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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
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	12
Locusts and Grasshoppers Acridoidea Ethnobiology of the South American Gran Chaco: A Review	12
Cooperation and Cattle Herding in Eighteenth Century Acadia: Implications for Archaeological Studies of Agropastoralism	10
Patagonian Ethnopedology and Its Role in Food Security: A Case Study of Rural Communities in Arid Environments of Argentina	10
Soil, Seeds, and Roses: Plantation Afterlives in an Argentine Soybean Frontier	9
To Pick or Not to Pick: Photographic Voucher Specimens as an Alternative Method to Botanical Collecting in Ethnobotany	9
Overview and Investigation of Australian Aboriginal Lizard Traps	9
Dedication	8
The Hummingbird and the Condor among the Nasa Symbolize Spirituality in the Ceremony of the Saakhelu	8
Love Sustains Life:Jkyo jkwainïand Allied Strategies in Caring for the Earth	7
Contrasting Indigenous Urarina and Mestizo Farms in the Peruvian Amazon: Plant Diversity and Farming Practices	6
Social-ecological Factors, Stock Status, and Governance Relating to a Shellcraft Fishery in the Indo-Pacific Region	6
What Do We Know About Threshing Traditional Grains in Australia?	6
Plantations Beyond Monocrops: Cannabis Ecologies From Colonial Angola to São Tomé	6
Toxicity and Plant Animacy in Amazonia: Cosmology, Chemosensation and Ecosemiotics	6
Quantitative Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Species With Dermatological Relevance Used in Traditional Mayan Medicine	5
Indigenous–Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in the Altiplano	5
Maya Traditional Knowledge of Cnidoscolus spp. in the Yucatán Peninsula	5
Plant Biocultural Landscapes in Māori Oral Tradition	5
Unveiling Social Dynamics in People's Perception of Raptors to Guide Effective Conservation Strategies	4
The Effects of Remoteness and Forest Cover on Bird Knowledge in Two Language Communities of Myanmar	4
Three Criteria for Virtuous Collaboration Across Epistemic Practices: A Case From Sentimentalism and Field Environmental Philosophy	4
Chronological and Sociohistorical Drivers of the Southernmost Invasion of Feral Pigeon, Columba livia in Chile	4

Dynamic Edible Plant Theoretical Knowledge in a Changing Western Mexican Rural Community	4
A Sacred Bird at the Crossroads of Destiny: Ethno-Ornithology of the Mountain Hawk-Eagle (Qadis) for the Paiwan People in Taiwan	4
Nuosu Horticulturalists' Local Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants and Fungi and Socio-Economic Implications in Yunnan, Southwest China	4
From Pest to Protein: Edible Cicadas and Their Leucaena Association in Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico	3
Perceptions, Knowledge, and Emotions About Owls in Southern Ecuador	3
Human Dimensions of Pangolin Conservation: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Ethnozoological Uses, and Willingness of Rural Communities to Enhance Pangolin Conservation in Nepal	3
Traditional Agriculture and Food Sovereignty: Quilombola Knowledge and Management of Food Crops	3
Differentiation of Expertise in Local Communities: Insights From Artisanal Fishing Villages in Brazil	3
Language Skills and Ethnobiological Knowledge in the Young and Educated Indigenous Melpa Speakers in Papua New Guinea	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
Rural Botanical Knowledge in Urbanity: Restructurings and Resignifications in the Peripheries of a Patagonian City in Argentina	3
Weather Magic as Environmental Knowledge in Southern Vanuatu	3
Toward a Joyful Environmental Ethic: Open-Ended Curiosity as an Environmental Virtue	3
Memorial Note for Yevhenii Osiievskyi	3
Acorn (Quercus spp.) Consumption in Algeria	2
Cotton Monocultures and Reorganizing Socioecological Life in Telangana, India	2
Negotiating (with) Fire: Contemporary Fire Domestication in Swedish Sápmi	2
Ethnozoological Review on the Trade, Human Alimentation, and Cultural Use of Skinks (Reptilia, Scincidae)	2
Five Key Concepts for Human Inquiry Into Plant Lifeworlds	2
Searching for Germane Questions in the Ethnobiology of Food Scouting	2
Challenges and Opportunities for Ethical Collaborative Research: Social Contours of A'uwẽ (Xavante) Ethnobiological Knowledge	2
