OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Community Landscape and Culturally Important Fauna Among the Mbya Guaraní of Misiones, Argentina: Participatory Mapping as a Study Tool	22
Locusts and Grasshoppers Acridoidea Ethnobiology of the South American Gran Chaco: A Review	18
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	14
Relational Values of Mangroves Shaped by Local Narratives, Social Changes and Gender Roles: Case Study of an Oceanic Island in the Western Indian Ocean	12
Patagonian Ethnopedology and Its Role in Food Security: A Case Study of Rural Communities in Arid Environments of Argentina	11
Overview and Investigation of Australian Aboriginal Lizard Traps	10
To Pick or Not to Pick: Photographic Voucher Specimens as an Alternative Method to Botanical Collecting in Ethnobotany	10
Soil, Seeds, and Roses: Plantation Afterlives in an Argentine Soybean Frontier	9
Dedication	9
The Hummingbird and the Condor among the Nasa Symbolize Spirituality in the Ceremony of the Saakhelu	8
How Does Local Ecological Knowledge Differ among Inhabitants Who Coexist with the Huillín (Lontra Provocax) in the Limay River Basin, Argentine Patagonia?	8
Yeast Communities and Traditional Knowledge in Fermented Cactus Fruit Beverages: A Microbial Heritage at Risk	8
Maya Traditional Knowledge of Cnidoscolus spp. in the Yucatán Peninsula	8
What Do We Know About Threshing Traditional Grains in Australia?	8
Plantations Beyond Monocrops: Cannabis Ecologies From Colonial Angola to São Tomé	8
Social-ecological Factors, Stock Status, and Governance Relating to a Shellcraft Fishery in the Indo-Pacific Region	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	7
Unveiling Social Dynamics in People's Perception of Raptors to Guide Effective Conservation Strategies	6
Indigenous–Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in the Altiplano	6
Chronological and Sociohistorical Drivers of the Southernmost Invasion of Feral Pigeon, Columba livia in Chile	5
The Effects of Remoteness and Forest Cover on Bird Knowledge in Two Language Communities of Myanmar	5
Plant Biocultural Landscapes in Māori Oral Tradition	5
Three Criteria for Virtuous Collaboration Across Epistemic Practices: A Case From Sentimentalism and Field Environmental Philosophy	5
Differentiation of Expertise in Local Communities: Insights From Artisanal Fishing Villages in Brazil	4

Indigenous Knowledge of the Hmong People in Lai Chau, Vietnam: Sustainable Agricultural Adaptation and Climate Resilience	4
Language Skills and Ethnobiological Knowledge in the Young and Educated Indigenous Melpa Speakers in Papua New Guinea	4
Memorial Note for Yevhenii Osiievskyi	4
Nuosu Horticulturalists' Local Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants and Fungi and Socio-Economic Implications in Yunnan, Southwest China	4
Weather Magic as Environmental Knowledge in Southern Vanuatu	4
Toward a Joyful Environmental Ethic: Open-Ended Curiosity as an Environmental Virtue	4
From Pest to Protein: Edible Cicadas and Their Leucaena Association in Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico	4
Perceptions, Knowledge, and Emotions About Owls in Southern Ecuador	4
Rural Botanical Knowledge in Urbanity: Restructurings and Resignifications in the Peripheries of a Patagonian City in Argentina	4
Cotton Monocultures and Reorganizing Socioecological Life in Telangana, India	4
Differential Use of Game Species in an Amazonian Indigenous Community: Navigating Economics, Subsistence, and Social Norms	3
Traditional Agriculture and Food Sovereignty: Quilombola Knowledge and Management of Food Crops	3
Ethnobiotica: Transitions	3
Agave Across Borders: A Sonoran Desert Unconference on Biodiversity, Culture, and Development	3
Tank Bromeliads as a Water Reservoir Used by Humans: An Important Overlooked Ecosystem Service in Xerophytic Forests	3
Human Dimensions of Pangolin Conservation: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Ethnozoological Uses, and Willingness of Rural Communities to Enhance Pangolin Conservation in Nepal	3
The Multifunctionality of Community Gardens: A Case Study in the Metropolitan Area of Monterrey, México	3
Ethnobotany as a Tool to Teach Science in Rural Schools: A Case Study in Western Mexico	3
Ethnobiology Along the Borderlands of Mexico and the United States	3
Ethnozoological Review on the Trade, Human Alimentation, and Cultural Use of Skinks (Reptilia, Scincidae)	3
