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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Ethnobiology is 1. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Locusts and Grasshoppers Acridoidea Ethnobiology of the South American Gran Chaco: A Review	22
Useful Plants from the Wild to Home Gardens: An Analysis of Home Garden Ethnobotany in Contexts of Habitat Conversion and Land Use Change in Jeju, South Korea	18
The Community Landscape and Culturally Important Fauna Among the Mbya Guaraní of Misiones, Argentina: Participatory Mapping as a Study Tool	16
Relational Values of Mangroves Shaped by Local Narratives, Social Changes and Gender Roles: Case Study of an Oceanic Island in the Western Indian Ocean	14
To Pick or Not to Pick: Photographic Voucher Specimens as an Alternative Method to Botanical Collecting in Ethnobotany	13
Patagonian Ethnopedology and Its Role in Food Security: A Case Study of Rural Communities in Arid Environments of Argentina	13
Cooperation and Cattle Herding in Eighteenth Century Acadia: Implications for Archaeological Studies of Agropastoralism	13
Conceptualizing Indigenous Cultural Ecosystem Services (ICES) and Benefits under Changing Climate Conditions in the Klamath River Basin and Their Implications for Land Management and Governance	11
Overview and Investigation of Australian Aboriginal Lizard Traps	11
Soil, Seeds, and Roses: Plantation Afterlives in an Argentine Soybean Frontier	11
Dedication	10
Contrasting Indigenous Urarina and Mestizo Farms in the Peruvian Amazon: Plant Diversity and Farming Practices	9
The Hummingbird and the Condor among the Nasa Symbolize Spirituality in the Ceremony of the Saakhelu	9
At the Crossroad of Emergency: Ethnobiology, Climate Change, and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities	8
Plantations Beyond Monocrops: Cannabis Ecologies From Colonial Angola to São Tomé	8
Love Sustains Life:Jkyo jkwainïand Allied Strategies in Caring for the Earth	8
Maya Traditional Knowledge of Cnidoscolus spp. in the Yucatán Peninsula	7
What Do We Know About Threshing Traditional Grains in Australia?	7
Toxicity and Plant Animacy in Amazonia: Cosmology, Chemosensation and Ecosemiotics	7
Quantitative Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Species With Dermatological Relevance Used in Traditional Mayan Medicine	6
Unveiling Social Dynamics in People's Perception of Raptors to Guide Effective Conservation Strategies	6
Social-ecological Factors, Stock Status, and Governance Relating to a Shellcraft Fishery in the Indo-Pacific Region	6
The Effects of Remoteness and Forest Cover on Bird Knowledge in Two Language Communities of Myanmar	6
Indigenous–Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in the Altiplano	5
Interactions between Climate Change and Infrastructure Projects in Changing Water Resources: An Ethnobiological Perspective from the Daasanach, Kenya	5

Chronological and Sociohistorical Drivers of the Southernmost Invasion of Feral Pigeon, Columba livia in Chile	5
Plant Biocultural Landscapes in Māori Oral Tradition	5
Nuosu Horticulturalists' Local Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants and Fungi and Socio-Economic Implications in Yunnan, Southwest China	4
A Sacred Bird at the Crossroads of Destiny: Ethno-Ornithology of the Mountain Hawk-Eagle (Qadis) for the Paiwan People in Taiwan	4
Three Criteria for Virtuous Collaboration Across Epistemic Practices: A Case From Sentimentalism and Field Environmental Philosophy	4
Dynamic Edible Plant Theoretical Knowledge in a Changing Western Mexican Rural Community	4
Rural Botanical Knowledge in Urbanity: Restructurings and Resignifications in the Peripheries of a Patagonian City in Argentina	3
Traditional Agriculture and Food Sovereignty: Quilombola Knowledge and Management of Food Crops	3
Cotton Monocultures and Reorganizing Socioecological Life in Telangana, India	3
Human Dimensions of Pangolin Conservation: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Ethnozoological Uses, and Willingness of Rural Communities to Enhance Pangolin Conservation in Nepal	3
Perceptions, Knowledge, and Emotions About Owls in Southern Ecuador	3
Language Skills and Ethnobiological Knowledge in the Young and Educated Indigenous Melpa Speakers in Papua New Guinea	3
From Pest to Protein: Edible Cicadas and Their Leucaena Association in Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico	3
Memorial Note for Yevhenii Osiievskyi	3
Toward a Joyful Environmental Ethic: Open-Ended Curiosity as an Environmental Virtue	3
Differentiation of Expertise in Local Communities: Insights From Artisanal Fishing Villages in Brazil	3
Weather Magic as Environmental Knowledge in Southern Vanuatu	3
