OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Rural Studies is 43. 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
Editorial Board	226
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline	146
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside	144
Recognising the value of volunteers in performing and supporting leadership in rural communities	124
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”	104
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden	101
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience	99
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland	96
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level：A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China	84
Understanding rural system with a social-ecological framework: Evaluating sustainability of rural evolution in Jiangsu province, South China	83
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia	81
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England	71
Translocal livelihoods research and the household in the Global South – A gendered perspective	69
Smallholder rice farming practices across livelihood strategies: A case study of the Poyang Lake Plain, China	69
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa	64
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19	64
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations	63
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium	63
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture	62
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro	61
Consuming the earth? Terroir and rural sustainability	60
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia	59
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)	58
The out-migration of young people from a region of the “Empty Spain”: Between a constant slump cycle and a pending innovation spiral	56
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa	56

Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya	55
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	55
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities	52
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality	51
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment	51
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	50
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms	50
Between on-site and the clouds: Socio-cyber-physical assemblages in on-farm diversification	49
Popular education, youth and peasant agroecology in Brazil	49
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France	48
Rurality and latent precarity: Growing older in a small rural New Zealand town	47
Family labour organization for dairy farming in western Mexico. Between the search for productivity and wellbeing	47
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada	47
Economic and environmental upgrading after a policy reform: The case of timber value chain in Myanmar	46
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong	46
Coal seam gas extraction and related landscape changes in the agricultural production area of Western Downs (Queensland, Australia)	46
Medical assistance in dying in rural communities: A review of Canadian policies and guidelines	46
Learning, adaptation and resilience: The rise and fall of local food networks in Denmark	43