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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

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Putting social into agricultural sustainability: Integrating assessments of quality of life and wellbeing into farm sustainability indicators	49
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‘In a village, everybody knows the stranger’: Constructing local belonging of refugees in rural areas in Germany	28
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).	27
Social capital and short food supply chains: Evidence from Fisheries Local Action Groups	24
Food quality in a post‐industrial economy: Alternatives to the crisis of the Spanish agricultural sector	24
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	23
Personal, peaceful, progressive: Integration workers’ narratives of refugee settlement and the rural	18
Adaptive business arrangements and the creation of social capital: Towards small‐scale fisheries resilience in different European geographical areas	18
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Loss and autonomy: Making sense of rural life at the inner periphery	14
Should cows graze? A relational approach to understanding farmer perspectives on the ethics of grazing and indoor dairy systems	14
The neo‐peasant movement in Catalonia: An attempt at defining it in the light of the infrapolitical strategies of resistance	13
Farming women, distress and drought: Intra‐actions and entanglements with matter	13
Temporal and spatial diversification of rural social structure: The case of Poland	12
Feminisation in Agriculture in a Transition Economy: Women’s Role in Family Farms	11
Digital agriculture killjoy: Happy objects and cruel quests for the good life	11
Frame alignment processes for locally useful agricultural soil research and extension: The role of farm advisors	10
Going against the grain: Unravelling the habitus of older farmers to help facilitate generational renewal in agriculture	10
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	10
Innovating digitally: The new texture of practices in Agriculture 4.0	9
Sacred serpents and the discourse on conservation: Interrogating interspecies dynamics in rural Bardhaman	9
Towards reconfiguration in European agriculture: Analysing dynamics of change through the lens of the Donau Soja organization	9
Making meat moral: A comparison of rearing and killing practices in Swedish cattle farming	9

Reflecting on opportunities and challenges regarding implementation of responsible digital agri‐technology innovation	9
The agencies of landscape in rural gentrification: Impressions from the wood, the village and the moortop	9
Constraining labour: The integration dynamics of working‐class horticultural migrants in rural areas of Norway, the UK and the US	8
Disciplining land through data: The role of agricultural technologies in farmland assetisation	8
Beekeeping, stewardship and multispecies care in rural contexts	8
The Pursuit of Qualities by Peripheral Latecomers in the Agrofood Sectors: The Case of Erlin Wine Industry in Taiwan	8
‘You don't want to be seen to be struggling’; identifying sociocultural barriers and facilitators for Irish farmers’ mental health help‐seeking	8
The role of social capital and trust in the success of local wine tourism and rural development	8
Multiple dimensions of sustainability: Towards new rural futures in Euope	7
A call to expand disciplinary boundaries so that social scientific imagination and practice are central to quests for ‘responsible’ digital agri‐food innovation	7
New immigration destinations in Sweden: Migrant residential trajectories intersecting rural areas	7
Production and consumption in agri‐food transformations: Rethinking integrative perspectives	7
From crisis to sustainability: The politics of knowledge production on rural Europe	7
Food poverty and informal network support in a changing Portuguese rural area	7
The mice plague and the assemblage of beastly landscapes in regional and rural Australia	7
From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice: Changing interpretations of food self‐provisioning	6
Responsible digital agri‐food innovation in Australian and New Zealand public research organisations	6
Standard quality as a boundary object—A conceptual study	6
Exploring farm‐to‐restaurant relations and the potential of a local food hub: A case study in the city‐region of Groningen, the Netherlands	6
Agriculture, COVID‐19 and mental health: Does gender matter?	6
Assembling antimicrobial resistance governance in UK animal agriculture	6
Two good interview questions: Mobilizing the ‘good farmer’ and the ‘good day’ concepts to enable more‐than‐representational research	6
Origin food schemes and the paradox of reducing diversity to defend it	6
The journey of staying: A transitional and mobility perspective on the staying rural preferences of rural young adults	5
Stories of country women: Advancing feminist intersectionality for climate change adaptation in Australia	5
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Relational work in an alternative food network: The fundamental role of shared meaning for organising markets differently	5
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Digitalisation, politics of sustainability and new agrarian questions: The case of dairy farming in rural spaces of Italy and Sweden	4
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Growing superdiverse, growing apart—Modes of incorporation of international migrants in rural areas	4
Rethinking class, capitalism and exploitation from the perspective of family farming in Aotearoa/New Zealand	4
Agents of sustainability: How horses and people co‐create, enact and embed the good life in rural places	4
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	4
Stewardship and everyday governance: Managing materialities in a south‐eastern village community, Estonia	4
Disentangling the diversity of small farm business models in Euro‐Mediterranean contexts: A resilience perspective	4
The impact of rural emptiness on gender relations in postsocialist Albania	4
Regulating gene editing in agriculture and food in the European Union: Disentangling expectations and path dependencies	4
Caring peripheries: How care practitioners respond to processes of peripheralisation	4
Farm advisors amid the transition to Agriculture 4.0: Professional identity, conceptions of the future and future‐specific competencies	3
Migrant agricultural workers in search of a dignified life: Labour conditions as a source of vulnerability in Spain	3
The farm shop as a retroscaped place of experiential consumption	3
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Translating community resilience theory into practice: A deliberative Delphi approach	3
Preference and paradox: Local residents’ perspectives on the reuse of post‐agricultural brownfield sites	3
Stayers or leavers? Spatial (im)mobility patterns of young university graduates living in rural areas in Poland	3
‘It's a lonely old world’: Developing a multidimensional understanding of loneliness in farming	3
Landscapes of support for farming mental health: Adaptability in the face of crisis	3
‘We're out, so wtf do we do now?’: Brexit and rural identity in the era of online agricultural communities	3

