OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sociologia Ruralis is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Putting social into agricultural sustainability: Integrating assessments of quality of life and wellbeing into farm sustainability indicators	55
Loss and autonomy: Making sense of rural life at the inner periphery	40
Assembling antimicrobial resistance governance in UK animal agriculture	38
From crisis to sustainability: The politics of knowledge production on rural Europe	34
Disciplining land through data: The role of agricultural technologies in farmland assetisation	33
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Rethinking class, capitalism and exploitation from the perspective of family farming in Aotearoa/New Zealand	22
Regulating gene editing in agriculture and food in the European Union: Disentangling expectations and path dependencies	21
Passive endurance: An analysis of barriers to aid among Flemish farmers	21
Landscapes of support for farming mental health: Adaptability in the face of crisis	21
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Emergent rural–urban relations in Covid‐19 disturbances: Multi‐locality affecting sustainability of rural change	17
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How can organic farmers be good farmers? A study of categorisation in organic farmers’ talk	16
Support structures for a plural economy in rural areas? Analysing the role of community‐based social enterprises	16
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Narratives of Change or Changing the Narrative? An Exploration of Narratives in Rural Social Innovation	15
Accessibility, Car Dependence and Rural Peripheralization: The Automobility Gap in the Spanish Countryside	15
Expanding arenas for learning hunting ethics, their grammars and dilemmas: An examination of young hunters’ enculturation into modern hunting	14
Articulating sustainable transitions, food justice and food democracy: Insights from three social experiments in France, Belgium and Brazil	13
Building network for innovation and proximity in local development; sustainable farming initiatives in Izmir	13
In Tune With the Times? When Neo‐Peasants Choose Animal Traction to be Part of a More Sustainable Production Model	13

The neo‐peasant movement in Catalonia: An attempt at defining it in the light of the infrapolitical strategies of resistance	11
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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).	11
Discontent and Disadvantage in Left‐Behind Places: Regional Effects on EU‐Trust and Status Attainment in Europe	11
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	11
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
A call to expand disciplinary boundaries so that social scientific imagination and practice are central to quests for ‘responsible’ digital agri‐food innovation	10
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Constraining labour: The integration dynamics of working‐class horticultural migrants in rural areas of Norway, the UK and the US	10
Beekeeping, stewardship and multispecies care in rural contexts	10
New immigration destinations in Sweden: Migrant residential trajectories intersecting rural areas	10
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The impact of rural emptiness on gender relations in postsocialist Albania	9
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Resurgent back‐to‐the‐land and the cultivation of a renewed countryside	8
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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	8
Padrón peppers or peppers from Herbón? Discussing the controversial attainment of a geographical indication in light of food (re)localisation approaches	8
Agroecology for migrant ‘emplacement’ in the left‐behind European countryside	8
Initiating transformation within a Dutch grassroots agri‐food initiative: An analysis of social processes	7
Wellbeing, environmental sustainability and profitability: Including plurality of logics in participatory extension programmes for enhanced farmer resilience	7
Input legitimacy of bottom‐up fishery governance: Lessons from community‐led local development in two Nordic EU countries	7
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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
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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