OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociologia Ruralis is 6. 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
Social Innovation for Sustainability Transformation and its Diverging Development Paths in Marginalised Rural Areas	40
Framing Agri‐Digital Governance: Industry Stakeholders, Technological Frames and Smart Farming Implementation	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
New Farmer Identity: The Emergence of a Post‐Productivist Agricultural Regime in China	22
Disciplining land through data: The role of agricultural technologies in farmland assetisation	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
Right‐Wing Populism in Rural Europe. Introduction to the Special Issue	16
Innovating digitally: The new texture of practices in Agriculture 4.0	16
Reflecting on opportunities and challenges regarding implementation of responsible digital agri‐technology innovation	15
‘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
Responsible digital agri‐food innovation in Australian and New Zealand public research organisations	13
LEADER and Spatial Justice	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 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
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
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
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
Can standards save organic farming from conventionalisation? Dynamics of collective projects and rules in a French organic producers’ organisation	9
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
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
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
Translating community resilience theory into practice: A deliberative Delphi approach	7
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
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
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