OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociologia Ruralis is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Innovation for Sustainability Transformation and its Diverging Development Paths in Marginalised Rural Areas	47
Good intentions in complex realities: Challenges for designing responsibly in digital agriculture in low‐income countries	38
Organising Alternative Food Networks (AFNs): Challenges and Facilitating Conditions of different AFN types in three EU countries	31
Alternative = transformative? Investigating drivers of transformation in alternative food networks in Germany	30
Disciplining land through data: The role of agricultural technologies in farmland assetisation	28
A call to expand disciplinary boundaries so that social scientific imagination and practice are central to quests for ‘responsible’ digital agri‐food innovation	27
‘It's a lonely old world’: Developing a multidimensional understanding of loneliness in farming	24
Reflecting on opportunities and challenges regarding implementation of responsible digital agri‐technology innovation	24
Farm advisors amid the transition to Agriculture 4.0: Professional identity, conceptions of the future and future‐specific competencies	23
Innovating digitally: The new texture of practices in Agriculture 4.0	18
Responsible digital agri‐food innovation in Australian and New Zealand public research organisations	18
LEADER and Spatial Justice	16
The virtual good farmer: Farmers’ use of social media and the (re)presentation of “good farming”	14
Survival strategies of producers involved in short food supply chains following the outbreak of COVID‐19 pandemic: A Hungarian case‐study	13
‘Values‐based Territorial Food Networks’—Benefits, challenges and controversies	13
The invisible (woman) entrepreneur? Shifting the discourse from fisheries diversification to entrepreneurship	12
Constraining labour: The integration dynamics of working‐class horticultural migrants in rural areas of Norway, the UK and the US	12
From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice: Changing interpretations of food self‐provisioning	11
Going against the grain: Unravelling the habitus of older farmers to help facilitate generational renewal in agriculture	11
Mental health, societal expectations and changes to the governance of farming: Reshaping what it means to be a ‘man’ and ‘good farmer’ in rural Ireland	10
Two good interview questions: Mobilizing the ‘good farmer’ and the ‘good day’ concepts to enable more‐than‐representational research	10
The role of social capital and trust in the success of local wine tourism and rural development	10
Reconstructing the framing of resilience in the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy post‐2020 reform	9
Landscapes of support for farming mental health: Adaptability in the face of crisis	9
Stayers or leavers? Spatial (im)mobility patterns of young university graduates living in rural areas in Poland	9

The agencies of landscape in rural gentrification: Impressions from the wood, the village and the moortop	9
Translating community resilience theory into practice: A deliberative Delphi approach	9
Origin food schemes and the paradox of reducing diversity to defend it	9
Are All Foragers the Same? Towards a Classification of Foragers	8
Disentangling the diversity of small farm business models in Euro‐Mediterranean contexts: A resilience perspective	8
Wellbeing, environmental sustainability and profitability: Including plurality of logics in participatory extension programmes for enhanced farmer resilience	8
Agriculture, COVID‐19 and mental health: Does gender matter?	8
Variable rate precision farming and advisory services in Scotland: Supporting responsible digital innovation?	8
Hybrid food networks and sustainability transitions: Shared and contested values and practices in food relocalisation and resocialisation	8
Temporal and spatial diversification of rural social structure: The case of Poland	8
Can end‐user feedback inform ‘Responsibilisation’ of India's policy landscape for agri‐digital transition?*	7
Dealing with the loss of the village supermarket: The perceived effects two years after closure	7
‘Just ask Eric’: On the Importance of Governance Efficacy, Territorial Ties and Heterogenous Networks for Rural Development	7
Agents of sustainability: How horses and people co‐create, enact and embed the good life in rural places	7
How do producers imagine consumers? Connecting farm and fork through a cultural repertoire of consumer sovereignty	7
Regeneration at a distance from the state: From radical imaginaries to alternative practices in Dutch farming	7
