John Richard Stepp

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

John Richard Stepp is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Richard Stepp has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Plant Science, 14 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 14 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in John Richard Stepp's work include Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (14 papers), Tea Polyphenols and Effects (11 papers) and Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (10 papers). John Richard Stepp is often cited by papers focused on Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (14 papers), Tea Polyphenols and Effects (11 papers) and Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (10 papers). John Richard Stepp collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Spain. John Richard Stepp's co-authors include Daniel E. Moerman, Selena Ahmed, Rebecca Zarger, Michael C. Gavin, Joe McCarter, Ruifei Tang, Aroha Te Pareake Mead, Fikret Berkes, Débora Peterson and Colin M. Orians and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

John Richard Stepp

79 papers receiving 2.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Defining biocultural approaches to conservation

2015 361 citations Michael C. Gavin, Joe McCarter et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Richard Stepp United States	28	1.0k	467	387	383	367	82	2.6k
Selena Ahmed United States	32	991 0.9×	739 1.6×	162 0.4×	438 1.1×	460 1.3×	90	3.1k
Yadav Uprety Nepal	21	838 0.8×	318 0.7×	268 0.7×	215 0.6×	66 0.2×	48	1.8k
Timothy Johns Canada	43	2.0k 1.9×	924 2.0×	340 0.9×	366 1.0×	70 0.2×	139	5.6k
Michael J. Balick United States	38	2.7k 2.5×	887 1.9×	454 1.2×	570 1.5×	67 0.2×	166	5.6k
Sailesh Ranjitkar China	26	521 0.5×	114 0.2×	383 1.0×	375 1.0×	45 0.1×	55	1.9k
Barbara Burlingame Italy	32	1.4k 1.3×	1.4k 3.0×	322 0.8×	1.5k 3.9×	34 0.1×	106	5.5k
Anthony B. Cunningham South Africa	25	983 0.9×	322 0.7×	463 1.2×	290 0.8×	20 0.1×	90	2.4k
Alan J. Duncan United Kingdom	37	815 0.8×	478 1.0×	272 0.7×	658 1.7×	55 0.1×	176	4.4k
Manuel Pardo‐de‐Santayana Spain	32	3.0k 2.9×	1.5k 3.3×	320 0.8×	248 0.6×	34 0.1×	83	4.5k
Chunlin Long China	42	3.1k 2.9×	1.2k 2.5×	135 0.3×	210 0.5×	307 0.8×	313	6.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Richard Stepp

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20 of 20 papers shown

Uddin, Shaikh Bokhtear, et al.. (2024). Biocultural Conservation of Indigenous Foods and Their Potential as Alternative Food Sources in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs), Bangladesh. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 63(6). 623–646.

Li, Xiaoyue, John Richard Stepp, & Bryan Tilt. (2022). Nuosu Horticulturalists' Local Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants and Fungi and Socio-Economic Implications in Yunnan, Southwest China. Journal of Ethnobiology. 42(3). 1–21. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Rong, Yu Zhang, Sailesh Ranjitkar, et al.. (2021). Reusing wasteroot of Rubia wallichiana dyeing from Monpa of Tibet in China. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 14331–14331. 10 indexed citations

Scott, Eric R., Xin Li, Ji‐Peng Wei, et al.. (2020). Changes in Tea Plant Secondary Metabolite Profiles as a Function of Leafhopper Density and Damage. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11. 636–636. 32 indexed citations

Daroub, Samira H., et al.. (2019). Stakeholders' mental models of soil food value chain in the Everglades. Geoderma. 343. 166–175. 7 indexed citations

Kfoury, Nicole, Eric R. Scott, Colin M. Orians, et al.. (2019). Plant-Climate Interaction Effects: Changes in the Relative Distribution and Concentration of the Volatile Tea Leaf Metabolome in 2014–2016. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 1518–1518. 27 indexed citations

Kfoury, Nicole, Joshua Morimoto, Eric R. Scott, et al.. (2018). Striking changes in tea metabolites due to elevational effects. Food Chemistry. 264. 334–341. 51 indexed citations

Athayde, Simone, et al.. (2016). Engaging indigenous and academic knowledge on bees in the Amazon: implications for environmental management and transdisciplinary research. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 12(1). 26–26. 37 indexed citations

Hopkins, Allison L., John Richard Stepp, Christopher McCarty, & Judith S. Gordon. (2015). Herbal remedy knowledge acquisition and transmission among the Yucatec Maya in Tabi, Mexico: a cross-sectional study. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 11(1). 33–33. 11 indexed citations

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Gavin, Michael C., Joe McCarter, Aroha Te Pareake Mead, et al.. (2015). Defining biocultural approaches to conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 30(3). 140–145. 361 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Lixin, Selena Ahmed, John Richard Stepp, et al.. (2014). Comparative homegarden medical ethnobotany of Naxi healers and farmers in Northwestern Yunnan, China. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 10(1). 6–6. 33 indexed citations

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Gavin, Michael C. & John Richard Stepp. (2014). Rapoport's Rule Revisited: Geographical Distributions of Human Languages. PLoS ONE. 9(9). e107623–e107623. 15 indexed citations

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Kfoury, Nicole, Albert Robbat, Selena Ahmed, et al.. (2014). Metabolite profiling of Camellia sinensis by automated sequential, multidimensional gas chromatography/mass spectrometry reveals strong monsoon effects on tea constituents. Journal of Chromatography A. 1370. 230–239. 33 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Selena, Charles M. Peters, Chunlin Long, et al.. (2012). Biodiversity and phytochemical quality in indigenous and state‐supported tea management systems of Yunnan, China. Conservation Letters. 6(1). 28–36. 28 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Selena, Uchenna Unachukwu, John Richard Stepp, et al.. (2010). Pu-erh tea tasting in Yunnan, China: Correlation of drinkers’ perceptions to phytochemistry. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 132(1). 176–185. 65 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Selena, et al.. (2010). Increased Market Integration, Value, and Ecological Knowledge of Tea Agroforests in the Akha Highlands of Southwest China. Ecology and Society. 15(4). 79 indexed citations

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Kainer, Karen A., Marianne Schmink, Hannah H. Covert, et al.. (2006). A Graduate Education Framework for Tropical Conservation and Development. Conservation Biology. 20(1). 3–13. 29 indexed citations

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Stepp, John Richard. (2004). The role of weeds as sources of pharmaceuticals. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 92(2-3). 163–166. 136 indexed citations

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Anderson, E. N., Brent Berlin, Elois Ann Berlin, John Richard Stepp, & Ronald Nigh. (2002). On Maya Medicine and the Biomedical Gaze. Current Anthropology. 43(5). 789–793. 6 indexed citations

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Stepp, John Richard, et al.. (1953). Productivity in gravid Trichinella spiralis (Owen, 1835) transplanted into laboratory rats.. 28(1). 62–68. 2 indexed citations

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