Tigga Kingston

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
69 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Tigga Kingston is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Tigga Kingston has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 35 papers in Ecology and 21 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Tigga Kingston's work include Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (55 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers) and Marine animal studies overview (18 papers). Tigga Kingston is often cited by papers focused on Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (55 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers) and Marine animal studies overview (18 papers). Tigga Kingston collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Malaysia. Tigga Kingston's co-authors include Christian C. Voigt, Akbar Zubaid, Winifred F. Frick, Jon Flanders, Stephen J. Rossiter, Thomas Kunz, Gareth Jones, Charles M. Francis, Matthew J. Struebig and Benjamin P. Y.‐H. Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Tigga Kingston

68 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World

2015 577 citations Tigga Kingston et al. profile →
A review of the major threats and challenges to global bat conservation

2019 381 citations Winifred F. Frick, Tigga Kingston et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tigga Kingston United States	27	2.3k	1.5k	877	592	378	69	2.9k
P. A. Racey United Kingdom	22	2.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	620 0.7×	751 1.3×	221 0.6×	41	2.9k
Ara Monadjem Eswatini	33	1.6k 0.7×	2.7k 1.7×	1.0k 1.2×	201 0.3×	407 1.1×	204	3.9k
Adrià López‐Baucells Spain	26	1.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	799 0.9×	541 0.9×	144 0.4×	87	2.1k
Paul J. J. Bates United Kingdom	23	1.8k 0.8×	938 0.6×	739 0.8×	245 0.4×	656 1.7×	86	2.6k
Sara Bumrungsri Thailand	26	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	602 0.7×	236 0.4×	157 0.4×	101	2.3k
Marco Tschapka Germany	28	1.7k 0.7×	936 0.6×	516 0.6×	308 0.5×	130 0.3×	125	2.7k
Justin G. Boyles United States	30	3.0k 1.3×	1.9k 1.2×	659 0.8×	388 0.7×	138 0.4×	76	3.8k
Leonardo Ancillotto Italy	30	1.8k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	928 1.1×	470 0.8×	66 0.2×	119	2.8k
John O. Whitaker United States	34	3.1k 1.4×	2.8k 1.8×	788 0.9×	475 0.8×	230 0.6×	246	4.7k
Elizabeth L. Clare United Kingdom	33	2.0k 0.9×	3.1k 2.0×	1.3k 1.5×	218 0.4×	228 0.6×	87	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Tigga Kingston

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tigga Kingston

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20 of 20 papers shown

Irshad, Hamid, et al.. (2025). Environmental factors driving antimicrobial resistance in Indian flying foxes (Pteropus medius): one health implications. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 35991–35991. 1 indexed citations

Straka, Tanja M., et al.. (2024). Beyond biophobia: positive appraisal of bats among German residents during the COVID-19 pandemic - with consequences for conservation intentions. Biodiversity and Conservation. 33(8-9). 2549–2565. 1 indexed citations

Boden, Lisa, et al.. (2023). Future directions for One Health research: Regional and sectoral gaps. One Health. 17. 100584–100584. 7 indexed citations

Kingston, Tigga, F. B. Vincent Florens, & Christian E. Vincenot. (2023). Large Old World Fruit Bats on the Brink of Extinction: Causes and Consequences. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 54(1). 237–257. 6 indexed citations

Muylaert, Renata L., Tigga Kingston, Jinhong Luo, et al.. (2022). Present and future distribution of bat hosts of sarbecoviruses: implications for conservation and public health. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1975). 20220397–20220397. 21 indexed citations

Monadjem, Ara, et al.. (2022). Multiple dimensions of biodiversity in paleotropical hotspots reveal comparable bat diversity. Biotropica. 54(5). 1205–1216. 6 indexed citations

Monadjem, Ara, et al.. (2022). Hidden Afrotropical Bat Diversity in Nigeria: Ten New Country Records from a Biodiversity Hotspot. Acta Chiropterologica. 23(2). 7 indexed citations

Kingston, Tigga, et al.. (2022). Global Medicinal Use of Bats: A Systematic Literature and Social Media Review. Diversity. 14(3). 179–179. 9 indexed citations

Shapiro, Julie Teresa, Stefania Leopardi, Ian H. Mendenhall, et al.. (2021). Setting the Terms for Zoonotic Diseases: Effective Communication for Research, Conservation, and Public Policy. Viruses. 13(7). 1356–1356. 19 indexed citations

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Kading, Rebekah C. & Tigga Kingston. (2020). Common ground: The foundation of interdisciplinary research on bat disease emergence. PLoS Biology. 18(11). e3000947–e3000947. 5 indexed citations

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Kingston, Tigga, et al.. (2020). Bat Ensembles Differ in Response to Use Zones in a Tropical Biosphere Reserve. Diversity. 12(2). 60–60. 9 indexed citations

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Huang, Joe Chun‐Chia, et al.. (2019). Echolocation and roosting ecology determine sensitivity of forest‐dependent bats to coffee agriculture. Biotropica. 51(5). 757–768. 19 indexed citations

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Hashim, Rosli, et al.. (2017). Resource availability and roosting ecology shape reproductive phenology of rain forest insectivorous bats. Biotropica. 49(3). 382–394. 37 indexed citations

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Csorba, Gábor, et al.. (2015). Thumb-pads up—a new species of thick-thumbed bat from Sumatra (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Glischropus). Zootaxa. 3980(2). 267–78. 13 indexed citations

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Hashim, R., et al.. (2012). The Malaysian bat conservation research unit: From a national model to an international network. The University of Malaya Research Repository (University of Malaya). 41(2). 1–10. 9 indexed citations

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Rossiter, Stephen J., Akbar Zubaid, Adura Mohd-Adnan, et al.. (2011). Social organization and genetic structure: insights from codistributed bat populations. Molecular Ecology. 21(3). 647–661. 42 indexed citations

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Francis, Charles M., Tigga Kingston, & Akbar Zubaid. (2007). A new species of Kerivoula (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from peninsular Malaysia. Acta Chiropterologica. 9(1). 1–12. 27 indexed citations

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Bates, Paul J. J., et al.. (2004). A New Species ofKerivoula(Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Myanmar (Burma). Acta Chiropterologica. 6(2). 219–226. 27 indexed citations

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Kingston, Tigga, Gareth Jones, Akbar Zubaid, & Thomas Kunz. (1999). Echolocation signal design in Kerivoulinae and Murininae (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Malaysia. Journal of Zoology. 249(3). 359–374. 3 indexed citations

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Kingston, Tigga & M. J. Coe. (1977). The biology of a giant dung‐beetle (Heliocopris dilloni) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of Zoology. 181(2). 243–263. 36 indexed citations

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