OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine is 8. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The use of medicinal plants to prevent COVID-19 in Nepal	76
Cultural significance of medicinal plants in healing human ailments among Guji semi-pastoralist people, Suro Barguda District, Ethiopia	48
Taming the pandemic? The importance of homemade plant-based foods and beverages as community responses to COVID-19	42
Just beautiful green herbs: use of plants in cultural practices in Bukovina and Roztochya, Western Ukraine	37
Traditional food taboos and practices during pregnancy, postpartum recovery, and infant care of Zulu women in northern KwaZulu-Natal	33
Ethnobotany of the medicinal plants used by the ethnic communities of Kerman province, Southeast Iran	32
Traditional medicinal plants in South Tyrol (northern Italy, southern Alps): biodiversity and use	31
Ethnobotanical study on wild edible plants used by Dulong people in northwestern Yunnan, China	29
Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Adwa District, Central Zone of Tigray Regional State, Northern Ethiopia	27
How does urbanization affect perceptions and traditional knowledge of medicinal plants?	26
Wild food plants and fungi sold in the markets of Luang Prabang, Lao PDR	23
Cultural keystone species revisited: are we asking the right questions?	23
Unity in diversity—food plants and fungi of Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus	23
Ethnomedicinal landscape: distribution of used medicinal plant species in Nepal	22
Ethnobotany of traditional medicinal plants and associated indigenous knowledge in Dawuro Zone of Southwestern Ethiopia	21
Medicinal ethnobotany of wild plants: a cross-cultural comparison around Georgia-Turkey border, the Western Lesser Caucasus	20
Entomotherapy: a study of medicinal insects of seven ethnic groups in Nagaland, North-East India	20
The local medicinal plant knowledge in Kashmir Western Himalaya: a way to foster ecological transition via community-centred health seeking strategies	19
Contested or complementary healing paradigms? Women’s narratives of COVID-19 remedies in Mwanza, Tanzania	19
Exploration of ethnomedicinal plants and their practices in human and livestock healthcare in Haripur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	18
Ethnomedicinal study of medicinal plants used by Mizo tribes in Champhai district of Mizoram, India	18
Wild plants used by the Lhoba people in Douyu Village, characterized by high mountains and valleys, in southeastern Tibet, China	17
Wild edible plants traditionally collected and used in southern Yemen	16
Ethnobotanical study on wild edible plants traditionally used by Messiwa people, Morocco	15
Prioritization and selection of high fuelwood producing plant species at Boset District, Central Ethiopia: an ethnobotanical approach	14

Farmers’ perceptions of navy bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) production constraints, preferred traits and farming systems and their implications on bean breeding: a case study from South East Lowveld reg	14
Ethnobotany of the Aegadian Islands: safeguarding biocultural refugia in the Mediterranean	14
Ethnobotanical study of traditional medicinal plants used by the local people in Habru District, North Wollo Zone, Ethiopia	14
Ethnobotanical characterization of medicinal plants used in Kisantu and Mbanza-Ngungu territories, Kongo-Central Province in DR Congo	14
Actualized inventory of medicinal plants used in traditional medicine in Oaxaca, Mexico	14
Ethnobotanical study on plants used to dye traditional costumes by the Baiku Yao nationality of China	14
Wild plants and the food-medicine continuum—an ethnobotanical survey in Chapada Diamantina (Northeastern Brazil)	13
Traditional uses of wild and tended plants in maintaining ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes of the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa	13
Collection calendar: the diversity and local knowledge of wild edible plants used by Chenthang Sherpa people to treat seasonal food shortages in Tibet, China	13
Diversity and ethnomycological importance of mushrooms from Western Himalayas, Kashmir	13
Ethnozoological and commercial drivers of the pangolin trade in Benin	13
Ethnobotanical study of underutilized wild edible plants and threats to their long-term existence in Midakegn District, West Shewa Zone, Central Ethiopia	13
Indigenous biosystematics of yams (Dioscorea spp.) in Southwest Ethiopia: folk taxonomy, ethnolinguistic analysis, and folk descriptors	13
Ethnobotanical investigation of medicinal plants in Buska Mountain range, Hamar district, Southwestern Ethiopia	13
Cultural significance of locusts, grasshoppers, and crickets in sub-Saharan Africa	12
