Journal of Rural Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Rural Studies is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China167
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline155
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality151
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)129
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya126
Smallholder rice farming practices across livelihood strategies: A case study of the Poyang Lake Plain, China120
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia113
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience113
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities92
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa91
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level:A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China88
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland85
Volunteer tourism in rural France: Examining power dynamics, labour practices, and community interactions81
Factors influencing farmer participation in bottom-up collaborative agri-environment-climate measures80
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium77
The impact of Brexit on SME lending in the UK73
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture72
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa71
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden70
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”69
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities67
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England67
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside66
Punitive attitudes in Australia: Investigating the rural-urban divide66
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia65
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience63
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations63
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment63
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-1961
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro59
Value chains for sustainable mountain development: a qualitative understanding of 23 European cases58
Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America57
Symbolic economy of bike rentals in rural and suburban Hong Kong: Capital conversion in competitiveness of traditional and innovative firms57
Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition56
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France54
Editorial Board53
Integrated food policies in south-western France: Insights from local policy-making outside major urban areas52
(Dis)connections between youth migration and food security in a rural community of the Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz, Mexico51
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms51
Local institutions and artisanal mining: Governance forms in the goldfields of Madagascar50
Farmer technology adoption in Cambodia: The impact of climate change, risk aversion, and crop type50
Coal seam gas extraction and related landscape changes in the agricultural production area of Western Downs (Queensland, Australia)48
Farm stress and the production of rural sacrifice zones48
Post-pandemic developments in lifestyle migration in Japan: From back-to-the-land to urbanrural?47
Family labour organization for dairy farming in western Mexico. Between the search for productivity and wellbeing46
‘What we'd like is a CSA in every town.’ Scaling community supported agriculture across the UK45
Migrants in the economy of European rural and mountain areas. A cross-national investigation of their economic integration45
Entwined ruralities: Seasonality, simultaneity and precarity among transnational migrant workers in the wild berry industry45
Rethinking the near collapse of certification programmes in commodity value chains: A temporal myopia perspective44
Economic and environmental upgrading after a policy reform: The case of timber value chain in Myanmar44
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–198243
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada43
Rurality and latent precarity: Growing older in a small rural New Zealand town42
Between on-site and the clouds: Socio-cyber-physical assemblages in on-farm diversification41
Medical assistance in dying in rural communities: A review of Canadian policies and guidelines41
Unmaking capitalism through community empowerment: Findings from Italian agricultural experiences41
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong40
Rural co-working: New network spaces and new opportunities for a smart countryside40
The geography of poverty: Review and research prospects40
Learning, adaptation and resilience: The rise and fall of local food networks in Denmark40
Historical transitions of seed breeding in China: From socialist cooperation to joint research39
LEADER and rural development policy - What's the problem represented to be?39
Farmers’ limited perceptions of the role of ecological processes in crop production, a potential obstacle to agroecological transition38
Communities of practice and rural women's empowerment: Insights from a case study of grassroots cooperative in Turkey38
The rural development trilemma38
Tourism and coexistence between branded and natural wines: the case of Calonge i Sant Antoni38
Agricultural value chain transformations: A comparative analysis of milling segment upgrading in the rice value chains in Ghana and Ivory Coast38
