OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Ethnobiology 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Quantitative Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Species With Dermatological Relevance Used in Traditional Mayan Medicine	145
Unveiling Social Dynamics in People's Perception of Raptors to Guide Effective Conservation Strategies	66
Ethnozoological Review on the Trade, Human Alimentation, and Cultural Use of Skinks (Reptilia, Scincidae)	21
Ethnobiotica: Transitions	20
The Community Landscape and Culturally Important Fauna Among the Mbya Guaraní of Misiones, Argentina: Participatory Mapping as a Study Tool	19
“Who Eats the Forest?”: Forest Animacy among the Bahnar People of Vietnam	17
Nuaulu Use and Management of Culturally Salient Polymorphisms inCodiaeum variegatum: Explaining the Biocultural Dimensions of Leaf Variegation in a Southeast Asian Ornamental	11
Negotiating (with) Fire: Contemporary Fire Domestication in Swedish Sápmi	10
Sampling Bias in Ethnobotanical Studies on Medicinal Plants Conducted in Local Markets	10
Foreword for Justin	8
“A Returntoandofthe Land”: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Initiatives across the Canadian Prairies	8
Interactions between Climate Change and Infrastructure Projects in Changing Water Resources: An Ethnobiological Perspective from the Daasanach, Kenya	8
Engaging Local Knowledge on Wild Honeybees Toward Sustainable Livelihood and Ecological Conservation in the Cordillera Region, Philippines	7
Useful Plants from the Wild to Home Gardens: An Analysis of Home Garden Ethnobotany in Contexts of Habitat Conversion and Land Use Change in Jeju, South Korea	7
Local Knowledge of the Interactions between Agrobiodiversity and Soil: A Fertile Substrate for Adapting to Changes in the Soil in Madagascar?	6
Surviving Dragons: Ethnographic Reports of Komodo Monitors (Varanus komodoensis) in Northeastern Flores	6
Locusts and Grasshoppers Acridoidea Ethnobiology of the South American Gran Chaco: A Review	6
Differentiating Knowledge of Agave Landraces, Uses, and Management in Nanacamilpa, Tlaxcala	6
Plant Biocultural Landscapes in Māori Oral Tradition	6
Knowing the Clouds through the Land: Perceptions of Changes in Climate through Agricultural Practices in Two Nahua Indigenous Communities	5
Mind-altering Cycads? Preliminary Evidence of Psychoactive Effects in Cycadales	5
Indigenous–Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in the Altiplano	5
Scientists' Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems	5
Fields and People at Río Bec (Mexico): A Study in Progress (2019-2022) of Settlement Agriculture in the Classic Maya Lowlands	5
Differential Use of Game Species in an Amazonian Indigenous Community: Navigating Economics, Subsistence, and Social Norms	5

Exploration of Traditional Papermaking by Potential Application of DNA Research	5
Re-Evaluating the Dietary Significance of Gambel Oak Acorns ( Quercus gambelii ) in the Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and Southwest: Evidence From Experimental Foraging	4
‘A Starving Man Does Not Sniff His Food’: Ukrainian Famine Plants during the Holodomor , 1932–1933	4
Resilience and Recovery in the Dry Chaco: Ecological Knowledge Encoded in Forager Wildfire Narratives	4
A Sacred Bird at the Crossroads of Destiny: Ethno-Ornithology of the Mountain Hawk-Eagle (Qadis) for the Paiwan People in Taiwan	4
Patagonian Ethnopedology and Its Role in Food Security: A Case Study of Rural Communities in Arid Environments of Argentina	3
Foraging Educators as Vectors of Environmental Knowledge in Europe	3
Traditional Knowledge on the use of Turtles in a Protected Area of the Amazon in Maranhão (Brazil): A Conservation Proposal	3
The Trees Above: A Language-Based Analysis of Tree Agency in Two Indigenous Societies	3
Framing the Traditional: Counterrevolution and Gender in Mexican Ethnobotanical Research Through the 1970s and 1980s	3
To Pick or Not to Pick: Photographic Voucher Specimens as an Alternative Method to Botanical Collecting in Ethnobotany	3
Three Criteria for Virtuous Collaboration Across Epistemic Practices: A Case From Sentimentalism and Field Environmental Philosophy	3
Strengthening Relationships to Traditional Foodways: Adapting Food Practices Through Camas Cultivation Experiments on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation	3
Much More Than Firewood: Woody Plants in Household Well-Being Among Rural Communities in Argentina	3
Edible Mushrooms of Peri-Urban Kichwa Communities in the Andes-Amazon Piedmont, Ecuador	2
