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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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Perceptions of the Fourth Agricultural Revolution: What’s In, What’s Out, and What Consequences are Anticipated?	72
Framing Agri‐Digital Governance: Industry Stakeholders, Technological Frames and Smart Farming Implementation	40
Social Innovation for Sustainability Transformation and its Diverging Development Paths in Marginalised Rural Areas	40
Whose Narrative is it Anyway? Narratives of Social Innovation in Rural Areas – A Comparative Analysis of Community‐Led Initiatives in Scotland and Spain	33
Good intentions in complex realities: Challenges for designing responsibly in digital agriculture in low‐income countries	29
The Political Dimensions of Illegal Wolf Hunting: Anti‐Elitism, Lack of Trust in Institutions and Acceptance of Illegal Wolf Killing among Norwegian Hunters	27
A call to expand disciplinary boundaries so that social scientific imagination and practice are central to quests for ‘responsible’ digital agri‐food innovation	23
Disciplining land through data: The role of agricultural technologies in farmland assetisation	22
New Farmer Identity: The Emergence of a Post‐Productivist Agricultural Regime in China	22
Organising Alternative Food Networks (AFNs): Challenges and Facilitating Conditions of different AFN types in three EU countries	21
Farm advisors amid the transition to Agriculture 4.0: Professional identity, conceptions of the future and future‐specific competencies	20
Mobilising the Past: Towards a Conceptualisation of Retro‐Innovation	18
Alternative = transformative? Investigating drivers of transformation in alternative food networks in Germany	17
Innovating digitally: The new texture of practices in Agriculture 4.0	16
Right‐Wing Populism in Rural Europe. Introduction to the Special Issue	16
Reflecting on opportunities and challenges regarding implementation of responsible digital agri‐technology innovation	15
Responsible digital agri‐food innovation in Australian and New Zealand public research organisations	13
LEADER and Spatial Justice	13
‘It's a lonely old world’: Developing a multidimensional understanding of loneliness in farming	13
Pragmatic Prosumption: Searching for Food Prosumers in the Netherlands	13
‘Close the Ports to African Migrants and Asian Rice!’: The Politics of Agriculture and Migration and the Rise of a ‘New’ Right‐Wing Populism in Italy	12
The social construction of alternatives to pesticide use: A study of biocontrol in Burgundian viticulture	11
‘A Woman in Charge of a Farm’: French Women Farmers Challenge Hegemonic Femininity	11
The invisible (woman) entrepreneur? Shifting the discourse from fisheries diversification to entrepreneurship	11
‘Values‐based Territorial Food Networks’—Benefits, challenges and controversies	11

Exploring Work‐Related Characteristics as Predictors of Norwegian Sheep Farmers’ Affective Job Satisfaction	11
Prospects of Agrarian Populism and Food Sovereignty Movement in Post‐Socialist Romania	10
The virtual good farmer: Farmers’ use of social media and the (re)presentation of “good farming”	10
Going against the grain: Unravelling the habitus of older farmers to help facilitate generational renewal in agriculture	10
Survival strategies of producers involved in short food supply chains following the outbreak of COVID‐19 pandemic: A Hungarian case‐study	10
Constraining labour: The integration dynamics of working‐class horticultural migrants in rural areas of Norway, the UK and the US	9
Two good interview questions: Mobilizing the ‘good farmer’ and the ‘good day’ concepts to enable more‐than‐representational research	9
Can standards save organic farming from conventionalisation? Dynamics of collective projects and rules in a French organic producers’ organisation	9
Distributed Rural Proofing – An Essential Tool for the Future of Rural Development?	8
Food that Matters: Boundary Work and the Case for Vegan Food Practices	8
Challenges to Habitus: Scruffy Hedges and Weeds in the Irish Countryside	8
From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice: Changing interpretations of food self‐provisioning	8
The Noble or Sour Wine: European Commission’s Competing Discourses on the Main CAP Reforms	8
Short Versus Long Supply Chains in Agri‐Food Sectors: Peaceful Coexistence or Political Domination? The Case of foie gras in South‐West France	8
Variable rate precision farming and advisory services in Scotland: Supporting responsible digital innovation?	7
Applying Neo‐Endogenous Development Theory to Delivering Sustainable Local Nature Conservation	7
From Practices to Values: Farmers’ Relationship with Soil Biodiversity in Europe	7
Translating community resilience theory into practice: A deliberative Delphi approach	7
Landscapes of support for farming mental health: Adaptability in the face of crisis	6
‘The Sea is Our Life’. Woman in the Fishery Sector of the Valencian Community	6
Reconstructing the framing of resilience in the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy post‐2020 reform	6
Disentangling the diversity of small farm business models in Euro‐Mediterranean contexts: A resilience perspective	6
The agencies of landscape in rural gentrification: Impressions from the wood, the village and the moortop	6
Stayers or leavers? Spatial (im)mobility patterns of young university graduates living in rural areas in Poland	6
Origin food schemes and the paradox of reducing diversity to defend it	6
Temporal and spatial diversification of rural social structure: The case of Poland	6
Can end‐user feedback inform ‘Responsibilisation’ of India's policy landscape for agri‐digital transition?*	5
Dealing with the loss of the village supermarket: The perceived effects two years after closure	5
The role of social capital and trust in the success of local wine tourism and rural development	5
How do producers imagine consumers? Connecting farm and fork through a cultural repertoire of consumer sovereignty	5
Regeneration at a distance from the state: From radical imaginaries to alternative practices in Dutch farming	5
Assembling antimicrobial resistance governance in UK animal agriculture	5
