OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Rural Studies is 45. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Lethal violence across areas of the rural-urban continuum: Evidence from Pernambuco, Brazil	172
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England	162
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside	126
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture	120
Pesticide resistance and community collapse: The vicious cycle of rural disintegration and agricultural expansion	113
Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China	99
Punitive attitudes in Australia: Investigating the rural-urban divide	97
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities	96
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia	96
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia	92
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19	84
Identifying and characterising social sustainability in the Dutch agricultural sector	84
The impact of Brexit on SME lending in the UK	83
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline	83
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)	81
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”	80
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience	79
Exploring the farmland-livelihood nexus among vulnerable rural households: A case study from a main grain production region of Northeast China	77
Conditions for doing business in rural areas: Survey evidence from in-movers and stayers	77
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations	76
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa	73
Factors influencing farmer participation in bottom-up collaborative agri-environment-climate measures	58
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland	58
Volunteer tourism in rural France: Examining power dynamics, labour practices, and community interactions	57
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya	57

The evolution, interaction, and management of rural resilience in Jiangsu province, China: Insights from a social-ecological system	57
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium	56
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level：A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China	56
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden	55
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	53
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro	53
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa	52
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	52
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality	52
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment	52
Downhill from here? Why shrinking regions are not necessarily ‘left-behind’	51
Addressing the challenges of agro-cattle farming in Bangladesh: A study on educated youth entrepreneurs	48
The impact of mental health on the technical efficiency of Chinese arable farmers	48
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms	48
Editorial Board	48
Farm stress and the production of rural sacrifice zones	47
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–1982	47
Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition	47
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France	46
Scholar-institutional entrepreneurs in rural tourism path innovation: the case of Azheke plan in China	46
Between on-site and the clouds: Socio-cyber-physical assemblages in on-farm diversification	45
Blame it on the rain: Rainfall shock and consumption smoothing in rural China	45
Rural housewives clubs- unlocking the potential of Women's agency in local development in Poland	45
Corrigendum to “Climate-smart agriculture & the impact of financial incentives on adoption: an econometric analysis” [J. Rural Stud., 123, March 2026, 104035]	45