OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human Ecology is 4. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Converting Home Spaces into Food Gardens at the Time of Covid-19 Quarantine: all the Benefits of Plants in this Difficult and Unprecedented Period	57
What Is Secondary about Secondary Tropical Forest? Rethinking Forest Landscapes	23
“We Became Rich and We Lost Everything”: Ethnobotany of Remote Mountain Villages of Abruzzo and Molise, Central Italy	23
Social Participation in Forest Restoration Projects: Insights from a National Assessment in Mexico	21
Socioeconomic Factors Determining Extraction of Non-timber Forest Products on the Slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania	18
Addressing Social-Ecological Systems across Temporal and Spatial Scales: a Conceptual Synthesis for Ethnobiology	18
Biocultural Diversity Loss: the Decline of Native Stingless Bees (Apidae: Meliponini) and Local Ecological Knowledge in Michoacán, Western México	17
Conservation through Traditional Knowledge: a Review of Research on the Sacred Groves of Odisha, India	15
Farmers’ Perceptions as a Driver of Agricultural Practices: Understanding Soil Fertility Management Practices in Cocoa Agroforestry Systems in Cameroon	15
The Rise and Fall of Wiñaymarka: Rethinking Cultural and Environmental Interactions in the Southern Basin of Lake Titicaca	15
Social-Ecological Determinants of Access to Fish and Well-Being in Four Gwich’in Communities in Canada’s Northwest Territories	14
Shifting Strategies between Generations in Sami Reindeer Husbandry: the Challenges of Maintaining Traditions while Adapting to a Changing Context	13
Traditional Uses of Medicinal Plants in Artuklu, Turkey	13
Do Large-Scale Forestry Companies Generate Prosperity in Indigenous Communities? The Socioeconomic Impacts of Tree Plantations in Southern Chile	12
It’s Our Fault: A Global Comparison of Different Ways of Explaining Climate Change	12
Engaging Transformation: Using Seasonal Rounds to Anticipate Climate Change	11
The Development and Growth of Non-Governmental Conservation in Peru: Privately and Communally Protected Areas	10
Clapping with Two Hands: Transforming Gender Relations and Zoonotic Disease Risks through Community Conversations in Rural Ethiopia	10
Landscape Engineering Impacts the Long-Term Stability of Agricultural Populations	10
“Wisdom of the Elders” or “Loss of Experience” as a Mechanism to Explain the Decline in Traditional Ecological Knowledge: A Case Study on Awaji Island, Japan	10
Attitudes towards Wildlife Consumption inside and outside Hubei Province, China, in Relation to the SARS and COVID-19 Outbreaks	10
Mechanisms and Causal Histories: Explanation-Oriented Research in Human Ecology	9
Ecosystem Service Provision by Secondary Forests in Shifting Cultivation Areas Remains Poorly Understood	9
Social Dimensions in Designing and Managing Marine Protected Areas in Bangladesh	9
Secondary Forests and Agrarian Transitions: Insights from Nepal and Peru	9

Mothering the Orphaned Pup: The Beginning of a Domestication Process in the Upper Palaeolithic	9
Where Policy and Culture Collide: Perceptions and Responses of Swidden Farmers to the Burn Ban in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	8
Large Differences in Livelihood Responses and Outcomes to Increased Conservation Enforcement in a Protected Area	8
Land Use Changes Assessment using a triangulated framework: Perception Interviews, Land-Use/Land Cover Observation, and Spatial Planning Analysis in Tanjung Batu and Derawan Island, Indonesia	8
Most Cultural Importance Indices Do Not Predict Species’ Cultural Keystone Status	8
A Qualitative Study on How Perceptions of Environmental Changes are Linked to Migration in Morocco, Senegal, and DR Congo	8
Fire Suppression and the Wildfire Paradox in Contemporary China: Policies, Resilience, and Effects in Chinese Fire Regimes	7
The Social and Cultural Importance of Keeping Wild Birds as Pets in an Ethnic Community in Guiyang City, China	7
Perceptions of Local Vulnerability and the Relative Importance of Climate Change in Rural Ecuador	7
Three decades of pastoralist settlement dynamics in the Ethiopian Omo Delta based on remote sensing data	7
"The Mangrove is Like a Friend": Local Perspectives of Mangrove Cultural Ecosystem Services Among Mangrove Users in Northern Ecuador	7
Stakeholder Values Inform Indigenous Peoples’ Governance and Management of a Former National Park in New Zealand	7
Comparative Study of Territoriality across Forager Societies	7
Alternative Conservation Paradigms and Ecological Knowledge of Small-Scale Artisanal Fishers in a Changing Marine Scenario in Argentina	7
The Production and Destruction of Forests through the Lens of Landesque Capital Accumulation	7
Land-use and Land-cover Changes in Pastoral Drylands: Long-term Dynamics, Economic Change, and Shifting Socioecological Frontiers in Baringo, Kenya	7
Revisiting Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT) in a Changing Amazon: Implications for Conservation and Management	7
Eco-Symbiotic Complementarity and Trading Networks of Natural Resources in Nahua Communities in Mountain Regions of Mexico	7
Domestication Through Dingo Eyes: An Australian Perspective on Human-Canid Interactions Leading to the Earliest Dogs	7
