OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Rural Studies is 45. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China	167
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline	155
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality	151
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)	129
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya	126
Smallholder rice farming practices across livelihood strategies: A case study of the Poyang Lake Plain, China	120
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience	113
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia	113
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	92
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa	91
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level：A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China	88
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland	85
Volunteer tourism in rural France: Examining power dynamics, labour practices, and community interactions	81
Factors influencing farmer participation in bottom-up collaborative agri-environment-climate measures	80
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium	77
The impact of Brexit on SME lending in the UK	73
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture	72
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa	71
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden	70
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”	69
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England	67
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities	67
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside	66
Punitive attitudes in Australia: Investigating the rural-urban divide	66
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia	65

The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment	63
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	63
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations	63
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19	61
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro	59
Value chains for sustainable mountain development: a qualitative understanding of 23 European cases	58
Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America	57
Symbolic economy of bike rentals in rural and suburban Hong Kong: Capital conversion in competitiveness of traditional and innovative firms	57
Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition	56
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France	54
Editorial Board	53
Integrated food policies in south-western France: Insights from local policy-making outside major urban areas	52
(Dis)connections between youth migration and food security in a rural community of the Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz, Mexico	51
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms	51
Farmer technology adoption in Cambodia: The impact of climate change, risk aversion, and crop type	50
Local institutions and artisanal mining: Governance forms in the goldfields of Madagascar	50
Farm stress and the production of rural sacrifice zones	48
Coal seam gas extraction and related landscape changes in the agricultural production area of Western Downs (Queensland, Australia)	48
Post-pandemic developments in lifestyle migration in Japan: From back-to-the-land to urbanrural?	47
Family labour organization for dairy farming in western Mexico. Between the search for productivity and wellbeing	46
Entwined ruralities: Seasonality, simultaneity and precarity among transnational migrant workers in the wild berry industry	45
‘What we'd like is a CSA in every town.’ Scaling community supported agriculture across the UK	45
Migrants in the economy of European rural and mountain areas. A cross-national investigation of their economic integration	45