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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
In Memoriam: James M. Acheson	23
An Assessment of Small-scale Fisheries of the Paraná River Delta Through the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach	18
A New but Gloomy Picture: The First Photographic Evidence of Grey Wolf in Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	17
Assessing Impacts and Local Perceptions Following the Incidental Introduction of tilapia (Cichlidae: Cichliformes) in a Remote Inland Fishery in Papua New Guinea	16
Hunting, Monogamy, and Economics: Are Humans Like Wolves that Hunt Elephants and Whales?	16
Matching Local Knowledge and Environmental Change with Policy Changes in Rangeland Tenure	13
The Population Dynamics of the Placebo Effect and Its Role in the Evolution of Medical Technology	13
The “Turning Point” for the Fall Goose Hunt in Eeyou Istchee: A Social-Ecological Regime Shift from an Indigenous Knowledge Perspective	13
The Influences of Traditional Shifting Cultivation on Soil Properties and Vegetation in the Bago Mountains, Myanmar	13
The Anchors of Home: Understanding How Place Attachment Strengthens Well-being of Sri Lanka’s Migratory Fisher Communities	13
Dwindling Ethnobotanical Knowledge of Aconitum naviculare in the Trans-Himalayan Manang Valleys of Central Nepal	11
Pollination of the Mediterranean Fig Tree, Ficus Carica L.: Caprification Practices and Social Networks of Exchange of Caprifigs among Jbala Farmers in Northern Morocco	11
Economic and Environmental Impacts of Land Consolidation on Rice Farm Performance in Vietnam	10
Agroforestry Distribution and Contributions in Ancient Hawaiian Agriculture	10
The Mystery of Black Rice: Food, Medicinal, and Spiritual Uses of Oryza glaberrima by Maroon Communities in Suriname and French Guiana	10
Impacts of Industrialization on Foraging in Peri-Urban Areas. Insights from Padua, NE Italy	10
Hunters Who Haul with Dogs: Man’s Best-Friend or Woman’s Little Helper?	9
Gender-based Decision Making in Marketing Channel Choice – Evidence of Maize Supply Chains in Southern Ethiopia	9
Following the White Vulture: Ethno-ornithology along the Flyway of the Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus)	9
Influence of Indigenous Herding Activities on the Spatio-temporal Distribution of Reindeer during the Summer-Autumn Period: Case from Yamal, Russia	9
Correction to: Mapping Social Values of the Sigatoka River Estuary, Nadroga‑Navosa Province, Viti Levu, Fiji	9
The Multiple Faces of the Marmot: Associations with the Plague, Hunting, and Cosmology in Mongolia	9
Assessing the Impacts of Dam Construction on the Livelihoods of Swidden Farmers in Pinlaung, Southern Shan State, Myanmar	9
Méndez, V. E., Bacon, C. M., Cohen, R., and Gliessman, S. R. (Eds.). (2015). Agroecology: A Transdisciplinary, Participatory, and Action-Oriented Approach	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	8
Seeing the Quiet Politics in Unquiet Woods: A Different Vantage Point for a Future Forest Agenda	8
Can Environmental Injustices be Addressed in Conservation? Settlement History and Conservation-Induced Displacement in the Case of Lyanshulu in the Zambezi Region, Namibia	8
Modelling the Routes of Seasonal Transhumance Movement in North Neuquén (Patagonia)	8
A Deliberative Model for Preserving the Diversity of Lebanese Traditional Fermented Food and Beverages	7
Resource Competition and Settlement Distribution in Bronze Age Greece	7
Perception and Attitude Toward Sloth Bear Melursus ursinus: Understanding the Tribal Communities from Central Gujarat, India, Coexistence with Bears	7
Fisher’s Resilience: Preparedness, Coping Capacity, and Adaptation Capacity in Surigao del Sur, Philippines	7
Networks of Inclusive Exclusion: Social Capital and Resilient Rural Livelihoods in the Southern Great Plains (SGP)	7
A Social Network Analysis of Collaborative Rangelands Governance: The case of Borana Rangelands, Southern Ethiopia	7
Impacts of Slash-and-Burn Cultivation on the Soil and Vegetation of the Atlantic Forest in Southeastern Brazil	6
Introduction to the Research Collection “Mediterranean Biocultural Diversity”	6
Traversing the Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: A Least Cost Path Analysis	6
Multidecadal Ethnoarchaeological Comparisons of Livelihoods and Wild Meat Availability and Consumption in a Central African Rainforest Foraging and Farming Community	6
Caves of Fortune? Gendered Labour Precarity and Securitisation Involving the ‘Wild’ Edible Birds’ Nest Trade in Kapuas Hulu, Indonesia	6
Cultural Forest Ecosystem Services of the Maniq Indigenous People in Southern Thailand	6
Cross-cultural Perceptions of (In)Equity in Ecosystem Service Access: A Preliminary Comparison of Emergent Themes in Four Sites	6
Niches, Interstitiality and Impoverishment. Pastoralism Among Afghan Kochi Refugees in Mansehra, Northwest Pakistan	6
Declining Use of Totora (Schoenoplectus californicus subsp tatora) in Lake Titicaca	6
The Role of Religiosity on Deontological Climate Message Acceptance: A U.S. Survey	6
