Journal of Rural Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Rural Studies is 14. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline178
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa159
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden157
Volunteer tourism in rural France: Examining power dynamics, labour practices, and community interactions142
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture141
The impact of Brexit on SME lending in the UK129
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19122
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia114
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland100
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England98
Smallholder rice farming practices across livelihood strategies: A case study of the Poyang Lake Plain, China90
Factors influencing farmer participation in bottom-up collaborative agri-environment-climate measures86
Punitive attitudes in Australia: Investigating the rural-urban divide84
“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 Kilimanjaro80
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 Colombia77
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations76
Pesticide resistance and community collapse: The vicious cycle of rural disintegration and agricultural expansion74
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality72
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside70
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level:A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China70
Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China70
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa69
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya69
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium69
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience68
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience65
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities64
The evolution, interaction, and management of rural resilience in Jiangsu province, China: Insights from a social-ecological system61
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment61
Editorial Board60
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities60
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada57
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–198257
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France57
Medical assistance in dying in rural communities: A review of Canadian policies and guidelines57
Between on-site and the clouds: Socio-cyber-physical assemblages in on-farm diversification56
Value chains for sustainable mountain development: a qualitative understanding of 23 European cases52
Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America51
Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition50
Unmaking capitalism through community empowerment: Findings from Italian agricultural experiences49
Migrants in the economy of European rural and mountain areas. A cross-national investigation of their economic integration48
Rethinking the near collapse of certification programmes in commodity value chains: A temporal myopia perspective48
Regional drivers or local constraints? Spatial patterns and development pathways of specialized villages in Henan, China48
Farmers' perceived values in intercropping: An application of the means end chain framework in Swedish agriculture47
The impact of mental health on the technical efficiency of Chinese arable farmers46
Rurality and latent precarity: Growing older in a small rural New Zealand town45
Getting money in the country: Is there a liability of rurality facing SMEs?45
Local institutions and artisanal mining: Governance forms in the goldfields of Madagascar44
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms44
Coal seam gas extraction and related landscape changes in the agricultural production area of Western Downs (Queensland, Australia)43
Symbolic economy of bike rentals in rural and suburban Hong Kong: Capital conversion in competitiveness of traditional and innovative firms42
Learning, adaptation and resilience: The rise and fall of local food networks in Denmark42
Economic and environmental upgrading after a policy reform: The case of timber value chain in Myanmar42
Farmer technology adoption in Cambodia: The impact of climate change, risk aversion, and crop type42
(Dis)connections between youth migration and food security in a rural community of the Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz, Mexico42
‘What we'd like is a CSA in every town.’ Scaling community supported agriculture across the UK42
Integrated food policies in south-western France: Insights from local policy-making outside major urban areas41
Farm stress and the production of rural sacrifice zones41
Post-pandemic developments in lifestyle migration in Japan: From back-to-the-land to urbanrural?41
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong40
Rural co-working: New network spaces and new opportunities for a smart countryside40
The geography of poverty: Review and research prospects39
LEADER and rural development policy - What's the problem represented to be?39
Non-metropolitan settlement and integration outcomes of humanitarian migrants in Australia: Combining spatial, multidimensional and longitudinal perspectives39
Wellbeing dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial perspective across territorial typologies38
Social innovation and their legitimation processes within rural developments in east Germany37
Media framing of migrant labour in UK fruit and vegetable production: An analysis of reporting in UK farming and mainstream print press36
Newcomers and rural crisis: Beyond the demographic challenge. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)36
Ensuring milk quality: Contextualizing the knowledge of Kenyan small-scale milk traders who connect farmers with low-income consumers35
Editorial Board35
Identifying new social enterprise models in the Italian municipalities35
Editorial Board35
Gender as an entangled force: Gendered mining entanglements, labor organization and leadership structure in artisanal and small-scale mining35
