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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
In Memoriam: James M. Acheson	25
The “Turning Point” for the Fall Goose Hunt in Eeyou Istchee: A Social-Ecological Regime Shift from an Indigenous Knowledge Perspective	25
A New but Gloomy Picture: The First Photographic Evidence of Grey Wolf in Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	16
Hunting, Monogamy, and Economics: Are Humans Like Wolves that Hunt Elephants and Whales?	15
Assessing Impacts and Local Perceptions Following the Incidental Introduction of tilapia (Cichlidae: Cichliformes) in a Remote Inland Fishery in Papua New Guinea	14
The Role of Cultural Fire Values among the Arhuaco, Tikuna, Uitoto, Pijao, and Embera-Chamí Indigenous Peoples of Colombia in Promoting Sustainable Forest Governance	14
The Role of the Mangrove Ecosystem in Supporting the Resilience of Local Communities in Ouidah Municipality, Benin (West Africa)	13
Perceptions of Multispecies Coexistence in Urban Environments in Brazil: A Convenience Sampling Method	13
An Assessment of Small-scale Fisheries of the Paraná River Delta Through the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach	13
The Population Dynamics of the Placebo Effect and Its Role in the Evolution of Medical Technology	12
Dwindling Ethnobotanical Knowledge of Aconitum naviculare in the Trans-Himalayan Manang Valleys of Central Nepal	10
The Anchors of Home: Understanding How Place Attachment Strengthens Well-being of Sri Lanka’s Migratory Fisher Communities	10
Influence of Indigenous Herding Activities on the Spatio-temporal Distribution of Reindeer during the Summer-Autumn Period: Case from Yamal, Russia	10
Hunters Who Haul with Dogs: Man’s Best-Friend or Woman’s Little Helper?	10
Economic and Environmental Impacts of Land Consolidation on Rice Farm Performance in Vietnam	9
Assessing the Impacts of Dam Construction on the Livelihoods of Swidden Farmers in Pinlaung, Southern Shan State, Myanmar	9
The Mystery of Black Rice: Food, Medicinal, and Spiritual Uses of Oryza glaberrima by Maroon Communities in Suriname and French Guiana	9
Pollination of the Mediterranean Fig Tree, Ficus Carica L.: Caprification Practices and Social Networks of Exchange of Caprifigs among Jbala Farmers in Northern Morocco	9
Balancing Food Production and Farmer Welfare: Assessing the Impact of China’s Cropland De-grainization Rectification Policy	9
Confronting Intrinsic Yield Variability: How Coffee Farmers Understand, Manage, and Cope with Crop Alternate Bearing	9
A Deliberative Model for Preserving the Diversity of Lebanese Traditional Fermented Food and Beverages	8
Exploring Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems in a Brazilian Fishing Community	8
Can Environmental Injustices be Addressed in Conservation? Settlement History and Conservation-Induced Displacement in the Case of Lyanshulu in the Zambezi Region, Namibia	8
Impacts of Industrialization on Foraging in Peri-Urban Areas. Insights from Padua, NE Italy	8
The Role of Quilombola Communities in Endemic Species Conservation in the Atlantic Forest: The Case of PES Juçara Program	8

Following the White Vulture: Ethno-ornithology along the Flyway of the Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus)	8
Agroforestry Distribution and Contributions in Ancient Hawaiian Agriculture	8
Perception and Attitude Toward Sloth Bear Melursus ursinus: Understanding the Tribal Communities from Central Gujarat, India, Coexistence with Bears	8
Modular Homes as a New Form of Accommodation to Tackle Homelessness: A Case Study From Cambridge, England	8
A Social Network Analysis of Collaborative Rangelands Governance: The case of Borana Rangelands, Southern Ethiopia	7
Declining Use of Totora (Schoenoplectus californicus subsp tatora) in Lake Titicaca	7
Traversing the Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: A Least Cost Path Analysis	7
Late Holocene Environmental Changes and Human Subsistence in an Alluvial Landscape: A Case Study from the Pohansko Site on the Dyje (Thaya) River in Czechia	7
Networks of Inclusive Exclusion: Social Capital and Resilient Rural Livelihoods in the Southern Great Plains (SGP)	7
Fisher’s Resilience: Preparedness, Coping Capacity, and Adaptation Capacity in Surigao del Sur, Philippines	7
Resource Competition and Settlement Distribution in Bronze Age Greece	7
The Role of Religiosity on Deontological Climate Message Acceptance: A U.S. Survey	7
Joel Berger: Review of Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World	7
Niches, Interstitiality and Impoverishment. Pastoralism Among Afghan Kochi Refugees in Mansehra, Northwest Pakistan	6
Multidecadal Ethnoarchaeological Comparisons of Livelihoods and Wild Meat Availability and Consumption in a Central African Rainforest Foraging and Farming Community	6
Impacts of Slash-and-Burn Cultivation on the Soil and Vegetation of the Atlantic Forest in Southeastern Brazil	6
Getting It Right in Rural Development Initiatives: The Importance of Livelihood Assets in Commercializing Family Farm Production in Brazil	6
Priority Species and Management Approaches for Woody Species: A Case Study of Awach Sub-county, Gulu District, Uganda	6
Are Stakeholders Aware of the Contributions of Ecosystem Services for Their Well-Being? A Case Study of a UNESCO Geopark Project in Brazil	6
