OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Rural Studies is 47. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Volunteer tourism in rural France: Examining power dynamics, labour practices, and community interactions	207
The impact of Brexit on SME lending in the UK	185
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland	174
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment	168
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden	158
Lethal violence across areas of the rural-urban continuum: Evidence from Pernambuco, Brazil	150
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England	123
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa	119
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience	109
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside	102
The evolution, interaction, and management of rural resilience in Jiangsu province, China: Insights from a social-ecological system	89
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”	87
Punitive attitudes in Australia: Investigating the rural-urban divide	86
Conditions for doing business in rural areas: Survey evidence from in-movers and stayers	86
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities	85
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia	83
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia	82
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19	81
Exploring the farmland-livelihood nexus among vulnerable rural households: A case study from a main grain production region of Northeast China	78
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level：A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China	78
Identifying and characterising social sustainability in the Dutch agricultural sector	77
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline	76
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality	75
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium	73
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture	73

The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro	72
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya	72
Pesticide resistance and community collapse: The vicious cycle of rural disintegration and agricultural expansion	71
Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China	70
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations	69
Factors influencing farmer participation in bottom-up collaborative agri-environment-climate measures	67
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	66
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	58
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)	57
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa	56
The impact of mental health on the technical efficiency of Chinese arable farmers	55
Editorial Board	55
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms	53
Migrants in the economy of European rural and mountain areas. A cross-national investigation of their economic integration	53
Integrated food policies in south-western France: Insights from local policy-making outside major urban areas	52
Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America	51
Rethinking the near collapse of certification programmes in commodity value chains: A temporal myopia perspective	50
Farmer technology adoption in Cambodia: The impact of climate change, risk aversion, and crop type	49
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada	49
Medical assistance in dying in rural communities: A review of Canadian policies and guidelines	48
Addressing the challenges of agro-cattle farming in Bangladesh: A study on educated youth entrepreneurs	48
Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition	47
Value chains for sustainable mountain development: a qualitative understanding of 23 European cases	47