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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Mind-altering Cycads? Preliminary Evidence of Psychoactive Effects in Cycadales	123
Ethnobiotica: Transitions	55
Quantitative Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Species With Dermatological Relevance Used in Traditional Mayan Medicine	30
Engaging Local Knowledge on Wild Honeybees Toward Sustainable Livelihood and Ecological Conservation in the Cordillera Region, Philippines	20
Indigenous–Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in the Altiplano	17
The Community Landscape and Culturally Important Fauna Among the Mbya Guaraní of Misiones, Argentina: Participatory Mapping as a Study Tool	16
Scientists' Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems	14
“A Returntoandofthe Land”: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Initiatives across the Canadian Prairies	14
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	13
Differentiating Knowledge of Agave Landraces, Uses, and Management in Nanacamilpa, Tlaxcala	12
Surviving Dragons: Ethnographic Reports of Komodo Monitors (Varanus komodoensis) in Northeastern Flores	11
Knowing the Clouds through the Land: Perceptions of Changes in Climate through Agricultural Practices in Two Nahua Indigenous Communities	10
Sampling Bias in Ethnobotanical Studies on Medicinal Plants Conducted in Local Markets	10
Negotiating (with) Fire: Contemporary Fire Domestication in Swedish Sápmi	9
Nuaulu Use and Management of Culturally Salient Polymorphisms inCodiaeum variegatum: Explaining the Biocultural Dimensions of Leaf Variegation in a Southeast Asian Ornamental	9
Locusts and Grasshoppers Acridoidea Ethnobiology of the South American Gran Chaco: A Review	8
Listening to Bats: Namibian Pastoralists' Perspectives, Stories, and Experiences	7
Interactions between Climate Change and Infrastructure Projects in Changing Water Resources: An Ethnobiological Perspective from the Daasanach, Kenya	7
Local Knowledge of the Interactions between Agrobiodiversity and Soil: A Fertile Substrate for Adapting to Changes in the Soil in Madagascar?	7
Differential Use of Game Species in an Amazonian Indigenous Community: Navigating Economics, Subsistence, and Social Norms	7
Foreword for Justin	6
Ethnozoological Review on the Trade, Human Alimentation, and Cultural Use of Skinks (Reptilia, Scincidae)	6
Plant Biocultural Landscapes in Māori Oral Tradition	6
Cultural Keystone Species without Boundaries: A Case Study on Wild Woody Plants of Transhumant People around the Georgia-Turkey Border (Western Lesser Caucasus)	5
“Who Eats the Forest?”: Forest Animacy among the Bahnar People of Vietnam	5

Adaptive Management Strategies of Local Communities in Two Amazonian Floodplain Ecosystems in the Face of Extreme Climate Events	5
Negotiating the Futures of Nature and Cultures: Perspectives from Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities about the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	5
Unveiling Social Dynamics in People's Perception of Raptors to Guide Effective Conservation Strategies	5
Fields and People at Río Bec (Mexico): A Study in Progress (2019-2022) of Settlement Agriculture in the Classic Maya Lowlands	4
Resilience and Recovery in the Dry Chaco: Ecological Knowledge Encoded in Forager Wildfire Narratives	4
Cooperation and Cattle Herding in Eighteenth Century Acadia: Implications for Archaeological Studies of Agropastoralism	4
Edible Mushrooms of Peri-Urban Kichwa Communities in the Andes-Amazon Piedmont, Ecuador	4
A Sacred Bird at the Crossroads of Destiny: Ethno-Ornithology of the Mountain Hawk-Eagle (Qadis) for the Paiwan People in Taiwan	4
Traditional Knowledge on the use of Turtles in a Protected Area of the Amazon in Maranhão (Brazil): A Conservation Proposal	3
Re-Evaluating the Dietary Significance of Gambel Oak Acorns (Quercus gambelii) in the Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and Southwest: Evidence From Experimental Foraging and Direct Bomb Calorimet	3
Framing the Traditional: Counterrevolution and Gender in Mexican Ethnobotanical Research Through the 1970s and 1980s	3
Biologies and Beings: World-Making, Cognition, and the Making of Self	3
Tank Bromeliads as a Water Reservoir Used by Humans: An Important Overlooked Ecosystem Service in Xerophytic Forests	3
The Trees Above: A Language-Based Analysis of Tree Agency in Two Indigenous Societies	3
The Nolan Index: A Quantitative Measure of List Similarities	3
Foraging Educators as Vectors of Environmental Knowledge in Europe	3