Ethnohistoric Accounts as Valuable Resources for Deciphering Commensal Relationships of Pre-Contact Caribbean Agouti (Dasyproctidae: Dasyprocta)	2
Surviving Dragons: Ethnographic Reports of Komodo Monitors (Varanus komodoensis) in Northeastern Flores	2
Tank Bromeliads as a Water Reservoir Used by Humans: An Important Overlooked Ecosystem Service in Xerophytic Forests	2
Thinking outside the Continent and outside the Box: Cross-Continental Comparative Studies Can Enrich Studies of Pre-Columbian Raised-Field Agriculture	2
Plant-people Intimacies: Sugar Canes, Pineapples and the Memory of Migration in Hawai‘i	2
A Review of Ethnobotanical, Ecological and Lexical Evidence to Identify a Biblical Plant	2
Biologies and Beings: World-Making, Cognition, and the Making of Self	2
Ethnobiotica: Transitions	2
Differential Use of Game Species in an Amazonian Indigenous Community: Navigating Economics, Subsistence, and Social Norms	2
Indigenous Traditional Knowledge on Wild Edible Mushrooms: Cultural Significance, Extraction Practices, and Factors Leading to Changes in Their Abundance in Central Mexico	2
Digging Deep: Place-Based Variation in Late Pre-Contact Mā‘ohi Agricultural Systems, Society Islands	2
Re-Evaluating the Dietary Significance of Gambel Oak Acorns ( Quercus gambelii ) in the Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and Southwest: Evidence From Experimental Foraging	1
The Nolan Index: A Quantitative Measure of List Similarities	1
The Mystery of Choromytilus chorus : Factors Affecting the Apparent Demise of a Culturally Important Mollusk Along Western South America	1
Engaging Local Knowledge on Wild Honeybees Toward Sustainable Livelihood and Ecological Conservation in the Cordillera Region, Philippines	1
Foreword for Justin	1
From Black Magic to Black Flags: Social Uses and Symbolic Lexicons of Cycads in Vanuatu	1
Pharmaceutical Potential of Arable Weeds: A Case Study From the Czech Republic	1
Resilience and Recovery in the Dry Chaco: Ecological Knowledge Encoded in Forager Wildfire Narratives	1
Edible Mushrooms of Peri-Urban Kichwa Communities in the Andes-Amazon Piedmont, Ecuador	1
Ethnobiology, the Ontological Turn, and Human Sociality	1
Much More Than Firewood: Woody Plants in Household Well-Being Among Rural Communities in Argentina	1
Weeds in Milpa: Richness, Perception, and Their Traditional Uses and Knowledge	1
Framing the Traditional: Counterrevolution and Gender in Mexican Ethnobotanical Research Through the 1970s and 1980s	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
Differentiating Knowledge of Agave Landraces, Uses, and Management in Nanacamilpa, Tlaxcala	1
The Concept of Hierarchy in Ethnobiological Classification: On Kafficho Folk Botany of Enset ( Ensete ventricosum ) in Southwest Ethiopia	1
Tree Diversity and Regeneration in Sacred Groves and Nature Reserves in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China	1

Ritual Use of Ceratozamia totonacorum (Zamiaceae) Leaves in Santiago Ecatlán, Puebla, Mexico: Perspectives on Conservation	1
Exploration of Traditional Papermaking by Potential Application of DNA Research	1
Plant Agency in the Guianas: Attraction, Assault, and Animacy	1
Thinglhang Lou: Linkages Between Swidden, Culture, and Ecology in Manipur, Northeast India	1
Cycad Regulation and Community Creation: South African Stakeholder Perspectives on Conservation	1
Bridging Traditional Wisdom with Modern Practices: Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Beekeeping in the Darjeeling Hills, Eastern Himalayas	1
Foraging Educators as Vectors of Environmental Knowledge in Europe	1
Entangled with Antlers on the Iamal Peninsula of Arctic Siberia	1
Voices Around the South Tyrolean Herbal Pharmacy—Exploring the Stakeholder Landscape and Perspectives on Medicinal Plants as Culturally Salient Species	1
Ethnobiology and Degrowth	1
Ethnobiotica: Ethnobiology's Unfinished Conversations	1
Genes in the Chagra: Crop and Crop Wild Relative Landesque Capital among Amazonian Runa in Ecuador	1
A Fish-Focused Menu: An Interdisciplinary Reconstruction of Ancestral Tsleil-Waututh Diets	1
Mind-altering Cycads? Preliminary Evidence of Psychoactive Effects in Cycadales	1
“Who Eats the Forest?”: Forest Animacy among the Bahnar People of Vietnam	1
Local Ecological Knowledge and Use of the Pacific Seahorse (Hippocampus ingens) by Residents of the State of Sinaloa, Mexico	1