Everything about Turkmens

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: TurkmensA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Possible health risk assessment for heavy metal concentrations in water, sediment, and fish species and Turkmen pregnant women’s biomonitoring in Miankaleh Peninsula, IranInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: İlbeyli Türkmenleri arasındaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Studies on pharmaceutical ethnobotany in the region of Turkmen Sahra, north of IranCited 481 times
5. Go sideways: Turkoman (ethnonym)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: TurkmenA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Studies on pharmaceutical ethnobotany in the region of Turkmen Sahra, north of Iran

  Abdolbaset Ghorbani · 2005 · Journal of Ethnopharmacology · 481 citations

• Tourist loyalty to a local cultural event: The case of Turkmen handicrafts festival

  Arman Akhoondnejad · 2016 · Tourism Management · 172 citations

• Investigating cultural evolution through biological phylogenetic analyses of Turkmen textiles

  Jamshid Tehrani, Mark Collard · 2002 · Journal of Anthropological Archaeology · 131 citations

• Effects of biological soil crusts on some physicochemical characteristics of rangeland soils of Alagol, Turkmen Sahra, NE Iran

  Jalil Kakeh, Manouchehr Gorji, Mohammad Sohrabi · 2018 · Soil and Tillage Research · 74 citations

• Declining incidence of esophageal cancer in the Turkmen Plain, eastern part of the Caspian Littoral of Iran: A retrospective cancer surveillance

  Shahriar Semnani, Alireza Sadjadi, Saman Fahimi · 2006 · Cancer Detection and Prevention · 66 citations

• Quercetin Ameliorate Motility in Frozen-Thawed Turkmen Stallions Sperm

  Afshin Seifi-Jamadi, Hamid Kohram, Ahmad Zare Shahneh · 2016 · Journal of Equine Veterinary Science · 54 citations

• Familial risks of esophageal cancer among the Turkmen population of the Caspian littoral of Iran

  Mohammad Reza Akbari, Reza Malekzadeh, Dariush Nasrollahzadeh · 2006 · International Journal of Cancer · 53 citations

• Antioxidant activity of some edible plants of the Turkmen Sahra region in northern Iran

  Saeed Mohammadi Motamed, Farzaneh Naghibi · 2010 · Food Chemistry · 53 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Possible health risk assessment for heavy metal concentrations in water, sediment, and fish species and Turkmen pregnant women’s biomonitoring in Miankaleh Peninsula, Iran

  Zahra Shaabani, Abbas Esmaili-sari, Ali Mashinchian Moradi · 2022 · Environmental Science and Pollution Research · 13 citations

• Pastoral community's vulnerability under extreme floodings accelerated by rangeland degradation among Turkmen transhumant, Northern Iran

  Mojgansadat Azimi, Abolfazl Sharifian, Vahideh Riazinia · 2022 · Journal of Flood Risk Management · 13 citations

• A linguistic ethnography of the sense of belonging: Iraqi Turkmen women refugees in Turkey

  Hasret Saygı · 2023 · Language & Communication · 9 citations

• Palatal Rugae Patterns in Fars, Turkmen, and Sistani Ethnicities in the Eastern Part of the Caspian Littoral of Iran

  Donya Rahebi, Aliakbar Naghavialhosseini, Mina Pakkhesal · 2023 · Diagnostics · 5 citations

• The influence of compressive stresses on folding in the Middle Kura depression and the Turkmen shelf

  Gultar D. Nasibova, Khuraman Z. Mukhtarova, Shura A. Ganbarova · 2023 · Journal of Geology, Geography and Geoecology · 4 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕İlbeyli Türkmenleri arasındaÖmer Özbaş · 1939
• Narrative of a pedestrian journey through Russia and Siberian TartaryJohn Dundas Cochrane · 1824
• The Merv OasisEdmund O'Donovan · 1882
• 📕Istorii︠a︡ Turkmenistana XVIII vekaO. Amantyev · 1996
• TurkomanUwe Jourdan · 1993
• 📕Bozok Sancağı ve YozgatOrhan Sakin · 2004
• 📕Izobrazitelʹnoe iskusstvo Turkmenskoĭ SSRLeonid I͡Akovlevich Elʹkovich, Pavel Vasilʹevich Popov · 1957
• 📕Rovnakyl--yslamVepaĭy · 1991

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