How does gender shape the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices? Evidence from Belgium34
Editorial Board34
Alternative measures of Family Farm Viability – Incorporating gap measures34
Gender difference in time-use of off-farm employment in rural Sichuan, China34
Farmers’ limited perceptions of the role of ecological processes in crop production, a potential obstacle to agroecological transition33
Historical transitions of seed breeding in China: From socialist cooperation to joint research33
Public transport-disadvantaged rural areas in relation to daily accessibility of regional centre: Case study from Slovakia33
Elaborating decent work for agriculture: Job experiences and workforce retention in the Australian orchard industry33
Empowering farmers to conserve grassland's genetic diversity in situ33
Regional variations in automation job risk and labour market thickness to agricultural employment33
Agricultural value chain transformations: A comparative analysis of milling segment upgrading in the rice value chains in Ghana and Ivory Coast33
An analytical framework to consider social justice issues in farmland preservation on the urban fringe. Insights from three French cases33
The rural development trilemma33
Communities of practice and rural women's empowerment: Insights from a case study of grassroots cooperative in Turkey32
Tourism and coexistence between branded and natural wines: the case of Calonge i Sant Antoni32
The long-term impact of land certification on factor reallocation and household welfare in rural China32
Post-socialist generation change in Hungarian farming31
Farmers’ adaptive behaviors towards wildlife incidents regarding national park management: The role of informal institutions31
Designing precision livestock farming system innovations: A farmer perspective31
Women empowering rural Spain: A study of entrepreneurial career satisfaction31
It doesn't bother me: An intersectional analysis of discrimination among white women farmers in the US Corn Belt31
The European Green Deal and the peasant cause: Class frustration, cultural backlash and right-wing nationalist populism in farmers’ protests in Poland30
Europe's orchard: The role of irrigation on the Spanish agricultural production30
Who are to support the aged in rural China? The study of people's willingness to purchase socialized care service and its influencing factors30
Social innovation in rural governance: A comparative case study across the marginalised rural EU30
Producing an ideal village: Imagined rurality, tourism and rural gentrification in China30
Advancing AKIS with assemblage thinking30
Beef as a socio-cultural identity: Rural and urban consumers' attitudes from Rio Grande do sul, Brazil, facing cultured beef29
Between institutional reform and building popular movements: The political articulation of agroecology in Brazil29
End of life, a good death? Navigating end-of-life decisions for working mules (Equus asinus × Equus caballus) in Nepal: Ethical, cultural, and practical perspectives29
Editorial Board29
Shifting forest landownership interests over the life-course of female forest landowners in rural Georgia, United States29
A comparison of the mental health impacts and resilience of healthcare workers in rural Manitoba during the COVID-19 pandemic29
How can rural e-commerce promote green production on family farms in China? Evidence from Hunan Province29
Understanding resilience capacities in rural AGRO-Industries: Evidence from Spanish wineries29
Community Co-creation through knowledge (Co)Production: The engagement of universities in promoting rural revitalization in China29
Maintaining emergency services in rural areas. Recruitment, retention and resignation of non-career firefighters in Sweden29
Does the democratization level of village governance affect perceptions of security and integrity of land rights? -An analysis from the perspective of social network abundance29
Governing modesty: Platformed urban gaze and rural Chinese housewives on Douyin29
Out of balance? Understanding resident-municipality relations in rural peripheries through ascriptions of responsibility29
Spatially explicit restructuring of rural settlements: A dual-scale coupling approach28
Under-capacitated and over-powered? Rural austerity and asymmetrical negotiating relationships in US wind energy development28
Marginalisation through the eyes of the othered: Young adults choosing to live in rural Northern Sweden28
Experiences of dementia in farming communities: A scoping review28
The potential of local online shopping platforms for villages and small and medium-sized towns27
What affects farmers' intention to learn about sustainability in online settings? An application of the extended theory of planned behaviour in Slovenia27
The elements of intuition in decision-making: A multidimensional framework based on Finnish regenerative farmers’ experiences27
Do organic farming initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa improve the sustainability of smallholder farmers? Evidence from five case studies in Ghana and Kenya27
What influences the development of wine-producing regions? New economic opportunities in the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountains in China27
A cross-domain coupling framework for digital twins in rural regional systems: Insights from China27
Localized practices of rural tourism makers from a resilience perspective: A comparative study in China27
Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of relational and planetary rurality27
Analysis of rural economic restructuring driven by e-commerce based on the space of flows: The case of Xiaying village in central China26
The “White middle-class farming woman”: Instagram and settler colonialism in contemporary rural Australia26
(Re)enclosure, structural violence and commoning in marine fisheries in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar26
The green transformation and gender equality in agricultural entrepreneurship: Insights from the European Union26
