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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Community Landscape and Culturally Important Fauna Among the Mbya Guaraní of Misiones, Argentina: Participatory Mapping as a Study Tool	26
Locusts and Grasshoppers Acridoidea Ethnobiology of the South American Gran Chaco: A Review	15
Relational Values of Mangroves Shaped by Local Narratives, Social Changes and Gender Roles: Case Study of an Oceanic Island in the Western Indian Ocean	13
Forest Governance and Management for Handicraft Production in Maya Communities	11
Patagonian Ethnopedology and Its Role in Food Security: A Case Study of Rural Communities in Arid Environments of Argentina	11
To Pick or Not to Pick: Photographic Voucher Specimens as an Alternative Method to Botanical Collecting in Ethnobotany	11
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	11
Soil, Seeds, and Roses: Plantation Afterlives in an Argentine Soybean Frontier	9
The Need for a Culture of Care and Safety for Ethnobiologists in the Field	9
Overview and Investigation of Australian Aboriginal Lizard Traps	8
Dedication	8
The Hummingbird and the Condor among the Nasa Symbolize Spirituality in the Ceremony of the Saakhelu	8
What Do We Know About Threshing Traditional Grains in Australia?	8
Plantations Beyond Monocrops: Cannabis Ecologies From Colonial Angola to São Tomé	7
Toxicity and Plant Animacy in Amazonia: Cosmology, Chemosensation and Ecosemiotics	7
Yeast Communities and Traditional Knowledge in Fermented Cactus Fruit Beverages: A Microbial Heritage at Risk	7
How Does Local Ecological Knowledge Differ among Inhabitants Who Coexist with the Huillín (Lontra Provocax) in the Limay River Basin, Argentine Patagonia?	7
The Effects of Remoteness and Forest Cover on Bird Knowledge in Two Language Communities of Myanmar	6
Maya Traditional Knowledge of Cnidoscolus spp. in the Yucatán Peninsula	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
Chronological and Sociohistorical Drivers of the Southernmost Invasion of Feral Pigeon, Columba livia in Chile	5
Plant Biocultural Landscapes in Māori Oral Tradition	5
Indigenous–Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in the Altiplano	5
Quantitative Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Species With Dermatological Relevance Used in Traditional Mayan Medicine	5

Toward a Joyful Environmental Ethic: Open-Ended Curiosity as an Environmental Virtue	4
Nuosu Horticulturalists' Local Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants and Fungi and Socio-Economic Implications in Yunnan, Southwest China	4
Sacred Rituals and Endangered Birds: A Biocultural Approach to Cockatoo Conservation on Seram Island, Indonesia	4
Language Skills and Ethnobiological Knowledge in the Young and Educated Indigenous Melpa Speakers in Papua New Guinea	4
Indigenous Knowledge of the Hmong People in Lai Chau, Vietnam: Sustainable Agricultural Adaptation and Climate Resilience	4
Three Criteria for Virtuous Collaboration Across Epistemic Practices: A Case From Sentimentalism and Field Environmental Philosophy	4
Perceptions, Knowledge, and Emotions About Owls in Southern Ecuador	4
Weather Magic as Environmental Knowledge in Southern Vanuatu	4
From Pest to Protein: Edible Cicadas and Their Leucaena Association in Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico	4
Land Snail Ethnomalacology and Medicinal Use in Yogyakarta, Indonesia	4
Differentiation of Expertise in Local Communities: Insights From Artisanal Fishing Villages in Brazil	4
Rural Botanical Knowledge in Urbanity: Restructurings and Resignifications in the Peripheries of a Patagonian City in Argentina	4
Human Dimensions of Pangolin Conservation: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Ethnozoological Uses, and Willingness of Rural Communities to Enhance Pangolin Conservation in Nepal	3
More Than a Fishery: Ark Clams (Piangua, Anadara spp.) as Cultural Keystones and Gendered Economic Lifelines in Coastal Tropics	3
Surviving Dragons: Ethnographic Reports of Komodo Monitors ( Varanus komodoensis ) in Northeastern Flores	3
Xhosa Sticks as Cultural, Nontimber Forest Products in the Eastern Cape, South Africa	3
The Multifunctionality of Community Gardens: A Case Study in the Metropolitan Area of Monterrey, México	3
A Method in Our Madness: Experiences With Seeking Local Knowledge	3
Memorial Note for Yevhenii Osiievskyi	3
Ethnobiotica: Transitions	3