Editorial Board37
Women empowering rural Spain: A study of entrepreneurial career satisfaction37
Identifying new social enterprise models in the Italian municipalities37
Editorial Board36
Regional variations in automation job risk and labour market thickness to agricultural employment35
Editorial Board35
Ensuring milk quality: Contextualizing the knowledge of Kenyan small-scale milk traders who connect farmers with low-income consumers35
Post-socialist generation change in Hungarian farming34
Gender difference in time-use of off-farm employment in rural Sichuan, China34
Alternative measures of Family Farm Viability – Incorporating gap measures33
Non-metropolitan settlement and integration outcomes of humanitarian migrants in Australia: Combining spatial, multidimensional and longitudinal perspectives33
Advancing AKIS with assemblage thinking33
Farmers’ adaptive behaviors towards wildlife incidents regarding national park management: The role of informal institutions33
Social innovation in rural governance: A comparative case study across the marginalised rural EU32
Newcomers and rural crisis: Beyond the demographic challenge. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)32
Designing precision livestock farming system innovations: A farmer perspective32
An analytical framework to consider social justice issues in farmland preservation on the urban fringe. Insights from three French cases32
Elaborating decent work for agriculture: Job experiences and workforce retention in the Australian orchard industry32
It doesn't bother me: An intersectional analysis of discrimination among white women farmers in the US Corn Belt31
Media framing of migrant labour in UK fruit and vegetable production: An analysis of reporting in UK farming and mainstream print press31
The European Green Deal and the peasant cause: Class frustration, cultural backlash and right-wing nationalist populism in farmers’ protests in Poland31
Anticipating farmer outcomes of three genetically modified staple crops in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from farming systems research31
Producing an ideal village: Imagined rurality, tourism and rural gentrification in China30
Praised, prized, yet penalised: A critical examination of low-wage hiring queues in the global strawberry industry30
Technical knowledge acquisition modes and environmental sustainability in Spanish organic farms30
The long-term impact of land certification on factor reallocation and household welfare in rural China30
Who are to support the aged in rural China? The study of people's willingness to purchase socialized care service and its influencing factors30
Gender as an entangled force: Gendered mining entanglements, labor organization and leadership structure in artisanal and small-scale mining30
A comparison of the mental health impacts and resilience of healthcare workers in rural Manitoba during the COVID-19 pandemic30
What influences the development of wine-producing regions? New economic opportunities in the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountains in China30
Public transport-disadvantaged rural areas in relation to daily accessibility of regional centre: Case study from Slovakia30
Europe's orchard: The role of irrigation on the Spanish agricultural production30
The elements of intuition in decision-making: A multidimensional framework based on Finnish regenerative farmers’ experiences30
Experiences of dementia in farming communities: A scoping review30
Requalifying markets of basic food commodities? An examination of the Round Table on Responsible Soy's implementation in Córdoba, Argentina29
Does the democratization level of village governance affect perceptions of security and integrity of land rights? -An analysis from the perspective of social network abundance29
Out of balance? Understanding resident-municipality relations in rural peripheries through ascriptions of responsibility29
Editorial Board29
Community Co-creation through knowledge (Co)Production: The engagement of universities in promoting rural revitalization in China29
Shifting forest landownership interests over the life-course of female forest landowners in rural Georgia, United States29
Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of relational and planetary rurality29
Maintaining emergency services in rural areas. Recruitment, retention and resignation of non-career firefighters in Sweden29
The green transformation and gender equality in agricultural entrepreneurship: Insights from the European Union29
Marginalisation through the eyes of the othered: Young adults choosing to live in rural Northern Sweden29
Spatially explicit restructuring of rural settlements: A dual-scale coupling approach28
Under-capacitated and over-powered? Rural austerity and asymmetrical negotiating relationships in US wind energy development28
Who will benefit from big data? Farmers’ perspective on willingness to share farm data28
What affects farmers' intention to learn about sustainability in online settings? An application of the extended theory of planned behaviour in Slovenia28
The potential of local online shopping platforms for villages and small and medium-sized towns28
From Fisher wives to fish vendors: Gendered livelihood transitions in a fishing village in Egypt28
Beef as a socio-cultural identity: Rural and urban consumers' attitudes from Rio Grande do sul, Brazil, facing cultured beef28
Place-based rural development: A role for complex adaptive region assemblages?28
