Asaf Tsoar

7.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Asaf Tsoar is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Asaf Tsoar has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Ecology, 6 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 4 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Asaf Tsoar's work include Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (5 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (5 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (4 papers). Asaf Tsoar is often cited by papers focused on Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (5 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (5 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (4 papers). Asaf Tsoar collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Spain and Italy. Asaf Tsoar's co-authors include Ronen Kadmon, Omri Allouche, Ofer Steinitz, Ran Nathan, Orr Spiegel, Ana Trakhtenbrot, Frank M. Schurr, Nachum Ulanovsky, M. Brock Fenton and Carmi Korine and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Asaf Tsoar

14 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Assessing the accuracy of species distribution models: prevalence, kappa and the true skill statistic (TSS)

2006 4.2k citations Omri Allouche, Asaf Tsoar et al. Journal of Applied Ecology profile →
Mechanisms of long-distance seed dispersal

2008 677 citations Ran Nathan, Frank M. Schurr et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Asaf Tsoar Israel	12	3.5k	3.0k	2.3k	1.7k	1.0k	14	5.9k
Robin Engler Switzerland	15	4.2k 1.2×	2.8k 0.9×	2.8k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	937 0.9×	16	5.9k
Omri Allouche Israel	8	3.6k 1.0×	2.7k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	9	5.4k
Allen H. Hurlbert United States	35	2.5k 0.7×	2.9k 1.0×	2.8k 1.2×	1.8k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	70	5.6k
Monica Papeş United States	27	3.0k 0.9×	2.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	730 0.7×	92	4.9k
Jeremy VanDerWal Australia	44	3.9k 1.1×	3.0k 1.0×	2.6k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	1.8k 1.8×	90	6.3k
Morgane Barbet‐Massin France	24	3.1k 0.9×	2.7k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	728 0.7×	34	4.9k
Susanne A. Fritz Germany	29	2.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	2.2k 1.3×	796 0.8×	55	5.8k
I‐Ching Chen Taiwan	11	2.8k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	22	4.6k
Dennis Rödder Germany	39	3.3k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	2.0k 1.9×	197	5.6k
Andrés Lira‐Noriega Mexico	26	2.7k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	737 0.7×	110	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Asaf Tsoar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Asaf Tsoar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Asaf Tsoar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Asaf Tsoar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Asaf Tsoar 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 Asaf Tsoar. Asaf Tsoar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Shochat, Eyal, et al.. (2022). Bird eggs or wheat: Assessing the impact of an overabundant crow species in a landscape mosaic in the Negev desert of Israel. Journal for Nature Conservation. 70. 126283–126283. 1 indexed citations

Ancillotto, Leonardo, Luca Santini, Michela Pacifici, et al.. (2022). Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 98(1). 19–33. 70 indexed citations

Stavi, Ilan, et al.. (2018). Single Session of Chiseling Tillage for Soil and Vegetation Restoration in Severely Degraded Shrublands. Water. 10(6). 755–755. 4 indexed citations

Ohana‐Levi, Noa, Tarin Paz‐Kagan, Natalya Panov, et al.. (2018). Time series analysis of vegetation-cover response to environmental factors and residential development in a dryland region. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 56(3). 362–387. 26 indexed citations

Centeno‐Cuadros, Alejandro, Pavel Hulva, Dušan Romportl, et al.. (2017). Habitat use, but not gene flow, is influenced by human activities in two ecotypes of Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus). Molecular Ecology. 26(22). 6224–6237. 13 indexed citations

Tsoar, Asaf, et al.. (2011). Large-scale navigational map in a mammal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(37). E718–24. 163 indexed citations

Nathan, Ran, Frank M. Schurr, Orr Spiegel, et al.. (2008). Mechanisms of long-distance seed dispersal. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 23(11). 638–647. 677 indexed citations breakdown →

Tsoar, Asaf, et al.. (2007). A comparative evaluation of presence‐only methods for modelling species distribution. Diversity and Distributions. 13(4). 397–405. 421 indexed citations

Steinitz, Ofer, et al.. (2006). Environment, dispersal and patterns of species similarity. Journal of Biogeography. 33(6). 1044–1054. 115 indexed citations

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Allouche, Omri, Asaf Tsoar, & Ronen Kadmon. (2006). Assessing the accuracy of species distribution models: prevalence, kappa and the true skill statistic (TSS). Journal of Applied Ecology. 43(6). 1223–1232. 4189 indexed citations breakdown →

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Levin, Noam, et al.. (2006). Landscape continuity analysis: A new approach to conservation planning in Israel. Landscape and Urban Planning. 79(1). 53–64. 41 indexed citations

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Steinitz, Ofer, et al.. (2005). Predicting Regional Patterns of Similarity in Species Composition for Conservation Planning. Conservation Biology. 19(6). 1978–1988. 49 indexed citations

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Ulanovsky, Nachum, M. Brock Fenton, Asaf Tsoar, & Carmi Korine. (2004). Dynamics of jamming avoidance in echolocating bats. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 271(1547). 1467–1475. 135 indexed citations

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Fenton, M. Brock, et al.. (2004). Data, Sample Sizes and Statistics Affect the Recognition of Species of Bats by Their Echolocation Calls. Acta Chiropterologica. 6(2). 347–363. 32 indexed citations

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