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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Volunteer tourism in rural France: Examining power dynamics, labour practices, and community interactions	203
The impact of Brexit on SME lending in the UK	180
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19	171
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland	166
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment	155
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden	147
Lethal violence across areas of the rural-urban continuum: Evidence from Pernambuco, Brazil	121
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia	116
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa	105
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England	99
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa	88
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside	85
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience	85
The evolution, interaction, and management of rural resilience in Jiangsu province, China: Insights from a social-ecological system	83
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”	82
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)	81
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia	81
Punitive attitudes in Australia: Investigating the rural-urban divide	78
Conditions for doing business in rural areas: Survey evidence from in-movers and stayers	78
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality	77
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	77
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline	77
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya	75
Identifying and characterising social sustainability in the Dutch agricultural sector	73
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro	72

Pesticide resistance and community collapse: The vicious cycle of rural disintegration and agricultural expansion	71
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	70
Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China	69
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities	68
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations	67
Exploring the farmland-livelihood nexus among vulnerable rural households: A case study from a main grain production region of Northeast China	67
Factors influencing farmer participation in bottom-up collaborative agri-environment-climate measures	66
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level：A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China	64
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture	57
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium	56
Local institutions and artisanal mining: Governance forms in the goldfields of Madagascar	55
The impact of mental health on the technical efficiency of Chinese arable farmers	53
The geography of poverty: Review and research prospects	53
Farmers' perceived values in intercropping: An application of the means end chain framework in Swedish agriculture	52
Value chains for sustainable mountain development: a qualitative understanding of 23 European cases	51
Editorial Board	51
Migrants in the economy of European rural and mountain areas. A cross-national investigation of their economic integration	51
Getting money in the country: Is there a liability of rurality facing SMEs?	51
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms	49
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong	49
Integrated food policies in south-western France: Insights from local policy-making outside major urban areas	48
Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America	47
Rethinking the near collapse of certification programmes in commodity value chains: A temporal myopia perspective	47