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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
In Memoriam: James M. Acheson	37
Assessing Impacts and Local Perceptions Following the Incidental Introduction of tilapia (Cichlidae: Cichliformes) in a Remote Inland Fishery in Papua New Guinea	33
The Role of the Mangrove Ecosystem in Supporting the Resilience of Local Communities in Ouidah Municipality, Benin (West Africa)	32
The Anchors of Home: Understanding How Place Attachment Strengthens Well-being of Sri Lanka’s Migratory Fisher Communities	21
An Assessment of Small-scale Fisheries of the Paraná River Delta Through the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach	18
Perceptions of Multispecies Coexistence in Urban Environments in Brazil: A Convenience Sampling Method	18
The “Turning Point” for the Fall Goose Hunt in Eeyou Istchee: A Social-Ecological Regime Shift from an Indigenous Knowledge Perspective	17
Investigating the Effects of Beef Consumption, Trade Openness, and Cattle Population on Beef Production in North America	17
The Role of Cultural Fire Values among the Arhuaco, Tikuna, Uitoto, Pijao, and Embera-Chamí Indigenous Peoples of Colombia in Promoting Sustainable Forest Governance	16
Contribution of Local Knowledge to Adapting to Drinking Water Shortages in Rural Areas: A Case Study in Gboguhé Sub-Prefecture, Central-West Côte d’Ivoire	16
Hunting, Monogamy, and Economics: Are Humans Like Wolves that Hunt Elephants and Whales?	16
Impacts of Industrialization on Foraging in Peri-Urban Areas. Insights from Padua, NE Italy	14
Dwindling Ethnobotanical Knowledge of Aconitum naviculare in the Trans-Himalayan Manang Valleys of Central Nepal	14
Pollination of the Mediterranean Fig Tree, Ficus Carica L.: Caprification Practices and Social Networks of Exchange of Caprifigs among Jbala Farmers in Northern Morocco	13
Confronting Intrinsic Yield Variability: How Coffee Farmers Understand, Manage, and Cope with Crop Alternate Bearing	13
Assessing the Impacts of Dam Construction on the Livelihoods of Swidden Farmers in Pinlaung, Southern Shan State, Myanmar	13
Agroforestry Distribution and Contributions in Ancient Hawaiian Agriculture	13
The Mystery of Black Rice: Food, Medicinal, and Spiritual Uses of Oryza glaberrima by Maroon Communities in Suriname and French Guiana	12
The First Pandemic: Transformative Disaster or Footnote in History? – An Introduction	12
Economic and Environmental Impacts of Land Consolidation on Rice Farm Performance in Vietnam	11
Influence of Indigenous Herding Activities on the Spatio-temporal Distribution of Reindeer during the Summer-Autumn Period: Case from Yamal, Russia	11
Balancing Food Production and Farmer Welfare: Assessing the Impact of China’s Cropland De-grainization Rectification Policy	11
Agricultural Land-Use Allocation Under Uneven Opportunities and Constraints Among Maya Farmers in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico	10
The Role of Quilombola Communities in Endemic Species Conservation in the Atlantic Forest: The Case of PES Juçara Program	10
Game Harvest in the Most Populous Amazonian Sustainable-Use Protected Area: Insights from Community-Based Monitoring	10

Can Environmental Injustices be Addressed in Conservation? Settlement History and Conservation-Induced Displacement in the Case of Lyanshulu in the Zambezi Region, Namibia	10
Assessing Urban Vibrancy through Geolocated Tweets: A Case Study of Naples	10
Unraveling the Land Use Patterns of Nineteenth-Century Livonia	10
Fisher’s Resilience: Preparedness, Coping Capacity, and Adaptation Capacity in Surigao del Sur, Philippines	9
Perception and Attitude Toward Sloth Bear Melursus ursinus: Understanding the Tribal Communities from Central Gujarat, India, Coexistence with Bears	9
Modular Homes as a New Form of Accommodation to Tackle Homelessness: A Case Study From Cambridge, England	9
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	9
Traditional Forest Ecological Knowledge of the Transhumant Forest-Dwelling Community in the Basin of Shafarood, Guilan, Iran	9
Networks of Inclusive Exclusion: Social Capital and Resilient Rural Livelihoods in the Southern Great Plains (SGP)	9
Borassus Akeassii Facing Societal and Environmental Challenges: Case Study of the Gouin Society of Southwestern Burkina Faso	9
A Social Network Analysis of Collaborative Rangelands Governance: The case of Borana Rangelands, Southern Ethiopia	9
From Recipients to Co-Planners: Community Empowerment in Informal Settlement Regularization in Peri-Urban Areas of Tanzania	9