Ethnobotany as a Tool to Teach Science in Rural Schools: A Case Study in Western Mexico	3
A Method in Our Madness: Experiences With Seeking Local Knowledge	3
Thinking outside the Continent and outside the Box: Cross-Continental Comparative Studies Can Enrich Studies of Pre-Columbian Raised-Field Agriculture	2
Digging Deep: Place-Based Variation in Late Pre-Contact Mā‘ohi Agricultural Systems, Society Islands	2
Biologies and Beings: World-Making, Cognition, and the Making of Self	2
Differential Use of Game Species in an Amazonian Indigenous Community: Navigating Economics, Subsistence, and Social Norms	2
Surviving Dragons: Ethnographic Reports of Komodo Monitors (Varanus komodoensis) in Northeastern Flores	2
Ethnozoological Review on the Trade, Human Alimentation, and Cultural Use of Skinks (Reptilia, Scincidae)	2
A Review of Ethnobotanical, Ecological and Lexical Evidence to Identify a Biblical Plant	2
Searching for Germane Questions in the Ethnobiology of Food Scouting	2
Ethnohistoric Accounts as Valuable Resources for Deciphering Commensal Relationships of Pre-Contact Caribbean Agouti (Dasyproctidae: Dasyprocta)	2
Knowing the Clouds through the Land: Perceptions of Changes in Climate through Agricultural Practices in Two Nahua Indigenous Communities	2
Tank Bromeliads as a Water Reservoir Used by Humans: An Important Overlooked Ecosystem Service in Xerophytic Forests	2
Five Key Concepts for Human Inquiry Into Plant Lifeworlds	2
Plant-people Intimacies: Sugar Canes, Pineapples and the Memory of Migration in Hawai‘i	2
Ethnobiotica: Transitions	2
Negotiating (with) Fire: Contemporary Fire Domestication in Swedish Sápmi	2
Mind-altering Cycads? Preliminary Evidence of Psychoactive Effects in Cycadales	1
Cycad Regulation and Community Creation: South African Stakeholder Perspectives on Conservation	1
Re-Evaluating the Dietary Significance of Gambel Oak Acorns ( Quercus gambelii ) in the Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and Southwest: Evidence From Experimental Foraging	1
Much More Than Firewood: Woody Plants in Household Well-Being Among Rural Communities in Argentina	1
Ethnobiotica: Ethnobiology's Unfinished Conversations	1
From Black Magic to Black Flags: Social Uses and Symbolic Lexicons of Cycads in Vanuatu	1
Ritual Use of Ceratozamia totonacorum (Zamiaceae) Leaves in Santiago Ecatlán, Puebla, Mexico: Perspectives on Conservation	1
Bridging Traditional Wisdom with Modern Practices: Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Beekeeping in the Darjeeling Hills, Eastern Himalayas	1
“A Returntoandofthe Land”: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Initiatives across the Canadian Prairies	1
Thinglhang Lou: Linkages Between Swidden, Culture, and Ecology in Manipur, Northeast India	1
Acorn (Quercus spp.) Consumption in Algeria	1
Challenges and Opportunities for Ethical Collaborative Research: Social Contours of A'uwẽ (Xavante) Ethnobiological Knowledge	1
“Who Eats the Forest?”: Forest Animacy among the Bahnar People of Vietnam	1
A Fish-Focused Menu: An Interdisciplinary Reconstruction of Ancestral Tsleil-Waututh Diets	1
Ethnobiology and Degrowth: A Review of the Opportunities for Collaboration, Generative Inquiry, and Solidarity in Socio-Ecological Research	1
Genes in the Chagra: Crop and Crop Wild Relative Landesque Capital among Amazonian Runa in Ecuador	1

Weeds in Milpa: Richness, Perception, and Their Traditional Uses and Knowledge	1
Entangled with Antlers on the Iamal Peninsula of Arctic Siberia	1
Cultural Keystone Species without Boundaries: A Case Study on Wild Woody Plants of Transhumant People around the Georgia-Turkey Border (Western Lesser Caucasus)	1
Plant Agency in the Guianas: Attraction, Assault, and Animacy	1
Ethnobiology, the Ontological Turn, and Human Sociality	1
Indigenous Traditional Knowledge on Wild Edible Mushrooms: Cultural Significance, Extraction Practices, and Factors Leading to Changes in Their Abundance in Central Mexico	1
Resilience and Recovery in the Dry Chaco: Ecological Knowledge Encoded in Forager Wildfire Narratives	1
Exploration of Traditional Papermaking by Potential Application of DNA Research	1
Tree Diversity and Regeneration in Sacred Groves and Nature Reserves in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China	1
Pharmaceutical Potential of Arable Weeds: A Case Study From the Czech Republic	1
Local Ecological Knowledge and Use of the Pacific Seahorse (Hippocampus ingens) by Residents of the State of Sinaloa, Mexico	1
The Concept of Hierarchy in Ethnobiological Classification: On Kafficho Folk Botany of Enset ( Ensete ventricosum ) in Southwest Ethiopia	1
Edible Mushrooms of Peri-Urban Kichwa Communities in the Andes-Amazon Piedmont, Ecuador	1