| Forgetting the forest: assessing medicinal plant erosion in eastern Brazil RA Voeks, A Leony Economic botany 58 (1), S294-S306, 2004 | 376 | 2004 |
| Are women reservoirs of traditional plant knowledge? Gender, ethnobotany and globalization in northeast Brazil RA Voeks Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 28 (1), 7-20, 2007 | 372 | 2007 |
| Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil RA Voeks University of Texas Press, 1997 | 352 | 1997 |
| Tropical forest healers and habitat preference RA Voeks Economic botany, 381-400, 1996 | 257 | 1996 |
| Disturbance pharmacopoeias: medicine and myth from the humid tropics RA Voeks Annals of the Association of American geographers 94 (4), 868-888, 2004 | 247 | 2004 |
| Biological invasions and biocultural diversity: linking ecological and cultural systems JM Pfeiffer, RA Voeks Environmental Conservation 35 (4), 281-293, 2008 | 182 | 2008 |
| Is non-timber forest product harvest sustainable in the less developed world? A systematic review of the recent economic and ecological literature D Stanley, R Voeks, L Short Ethnobiology and Conservation 1, 2012 | 157 | 2012 |
| Animals for the gods: magical and religious faunal use and trade in Brazil RRN Alves, IL Rosa, NA Léo Neto, R Voeks Human Ecology 40, 751-780, 2012 | 140 | 2012 |
| African medicine and magic in the Americas R Voeks Geographical Review, 66-78, 1993 | 109 | 1993 |
| Ethnomedicinal survey of a maroon community in Brazil's Atlantic tropical forest BF de Santana, RA Voeks, LS Funch Journal of Ethnopharmacology 181, 37-49, 2016 | 93 | 2016 |
| African ethnobotany in the Americas R Voeks, J Rashford Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 | 84 | 2012 |
| Landscape legacies of the African diaspora in Brazil JA Carney, RA Voeks Progress in Human Geography 27 (2), 139-152, 2003 | 84 | 2003 |
| Reproductive ecology of the piassava palm (Attalea funifera) of Bahia, Brazil RA Voeks Journal of Tropical Ecology 18 (1), 121-136, 2002 | 71 | 2002 |
| The cultural value of invasive species: a case study from semi–arid northeastern Brazil LL Dos Santos, ALB do Nascimento, FJ Vieira, VA da Silva, R Voeks, ... Economic Botany 68, 283-300, 2014 | 59 | 2014 |
| Sacred leaves of Brazilian candomble R Voeks Geographical Review, 118-131, 1990 | 56 | 1990 |
| The scope of hunter–gatherer ethnomedicine RA Voeks, P Sercombe Social Science & Medicine 51 (5), 679-690, 2000 | 52 | 2000 |
| Healing flora of the Brunei Dusun. RA Voeks, S Nyawa Borneo Research Bulletin, 178-196, 2001 | 49 | 2001 |
| Mollusks of Candomblé: symbolic and ritualistic importance NA Leo Neto, RA Voeks, TLP Dias, RRN Alves Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 8, 1-10, 2012 | 46 | 2012 |
| Traditions in transition: African diaspora ethnobotany in lowland South America RA Voeks Mobility and migration in indigenous Amazonia: contemporary ethnoecological …, 2009 | 44 | 2009 |
| Changing sexual expression of a Brazilian rain forest palm (Attalea funifera Mart.) RA Voeks Biotropica, 107-113, 1988 | 42 | 1988 |
