OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociologia Ruralis is 6. 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
Reflecting on opportunities and challenges regarding implementation of responsible digital agri‐technology innovation	24
‘It's a lonely old world’: Developing a multidimensional understanding of loneliness in farming	24
Farm advisors amid the transition to Agriculture 4.0: Professional identity, conceptions of the future and future‐specific competencies	23
Responsible digital agri‐food innovation in Australian and New Zealand public research organisations	18
Innovating digitally: The new texture of practices in Agriculture 4.0	18
LEADER and Spatial Justice	16
The virtual good farmer: Farmers’ use of social media and the (re)presentation of “good farming”	14
‘Values‐based Territorial Food Networks’—Benefits, challenges and controversies	13
Survival strategies of producers involved in short food supply chains following the outbreak of COVID‐19 pandemic: A Hungarian case‐study	13
Constraining labour: The integration dynamics of working‐class horticultural migrants in rural areas of Norway, the UK and the US	12
The invisible (woman) entrepreneur? Shifting the discourse from fisheries diversification to entrepreneurship	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
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
Reconstructing the framing of resilience in the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy post‐2020 reform	9
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
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
‘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
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
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
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