Residential migration among veterans with experience of housing instability26
Place-based rural development: A role for complex adaptive region assemblages?26
Technical knowledge acquisition modes and environmental sustainability in Spanish organic farms26
Role of soil perception and soil variability by smallholder farmers in the low adoption rates of extension packages in Central America26
Rural transition in the loess hilly and gully region: From the perspective of “flowing” cropland25
Agricultural dynamism and the influence of territorial characteristics in attracting young farmers25
Challenges and opportunities for the rural Cop in Trinidad and Tobago25
Editorial Board25
“You sleep with your eyes open”: Understanding rural crime and its implications for community well-being25
Increase of fear of crime in rural Brazil and police legitimacy25
“The ground beneath our feet is still holding strong”: Physical and symbolic capital in the rural youth movements crisis in Israel25
The global cotton trade network reveals a shift in the cotton import center to the global south from 1986 to 202025
“A lender should not know where you live”: Financial precarity, debt, and everyday life in rural Malawi and Tanzania24
Has farmer welfare improved after rural residential land circulation?24
Tackling poverty and social isolation using a smart rural development initiative24
Factors influencing the decision of young adults to remain in their rural environment: Social origin, education and gender24
Community-supported agriculture and allotment gardens as collective forms of food production – Investigating the effect of social capital on perceived benefits24
The humans behind the herd: are alternative livestock farms agroecological from a socioeconomic perspective?24
Identifying the specific features, determinants, and suitability of green homestay inn distribution in rural China24
Rebalancing healthcare utilization: Rural-urban health insurance integration and health-seeking behavior of rural residents in China24
Building the plane in the air: Articulating neo-endogenous rural development from the ground up24
Learning from the past and embracing future opportunities: Perceptions of new Environmental Land Management Schemes and private nature markets23
Deliberative assembling: Tinkering and farmer agency in precision agriculture implementation23
Navigating industrial decline: A case study of place attachment and social capital in economic transition –Valemount, British Columbia23
A relational approach to pesticide use: Farmers, herbicides, nutsedge, and the weedy path to pesticide use reduction objectives23
Intermediate levels of socio-ecological disturbance drive higher biodiversity in naturally regenerating forests: A case study from Nepal23
Understanding the barriers and enablers to agroforestry adoption in Ireland through an innovation systems approach23
State-led commodification of rural China and the sustainable provision of public goods in question: A case study of Tangjiajia, Nanjing23
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 areas23
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
Black Ecologies, subaquatic life, and the Jim Crow enclosure of the tidewater23
The role of government interventions in household climate adaptation on the Tibetan Plateau23
Imagining an agrarian future in rural Rwanda: Evidence from Congolese refugees at Mahama camp22
Investments are more than money: Emerging investment rationales and farmers in the Danish agri-food system22
Scaling up mechanisms in citizen farming initiatives: Lessons learned from a citizen-led and collective agroecological farm22
Does planning production expansion have its intended effect in reality? Evidence from the dairy sector in Poland22
Migration, class and intra-distinctions of whiteness in the making of inland rural Victoria22
Land dispossession, rural gentrification and displacement: Blurring the rural-urban boundary in Chengdu, China22
Smog and Air Pollution: Journalistic Criticism and Environmental Accountability in China22
Promotional campaigns in the agri-food sector aimed at reducing meat consumption: A promising leverage for action22
Inter- and intra-annual changes in food consumption among rural households in East China22
A narrative study of why young people go ‘back-to-the-land’: Interpretation from the perspective of self-identity theory21
New pathways for women’s empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania21
Exploration of values and agency in place-based food systems21
Angling for change? A study of a Swedish public-private partnership for sustainable rural fisheries tourism21
Family farming and gender in a valley in northern Spain21
Editorial Board21
Assessing the effect of soil testing on chemical fertilizer use intensity: An empirical analysis of phosphorus fertilizer demand by Irish dairy farmers21
Farmers and their data: Evaluating the swiss conception of data sharing through the lens of digital farming21
Gender (in)equity and the adoption of farm machinery: Opportunities and trade-offs in Bangladesh livestock systems21
How mega events redefine rurality? CunBA and the (re)production of rurality in China21
An urban-rural divide (or not?): Small firm location and the use of digital technologies21
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where?21
Wine grape grower perceptions and attitudes about soil health21
Spatial association of coastal towns and villages in Funing District, Qinhuangdao: A study using social network analysis21
Prefiguring the counter-hegemony of open cooperativism: The case of Open Food Network20
Are landholders willing to collaborate under ELMs? Promoting collaborative conservation on a landscape scale in the UK20
Deciphering how promoting land consolidation for village revitalization in rural China: A comparison study20
Connectivity or proximity planning in rural areas? Accessibility and equity insights from Crete, Greece20
Fisheries area-based partnerships in European multilevel governance: understanding embeddedness in organisational environments20
Understanding the impact of identity and socio-economic factors on the adoption of soil conservation practices: Empirical evidence from Australia20
