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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas: A socio-cyber-physical system framework to support responsibilisation	169
The adoption and impact of E-commerce in rural China: Application of an endogenous switching regression model	135
An analysis of farmers’ intention to use green pesticides: The application of the extended theory of planned behavior and health belief model	124
Targeted poverty alleviation and its practices in rural China: A case study of Fuping county, Hebei Province	116
Rural innovation system: Revitalize the countryside for a sustainable development	101
Creating land markets for rural revitalization: Land transfer, property rights and gentrification in China	95
Analysis of rural economic restructuring driven by e-commerce based on the space of flows: The case of Xiaying village in central China	87
Farmers' perceptions of climate change and adaptation strategies in South Africa's Western Cape	83
Definitions, measures, and uses of rurality: A systematic review of the empirical and quantitative literature	77
The geography of poverty: Review and research prospects	76
Rural revitalization of Xiamei: The development experiences of integrating tea tourism with ancient village preservation	74
The spatial aggregation of rural e-commerce in China: An empirical investigation into Taobao Villages	71
Australian farmers left behind in the digital economy – Insights from the Australian Digital Inclusion Index	69
Farm size and agricultural technology progress: Evidence from China	69
The impact of land consolidation on rural vitalization at village level: A case study of a Chinese village	65
How does the rural settlement transition contribute to shaping sustainable rural development? Evidence from Shandong, China	64
Local place identity: A comparison between residents of rural and urban communities	64
Hollowed out Heartland, USA: How capital sacrificed communities and paved the way for authoritarian populism	61
E-commerce and the transformation of the rural: The Taobao village phenomenon in Zhejiang Province, China	60
Digital revolution and rural family income: Evidence from China	55
Agroforestry transitions: The good, the bad and the ugly	53
Changing priorities, shifting narratives: Remapping rural livelihoods in Africa's artisanal and small-scale mining sector	53
Farmland landscape fragmentation evolution and its driving mechanism from rural to urban: A case study of Changzhou City	53
Income effect of rural E-commerce: Empirical evidence from Taobao villages in China	51
Study on spatial tropism distribution of rural settlements in the Loess Hilly and Gully Region based on natural factors and traffic accessibility	50

Multi-objective spatial reconstruction of rural settlements considering intervillage social connections	50
Evolution of cultivated land fragmentation and its driving mechanism in rural development: A case study of Jiangsu Province	49
Imprecision farming? Examining the (in)accuracy and risks of digital agriculture	49
Disruptive innovation in agriculture: Socio-cultural factors in technology adoption in the developing world	49
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where?	49
Role of social networks in building household livelihood resilience under payments for ecosystem services programs in a poor rural community in China	49
Co-evolution of technology and rural society: The blossoming of taobao villages in the information era, China	48
Robot-ready: How apple producers are assembling in anticipation of new AI robotics	47
Will social capital affect farmers’ choices of climate change adaptation strategies? Evidences from rural households in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China	47
Gambling in the garden: Pesticide use and risk exposure in Ugandan smallholder farming	46
Governing agricultural innovation: A comprehensive framework to underpin sustainable transitions	46
Implications of the digital divide on rural SME resilience	46
Association between mental health and community support in lockdown communities during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from rural China	45
Co-designing a smartphone app for and with farmers: Empathising with end-users’ values and needs	44
Agricultural cooperatives contributing to the alleviation of rural poverty. The case of Konjic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)	44
The assessment of rural development: Identification of an applicable set of indicators through a Delphi approach	44
The promised land? Exploring the future visions and narrative silences of cellular agriculture in news and industry media	44
Livelihood resilience and the generative mechanism of rural households out of poverty: An empirical analysis from Lankao County, Henan Province, China	43
How digitalisation interacts with ecologisation? Perspectives from actors of the French Agricultural Innovation System	43