OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Rural Studies is 42. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Analyzing government role in rural tourism development: An empirical investigation from China	142
Digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas: A socio-cyber-physical system framework to support responsibilisation	132
Drivers of farmers’ intention to adopt technological innovations in Italy: The role of information sources, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use	107
The adoption and impact of E-commerce in rural China: Application of an endogenous switching regression model	105
An analysis of farmers’ intention to use green pesticides: The application of the extended theory of planned behavior and health belief model	102
Smart rural futures: Will rural areas be left behind in the 4th industrial revolution?	100
Targeted poverty alleviation and its practices in rural China: A case study of Fuping county, Hebei Province	96
Informality and rural industry: Rethinking the impacts of E-Commerce on rural development in China	96
Influence of a new agricultural technology extension mode on farmers' technology adoption behavior in China	93
Rural innovation system: Revitalize the countryside for a sustainable development	87
Effects of rural–urban migration on agricultural transformation: A case of Yucheng City, China	83
Creating land markets for rural revitalization: Land transfer, property rights and gentrification in China	76
Farmers' perceptions of climate change and adaptation strategies in South Africa's Western Cape	69
The geography of poverty: Review and research prospects	65
Analysis of rural economic restructuring driven by e-commerce based on the space of flows: The case of Xiaying village in central China	64
Definitions, measures, and uses of rurality: A systematic review of the empirical and quantitative literature	59
The spatial aggregation of rural e-commerce in China: An empirical investigation into Taobao Villages	59
Farm size and agricultural technology progress: Evidence from China	56
Rural revitalization of Xiamei: The development experiences of integrating tea tourism with ancient village preservation	55
Hollowed out Heartland, USA: How capital sacrificed communities and paved the way for authoritarian populism	55
How does the rural settlement transition contribute to shaping sustainable rural development? Evidence from Shandong, China	54
Community-driven social innovation and quadruple helix coordination in rural development. Case study on LEADER group Aktion Österbotten	53
Study on spatial tropism distribution of rural settlements in the Loess Hilly and Gully Region based on natural factors and traffic accessibility	52
Australian farmers left behind in the digital economy – Insights from the Australian Digital Inclusion Index	52
The impact of land consolidation on rural vitalization at village level: A case study of a Chinese village	51

Effects of on-farm diversification strategies on smallholder coffee farmer food security and income sufficiency in Chiapas, Mexico	50
An integrated conceptual framework for the study of agricultural cooperatives: from repolitisation to cooperative sustainability	49
A trans-theoretical model for the adoption of drones by large-scale German farmers	49
Local place identity: A comparison between residents of rural and urban communities	49
How do we enact co-innovation with stakeholders in agricultural research projects? Managing the complex interplay between contextual and facilitation processes	48
E-commerce and the transformation of the rural: The Taobao village phenomenon in Zhejiang Province, China	47
Revealing power dynamics and staging conflicts in agricultural system transitions: Case studies of innovation platforms in New Zealand	46
Identification of the human-land relationship involved in the urbanization of rural settlements in Wuhan city circle, China	45
Neglected idle rural residential land (IRRL) in metropolitan suburbs: Spatial differentiation and influencing factors	45
Concerns about climate change among rural residents in Australia	45
Livelihood resilience and the generative mechanism of rural households out of poverty: An empirical analysis from Lankao County, Henan Province, China	44
Multi-objective spatial reconstruction of rural settlements considering intervillage social connections	44
Robot-ready: How apple producers are assembling in anticipation of new AI robotics	43
Governing agricultural innovation: A comprehensive framework to underpin sustainable transitions	43
Evolution and transformation mechanism of the spatial structure of rural settlements from the perspective of long-term economic and social change: A case study of the Sunan region, China	43
Agroforestry transitions: The good, the bad and the ugly	43
Entrepreneurship and innovation in Africa's artisanal and small-scale mining sector: Developments and trajectories	42
Research methods in rural studies: Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods	42