OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of China Agricultural Economic Review is 2. 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
Five-year plan and agricultural productivity in China	118
The influence of clan social capital on collective biogas investment	83
Book review	56
The impact of social network and resource endowment of smallholders on sustainable apple production	43
Homestead reduction, economic agglomeration and rural economic development: evidence from Shanghai, China	42
Food demand and the nutrient intake of households in underdeveloped rural regions of China: an instrumental variable approach	39
Has financial access improved agricultural technical efficiency? – evidence from two family farm demonstration zones in China	38
The environmental performance of agricultural production trusteeship from the perspective of planting carbon emissions	36
Agricultural production agglomeration and total factor carbon productivity: based on NDDF–MML index analysis	35
Loss of organic cattle to the conventional value chains in Ireland: what are the economic and environmental impacts?	34
Rural credit input, labor transfer and urban–rural income gap: evidence from China	34
Psychological capital and the entrepreneurial performance of migrant workers: intermediary role of entrepreneurial opportunity identification	34
Can rural e-commerce narrow the urban–rural income gap? Evidence from coverage of Taobao villages in China	24
Evolutionary dynamics of agricultural trade in Central Asia under the Belt and Road Initiative	23
The effect of grassland transfer on herders' livestock production and grazing intensity in Inner Mongolia and Gansu, China	23
Capital assets and poverty transitions in rural China	21
Liquidity of China’s agricultural futures market: measurement and cross-market dependence	19
Climate legislation and green agricultural production: impacts, transmission mechanisms and heterogeneities	19
Storage losses, market development and household maize-selling decisions in China	17
Identification of urban-rural integration types in China – an unsupervised machine learning approach	17
Mutual proximity and heterogeneity in peer effects of farmers' technology adoption: evidence from China's soil testing and formulated fertilization program	17
Editorial: Prediction, pattern recognition and machine learning in agricultural economics	17
Surplus manure and barren croplands: strategies for recycling livestock manure to rebuild crop-livestock linkages beyond the farm level	16
Short supply chain participation, and agrochemicals' use intensity and efficiency: evidence from vegetable farms in China	15
Dissecting the provincial relative poverty dynamics in China: a new four-dimensional decomposition approach	15

E-commerce participation, digital finance and farmers' income	14
Can regional polycentric spatial structure narrow the urban–rural income gap? Evidence from China	14
Monetary policy and overshooting of agricultural prices in China: in a supply chain perspective	13
Does firm's philanthropy lead to more missions: theory and evidence	12
Process decomposition of expanded rural housing at the rural–urban fringe: evidence from 27,034 buildings in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China	12
Missing data estimates related to soybean production in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, from 1990 to 2018	11
Media coverage of food safety and expenditures for food away from home: empirical evidence from China’s family panel studies	11
Tripartite evolutionary game analysis of government reward and punishment mechanisms and agricultural resilience under a dual carbon context	11
Unlocking the efficiency and potential of China’s agricultural exports to RCEP member countries: perspectives on the entire agricultural industry chain	10
Climate change adaptation and upland rice yield: evidence from a farm survey in Yunnan, China	10
Impact of technology adoption on livestock production efficiency incorporating grassland productivity	10
The differential effect of tariffs and non-tariff changes on agricultural exports: evidence from China’s RTAs	10
The impacts of foreign direct investment on total factor productivity: an empirical study of agricultural enterprises	9
The synergy effect of agricultural dual-scale management on farmers' income: evidence from rural China	9
Nudge research in agricultural economics: two-decade retrospective of empirical evidence	9
Path to sustainable development of livestock: does environmental protection tax matter in livestock green total factor productivity?	9
Farmers’ policy cognition, psychological constructs and behavior of land transfer: empirical analysis based on household surveys in Beijing	9
Does broadband infrastructure really affect consumption of rural households? – A quasi-natural experiment evidence from China	8
Spatial governance of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration towards low-carbon transition	8
The impact of China’s OFDI on host countries’ food security: empirical study based on panel data from 46 countries	8
Sidestepping the heat waves and cold snaps: how does extreme climate influence agricultural labor reallocation in China	7
Place-based rural development programs and the labor allocation of farm households	7
