Nancy B. Simmons

9.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
167 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

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Nancy B. Simmons is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nancy B. Simmons has authored 167 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 78 papers in Paleontology and 53 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Nancy B. Simmons's work include Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (133 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (78 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (46 papers). Nancy B. Simmons is often cited by papers focused on Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (133 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (78 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (46 papers). Nancy B. Simmons collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Nancy B. Simmons's co-authors include Robert S. Voss, Darrin P. Lunde, Norberto P. Giannini, Gregg F. Gunnell, Jonathan H. Geisler, Matthew V. Rockman, Andrea L. Wetterer, M. Brock Fenton, Jörg Habersetzer and Kevin L. Seymour and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nancy B. Simmons

163 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

THE MAMMALS OF PARACOU, FRENCH GUIANA: A NEOTROPICAL LOWLAND RAINFOREST FAUNA PART 2. NONVOLANT SPECIES

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Author						Papers	Cites
Nancy B. Simmons	3.7k	2.1k	2.1k	997	773	167	5.2k
Jeffrey B. Joy	1.6k 0.4×	881 0.4×	1.8k 0.9×	919 0.9×	686 0.9×	65	5.1k
Emma C. Teeling	3.5k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	2.0k 1.0×	777 0.8×	1.9k 2.5×	111	7.4k
DeeAnn M. Reeder	3.9k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	3.4k 1.6×	945 0.9×	628 0.8×	63	7.4k
Stephen J. Rossiter	2.9k 0.8×	571 0.3×	2.0k 1.0×	789 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	175	5.9k
Burton K. Lim	2.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	996 1.0×	602 0.8×	118	3.0k
Ronald A. Van Den Bussche	2.3k 0.6×	785 0.4×	1.6k 0.8×	720 0.7×	670 0.9×	153	4.6k
Manuel Rüedi	2.9k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 1.4×	706 0.9×	104	4.3k
Theodore H. Fleming	6.4k 1.7×	1.0k 0.5×	4.0k 1.9×	1.7k 1.7×	385 0.5×	116	8.2k
Gary R. Graves	2.5k 0.7×	831 0.4×	3.8k 1.8×	2.2k 2.2×	570 0.7×	184	7.3k
Kristofer M. Helgen	1.1k 0.3×	1.2k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	619 0.6×	714 0.9×	135	3.9k

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Almeida, Francisca C., Kristofer M. Helgen, Nancy B. Simmons, & Norberto P. Giannini. (2025). Evolution and ecology of body size in the world’s largest bats. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2051). 20250743–20250743.

Giannini, Norberto P., et al.. (2024). Palaeoatmosphere facilitates a gliding transition to powered flight in the Eocene bat, Onychonycteris finneyi. Communications Biology. 7(1). 365–365. 1 indexed citations

Morales, Ariadna E., Frank T. Burbrink, Paul W. Webala, et al.. (2024). Distinct Genes with Similar Functions Underlie Convergent Evolution in Myotis Bat Ecomorphs. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(9). 2 indexed citations

Yang, Anni, Dmitriy V. Volokhov, M. Brock Fenton, et al.. (2024). Bat cellular immunity varies by year and dietary habit amidst land conversion. Conservation Physiology. 12(1). coad102–coad102. 2 indexed citations

Nguyen, Hai P., Yien–Ming Kuo, Sarah Fong, et al.. (2024). Integrative single-cell characterization of a frugivorous and an insectivorous bat kidney and pancreas. Nature Communications. 15(1). 12–12. 13 indexed citations

Anthwal, Neal, Daniel J. Urban, Alexa Sadier, et al.. (2023). Insights into the formation and diversification of a novel chiropteran wing membrane from embryonic development. BMC Biology. 21(1). 101–101. 4 indexed citations

Volokhov, Dmitriy V., Claudia Herrera, Ryan F. Relich, et al.. (2023). Serum proteomics reveals a tolerant immune phenotype across multiple pathogen taxa in wild vampire bats. Frontiers in Immunology. 14. 13 indexed citations

Geiselman, Cullen, Jorrit H. Poelen, Nancy B. Simmons, et al.. (2023). A Standardized Review of Bat Names Across Multiple Taxonomic Authorities. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

Goswami, Anjali, Julien Clavel, Anne‐Claire Fabre, et al.. (2022). Attenuated evolution of mammals through the Cenozoic. Science. 378(6618). 377–383. 37 indexed citations

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Tsang, Susan M., Dolyce H. W. Low, Ina Smith, et al.. (2022). Co‐circulation of alpha‐ and beta‐coronaviruses in Pteropus vampyrus flying foxes from Indonesia. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 69(6). 3917–3925. 2 indexed citations

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Yohe, Laurel R., Matteo Fabbri, Daniela Lee, et al.. (2022). Ecological constraints on highly evolvable olfactory receptor genes and morphology in neotropical bats. Evolution. 76(10). 2347–2360. 17 indexed citations

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Mastromonaco, Gabriela F., et al.. (2021). Inter- and intra-specific variation in hair cortisol concentrations of Neotropical bats. Conservation Physiology. 9(1). coab053–coab053. 7 indexed citations

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Neely, Benjamin A., Michael G. Janech, M. Brock Fenton, et al.. (2021). Surveying the Vampire Bat ( Desmodus rotundus ) Serum Proteome: A Resource for Identifying Immunological Proteins and Detecting Pathogens. Journal of Proteome Research. 20(5). 2547–2559. 20 indexed citations

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Becker, Daniel J., et al.. (2021). Body size affects immune cell proportions in birds and non-volant mammals, but not bats. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224(13). 10 indexed citations

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Becker, Daniel J., Alice Broos, Laura M. Bergner, et al.. (2020). Temporal patterns of vampire bat rabies and host connectivity in Belize. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 68(2). 870–879. 14 indexed citations

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Becker, Daniel J., Kelly A. Speer, M. Brock Fenton, et al.. (2020). Ecological and evolutionary drivers of haemoplasma infection and bacterial genotype sharing in a Neotropical bat community. Molecular Ecology. 29(8). 1534–1549. 24 indexed citations

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Becker, Daniel J., Kelly A. Speer, Jennifer M. Korstian, et al.. (2020). Disentangling interactions among mercury, immunity and infection in a Neotropical bat community. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(4). 879–889. 18 indexed citations

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Yohe, Laurel R., Kalina T. J. Davies, Nancy B. Simmons, et al.. (2019). Evaluating the performance of targeted sequence capture, RNA‐Seq, and degenerate‐primer PCR cloning for sequencing the largest mammalian multigene family. Molecular Ecology Resources. 20(1). 140–153. 13 indexed citations

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Lim, Burton K., Mark D. Engstrom, Fiona A Reid, et al.. (2010). A New Species of Peropteryx (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) from Western Amazonia with Comments on Phylogenetic Relationships within the Genus. American Museum Novitates. 3686. 1–20. 39 indexed citations

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Simmons, Nancy B., et al.. (1995). Gorbachikella from the Hauterivian, Barremian-Aptian of Tunisia. UCL Discovery (University College London). 3 indexed citations

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