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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
“We Became Rich and We Lost Everything”: Ethnobotany of Remote Mountain Villages of Abruzzo and Molise, Central Italy	27
What Is Secondary about Secondary Tropical Forest? Rethinking Forest Landscapes	24
Socioeconomic Factors Determining Extraction of Non-timber Forest Products on the Slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania	23
The Rise and Fall of Wiñaymarka: Rethinking Cultural and Environmental Interactions in the Southern Basin of Lake Titicaca	18
Farmers’ Perceptions as a Driver of Agricultural Practices: Understanding Soil Fertility Management Practices in Cocoa Agroforestry Systems in Cameroon	17
“Wisdom of the Elders” or “Loss of Experience” as a Mechanism to Explain the Decline in Traditional Ecological Knowledge: A Case Study on Awaji Island, Japan	15
Do Large-Scale Forestry Companies Generate Prosperity in Indigenous Communities? The Socioeconomic Impacts of Tree Plantations in Southern Chile	15
Landscape Engineering Impacts the Long-Term Stability of Agricultural Populations	13
It’s Our Fault: A Global Comparison of Different Ways of Explaining Climate Change	13
Engaging Transformation: Using Seasonal Rounds to Anticipate Climate Change	13
Attitudes towards Wildlife Consumption inside and outside Hubei Province, China, in Relation to the SARS and COVID-19 Outbreaks	12
Secondary Forests and Agrarian Transitions: Insights from Nepal and Peru	12
Ecosystem Service Provision by Secondary Forests in Shifting Cultivation Areas Remains Poorly Understood	11
Fire Suppression and the Wildfire Paradox in Contemporary China: Policies, Resilience, and Effects in Chinese Fire Regimes	11
Mechanisms and Causal Histories: Explanation-Oriented Research in Human Ecology	11
Knowledge Integration and Good Marine Governance: A Multidisciplinary Analysis and Critical Synopsis	11
A Qualitative Study on How Perceptions of Environmental Changes are Linked to Migration in Morocco, Senegal, and DR Congo	10
"The Mangrove is Like a Friend": Local Perspectives of Mangrove Cultural Ecosystem Services Among Mangrove Users in Northern Ecuador	10
Social Dimensions in Designing and Managing Marine Protected Areas in Bangladesh	10
Understanding Factors that Shape Exposure to Zoonotic and Food-Borne Diseases Across Wild Meat Trade Chains	10
Mothering the Orphaned Pup: The Beginning of a Domestication Process in the Upper Palaeolithic	10
Linking Fisher Perceptions to Social-Ecological Context: Mixed Method Application of the SES Framework in Costa Rica	9
The Production and Destruction of Forests through the Lens of Landesque Capital Accumulation	9
Land Use Changes Assessment using a triangulated framework: Perception Interviews, Land-Use/Land Cover Observation, and Spatial Planning Analysis in Tanjung Batu and Derawan Island, Indonesia	9
Three decades of pastoralist settlement dynamics in the Ethiopian Omo Delta based on remote sensing data	9

Where Policy and Culture Collide: Perceptions and Responses of Swidden Farmers to the Burn Ban in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	9
Alternative Conservation Paradigms and Ecological Knowledge of Small-Scale Artisanal Fishers in a Changing Marine Scenario in Argentina	9
Large Differences in Livelihood Responses and Outcomes to Increased Conservation Enforcement in a Protected Area	9
Constraints on Rice Cultivation in Eastern Madagascar: Which Factors Matter to Smallholders, and Which Influence Food Security?	8
Exploring Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems in a Brazilian Fishing Community	8
Natural or Semi-natural Landscape Features as Indicator of Biocultural Value: Observations from Slovakia	8
Land-use and Land-cover Changes in Pastoral Drylands: Long-term Dynamics, Economic Change, and Shifting Socioecological Frontiers in Baringo, Kenya	8
Inuit and Local Knowledge on the Marine Ecosystem in Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland	8
Eco-Symbiotic Complementarity and Trading Networks of Natural Resources in Nahua Communities in Mountain Regions of Mexico	8
The Social and Cultural Importance of Keeping Wild Birds as Pets in an Ethnic Community in Guiyang City, China	8
Revisiting Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT) in a Changing Amazon: Implications for Conservation and Management	8
The Charmed Circle: Mobility, Identity and Memory around Mount Mayon (Philippines) and Gunung Awu (Indonesia) Volcanoes	8
The Disconnect Between Knowledge and Perceptions: A Study of Fishermen’s Local Ecological Knowledge and Their Perception of the State of Fisheries and How These Are Managed in the Dominican Republic	7
Cultivating Decline: Agricultural Modernization Policy and Adaptive Resilience in the Yangzi Delta	7
Indigenous Knowledge, Aspiration, and Potential Application in Contemporary Fire Mitigation in Southwest Australia	7
Domestication Through Dingo Eyes: An Australian Perspective on Human-Canid Interactions Leading to the Earliest Dogs	7
A Deliberative Model for Preserving the Diversity of Lebanese Traditional Fermented Food and Beverages	7
