OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Rural Studies is 40. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Grappling with governance: Emerging approaches to build community economies	180
Understanding rural business resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	148
Unveiling the role of early child development in preventing poverty transmission in deep poverty-stricken areas of RuralChina	116
The impact of “artificial wool” on the New Zealand wool industry: Lessons for future substitution transitions in the agricultural sector	101
Pathways of displacement: A pan-Canadian perspective on the nature and dynamics of rural and remote homelessness	98
Place-bereavement-trajectories: Life-course experiences of loss in rural Irish communities	84
Rural innovation and the green transition: The role of further education colleges	83
Rural housing after the end of coal. The case of Boxberg (Upper Lusatia, Germany)	74
Evaluating the sustainability of rural complex ecosystems during the development of traditional farming villages into tourism destinations: A diachronic emergy approach	69
‘The day I killed my cows was the day I walked away’: Mycoplasma bovis, moral economy and moral capital	67
Coordination work – Tuning and timing rice production in Burkina Faso	66
Agrarian origins of authoritarian populism in the United States: What can we learn from 20th-century struggles in California and the Midwest?	64
Those who go without: an ethnographic analysis of the lived experiences of rural mental health and healthcare infrastructure	64
Nuancing the commercial counterurbanisation debate: job creation and capacity building in an island setting	61
The living environment and intravillage activity-travel: A conceptual framework based on participant observation in Guangdong, China	61
The rural exodus of young people from empty Spain. Socio-educational aspects	59
Dying villages to prosperous villages: A perspective from revitalization of idle rural residential land (IRRL)	55
Donald Trump and changing rural/urban voting patterns	54
Wellbeing and health in a small New Zealand rural community: Assets, capabilities and being rural-fit	54
The out-migration of young people from a region of the “Empty Spain”: Between a constant slump cycle and a pending innovation spiral	53
Developing a framework for radical and incremental social innovation in rural areas	53
The Cultural Political Economy of rural governance: Regional development in Hesse (Germany)	53
The introduction of digital technologies into agriculture: Space, materiality and the public–private interacting forms of authority and expertise	52
Protecting provenance, abandoning agriculture? Heritage products, industrial ideals and the uprooting of a Spanish turrón	52
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality	50

The future of small farms and small food businesses as actors in regional food security: A participatory scenario analysis from Europe and Africa	50
Evaluating rural viability and well-being: Evidence from marginal areas in Tuscany	49
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations	49
The strength of formal weak ties: The vital role of formal institutional networks for America's disconnected youth	48
“No better or worse off”: Mycoplasma bovis, farmers and bureaucracy	48
KIBS as knowledge sources for innovation in rural regions	48
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture	46
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)	46
The psychosocial impact of Mycoplasma bovis on southern New Zealand farmers: The human cost of managing an exotic animal disease incursion	46
Changing scripts: Gender, family farm succession and increasing farm values in Australia	46
Metrics and public accountability, the case of species credits in the USA	45
Translocal livelihoods research and the household in the Global South – A gendered perspective	44
Aligning bottom-up initiatives and top-down policies? A comparative analysis of overfishing and coastal governance in Ghana, Tanzania, the Philippines, and Thailand	44
County town shrinkage in China: Identification, spatiotemporal variations and the heterogeneity of influencing factors	44
Exploring minority ethnic communities’ access to rural green spaces: The role of agency, identity, and community-based initiatives	44
Sustainable food policies without sustainable farming? Challenges for agroecology-oriented farmers in relation to urban (sustainable) food policies	40