15/08/2026
🏆 CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR FIVE MOST‑CITED ARTICLES
Since 2003, Ethnobotany Research and Applications has published 35 volumes on plants, people, and the knowledge that connects them. Today we’re celebrating the five papers that travelled furthest — cited in theses, field studies, and journals on every continent. 🌍
👏 Our five most‑cited ERA papers:
🥇 M. D. C. Tongco
Purposive Sampling as a Tool for Informant Selection (Vol. 5, 2007)
🔗 https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/126
🥈 R. W. Bussmann, N. Y. Paniagua Zambrana, S. Sikharulidze & colleagues
Wine, Beer, S***f, Medicine, and Loss of Diversity (Vol. 12, 2014)
🔗 https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/1044
🥉 B. Hoffman & T. J. Gallaher
Importance Indices in Ethnobotany (Vol. 5, 2007)
🔗 https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/130
4️⃣ R. M. Kunwar, Y. Uprety, C. Burlakoti, C. L. Chowdhary & R. W. Bussmann
Indigenous Use and Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal Plants in Far‑West Nepal (Vol. 7, 2009)
🔗 https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/223
5️⃣ E. De Langhe, L. Vrydaghs, P. de Maret, X. Perrier & T. Denham
Why Bananas Matter: An Introduction to the History of Banana Domestication (Vol. 7, 2009)
🔗 https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/356
💡 What surprised us most?
Our single most‑cited paper isn’t a plant survey. It’s an 11‑page methods note on how to choose the right people to interview — now used by researchers in nursing, education, business, and many other fields that have never collected a specimen. 🌱
📈 ERA today:
• h‑index: 38
• Impact factor: 2.98 (2024, up 34% on the previous year)
• 976 ERA articles cited in the last three years alone
🔓 100% open access
Every single volume is free to read. No paywall. No subscription. No fee. From medicinal plants of the Himalaya to wild food security; from banana domestication to machine learning for plant misidentification — 35 volumes are online, ready to be read, taught, and cited.
📚 Browse the full ERA archive:
https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/issue/archive
🌍 Journal home:
https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/index
Your turn:
💬 Which ERA paper has shaped your own research? Tell us in the comments.
🔁 Share this with a colleague who is writing a methods section right now — one of these five papers will save them a week.
📝 Read it. Use it. Cite it. That’s what open access is for.
