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Papers

(The median citation count of Sociologia Ruralis 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Loss and autonomy: Making sense of rural life at the inner periphery	55
‘You Had to Obey Your Husband; He Worked, You Raised the Children. Today, Things Have Changed’: A Mixed Methods Study on Gender Equality in Rural Croatia	30
Putting social into agricultural sustainability: Integrating assessments of quality of life and wellbeing into farm sustainability indicators	29
Assembling antimicrobial resistance governance in UK animal agriculture	28
From crisis to sustainability: The politics of knowledge production on rural Europe	27
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Rethinking class, capitalism and exploitation from the perspective of family farming in Aotearoa/New Zealand	23
Passive endurance: An analysis of barriers to aid among Flemish farmers	22
Landscapes of support for farming mental health: Adaptability in the face of crisis	22
Regulating gene editing in agriculture and food in the European Union: Disentangling expectations and path dependencies	21
Farming Women's Experience of Isolation: Creating Affective Connections Through Material Entanglements	21
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Narratives of Change or Changing the Narrative? An Exploration of Narratives in Rural Social Innovation	18
Emotional Dynamics in Sustainability Transitions: Forest Machine Entrepreneurs Facing the Finnish Forestry Transition	18
How can organic farmers be good farmers? A study of categorisation in organic farmers’ talk	17
Accessibility, Car Dependence and Rural Peripheralization: The Automobility Gap in the Spanish Countryside	16
Emergent rural–urban relations in Covid‐19 disturbances: Multi‐locality affecting sustainability of rural change	16
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Support structures for a plural economy in rural areas? Analysing the role of community‐based social enterprises	14
In Tune With the Times? When Neo‐Peasants Choose Animal Traction to be Part of a More Sustainable Production Model	14
The Challenges of Being Left Behind: Peripheralisation in English Small Rural Towns	14

Articulating sustainable transitions, food justice and food democracy: Insights from three social experiments in France, Belgium and Brazil	13
Restaging Rituals: Methodologies for Dialogue With Migrant Workers and Communities in Agro‐Industrial Localities Under Pressure	13
Building network for innovation and proximity in local development; sustainable farming initiatives in Izmir	13
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	12
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).	12
Discontent and Disadvantage in Left‐Behind Places: Regional Effects on EU‐Trust and Status Attainment in Europe	12
How Car Culture Drives Political Preferences in Rural Regions: Evidence From Sweden	11
Beekeeping, stewardship and multispecies care in rural contexts	11
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New immigration destinations in Sweden: Migrant residential trajectories intersecting rural areas	11
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The impact of rural emptiness on gender relations in postsocialist Albania	9
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	9
Transnational Entrepreneurs of Place and ‘the Last Authentic European Medieval Landscape’ in Transylvanian Highlands, Romania	8
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Career Change Into Farming: The Scope and Limits of a Farming Degree for New Entrants in Agriculture	8
Experiencing art from a field of rice: How farmers relate to rural revitalisation and art at Japan's Echigo‐Tsumari Art Festival	8
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Agroecology for migrant ‘emplacement’ in the left‐behind European countryside	8
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The Gendering of Hope: Rural and Farming Women's Biographies of Hope, Care and Resistance	8
Resurgent back‐to‐the‐land and the cultivation of a renewed countryside	8
Place and Space in Social Research: Rurality and Intersectionality	7
Can Social Capital Be Exchanged for Rural Development? Potentials and Limits Explored Through the Case of Citizen‐Initiated Rural Grocery Stores in Denmark	7
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Wellbeing, environmental sustainability and profitability: Including plurality of logics in participatory extension programmes for enhanced farmer resilience	7
Padrón peppers or peppers from Herbón? Discussing the controversial attainment of a geographical indication in light of food (re)localisation approaches	7
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Affected by and affecting forest fires in Sweden and Spain: A critical feminist analysis of vulnerability to fire	7
HealeyP. (2022). Caring for place —Community development in rural England(Routledge: New York and Abingdon), 224 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 978‐0‐367‐63201‐4	7
Input legitimacy of bottom‐up fishery governance: Lessons from community‐led local development in two Nordic EU countries	6
The limits of devolving sustainable development to the local level: The case of the Greenbelt of Fennoscandia initiative	6
Initiating transformation within a Dutch grassroots agri‐food initiative: An analysis of social processes	6
Farmers who tinker: Grounded alternatives to incrementalism and the growth imperative	6
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	6
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Young Women's Empowerment in Scottish Agriculture: The Challenge of Competing Discourses	6
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Responsible development of digital livestock technologies for agricultural challenges: Purpose, practicality and effects are key considerations	5
Sustainable development and sacrifice in the rural North	5
The mirage of research and research expertise: Reflections on leading Horizon Europe bids	5
Engaging Farmers in Biosecurity: Making Compliance Workable Within a Devolved Responsibility Approach	5
Farming wellbeing through and beyond COVID‐19: Stressors, gender differences and landscapes of support	5
The Illusio of Rural Youth Community Engagement	4
Everyday Agri‐Environmental Governance: The Emergence of Sustainability Through Assemblage Thinking	4
Stories of country women: Advancing feminist intersectionality for climate change adaptation in Australia	4
The virtual good farmer: Farmers’ use of social media and the (re)presentation of “good farming”	4
The journey of staying: A transitional and mobility perspective on the staying rural preferences of rural young adults	4
‘In a village, everybody knows the stranger’: Constructing local belonging of refugees in rural areas in Germany	4

