Čuchta, P., Miklisová, D., Kováč, Ľ., 2019: The succession of soil Collembola communities in spruce forests of the High Tatra Mountains five years after the windthrow and clear-cut logging. Forest Ecology and Management, 433: 504–513.

IF = 3.170; JCR = Q1 Forestry; SJR = Q1 Forestry / Nature and Landscape Conservation; WoS citations: 11

Ballesteros, J.A., Santibáñez López, C.E., Kováč, Ľ., Gavish-Regev, E., Sharma, P.P., 2019: Ordered phylogenomic subsampling enables diagnosis of systematic errors in the placement of the enigmatic, long-branch arachnid order Palpigradi. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286: 20192426.

IF = 4.637; JCR = Q1 Biology; SJR = Q1 Agricultural and Biological Scienes/Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, WoS citations: 24

Parimuchová, A., Petráková Dušátková, L., Kováč, Ľ., Macháčková, T., Slabý, O., Pekár, S., 2021: The food web in a subterranean ecosystem is driven by intraguild predation. Scientific Reports, 11: art. no. 4994.

IF = 4.997; JCR = Q2 Multidisciplinary Sciences; SJR = Q1 Multidisciplinary; WoS citations: 16

Ľuptáčik, P., Čuchta, P., Jakšová, P., Miklisová, D., Kováč, Ľ., Alatalo, J.M., 2021: Cushion plants act as facilitators for soil microarthropods in high alpine Sweden. Biodiversity and Conservation, 30: 3243–3264. 

IF = 4.296; JCR = Q1 Biodiversity Conservation, SJR = Q1 Ecology/ Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics/ Nature and Landscape Conservation; WoS citations: 6

Kováč, Ľ., Žurovcová, M., Raschmanová, N., Jureková, N., Papáč, V., Parimuchová, A., 2023: Troglomorphic adaptations on the northern European frontier: the phylogeny of the cave Pseudosinella (Hexapoda, Collembola) in the Western Carpathians. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 11: 1169911.

IF = 2.4; JCR = Q2 Ecology; SJR = Q1 Ecology/ Ecology, Behavior, Evolution and Systematics

Marcin, M., Raschmanová, N., Miklisová, D., Šupinský, J., Kaňuk, J., Kováč, Ľ., 2024: Karst landforms as microrefugia for soil Collembola: Open versus forested dolines. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 12(1): 00107

IF 2023: 4.7; JCR 2023 = Q2 Environmental Sciences; SJR 2023 = Q1 Ecology, WoS citations: 1

Petrovová, V., Ľuptáčik, P., Kolarčík, V., Kováč, Ľ., 2024: Biodiversity of a temperate karst landscape - ice cave collapse doline supports high α-diversity of the soil mesofauna. Scientific Reports, 14: 22205.

IF 2023 = 3.8; JCR 2023 = Q1 Multidisciplinary Sciences, SJR 2023 = Q1 Multidisciplinary

Project APPV-17-0477 (Slovak Research and Development Agency): “Molecular phylogeny of unique subterranean fauna", 07/2018-07/2022, principal investigator

Project VEGA 1/0438/22 (Slovak Scientific Grant Agency): „Functional importance of the cave entrances as a transition zone for terrestrial arthropod communities (Arthropoda)“, 01/2022-12/2025, principal investigator

Project VEGA 1/0346/18 (Slovak Scientific Grant Agency): "Relictual forms of arthropods (Arthropoda) in the Western Carpathians – morphology, ecology and phylogeny", 01/2018-12/2021, principal investigator

Ministry of Environment SR, State Nature Conservation SR – Slovak Caves Administration, Operational programme Quality of Environment, project ITMS 2014+: 310011P445: "Protection and care of the Slovakian caves I – Biospeleological research and monitoring of invertebrates" (2021-2023), principal investigator

COST CA18237 - European Soil-Biology Data Warehouse for Soil Protection (2019-2023), member of Management Committee

National Geographic Society, grant number NGS-93344R-22: "Revealing the subterranean biodiversity of Georgia (Caucasus Mts)", 06/2022–05/2024, project member

Project APPV-21-0379 (Slovak Research and Development Agency): “Functional traits of terrestrial arthropods along epigean-hypogean gradient of the cave entrances”,

07/2022-06/2026, principal investigator