OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human Ecology is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
In Memoriam: James M. Acheson	31
Assessing Impacts and Local Perceptions Following the Incidental Introduction of tilapia (Cichlidae: Cichliformes) in a Remote Inland Fishery in Papua New Guinea	30
The Role of Cultural Fire Values among the Arhuaco, Tikuna, Uitoto, Pijao, and Embera-Chamí Indigenous Peoples of Colombia in Promoting Sustainable Forest Governance	30
Perceptions of Multispecies Coexistence in Urban Environments in Brazil: A Convenience Sampling Method	17
The Role of the Mangrove Ecosystem in Supporting the Resilience of Local Communities in Ouidah Municipality, Benin (West Africa)	17
An Assessment of Small-scale Fisheries of the Paraná River Delta Through the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach	17
Hunting, Monogamy, and Economics: Are Humans Like Wolves that Hunt Elephants and Whales?	16
The Anchors of Home: Understanding How Place Attachment Strengthens Well-being of Sri Lanka’s Migratory Fisher Communities	15
Contribution of Local Knowledge to Adapting to Drinking Water Shortages in Rural Areas: A Case Study in Gboguhé Sub-Prefecture, Central-West Côte d’Ivoire	15
The “Turning Point” for the Fall Goose Hunt in Eeyou Istchee: A Social-Ecological Regime Shift from an Indigenous Knowledge Perspective	15
Dwindling Ethnobotanical Knowledge of Aconitum naviculare in the Trans-Himalayan Manang Valleys of Central Nepal	14
Impacts of Industrialization on Foraging in Peri-Urban Areas. Insights from Padua, NE Italy	13
Assessing the Impacts of Dam Construction on the Livelihoods of Swidden Farmers in Pinlaung, Southern Shan State, Myanmar	12
Pollination of the Mediterranean Fig Tree, Ficus Carica L.: Caprification Practices and Social Networks of Exchange of Caprifigs among Jbala Farmers in Northern Morocco	12
The First Pandemic: Transformative Disaster or Footnote in History? – An Introduction	12
Balancing Food Production and Farmer Welfare: Assessing the Impact of China’s Cropland De-grainization Rectification Policy	12
Unraveling the Land Use Patterns of Nineteenth-Century Livonia	11
The Mystery of Black Rice: Food, Medicinal, and Spiritual Uses of Oryza glaberrima by Maroon Communities in Suriname and French Guiana	11
Influence of Indigenous Herding Activities on the Spatio-temporal Distribution of Reindeer during the Summer-Autumn Period: Case from Yamal, Russia	11
Confronting Intrinsic Yield Variability: How Coffee Farmers Understand, Manage, and Cope with Crop Alternate Bearing	11
Economic and Environmental Impacts of Land Consolidation on Rice Farm Performance in Vietnam	11
Game Harvest in the Most Populous Amazonian Sustainable-Use Protected Area: Insights from Community-Based Monitoring	11
Agroforestry Distribution and Contributions in Ancient Hawaiian Agriculture	11
Exploring Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems in a Brazilian Fishing Community	10
Can Environmental Injustices be Addressed in Conservation? Settlement History and Conservation-Induced Displacement in the Case of Lyanshulu in the Zambezi Region, Namibia	9

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	9
The Role of Quilombola Communities in Endemic Species Conservation in the Atlantic Forest: The Case of PES Juçara Program	9
Resource Competition and Settlement Distribution in Bronze Age Greece	9
Following the White Vulture: Ethno-ornithology along the Flyway of the Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus)	9
Modular Homes as a New Form of Accommodation to Tackle Homelessness: A Case Study From Cambridge, England	9
From Recipients to Co-Planners: Community Empowerment in Informal Settlement Regularization in Peri-Urban Areas of Tanzania	8
Fisher’s Resilience: Preparedness, Coping Capacity, and Adaptation Capacity in Surigao del Sur, Philippines	8
Joel Berger: Review of Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World	8
Declining Use of Totora (Schoenoplectus californicus subsp tatora) in Lake Titicaca	8
Perception and Attitude Toward Sloth Bear Melursus ursinus: Understanding the Tribal Communities from Central Gujarat, India, Coexistence with Bears	8
Networks of Inclusive Exclusion: Social Capital and Resilient Rural Livelihoods in the Southern Great Plains (SGP)	8
A Social Network Analysis of Collaborative Rangelands Governance: The case of Borana Rangelands, Southern Ethiopia	8
Niches, Interstitiality and Impoverishment. Pastoralism Among Afghan Kochi Refugees in Mansehra, Northwest Pakistan	8
Riverine People’s Knowledge of Climate Change in the Negro River, Brazilian Amazon	7
Drifting Away from the Roots: Genderfluidity as Diola’s Mangrove Fishing Strategies in Three Island-Villages of Northern Guinea-Bissau	7
Introduction to the Research Collection “Mediterranean Biocultural Diversity”	7
Traversing the Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: A Least Cost Path Analysis	7
An Iterative and Participatory Method for Mapping Inuit Knowledge of the Ice and Ocean in Nunatsiavut	7
Multidecadal Ethnoarchaeological Comparisons of Livelihoods and Wild Meat Availability and Consumption in a Central African Rainforest Foraging and Farming Community	7
Ethnomedicinal Knowledge of Forest-Dependent Communities in the Eastern Coastal Region of Khulna, Bangladesh	7
