OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociologia Ruralis is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

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‘In a village, everybody knows the stranger’: Constructing local belonging of refugees in rural areas in Germany	30
Going against the grain: Unravelling the habitus of older farmers to help facilitate generational renewal in agriculture	30
Food quality in a post‐industrial economy: Alternatives to the crisis of the Spanish agricultural sector	24
The Immaculate Conception of Data. Agribusiness, Activists, and Their Shared Politics of the Future by KellyBronson, Montréal: McGill‐Queen's University Press. 2022. xiv + 224 pp. $37.95 (paperback).	24
Aligning top‐down and bottom‐up modes of governance? How EU Fisheries Local Action Groups support small‐scale fisheries and coastal community development in Sweden	23
Farming women, distress and drought: Intra‐actions and entanglements with matter	18
Adaptive business arrangements and the creation of social capital: Towards small‐scale fisheries resilience in different European geographical areas	18
Personal, peaceful, progressive: Integration workers’ narratives of refugee settlement and the rural	18
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Loss and autonomy: Making sense of rural life at the inner periphery	17
The neo‐peasant movement in Catalonia: An attempt at defining it in the light of the infrapolitical strategies of resistance	15
Should cows graze? A relational approach to understanding farmer perspectives on the ethics of grazing and indoor dairy systems	15
Making meat moral: A comparison of rearing and killing practices in Swedish cattle farming	14
Sacred serpents and the discourse on conservation: Interrogating interspecies dynamics in rural Bardhaman	14
Engagement of new entrants in mountain farming through the lens of generativity: Lack of family farming background and its implications in Alpine Austria and Italy	14
Digital agriculture killjoy: Happy objects and cruel quests for the good life	13
Temporal and spatial diversification of rural social structure: The case of Poland	13
Frame alignment processes for locally useful agricultural soil research and extension: The role of farm advisors	12
Social capital and short food supply chains: Evidence from Fisheries Local Action Groups	11
Reflecting on opportunities and challenges regarding implementation of responsible digital agri‐technology innovation	11
Putting social into agricultural sustainability: Integrating assessments of quality of life and wellbeing into farm sustainability indicators	10
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Relational work in an alternative food network: The fundamental role of shared meaning for organising markets differently	9

‘You don't want to be seen to be struggling’; identifying sociocultural barriers and facilitators for Irish farmers’ mental health help‐seeking	9
Standard quality as a boundary object—A conceptual study	9
From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice: Changing interpretations of food self‐provisioning	9
The Pursuit of Qualities by Peripheral Latecomers in the Agrofood Sectors: The Case of Erlin Wine Industry in Taiwan	8
The agencies of landscape in rural gentrification: Impressions from the wood, the village and the moortop	8
Stories of country women: Advancing feminist intersectionality for climate change adaptation in Australia	8
Constraining labour: The integration dynamics of working‐class horticultural migrants in rural areas of Norway, the UK and the US	8
Exploring farm‐to‐restaurant relations and the potential of a local food hub: A case study in the city‐region of Groningen, the Netherlands	8
Production and consumption in agri‐food transformations: Rethinking integrative perspectives	7
Multiple dimensions of sustainability: Towards new rural futures in Euope	7
The mice plague and the assemblage of beastly landscapes in regional and rural Australia	7
Responsible digital agri‐food innovation in Australian and New Zealand public research organisations	7
Food poverty and informal network support in a changing Portuguese rural area	7
Two good interview questions: Mobilizing the ‘good farmer’ and the ‘good day’ concepts to enable more‐than‐representational research	7
From crisis to sustainability: The politics of knowledge production on rural Europe	7
Innovating digitally: The new texture of practices in Agriculture 4.0	7
New immigration destinations in Sweden: Migrant residential trajectories intersecting rural areas	7
A call to expand disciplinary boundaries so that social scientific imagination and practice are central to quests for ‘responsible’ digital agri‐food innovation	6
The journey of staying: A transitional and mobility perspective on the staying rural preferences of rural young adults	6
Agriculture, COVID‐19 and mental health: Does gender matter?	6
Disciplining land through data: The role of agricultural technologies in farmland assetisation	6
Towards reconfiguration in European agriculture: Analysing dynamics of change through the lens of the Donau Soja organization	6
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The role of social capital and trust in the success of local wine tourism and rural development	5
Caring peripheries: How care practitioners respond to processes of peripheralisation	5
Beekeeping, stewardship and multispecies care in rural contexts	5
Rethinking class, capitalism and exploitation from the perspective of family farming in Aotearoa/New Zealand	5
Rural places and planning. Stories from the Global Countryside. MenelaosGkartzios, NickGallent, and MarkScott. 2022. Bristol: Policy Press. vii+175. 26.99 GBP. ISBN: 978‐1‐4473‐5637‐0	5
Assembling antimicrobial resistance governance in UK animal agriculture	5
Digitalisation, politics of sustainability and new agrarian questions: The case of dairy farming in rural spaces of Italy and Sweden	5
Growing superdiverse, growing apart—Modes of incorporation of international migrants in rural areas	5
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‘We're out, so wtf do we do now?’: Brexit and rural identity in the era of online agricultural communities	4
Preference and paradox: Local residents’ perspectives on the reuse of post‐agricultural brownfield sites	4
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Disentangling the diversity of small farm business models in Euro‐Mediterranean contexts: A resilience perspective	4
Stayers or leavers? Spatial (im)mobility patterns of young university graduates living in rural areas in Poland	4
Stewardship and everyday governance: Managing materialities in a south‐eastern village community, Estonia	4
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The impact of rural emptiness on gender relations in postsocialist Albania	4
Understanding Rural Stayers: The Influence of Definitions and Methods	3
‘It's a lonely old world’: Developing a multidimensional understanding of loneliness in farming	3
Translating community resilience theory into practice: A deliberative Delphi approach	3
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Regulating gene editing in agriculture and food in the European Union: Disentangling expectations and path dependencies	3
Migrant agricultural workers in search of a dignified life: Labour conditions as a source of vulnerability in Spain	3
Farm advisors amid the transition to Agriculture 4.0: Professional identity, conceptions of the future and future‐specific competencies	3
The farm shop as a retroscaped place of experiential consumption	3
Agents of sustainability: How horses and people co‐create, enact and embed the good life in rural places	3
Behind a fluttering veil of trust: The dynamics of public concerns over farm animal welfare in Norway	3

