OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human Ecology is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
In Memoriam: James M. Acheson	23
An Assessment of Small-scale Fisheries of the Paraná River Delta Through the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach	20
A New but Gloomy Picture: The First Photographic Evidence of Grey Wolf in Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	18
Assessing Impacts and Local Perceptions Following the Incidental Introduction of tilapia (Cichlidae: Cichliformes) in a Remote Inland Fishery in Papua New Guinea	15
Hunting, Monogamy, and Economics: Are Humans Like Wolves that Hunt Elephants and Whales?	15
The Influences of Traditional Shifting Cultivation on Soil Properties and Vegetation in the Bago Mountains, Myanmar	15
The Population Dynamics of the Placebo Effect and Its Role in the Evolution of Medical Technology	14
The “Turning Point” for the Fall Goose Hunt in Eeyou Istchee: A Social-Ecological Regime Shift from an Indigenous Knowledge Perspective	12
Dwindling Ethnobotanical Knowledge of Aconitum naviculare in the Trans-Himalayan Manang Valleys of Central Nepal	12
Perceptions of Multispecies Coexistence in Urban Environments in Brazil: A Convenience Sampling Method	12
The Anchors of Home: Understanding How Place Attachment Strengthens Well-being of Sri Lanka’s Migratory Fisher Communities	12
Impacts of Industrialization on Foraging in Peri-Urban Areas. Insights from Padua, NE Italy	12
The Mystery of Black Rice: Food, Medicinal, and Spiritual Uses of Oryza glaberrima by Maroon Communities in Suriname and French Guiana	11
Economic and Environmental Impacts of Land Consolidation on Rice Farm Performance in Vietnam	11
Assessing the Impacts of Dam Construction on the Livelihoods of Swidden Farmers in Pinlaung, Southern Shan State, Myanmar	11
Agroforestry Distribution and Contributions in Ancient Hawaiian Agriculture	10
Pollination of the Mediterranean Fig Tree, Ficus Carica L.: Caprification Practices and Social Networks of Exchange of Caprifigs among Jbala Farmers in Northern Morocco	10
Hunters Who Haul with Dogs: Man’s Best-Friend or Woman’s Little Helper?	10
The Multiple Faces of the Marmot: Associations with the Plague, Hunting, and Cosmology in Mongolia	10
Influence of Indigenous Herding Activities on the Spatio-temporal Distribution of Reindeer during the Summer-Autumn Period: Case from Yamal, Russia	10
Correction to: Mapping Social Values of the Sigatoka River Estuary, Nadroga‑Navosa Province, Viti Levu, Fiji	9
Can Environmental Injustices be Addressed in Conservation? Settlement History and Conservation-Induced Displacement in the Case of Lyanshulu in the Zambezi Region, Namibia	9
A Deliberative Model for Preserving the Diversity of Lebanese Traditional Fermented Food and Beverages	9
Exploring Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems in a Brazilian Fishing Community	9
Modular Homes as a New Form of Accommodation to Tackle Homelessness: A Case Study From Cambridge, England	9

Following the White Vulture: Ethno-ornithology along the Flyway of the Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus)	9
The Role of Religiosity on Deontological Climate Message Acceptance: A U.S. Survey	8
Fisher’s Resilience: Preparedness, Coping Capacity, and Adaptation Capacity in Surigao del Sur, Philippines	8
Perception and Attitude Toward Sloth Bear Melursus ursinus: Understanding the Tribal Communities from Central Gujarat, India, Coexistence with Bears	8
A Social Network Analysis of Collaborative Rangelands Governance: The case of Borana Rangelands, Southern Ethiopia	7
Introduction to the Research Collection “Mediterranean Biocultural Diversity”	7
Impacts of Slash-and-Burn Cultivation on the Soil and Vegetation of the Atlantic Forest in Southeastern Brazil	7
Networks of Inclusive Exclusion: Social Capital and Resilient Rural Livelihoods in the Southern Great Plains (SGP)	7
Resource Competition and Settlement Distribution in Bronze Age Greece	7
Allium paradoxum from Asia to Europe: Ornamental, Invasive, Edible, and Medicinal	7
