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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
In Memoriam: James M. Acheson	29
Hunting, Monogamy, and Economics: Are Humans Like Wolves that Hunt Elephants and Whales?	27
Assessing Impacts and Local Perceptions Following the Incidental Introduction of tilapia (Cichlidae: Cichliformes) in a Remote Inland Fishery in Papua New Guinea	21
The Role of Cultural Fire Values among the Arhuaco, Tikuna, Uitoto, Pijao, and Embera-Chamí Indigenous Peoples of Colombia in Promoting Sustainable Forest Governance	16
The Role of the Mangrove Ecosystem in Supporting the Resilience of Local Communities in Ouidah Municipality, Benin (West Africa)	15
Perceptions of Multispecies Coexistence in Urban Environments in Brazil: A Convenience Sampling Method	15
The Anchors of Home: Understanding How Place Attachment Strengthens Well-being of Sri Lanka’s Migratory Fisher Communities	15
The “Turning Point” for the Fall Goose Hunt in Eeyou Istchee: A Social-Ecological Regime Shift from an Indigenous Knowledge Perspective	14
A New but Gloomy Picture: The First Photographic Evidence of Grey Wolf in Nowshera District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	14
The First Pandemic: Transformative Disaster or Footnote in History? – An Introduction	13
An Assessment of Small-scale Fisheries of the Paraná River Delta Through the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach	13
Influence of Indigenous Herding Activities on the Spatio-temporal Distribution of Reindeer during the Summer-Autumn Period: Case from Yamal, Russia	13
Dwindling Ethnobotanical Knowledge of Aconitum naviculare in the Trans-Himalayan Manang Valleys of Central Nepal	12
Economic and Environmental Impacts of Land Consolidation on Rice Farm Performance in Vietnam	11
Confronting Intrinsic Yield Variability: How Coffee Farmers Understand, Manage, and Cope with Crop Alternate Bearing	10
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	10
Balancing Food Production and Farmer Welfare: Assessing the Impact of China’s Cropland De-grainization Rectification Policy	10
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	9
A Deliberative Model for Preserving the Diversity of Lebanese Traditional Fermented Food and Beverages	9
Unraveling the Land Use Patterns of Nineteenth-Century Livonia	9
Impacts of Industrialization on Foraging in Peri-Urban Areas. Insights from Padua, NE Italy	9
The Mystery of Black Rice: Food, Medicinal, and Spiritual Uses of Oryza glaberrima by Maroon Communities in Suriname and French Guiana	9
The Role of Quilombola Communities in Endemic Species Conservation in the Atlantic Forest: The Case of PES Juçara Program	9
Assessing the Impacts of Dam Construction on the Livelihoods of Swidden Farmers in Pinlaung, Southern Shan State, Myanmar	9

Exploring Partial Overlaps Between Knowledge Systems in a Brazilian Fishing Community	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
Resource Competition and Settlement Distribution in Bronze Age Greece	8
Following the White Vulture: Ethno-ornithology along the Flyway of the Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus)	8
Declining Use of Totora (Schoenoplectus californicus subsp tatora) in Lake Titicaca	8
Modular Homes as a New Form of Accommodation to Tackle Homelessness: A Case Study From Cambridge, England	8
A Social Network Analysis of Collaborative Rangelands Governance: The case of Borana Rangelands, Southern Ethiopia	8
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
Networks of Inclusive Exclusion: Social Capital and Resilient Rural Livelihoods in the Southern Great Plains (SGP)	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
The Role of Religiosity on Deontological Climate Message Acceptance: A U.S. Survey	7
Fisher’s Resilience: Preparedness, Coping Capacity, and Adaptation Capacity in Surigao del Sur, Philippines	7
Niches, Interstitiality and Impoverishment. Pastoralism Among Afghan Kochi Refugees in Mansehra, Northwest Pakistan	7
Riverine People’s Knowledge of Climate Change in the Negro River, Brazilian Amazon	7
Joel Berger: Review of Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the World	7
Perception and Attitude Toward Sloth Bear Melursus ursinus: Understanding the Tribal Communities from Central Gujarat, India, Coexistence with Bears	7
Traversing the Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: A Least Cost Path Analysis	7
Are Stakeholders Aware of the Contributions of Ecosystem Services for Their Well-Being? A Case Study of a UNESCO Geopark Project in Brazil	7
Allium paradoxum from Asia to Europe: Ornamental, Invasive, Edible, and Medicinal	7
Impacts of Slash-and-Burn Cultivation on the Soil and Vegetation of the Atlantic Forest in Southeastern Brazil	6
A Framework for Understanding Pastoralist-led Strategies to Secure Land and Resource Access: Case Studies from Kenya	6
The Justinianic Pandemic in the Iberian Peninsula	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
An Iterative and Participatory Method for Mapping Inuit Knowledge of the Ice and Ocean in Nunatsiavut	6