A rural laboratory in the Austrian alm—Tracing the contingent processes fostering social innovation at the local level	5
Is agriculture an occupation or a sector? Gender inequalities in a European context	5
The neo‐peasant movement in Catalonia: An attempt at defining it in the light of the infrapolitical strategies of resistance	5
Mental health, societal expectations and changes to the governance of farming: Reshaping what it means to be a ‘man’ and ‘good farmer’ in rural Ireland	4
Authorities as Enablers in Rural Business Support Policy Regime – Case‐Study Finland	4
‘Just ask Eric’: On the Importance of Governance Efficacy, Territorial Ties and Heterogenous Networks for Rural Development	4
Regulating gene editing in agriculture and food in the European Union: Disentangling expectations and path dependencies	4
Scaling up civic food utopias in Australia: The challenges of justice and representation	4
Wellbeing, environmental sustainability and profitability: Including plurality of logics in participatory extension programmes for enhanced farmer resilience	4
Adaptive business arrangements and the creation of social capital: Towards small‐scale fisheries resilience in different European geographical areas	4
Conflict and oppositions in the development of peri‐urban agriculture: The case of the Greater São Paulo region	3
From Biosecurity to Security Ecologies: An Analysis between Old Dairy Farming Traditions and Routines and Veterinary Recommendations in Spain	3
Contemporary Land Questions in Sweden, Far‐Right Populist Strategies and Challenges for Inclusionary Rural Development	3
Feminisation in Agriculture in a Transition Economy: Women’s Role in Family Farms	3
Expanding arenas for learning hunting ethics, their grammars and dilemmas: An examination of young hunters’ enculturation into modern hunting	3
Contested diffusion of transformative innovations. Micro‐ and macrolevel social capital in South Tyrol	3
Agents of sustainability: How horses and people co‐create, enact and embed the good life in rural places	3
Towards reconfiguration in European agriculture: Analysing dynamics of change through the lens of the Donau Soja organization	3

Digital agriculture killjoy: Happy objects and cruel quests for the good life	3
Are All Foragers the Same? Towards a Classification of Foragers	3
‘You have to keep it going’: Relational values and social sustainability in upland agriculture	3
‘We're out, so wtf do we do now?’: Brexit and rural identity in the era of online agricultural communities	3
Food poverty and informal network support in a changing Portuguese rural area	3
Putting social into agricultural sustainability: Integrating assessments of quality of life and wellbeing into farm sustainability indicators	2
The Family Farming Culture of Dairy Farmers: A Case‐Study of the Illawarra Region, New South Wales	2
Emergent rural–urban relations in Covid‐19 disturbances: Multi‐locality affecting sustainability of rural change	2
Hybrid food networks and sustainability transitions: Shared and contested values and practices in food relocalisation and resocialisation	2
Exploring farm‐to‐restaurant relations and the potential of a local food hub: A case study in the city‐region of Groningen, the Netherlands	2
Housing tactics: Searching for community resilience in depopulated rural contexts (Huertas, South West Spain)	2
Coordination of village plans and municipal rural and health policies ‐ Can low‐hanging fruit be picked?	2
Affected by and affecting forest fires in Sweden and Spain: A critical feminist analysis of vulnerability to fire	2
Resurgent back‐to‐the‐land and the cultivation of a renewed countryside	2
Agriculture, COVID‐19 and mental health: Does gender matter?	2
How can organic farmers be good farmers? A study of categorisation in organic farmers’ talk	2
The paradoxes of dairy farmers in Catalonia (Spain): Crisis and ‘double bind’	2
A territorial approach to social learning: Facilitating consumer knowledge of local food through participation in the guarantee process	2
Sustainable development and sacrifice in the rural North	1
Cyborg farmers: Embodied understandings of precision agriculture	1
Fisheries local action group managers as reflexive practitioners: The enhancement of projects and networks and the renewal of the Finnish fishing livelihood	1
Managing growth in medium‐sized organic businesses: Implications for local orientation and resilience building	1
Digitalisation, politics of sustainability and new agrarian questions: The case of dairy farming in rural spaces of Italy and Sweden	1
Production and consumption in agri‐food transformations: Rethinking integrative perspectives	1
Standard quality as a boundary object—A conceptual study	1
Farmers who tinker: Grounded alternatives to incrementalism and the growth imperative	1
The limits of devolving sustainable development to the local level: The case of the Greenbelt of Fennoscandia initiative	1
Analysing the impact of climate and social changes on small farms in the Italian Alps: The importance of the local scale	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
Behind a fluttering veil of trust: The dynamics of public concerns over farm animal welfare in Norway	1
Preference and paradox: Local residents’ perspectives on the reuse of post‐agricultural brownfield sites	1
The Pursuit of Qualities by Peripheral Latecomers in the Agrofood Sectors: The Case of Erlin Wine Industry in Taiwan	1
Farming women, distress and drought: Intra‐actions and entanglements with matter	1
Issue Information	1
Farming wellbeing through and beyond COVID‐19: Stressors, gender differences and landscapes of support	1
Examining access to health insurance and health care along the life course to shed light on interactions between farm households’ social needs, social policy and the farm business	1
How FAST are women farmers in Greece transforming contested gender identities in a (still) male‐dominant sector?	1
Growing superdiverse, growing apart—Modes of incorporation of international migrants in rural areas	1
Social Memory of the Greek‐Turkish Population Exchange in Daily Life: A Case Study of a Tobacco‐Producing Village in Turkey	1
New immigration destinations in Sweden: Migrant residential trajectories intersecting rural areas	1