OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Ethnobiology is 3. 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
Sampling Bias in Ethnobotanical Studies on Medicinal Plants Conducted in Local Markets	10
Knowing the Clouds through the Land: Perceptions of Changes in Climate through Agricultural Practices in Two Nahua Indigenous Communities	10
Nuaulu Use and Management of Culturally Salient Polymorphisms inCodiaeum variegatum: Explaining the Biocultural Dimensions of Leaf Variegation in a Southeast Asian Ornamental	9
Negotiating (with) Fire: Contemporary Fire Domestication in Swedish Sápmi	9
Locusts and Grasshoppers Acridoidea Ethnobiology of the South American Gran Chaco: A Review	8
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
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
Ethnozoological Review on the Trade, Human Alimentation, and Cultural Use of Skinks (Reptilia, Scincidae)	6
Plant Biocultural Landscapes in Māori Oral Tradition	6
Foreword for Justin	6
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
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
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
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
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
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