Priority Species and Management Approaches for Woody Species: A Case Study of Awach Sub-county, Gulu District, Uganda	6
Socio-cultural Factors Affecting Traditional Knowledge and the Cultural Significance of the Aromatic and Medicinal Plant, Boswellia dalzielii Hutch., in Burkina Faso	6
Caves of Fortune? Gendered Labour Precarity and Securitisation Involving the ‘Wild’ Edible Birds’ Nest Trade in Kapuas Hulu, Indonesia	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
Cross-cultural Perceptions of (In)Equity in Ecosystem Service Access: A Preliminary Comparison of Emergent Themes in Four Sites	6
Arundo/Phragmites: Identification and Uses of Essential Plants in Mediterranean Civilizations	6
Beyond the Trees: Combining Ecology and History to Understand Human Impact on an Old-Growth Forest Landscape	6
Cultural Forest Ecosystem Services of the Maniq Indigenous People in Southern Thailand	5
Natural or Semi-natural Landscape Features as Indicator of Biocultural Value: Observations from Slovakia	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
Deer and Humans in the Early Farming Communities of the Yellow River Valley: A Symbiotic Relationship	5
Camels and the Last Nomadic Pastoralists of Anatolia (Türkiye)	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
Understanding Factors that Shape Exposure to Zoonotic and Food-Borne Diseases Across Wild Meat Trade Chains	5
Deconstructing Ecosystem Service Conflicts through the Prisms of Political Ecology and Game Theory in a North-Western Mediterranean River Basin	5
Bridging Knowledges and Practice: Understanding how Mangrove Swamp Rice Farmers Predict the Tides in Guinea-Bissau	5
Cultural Homogenization Has Affected Palula Traditional Plant Foraging in Multilingual Chitral, Hindukush, NW Pakistan	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
The Hybridisation, Resilience, and Loss of Local Knowledge and Natural Resource Management in Zambia	5
Correction to: The Succession of Farmers’ Perceptions of Transitioning Landscapes – A Case Study of Agroforestry in the Middle Hills of Nepal	5
Can Socioeconomic Variables Influence Bird Hunting Activity in the Brazil's Semi-Arid Region?	5
The Evolution of Threats to Protected Areas During Crises: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Madagascar	5

Impacts of Closed Season on Operations, Livelihood and Coping Strategies of Fishers	5
From Plate To Planet: Reconstructing the Sustainable Food System of an Early Bronze Age Society	5
Coastal Forest Fisheries, Estuarine Livelihoods, and Human Well-being in Southern Puerto Rico	4
Correction to: Introduction to the Research Collection “Mediterranean Biocultural Diversity”	4
Ripples of Change: Introduced Fish, Ethnic Minority Farmers, and Lively Commodity Chains in Upland Vietnam	4
Who’s Responsible?: Public Ascriptions of Responsibility for Endangered Species Conservation in Arkansas, USA	4
Sociodemographic Factors and Individuals’ Interactions with Forest Succession Drive Variations in the Knowledge and Selection of Plants	4
Interaction between Knowledge and Experience in Using Wild Edible Plants in Two Biosphere Reserves in Japan	4
Whose Knowledge Counts? Unpacking the Uneven Geographies and Politics of Knowledge Co-Production in IPBES	4
Risk Perception and Implementation of Mitigation Measures By Populations Living Near Volcán De Colima, Mexico	4
Land-System Changes and Migration Amidst the Opium Poppy Collapse in the Southern Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico (2016-2020)	4
Can Disparate Shared Social Values Benefit the Conservation of Biodiversity in Hong Kong’s Sacred Groves?	4
Re-storying the Roles of Animals in Cultural Burning	4
Editor’s Note on the 50th Anniversary of Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal	4
Communal Land Use in the Yungas of Jujuy and Salta Provinces (Argentina): Transhumance and Edible Plants in Valle Colorado	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
Toward Understanding Composite Heritage Through a Historical Ecology Approach: Filling Cultural Gaps and Strengthening Legal Systems in China’s Special Economic Zones	4
The effects of mid-to-late Pliocene climatic fluctuations on the habitat and distribution of early hominins	4
Contemporary Hunting Practices in a Mosaic Landscape of Tropical Forests and Plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia	4
Eroding Traditional Ecological Knowledge. A Case Study in Bolivia	4
A Baseline Study of A’chik Homegardens in North-East India: Structure, Composition and Utilization	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
Designing Biodiversity Management Strategies at the Community Level: Approaches Based on Participatory Action Research	4
Masks Versus Cattle: The Ecology of an African Art Form	4
Untangling Biocultural and Socioeconomical Drivers of African Plum Tree (Dacryodes edulis) Local Nomenclature Along a Rural-Urban Gradient in Central Cameroon	4
The Effects of Oil Rig Decommissioning on the Livelihoods of Fishermen: Lessons from the Saltpond Oil and Gas Field, Ghana	4
Traditional Fire Knowledge for Peatland Management in Indonesia: Practices by Communities Near Padang Sugihan Wildlife Sanctuary	4