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Papers

(The median citation count of Sociologia Ruralis is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Loss and autonomy: Making sense of rural life at the inner periphery	58
‘You Had to Obey Your Husband; He Worked, You Raised the Children. Today, Things Have Changed’: A Mixed Methods Study on Gender Equality in Rural Croatia	34
Putting social into agricultural sustainability: Integrating assessments of quality of life and wellbeing into farm sustainability indicators	33
From crisis to sustainability: The politics of knowledge production on rural Europe	32
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Fragmented Spatialities. Migrant Farmworkers and the Social Production of Space Under Neoliberal Agriculture in the EU	25
Passive endurance: An analysis of barriers to aid among Flemish farmers	24
A Brave New World: Emerging Technology Narratives of Agricultural Robotics in UK Media and Their Implications for Responsible Innovation	24
Regulating gene editing in agriculture and food in the European Union: Disentangling expectations and path dependencies	23
Landscapes of support for farming mental health: Adaptability in the face of crisis	22
Farming Women's Experience of Isolation: Creating Affective Connections Through Material Entanglements	21
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Rethinking class, capitalism and exploitation from the perspective of family farming in Aotearoa/New Zealand	20
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The Challenges of Being Left Behind: Peripheralisation in English Small Rural Towns	19
Emotional Dynamics in Sustainability Transitions: Forest Machine Entrepreneurs Facing the Finnish Forestry Transition	17
Narratives of Change or Changing the Narrative? An Exploration of Narratives in Rural Social Innovation	16
Emergent rural–urban relations in Covid‐19 disturbances: Multi‐locality affecting sustainability of rural change	16
Accessibility, Car Dependence and Rural Peripheralization: The Automobility Gap in the Spanish Countryside	15
Building network for innovation and proximity in local development; sustainable farming initiatives in Izmir	15
Support structures for a plural economy in rural areas? Analysing the role of community‐based social enterprises	15
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Articulating sustainable transitions, food justice and food democracy: Insights from three social experiments in France, Belgium and Brazil	14

Restaging Rituals: Methodologies for Dialogue With Migrant Workers and Communities in Agro‐Industrial Localities Under Pressure	14
In Tune With the Times? When Neo‐Peasants Choose Animal Traction to be Part of a More Sustainable Production Model	13
Herring Today, Gone Tomorrow? Sweden's Conflict Over the 2024 Bothnian Herring Quota	13
Discontent and Disadvantage in Left‐Behind Places: Regional Effects on EU‐Trust and Status Attainment in Europe	12
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	11
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).	11
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How Car Culture Drives Political Preferences in Rural Regions: Evidence From Sweden	10
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Beekeeping, stewardship and multispecies care in rural contexts	10
New immigration destinations in Sweden: Migrant residential trajectories intersecting rural areas	10
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	9
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The Gendering of Hope: Rural and Farming Women's Biographies of Hope, Care and Resistance	9
The impact of rural emptiness on gender relations in postsocialist Albania	9
Understanding Rural Revival: Dynamics of Community Ties and Place‐Based Leadership	9
Transnational Entrepreneurs of Place and ‘the Last Authentic European Medieval Landscape’ in Transylvanian Highlands, Romania	9
Collective Care and Rural Transitions: The Role of Empathy in Addressing Land Degradation	9
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Padrón peppers or peppers from Herbón? Discussing the controversial attainment of a geographical indication in light of food (re)localisation approaches	8
Agroecology for migrant ‘emplacement’ in the left‐behind European countryside	7
Career Change Into Farming: The Scope and Limits of a Farming Degree for New Entrants in Agriculture	7
Resurgent back‐to‐the‐land and the cultivation of a renewed countryside	7
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	6
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Can Social Capital Be Exchanged for Rural Development? Potentials and Limits Explored Through the Case of Citizen‐Initiated Rural Grocery Stores in Denmark	6
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Changing Rural Masculinities: Young Qualified Male Entrepreneurs in Spain	6
Affected by and affecting forest fires in Sweden and Spain: A critical feminist analysis of vulnerability to fire	6
HealeyP. (2022). Caring for place —Community development in rural England(Routledge: New York and Abingdon), 224 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 978‐0‐367‐63201‐4	6
Wellbeing, environmental sustainability and profitability: Including plurality of logics in participatory extension programmes for enhanced farmer resilience	5
Sustainable development and sacrifice in the rural North	5
Input legitimacy of bottom‐up fishery governance: Lessons from community‐led local development in two Nordic EU countries	5
Place and Space in Social Research: Rurality and Intersectionality	5
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Initiating transformation within a Dutch grassroots agri‐food initiative: An analysis of social processes	5
Young Women's Empowerment in Scottish Agriculture: The Challenge of Competing Discourses	5
The limits of devolving sustainable development to the local level: The case of the Greenbelt of Fennoscandia initiative	4
The Illusio of Rural Youth Community Engagement	4
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The mirage of research and research expertise: Reflections on leading Horizon Europe bids	4
Farming wellbeing through and beyond COVID‐19: Stressors, gender differences and landscapes of support	4
Farmers who tinker: Grounded alternatives to incrementalism and the growth imperative	4
Engaging Farmers in Biosecurity: Making Compliance Workable Within a Devolved Responsibility Approach	4
Responsible development of digital livestock technologies for agricultural challenges: Purpose, practicality and effects are key considerations	4
Where Are the Women Farmers? The Gendered Effects of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy 2023–2027	3
‘In a village, everybody knows the stranger’: Constructing local belonging of refugees in rural areas in Germany	3

