Journal of Rural Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Rural Studies is 6. 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.)
ArticleCitations
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Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline146
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside144
Recognising the value of volunteers in performing and supporting leadership in rural communities124
“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 Sweden101
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience99
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland96
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level:A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China84
Understanding rural system with a social-ecological framework: Evaluating sustainability of rural evolution in Jiangsu province, South China83
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia81
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England71
Smallholder rice farming practices across livelihood strategies: A case study of the Poyang Lake Plain, China69
Translocal livelihoods research and the household in the Global South – A gendered perspective69
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-1964
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa64
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations63
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium63
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture62
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro61
Consuming the earth? Terroir and rural sustainability60
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia59
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)58
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa56
The out-migration of young people from a region of the “Empty Spain”: Between a constant slump cycle and a pending innovation spiral56
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya55
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities55
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities52
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment51
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality51
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms50
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience50
Between on-site and the clouds: Socio-cyber-physical assemblages in on-farm diversification49
Popular education, youth and peasant agroecology in Brazil49
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France48
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada47
Rurality and latent precarity: Growing older in a small rural New Zealand town47
Family labour organization for dairy farming in western Mexico. Between the search for productivity and wellbeing47
Medical assistance in dying in rural communities: A review of Canadian policies and guidelines46
Economic and environmental upgrading after a policy reform: The case of timber value chain in Myanmar46
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong46
Coal seam gas extraction and related landscape changes in the agricultural production area of Western Downs (Queensland, Australia)46
Learning, adaptation and resilience: The rise and fall of local food networks in Denmark43
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Farmer technology adoption in Cambodia: The impact of climate change, risk aversion, and crop type42
Post-pandemic developments in lifestyle migration in Japan: From back-to-the-land to urbanrural?42
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Exploring state pension provision policy for the farming community41
Integrated food policies in south-western France: Insights from local policy-making outside major urban areas41
Attending to nature: Understanding care and caring relations in forest management in the UK40
Local institutions and artisanal mining: Governance forms in the goldfields of Madagascar40
Rural co-working: New network spaces and new opportunities for a smart countryside39
Unmaking capitalism through community empowerment: Findings from Italian agricultural experiences39
Migrants in the economy of European rural and mountain areas. A cross-national investigation of their economic integration39
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–198239
Rethinking the near collapse of certification programmes in commodity value chains: A temporal myopia perspective38
(Dis)connections between youth migration and food security in a rural community of the Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz, Mexico38
The geography of poverty: Review and research prospects37
‘It's cheaper than a dead cow’: Understanding veterinary medicine use on dairy farms37
Farm stress and the production of rural sacrifice zones37
‘What we'd like is a CSA in every town.’ Scaling community supported agriculture across the UK37
Entwined ruralities: Seasonality, simultaneity and precarity among transnational migrant workers in the wild berry industry37
Watermelon production as the driver of community resilience: More-than-human agency and the transforming rural assemblage36
LEADER and rural development policy - What's the problem represented to be?36
Gender difference in time-use of off-farm employment in rural Sichuan, China35
Anticipating farmer outcomes of three genetically modified staple crops in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from farming systems research35
It doesn't bother me: An intersectional analysis of discrimination among white women farmers in the US Corn Belt35
Historical transitions of seed breeding in China: From socialist cooperation to joint research35
Praised, prized, yet penalised: A critical examination of low-wage hiring queues in the global strawberry industry34
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An analytical framework to consider social justice issues in farmland preservation on the urban fringe. Insights from three French cases34
Media framing of migrant labour in UK fruit and vegetable production: An analysis of reporting in UK farming and mainstream print press34
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Post-socialist generation change in Hungarian farming33
The rural development trilemma33
Newcomers and rural crisis: Beyond the demographic challenge. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)33
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Agricultural value chain transformations: A comparative analysis of milling segment upgrading in the rice value chains in Ghana and Ivory Coast32
Identifying new social enterprise models in the Italian municipalities32
Non-metropolitan settlement and integration outcomes of humanitarian migrants in Australia: Combining spatial, multidimensional and longitudinal perspectives31
Advancing AKIS with assemblage thinking31
Europe's orchard: The role of irrigation on the Spanish agricultural production31
Gender as an entangled force: Gendered mining entanglements, labor organization and leadership structure in artisanal and small-scale mining31
Ensuring milk quality: Contextualizing the knowledge of Kenyan small-scale milk traders who connect farmers with low-income consumers30
Elaborating decent work for agriculture: Job experiences and workforce retention in the Australian orchard industry30
Designing precision livestock farming system innovations: A farmer perspective30
Farmers’ adaptive behaviors towards wildlife incidents regarding national park management: The role of informal institutions30
Producing an ideal village: Imagined rurality, tourism and rural gentrification in China29
Regional variations in automation job risk and labour market thickness to agricultural employment29
Public transport-disadvantaged rural areas in relation to daily accessibility of regional centre: Case study from Slovakia29
Social innovation in rural governance: A comparative case study across the marginalised rural EU29
Alternative measures of Family Farm Viability – Incorporating gap measures29
Farmers’ limited perceptions of the role of ecological processes in crop production, a potential obstacle to agroecological transition29
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Financial subjectivities in the agricultural sector: A comparative analysis of relations between farmers and banks in Latvia, Denmark and the UK28
What affects farmers' intention to learn about sustainability in online settings? An application of the extended theory of planned behaviour in Slovenia28
What influences the development of wine-producing regions? New economic opportunities in the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountains in China28
Does the democratization level of village governance affect perceptions of security and integrity of land rights? -An analysis from the perspective of social network abundance28
Who are to support the aged in rural China? The study of people's willingness to purchase socialized care service and its influencing factors28
A comparison of the mental health impacts and resilience of healthcare workers in rural Manitoba during the COVID-19 pandemic27
Beef as a socio-cultural identity: Rural and urban consumers' attitudes from Rio Grande do sul, Brazil, facing cultured beef27
The unruly complexity of conservation arrangements with Mexican rural communities: Who really funds the game?27
Beyond nostalgia: Older people's perspectives on informal care in rural Flanders27
Shifting forest landownership interests over the life-course of female forest landowners in rural Georgia, United States26
Requalifying markets of basic food commodities? An examination of the Round Table on Responsible Soy's implementation in Córdoba, Argentina26
Technical knowledge acquisition modes and environmental sustainability in Spanish organic farms26
Antecedents and consequences of sustainable development in agriculture and the moderator role of the barriers: Proposal and test of a structural model26
The potential of local online shopping platforms for villages and small and medium-sized towns26
Out of balance? Understanding resident-municipality relations in rural peripheries through ascriptions of responsibility26
The “White middle-class farming woman”: Instagram and settler colonialism in contemporary rural Australia26
Between institutional reform and building popular movements: The political articulation of agroecology in Brazil26
Marginalisation through the eyes of the othered: Young adults choosing to live in rural Northern Sweden26
Maintaining emergency services in rural areas. Recruitment, retention and resignation of non-career firefighters in Sweden26
Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of relational and planetary rurality26
Community Co-creation through knowledge (Co)Production: The engagement of universities in promoting rural revitalization in China26
Do organic farming initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa improve the sustainability of smallholder farmers? Evidence from five case studies in Ghana and Kenya26
Navigating industrial decline: A case study of place attachment and social capital in economic transition –Valemount, British Columbia25
Who will benefit from big data? Farmers’ perspective on willingness to share farm data25
Analysis of rural economic restructuring driven by e-commerce based on the space of flows: The case of Xiaying village in central China25
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From Fisher wives to fish vendors: Gendered livelihood transitions in a fishing village in Egypt25
Smart farming in mountain areas: Investigating livestock farmers’ technophobia and technophilia and their perception of innovation25
Place-based rural development: A role for complex adaptive region assemblages?25
How digitalisation interacts with ecologisation? Perspectives from actors of the French Agricultural Innovation System25
Increase of fear of crime in rural Brazil and police legitimacy25
The green transformation and gender equality in agricultural entrepreneurship: Insights from the European Union25
Spatially explicit restructuring of rural settlements: A dual-scale coupling approach25
A relational approach to pesticide use: Farmers, herbicides, nutsedge, and the weedy path to pesticide use reduction objectives25
“A lender should not know where you live”: Financial precarity, debt, and everyday life in rural Malawi and Tanzania25
Residential migration among veterans with experience of housing instability24
Factors influencing the decision of young adults to remain in their rural environment: Social origin, education and gender24
The impact of people's creativity and networks on spatial localisation - Locals, multi-locals, newcomers or returnees as an opportunity for civic engagement in rural areas24
Tackling poverty and social isolation using a smart rural development initiative24
(Re)enclosure, structural violence and commoning in marine fisheries in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar24
The role of government interventions in household climate adaptation on the Tibetan Plateau24
Heritage places and the place attachment of adolescents: The case of the Castelo of Vila Nova de Cerveira (Portugal)24
The global cotton trade network reveals a shift in the cotton import center to the global south from 1986 to 202023
Has farmer welfare improved after rural residential land circulation?23
Black Ecologies, subaquatic life, and the Jim Crow enclosure of the tidewater23
State-led commodification of rural China and the sustainable provision of public goods in question: A case study of Tangjiajia, Nanjing23
Building the plane in the air: Articulating neo-endogenous rural development from the ground up23
Intermediate levels of socio-ecological disturbance drive higher biodiversity in naturally regenerating forests: A case study from Nepal23
Impact of farmer differentiation on farmland abandonment: Evidence from Fujian's hilly mountains, China23
“We left the crop there lying in the field”: Agricultural worker experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic in a rural US-Mexico border region23
Understanding the cultural potential of rural festivals: A conceptual framework of cultural capital development23
Role of soil perception and soil variability by smallholder farmers in the low adoption rates of extension packages in Central America23
Rural transition in the loess hilly and gully region: From the perspective of “flowing” cropland22
Promotional campaigns in the agri-food sector aimed at reducing meat consumption: A promising leverage for action22
Contingent communality and community-based adaptation to climate change: Insights from a Pacific rural atoll22
‘The making of Hoepertingen’: Debating change in a village in Haspengouw (Belgium)22
Inter- and intra-annual changes in food consumption among rural households in East China22
Land dispossession, rural gentrification and displacement: Blurring the rural-urban boundary in Chengdu, China22
Does planning production expansion have its intended effect in reality? Evidence from the dairy sector in Poland22
Deliberative assembling: Tinkering and farmer agency in precision agriculture implementation22
“You sleep with your eyes open”: Understanding rural crime and its implications for community well-being22
Creative assets, people, and places: Rural art action practices of US nonprofit organizations21
Migration, class and intra-distinctions of whiteness in the making of inland rural Victoria21
Scaling up mechanisms in citizen farming initiatives: Lessons learned from a citizen-led and collective agroecological farm21
How mega events redefine rurality? CunBA and the (re)production of rurality in China21
Farmers’ empowerment and learning processes in accountability practices: An assemblage perspective21
Understanding the impact of identity and socio-economic factors on the adoption of soil conservation practices: Empirical evidence from Australia21
Policy and politics: How specialist farming media frame climate action21
Imagining an agrarian future in rural Rwanda: Evidence from Congolese refugees at Mahama camp21
Farmland titling, farmland adjustment and rural collective action: Application of institutional analysis and development framework using evidence from China's irrigation commons21
Investments are more than money: Emerging investment rationales and farmers in the Danish agri-food system21
Spatial association of coastal towns and villages in Funing District, Qinhuangdao: A study using social network analysis20
Prefiguring the counter-hegemony of open cooperativism: The case of Open Food Network20
Seaweed aquaculture through the lens of gender: Participation, roles, pay and empowerment in Bantayan, Philippines20
Different sales channels for different farmers: Local and mainstream marketing of organic fruits and vegetables in Norway20
New pathways for women’s empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania20
At the intersection of urbanisation and counterurbanisation in rural space: Microurbanisation in Northern Iceland20
Contesting rural Australia in the time of accelerating climate change20
Urban-rural mobilities: The case of China's rural tourism makers20
What makes peripheral places matter? Applying the concept of political capital within a multiple capital framework20
Family farming and gender in a valley in northern Spain20
Wine grape grower perceptions and attitudes about soil health20
Smog and Air Pollution: Journalistic Criticism and Environmental Accountability in China20
An urban-rural divide (or not?): Small firm location and the use of digital technologies20
Exploration of values and agency in place-based food systems20
Soil-based carbon farming: Opportunities for collaboration20
Farmers and their data: Evaluating the swiss conception of data sharing through the lens of digital farming20
>Intersectional knowledge as rural social innovation20
Navigating spatial justice: Exploring municipal planners’ logics in differentiated village planning20
Assessing the effect of soil testing on chemical fertilizer use intensity: An empirical analysis of phosphorus fertilizer demand by Irish dairy farmers20
Conservation agriculture in new alluvial agro-ecology: Differential perception and adoption19
Real estate 4.0 – Experiences from the rural19
Production and reconstruction mechanism of consumption spaces in urban fringe areas under capital intervention: Evidence from Guangming town in Shenzhen19
Deciphering how promoting land consolidation for village revitalization in rural China: A comparison study19
How does reverse entrepreneurship facilitate community transformation in rural China: Evidence from the Yellow Revier19
