OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Economic Botany is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
A Historically Contextualized Account of the Baobab Trees (Adansonia digitata L.) of Tobago	27
Ethnobotany of Tjinalpa (Triodia pungens, Poaceae): Processing Techniques and Nutritional Assay of a Rare Desert Aboriginal Seed Food	16
Replication in the United States of a United Kingdom Market Study Finds Shifting Patterns of Misidentification and Adulteration of Chinese Medicinal Plants	14
The Dispersal of Bananas (Musa spp.) to the Americas in the Sixteenth Century	12
The Inextricable Link between Ecology and Taste: Traditional Plant Foraging in NW Balochistan, Pakistan	11
A Swirling Offering: Climate Change Impacts on Incense and Other Useful Alpine Plants of Bhutan	11
Traditional Management of Maize in the Sierra Sur, Oaxaca, Maintains Moderate Levels of Genetic Diversity and Low Population Differentiation Among Landraces	10
Homegarden Variation and Medicinal Plant Sharing among the Q’eqchi’ Maya of Guatemala	10
Cultural Effects on Sorghum Varieties Grown, Traits Preferred, and Seed Management Practices in Northern Ethiopia	9
Vernacular Names of Traditional Rice Varieties Reveal the Unique History of Maroons in Suriname and French Guiana	8
Women’s Perinatal Plant Knowledge: a Case Study on the Compilation and Secondary Analysis of Ethnomedicinal Data	7
Book Reviews	7
Socioeconomic Dimensions of Wild Food Plant Use During the Conflict in Syria	7
Ethnobotany and Economic Botany: Why We Are Changing Our Journal Name	6
Ecosymbiotic Complementarity, an Old Theory Applicable in Today’s Ethnobiological Studies	6
Foraging Wild Food Plants in the Dry Gorges of Pakistan’s High Karakorum Mountains: A Generational Perspective	5
Book Reviews	5
Economic Assessment of Morel (Morchella spp.) Foraging in Michigan, USA	5
How Do Local Medical Systems Work? An Overview of the Evidence	5
Ethnobotany and Wood Anatomy of Banisteriopsis caapi Ethnotaxa and Diplopterys cf. pubipetala, Components of Ayahuasca in Brazilian Rituals	5
Tracing the Supply Chain of Medicinal Wild Yam Species (Dioscorea spp.) in Cundinamarca, Colombia	4
The Useful Plants of Uganda: Conserving Socio-economically Valuable Plant Species Using Important Plant Areas (IPAs)	4
Book Review Editor, Wendy L. Applequist	4
Book Reviews	4
The Relation Between Ashaninka Amazonian Society and Cultivated Acanthaceae Plants	4

Ethnoveterinary Practices of Medicinal Plants Used in Animal Health Management in the Dawuro Zone, Southern Ethiopia	4
Book Reviews	4
From the Wild to the Market: The Trade of Edible Plants in Guinea-Bissau	3
BOOK REVIEWS	3
Utilization and Producers’ Knowledge of Pigeon Pea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) in Togo (West Africa)	3
Beyond Traditions: The Potential of Big Data in Assessing Interest in Medicinal Plants on the Internet	3
Uses, Cultural Importance, and Fire Threat to Pseudocedrela kotschyi (Meliaceae): Evidence for the Availability Hypothesis in Benin (West Africa)	3
Collard Greens (Brassica oleracea var. viridis) in the Moroccan Oasis	3
Identifying the Ecosystems Services of the Ivory Palm (Phytelephas aequatorialis Spruce): A Qualitative Study from the Central Coast of Ecuador	3
Ghost Pipe Then and Now: the Influence of Digital Media on the Medicinal Use of Monotropa uniflora in the United States	3
Species-Poor Mangrove Forests also Provide Rich Ecosystem Goods and Services	2
Availability and Trade Values of Some Non-timber Forest Products in Local Markets: Implications for the Conservation of Savanna Ecosystems in Burkina Faso	2
From Tradition to the Digital Age: The Evolution of Foraging in Slovenia	2
The Role of Wild Plants in Cultural Restoration: Community Collaboration and Engaged Ethnobotany in the Nineveh Plains, Northern Iraq	2