Beyond Ritual Loss: Ecological Memory, Land Conversion, and Agrarian Transformation in Java	9
Declining Use of Totora (Schoenoplectus californicus subsp tatora) in Lake Titicaca	8
Impacts of Slash-and-Burn Cultivation on the Soil and Vegetation of the Atlantic Forest in Southeastern Brazil	8
Joel Berger: Review of Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World	8
Drifting Away from the Roots: Genderfluidity as Diola’s Mangrove Fishing Strategies in Three Island-Villages of Northern Guinea-Bissau	8
Are Stakeholders Aware of the Contributions of Ecosystem Services for Their Well-Being? A Case Study of a UNESCO Geopark Project in Brazil	8
Mangrove Forest Policy in Serangan, Bali: A Case Study of Mangrove Forest Expansion Policy from a Postcolonial Perspective	8
Introduction to the Research Collection “Mediterranean Biocultural Diversity”	8
Niches, Interstitiality and Impoverishment. Pastoralism Among Afghan Kochi Refugees in Mansehra, Northwest Pakistan	8
The Human Dimensions of Leopard Cat Conservation: An Application of the Conservation Conflict Transformation Framework in Taiwan	8
Riverine People’s Knowledge of Climate Change in the Negro River, Brazilian Amazon	7
Priority Species and Management Approaches for Woody Species: A Case Study of Awach Sub-county, Gulu District, Uganda	7
Allium paradoxum from Asia to Europe: Ornamental, Invasive, Edible, and Medicinal	7
Multidecadal Ethnoarchaeological Comparisons of Livelihoods and Wild Meat Availability and Consumption in a Central African Rainforest Foraging and Farming Community	7
Resilience Capacities of Multi-Hazard-Prone Coastal Communities: An Empirical Insight from the Indian Sundarbans Delta Region	7
A Framework for Understanding Pastoralist-led Strategies to Secure Land and Resource Access: Case Studies from Kenya	7
Ethnomedicinal Knowledge of Forest-Dependent Communities in the Eastern Coastal Region of Khulna, Bangladesh	7
Traversing the Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: A Least Cost Path Analysis	7
Kukêire kute piy kre: The Agouti Plants the Brazil Nut Tree. A Dialogue Between Indigenous and Academic Ecologies in the Amazon	7
An Iterative and Participatory Method for Mapping Inuit Knowledge of the Ice and Ocean in Nunatsiavut	7
The Hybridisation, Resilience, and Loss of Local Knowledge and Natural Resource Management in Zambia	6
Impacts of Closed Season on Operations, Livelihood and Coping Strategies of Fishers	6
Challenges Faced by Flood-Affected People and their Coping Strategies Using Traditional Practices: A Case Study in Rajarhat Upazila, Kurigram District, Bangladesh	6
Beyond the Trees: Combining Ecology and History to Understand Human Impact on an Old-Growth Forest Landscape	6
The Justinianic Pandemic in the Iberian Peninsula	6
Socio-cultural Factors Affecting Traditional Knowledge and the Cultural Significance of the Aromatic and Medicinal Plant, Boswellia dalzielii Hutch., in Burkina Faso	6
The Evolution of Threats to Protected Areas During Crises: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Madagascar	6
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	6
After the Fire: Potential Impacts of Fire Exclusion Policies on Historical Cherokee Culture in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, USA	6
Bridging Knowledges and Practice: Understanding how Mangrove Swamp Rice Farmers Predict the Tides in Guinea-Bissau	6
Contribution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Pastoral Communities to Sustainable Rangeland Management in Nepal	6
Ethno-ornithology, Hunting and Conservation of Wild Birds in Kashmir Himalayas, India	6
Do Socioeconomic Factors Impact Non-Timber Forest Products-based Incomes? An Analysis Employing Structural Equation Modeling	6
Environmental Considerations of Alternative Livelihoods for Women in Cocoa and shea Communities in Ghana	6
From Resilience to Collapse: Traditional Water Systems Under Transformational Stress in Meymand	6
Deer and Humans in the Early Farming Communities of the Yellow River Valley: A Symbiotic Relationship	6
Cultural Homogenization Has Affected Palula Traditional Plant Foraging in Multilingual Chitral, Hindukush, NW Pakistan	6
Understanding Factors that Shape Exposure to Zoonotic and Food-Borne Diseases Across Wild Meat Trade Chains	6

Arundo/Phragmites: Identification and Uses of Essential Plants in Mediterranean Civilizations	6
Caves of Fortune? Gendered Labour Precarity and Securitisation Involving the ‘Wild’ Edible Birds’ Nest Trade in Kapuas Hulu, Indonesia	6