Naturalized Violence: Affective Politics of China’s “Ecological Civilization” in Xinjiang	7
Integrated Participatory Approach Reveals Perceived Local Availability of Wild Edible Plants in Northwestern Kenya	6
Modelling the Routes of Seasonal Transhumance Movement in North Neuquén (Patagonia)	6
Perceptions of Risks Related to Climate Change in Agroecosystems in a Semi-arid Region of Brazil	6
Managing Wolves is Managing Narratives: Views of Wolves and Nature Shape People’s Proposals for Navigating Human-Wolf Relations	6
Seeing the Quiet Politics in Unquiet Woods: A Different Vantage Point for a Future Forest Agenda	6
Divergence and Convergence in Traditional Plant-Based Medicinal Practices of Haitian Migrants in Montreal, Miami and Cayenne	6
Conservation and Indigenous Subsistence Hunting in the Peace River Region of Canada	6
A Combination of Cultural Values and Economic Benefits Promote Tolerance Towards Large Mammals in a Hotspot of Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Eastern India	6
Which Ecosystem Services Are Really Integrated into Local Culture? Farmers' Perceptions of the Columbian and Venezuelan Páramos	6
Measuring Small Island Disaster Resilience Towards Sustainable Coastal and Fisheries Tourism: The Case of Guimaras, Philippines	6
A New but Gloomy Picture: The First Photographic Evidence of Grey Wolf in Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	6
Local Knowledge, Perceptions, and Uses of the Potentially Conflict-Generating Plant Species, Moringa oleifera Lam.: A case Study in Limpopo Province, South Africa	5
How Do Local Folks Value Wild Meat, and Why It Matters? A Study in the Democratic Republic of Congo	5
Can Environmental Injustices be Addressed in Conservation? Settlement History and Conservation-Induced Displacement in the Case of Lyanshulu in the Zambezi Region, Namibia	5
Discourses on Rewilding: the Case of Feral Goats in Mallorca	5
Understanding the Rights of Nature: Working Together Across and Beyond Disciplines	5
Risk, Reliability, and the Importance of Small-Bodied Molluscs across the Hawaiian Windward-Leeward Divide	5
A Modest Suggestion: Baking Using Sourdough - a Sustainable, Slow-Paced, Traditional and Beneficial Remedy against Stress during the Covid-19 Lockdown	5
Need-Based Transfers Enhance Resilience to Shocks: An Agent-Based Model of a Maasai Risk-Pooling System	5
The Multiple Faces of the Marmot: Associations with the Plague, Hunting, and Cosmology in Mongolia	5
Local Ecological Knowledge, Catch Characteristics, and Evidence of Elasmobranch Depletions in Western Ghana Artisanal Fisheries	5
Determinants of Smallholder Maintenance of Crop Diversity in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains	5
Evaluating Support for Clouded Leopard Reintroduction in Taiwan: Insights from Surveys of Indigenous and Urban Communities	5
The Record of Dogs in Traditional Villages of the Mid-Fraser Canyon, British Columbia: Ethnological and Archaeological Evidence	5
Changes in Sharing and Participation are Important Predictors of the Health of Traditional Harvest Practices in Indigenous Communities in Alaska	4
Consumption of Mollusks and Potential Utilization of Resulting Shell Wastes for Shellcraft within a Pacific Islands Context	4
Mapping Social Values of the Sigatoka River Estuary, Nadroga-Navosa Province, Viti Levu, Fiji	4
Humans and Vultures: Sociocultural and Conservation Perspective in Northern India	4
A Re-Assessment of the Role of Dogs (Canis familiaris) in Early Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Fighting Insurgency, Ruining the Environment: the Case of Forest Fires in the Dersim Province of Turkey	4
Linking Up: The Role of Institutions and Farmers in Forage Seed Exchange Networks of Southeast Asia	4
Cultural Resilience in the Face of globalization: Lessons from the Penan of Borneo	4

Humans and Dogs of Mountainous Inner Asia: Sensory Collaboration and Personhood	4
Biocultural Diversity in Italy	4
Social Memory in the Mekong’s Changing Floodscapes: Narratives of Agrarian Communities’ Adaptation	4
Participatory injustice in Mexico’s Readiness process to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD +)	4
Gender-based Decision Making in Marketing Channel Choice – Evidence of Maize Supply Chains in Southern Ethiopia	4
Ethnographic Observations on the Role of Domestic Dogs in the Lowland Tropics of Belize with Emphasis on Crop Protection and Subsistence Hunting	4
Coexistence with Large Carnivores in Relation to Livestock Depredation in the Eastern Serengeti Ecosystem, Tanzania	4
The Population Dynamics of the Placebo Effect and Its Role in the Evolution of Medical Technology	4
The Succession of Farmers’ Perceptions of Transitioning Landscapes – A Case Study of Agroforestry in the Middle Hills of Nepal	4
Sociocultural Factors Shaping Responses to Wildlife Crop-Raiding in Communities Adjacent to Protected Areas in Southern Tanzania	4
Can Substitutes Reduce Future Demand for Wildlife Products: A Case Study of China’s Millennial Generation	4
Hunters Who Haul with Dogs: Man’s Best-Friend or Woman’s Little Helper?	4