Integrating traditional ecological knowledge into habitat restoration: implications for meeting forest restoration challenges	12
A cross-cultural study of high-altitude botanical resources among diverse ethnic groups in Kashmir Himalaya, India	12
Influence of the sociodemographic profile of hunters on the knowledge and use of faunistic resources	12
Edible wild plant species used by different linguistic groups of Kohistan Upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan	12
What are the factors influencing the aversion of students towards reptiles?	12
Small regions as key sources of traditional knowledge: a quantitative ethnobotanical survey in the central Balkans	12
An ethnobotanical study on wild plants used by Tibetan people in Gyirong Valley, Tibet, China	12
Ethnobotanical biocultural diversity by rural communities in the Cuatrociénegas Valley, Coahuila; Mexico	12
Ethnobotany of wild edible plants in Soro District of Hadiya Zone, southern Ethiopia	11
Local perception of ecosystem services and their conservation in Sudanian savannas of Burkina Faso (West Africa)	11
Diversity and traditional knowledge of medicinal plants used by Shui people in Southwest China	11
An ethnopharmacological survey and comparative analysis of plants from the Sudhnoti District, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan	11
Ethnobotanical study of wild edible fruits in eastern Bhutan	11
Local plant knowledge and its variation among farmer’s families in the Napf region, Switzerland	11
Ethnobotanical study on herbal market at the Dragon Boat Festival of Chuanqing people in China	10
Ethnobotany of medicinal plants used by the Yao people in Gongcheng County, Guangxi, China	10
Ethnomycological study of wild edible and medicinal mushrooms in district Jammu, J&K (UT), India	10
Comparative analysis of management practices and end-users’ desired breeding traits in the miracle plant [Synsepalum dulcificum (Schumach & Thonn.) Daniell] across ecological zones and sociolingui	10
Species perceived to be dangerous are more likely to have distinctive local names	10
Ethnobiological study on traditional medicinal plants and fungi recorded in the Naxi Dongba sutras	10
Ethnobotanical study on medicinal plant knowledge among three ethnic groups in peri-urban areas of south-central Ethiopia	10
Preserving for the future the — once widespread but now vanishing — knowledge on traditional pig grazing in forests and marshes (Sava-Bosut floodplain, Serbia)	10
An ethnobotany survey of wild plants used by the Tibetan people of the Yadong River Valley, Tibet, China	10
Ethnomycological study on wild mushrooms in Pu’er Prefecture, Southwest Yunnan, China	10
“Peruvian balsam”: an example of transoceanic transfer of medicinal knowledge	10
Exploring the historical distribution of Dracaena cinnabari using ethnobotanical knowledge on Socotra Island, Yemen	9
Participatory analysis of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) cropping system and production constraints in Burkina Faso	9
Descriptive ethnobotanical studies are needed for the rescue operation of documenting traditional knowledge	9
Indigenous knowledge system associated with the uses of insects for therapeutic or medicinal purposes in two main provinces of Burkina Faso, West Africa	9
Ethnobotany of wild edible plants in multiethnic areas of the Gansu–Ningxia–Inner Mongolia junction zone	9
Ethnobotanical study on herbal tea drinks in Guangxi, China	9
Selection of medicinal plants for traditional medicines in Nepal	9
Aboriginal medicinal plants of Queensland: ethnopharmacological uses, species diversity, and biodiscovery pathways	9
Ethnobotanical study of the wild edible and healthy functional plant resources of the Gelao people in northern Guizhou, China	8
Zootherapeutic uses of animals excreta: the case of elephant dung and urine use in Sayaboury province, Laos	8

Ethnobotany of an indigenous tree Piliostigma thonningii (Schumach.) Milne-Redh. (Fabaceae) in the arid and semi-arid areas of South Omo Zone, southern Ethiopia	8
On pickles: biological and sociocultural links between fermented foods and the human gut microbiome	8
Study on wild medicinal plant resources and their applied ethnology in multiethnic areas of the Gansu–Ningxia–Inner Mongolia intersection zone	8
Homegarden agroecosystems managed by Salar people on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	8
The secret of health in daily cuisine: typical healthy vegetables in local markets in central Myanmar	8
Local traditional ecological knowledge about hay management practices in wetlands of the Biebrza Valley, Poland	8
Herbal plants traded at the Kaili medicinal market, Guizhou, China	8
Nahua biocultural richness: an ethnoherpetological perspective	8