OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Chiropterologica is 3. 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
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
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

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