OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Rural Studies is 44. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline	158
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside	153
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden	146
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia	121
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro	118
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture	110
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England	109
The impact of Brexit on SME lending in the UK	101
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience	88
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level：A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China	82
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”	81
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland	78
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)	75
Volunteer tourism in rural France: Examining power dynamics, labour practices, and community interactions	74
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa	72
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19	67
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya	66
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	65
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia	64
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality	64
The out-migration of young people from a region of the “Empty Spain”: Between a constant slump cycle and a pending innovation spiral	63
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities	61
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations	59
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium	58
Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China	58

The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment	57
Smallholder rice farming practices across livelihood strategies: A case study of the Poyang Lake Plain, China	56
Consuming the earth? Terroir and rural sustainability	56
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa	55
Popular education, youth and peasant agroecology in Brazil	54
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France	54
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	54
Family labour organization for dairy farming in western Mexico. Between the search for productivity and wellbeing	52
Economic and environmental upgrading after a policy reform: The case of timber value chain in Myanmar	51
Symbolic economy of bike rentals in rural and suburban Hong Kong: Capital conversion in competitiveness of traditional and innovative firms	50
Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America	49
Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition	48
Learning, adaptation and resilience: The rise and fall of local food networks in Denmark	47
Value chains for sustainable mountain development: a qualitative understanding of 23 European cases	47
‘What we'd like is a CSA in every town.’ Scaling community supported agriculture across the UK	45
Farm stress and the production of rural sacrifice zones	45
Between on-site and the clouds: Socio-cyber-physical assemblages in on-farm diversification	45
LEADER and rural development policy - What's the problem represented to be?	45
Rurality and latent precarity: Growing older in a small rural New Zealand town	45
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada	44
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong	44