Joel Berger: Review of Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World	7
Declining Use of Totora (Schoenoplectus californicus subsp tatora) in Lake Titicaca	7
Late Holocene Environmental Changes and Human Subsistence in an Alluvial Landscape: A Case Study from the Pohansko Site on the Dyje (Thaya) River in Czechia	7
Niches, Interstitiality and Impoverishment. Pastoralism Among Afghan Kochi Refugees in Mansehra, Northwest Pakistan	7
Cultural Forest Ecosystem Services of the Maniq Indigenous People in Southern Thailand	6
Priority Species and Management Approaches for Woody Species: A Case Study of Awach Sub-county, Gulu District, Uganda	6
Traversing the Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: A Least Cost Path Analysis	6
Caves of Fortune? Gendered Labour Precarity and Securitisation Involving the ‘Wild’ Edible Birds’ Nest Trade in Kapuas Hulu, Indonesia	6
Understanding Factors that Shape Exposure to Zoonotic and Food-Borne Diseases Across Wild Meat Trade Chains	6
Ethno-ornithology, Hunting and Conservation of Wild Birds in Kashmir Himalayas, India	6
Multidecadal Ethnoarchaeological Comparisons of Livelihoods and Wild Meat Availability and Consumption in a Central African Rainforest Foraging and Farming Community	6
Drifting Away from the Roots: Genderfluidity as Diola’s Mangrove Fishing Strategies in Three Island-Villages of Northern Guinea-Bissau	6
Environmental Considerations of Alternative Livelihoods for Women in Cocoa and shea Communities in Ghana	6
Do Socioeconomic Factors Impact Non-Timber Forest Products-based Incomes? An Analysis Employing Structural Equation Modeling	6
Cross-cultural Perceptions of (In)Equity in Ecosystem Service Access: A Preliminary Comparison of Emergent Themes in Four Sites	6
Are Stakeholders Aware of the Contributions of Ecosystem Services for Their Well-Being? A Case Study of a UNESCO Geopark Project in Brazil	6
Arundo/Phragmites: Identification and Uses of Essential Plants in Mediterranean Civilizations	6
Getting It Right in Rural Development Initiatives: The Importance of Livelihood Assets in Commercializing Family Farm Production in Brazil	6
Socio-cultural Factors Affecting Traditional Knowledge and the Cultural Significance of the Aromatic and Medicinal Plant, Boswellia dalzielii Hutch., in Burkina Faso	6
Risk, Reliability, and the Importance of Small-Bodied Molluscs across the Hawaiian Windward-Leeward Divide	6
Interaction between Knowledge and Experience in Using Wild Edible Plants in Two Biosphere Reserves in Japan	5
Risk Perception and Implementation of Mitigation Measures By Populations Living Near Volcán De Colima, Mexico	5
Trajectories of Environmental Migrants: Understanding Migration Destinations of the Coastal Population in Kerala, India	5
Natural or Semi-natural Landscape Features as Indicator of Biocultural Value: Observations from Slovakia	5
Correction to: The Succession of Farmers’ Perceptions of Transitioning Landscapes – A Case Study of Agroforestry in the Middle Hills of Nepal	5
Deconstructing Ecosystem Service Conflicts through the Prisms of Political Ecology and Game Theory in a North-Western Mediterranean River Basin	5
C. Margaret Scarry, Dale L. Hutchinson, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Editor. Ancient Food Ways: Integrative Approaches to Understanding Subsistence and Society. Gainesville, Florida. University Press of	5
Contemporary Hunting Practices in a Mosaic Landscape of Tropical Forests and Plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	5
Amitav Ghosh. The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. Chicago. The University of Chicago Press 2021. ISBN 9780226815459, Price $25.00 (Cloth). 339 Pages	5
Who’s Responsible?: Public Ascriptions of Responsibility for Endangered Species Conservation in Arkansas, USA	5
Can Substitutes Reduce Future Demand for Wildlife Products: A Case Study of China’s Millennial Generation	5
Impacts of Closed Season on Operations, Livelihood and Coping Strategies of Fishers	5
