No Derived Chromosomal Characters	7
The Antioxidant Status of Three Neotropical Bat Species with Different Feeding Habits	7
Effects of Omnidirectional Microphone Placement and Survey Period on Bat Echolocation Call Quality and Detection Probabilities	7
Sex and Age Variation in the Phenology of a Common Pipistrelle Bat (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) Population in Front of a Hibernaculum	6
High Specificity and Aggregation, But Low Prevalence in Bat-Fly Interactions in an Environmental Protection Area in Brazil	6
Bats of Eastern Cape and Southern Kwazulu-Natal Forests, South Africa: Diversity, Call Library and Range Extensions	6
Embryonic Development of the Egyptian Fruit Bat Rousettus aegyptiacus (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae)	6
Barbastelles in a Production Landscape: Where Do They Roost?	6
Remarkable Variation in the Diet of Noctilio leporinus in Puerto Rico: the Fishing Bat Turns Carnivorous	6
Mines and Bats: the Impact of Open-Pit Mining on Bat Activity	5
Cryptic Diversity in the Genus Miniopterus with the Description of a New Species from Southern Africa	5
Population Genetic Structure and Phylogeography of the Small Mouse-Tailed Bat, Rhinopoma muscatellum Thomas, 1903 (Chiroptera: Rhinopomatidae) in Iran Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA	5
Glucocorticoid Profiles in Frugivorous Bats on Wind Farms in the Mexican Tropics	5
An Exceptionally High Bat Species Richness in a Cave Conservation Hotspot in Central Brazil	5
Bats of Paraguay: Specimen Data Reveal Ecoregional Preferences and Diverse Seasonal Patterns	5

Mobile Bat Acoustic Routes Indicate Cavity-Roosting Species Undergo Compensatory Changes in Community Composition Following White-Nose Syndrome	4
Bats in Three Protected Areas of The Central Amazon Ecological Corridor in Brazil	4
First Record of the Genus Plecotus from Southeast Asia with Notes on the Taxonomy, Karyology and Echolocation Call of P. homochrous from Vietnam	4
Cytogenetic Investigations in Bornean Rhinolophoidea Revealed Cryptic Diversity in Rhinolophus sedulus Entailing Classification of Peninsular Malaysia Specimens as a New Species	4
Elucidating the Consequences of a Warming Climate for Common Bat Species in North-Western Europe	4
A Rapid, in-Situ Minimally-Invasive Technique to Assess Infections with Pseudogymnoascus destructans in Bats	4
Cytogenetic Analyses Detect Cryptic Diversity in Megaderma spasma from Malaysia	4
Exotic Cultivated Plants in the Diet of the Nectar-Feeding Bat Glossophaga soricina (Phyllostomidae: Glossophaginae) in the City of Lima, Peru	4
Activity and Behaviour of Nathusius' Pipistrelle Pipistrellus nathusii at Low and High Altitude in a North Sea Offshore Wind Farm	4
DNA Barcoding and Morphological Analyses Reveal a Cryptic Species of Miniopterus from India and Sri Lanka	4
The Limpopo River Exerts a Powerful but Spatially Limited Effect on Bat Communities in a Semi-Arid Region of South Africa	3
Bats on the Road — A Review of the Impacts of Roads and Highways on Bats	3
The Importance of Inland Cliffs and Quarries for Bats	3
More Traffic, Less Bat Activity: The Relationship between Overnight Traffic Volumes and Chalinolobus tuberculatus Activity along New Zealand Highways	3
Skyrocketing Flights as a Previously Unrecognized Behaviour of Open-Space Foraging Bats	3
Functional Traits of Bats Associated with the Use of Wetlands in Colombian Tropical Dry Forests	3
Going Bald — The Hairy Affair of Timing in Telemetry Studies: Moulting Activity in European Bat Species	3
Mango Orchards and Their Importance in Maintaining Phyllostomid Bat Assemblages in a Heterogeneous Landscape	3
Forecasting the Distribution of a Range-Expanding Bat Reveals Future Response to Climate Change and Habitat	3
Ethogram of Ghost Bat (Macroderma gigas) Behaviours and Associated Social Vocalisations	2
Echolocation Precursor Calls of Kerivoula furva Pups May Contain Individual Signatures	2
Listen But Do Not Touch: Using a Smartphone Acoustic Device to Investigate Bat Activity, with Implications for Community-Based Monitoring	2
Meet You at the Local Watering Hole? No Use of an Artificial Water Resource, and Evidence of Dehydration in Hibernating Bats in the Prairies	2
Habitat Use of Constant Frequency Echolocating Bats in North-West Madagascar with Acoustic Evidence for a Possible New Species	2
The Past Occurrence of the Guadeloupe Big-Eyed Bat Chiroderma improvisum Baker and Genoways, 1976 on Marie-Galante (French West Indies) with comments on Bat Remains from Pre-Columbian Sites in the Eas	2
Bee Markers: A Novel Method for Non-Invasive Short Term Marking of Bats	2
Direct PCR-DGGE Technique Reveals Wrinkle-Lipped Free-Tailed Bat (Chaerephon plicatus Buchanan, 1800) Predominantly Consume Planthoppers and Mosquitoes in Central Thailand	2