The journey of staying: A transitional and mobility perspective on the staying rural preferences of rural young adults	3
Hacking Hekla: Exploring the dynamics of digital innovation in rural areas	3
How FAST are women farmers in Greece transforming contested gender identities in a (still) male‐dominant sector?	3
Behind a fluttering veil of trust: The dynamics of public concerns over farm animal welfare in Norway	3
From City Lights to Country Nights? The Long‐Term Effects of Gossip in Rural Communities on Rural Return Migration Preferences and Intentions	3
Stories of country women: Advancing feminist intersectionality for climate change adaptation in Australia	3
Translating community resilience theory into practice: A deliberative Delphi approach	3
Contested diffusion of transformative innovations. Micro‐ and macrolevel social capital in South Tyrol	3
Everyday Agri‐Environmental Governance: The Emergence of Sustainability Through Assemblage Thinking	3
The Succession Effect on Farm Management Choices and the Influence of Successor's Gender and Role	3
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Intersectionality, childhood disability and rurality: What does rural life mean for disabled children and their families?	3
Institutional erosion and new strategies: Changing contexts for learning in agriculture in Northern Sweden	2
Navigating Changing Economies and Rural Policy: Left Behind Places or Left Behind People?	2
Exploring Farmer Identity Pathways in Generational Renewal: Successors, Potential Successors and New Entrants	2
Fisheries local action groups, small‐scale fisheries and territorial development	2
‘Values‐based Territorial Food Networks’—Benefits, challenges and controversies	2
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Socio‐Spatial Vulnerabilities, Peripheralization and Post‐Crises Resilience: Lessons From the Portuguese Case	2
‘A just price is future’: The capital–life conflict in a viticulture region (El Penedès)	2
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Power and culture: Understanding EU policies on agriculture and gender equality	2
‘You don't want to be seen to be struggling’; identifying sociocultural barriers and facilitators for Irish farmers’ mental health help‐seeking	2
Disentangling the diversity of small farm business models in Euro‐Mediterranean contexts: A resilience perspective	2
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‘Land is a huge integral part of our identity’: Patriarchy and the gender asset gap	2
Governing resettlement beyond safety: Multilevel governance as a model for sustainable resettlement of unaccompanied refugee children in rural Sweden?	2
Frame alignment processes for locally useful agricultural soil research and extension: The role of farm advisors	2
Production and consumption in agri‐food transformations: Rethinking integrative perspectives	2