OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Rural Studies is 46. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline	178
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa	159
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden	157
Volunteer tourism in rural France: Examining power dynamics, labour practices, and community interactions	142
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture	141
The impact of Brexit on SME lending in the UK	129
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19	122
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia	114
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland	100
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England	98
Smallholder rice farming practices across livelihood strategies: A case study of the Poyang Lake Plain, China	90
Factors influencing farmer participation in bottom-up collaborative agri-environment-climate measures	86
Punitive attitudes in Australia: Investigating the rural-urban divide	84
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”	81
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro	80
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)	78
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia	77
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations	76
Pesticide resistance and community collapse: The vicious cycle of rural disintegration and agricultural expansion	74
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality	72
Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China	70
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside	70
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level：A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China	70
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium	69
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa	69

Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya	69
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience	68
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	65
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	64
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment	61
The evolution, interaction, and management of rural resilience in Jiangsu province, China: Insights from a social-ecological system	61
Editorial Board	60
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities	60
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France	57
Medical assistance in dying in rural communities: A review of Canadian policies and guidelines	57
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada	57
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–1982	57
Between on-site and the clouds: Socio-cyber-physical assemblages in on-farm diversification	56
Value chains for sustainable mountain development: a qualitative understanding of 23 European cases	52
Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America	51
Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition	50
Unmaking capitalism through community empowerment: Findings from Italian agricultural experiences	49
Rethinking the near collapse of certification programmes in commodity value chains: A temporal myopia perspective	48
Regional drivers or local constraints? Spatial patterns and development pathways of specialized villages in Henan, China	48
Migrants in the economy of European rural and mountain areas. A cross-national investigation of their economic integration	48
Farmers' perceived values in intercropping: An application of the means end chain framework in Swedish agriculture	47
The impact of mental health on the technical efficiency of Chinese arable farmers	46