A New Global Estimation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Species in Commercial Cultivation and Their Conservation Status	2
Identification and Preservation of the Hawaiian “Niu Hiwa” Within Hawai‘i’s Coconut Diversity	2
Why Contexts Matter for Gender Equal Outcomes in Research-Based Plant Breeding: The Case of Maize in Nigeria	2
Mapping the Online Trade of Endangered Taxus (Yew): Implications for Conservation in China	2
Upholding Ethical Accountability in Ethnobotany and Ethnobiology Research	2
The 16th-19th Century Soundtoll Registers Online: Uncovering Traded Plant Diversity between the North and the Baltic Seas	2
Silvicultural Practices in the Management of Diospyros melanoxylon (Tendu) Leaf Production: Options and Trade-offs	2
An Ethnobotanical Study on the Dietary Use of Wild Trees as Traditional Vegetables by Three Ethnic Communities in Manipur, North East India	2
Random Patterns of Medicinal Plants on a Phylogeny do not Imply Random Selections of Medicinal Plants	2
Interpreting the Indigenous and Imported Heritage of Medicinal and Culinary Plant Use in St. Vincent through the Gardens of John Nero and Alexander Anderson	2
Special Issue: Ethnobotany for the Future: Theory, Methods, and Social Engagement (Part 1)	2
Ethnoecological Knowledge and Management Strategies for Canarium schweinfurthii (Burseraceae) in Forest and Savanna Zones of Cameroon	2
Community-Based Mangrove Management in Sucre, Colombia: Stakeholder Perceptions, Land Cover Trends, and Challenges	1
Conservation and Protection Status of United States Pharmacopeial Convention’s Compendial Articles of Botanical Origin	1
Does Bark Anatomy Influence the Selection of Woody Medicinal Plants in Seasonal Dry Forests from Brazil?	1
Contributions to the Identification of Cultural Keystone Species from an Emic Perspective: a Case Study from Northeast Brazil	1
Diversity of Uses and Local Knowledge Associated with Wild African Plum Trees, Dacryodes edulis, Among Different Ethnic Groups in the Congo Basin	1
Is Australian Flora Unsuitable for the Bow-and-Arrow?	1
Legal Use of Potentially Poisonous Plants: The Case of British Herbalism	1
Tracing the Tradition: Regional Differences in the Cultivation, Utilization, and Commercialization of Bitter Kola (Garcinia kola, Clusiaceae) in Cameroon	1
A New Methodological Approach to Detect Microcenters and Regions of Maize Genetic Diversity in Different Areas of Lowland South America	1
Unraveling Sustainability in Brazilian Ethnobotany: An Analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)	1
Book Reviews	1
Functional Traits Drive the Selection of Plant Species Used by Agropastoralists in the Brazilian Semiarid Region	1
The Rosewood (Aniba spp., Lauraceae) Production Chain in the Brazilian Amazon	1
Dulong People’s Traditional Knowledge of Caryota obtusa (Arecaceae): a Potential Starch Plant with Emphasis on Its Starch Properties and Distribution Prediction	1
Book Reviews	1
Book Reviews	1
Book Reviews	1
Pises (Xanthosoma robustum, Araceae): Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Farming Practices of a Neglected and Underutilized Crop in a Mexican Indigenous Community	1
Toward the Reshaping of an Endogenous Leafy Vegetable Value Chain: the Case Study of Vitex doniana in the Republic of Benin	1
Fifty Years Later—The Legacy of Alfred Crosby’s “The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492”	1
Doing Interdisciplinary Environmental Change Research Solo	1
Book Reviews	1
The Invisible Tropical Tuber Crop: Edible Aroids (Araceae) Sold as “Tajer” in the Netherlands	1
Current Use of Local Folk Medicine (Rimèd Razyé) in the French Lesser Antilles: Diversity Patterns and Links Between Food and Health	1

Wild harvesting of Termite Mushrooms (Termitomyces spp.) in Kitengué, Republic of the Congo	1
Tropane Alkaloid Variation in the Genus Datura and its Consequences for Cultural Practices	1