Off-farm work and rural residential energy transition: a farm-household model and empirical evidence from China	7
Economic-environmental assessment of emission tax policy in developing countries: evidence from Iran	7
Effect of education on crop insurance knowledge: evidence from a RCT in China	7
The effect of rising food prices on nutrient intake among rural–urban migrants in China	7
The effects of mental budgeting on the intentions to switch to low-toxicity pesticides: evidence from vegetable farmers in Sichuan, China	7
Evaluating anti-poverty policy efficiencies in China: meta-frontier analysis using the two-stage data envelopment analysis model	6
How agricultural economists are using big data: a review	6
Is e-commerce widening or narrowing the income distribution gap among Chinese households?	6
Evolution of the rural social security system in a large country over 35 years: institutional transformation and the Chinese experience	6
A systematic review of rural resilience	6
Comparing the determinants of household carbon footprints between rural and urban: evidence from China household survey data	6
How do digital media strengthen the role of social networks in promoting farmers' adoption of climate change mitigation measures?	5
Off-farm employment experience triggers heterogeneity of exiting part-time farming in rural China	5
Do geographical indications of agricultural products promote county-level economic growth?	5
Can China’s rural revitalisation policies be an example for other countries aligning with sustainable development goals (SDGs)-1, 2 and 12?	5
Do climate disasters make farmers more willing to cooperate? Evidence from rural communities in southern China	5
Marketing contracts and technical efficiency of citrus production	5
Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on rural energy poverty: evidence and mechanisms	5
Does cooperative membership impact the yield and efficiency of smallholder farmers? Evidence from potato farmers in Mongolia	5
Can we design food taxes to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in China? A perspective from animal protein intake of low-income populations	5
Would consumers help achieve sustainable development in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau with a forage–livestock balance certification label?	4
The wings of digitalization: rural digital governance and subjective well-being	4
Effect of agriculture–tourism integration on in situ urbanization of rural residents: evidence from 1868 counties in China	4
New forms of employment: development of take-away delivery and urban–rural wage inequality	4
Internet access and irrigation adoption in China	4
The impact of digital agricultural insurance on farmers’ fertilizer reduction technology adoption: evidence from China	4
The impact of improving element quality on the comprehensive production capacity of grain: evidence from high-standard farmland construction	4
Disparate changes of living standard in China: perspective from Engel's coefficient	4

How does platform certification affect the marketing performance of sellers in food e-commerce? Interaction with reputation mechanisms	3
Farmers' willingness to pay for smart farming technologies: evidence from a smart drip irrigation technology in North China	3
Grain price support policy and the distortion of market price	3
China’s arable land wasting problem	3
Rurbanomics for common prosperity: new approach to integrated urban-rural development	3
Digital economy and China's agricultural exports: based on trade cost and market competition effect	3
Classification-based forest management program and farmers' income: evidence from collective forest area in southern China	3
Trade and energy efficiency: theory and evidence	3
Leveraging genetic data for predicting consumer choices of alcoholic products	3
What does it take to revolutionize Chinese diets: evidence from a choice experiment on urban Chinese consumers	3
Dual carbon goals and the impact on future agricultural development in China: a general equilibrium analysis	3
Can internet adoption promote the productivity of firms in China: evidence from a longitudinal study	2
The impact of land certification on cropland abandonment: evidence from rural China	2
Determinants of consumer purchase decisions of plant-based milk alternatives: the role of preferences for product attributes	2
Digital inclusive finance and rural consumption structure – evidence from Peking University digital inclusive financial index and China household finance survey	2
Urbanization and economic growth in China: empirical evidence based on a SIVQR approach	2
Book review	2
Farmland lease, high-rent threat and contract instability: evidence from China	2
The cost-effectiveness of agricultural greenhouse gas reduction under diverse carbon policies in China	2
Taxation and entrepreneurship of migrant workers: evidence from China	2
Measuring the impact of surface ozone on rice production in China: a normalized profit function approach	2
Does cooperative membership stabilize farm income volatility? Evidence from the pig sector in China	2
Fuel adoption in rural heating: a field study on northern China	2
How large is the farm income loss due to climate change? Evidence from India	2
Mobile Internet adoption and technology adoption extensity: evidence from litchi growers in southern China	2