Correction to: The Succession of Farmers’ Perceptions of Transitioning Landscapes – A Case Study of Agroforestry in the Middle Hills of Nepal	6
Correction: Deforestation as a Site of Conflict and Differentiation: The Case of the Rohingya Refugee Influx in the Teknaf Wildlife Sanctuary	5
Drivers of Illegal Hunting in a Megadiverse Protected Area: Integrating Local Knowledge and Spatial Modeling in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	5
Semai Ethnogeography: Tracing an Indigenous Forest-Based Conceptual System Via Place-Name Referents	5
From Plate To Planet: Reconstructing the Sustainable Food System of an Early Bronze Age Society	5
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	5
The Effects of Oil Rig Decommissioning on the Livelihoods of Fishermen: Lessons from the Saltpond Oil and Gas Field, Ghana	5
A Baseline Study of A’chik Homegardens in North-East India: Structure, Composition and Utilization	5
Trajectories of Environmental Migrants: Understanding Migration Destinations of the Coastal Population in Kerala, India	5
Self-Projection on the Sustainability of the Nomadic Pastoral Lifestyle by Families in the Gobi Desert (Mongolia)	5
Camels and the Last Nomadic Pastoralists of Anatolia (Türkiye)	5
Interaction between Knowledge and Experience in Using Wild Edible Plants in Two Biosphere Reserves in Japan	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	5
Ripples of Change: Introduced Fish, Ethnic Minority Farmers, and Lively Commodity Chains in Upland Vietnam	5
Communal Land Use in the Yungas of Jujuy and Salta Provinces (Argentina): Transhumance and Edible Plants in Valle Colorado	5
Contemporary Hunting Practices in a Mosaic Landscape of Tropical Forests and Plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	5
Toward Understanding Composite Heritage Through a Historical Ecology Approach: Filling Cultural Gaps and Strengthening Legal Systems in China’s Special Economic Zones	5
Nsọ Aka Heritage, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Nature Conservation in Ishiagu, Nigeria	5
Human–environment Dynamics and Stages of Water Conflict in Shared-well Irrigation: Evidence from Rural Iran	5
Who’s Responsible?: Public Ascriptions of Responsibility for Endangered Species Conservation in Arkansas, USA	5
Coastal Forest Fisheries, Estuarine Livelihoods, and Human Well-being in Southern Puerto Rico	5
Farmer Attitudes On Climate Change, Farming Practices, and Livelihood Threats, and the Impact to Conservation in the Kasigau Wildlife Corridor, Kenya	4
Sociodemographic Factors and Individuals’ Interactions with Forest Succession Drive Variations in the Knowledge and Selection of Plants	4
Regenerative Supermarkets for a New Era of Socio-Ecological Risk	4
Impact of Livelihood Assets on the Preferred Risk Management Strategies of Hydropower Displacees: A Case Study of Tanahu Hydropower in Nepal	4
Can Disparate Shared Social Values Benefit the Conservation of Biodiversity in Hong Kong’s Sacred Groves?	4
Bram Büscher: The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-truth Politics and Platform Capitalism. University of California Press, Oakland. 2021. ISBN: 978-0-520-37145-3 (Paper), ISBN:	4
Integrated Participatory Approach Reveals Perceived Local Availability of Wild Edible Plants in Northwestern Kenya	4
The effects of mid-to-late Pliocene climatic fluctuations on the habitat and distribution of early hominins	4
Land-System Changes and Migration Amidst the Opium Poppy Collapse in the Southern Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico (2016-2020)	4
“How Do You Fight A System That You Live In?”: Youth Climate Activists’ Experiences of Burnout, Grief, and Calls for Transformation	4
Untangling Biocultural and Socioeconomical Drivers of African Plum Tree (Dacryodes edulis) Local Nomenclature Along a Rural-Urban Gradient in Central Cameroon	4
Eroding Traditional Ecological Knowledge. A Case Study in Bolivia	4
Local Knowledge, Perceptions, and Uses of the Potentially Conflict-Generating Plant Species, Moringa oleifera Lam.: A case Study in Limpopo Province, South Africa	4
Resettling at the Precipice: Deepening Vulnerabilities in Disaster Recovery from Upland Sulawesi	4
Re-storying the Roles of Animals in Cultural Burning	4
Masks Versus Cattle: The Ecology of an African Art Form	4
Traditional Fire Knowledge for Peatland Management in Indonesia: Practices by Communities Near Padang Sugihan Wildlife Sanctuary	4
Whose Knowledge Counts? Unpacking the Uneven Geographies and Politics of Knowledge Co-Production in IPBES	4
Correction to: Introduction to the Research Collection “Mediterranean Biocultural Diversity”	4