OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Economic Botany 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Gender and Trait Preferences for Banana Cultivation and Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Literature Review1	33
Hop (Humulus lupulus L.): Traditional and Present Use, and Future Potential	30
The Contribution of Wild Edible Plants to the Mediterranean Diet: An Ethnobotanical Case Study Along the Coast of Campania (Southern Italy)	24
“Hexing Herbs” in Ethnobotanical Perspective: A Historical Review of the Uses of Anticholinergic Solanaceae Plants in Europe	17
A New Global Estimation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Species in Commercial Cultivation and Their Conservation Status	13
The Inextricable Link Between Food and Linguistic Diversity: Wild Food Plants among Diverse Minorities in Northeast Georgia, Caucasus	10
Socio–Economic Factors Determining Conservation and Cultivation of Garcinia kola Heckel—A Medicinal Plant Extinct in the Wild in Benin	10
On-Farm Management of Rice Diversity, Varietal Preference Criteria, and Farmers’ Perceptions of the African (Oryza glaberrima Steud.) Versus Asian Rice (Oryza sativa L.) in the Republic of Benin (West	10
Underutilized Crops in the Agricultural Farms of Southeastern Sri Lanka: Farmers’ Knowledge, Preference, and Contribution to Household Economy	9
Neither Wild nor Cultivated: American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) Seller Surveys Provide Insights into in situ Planting and Husbandry1	9
Comparing Apples and Pears: the Hidden Diversity of Central African Bush Mangoes (Irvingiaceae)	9
Ethnicity Differences in Uses and Management Practices of Bitter Kola Trees (Garcinia kola) in Cameroon	7
Migrant Pharmacopoeias: An Ethnobotanical Survey of Four Caribbean Communities in Amazonia (French Guiana)	7
From the “Norwegian Flora” (Eighteenth Century) to “Plants and Tradition” (Twentieth Century): 200 Years of Norwegian Knowledge about Wild Plants	7
Maya Medicinal Fruit Trees: Q’eqchi’ Homegarden Remedies	7
The Inextricable Link between Ecology and Taste: Traditional Plant Foraging in NW Balochistan, Pakistan	7
Nubian Agricultural Practices, Crops and Foods: Changes in Living Memory on Ernetta Island, Northern Sudan	6
Qarakhanids on the Edge of the Bukhara Oasis: Archaeobotany of Medieval Paykend	6
The Relationship between a Western Amazonian Society and Domesticated Sedges (Cyperus spp.)	5
Are Mixtec Forgetting Their Plants? Intracultural Variation of Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Oaxaca, Mexico	5
Economic Assessment of Morel (Morchella spp.) Foraging in Michigan, USA	5
Caribbean Women’s Health and Transnational Ethnobotany	5
Socio–Cultural Significance of Yerba Maté among Syrian Residents and Diaspora	5
Population Biology of Palm Heart (Euterpe edulis Martius–Arecaceae) in Managed Landscape Units in Southern Brazil	5
People and Plants Through Generations of Polish Descendants in Brazil	5

Use Categories and Local Perception of Decline in Plant Populations: a Case Study of Woody Medicinal Plants in Northeastern Brazil	4
Ethnobotanical Knowledge Complexity in a Conservation Area of Northern Uruguay: Interlocutors-Medicinal Plant Network and the Structural Patterns of Interaction	4
People and Plants in Nunatsiavut (Labrador, Canada): Examining Plants as a Foundational Aspect of Culture in the Subarctic	4
Mind the Gap: Maize Phytoliths, Macroremains, and Processing Strategies in Southern New England 2500–500 BP	4
Indigenous Biosystematics of Enset (Ensete ventricosum [Welw.] Cheesman) in its Center of Origin and Diversity, Southwest Ethiopia: Folk Nomenclature, Classification, and Descriptors	4