The “White middle-class farming woman”: Instagram and settler colonialism in contemporary rural Australia28
Between institutional reform and building popular movements: The political articulation of agroecology in Brazil28
Do organic farming initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa improve the sustainability of smallholder farmers? Evidence from five case studies in Ghana and Kenya28
Localized practices of rural tourism makers from a resilience perspective: A comparative study in China28
(Re)enclosure, structural violence and commoning in marine fisheries in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar27
Editorial Board27
Residential migration among veterans with experience of housing instability27
Role of soil perception and soil variability by smallholder farmers in the low adoption rates of extension packages in Central America27
Analysis of rural economic restructuring driven by e-commerce based on the space of flows: The case of Xiaying village in central China27
“You sleep with your eyes open”: Understanding rural crime and its implications for community well-being27
Rural transition in the loess hilly and gully region: From the perspective of “flowing” cropland26
“A lender should not know where you live”: Financial precarity, debt, and everyday life in rural Malawi and Tanzania26
Rebalancing healthcare utilization: Rural-urban health insurance integration and health-seeking behavior of rural residents in China26
Factors influencing the decision of young adults to remain in their rural environment: Social origin, education and gender26
Building the plane in the air: Articulating neo-endogenous rural development from the ground up26
Increase of fear of crime in rural Brazil and police legitimacy25
The impact of people's creativity and networks on spatial localisation - Locals, multi-locals, newcomers or returnees as an opportunity for civic engagement in rural areas25
Heritage places and the place attachment of adolescents: The case of the Castelo of Vila Nova de Cerveira (Portugal)25
Identifying the specific features, determinants, and suitability of green homestay inn distribution in rural China25
Learning from the past and embracing future opportunities: Perceptions of new Environmental Land Management Schemes and private nature markets25
Tackling poverty and social isolation using a smart rural development initiative25
Inter- and intra-annual changes in food consumption among rural households in East China25
The humans behind the herd: are alternative livestock farms agroecological from a socioeconomic perspective?25
“The ground beneath our feet is still holding strong”: Physical and symbolic capital in the rural youth movements crisis in Israel25
The role of government interventions in household climate adaptation on the Tibetan Plateau25
Challenges and opportunities for the rural Cop in Trinidad and Tobago25
Community-supported agriculture and allotment gardens as collective forms of food production – Investigating the effect of social capital on perceived benefits25
“We left the crop there lying in the field”: Agricultural worker experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic in a rural US-Mexico border region24
Navigating industrial decline: A case study of place attachment and social capital in economic transition –Valemount, British Columbia24
Impact of farmer differentiation on farmland abandonment: Evidence from Fujian's hilly mountains, China24
Black Ecologies, subaquatic life, and the Jim Crow enclosure of the tidewater24
Has farmer welfare improved after rural residential land circulation?24
Intermediate levels of socio-ecological disturbance drive higher biodiversity in naturally regenerating forests: A case study from Nepal24
Land dispossession, rural gentrification and displacement: Blurring the rural-urban boundary in Chengdu, China24
State-led commodification of rural China and the sustainable provision of public goods in question: A case study of Tangjiajia, Nanjing24
The global cotton trade network reveals a shift in the cotton import center to the global south from 1986 to 202024
Understanding the barriers and enablers to agroforestry adoption in Ireland through an innovation systems approach24
A relational approach to pesticide use: Farmers, herbicides, nutsedge, and the weedy path to pesticide use reduction objectives24
Scaling up mechanisms in citizen farming initiatives: Lessons learned from a citizen-led and collective agroecological farm23
Deciphering how promoting land consolidation for village revitalization in rural China: A comparison study23
Policy and politics: How specialist farming media frame climate action23
Deliberative assembling: Tinkering and farmer agency in precision agriculture implementation23
>Intersectional knowledge as rural social innovation23
Creative assets, people, and places: Rural art action practices of US nonprofit organizations23
Family farming and gender in a valley in northern Spain23
Wine grape grower perceptions and attitudes about soil health23
An urban-rural divide (or not?): Small firm location and the use of digital technologies22
Does planning production expansion have its intended effect in reality? Evidence from the dairy sector in Poland22
Promotional campaigns in the agri-food sector aimed at reducing meat consumption: A promising leverage for action22
Prefiguring the counter-hegemony of open cooperativism: The case of Open Food Network22