Rural gentrification, touristification, and displacement: Analysing evidence from Mexico19
Banditry as rural crime?19
Resettlement, intergenerational memory, place attachment, and place identity in Roșia Jiu coal mine - Gorj County, Romania19
Are landholders willing to collaborate under ELMs? Promoting collaborative conservation on a landscape scale in the UK19
Trans in Arcadia: Transgender lives in the countryside and expanding Philo's ‘rural others’ beyond the cis19
Ageing in place in a rural town in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Deweyan transactional perspective19
Food transfers and translocal livelihoods in rural Africa – Longitudinal perspectives from six countries19
‘The day I killed my cows was the day I walked away’: Mycoplasma bovis, moral economy and moral capital19
The gap between administration and migrants: Terminologies and experiences of urban-rural migration in Japan19
Unveiling the role of early child development in preventing poverty transmission in deep poverty-stricken areas of RuralChina19
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where?19
Investigating the Slow Food - Place relation: An empirical study of dairy communities in Abruzzo19
Rural innovation and the green transition: The role of further education colleges19
Attachment to land and its downfalls: Can policy encourage land mobility?19
Role of the interaction space in shaping innovation for sustainable agriculture: Empirical insights from African case studies18
Determinants of returnees’ entrepreneurship in rural marginal China18
Village leadership, social networks and collective actions in indigenous communities: Case of Hani rice terrace social-ecological system in Southwest China18
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Unpacking the narrative of agricultural innovations as the sine qua non of sustainable rural livelihoods in Southern Africa18
Growing together – How institutional structures influence communal agricultural prosumption types and their potential for continuity18
No farmer no food, assessing farmers climate change mitigation, and adaptation behaviors in farm production18
County town shrinkage in China: Identification, spatiotemporal variations and the heterogeneity of influencing factors18
Pathways of displacement: A pan-Canadian perspective on the nature and dynamics of rural and remote homelessness18
Elementary school closures in Sweden over two decades: Geographical characteristics and the role of distance18
Innovation systems and affordances in climate smart agriculture18
Policy discourses on homecare services for rural older people in Ireland: Spatial and age-based drivers of narratives and absences18
Is small beautiful? Techinical efficiency and environmental sustainability of small-scale family farms under the conditions of agricultural policy support18
Drivers of the peasant households’ part-time farming behavior in China18
Interventions to reduce loneliness and social isolation in rural settings: A mixed-methods review18
How tourists change farms: The impact of agritourism on organic farming adoption and local community interaction in the Tyrol-Trentino mountain region18
Ways of (un)knowing landscapes: Tracing more-than-human relations in regenerative agriculture18
Crossing Frozen Ground: Tiebout, local public goods, place amenities, and rural-to-rural migration in the Arctic17
Rural businesses and levelling up: A rural-urban analysis of business innovation and exporting in England's north and midlands17
The “dreaded” daughter-in-law in Australian farm business succession17
The propensity for negative media reporting of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in Australia17
How rural financial credit affects family farm operating performance: An empirical investigation from rural China17
Differing perceptions and tensions among tourists and locals concerning a national park region in Norway17
Governing the rural: The case of Izmir (Turkey) in the Post-2000 era17
Looking for the local ‘grant-grabbers’: Cattle farmers' criticisms and emerging environmental subjectivities in southwestern France17
Migrant resettlement in rural China: Homemaking and sense of belonging after domicide17
“It all depends on what you value”: Value hierarchies as barriers to native biodiversity on dairy farms17
Multi-dimensional superposition: Rural collaborative governance in Liushe Village, Suzhou City17
Local governance of a field in transition: The food policy council movement17
Grassroots innovation: Scenario, policy and governance17
Using a perception matrix to elicit farmers‘ perceptions towards stakeholders in the context of biodiversity-friendly farming17
Activating rural infrastructures in regional communities: Cultural funding, silo art works and the challenge of local benefit17
Water in the West: Analyzing the disconnect between farmers' and policymakers’ perceptions of Colorado River Basin shortages in Arizona17
Farmers’ perceived effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and its relationship to preparedness and risk perception16
Investigating concentrated exclusion in telecommunications development: Engaging rural voices from Northern Canada16
Residential art centres and their understanding of freedom in rural areas16
Water, culture, and adaptation in the High Plains-Ogallala Aquifer region16
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Migration and the right to survival: An empirical study of three fishing communities in Senegal16
Who loses when FDI fails? Local experiences with plantation investment and divestment in Liberia16
Analysis of dispersed farmers’ willingness to grow grain and main influential factors based on the structural equation model16
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“I am a very active person”: Disability organizations as platforms for participation in rural Sweden16
Dry stone walling. Rural artisan enterprise in the urban economy16
Retailer and grower relationships and the supply chain pressures in English horticulture: The lived experience16
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Corrigendum to ‘The “dreaded” daughter-in-law in Australian farm business succession’ [J. Rural Stud., 109 (2024) 103324]16
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