Francesca Cagnacci

9.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
101 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Francesca Cagnacci is a scholar working on Ecology, Small Animals and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesca Cagnacci has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Ecology, 24 papers in Small Animals and 17 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Francesca Cagnacci's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (77 papers), Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (24 papers) and Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (24 papers). Francesca Cagnacci is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (77 papers), Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (24 papers) and Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (24 papers). Francesca Cagnacci collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Germany. Francesca Cagnacci's co-authors include Roger A. Powell, Luigi Boitani, Mark S. Boyce, John Fieberg, Annapaola Rizzoli, Mark Hebblewhite, Ferdinando Urbano, Federico Ossi, P. R. Moorcroft and Luca Pedrotti and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Francesca Cagnacci

90 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Animal ecology meets GPS-based radiotelemetry: a perfect storm of opportunities and challenges

2010 555 citations Francesca Cagnacci, Luigi Boitani et al. profile →
COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife

2020 403 citations Christian Rutz, Matthias‐Claudio Loretto et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesca Cagnacci Italy	30	2.8k	745	572	560	548	101	4.3k
Carlos Fonseca Portugal	32	2.8k 1.0×	739 1.0×	623 1.1×	680 1.2×	319 0.6×	237	4.6k
Matthew E. Gompper United States	39	3.4k 1.2×	707 0.9×	629 1.1×	582 1.0×	419 0.8×	135	4.8k
Rafael Villafuerte Spain	40	3.3k 1.2×	626 0.8×	349 0.6×	519 0.9×	349 0.6×	128	4.7k
Margarida Santos‐Reis Portugal	38	2.5k 0.9×	464 0.6×	499 0.9×	232 0.4×	494 0.9×	147	4.2k
Alejandro Rodrı́guez Spain	35	2.2k 0.8×	530 0.7×	544 1.0×	279 0.5×	314 0.6×	117	3.3k
Eric M. Schauber United States	27	2.2k 0.8×	755 1.0×	296 0.5×	198 0.4×	509 0.9×	94	3.3k
Sipke E. van Wieren Netherlands	36	2.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	286 0.5×	221 0.4×	460 0.8×	78	3.7k
José Vicente López‐Bao Spain	42	3.4k 1.2×	482 0.6×	734 1.3×	698 1.2×	214 0.4×	174	4.7k
Stanley D. Gehrt United States	34	3.0k 1.1×	767 1.0×	323 0.6×	915 1.6×	245 0.4×	81	4.0k
Taal Levi United States	32	3.2k 1.1×	721 1.0×	804 1.4×	225 0.4×	626 1.1×	96	5.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Francesca Cagnacci

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesca Cagnacci

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Tattoni, Clara, Andrea Corradini, Francesco Chianucci, et al.. (2025). Behaviour of Brown Bears Under Fluctuating Resource Availability. Ecology and Evolution. 15(7). e71693–e71693.

Garrote, Germán, Andrea Corradini, Francesca Cagnacci, et al.. (2025). Movement phases make a difference in habitat selection: Iberian lynx diversity of responses to human‐modified landscapes. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(10). 1983–1996.

Ossi, Federico, et al.. (2025). All you can eat: Artificial feeding sites affect large herbivores and their predator in a human‐dominated landscape. Ecosphere. 16(8).

Corradini, Andrea, Luca Pedrotti, Clara Tattoni, et al.. (2024). Human‐induced risk drives behavioural decisions in a recovering brown bear population. Animal Conservation. 27(6). 753–766. 3 indexed citations

Cagnacci, Francesca, et al.. (2023). FSC forest certification effects on biodiversity: A global review and meta-analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 908. 168296–168296. 9 indexed citations

Ellis‐Soto, Diego, Ruth Y. Oliver, Vanessa Brum-Bastos, et al.. (2023). A vision for incorporating human mobility in the study of human–wildlife interactions. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(9). 1362–1372. 15 indexed citations

Corradini, Andrea, Mark A. Haroldson, Francesca Cagnacci, et al.. (2023). Evidence for density‐dependent effects on body composition of a large omnivore in a changing Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Global Change Biology. 29(16). 4496–4510. 5 indexed citations

Ranc, Nathan, P. R. Moorcroft, Federico Ossi, & Francesca Cagnacci. (2021). Experimental evidence of memory-based foraging decisions in a large wild mammal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(15). 45 indexed citations

Moorcroft, P. R., Duško Ćirović, József Lanszki, et al.. (2021). Movement, space-use and resource preferences of European golden jackals in human-dominated landscapes: insights from a telemetry study. Mammalian Biology. 101(5). 619–630. 28 indexed citations

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Cagnacci, Francesca, Federico Ossi, Emanuele Eccel, et al.. (2021). Behavioural heat‐stress compensation in a cold‐adapted ungulate: Forage‐mediated responses to warming Alpine summers. Ecology Letters. 24(8). 1556–1568. 29 indexed citations

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Gehr, Benedikt, Nadège C. Bonnot, Marco Heurich, et al.. (2020). Stay home, stay safe—Site familiarity reduces predation risk in a large herbivore in two contrasting study sites. Journal of Animal Ecology. 89(6). 1329–1339. 42 indexed citations

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Bonnot, Nadège C., Anne Berger, Francesca Cagnacci, et al.. (2019). Fear of the dark? Contrasting impacts of humans versus lynx on diel activity of roe deer across Europe. Journal of Animal Ecology. 89(1). 132–145. 65 indexed citations

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Groeve, Johannes De, Francesca Cagnacci, Nathan Ranc, et al.. (2019). Individual Movement - Sequence Analysis Method (IM-SAM): characterizing spatio-temporal patterns of animal habitat use across landscapes. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 34(8). 1530–1551. 11 indexed citations

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Rizzoli, Annapaola, Valentina Tagliapietra, Francesca Cagnacci, et al.. (2019). “Parasite-wildlife interaction in a changing world: Vector–borne diseases as example”. International Journal for Parasitology. 1 indexed citations

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Basille, Mathieu, et al.. (2018). Movement responses of roe deer to hunting risk. Journal of Wildlife Management. 83(1). 43–51. 24 indexed citations

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Peters, Wibke, et al.. (2015). Roe deer summer habitat selection at multiple spatio-temporal scales in an Alpine environment. Bollettino del CILEA (CILEA). 15 indexed citations

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Cagnacci, Francesca, Andrea Cardini, Paolo Ciucci, et al.. (2012). Less is more : researcher survival guide in times of economic crisis. Bollettino del CILEA (CILEA). 22 indexed citations

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Cagnacci, Francesca, et al.. (2007). Sex-biased ranging behaviour of the yellow-necked mouse Apodemus flavicollis at high population density. CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (Fondazione Edmund Mach). 1 indexed citations

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Melis, Claudia, Francesca Cagnacci, & Sandro Lovari. (2004). Site fidelity of male roe deer in a Mediterranean fragmented area. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations

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Cagnacci, Francesca, Sandro Lovari, & Alberto Meriggi. (2003). Carrion dependence and food habits of the red fox in an Alpine area. Italian Journal of Zoology. 70(1). 31–38. 44 indexed citations

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