OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine is 21. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Traditional medical practices for children in five islands from the Society archipelago (French Polynesia)	225
Legendary fermented herbs: an ethnobotanical study of the traditional fermentation starter of the Chuanqing people in Northwestern Guizhou, China	79
Wild food plants of Brazil: a theoretical approach to non-random selection	48
Honey production, an economic alternative for coastal areas with mangrove ecosystems: a case study in Sabancuy, Campeche, southeastern Mexico	46
An ethnobiological study on traditional knowledge associated with black-boned sheep (Ovis aries) in Northwest Yunnan, China	40
Medicinal plants traded in Hakka communities of southeastern Guangxi, China	39
Cultural attitudes and human pressure towards vultures around the Comoé National Park, Côte d’Ivoire (West Africa)	38
Aboriginal medicinal plants of Queensland: ethnopharmacological uses, species diversity, and biodiscovery pathways	38
An ethnoveterinary study on medicinal plants used by the Bai people in Yunlong County northwest Yunnan, China	37
The legacy of traditional rice cultivation by descendants of Indian contract laborers in Suriname	31
Herbal plants traded at the Kaili medicinal market, Guizhou, China	28
Descriptive ethnobotanical studies are needed for the rescue operation of documenting traditional knowledge	26
Ethno-medicinal uses and cultural importance of stingless bees and their hive products in several ethnic communities of Bhutan	25
Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used to treat human and livestock ailments in Addi Arkay district, northwest Ethiopia	25
Farmers’ knowledge on cultivation, utilization and conservation practices of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) in three selected districts in Ethiopia	24
Taste and chemical composition as drives for utilitarian redundancy and equivalence: a case study in local medical systems in Northeastern Brazil	23
The contemporary challenge for ethical research involving the knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities and afro-descendants and other marginalized, minority, or minoritized groups	22
Isolated Mediterranean foraging: wild greens in the matrifocal community of Olympos, Karpathos Island, Greece	22
Reflections on the future of European ethnobiology	22
The traditional knowledge about the biodiversity of edible Brazilian fruits and their pollinators: an integrative review	22
Faith healing: the threat of "Surucucu" and the local cure of Amazon floodplain dwellers	22
Socioeconomic benefits associated with bats	21
Traditional sports and games among the Sámi people in Northern Fennoscandia (Sápmi): an ethnobiological perspective	21
Plant cultural indicators of forest resources from the Himalayan high mountains: implications for improving agricultural resilience, subsistence, and forest restoration	21
Healing from the wild: an ethnozoological exploration of animal-based medicine in Jhargram, West Bengal, India	21

Edible wild plant species used by different linguistic groups of Kohistan Upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan