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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	155
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline	151
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside	136
Smallholder rice farming practices across livelihood strategies: A case study of the Poyang Lake Plain, China	113
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden	112
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia	105
Recognising the value of volunteers in performing and supporting leadership in rural communities	104
Understanding rural system with a social-ecological framework: Evaluating sustainability of rural evolution in Jiangsu province, South China	95
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro	89
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment	85
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations	77
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture	76
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	75
Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China	74
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England	74
Translocal livelihoods research and the household in the Global South – A gendered perspective	69
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience	66
The impact of Brexit on SME lending in the UK	66
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa	65
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19	65
Consuming the earth? Terroir and rural sustainability	64
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	63
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality	60
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities	60
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level：A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China	60

Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland	59
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”	59
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)	57
Volunteer tourism in rural France: Examining power dynamics, labour practices, and community interactions	57
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa	56
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia	56
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium	56
The out-migration of young people from a region of the “Empty Spain”: Between a constant slump cycle and a pending innovation spiral	55
Popular education, youth and peasant agroecology in Brazil	55
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya	55
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France	54
Family labour organization for dairy farming in western Mexico. Between the search for productivity and wellbeing	52
Symbolic economy of bike rentals in rural and suburban Hong Kong: Capital conversion in competitiveness of traditional and innovative firms	50
Economic and environmental upgrading after a policy reform: The case of timber value chain in Myanmar	50
Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America	48
‘It's cheaper than a dead cow’: Understanding veterinary medicine use on dairy farms	48
Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition	48
Value chains for sustainable mountain development: a qualitative understanding of 23 European cases	46
Rurality and latent precarity: Growing older in a small rural New Zealand town	45
Farm stress and the production of rural sacrifice zones	45
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong	45
Attending to nature: Understanding care and caring relations in forest management in the UK	45