Table 8.
Top ten countries and most important publications.
| Country | Most cited publications | Author | Year | Cites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Valuation of consumption and sale of forest goods from a Central American rain forest | Godoy et al. | 2000 | 125 |
| Locating Value in Artisan Cheese: Reverse Engineering Terroir for New-World Landscapes | Paxson, H. | 2010 | 106 | |
| Tree and impervious cover in the United States | Nowak, D.J., Greenfield, E.J. | 2012 | 99 | |
| Filipina migrants in rural Japan and their professions of love | Faier, L. | 2007 | 99 | |
| India | How social and human capital influence opportunity recognition and resource mobilization in India's handloom industry | Bhagavatula et al. | 2010 | 239 |
| Prehistoric human colonization of India | Misra, V.N. | 2001 | 137 | |
| Body mass index: A measure of the nutritional status in Indian populations | Naidu, A.N., Rao, N.P. | 1994 | 117 | |
| Drudgery, Accidents and Injuries in Indian Agriculture | Nag, P.K., Nag, A. | 2004 | 73 | |
| United Kingdom | Annals of the labouring poor: social change and agrarian England 1660-1900 | Snell, K.D.M. | 1985 | 467 |
| Craft guilds, apprenticeship, and technological change in preindustrial Europe | Epstein, S.R. | 1998 | 309 | |
| Can information and communications technology applications contribute to poverty reduction? Lessons from rural India | Cecchini, S., Scott, C. | 2003 | 199 | |
| Fracture trauma in a medieval British farming village | Judd, M.A., Roberts, C.A. | 1999 | 94 | |
| South Africa | Tourist preferences for ecotourism in rural communities adjacent to Kruger National Park: A choice experiment approach | Chaminuka et al. | 2012 | 95 |
| The traditional use of plants to manage candidiasis and related infections in Venda, South Africa | Masevhe, N.A., McGaw, L.J., Eloff, J.N. | 2015 | 49 | |
| Tourism, food, and culture: Community-based tourism, local food, and community development in mpondoland | Giampiccoli, A., Kalis, J.H. | 2012 | 45 | |
| Rural economy and livelihoods from the non-timber forest products trade. Compromising sustainability in southern Africa? | Dovie, D.B.K. | 2003 | 40 | |
| Canada | Valuation of consumption and sale of forest goods from a Central American rain forest | Godoy et al. | 2000 | 125 |
| Fracture trauma in a medieval British farming village | Judd, M.A., Roberts, C.A. | 1999 | 94 | |
| Rain forest ‘conservation-through-use’? Chambira palm fibre extraction and handicraft production in a land-constrained community, Peruvian Amazon | Coomes, O.T. | 2004 | 38 | |
| Commodity production and ethnic culture: Otavalo, northern Ecuador | Korovkin, T. | 1998 | 38 | |
| China | Settlement patterns and development of social complexity in the Yiluo Region, North China | Liu et al. | 2004 | 86 |
| Environmental impacts and embodied energy of construction methods and materials in low-income tropical housing | Hashemi, et al. | 2015 | 39 | |
| China's Hidden Agricultural Revolution, 1980–2010, in Historical and Comparative Perspective | Huang, P.C.C. | 2016 | 30 | |
| The Income Gap Between Urban and Rural Residents in China: Since 1978 | Ma et al. | 2018 | 25 | |
| Indonesia | The diversity of plant species, the types of plant uses and the estimate of carbon stock in agroforestry system in Harapan Makmur Village, Bengkulu, Indonesia | Wiryono, Puteri, V.N.U., Senoaji, G. | 2016 | 13 |
| Hobby and business on trading birds: Case study in bird market of Sukahaji, Bandung, West Java and Splendid, Malang, East Java (Indonesia) | Iskandar, B.S., Iskandar, J., Partasasmita, R. | 2019 | 12 | |
| Species diversity and utilization of bamboo to support life's the community of Karangwangi village, Cidaun sub-district of Cianjur, Indonesia | Setiawati et al. | 2017 | 9 | |
| The use by local communities of plants from sesaot protected forest, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia | Hidayat, S. | 2017 | 7 | |
| Italy | Analysis of the cultural value of local livestock breeds: A methodology | Gandini, G.C., Villa, E. | 2003 | 118 |
| Sustainable rural development: The role of traditional activities in Central Italy | Gobattoni, et al. | 2015 | 30 | |
| Traditional uses of plants in a rural community of Mozambique and possible links with Miombo degradation and harvesting sustainability | Bruschi et al. | 2014 | 29 | |
| Increasing the value of spent grain from craft microbreweries for energy purposes | Sperandio et al. | 2017 | 26 | |
| Brazil | Ethnobotany and effects of harvesting on the population ecology of Syngonanthus nitens (Bong.) Ruhland (Eriocaulaceae), a NTFP from Jalapao region, central Brazil | Schmidt, I.B., Figueiredo, I.B.,https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?origin=resultslist&authorId=6507887219&zone=Scariot,A | 2007 | 75 |
| Ethnobotany in Cabo Delgado, mozambique: Use of medicinal plants | Matavele, J., Habib, M. | 2000 | 37 | |
| Experimental harvesting of the non-timber forest product Ischnosiphon polyphyllus in central Amazonia | Nakazono, E.M., Bruna, E.M., Mesquita, R.C.G. | 2004 | 22 | |
| Knowledge, Use, and Management of the Babassu Palm (Attalea speciosa Mart. ex Spreng) in the Araripe Region (Northeastern Brazil) | Almeida Campos et al. | 2015 | 19 | |
| France | Traditional food and tourism: French tourist experience and food heritage in rural spaces | Bessiere, J., Tibere, L. | 2013 | 75 |
| Beekeeping as a family artisan entrepreneurship business | Ramadani et al. | 2019 | 45 | |
| The French peasantry in the seventeenth century. | Goubert, P. | 1986 | 38 | |
| Physical activity patterns of rural Senegalese adolescent girls during the dry and rainy seasons measured by movement registration and direct observation methods | Bénéfice, E., Cames, C. | 1999 | 36 |
Source: Author's own calculation, based on Microsoft Excel software