Impacts of Slash-and-Burn Cultivation on the Soil and Vegetation of the Atlantic Forest in Southeastern Brazil	7
A Framework for Understanding Pastoralist-led Strategies to Secure Land and Resource Access: Case Studies from Kenya	7
The Justinianic Pandemic in the Iberian Peninsula	6
Cross-cultural Perceptions of (In)Equity in Ecosystem Service Access: A Preliminary Comparison of Emergent Themes in Four Sites	6
Caves of Fortune? Gendered Labour Precarity and Securitisation Involving the ‘Wild’ Edible Birds’ Nest Trade in Kapuas Hulu, Indonesia	6
Beyond the Trees: Combining Ecology and History to Understand Human Impact on an Old-Growth Forest Landscape	6
The Hybridisation, Resilience, and Loss of Local Knowledge and Natural Resource Management in Zambia	6
Environmental Considerations of Alternative Livelihoods for Women in Cocoa and shea Communities in Ghana	6
Allium paradoxum from Asia to Europe: Ornamental, Invasive, Edible, and Medicinal	6
Priority Species and Management Approaches for Woody Species: A Case Study of Awach Sub-county, Gulu District, Uganda	6
Understanding Factors that Shape Exposure to Zoonotic and Food-Borne Diseases Across Wild Meat Trade Chains	6
Bridging Knowledges and Practice: Understanding how Mangrove Swamp Rice Farmers Predict the Tides in Guinea-Bissau	6
Ethno-ornithology, Hunting and Conservation of Wild Birds in Kashmir Himalayas, India	6
Correction to: The Succession of Farmers’ Perceptions of Transitioning Landscapes – A Case Study of Agroforestry in the Middle Hills of Nepal	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
Socio-cultural Factors Affecting Traditional Knowledge and the Cultural Significance of the Aromatic and Medicinal Plant, Boswellia dalzielii Hutch., in Burkina Faso	6
Can Socioeconomic Variables Influence Bird Hunting Activity in the Brazil's Semi-Arid Region?	6
Do Socioeconomic Factors Impact Non-Timber Forest Products-based Incomes? An Analysis Employing Structural Equation Modeling	6
Communal Land Use in the Yungas of Jujuy and Salta Provinces (Argentina): Transhumance and Edible Plants in Valle Colorado	5
Trajectories of Environmental Migrants: Understanding Migration Destinations of the Coastal Population in Kerala, India	5
Impacts of Closed Season on Operations, Livelihood and Coping Strategies of Fishers	5
Cultural Homogenization Has Affected Palula Traditional Plant Foraging in Multilingual Chitral, Hindukush, NW Pakistan	5
The Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Managing the Collection of Non-Timber Forest Products in Limpopo, South Africa: A Community-Based Resource Governance Approach	5
The Effects of Oil Rig Decommissioning on the Livelihoods of Fishermen: Lessons from the Saltpond Oil and Gas Field, Ghana	5
Whose Knowledge Counts? Unpacking the Uneven Geographies and Politics of Knowledge Co-Production in IPBES	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
Toward Understanding Composite Heritage Through a Historical Ecology Approach: Filling Cultural Gaps and Strengthening Legal Systems in China’s Special Economic Zones	5
Contemporary Hunting Practices in a Mosaic Landscape of Tropical Forests and Plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	5
The Evolution of Threats to Protected Areas During Crises: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Madagascar	5

Correction: Deforestation as a Site of Conflict and Differentiation: The Case of the Rohingya Refugee Influx in the Teknaf Wildlife Sanctuary	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
From Plate To Planet: Reconstructing the Sustainable Food System of an Early Bronze Age Society	5
Nsọ Aka Heritage, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Nature Conservation in Ishiagu, Nigeria	5
Interaction between Knowledge and Experience in Using Wild Edible Plants in Two Biosphere Reserves in Japan	5
Traditional Fire Knowledge for Peatland Management in Indonesia: Practices by Communities Near Padang Sugihan Wildlife Sanctuary	5
Self-Projection on the Sustainability of the Nomadic Pastoral Lifestyle by Families in the Gobi Desert (Mongolia)	5
A Baseline Study of A’chik Homegardens in North-East India: Structure, Composition and Utilization	5
Semai Ethnogeography: Tracing an Indigenous Forest-Based Conceptual System Via Place-Name Referents	5
Drivers of Illegal Hunting in a Megadiverse Protected Area: Integrating Local Knowledge and Spatial Modeling in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	5
Camels and the Last Nomadic Pastoralists of Anatolia (Türkiye)	5
After the Fire: Potential Impacts of Fire Exclusion Policies on Historical Cherokee Culture in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, USA	5
Deconstructing Ecosystem Service Conflicts through the Prisms of Political Ecology and Game Theory in a North-Western Mediterranean River Basin	5
Who’s Responsible?: Public Ascriptions of Responsibility for Endangered Species Conservation in Arkansas, USA	5
Deer and Humans in the Early Farming Communities of the Yellow River Valley: A Symbiotic Relationship	5
“How Do You Fight A System That You Live In?”: Youth Climate Activists’ Experiences of Burnout, Grief, and Calls for Transformation	5
Ripples of Change: Introduced Fish, Ethnic Minority Farmers, and Lively Commodity Chains in Upland Vietnam	5
Can Disparate Shared Social Values Benefit the Conservation of Biodiversity in Hong Kong’s Sacred Groves?	5