OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human Dimensions of Wildlife is 2. 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
The leashing behavior of dog owners in different types of natural areas	19
Modeling cognitive antecedents of tolerance for black bears: The roles of direct experience, knowledge, and risk perceptions	19
Measuring the economic value of deer hunting: comparing estimates from survey and harvest check-in data	15
Practical application of a minimal important percent difference formulation of Cohen’s d	14
Ophidiophobia, myth generation, and human perceptions: Implications for snake conservation in a typical savanna community of northern Ghana	13
Illegal harvest, use, and trade in Temminck’s pangolins by communities adjacent to Ruaha National Park, Tanzania	13
Positive perceptions about the aardvark ( Orycteropus afer ) are inadequate to protect the species in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	12
Social preferences for vertebrates, invertebrates and plants: a multistakeholder approach for conservation management	11
The social landscape of wolves in Canada - preliminary findings	10
Varied motivations for snake removals in a Desert City	10
Declining hunter and trapper mail survey response rates between 1976 and 2020 in illinois	10
A bird in the hand: connecting children and wildlife through hands-on experiences with birds	9
Comparing U.S. public attitudes regarding hunting and trophy hunting and exploring perceptions of trophy hunting using social license to operate	9
Feelings, conflicts, and use: wildlife-human interactions in El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, Mexico	9
The effect of engagement in private lands research on landowner conservation knowledge, attitudes, awareness, and behavioral intentions	9
Using increasing hypothetical chronic wasting disease prevalence rates to explore hunter behavioral intention and hypothetical bias in surveys	9
The pesky problem of defining a ‘pest’: testing the pest management attitudes scale in the United Kingdom	8
Demographics and wildlife value orientations: insights for managing wildlife in the Alps	7
Evaluation of the human-otter conflict in central Veracruz, Mexico: recommendations for mitigation	7
Valuing ecosystem services of freshwater mussels and fish	7
Predicting the intention to protect wolves and the intention to protect human interests in a Turkish and German university student sample: the role of wildlife value orientations, religiosity, and emo	7
Information sources and knowledge about chronic wasting disease in North Dakota	6
Exploring the Impact of Community Conservation Enterprises on Household Livelihoods Around Two Wildlife Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa	5
Mixed-mode surveys reveal shared regulatory preferences in an overfished recreational fishery	5
Not only seeds: a cultural ecosystem service provided by the Apennine brown bear	5

The state and perceptions of human-crocodile interactions around Murchison falls conservation area, Uganda	5
Flexible local ecological knowledge surveillance indicators reveal long-term change in the Yangambi wildmeat system	5
Taking matters into their own hands: effects of effort and success on duck hunter satisfaction	4
Integrating moral norms and stewardship identity into the theory of planned behavior to understand altruistic conservation behavior among hunters in southwestern Utah (USA)	4
Natural resource enterprises – income diversification and land conservation on privately owned lands in the United States (U.S.)	4
Evaluating the demand for and price elasticity of state hunting licenses in the United States using panel data	4
Cultural beliefs and indigenous knowledge about the red fox ( Vulpes vulpes ) in the Hindu Kush ranges of north-western Pakistan	3
Determinants influencing recruitment in the Houston toad programmatic safe harbor agreement	3
Trends and local perceptions of human-crocodile conflicts in Kariba town, northern Zimbabwe	3
Motivations for birdwatching: Support for a three-dimensional model	3
Perception clouding reality? Interactions and opportunities for Andean bear conservation in Colombia	3
Reporting about brown bears in Romania. Professional approaches of Romanian journalists	3
Does predation by wolves reduce collisions between ungulates and vehicles in France?	3
Effect of human–elephant conflict on local attitudes toward the conservation of wild Asian elephants in Myanmar	3
Fostering human-elephant co-existence: a classification tree analysis approach	3
Differences between resident and nonresident hunters’ perceptions about CWD and associated implications: a case study from Colorado	3
Human dimensions of timber rattlesnake ( Crotalus horridus ) management to reduce human-wildlife conflict	3
Socialization and motivational pathways among different groups of non-traditional hunters in Alabama reveal unique recruitment and retention opportunities	3
Taking stock: assessing Rhode Island recreational angler conservation ethic and coastal identity	3
Assessing the willingness to accept assisted migration for a sky island lizard	2
How state agencies are managing chronic wasting disease	2
Domestic ivory trade: the supply chain for raw ivory in Thailand is driven by the financial needs of elephant owners and market factors	2
Hunter risk sensitivity to ticks and tick-borne disease in Illinois	2
Integrating the human dimensions into fish and wildlife management depends on increasing managers’ social science fluency	2
White-tailed deer hunters’ perceptions of harvest reporting systems: An importance-performance analysis	2
The social stereotypes of wolves and brown bears	2
Social media as a window into human-wildlife interactions and zoonotic disease risk: an examination of wild pig hunting videos on YouTube	2
Hunting, capture, and wildlife use by communities in a semi-arid region of Northeastern Brazil	2
Predictors of carnivore tolerance among census-designated and self-identified rural and urban residents in Idaho, USA	2
Hunter acceptability of chronic wasting disease (CWD) management actions in Western Tennessee	2
Political identity as a driver of hunter responses to chronic wasting disease in a post-COVID world	2
Climate change through the eyes of recreational hunters: impacts on wildlife and adaptive responses	2
The role of social networks in partnership development with state wildlife agencies	2
Comparison of the characteristics, preferences, and attitudes of freshwater tournament and non-tournament anglers	2
Balancing human–bear coexistence with biodiversity conservation	2
Vulnerability and fascination with wildlife encounters and psychological restoration in local natural settings	2
An Economic Analysis of Poaching: Linking with Village Characteristics surrounding A Protected Area	2
Human-elephant conflict: attitudes of local people toward elephants and the conflict management authority in a shared landscape of India	2
American big cats on the spotlight	2
Producers’ perceptions of large carnivores and nonlethal methods to protect livestock from depredation: findings from a multistate federal initiative	2
Characterizing style of participation among Texas inshore recreational fishing guides	2
Evaluating cognitive and behavioral measures of tolerance for wildlife in an invasive species context: a study of Alabama hunters’ tolerance for wild pigs	2