Ara Monadjem

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
204 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Ara Monadjem is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ara Monadjem has authored 204 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 150 papers in Ecology, 97 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 57 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Ara Monadjem's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (114 papers), Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (78 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (54 papers). Ara Monadjem is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (114 papers), Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (78 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (54 papers). Ara Monadjem collaborates with scholars based in Eswatini, South Africa and United States. Ara Monadjem's co-authors include Peter J. Taylor, F.P.D. Cotterill, Robert A. McCleery, Christiane Denys, M. Corrie Schoeman, Andrew J. Bamford, April E. Reside, M.R. Perrin, David K. Garcelon and Adam Kane and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ara Monadjem

196 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Another Continental Vulture Crisis: Africa's Vultures Col... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 50 100 150 200 250
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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.

  1. Another Continental Vulture Crisis: Africa's Vultures Collapsing toward Extinction
    2015 292 citations Ara Monadjem et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ara Monadjem Eswatini 33 2.7k 1.6k 1.0k 987 502 204 3.9k
Rodrigo A. Medellín Mexico 36 3.1k 1.2× 2.9k 1.8× 1.6k 1.5× 894 0.9× 536 1.1× 177 5.2k
Elizabeth L. Clare United Kingdom 33 3.1k 1.2× 2.0k 1.3× 1.3k 1.3× 389 0.4× 596 1.2× 87 4.4k
Francisço Palomares Spain 42 5.0k 1.8× 970 0.6× 973 0.9× 1.1k 1.1× 1.2k 2.5× 180 6.2k
Adriano Garcia Chiarello Brazil 33 2.3k 0.8× 755 0.5× 513 0.5× 689 0.7× 371 0.7× 110 3.2k
William L. Gannon United States 16 4.1k 1.5× 2.6k 1.6× 837 0.8× 543 0.6× 1.0k 2.0× 38 5.8k
Matthew E. Gompper United States 39 3.4k 1.3× 707 0.4× 629 0.6× 503 0.5× 1.3k 2.6× 135 4.8k
Antoni Margalida Spain 42 4.4k 1.6× 1.2k 0.7× 673 0.6× 977 1.0× 283 0.6× 213 5.4k
Helena Godoy Bergallo Brazil 30 1.7k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 547 0.5× 497 0.5× 404 0.8× 177 2.8k
Marco Apollonio Italy 42 4.8k 1.8× 1.2k 0.7× 585 0.6× 765 0.8× 1.7k 3.4× 220 6.1k
Lucas A. Wauters Italy 43 4.7k 1.7× 1.7k 1.0× 865 0.8× 2.0k 2.0× 892 1.8× 149 5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Ara Monadjem

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ara Monadjem

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ara Monadjem

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ara Monadjem. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ara Monadjem based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ara Monadjem. Ara Monadjem is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Juste, Javier, Iñazio Garin, Joxerra Aihartza, et al.. (2025). Taxonomic revision of African pipistrelle-like bats with a new species from the West Congolean rainforest. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 204(2). 1 indexed citations
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Clements, Hayley S., Reinette Biggs, Alta De Vos, et al.. (2025). A place-based assessment of biodiversity intactness in sub-Saharan Africa. Nature. 649(8095). 113–121.
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Vries, J. L. de, et al.. (2024). Review and meta-analysis of correlates of home range size in bats. Journal of Mammalogy. 105(5). 1044–1056. 3 indexed citations
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Taylor, Peter J., Teresa Kearney, Vincent Ralph Clark, et al.. (2024). Southern Africa's Great Escarpment as an amphitheater of climate‐driven diversification and a buffer against future climate change in bats. Global Change Biology. 30(6). e17344–e17344. 3 indexed citations
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Fletcher, Robert J., et al.. (2023). Frightened of giants: fear responses to elephants approach that of predators. Biology Letters. 19(10). 20230202–20230202. 3 indexed citations
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Monadjem, Ara, Nicholas R. Casewell, Jonathan Pons, et al.. (2023). Snakebite epidemiology, outcomes and multi-cluster risk modelling in Eswatini. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 17(11). e0011732–e0011732. 7 indexed citations
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Shapiro, Julie Teresa, Sarah Mollerup, Jill K. Olofsson, et al.. (2021). Metagenomic Analysis Reveals Previously Undescribed Bat Coronavirus Strains in Eswatini. EcoHealth. 18(4). 421–428. 5 indexed citations
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Monadjem, Ara, et al.. (2021). Using species distribution models to gauge the completeness of the bat checklist of Eswatini. European Journal of Wildlife Research. 67(2). 7 indexed citations
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Shapiro, Julie Teresa, et al.. (2021). Influence of sugarcane growth stages on bird diversity and community structure in an agricultural-savanna environment. Heliyon. 7(3). e06563–e06563. 3 indexed citations
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Reynolds, Chevonne, et al.. (2020). The allometry of movement predicts the connectivity of communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(36). 22274–22280. 26 indexed citations
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Shapiro, Julie Teresa, et al.. (2020). Ebola spillover correlates with bat diversity. European Journal of Wildlife Research. 66(1). 7 indexed citations
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Shrader, Adrian M., et al.. (2019). Shrub cover homogenizes small mammals’ activity and perceived predation risk. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 16857–16857. 35 indexed citations
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Monadjem, Ara, et al.. (2018). Species richness patterns and functional traits of the bat fauna of arid southern Africa. Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja. 13 indexed citations
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Ke, Alison, et al.. (2018). Landscape heterogeneity shapes taxonomic diversity of non-breeding birds across fragmented savanna landscapes. Biodiversity and Conservation. 27(10). 2681–2698. 21 indexed citations
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Swanepoel, Lourens H., C. M. Swanepoel, Peter Brown, et al.. (2017). A systematic review of rodent pest research in Afro-Malagasy small-holder farming systems: Are we asking the right questions?. PLoS ONE. 12(3). e0174554–e0174554. 55 indexed citations
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Monadjem, Ara, Caroline Joubert, Leigh R. Richards, et al.. (2016). First record of Vespertilio murinus from the Arabian Peninsula. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 3 indexed citations
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Rebelo, Hugo, Gareth Jones, F.P.D. Cotterill, et al.. (2016). Predicting bat distributions and diversity hotspots in Southern Africa. Bollettino del CILEA (CILEA). 36 indexed citations
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Monadjem, Ara. (2004). Population fluctuations of birds (Aves) in riverine forest and broadleaved woodland in Swaziland. 29(1). 50–56. 2 indexed citations
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Monadjem, Ara & M.R. Perrin. (1998). The effect of supplementary food on the home range of the multimammate mouse Mastomys natalensis. African Journal of Wildlife Research. 28(1). 1–3. 16 indexed citations

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