Yossi Yovel

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
122 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Yossi Yovel is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yossi Yovel has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 67 papers in Ecology and 58 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in Yossi Yovel's work include Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (84 papers), Marine animal studies overview (64 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (58 papers). Yossi Yovel is often cited by papers focused on Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (84 papers), Marine animal studies overview (64 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (58 papers). Yossi Yovel collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Yossi Yovel's co-authors include Yaniv Assaf, Peter J. Basser, Tamar Blumenfeld‐Katzir, Arjan Boonman, Nachum Ulanovsky, Yosef Prat, Eran Amichai, Maya Geva‐Sagiv, Hans‐Ulrich Schnitzler and Matthias Franz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yossi Yovel

117 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yossi Yovel Israel	32	1.8k	1.3k	1.1k	703	553	122	3.5k
Giacomo Dell’Omo Italy	42	1.6k 0.9×	2.5k 1.8×	319 0.3×	157 0.2×	591 1.1×	194	6.0k
Graham R. Martin United Kingdom	41	2.1k 1.2×	2.5k 1.9×	398 0.4×	35 0.0×	564 1.0×	151	4.6k
Hermann Wagner Germany	43	747 0.4×	675 0.5×	781 0.7×	91 0.1×	3.0k 5.4×	192	6.4k
Charles Oxnard Australia	36	509 0.3×	620 0.5×	324 0.3×	247 0.4×	269 0.5×	145	4.2k
Tyson L. Hedrick United States	37	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	177 0.2×	27 0.0×	163 0.3×	109	5.4k
Gang Song China	34	537 0.3×	642 0.5×	62 0.1×	2.2k 3.1×	1.9k 3.4×	223	7.5k
J.L. van Leeuwen Netherlands	38	545 0.3×	865 0.6×	121 0.1×	46 0.1×	210 0.4×	156	4.8k
Paul R. Manger South Africa	44	1.0k 0.6×	888 0.7×	297 0.3×	357 0.5×	3.0k 5.3×	258	8.0k
Rickye S. Heffner United States	37	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	1.6k 1.5×	79 0.1×	1.8k 3.2×	105	4.5k
Henry E. Heffner United States	40	1.5k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	1.9k 1.8×	38 0.1×	2.0k 3.7×	121	5.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yossi Yovel

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Friedman, Sivan, Aleksandra A. Kolodziejczyk, Kyung‐Mee Moon, et al.. (2025). Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Illuminate Bat Immunity and Barrier Tissue Evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(2). 5 indexed citations

Boonman, Arjan, et al.. (2024). Using acoustic cameras to study vocal mobbing reveals the importance of learning in juvenile Arabian babblers. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3.

Faskowitz, Joshua, et al.. (2024). Relation of connectome topology to brain volume across 103 mammalian species. PLoS Biology. 22(2). e3002489–e3002489. 3 indexed citations

Koblitz, Jens C., et al.. (2024). A social foraging trade-off in echolocating bats reveals that they benefit from some conspecifics but are impaired when many are around. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(30). e2321724121–e2321724121. 6 indexed citations

Shahar, Nitzan, et al.. (2023). Fruit bats adjust their decision-making process according to environmental dynamics. BMC Biology. 21(1). 278–278.

Yovel, Yossi, et al.. (2023). Bat vocal sequences enhance contextual information independently of syllable order. iScience. 26(4). 106466–106466. 3 indexed citations

Yovel, Yossi, et al.. (2023). BATScan: A radar classification tool reveals large‐scale bat migration patterns. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(7). 1764–1779. 12 indexed citations

Yovel, Yossi, et al.. (2022). Re-examining extreme sleep duration in bats: implications for sleep phylogeny, ecology, and function. SLEEP. 45(8). 12 indexed citations

Zilkha, Noga, et al.. (2022). Alone, in the dark: The extraordinary neuroethology of the solitary blind mole rat. eLife. 11. 6 indexed citations

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Luo, Jinhong, et al.. (2021). Flight rapidly modulates body temperature in freely behaving bats. Animal Biotelemetry. 9(1). 9 indexed citations

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Khait, Itzhak, et al.. (2020). Increased sugar concentration in response to a wide range of pollinator sounds can be adaptive for the plant: answer to Raguso et al. Ecology Letters. 23(10). 1553–1554. 1 indexed citations

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Goldshtein, Aya, et al.. (2020). Plants’ ability to sense and respond to airborne sound is likely to be adaptive: reply to comment by Pyke et al. Ecology Letters. 23(9). 1423–1425. 1 indexed citations

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Yovel, Yossi, et al.. (2020). Segregating signal from noise through movement in echolocating bats. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 382–382. 18 indexed citations

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Khait, Itzhak, Uri Obolski, Arjan Boonman, et al.. (2019). Flowers respond to pollinator sound within minutes by increasing nectar sugar concentration. Ecology Letters. 22(9). 1483–1492. 76 indexed citations

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Khait, Itzhak, Uri Obolski, Yossi Yovel, & Lilach Hadany. (2019). Sound perception in plants. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 92. 134–138. 26 indexed citations

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Kolodny, Oren, Leah Reshef, Lee Harten, et al.. (2018). Coordinated change at the colony level in fruit bat fur microbiomes through time. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(1). 116–124. 44 indexed citations

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Yovel, Yossi, et al.. (2018). Neuroethology of bat navigation. Current Biology. 28(17). R997–R1004. 24 indexed citations

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Levin, Eran, Edward Hurme, Ivailo Borissov, et al.. (2015). Bats Aggregate to Improve Prey Search but Might Be Impaired when Their Density Becomes Too High. Current Biology. 25(2). 206–211. 137 indexed citations

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Greif, Stefan, Ivailo Borissov, Yossi Yovel, & Richard A. Holland. (2014). A functional role of the sky’s polarization pattern for orientation in the greater mouse-eared bat. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4488–4488. 51 indexed citations

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Melcón, Mariana L., Yossi Yovel, Annette Denzinger, & Hans‐Ulrich Schnitzler. (2010). How greater mouse-eared bats deal with ambiguous echoic scenes. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 197(5). 505–514. 12 indexed citations

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