OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociologia Ruralis is 7. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Loss and autonomy: Making sense of rural life at the inner periphery	52
Putting social into agricultural sustainability: Integrating assessments of quality of life and wellbeing into farm sustainability indicators	39
From crisis to sustainability: The politics of knowledge production on rural Europe	37
Assembling antimicrobial resistance governance in UK animal agriculture	37
Disciplining land through data: The role of agricultural technologies in farmland assetisation	32
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Passive endurance: An analysis of barriers to aid among Flemish farmers	24
Rethinking class, capitalism and exploitation from the perspective of family farming in Aotearoa/New Zealand	20
Regulating gene editing in agriculture and food in the European Union: Disentangling expectations and path dependencies	20
Landscapes of support for farming mental health: Adaptability in the face of crisis	18
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Accessibility, Car Dependence and Rural Peripheralization: The Automobility Gap in the Spanish Countryside	16
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How can organic farmers be good farmers? A study of categorisation in organic farmers’ talk	15
Support structures for a plural economy in rural areas? Analysing the role of community‐based social enterprises	15
In Tune With the Times? When Neo‐Peasants Choose Animal Traction to be Part of a More Sustainable Production Model	15
Emergent rural–urban relations in Covid‐19 disturbances: Multi‐locality affecting sustainability of rural change	15
Building network for innovation and proximity in local development; sustainable farming initiatives in Izmir	14
Expanding arenas for learning hunting ethics, their grammars and dilemmas: An examination of young hunters’ enculturation into modern hunting	14
Articulating sustainable transitions, food justice and food democracy: Insights from three social experiments in France, Belgium and Brazil	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	13

The neo‐peasant movement in Catalonia: An attempt at defining it in the light of the infrapolitical strategies of resistance	12
Discontent and Disadvantage in Left‐Behind Places: Regional Effects on EU‐Trust and Status Attainment in Europe	12
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).	12
Beekeeping, stewardship and multispecies care in rural contexts	11
A call to expand disciplinary boundaries so that social scientific imagination and practice are central to quests for ‘responsible’ digital agri‐food innovation	11
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New immigration destinations in Sweden: Migrant residential trajectories intersecting rural areas	11
Temporal and spatial diversification of rural social structure: The case of Poland	11
The impact of rural emptiness on gender relations in postsocialist Albania	10
Constraining labour: The integration dynamics of working‐class horticultural migrants in rural areas of Norway, the UK and the US	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	10
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Agroecology for migrant ‘emplacement’ in the left‐behind European countryside	9
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Resurgent back‐to‐the‐land and the cultivation of a renewed countryside	8
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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	8
Padrón peppers or peppers from Herbón? Discussing the controversial attainment of a geographical indication in light of food (re)localisation approaches	8
Wellbeing, environmental sustainability and profitability: Including plurality of logics in participatory extension programmes for enhanced farmer resilience	7
Initiating transformation within a Dutch grassroots agri‐food initiative: An analysis of social processes	7
Can Social Capital Be Exchanged for Rural Development? Potentials and Limits Explored Through the Case of Citizen‐Initiated Rural Grocery Stores in Denmark	7
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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	7
Input legitimacy of bottom‐up fishery governance: Lessons from community‐led local development in two Nordic EU countries	7
The mirage of research and research expertise: Reflections on leading Horizon Europe bids	7
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HealeyP. (2022). Caring for place —Community development in rural England(Routledge: New York and Abingdon), 224 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 978‐0‐367‐63201‐4	7
Affected by and affecting forest fires in Sweden and Spain: A critical feminist analysis of vulnerability to fire	7
Engaging Farmers in Biosecurity: Making Compliance Workable Within a Devolved Responsibility Approach	7