Thinglhang Lou: Linkages Between Swidden, Culture, and Ecology in Manipur, Northeast India	3
Thinking outside the Continent and outside the Box: Cross-Continental Comparative Studies Can Enrich Studies of Pre-Columbian Raised-Field Agriculture	2
Crop Diversity Management: Sereer Smallholders' Response to Climatic Variability in Senegal	2
Patagonian Ethnopedology and Its Role in Food Security: A Case Study of Rural Communities in Arid Environments of Argentina	2
Three Criteria for Virtuous Collaboration Across Epistemic Practices: A Case From Sentimentalism and Field Environmental Philosophy	2
Much More Than Firewood: Woody Plants in Household Well-Being Among Rural Communities in Argentina	2
Identifying Plants as a Process of Cultural Cognition: Comparing Knowledge Production and Communities of Practice in Modern Botanical Science and Nuaulu Ethnobotany	2
Human-Bat Interactions in Rural Southwestern Madagascar through a Biocultural Lens	2
Digging Deep: Place-Based Variation in Late Pre-Contact Mā‘ohi Agricultural Systems, Society Islands	2
A Fish-Focused Menu: An Interdisciplinary Reconstruction of Ancestral Tsleil-Waututh Diets	2
Plant Agency in the Guianas: Attraction, Assault, and Animacy	2
Strengthening Relationships to Traditional Foodways: Adapting Food Practices Through Camas Cultivation Experiments on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation	2
Nuosu Horticulturalists' Local Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants and Fungi and Socio-Economic Implications in Yunnan, Southwest China	2
Overview and Investigation of Australian Aboriginal Lizard Traps	2
To Pick or Not to Pick: Photographic Voucher Specimens as an Alternative Method to Botanical Collecting in Ethnobotany	2
‘A Starving Man Does Not Sniff His Food’: Ukrainian Famine Plants during the Holodomor, 1932–1933	2
Pluralist Ethnobiology: Between Philosophical Reflection and Transdisciplinary Action	1
Soil, Seeds, and Roses: Plantation Afterlives in an Argentine Soybean Frontier	1
Plants in the Sakha Culture: Names, Knowledge, and Habitat	1
Love Sustains Life:Jkyo jkwainïand Allied Strategies in Caring for the Earth	1
Dedication	1
Not All Edible Nuts Are Eaten: Evidence for Continued Aboriginal Cultural Use and Dispersal of Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) in Southern But Not in Northern Queensland	1
Adaptation Measures to Climate Change as Perceived by Smallholder Farmers in the Andes	1
The Many Lives of a Shamanic Chondur: Using Cyperus articulates in Yagé Shamanism of Southern Colombia	1
Weather Magic as Environmental Knowledge in Southern Vanuatu	1
Perceptions, Knowledge, and Emotions About Owls in Southern Ecuador	1
Dynamic Edible Plant Theoretical Knowledge in a Changing Western Mexican Rural Community	1
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	1
Five Key Concepts for Human Inquiry Into Plant Lifeworlds	1
Using Traditional Ecological Knowledge to Understand the Diversity and Abundance of Culturally Important Trees	1
Forgotten Stories of Yogurt: Cultivating Multispecies Wisdom	1
Timber Industry, Cosmopolitics, and Ontology of Trees in Peruvian Amazon	1
“Weaving” Different Knowledge Systems through Studying Salience of Wild Animals in a Dryland Area of Argentina	1
Ethnobiology of Bats: Exploring Human-Bat Inter-Relationships in a Rapidly Changing World	1

Local Ecological Knowledge and Use of the Pacific Seahorse (Hippocampus ingens) by Residents of the State of Sinaloa, Mexico	1
The Hummingbird and the Condor among the Nasa Symbolize Spirituality in the Ceremony of the Saakhelu	1
Animacy of Plants: Indigenous Relationalities in Global Landscapes	1
Entangled with Antlers on the Iamal Peninsula of Arctic Siberia	1
Contrasting Indigenous Urarina and Mestizo Farms in the Peruvian Amazon: Plant Diversity and Farming Practices	1
Relational Plants and Apurinã's Multibeing Life-Making	1
Hunting and Faunal Consumption Among Herders of Northwestern Patagonia: A Zooarchaeological Perspective	1
Ethnobiology's Contributions to Sustainability Science	1
Ancient Agriculture on Lava Flows: Using LiDAR and Soil Science to Reassess Pre-Hispanic Farming onMalpaísLandforms in West Mexico	1
Weed-fed Pigs: Food Sovereignty in the Blind Spot	1
Local Ecological Knowledge on the Natural History and Human–Fauna Relationships of the Brazilian Three-banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus) in Northeast Brazil	1
The Sound of Silence: An Immersive Approach to Spearfishermen's Ecological Knowledge Along the Dakar Coastline	1