Passive endurance: An analysis of barriers to aid among Flemish farmers	2
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Hybrid food networks and sustainability transitions: Shared and contested values and practices in food relocalisation and resocialisation	2
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Power and culture: Understanding EU policies on agriculture and gender equality	2
Hacking Hekla: Exploring the dynamics of digital innovation in rural areas	2
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‘We are here our hearts are there’: Rurality, belonging and walking together	2
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Resurgent back‐to‐the‐land and the cultivation of a renewed countryside	2
Padrón peppers or peppers from Herbón? Discussing the controversial attainment of a geographical indication in light of food (re)localisation approaches	2
Behind a fluttering veil of trust: The dynamics of public concerns over farm animal welfare in Norway	2
Contested diffusion of transformative innovations. Micro‐ and macrolevel social capital in South Tyrol	1
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From panic to business as usual: What coronavirus has revealed about migrant labour, agri‐food systems and industrial relations in the Nordic countries	1
HealeyP. (2022). Caring for place —Community development in rural England(Routledge: New York and Abingdon), 224 pages, Paperback, ISBN: 978‐0‐367‐63201‐4	1
Is agriculture an occupation or a sector? Gender inequalities in a European context	1
Unsustainable practices among contemporary maritime fishing communities of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain): A socioecological and historical approach	1
Intersectionality, childhood disability and rurality: What does rural life mean for disabled children and their families?	1
Agroecology for migrant ‘emplacement’ in the left‐behind European countryside	1
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	1
Managing growth in medium‐sized organic businesses: Implications for local orientation and resilience building	1
The cofradías’ role within the Fisheries Local Action Groups system: Implications for small‐scale fisheries in Galicia (Spain)	1
‘You have to keep it going’: Relational values and social sustainability in upland agriculture	1
Blueprints for rural economy: Philip Lowe's work in rural and environmental social science	1
Fisheries local action group managers as reflexive practitioners: The enhancement of projects and networks and the renewal of the Finnish fishing livelihood	1
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A territorial approach to social learning: Facilitating consumer knowledge of local food through participation in the guarantee process	1
Intersectional precarity of Hazara Afghan refugee migrants in rural Australia	1
Social Innovation for Sustainability Transformation and its Diverging Development Paths in Marginalised Rural Areas	1
Of poultry and the good farmer: Skilled role performance in antimicrobial use on poultry farms in Sweden, France and Vietnam	1
Experiencing art from a field of rice: How farmers relate to rural revitalisation and art at Japan's Echigo‐Tsumari Art Festival	1
The globalisation of Italian agriculture. Transformations of migrant labour composition in agriculture in Trentino	1
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LEADER and Spatial Justice	1
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“We don't show everything”: Queer identity concealment in rural Australia	1
Rural being: Merleau‐Ponty, embodied perception and intersectionality	1
How FAST are women farmers in Greece transforming contested gender identities in a (still) male‐dominant sector?	1
Incentivising public goods delivery in the UK through the lens of Theories of Practice and Theory of Capital	1