Allium paradoxum from Asia to Europe: Ornamental, Invasive, Edible, and Medicinal	6
Arundo/Phragmites: Identification and Uses of Essential Plants in Mediterranean Civilizations	6
Risk, Reliability, and the Importance of Small-Bodied Molluscs across the Hawaiian Windward-Leeward Divide	6
Do Socioeconomic Factors Impact Non-Timber Forest Products-based Incomes? An Analysis Employing Structural Equation Modeling	6
Priority Species and Management Approaches for Woody Species: A Case Study of Awach Sub-county, Gulu District, Uganda	6
Challenging the State: Devolutionary Tenure Transitions for Saving and Expanding Forests	6
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	6
Joel Berger: Review of Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World	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
Getting It Right in Rural Development Initiatives: The Importance of Livelihood Assets in Commercializing Family Farm Production in Brazil	6
Environmental Considerations of Alternative Livelihoods for Women in Cocoa and shea Communities in Ghana	6
Drifting Away from the Roots: Genderfluidity as Diola’s Mangrove Fishing Strategies in Three Island-Villages of Northern Guinea-Bissau	6
Can Substitutes Reduce Future Demand for Wildlife Products: A Case Study of China’s Millennial Generation	5
Correction to: The Succession of Farmers’ Perceptions of Transitioning Landscapes – A Case Study of Agroforestry in the Middle Hills of Nepal	5
The Evolution of Threats to Protected Areas During Crises: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Madagascar	5
Natural or Semi-natural Landscape Features as Indicator of Biocultural Value: Observations from Slovakia	5
Deconstructing Ecosystem Service Conflicts through the Prisms of Political Ecology and Game Theory in a North-Western Mediterranean River Basin	5
After the Fire: Potential Impacts of Fire Exclusion Policies on Historical Cherokee Culture in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, USA	5
Trajectories of Environmental Migrants: Understanding Migration Destinations of the Coastal Population in Kerala, India	5
Ethno-ornithology, Hunting and Conservation of Wild Birds in Kashmir Himalayas, India	5
Bridging Knowledges and Practice: Understanding how Mangrove Swamp Rice Farmers Predict the Tides in Guinea-Bissau	5
The Hybridisation, Resilience, and Loss of Local Knowledge and Natural Resource Management in Zambia	5
Cultural Homogenization Has Affected Palula Traditional Plant Foraging in Multilingual Chitral, Hindukush, NW Pakistan	5
Hunting as a Source of Local and Traditional Ecological Knowledge among Campesinos in Nicaragua	5
Understanding Factors that Shape Exposure to Zoonotic and Food-Borne Diseases Across Wild Meat Trade Chains	5
Can Socioeconomic Variables Influence Bird Hunting Activity in the Brazil's Semi-Arid Region?	5
Mothering the Orphaned Pup: The Beginning of a Domestication Process in the Upper Palaeolithic	5
Impacts of Closed Season on Operations, Livelihood and Coping Strategies of Fishers	5
Correction to: Landscape Engineering Impacts the Long-Term Stability of Agricultural Populations	4
Who’s Responsible?: Public Ascriptions of Responsibility for Endangered Species Conservation in Arkansas, USA	4

A Baseline Study of A’chik Homegardens in North-East India: Structure, Composition and Utilization	4
Whose Knowledge Counts? Unpacking the Uneven Geographies and Politics of Knowledge Co-Production in IPBES	4
Ripples of Change: Introduced Fish, Ethnic Minority Farmers, and Lively Commodity Chains in Upland Vietnam	4
Coastal Forest Fisheries, Estuarine Livelihoods, and Human Well-being in Southern Puerto Rico	4
Editor’s Note on the 50th Anniversary of Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal	4
Risk Perception and Implementation of Mitigation Measures By Populations Living Near Volcán De Colima, Mexico	4
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	4
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	4
Can Disparate Shared Social Values Benefit the Conservation of Biodiversity in Hong Kong’s Sacred Groves?	4
Ecosystem Service Provision by Secondary Forests in Shifting Cultivation Areas Remains Poorly Understood	4
Masks Versus Cattle: The Ecology of an African Art Form	4
The Effects of Oil Rig Decommissioning on the Livelihoods of Fishermen: Lessons from the Saltpond Oil and Gas Field, Ghana	4
Deer and Humans in the Early Farming Communities of the Yellow River Valley: A Symbiotic Relationship	4
Did Hydro-climatic Extremes, Positive Checks, and Economic Fluctuations Modulate the Epidemics Outbreaks in Late Imperial China?	4
A Natural Disaster Framed Common Pool Resource Game Yields No Framing Effects Among Mongolian Pastoralists	4
A Re-Assessment of the Role of Dogs (Canis familiaris) in Early Aotearoa New Zealand	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
Untangling Biocultural and Socioeconomical Drivers of African Plum Tree (Dacryodes edulis) Local Nomenclature Along a Rural-Urban Gradient in Central Cameroon	4
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	4