Cooperation and Cattle Herding in Eighteenth Century Acadia: Implications for Archaeological Studies of Agropastoralism	2
Overview and Investigation of Australian Aboriginal Lizard Traps	2
Tank Bromeliads as a Water Reservoir Used by Humans: An Important Overlooked Ecosystem Service in Xerophytic Forests	2
Thinglhang Lou: Linkages Between Swidden, Culture, and Ecology in Manipur, Northeast India	2
Plant Agency in the Guianas: Attraction, Assault, and Animacy	2
A Review of Ethnobotanical, Ecological and Lexical Evidence to Identify a Biblical Plant	2
Cultural Keystone Species without Boundaries: A Case Study on Wild Woody Plants of Transhumant People around the Georgia-Turkey Border (Western Lesser Caucasus)	2
Biologies and Beings: World-Making, Cognition, and the Making of Self	2
Identifying Plants as a Process of Cultural Cognition: Comparing Knowledge Production and Communities of Practice in Modern Botanical Science and Nuaulu Ethnobotany	2
Adaptive Management Strategies of Local Communities in Two Amazonian Floodplain Ecosystems in the Face of Extreme Climate Events	2
Negotiating the Futures of Nature and Cultures: Perspectives from Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities about the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	2
A Fish-Focused Menu: An Interdisciplinary Reconstruction of Ancestral Tsleil-Waututh Diets	2
The Nolan Index: A Quantitative Measure of List Similarities	2
Entangled with Antlers on the Iamal Peninsula of Arctic Siberia	1
Local Ecological Knowledge on the Natural History and Human–Fauna Relationships of the Brazilian Three-banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus) in Northeast Brazil	1
Thinking outside the Continent and outside the Box: Cross-Continental Comparative Studies Can Enrich Studies of Pre-Columbian Raised-Field Agriculture	1
Soil, Seeds, and Roses: Plantation Afterlives in an Argentine Soybean Frontier	1
Medicinal Plant Use and Diversity in the Urban Area of Idiofa, Democratic Republic of Congo	1
Plants in the Sakha Culture: Names, Knowledge, and Habitat	1
Dedication	1
Paleoethnobotany as Ethnobotany as Paleoethnobotany	1
Local Communities and Protected Areas: Plant Use and Sources Around Niokolo Koba, Senegal's Largest National Park	1
Animacy of Plants: Indigenous Relationalities in Global Landscapes	1
Five Key Concepts for Human Inquiry Into Plant Lifeworlds	1
Local Ecological Knowledge and Use of the Pacific Seahorse (Hippocampus ingens) by Residents of the State of Sinaloa, Mexico	1
Perceptions, Knowledge, and Emotions About Owls in Southern Ecuador	1
Nuosu Horticulturalists' Local Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants and Fungi and Socio-Economic Implications in Yunnan, Southwest China	1
Relational Plants and Apurinã's Multibeing Life-Making	1
Contrasting Indigenous Urarina and Mestizo Farms in the Peruvian Amazon: Plant Diversity and Farming Practices	1
Timber Industry, Cosmopolitics, and Ontology of Trees in Peruvian Amazon	1
Not All Edible Nuts Are Eaten: Evidence for Continued Aboriginal Cultural Use and Dispersal of Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) in Southern But Not in Northern Queensland	1
Rural Botanical Knowledge in Urbanity: Restructurings and Resignifications in the Peripheries of a Patagonian City in Argentina	1
Weed-fed Pigs: Food Sovereignty in the Blind Spot	1
Conceptualizing Indigenous Cultural Ecosystem Services (ICES) and Benefits under Changing Climate Conditions in the Klamath River Basin and Their Implications for Land Management and Governance	1
The Sound of Silence: An Immersive Approach to Spearfishermen's Ecological Knowledge Along the Dakar Coastline	1

Dynamic Edible Plant Theoretical Knowledge in a Changing Western Mexican Rural Community	1
Digging Deep: Place-Based Variation in Late Pre-Contact Mā‘ohi Agricultural Systems, Society Islands	1
Pluralist Ethnobiology: Between Philosophical Reflection and Transdisciplinary Action	1
Diet During the Late Initial Period (1100–800 BC) in the Chavín Heartland: New Data from Canchas Uckro (North-Central Peru)	1
The Hummingbird and the Condor among the Nasa Symbolize Spirituality in the Ceremony of the Saakhelu	1
Searching for Germane Questions in the Ethnobiology of Food Scouting	1
Forgotten Stories of Yogurt: Cultivating Multispecies Wisdom	1
Ethnobiology's Contributions to Sustainability Science	1
Crop Diversity Management: Sereer Smallholders' Response to Climatic Variability in Senegal	1