OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine is 25. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Legendary fermented herbs: an ethnobotanical study of the traditional fermentation starter of the Chuanqing people in Northwestern Guizhou, China	78
Cultural attitudes and human pressure towards vultures around the Comoé National Park, Côte d’Ivoire (West Africa)	67
Traditional medical practices for children in five islands from the Society archipelago (French Polynesia)	67
Gold from nature’s pantry: a diachronic study of Rubus chamaemorus L. (Rosaceae) in swedish gastronomy and economy	50
Descriptive ethnobotanical studies are needed for the rescue operation of documenting traditional knowledge	49
Editorial: 2025 JEET Emerging Scientist Award in Ethnobiology and Winner Announcement	42
Nerium oleander L., a circum-Mediterranean study of the etymological, ecological, historical, mythological, and ethnobotanical roots of its vernacular names	41
An ethnoveterinary study on medicinal plants used by the Bai people in Yunlong County northwest Yunnan, China	37
Wild food plants of Brazil: a theoretical approach to non-random selection	37
Indigenous knowledge-based production practices and utilization of stingless bee honey in humid Afromontane Forest zones of the Southwest and Semi-Arid Forest zone of Ethiopia	36
Honey production, an economic alternative for coastal areas with mangrove ecosystems: a case study in Sabancuy, Campeche, southeastern Mexico	36
Medicinal plants traded in Hakka communities of southeastern Guangxi, China	35
Aboriginal medicinal plants of Queensland: ethnopharmacological uses, species diversity, and biodiscovery pathways	33
The traditional knowledge about the biodiversity of edible Brazilian fruits and their pollinators: an integrative review	32
Could non-humans have Traditional Ecological Knowledge? And if so, what should we do about it?	31
Faith healing: the threat of "Surucucu" and the local cure of Amazon floodplain dwellers	31
Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants gathered and sold by Jbala society in the Tingitan Peninsula (Northwest Morocco)	31
Isolated Mediterranean foraging: wild greens in the matrifocal community of Olympos, Karpathos Island, Greece	30
Edible wild plant species used by different linguistic groups of Kohistan Upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan	30
Healing from the wild: an ethnozoological exploration of animal-based medicine in Jhargram, West Bengal, India	30
Farmers’ knowledge on cultivation, utilization and conservation practices of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) in three selected districts in Ethiopia	29
Socioeconomic benefits associated with bats	28
Ethno-medicinal uses and cultural importance of stingless bees and their hive products in several ethnic communities of Bhutan	27
Cyclamen persicum Mill. and Leontice leontopetalum L., common vernacular names – and their relation to washing, incense and the unexplained ‘Jordan Dome’	27
Wild edible plants and associated indigenous knowledge among the Setswana-speaking people of North West Province in South Africa	26

The contemporary challenge for ethical research involving the knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities and afro-descendants and other marginalized, minority, or minoritized groups	25
Reflections on the future of European ethnobiology	25
Plant cultural indicators of forest resources from the Himalayan high mountains: implications for improving agricultural resilience, subsistence, and forest restoration	25