Contesting rural Australia in the time of accelerating climate change20
“With the horizon ahead”: Emancipatory politics and radical imagination in the Catalan Pyrenees20
Navigating spatial justice: Exploring municipal planners’ logics in differentiated village planning20
Policy and politics: How specialist farming media frame climate action20
Creative assets, people, and places: Rural art action practices of US nonprofit organizations20
What makes peripheral places matter? Applying the concept of political capital within a multiple capital framework19
Farmland titling, farmland adjustment and rural collective action: Application of institutional analysis and development framework using evidence from China's irrigation commons19
Rural innovation and the green transition: The role of further education colleges19
Pathways of displacement: A pan-Canadian perspective on the nature and dynamics of rural and remote homelessness19
>Intersectional knowledge as rural social innovation19
Seaweed aquaculture through the lens of gender: Participation, roles, pay and empowerment in Bantayan, Philippines19
Policy discourses on homecare services for rural older people in Ireland: Spatial and age-based drivers of narratives and absences19
Urban-rural mobilities: The case of China's rural tourism makers19
Soil-based carbon farming: Opportunities for collaboration19
Growing together – How institutional structures influence communal agricultural prosumption types and their potential for continuity19
Banditry as rural crime?18
The gap between administration and migrants: Terminologies and experiences of urban-rural migration in Japan18
Ageing in place in a rural town in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Deweyan transactional perspective18
Investigating the Slow Food - Place relation: An empirical study of dairy communities in Abruzzo18
Interventions to reduce loneliness and social isolation in rural settings: A mixed-methods review18
Trans in Arcadia: Transgender lives in the countryside and expanding Philo's ‘rural others’ beyond the cis18
Food transfers and translocal livelihoods in rural Africa – Longitudinal perspectives from six countries18
Landscapes of care for dementia in rural South Africa18
Determinants of returnees’ entrepreneurship in rural marginal China18
Real estate 4.0 – Experiences from the rural17
Unveiling the role of early child development in preventing poverty transmission in deep poverty-stricken areas of RuralChina17
From drought to recovery: How extreme drought drives adaptive behaviour and grain production efficiency in Sichuan and Chongqing, China17
Drivers of the peasant households’ part-time farming behavior in China17
State-driven social innovation: Can neo-exogenous development address rural marginalization? A tale of two villages in China17
How does reverse entrepreneurship facilitate community transformation in rural China: Evidence from the Yellow Revier17
‘The day I killed my cows was the day I walked away’: Mycoplasma bovis, moral economy and moral capital17
“It's such a big ask for a volunteer”: Community transport as a sticking plaster solution to rural transport poverty17
Ways of (un)knowing landscapes: Tracing more-than-human relations in regenerative agriculture17
Village leadership, social networks and collective actions in indigenous communities: Case of Hani rice terrace social-ecological system in Southwest China17
County town shrinkage in China: Identification, spatiotemporal variations and the heterogeneity of influencing factors17
Attachment to land and its downfalls: Can policy encourage land mobility?17
Production and reconstruction mechanism of consumption spaces in urban fringe areas under capital intervention: Evidence from Guangming town in Shenzhen17
Formative influences: How capital shapes rural students’ college-going intentions17
Role of the interaction space in shaping innovation for sustainable agriculture: Empirical insights from African case studies17
Is small beautiful? Techinical efficiency and environmental sustainability of small-scale family farms under the conditions of agricultural policy support17
No farmer no food, assessing farmers climate change mitigation, and adaptation behaviors in farm production17
“It all depends on what you value”: Value hierarchies as barriers to native biodiversity on dairy farms16
Understanding food (In) security through land and livelihoods: Evidence from longitudinal household data16
Crossing Frozen Ground: Tiebout, local public goods, place amenities, and rural-to-rural migration in the Arctic16
Activating rural infrastructures in regional communities: Cultural funding, silo art works and the challenge of local benefit16
Constructing ideal wanghong villages on social media: the rural aesthetics, e-commerce livestreaming, and digital representations of Chinese rurality16
Elementary school closures in Sweden over two decades: Geographical characteristics and the role of distance16
Multi-dimensional superposition: Rural collaborative governance in Liushe Village, Suzhou City16
City region thinking, a zombie idea in regional and rural development? Scotland and Finland compared16
Explaining farmers’ pro-environmental behaviors in rural China: A perspective of appraisal theory of emotions16
Running to stand still? Finding levers to address population shrinking in the Northern Territory of Australia16
Looking for the local ‘grant-grabbers’: Cattle farmers' criticisms and emerging environmental subjectivities in southwestern France16
The propensity for negative media reporting of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in Australia16
Participation in individual and collective agri-environmental schemes: A synthesis using the Theory of Planned Behaviour16
Editorial Board16
Lingering social infrastructure: A study of Apennine villages and their postal offices16
How tourists change farms: The impact of agritourism on organic farming adoption and local community interaction in the Tyrol-Trentino mountain region16
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