Authors: Roll, Uri; Correia, Ricardo;Jaric, Ivan;Vaz, Ana Sofia;

Recent years have seen the formulation of the fields of Conservation Culturomics and iEcology. Consequently, there has been a sharp increase in scientific papers dedicated to these fields. Nevertheless, many publications are still unaware of these formulations, their growing body of dedicated publications, and recent advances. Here, we aimed at exploring trends in papers dedicated to these fields to elucidate their various attributes and trends, their underlying data sources, methods employed, and citation network features. To this end we collated research papers dedicated to conservation culturomics and iEcology using an array of potentially relevant keywords. We assembled their attributes and constructed their citation network. We found that while many papers share a citation network there are distinct clusters of publications centered on particular framings of these fields. Social media and webpage analytics were the most common corpora explored. Topics covered by these papers were varied including: elucidating people’s interest in species, wildlife, and nature in general; monitoring interest in environmental and conservation issues; studying provisions of cultural ecosystem services; obtaining data for species distributions; topics in invasion biology, and others. Overall, conservation culturomics and iEcology could benefit from popularization and greater clarity of scope, definitions, and improved scientific collaborations.