Introduction to the Research Collection “Mediterranean Biocultural Diversity”	6
Environmental Considerations of Alternative Livelihoods for Women in Cocoa and shea Communities in Ghana	6
Riverine People’s Knowledge of Climate Change in the Negro River, Brazilian Amazon	6
Allium paradoxum from Asia to Europe: Ornamental, Invasive, Edible, and Medicinal	6
Drifting Away from the Roots: Genderfluidity as Diola’s Mangrove Fishing Strategies in Three Island-Villages of Northern Guinea-Bissau	6
Cross-cultural Perceptions of (In)Equity in Ecosystem Service Access: A Preliminary Comparison of Emergent Themes in Four Sites	6
Arundo/Phragmites: Identification and Uses of Essential Plants in Mediterranean Civilizations	6
Trajectories of Environmental Migrants: Understanding Migration Destinations of the Coastal Population in Kerala, India	5
Deer and Humans in the Early Farming Communities of the Yellow River Valley: A Symbiotic Relationship	5
Correction to: The Succession of Farmers’ Perceptions of Transitioning Landscapes – A Case Study of Agroforestry in the Middle Hills of Nepal	5
Do Socioeconomic Factors Impact Non-Timber Forest Products-based Incomes? An Analysis Employing Structural Equation Modeling	5
Risk, Reliability, and the Importance of Small-Bodied Molluscs across the Hawaiian Windward-Leeward Divide	5
Deconstructing Ecosystem Service Conflicts through the Prisms of Political Ecology and Game Theory in a North-Western Mediterranean River Basin	5
Can Socioeconomic Variables Influence Bird Hunting Activity in the Brazil's Semi-Arid Region?	5
Cultural Homogenization Has Affected Palula Traditional Plant Foraging in Multilingual Chitral, Hindukush, NW Pakistan	5
Bridging Knowledges and Practice: Understanding how Mangrove Swamp Rice Farmers Predict the Tides in Guinea-Bissau	5
Cultural Forest Ecosystem Services of the Maniq Indigenous People in Southern Thailand	5
Caves of Fortune? Gendered Labour Precarity and Securitisation Involving the ‘Wild’ Edible Birds’ Nest Trade in Kapuas Hulu, Indonesia	5
Natural or Semi-natural Landscape Features as Indicator of Biocultural Value: Observations from Slovakia	5
Understanding Factors that Shape Exposure to Zoonotic and Food-Borne Diseases Across Wild Meat Trade Chains	5
From Plate To Planet: Reconstructing the Sustainable Food System of an Early Bronze Age Society	5
Camels and the Last Nomadic Pastoralists of Anatolia (Türkiye)	5
The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Managing the Collection of Non-Timber Forest Products in Limpopo, South Africa: A Community-Based Resource Governance Approach	5
The Hybridisation, Resilience, and Loss of Local Knowledge and Natural Resource Management in Zambia	5
Ethno-ornithology, Hunting and Conservation of Wild Birds in Kashmir Himalayas, India	5
Socio-cultural Factors Affecting Traditional Knowledge and the Cultural Significance of the Aromatic and Medicinal Plant, Boswellia dalzielii Hutch., in Burkina Faso	5
The Justinianic Pandemic in the Iberian Peninsula	5
The Evolution of Threats to Protected Areas During Crises: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Madagascar	5
Impacts of Closed Season on Operations, Livelihood and Coping Strategies of Fishers	5
C. Margaret Scarry, Dale L. Hutchinson, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Editor. Ancient Food Ways: Integrative Approaches to Understanding Subsistence and Society. Gainesville, Florida. University Press of	4
The Effects of Oil Rig Decommissioning on the Livelihoods of Fishermen: Lessons from the Saltpond Oil and Gas Field, Ghana	4

Amitav Ghosh. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. Chicago. The University of Chicago Press 2021. ISBN 9780226815459, Price $25.00 (Cloth). 339 Pages	4
Ripples of Change: Introduced Fish, Ethnic Minority Farmers, and Lively Commodity Chains in Upland Vietnam	4
Masks Versus Cattle: The Ecology of an African Art Form	4
After the Fire: Potential Impacts of Fire Exclusion Policies on Historical Cherokee Culture in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, USA	4
Who’s Responsible?: Public Ascriptions of Responsibility for Endangered Species Conservation in Arkansas, USA	4
A Baseline Study of A’chik Homegardens in North-East India: Structure, Composition and Utilization	4
Communal Land Use in the Yungas of Jujuy and Salta Provinces (Argentina): Transhumance and Edible Plants in Valle Colorado	4
Can Disparate Shared Social Values Benefit the Conservation of Biodiversity in Hong Kong’s Sacred Groves?	4
Contemporary Hunting Practices in a Mosaic Landscape of Tropical Forests and Plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	4
Can Substitutes Reduce Future Demand for Wildlife Products: A Case Study of China’s Millennial Generation	4
Risk Perception and Implementation of Mitigation Measures By Populations Living Near Volcán De Colima, Mexico	4
Interaction between Knowledge and Experience in Using Wild Edible Plants in Two Biosphere Reserves in Japan	4
Editor’s Note on the 50th Anniversary of Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal	4
Untangling Biocultural and Socioeconomical Drivers of African Plum Tree (Dacryodes edulis) Local Nomenclature Along a Rural-Urban Gradient in Central Cameroon	4
Toward Understanding Composite Heritage Through a Historical Ecology Approach: Filling Cultural Gaps and Strengthening Legal Systems in China’s Special Economic Zones	4