Table 1.

Example of the results of searches for ethnobiological studies on gender and medicinal plant knowledge in the Science Direct database.

Keywords	Search results	Records selected	Records included	Records duplicated in other search results
“medicinal plants” AND gender	1,183	35	19	16
ethnobiology AND gender	222	16	4	12
ethnobotany AND gender	338	31	5	26
ethnomedicine AND gender	268	11	0	11
“traditional medicinal systems” AND gender	7	1	0	1
“traditional ecological knowledge” AND gender	195	8	2	6
“traditional medicine” AND gender	1,640	23	1	22
ethnopharmacology AND “medicinal plants”	8,524	14	0	14
“medical anthropology” AND gender	1,261	2	0	2
“quantitative ethnobotany” AND gender	56	10	0	10
“quantitative ethnobotany” AND medicinal plants	183	11	0	11
“intracultural variation” AND “medicinal plants”	1	1	0	1
“local knowledge” AND “medicinal plants”	405	20	4	16
“local knowledge” AND gender	1,859	8	0	8