OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Rural Studies is 43. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa	220
Editorial Board	144
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline	143
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside	117
Recognising the value of volunteers in performing and supporting leadership in rural communities	102
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)	99
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”	95
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden	87
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience	80
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland	78
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level：A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China	75
Understanding rural system with a social-ecological framework: Evaluating sustainability of rural evolution in Jiangsu province, South China	68
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality	67
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia	66
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia	64
Translocal livelihoods research and the household in the Global South – A gendered perspective	62
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities	62
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium	61
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro	60
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19	60
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture	58
Consuming the earth? Terroir and rural sustainability	58
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	57
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations	56
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	55

Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England	54
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa	54
The out-migration of young people from a region of the “Empty Spain”: Between a constant slump cycle and a pending innovation spiral	54
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya	52
Smallholder rice farming practices across livelihood strategies: A case study of the Poyang Lake Plain, China	51
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms	50
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment	50
Between on-site and the clouds: Socio-cyber-physical assemblages in on-farm diversification	49
Medical assistance in dying in rural communities: A review of Canadian policies and guidelines	49
‘It's cheaper than a dead cow’: Understanding veterinary medicine use on dairy farms	47
Unmaking capitalism through community empowerment: Findings from Italian agricultural experiences	47
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France	46
Rurality and latent precarity: Growing older in a small rural New Zealand town	46
Popular education, youth and peasant agroecology in Brazil	46
Family labour organization for dairy farming in western Mexico. Between the search for productivity and wellbeing	46
Economic and environmental upgrading after a policy reform: The case of timber value chain in Myanmar	45
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada	44
Learning, adaptation and resilience: The rise and fall of local food networks in Denmark	44