A Method in Our Madness: Experiences With Seeking Local Knowledge	3
Surviving Dragons: Ethnographic Reports of Komodo Monitors ( Varanus komodoensis ) in Northeastern Flores	3
A Review of Ethnobotanical, Ecological and Lexical Evidence to Identify a Biblical Plant	3
Biologies and Beings: World-Making, Cognition, and the Making of Self	3
Thinking outside the Continent and outside the Box: Cross-Continental Comparative Studies Can Enrich Studies of Pre-Columbian Raised-Field Agriculture	2
Multilayered Qualities of Relating to Endemic Pili Trees Among Smallholder Agroforestry Farmers in the Philippines	2
Acorn ( Quercus spp.) Consumption in Algeria	2
Cycad Regulation and Community Creation: South African Stakeholder Perspectives on Conservation	2
Mind-altering Cycads? Preliminary Evidence of Psychoactive Effects in Cycadales	2
Digging Deep: Place-Based Variation in Late Pre-Contact Mā‘ohi Agricultural Systems, Society Islands	2
Searching for Germane Questions in the Ethnobiology of Food Scouting	2
Ethnobiology, the Ontological Turn, and Human Sociality	2
Local Attitude and Knowledge of Native and Non-Native Wild Animals, With an Emphasis on Invasive Mammals: A Case Study Inside and Outside a Protected Area in the Drylands of Argentina	2
A Fish-Focused Menu: An Interdisciplinary Reconstruction of Ancestral Tsleil-Waututh Diets	2
Indigenous Traditional Knowledge on Wild Edible Mushrooms: Cultural Significance, Extraction Practices, and Factors Leading to Changes in Their Abundance in Central Mexico	2
Five Key Concepts for Human Inquiry Into Plant Lifeworlds	2
Mish, Bogs, and Berries: The Significance of Boreal Heathlands as Indigenous Cultural Landscapes	2
Legacies of Ancient Forest Gardening Along the Pacific Northwest Coast Highlight Broad Spatial and Cultural Variability	2
“Who Eats the Forest?”: Forest Animacy among the Bahnar People of Vietnam	2
Plant-people Intimacies: Sugar Canes, Pineapples and the Memory of Migration in Hawai‘i	2
Ritual Use of Ceratozamia totonacorum (Zamiaceae) Leaves in Santiago Ecatlán, Puebla, Mexico: Perspectives on Conservation	1
Plant Agency in the Guianas: Attraction, Assault, and Animacy	1
Exploration of Traditional Papermaking by Potential Application of DNA Research	1
The Concept of Hierarchy in Ethnobiological Classification: On Kafficho Folk Botany of Enset ( Ensete ventricosum ) in Southwest Ethiopia	1
Thinglhang Lou: Linkages Between Swidden, Culture, and Ecology in Manipur, Northeast India	1
Framing the Traditional: Counterrevolution and Gender in Mexican Ethnobotanical Research Through the 1970s and 1980s	1
Engaging Local Knowledge on Wild Honeybees Toward Sustainable Livelihood and Ecological Conservation in the Cordillera Region, Philippines	1
Ethnobiology and Degrowth	1
Voices Around the South Tyrolean Herbal Pharmacy—Exploring the Stakeholder Landscape and Perspectives on Medicinal Plants as Culturally Salient Species	1
Edible Mushrooms of Peri-Urban Kichwa Communities in the Andes-Amazon Piedmont, Ecuador	1

Re-Evaluating the Dietary Significance of Gambel Oak Acorns ( Quercus gambelii ) in the Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and Southwest: Evidence From Exper	1
Weeds in Milpa: Richness, Perception, and Their Traditional Uses and Knowledge	1
The Mystery of Choromytilus chorus : Factors Affecting the Apparent Demise of a Culturally Important Mollusk Along Western South America	1
Tree Diversity and Regeneration in Sacred Groves and Nature Reserves in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China	1
Foraging Educators as Vectors of Environmental Knowledge in Europe	1
Genes in the Chagra: Crop and Crop Wild Relative Landesque Capital among Amazonian Runa in Ecuador	1
Ethnobiotica: Ethnobiology's Unfinished Conversations	1
Bridging Traditional Wisdom with Modern Practices: Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Beekeeping in the Darjeeling Hills, Eastern Himalayas	1
Much More Than Firewood: Woody Plants in Household Well-Being Among Rural Communities in Argentina	1
Resilience and Recovery in the Dry Chaco: Ecological Knowledge Encoded in Forager Wildfire Narratives	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 Nolan Index: A Quantitative Measure of List Similarities	1
Foreword for Justin	1
From Black Magic to Black Flags: Social Uses and Symbolic Lexicons of Cycads in Vanuatu	1