‘We are here our hearts are there’: Rurality, belonging and walking together	2
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Intersectionality, childhood disability and rurality: What does rural life mean for disabled children and their families?	2
Hybrid food networks and sustainability transitions: Shared and contested values and practices in food relocalisation and resocialisation	2
Passive endurance: An analysis of barriers to aid among Flemish farmers	2
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Agroecology for migrant ‘emplacement’ in the left‐behind European countryside	2
How FAST are women farmers in Greece transforming contested gender identities in a (still) male‐dominant sector?	2
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Landscapes of support for farming mental health: Adaptability in the face of crisis	2
Power and culture: Understanding EU policies on agriculture and gender equality	2
Rural being: Merleau‐Ponty, embodied perception and intersectionality	2
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Contested diffusion of transformative innovations. Micro‐ and macrolevel social capital in South Tyrol	2
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Experiencing art from a field of rice: How farmers relate to rural revitalisation and art at Japan's Echigo‐Tsumari Art Festival	1
Blueprints for rural economy: Philip Lowe's work in rural and environmental social science	1
From panic to business as usual: What coronavirus has revealed about migrant labour, agri‐food systems and industrial relations in the Nordic countries	1
Of poultry and the good farmer: Skilled role performance in antimicrobial use on poultry farms in Sweden, France and Vietnam	1
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The cofradías’ role within the Fisheries Local Action Groups system: Implications for small‐scale fisheries in Galicia (Spain)	1
The globalisation of Italian agriculture. Transformations of migrant labour composition in agriculture in Trentino	1
Intersectional precarity of Hazara Afghan refugee migrants in rural Australia	1
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Managing growth in medium‐sized organic businesses: Implications for local orientation and resilience building	1
Padrón peppers or peppers from Herbón? Discussing the controversial attainment of a geographical indication in light of food (re)localisation approaches	1
‘You have to keep it going’: Relational values and social sustainability in upland agriculture	1
A territorial approach to social learning: Facilitating consumer knowledge of local food through participation in the guarantee process	1
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Hacking Hekla: Exploring the dynamics of digital innovation in rural areas	1
Resurgent back‐to‐the‐land and the cultivation of a renewed countryside	1
Continuity, change and new ways of being: An exploratory assessment of farmer's experiences and responses to public health restrictions during the COVID‐19 pandemic in a rural Irish community	1
Incentivising public goods delivery in the UK through the lens of Theories of Practice and Theory of Capital	1
Fisheries local action group managers as reflexive practitioners: The enhancement of projects and networks and the renewal of the Finnish fishing livelihood	1
“We don't show everything”: Queer identity concealment in rural Australia	1