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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Perceptions of the Fourth Agricultural Revolution: What’s In, What’s Out, and What Consequences are Anticipated?	77
Social Innovation for Sustainability Transformation and its Diverging Development Paths in Marginalised Rural Areas	42
Whose Narrative is it Anyway? Narratives of Social Innovation in Rural Areas – A Comparative Analysis of Community‐Led Initiatives in Scotland and Spain	34
Good intentions in complex realities: Challenges for designing responsibly in digital agriculture in low‐income countries	30
The Political Dimensions of Illegal Wolf Hunting: Anti‐Elitism, Lack of Trust in Institutions and Acceptance of Illegal Wolf Killing among Norwegian Hunters	27
A call to expand disciplinary boundaries so that social scientific imagination and practice are central to quests for ‘responsible’ digital agri‐food innovation	26
Disciplining land through data: The role of agricultural technologies in farmland assetisation	24
New Farmer Identity: The Emergence of a Post‐Productivist Agricultural Regime in China	22
Farm advisors amid the transition to Agriculture 4.0: Professional identity, conceptions of the future and future‐specific competencies	22
Organising Alternative Food Networks (AFNs): Challenges and Facilitating Conditions of different AFN types in three EU countries	22
Mobilising the Past: Towards a Conceptualisation of Retro‐Innovation	19
Alternative = transformative? Investigating drivers of transformation in alternative food networks in Germany	18
Reflecting on opportunities and challenges regarding implementation of responsible digital agri‐technology innovation	17
Right‐Wing Populism in Rural Europe. Introduction to the Special Issue	17
Innovating digitally: The new texture of practices in Agriculture 4.0	16
Responsible digital agri‐food innovation in Australian and New Zealand public research organisations	15
Pragmatic Prosumption: Searching for Food Prosumers in the Netherlands	14
LEADER and Spatial Justice	13
‘It's a lonely old world’: Developing a multidimensional understanding of loneliness in farming	13
‘Close the Ports to African Migrants and Asian Rice!’: The Politics of Agriculture and Migration and the Rise of a ‘New’ Right‐Wing Populism in Italy	12
‘Values‐based Territorial Food Networks’—Benefits, challenges and controversies	11
The invisible (woman) entrepreneur? Shifting the discourse from fisheries diversification to entrepreneurship	11
The social construction of alternatives to pesticide use: A study of biocontrol in Burgundian viticulture	11
‘A Woman in Charge of a Farm’: French Women Farmers Challenge Hegemonic Femininity	11
The virtual good farmer: Farmers’ use of social media and the (re)presentation of “good farming”	11

Survival strategies of producers involved in short food supply chains following the outbreak of COVID‐19 pandemic: A Hungarian case‐study	10
Prospects of Agrarian Populism and Food Sovereignty Movement in Post‐Socialist Romania	10
Going against the grain: Unravelling the habitus of older farmers to help facilitate generational renewal in agriculture	10
Two good interview questions: Mobilizing the ‘good farmer’ and the ‘good day’ concepts to enable more‐than‐representational research	9
Constraining labour: The integration dynamics of working‐class horticultural migrants in rural areas of Norway, the UK and the US	9
Distributed Rural Proofing – An Essential Tool for the Future of Rural Development?	9
Food that Matters: Boundary Work and the Case for Vegan Food Practices	9
The Noble or Sour Wine: European Commission’s Competing Discourses on the Main CAP Reforms	8
Short Versus Long Supply Chains in Agri‐Food Sectors: Peaceful Coexistence or Political Domination? The Case of foie gras in South‐West France	8
The agencies of landscape in rural gentrification: Impressions from the wood, the village and the moortop	8
Challenges to Habitus: Scruffy Hedges and Weeds in the Irish Countryside	8
From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice: Changing interpretations of food self‐provisioning	8
From Practices to Values: Farmers’ Relationship with Soil Biodiversity in Europe	7
Applying Neo‐Endogenous Development Theory to Delivering Sustainable Local Nature Conservation	7
Stayers or leavers? Spatial (im)mobility patterns of young university graduates living in rural areas in Poland	7
Temporal and spatial diversification of rural social structure: The case of Poland	7
Variable rate precision farming and advisory services in Scotland: Supporting responsible digital innovation?	7
Translating community resilience theory into practice: A deliberative Delphi approach	7
Landscapes of support for farming mental health: Adaptability in the face of crisis	6
Origin food schemes and the paradox of reducing diversity to defend it	6
Disentangling the diversity of small farm business models in Euro‐Mediterranean contexts: A resilience perspective	6
‘The Sea is Our Life’. Woman in the Fishery Sector of the Valencian Community	6
Reconstructing the framing of resilience in the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy post‐2020 reform	6
Assembling antimicrobial resistance governance in UK animal agriculture	6