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Papers

(The median citation count of Sociologia Ruralis is 3. 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.)

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Putting social into agricultural sustainability: Integrating assessments of quality of life and wellbeing into farm sustainability indicators	48
Loss and autonomy: Making sense of rural life at the inner periphery	46
From crisis to sustainability: The politics of knowledge production on rural Europe	37
Assembling antimicrobial resistance governance in UK animal agriculture	36
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Disciplining land through data: The role of agricultural technologies in farmland assetisation	26
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Passive endurance: An analysis of barriers to aid among Flemish farmers	24
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Rethinking class, capitalism and exploitation from the perspective of family farming in Aotearoa/New Zealand	23
Regulating gene editing in agriculture and food in the European Union: Disentangling expectations and path dependencies	23
Landscapes of support for farming mental health: Adaptability in the face of crisis	23
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Support structures for a plural economy in rural areas? Analysing the role of community‐based social enterprises	17
Narratives of Change or Changing the Narrative? An Exploration of Narratives in Rural Social Innovation	17
Emergent rural–urban relations in Covid‐19 disturbances: Multi‐locality affecting sustainability of rural change	17
Accessibility, Car Dependence and Rural Peripheralization: The Automobility Gap in the Spanish Countryside	17
The Challenges of Being Left Behind: Peripheralisation in English Small Rural Towns	16
How can organic farmers be good farmers? A study of categorisation in organic farmers’ talk	16
Restaging Rituals: Methodologies for Dialogue With Migrant Workers and Communities in Agro‐Industrial Localities Under Pressure	15
Articulating sustainable transitions, food justice and food democracy: Insights from three social experiments in France, Belgium and Brazil	15
Building network for innovation and proximity in local development; sustainable farming initiatives in Izmir	15

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In Tune With the Times? When Neo‐Peasants Choose Animal Traction to be Part of a More Sustainable Production Model	15
Expanding arenas for learning hunting ethics, their grammars and dilemmas: An examination of young hunters’ enculturation into modern hunting	15
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	14
The Immaculate Conception of Data. Agribusiness, Activists, and Their Shared Politics of the Future by KellyBronson, Montréal: McGill‐Queen's University Press. 2022. xiv + 224 pp. $37.95 (paperback).	14
The neo‐peasant movement in Catalonia: An attempt at defining it in the light of the infrapolitical strategies of resistance	13
Discontent and Disadvantage in Left‐Behind Places: Regional Effects on EU‐Trust and Status Attainment in Europe	13
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Beekeeping, stewardship and multispecies care in rural contexts	11
New immigration destinations in Sweden: Migrant residential trajectories intersecting rural areas	11
Constraining labour: The integration dynamics of working‐class horticultural migrants in rural areas of Norway, the UK and the US	11
A call to expand disciplinary boundaries so that social scientific imagination and practice are central to quests for ‘responsible’ digital agri‐food innovation	11
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The impact of rural emptiness on gender relations in postsocialist Albania	10
How Car Culture Drives Political Preferences in Rural Regions: Evidence From Sweden	10
Rural places and planning. Stories from the Global Countryside. MenelaosGkartzios, NickGallent, and MarkScott. 2022. Bristol: Policy Press. vii+175. 26.99 GBP. ISBN: 978‐1‐4473‐5637‐0	10
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Padrón peppers or peppers from Herbón? Discussing the controversial attainment of a geographical indication in light of food (re)localisation approaches	9
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Experiencing art from a field of rice: How farmers relate to rural revitalisation and art at Japan's Echigo‐Tsumari Art Festival	9
Agroecology for migrant ‘emplacement’ in the left‐behind European countryside	8
HealeyP. (2022). Caring for place —Community development in rural England(Routledge: New York and Abingdon), 224 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 978‐0‐367‐63201‐4	8
Input legitimacy of bottom‐up fishery governance: Lessons from community‐led local development in two Nordic EU countries	8
Resurgent back‐to‐the‐land and the cultivation of a renewed countryside	8
Can Social Capital Be Exchanged for Rural Development? Potentials and Limits Explored Through the Case of Citizen‐Initiated Rural Grocery Stores in Denmark	8
Initiating transformation within a Dutch grassroots agri‐food initiative: An analysis of social processes	8
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Can end‐user feedback inform ‘Responsibilisation’ of India's policy landscape for agri‐digital transition?*	7
The limits of devolving sustainable development to the local level: The case of the Greenbelt of Fennoscandia initiative	7
Place and Space in Social Research: Rurality and Intersectionality	7
Engaging Farmers in Biosecurity: Making Compliance Workable Within a Devolved Responsibility Approach	7
Affected by and affecting forest fires in Sweden and Spain: A critical feminist analysis of vulnerability to fire	7
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	7
Young Women's Empowerment in Scottish Agriculture: The Challenge of Competing Discourses	7
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Wellbeing, environmental sustainability and profitability: Including plurality of logics in participatory extension programmes for enhanced farmer resilience	7
Farming wellbeing through and beyond COVID‐19: Stressors, gender differences and landscapes of support	6
Sustainable development and sacrifice in the rural North	6
Farmers who tinker: Grounded alternatives to incrementalism and the growth imperative	6
The mirage of research and research expertise: Reflections on leading Horizon Europe bids	6
Responsible development of digital livestock technologies for agricultural challenges: Purpose, practicality and effects are key considerations	6
The virtual good farmer: Farmers’ use of social media and the (re)presentation of “good farming”	6
‘In a village, everybody knows the stranger’: Constructing local belonging of refugees in rural areas in Germany	5
Translating community resilience theory into practice: A deliberative Delphi approach	5
Stories of country women: Advancing feminist intersectionality for climate change adaptation in Australia	5
Everyday Agri‐Environmental Governance: The Emergence of Sustainability Through Assemblage Thinking	5
Exploring farm‐to‐restaurant relations and the potential of a local food hub: A case study in the city‐region of Groningen, the Netherlands	5

From City Lights to Country Nights? The Long‐Term Effects of Gossip in Rural Communities on Rural Return Migration Preferences and Intentions	5
The journey of staying: A transitional and mobility perspective on the staying rural preferences of rural young adults	5
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Intersectionality, childhood disability and rurality: What does rural life mean for disabled children and their families?	4
Contested diffusion of transformative innovations. Micro‐ and macrolevel social capital in South Tyrol	4
Hacking Hekla: Exploring the dynamics of digital innovation in rural areas	4
Behind a fluttering veil of trust: The dynamics of public concerns over farm animal welfare in Norway	4
Managing growth in medium‐sized organic businesses: Implications for local orientation and resilience building	4
How FAST are women farmers in Greece transforming contested gender identities in a (still) male‐dominant sector?	4
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Fisheries local action groups, small‐scale fisheries and territorial development	3
Navigating Changing Economies and Rural Policy: Left Behind Places or Left Behind People?	3
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Housing tactics: Searching for community resilience in depopulated rural contexts (Huertas, South West Spain)	3
Fertile ground, complex matter: Plurality of farmers’ attitudes towards green waste application as sustainable soil management	3
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Socio‐Spatial Vulnerabilities, Peripheralization and Post‐Crises Resilience: Lessons From the Portuguese Case	3
‘Land is a huge integral part of our identity’: Patriarchy and the gender asset gap	3
Institutional erosion and new strategies: Changing contexts for learning in agriculture in Northern Sweden	3