Can Socioeconomic Variables Influence Bird Hunting Activity in the Brazil's Semi-Arid Region?	5
After the Fire: Potential Impacts of Fire Exclusion Policies on Historical Cherokee Culture in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, USA	5
Cultural Homogenization Has Affected Palula Traditional Plant Foraging in Multilingual Chitral, Hindukush, NW Pakistan	5
Untangling Biocultural and Socioeconomical Drivers of African Plum Tree (Dacryodes edulis) Local Nomenclature Along a Rural-Urban Gradient in Central Cameroon	5
A Baseline Study of A’chik Homegardens in North-East India: Structure, Composition and Utilization	5
The Effects of Oil Rig Decommissioning on the Livelihoods of Fishermen: Lessons from the Saltpond Oil and Gas Field, Ghana	5
Communal Land Use in the Yungas of Jujuy and Salta Provinces (Argentina): Transhumance and Edible Plants in Valle Colorado	5
Deer and Humans in the Early Farming Communities of the Yellow River Valley: A Symbiotic Relationship	5

The Evolution of Threats to Protected Areas During Crises: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Madagascar	5
The Hybridisation, Resilience, and Loss of Local Knowledge and Natural Resource Management in Zambia	5
Bridging Knowledges and Practice: Understanding how Mangrove Swamp Rice Farmers Predict the Tides in Guinea-Bissau	5
From Plate To Planet: Reconstructing the Sustainable Food System of an Early Bronze Age Society	5
Editor’s Note on the 50th Anniversary of Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal	5
Resettling at the Precipice: Deepening Vulnerabilities in Disaster Recovery from Upland Sulawesi	4
Integrated Participatory Approach Reveals Perceived Local Availability of Wild Edible Plants in Northwestern Kenya	4
Can Disparate Shared Social Values Benefit the Conservation of Biodiversity in Hong Kong’s Sacred Groves?	4
Designing Biodiversity Management Strategies at the Community Level: Approaches Based on Participatory Action Research	4
A Natural Disaster Framed Common Pool Resource Game Yields No Framing Effects Among Mongolian Pastoralists	4
Whose Knowledge Counts? Unpacking the Uneven Geographies and Politics of Knowledge Co-Production in IPBES	4
The effects of mid-to-late Pliocene climatic fluctuations on the habitat and distribution of early hominins	4
Land-System Changes and Migration Amidst the Opium Poppy Collapse in the Southern Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico (2016-2020)	4
Sociodemographic Factors and Individuals’ Interactions with Forest Succession Drive Variations in the Knowledge and Selection of Plants	4
Socioecological and Dietary Change from 2001 to 2015 in Rural West Java, Indonesia	4
Traditional Fire Knowledge for Peatland Management in Indonesia: Practices by Communities Near Padang Sugihan Wildlife Sanctuary	4
Bram Büscher: The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-truth Politics and Platform Capitalism. University of California Press, Oakland. 2021. ISBN: 978-0-520-37145-3 (Paper), ISBN:	4
Did Hydro-climatic Extremes, Positive Checks, and Economic Fluctuations Modulate the Epidemics Outbreaks in Late Imperial China?	4
Re-storying the Roles of Animals in Cultural Burning	4
Eroding Traditional Ecological Knowledge. A Case Study in Bolivia	4
Land-use and Land-cover Changes in Pastoral Drylands: Long-term Dynamics, Economic Change, and Shifting Socioecological Frontiers in Baringo, Kenya	4
Ripples of Change: Introduced Fish, Ethnic Minority Farmers, and Lively Commodity Chains in Upland Vietnam	4
Raising Awareness of Plant Biodiversity and Combating Zoocentrism with Citizen Science: A Case Study of Undergraduate Students Pursuing Animal-Related Degrees in Northeast Brazil	4
Coastal Forest Fisheries, Estuarine Livelihoods, and Human Well-being in Southern Puerto Rico	4
A Re-Assessment of the Role of Dogs (Canis familiaris) in Early Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Masks Versus Cattle: The Ecology of an African Art Form	4
Correction to: Introduction to the Research Collection “Mediterranean Biocultural Diversity”	4