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Joaquina Albán Castillo

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1997Rising activity
Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants StudiesEnvironmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and BeyondPiperaceae Chemical and Biological StudiesPlant and soil sciencesAgriculture and Social Issues

Publications

166

Citations

1,274

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

29

Publishing since 1997

Research summary
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This researcher studies plants of Peru, combining plant taxonomy (formally describing and classifying species, especially in the genera Peperomia, Ficus, and Cinchona) with ethnobotany (documenting how Andean and Amazonian communities, including the Asháninka people, use wild and cultivated plants for medicine, food, and cultural practices). The work relies heavily on herbarium specimens and fieldwork in Peru's diverse ecosystems, from Amazonian lowlands to Andean highlands.

Plant taxonomy and new species descriptionEthnobotany of Peruvian indigenous communitiesMedicinal and edible plant documentationHerbarium-based biodiversity researchAndean and Amazonian flora

Publication output has been fairly steady over the past decade at 2-6 papers per year, with a gap in 2022 followed by a rebound to higher output in 2023-2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.0/year recently
2017: 3 publications172018: 4 publications182019: 4 publications192020: 3 publications202021: 2 publications21222023: 6 publications6232024: 5 publications242025: 4 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Boletin Latinoamericano y del Caribe de plantas Medicinales y Aromaticas×4
  • Ecología Aplicada×3
  • Revista Peruana de Biología×3
  • Microscopy and Microanalysis×3
  • Economic Botany×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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