Cotton Monocultures and Reorganizing Socioecological Life in Telangana, India	3
Ethnobotany as a Tool to Teach Science in Rural Schools: A Case Study in Western Mexico	3
Differential Use of Game Species in an Amazonian Indigenous Community: Navigating Economics, Subsistence, and Social Norms	3
Ethnozoological Review on the Trade, Human Alimentation, and Cultural Use of Skinks (Reptilia, Scincidae)	3
Biologies and Beings: World-Making, Cognition, and the Making of Self	2
Acorn ( Quercus spp.) Consumption in Algeria	2
Mish, Bogs, and Berries: The Significance of Boreal Heathlands as Indigenous Cultural Landscapes	2
Searching for Germane Questions in the Ethnobiology of Food Scouting	2
Ethnobiology Along the Borderlands of Mexico and the United States	2
Agave Across Borders: A Sonoran Desert Unconference on Biodiversity, Culture, and Development	2
Plant-people Intimacies: Sugar Canes, Pineapples and the Memory of Migration in Hawai‘i	2
Legacies of Ancient Forest Gardening Along the Pacific Northwest Coast Highlight Broad Spatial and Cultural Variability	2
Five Key Concepts for Human Inquiry Into Plant Lifeworlds	2
A Review of Ethnobotanical, Ecological and Lexical Evidence to Identify a Biblical Plant	2
Multilayered Qualities of Relating to Endemic Pili Trees Among Smallholder Agroforestry Farmers in the Philippines	2
Indigenous Traditional Knowledge on Wild Edible Mushrooms: Cultural Significance, Extraction Practices, and Factors Leading to Changes in Their Abundance in Central Mexico	2
Ethnobiology, the Ontological Turn, and Human Sociality	2
Tank Bromeliads as a Water Reservoir Used by Humans: An Important Overlooked Ecosystem Service in Xerophytic Forests	2
The Mystery of Choromytilus chorus : Factors Affecting the Apparent Demise of a Culturally Important Mollusk Along Western South America	1
Resilience and Recovery in the Dry Chaco: Ecological Knowledge Encoded in Forager Wildfire Narratives	1
Cycad Regulation and Community Creation: South African Stakeholder Perspectives on Conservation	1
The Concept of Hierarchy in Ethnobiological Classification: On Kafficho Folk Botany of Enset ( Ensete ventricosum ) in Southwest Ethiopia	1
Foraging Educators as Vectors of Environmental Knowledge in Europe	1
Much More Than Firewood: Woody Plants in Household Well-Being Among Rural Communities in Argentina	1
Pharmaceutical Potential of Arable Weeds: A Case Study From the Czech Republic	1
Plant Agency in the Guianas: Attraction, Assault, and Animacy	1
Foreword for Justin	1
Ethnobiotica: Ethnobiology's Unfinished Conversations	1
Tree Diversity and Regeneration in Sacred Groves and Nature Reserves in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China	1
Exploration of Traditional Papermaking by Potential Application of DNA Research	1

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	1
Local Ecological Knowledge and Use of the Pacific Seahorse ( Hippocampus ingens ) by Residents of the State of Sinaloa, Mexico	1
A Fish-Focused Menu: An Interdisciplinary Reconstruction of Ancestral Tsleil-Waututh Diets	1
The Nolan Index: A Quantitative Measure of List Similarities	1
Edible Mushrooms of Peri-Urban Kichwa Communities in the Andes-Amazon Piedmont, Ecuador	1
Engaging Local Knowledge on Wild Honeybees Toward Sustainable Livelihood and Ecological Conservation in the Cordillera Region, Philippines	1
Ethnobiology and Degrowth	1
Ritual Use of Ceratozamia totonacorum (Zamiaceae) Leaves in Santiago Ecatlán, Puebla, Mexico: Perspectives on Conservation	1
“Who Eats the Forest?”: Forest Animacy among the Bahnar People of Vietnam	1
Mind-altering Cycads? Preliminary Evidence of Psychoactive Effects in Cycadales	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
Bridging Traditional Wisdom with Modern Practices: Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Beekeeping in the Darjeeling Hills, Eastern Himalayas	1
Framing the Traditional: Counterrevolution and Gender in Mexican Ethnobotanical Research Through the 1970s and 1980s	1
Thinglhang Lou: Linkages Between Swidden, Culture, and Ecology in Manipur, Northeast India	1
Voices Around the South Tyrolean Herbal Pharmacy—Exploring the Stakeholder Landscape and Perspectives on Medicinal Plants as Culturally Salient Species	1
From Black Magic to Black Flags: Social Uses and Symbolic Lexicons of Cycads in Vanuatu	1
Genes in the Chagra: Crop and Crop Wild Relative Landesque Capital among Amazonian Runa in Ecuador	1