Housing tactics: Searching for community resilience in depopulated rural contexts (Huertas, South West Spain)	6
A territorial approach to social learning: Facilitating consumer knowledge of local food through participation in the guarantee process	6
The neo‐peasant movement in Catalonia: An attempt at defining it in the light of the infrapolitical strategies of resistance	6
A rural laboratory in the Austrian alm—Tracing the contingent processes fostering social innovation at the local level	6
‘You have to keep it going’: Relational values and social sustainability in upland agriculture	6
Putting social into agricultural sustainability: Integrating assessments of quality of life and wellbeing into farm sustainability indicators	6
Authorities as Enablers in Rural Business Support Policy Regime – Case‐Study Finland	6
Assembling antimicrobial resistance governance in UK animal agriculture	6
Scaling up civic food utopias in Australia: The challenges of justice and representation	5
Resurgent back‐to‐the‐land and the cultivation of a renewed countryside	5
Affected by and affecting forest fires in Sweden and Spain: A critical feminist analysis of vulnerability to fire	5
Digital agriculture killjoy: Happy objects and cruel quests for the good life	5
Expanding arenas for learning hunting ethics, their grammars and dilemmas: An examination of young hunters’ enculturation into modern hunting	5
Is agriculture an occupation or a sector? Gender inequalities in a European context	5
Farming wellbeing through and beyond COVID‐19: Stressors, gender differences and landscapes of support	4
‘We're out, so wtf do we do now?’: Brexit and rural identity in the era of online agricultural communities	4
Feminisation in Agriculture in a Transition Economy: Women’s Role in Family Farms	4
Farmers who tinker: Grounded alternatives to incrementalism and the growth imperative	4
Examining access to health insurance and health care along the life course to shed light on interactions between farm households’ social needs, social policy and the farm business	4
Digitalisation, politics of sustainability and new agrarian questions: The case of dairy farming in rural spaces of Italy and Sweden	4
Adaptive business arrangements and the creation of social capital: Towards small‐scale fisheries resilience in different European geographical areas	4
A spatial justice perspective on EU rural sustainability as territorial cohesion	4
How FAST are women farmers in Greece transforming contested gender identities in a (still) male‐dominant sector?	4
Regulating gene editing in agriculture and food in the European Union: Disentangling expectations and path dependencies	4
The paradoxes of dairy farmers in Catalonia (Spain): Crisis and ‘double bind’	3
Conflict and oppositions in the development of peri‐urban agriculture: The case of the Greater São Paulo region	3
Contested diffusion of transformative innovations. Micro‐ and macrolevel social capital in South Tyrol	3
Social Memory of the Greek‐Turkish Population Exchange in Daily Life: A Case Study of a Tobacco‐Producing Village in Turkey	3
Food poverty and informal network support in a changing Portuguese rural area	3
How can organic farmers be good farmers? A study of categorisation in organic farmers’ talk	3
Continuity, change and new ways of being: An exploratory assessment of farmer's experiences and responses to public health restrictions during the COVID‐19 pandemic in a rural Irish community	3
Behind a fluttering veil of trust: The dynamics of public concerns over farm animal welfare in Norway	3
Towards reconfiguration in European agriculture: Analysing dynamics of change through the lens of the Donau Soja organization	3
Emergent rural–urban relations in Covid‐19 disturbances: Multi‐locality affecting sustainability of rural change	3

Experiencing art from a field of rice: How farmers relate to rural revitalisation and art at Japan's Echigo‐Tsumari Art Festival	3
From Biosecurity to Security Ecologies: An Analysis between Old Dairy Farming Traditions and Routines and Veterinary Recommendations in Spain	3
Exploring farm‐to‐restaurant relations and the potential of a local food hub: A case study in the city‐region of Groningen, the Netherlands	3
Farming women, distress and drought: Intra‐actions and entanglements with matter	2
The Family Farming Culture of Dairy Farmers: A Case‐Study of the Illawarra Region, New South Wales	2
Growing superdiverse, growing apart—Modes of incorporation of international migrants in rural areas	2
Production and consumption in agri‐food transformations: Rethinking integrative perspectives	2