Knowledge Integration and Good Marine Governance: A Multidisciplinary Analysis and Critical Synopsis	6
Linking Fisher Perceptions to Social-Ecological Context: Mixed Method Application of the SES Framework in Costa Rica	6
Measuring Small Island Disaster Resilience Towards Sustainable Coastal and Fisheries Tourism: The Case of Guimaras, Philippines	6
How the Nonhuman World Influences Homeowner Yard Management in the American Residential Macrosystem	6
Vulnerability of the Açaí Palm to Climate Change	6
Socioeconomic Drivers of Hunting Efficiency and Use of Space By Traditional Amazonians	6
Seeing the Quiet Politics in Unquiet Woods: A Different Vantage Point for a Future Forest Agenda	6
Perceived Wellbeing Effects of Ecosystems in Finland	6
Naturalized Violence: Affective Politics of China’s “Ecological Civilization” in Xinjiang	6
Tracing Extremes across Iconic Desert Landscapes: Socio-Ecological and Cultural Responses to Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and Wildflower Superblooms	6
A Deliberative Model for Preserving the Diversity of Lebanese Traditional Fermented Food and Beverages	6
Modelling the Routes of Seasonal Transhumance Movement in North Neuquén (Patagonia)	6
The Charmed Circle: Mobility, Identity and Memory around Mount Mayon (Philippines) and Gunung Awu (Indonesia) Volcanoes	6
Natural or Semi-natural Landscape Features as Indicator of Biocultural Value: Observations from Slovakia	6
A Value-Based Approach in Managing the Human-Geosphere Relationship: the Case of Lake Turgoyak (Southern Urals, Russia)	5
Constraints on Rice Cultivation in Eastern Madagascar: Which Factors Matter to Smallholders, and Which Influence Food Security?	5
SARS-CoV 2 (Covid-19) Heterogeneous Mortality Rates across Countries May Be Partly Explained by Life Expectancy, Calorie Intake, and Prevalence of Diabetes.	5
Discourses on Rewilding: the Case of Feral Goats in Mallorca	5
A New but Gloomy Picture: The First Photographic Evidence of Grey Wolf in Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	5
A Combination of Cultural Values and Economic Benefits Promote Tolerance Towards Large Mammals in a Hotspot of Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Eastern India	5
Inuit and Local Knowledge on the Marine Ecosystem in Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland	5
Which Ecosystem Services Are Really Integrated into Local Culture? Farmers' Perceptions of the Columbian and Venezuelan Páramos	5
The Record of Dogs in Traditional Villages of the Mid-Fraser Canyon, British Columbia: Ethnological and Archaeological Evidence	5
Perceptions of Risks Related to Climate Change in Agroecosystems in a Semi-arid Region of Brazil	5
Cultural Group Selection and the Evolution of Reindeer Herding in Norway	5
Travois Transport and Field Processing: the Role of Dogs in Intermountain and Plains Food Transport	5
The Disconnect Between Knowledge and Perceptions: A Study of Fishermen’s Local Ecological Knowledge and Their Perception of the State of Fisheries and How These Are Managed in the Dominican Republic	5
Culturally modified trees and forest structure at a Kawésqar ancient settlement at Río Batchelor, western Patagonia	5
Risk, Reliability, and the Importance of Small-Bodied Molluscs across the Hawaiian Windward-Leeward Divide	4
Fruits of the Veld: Ecological and Socioeconomic Patterns of Natural Resource Use across South Africa	4
Fraternal Polyandry and Land Ownership in Kinnaur, Western Himalaya	4

Exploring Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems in a Brazilian Fishing Community	4
Changes in Sharing and Participation are Important Predictors of the Health of Traditional Harvest Practices in Indigenous Communities in Alaska	4
Conservation and Indigenous Subsistence Hunting in the Peace River Region of Canada	4
Humans and Dogs of Mountainous Inner Asia: Sensory Collaboration and Personhood	4
Demographic Crises of Different Climate Phases in Preindustrial Northern Hemisphere	4
Diversity and Adaptation in Local Forest Governance in Yunnan, China	4
Correction to: Converting Home Spaces into Food Gardens at the Time of Covid-19 Quarantine: all the Benefits of Plants in this Difficult and Unprecedented Period	4
Determinants of Smallholder Maintenance of Crop Diversity in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains	4
Ethnographic Observations on the Role of Domestic Dogs in the Lowland Tropics of Belize with Emphasis on Crop Protection and Subsistence Hunting	4
Artisanal Fisher Knowledge and Attitudes Concerning Compressor Fishing in a North-Eastern Brazilian Marine Protected Area	4
Understanding Factors that Shape Exposure to Zoonotic and Food-Borne Diseases Across Wild Meat Trade Chains	4
How Do Local Folks Value Wild Meat, and Why It Matters? A Study in the Democratic Republic of Congo	4
Mapping Social Values of the Sigatoka River Estuary, Nadroga-Navosa Province, Viti Levu, Fiji	4
Participatory injustice in Mexico’s Readiness process to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD +)	4
Need-Based Transfers Enhance Resilience to Shocks: An Agent-Based Model of a Maasai Risk-Pooling System	4
Self-Portraits of Personal Exposure to Air Pollution: on where and when People Are Exposed, and on why it Is Difficult to Avoid	4
Divergent Trajectories of BMI over Age for Adult Baka Pygmy People and their Sympatric Non-Pygmy Populations	4