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Traditional use of medicinal plants in the boreal forest of Canada: review and perspectives

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, January 2012
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Title
Traditional use of medicinal plants in the boreal forest of Canada: review and perspectives
Published in
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, January 2012
DOI 10.1186/1746-4269-8-7
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Authors

Yadav Uprety, Hugo Asselin, Archana Dhakal, Nancy Julien

Abstract

The boreal forest of Canada is home to several hundred thousands Aboriginal people who have been using medicinal plants in traditional health care systems for thousands of years. This knowledge, transmitted by oral tradition from generation to generation, has been eroding in recent decades due to rapid cultural change. Until now, published reviews about traditional uses of medicinal plants in boreal Canada have focused either on particular Aboriginal groups or on restricted regions. Here, we present a review of traditional uses of medicinal plants by the Aboriginal people of the entire Canadian boreal forest in order to provide comprehensive documentation, identify research gaps, and suggest perspectives for future research.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 3 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Uganda 1 <1%
Ethiopia 1 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Zimbabwe 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 379 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 68 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 63 16%
Student > Master 57 15%
Researcher 45 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 6%
Other 61 16%
Unknown 74 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 103 26%
Environmental Science 52 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 24 6%
Social Sciences 22 6%
Chemistry 18 5%
Other 84 22%
Unknown 87 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 167. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 January 2024.
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#240,676
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#1
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#1,261
of 258,526 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
#1
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