Comparative Study on the Small and Large Intestines of the Bats Artibeus planirostris and Diphylla ecaudata: Influence of Food Habits on Morphological Parameters	2
Slight Increase in Bat Activity after Human Hibernation Count Monitoring of a Bunker Complex in Northern Germany	2
The Role of the Adjacent Habitat on Promoting Bat Activity in Vineyards: A Case Study from Central Chile	2
Temporal and Spatial Changes in Myotis lucifugus Acoustic Activity Before and After White-Nose Syndrome on Fort Drum Army Installation, New York, USA	2
Echobank for the Bats of Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotspot, India	2
Seasonal and Nightly Activity Patterns of Migrating Silver-Haired Bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans) Compared to Non-Migrating Big Brown Bats (Eptesicus fuscus) at a Fall Migration Stopover Site	1
Bat Inventories at Caves and Mines on the Islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, and Proposed Conservation Actions	1
Seasonality in the Emission of Contact Calls in Spix's Disc-Winged Bats (Thyroptera tricolor) Suggests a Potential Role in Mate Attraction	1
Hidden Afrotropical Bat Diversity in Nigeria: Ten New Country Records from a Biodiversity Hotspot	1
Alopecia in Bats	1
Cytogenetic Investigations in Emballonuroidea. II. Chromosome Painting in Nycteridae Reveals Cytogenetic Signatures Pointing to Common Ancestry of Nycteris and Emballonura	1
Reproductive Isolation and Morphological Discrimination of Myotis myotis Macrocephalicus and M. Blythii s.l. (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Turkey	1
Distribution Modelling and Habitat Requirements of Micronycteris sanborni (Phyllostomidae) across the South America Dry Diagonal	1
Habitat Selections of Himalayan Insectivorous Bats in Forest-Dominated Landscapes	1
Ecoregions Occupied are More Related to Diet Diversity than Body Mass in Artibeina Bats	1
Wing Tattoos: A Cost-Effective and Long-Lasting Method for Marking Bats	1
Daily, Seasonal and Inter-Annual Variation in Activity Within a Common Pipistrelle Swarming Site and Hibernaculum	1
Finding Bat Roosts along Cliffs: Using Rock Climbing Surveys to Identify Roosting Habitat of Bats	1
Cranial Morphology of the Flat-Headed Bat Myotis planiceps (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in the Context of American Myotis	1
Network Structure of Bat-Ectoparasitic Interactions in Tropical Dry Forests at Two Different Regions in Brazil	1
Bat Assemblages along an Elevational Gradient in Costa Rica	1
Fruit Bat Assemblage in Different Lowland Forest Types in the Northern Sierra Madre Mountains, Philippines	1
Intraspecific Variation of Myotis emarginatus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) Inferred from Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genetic Markers	1

Genetic Diversity of Mongolian Long-Eared Bats (Plecotus; Vespertilionidae; Chiroptera)	1
Insight into the Identity and Origin of Scotophilus borbonicus (E. Geoffroy, 1803)	1
Reconstructing the Genomic Diversity of a Widespread Sub-Saharan Bat (Pteropodidae: Eidolon helvum) Using Archival Museum Collections	1
Inter-Taxon and Seasonal Variations of Mineral Concentrations in Soft Tissues of Frugivorous Phyllostomid Bats in a Mineral-Limited Ecosystem	1
External Ears in Chiroptera: Form-Function Relationships in an Ecological Context	1
Morphometric Analyses of Modern and Subfossil Macronycteris (Family Hipposideridae) Refine Groups from Anjohibe Cave, Northwestern Madagascar	1
Incidence of Viruses in Neotropical Bats	1
Book Review	1
Effects of Pine Forest Management Practices on Bat Functional Traits in a Subtropical Region	1
Karyotype Evolution in Vespertilionoidea: Centromere Repositioning and Inversions in Molossidae (Chiroptera, Mammalia)	1
Roosting Behaviour and Time Budgets of the CuraÇAoan Long-Nosed Bat, Leptonycteris curasoae (Phyllostomatidae, Glossophaginae) in Captivity	1
Temporal Variations among the Growth Parameters of the Forearms of Juvenile Greater Horseshoe Bats (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) in the Nursery Roost at Stackpole, West Wales, U.K.	1
Interaction Networks between Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) and Ectoparasitic Flies (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) in the Colombian Orinoquia Region	1
Foraging Time and Temperature Affected Birth Timing of Rhinolophus ferrumequinum and Predicted Year-To-Year Changes for 25 Years in a Population in West Wales, U.K.	1
High Bat Fatality Rates Estimated at Wind Farms in Southern Spain	1
The Late and the Latest Pleistocene Chiroptera (Mammalia) from Loutra Almopias Cave a (Pella, Macedonia, Greece)	1
Habitat Suitability, Connection Analysis and Effectiveness of Protected Areas for Conservation of the Barbastelle Bat Barbastella barbastellus in NW Italy	1