From City Lights to Country Nights? The Long‐Term Effects of Gossip in Rural Communities on Rural Return Migration Preferences and Intentions	4
The Succession Effect on Farm Management Choices and the Influence of Successor's Gender and Role	4
Hacking Hekla: Exploring the dynamics of digital innovation in rural areas	3
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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
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Managing growth in medium‐sized organic businesses: Implications for local orientation and resilience building	3
Intersectionality, childhood disability and rurality: What does rural life mean for disabled children and their families?	3
Fisheries local action groups, small‐scale fisheries and territorial development	3
Behind a fluttering veil of trust: The dynamics of public concerns over farm animal welfare in Norway	3
How FAST are women farmers in Greece transforming contested gender identities in a (still) male‐dominant sector?	3
Contested diffusion of transformative innovations. Micro‐ and macrolevel social capital in South Tyrol	3
Where Are the Women Farmers? The Gendered Effects of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy 2023–2027	3
Translating community resilience theory into practice: A deliberative Delphi approach	3
Navigating Changing Economies and Rural Policy: Left Behind Places or Left Behind People?	2
‘A just price is future’: The capital–life conflict in a viticulture region (El Penedès)	2
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‘You don't want to be seen to be struggling’; identifying sociocultural barriers and facilitators for Irish farmers’ mental health help‐seeking	2
Agents of sustainability: How horses and people co‐create, enact and embed the good life in rural places	2
Understanding Rural Stayers: The Influence of Definitions and Methods	2
Socio‐Spatial Vulnerabilities, Peripheralization and Post‐Crises Resilience: Lessons From the Portuguese Case	2
Fertile ground, complex matter: Plurality of farmers’ attitudes towards green waste application as sustainable soil management	2
Governing resettlement beyond safety: Multilevel governance as a model for sustainable resettlement of unaccompanied refugee children in rural Sweden?	2
‘Land is a huge integral part of our identity’: Patriarchy and the gender asset gap	2
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Disentangling the diversity of small farm business models in Euro‐Mediterranean contexts: A resilience perspective	2
Migrant agricultural workers in search of a dignified life: Labour conditions as a source of vulnerability in Spain	2
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Institutional erosion and new strategies: Changing contexts for learning in agriculture in Northern Sweden	2
‘Values‐based Territorial Food Networks’—Benefits, challenges and controversies	2
Production and consumption in agri‐food transformations: Rethinking integrative perspectives	2
Digitalisation, politics of sustainability and new agrarian questions: The case of dairy farming in rural spaces of Italy and Sweden	2
Farming women, distress and drought: Intra‐actions and entanglements with matter	2
Power and culture: Understanding EU policies on agriculture and gender equality	2
Frame alignment processes for locally useful agricultural soil research and extension: The role of farm advisors	2