Aligning top‐down and bottom‐up modes of governance? How EU Fisheries Local Action Groups support small‐scale fisheries and coastal community development in Sweden	2
Interspecies encounters with endemic health conditions: Co‐producing BVD and lameness with cows and sheep in the north of England	2
Managing growth in medium‐sized organic businesses: Implications for local orientation and resilience building	2
From crisis to sustainability: The politics of knowledge production on rural Europe	2
Engagement of new entrants in mountain farming through the lens of generativity: Lack of family farming background and its implications in Alpine Austria and Italy	2
Cyborg farmers: Embodied understandings of precision agriculture	2
Social capital and short food supply chains: Evidence from Fisheries Local Action Groups	2
Support structures for a plural economy in rural areas? Analysing the role of community‐based social enterprises	2
Intersectionality, childhood disability and rurality: What does rural life mean for disabled children and their families?	2
The mice plague and the assemblage of beastly landscapes in regional and rural Australia	2
‘I think this is where this lovely word “sustainability” comes in’: Fruit and vegetable growers' narratives concerning the regulation of environmental water use for food production	1
Sustainable development and sacrifice in the rural North	1
Permaculture and back‐to‐the‐land migration: Pursuing self‐sufficiency in Czech rural areas	1
Input legitimacy of bottom‐up fishery governance: Lessons from community‐led local development in two Nordic EU countries	1
Blueprints for rural economy: Philip Lowe's work in rural and environmental social science	1
Hacking Hekla: Exploring the dynamics of digital innovation in rural areas	1
Caring peripheries: How care practitioners respond to processes of peripheralisation	1
The journey of staying: A transitional and mobility perspective on the staying rural preferences of rural young adults	1
New immigration destinations in Sweden: Migrant residential trajectories intersecting rural areas	1
The Pursuit of Qualities by Peripheral Latecomers in the Agrofood Sectors: The Case of Erlin Wine Industry in Taiwan	1
Sacred serpents and the discourse on conservation: Interrogating interspecies dynamics in rural Bardhaman	1
Building network for innovation and proximity in local development; sustainable farming initiatives in Izmir	1
Belonging and its frames: Rural employers' boundary construction concerning immigrant employees	1
Analysing the impact of climate and social changes on small farms in the Italian Alps: The importance of the local scale	1
Fisheries local action groups, small‐scale fisheries and territorial development	1
The cofradías’ role within the Fisheries Local Action Groups system: Implications for small‐scale fisheries in Galicia (Spain)	1
Preference and paradox: Local residents’ perspectives on the reuse of post‐agricultural brownfield sites	1
Rethinking class, capitalism and exploitation from the perspective of family farming in Aotearoa/New Zealand	1
Standard quality as a boundary object—A conceptual study	1
Multiple dimensions of sustainability: Towards new rural futures in Euope	1
‘You don't want to be seen to be struggling’; identifying sociocultural barriers and facilitators for Irish farmers’ mental health help‐seeking	1
The limits of devolving sustainable development to the local level: The case of the Greenbelt of Fennoscandia initiative	1
Governing resettlement beyond safety: Multilevel governance as a model for sustainable resettlement of unaccompanied refugee children in rural Sweden?	1
Fertile ground, complex matter: Plurality of farmers’ attitudes towards green waste application as sustainable soil management	1
From panic to business as usual: What coronavirus has revealed about migrant labour, agri‐food systems and industrial relations in the Nordic countries	1
Fisheries local action group managers as reflexive practitioners: The enhancement of projects and networks and the renewal of the Finnish fishing livelihood	1
Migrant agricultural workers in search of a dignified life: Labour conditions as a source of vulnerability in Spain	1
The impact of rural emptiness on gender relations in postsocialist Albania	1
Beekeeping, stewardship and multispecies care in rural contexts	1
Stories of country women: Advancing feminist intersectionality for climate change adaptation in Australia	1
Frame alignment processes for locally useful agricultural soil research and extension: The role of farm advisors	1