Spatial association of coastal towns and villages in Funing District, Qinhuangdao: A study using social network analysis22
Seaweed aquaculture through the lens of gender: Participation, roles, pay and empowerment in Bantayan, Philippines22
Investments are more than money: Emerging investment rationales and farmers in the Danish agri-food system22
What makes peripheral places matter? Applying the concept of political capital within a multiple capital framework22
Are landholders willing to collaborate under ELMs? Promoting collaborative conservation on a landscape scale in the UK22
Imagining an agrarian future in rural Rwanda: Evidence from Congolese refugees at Mahama camp22
Assessing the effect of soil testing on chemical fertilizer use intensity: An empirical analysis of phosphorus fertilizer demand by Irish dairy farmers22
Exploration of values and agency in place-based food systems22
How mega events redefine rurality? CunBA and the (re)production of rurality in China21
Understanding the impact of identity and socio-economic factors on the adoption of soil conservation practices: Empirical evidence from Australia21
Contesting rural Australia in the time of accelerating climate change21
New pathways for women’s empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania21
Smog and Air Pollution: Journalistic Criticism and Environmental Accountability in China21
Migration, class and intra-distinctions of whiteness in the making of inland rural Victoria21
Navigating spatial justice: Exploring municipal planners’ logics in differentiated village planning21
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where?21
Angling for change? A study of a Swedish public-private partnership for sustainable rural fisheries tourism21
Fisheries area-based partnerships in European multilevel governance: understanding embeddedness in organisational environments21
Farmland titling, farmland adjustment and rural collective action: Application of institutional analysis and development framework using evidence from China's irrigation commons21
Farmers and their data: Evaluating the swiss conception of data sharing through the lens of digital farming21
Growing together – How institutional structures influence communal agricultural prosumption types and their potential for continuity20
Policy discourses on homecare services for rural older people in Ireland: Spatial and age-based drivers of narratives and absences20
Urban-rural mobilities: The case of China's rural tourism makers20
Real estate 4.0 – Experiences from the rural20
Pathways of displacement: A pan-Canadian perspective on the nature and dynamics of rural and remote homelessness20
Soil-based carbon farming: Opportunities for collaboration20
Rural innovation and the green transition: The role of further education colleges20
Banditry as rural crime?20
Different sales channels for different farmers: Local and mainstream marketing of organic fruits and vegetables in Norway20
Unveiling the role of early child development in preventing poverty transmission in deep poverty-stricken areas of RuralChina20
Production and reconstruction mechanism of consumption spaces in urban fringe areas under capital intervention: Evidence from Guangming town in Shenzhen19
Ways of (un)knowing landscapes: Tracing more-than-human relations in regenerative agriculture19
Investigating the Slow Food - Place relation: An empirical study of dairy communities in Abruzzo19
Attachment to land and its downfalls: Can policy encourage land mobility?19
Trans in Arcadia: Transgender lives in the countryside and expanding Philo's ‘rural others’ beyond the cis19
Landscapes of care for dementia in rural South Africa19
Is small beautiful? Techinical efficiency and environmental sustainability of small-scale family farms under the conditions of agricultural policy support19
County town shrinkage in China: Identification, spatiotemporal variations and the heterogeneity of influencing factors19
‘The day I killed my cows was the day I walked away’: Mycoplasma bovis, moral economy and moral capital19
The gap between administration and migrants: Terminologies and experiences of urban-rural migration in Japan19
Formative influences: How capital shapes rural students’ college-going intentions19
Ageing in place in a rural town in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Deweyan transactional perspective19
How does reverse entrepreneurship facilitate community transformation in rural China: Evidence from the Yellow Revier19
Role of the interaction space in shaping innovation for sustainable agriculture: Empirical insights from African case studies19
No farmer no food, assessing farmers climate change mitigation, and adaptation behaviors in farm production18
Determinants of returnees’ entrepreneurship in rural marginal China18
Constructing ideal wanghong villages on social media: the rural aesthetics, e-commerce livestreaming, and digital representations of Chinese rurality18
Multi-dimensional superposition: Rural collaborative governance in Liushe Village, Suzhou City18
Food transfers and translocal livelihoods in rural Africa – Longitudinal perspectives from six countries18
Village leadership, social networks and collective actions in indigenous communities: Case of Hani rice terrace social-ecological system in Southwest China18
Interventions to reduce loneliness and social isolation in rural settings: A mixed-methods review18
Explaining farmers’ pro-environmental behaviors in rural China: A perspective of appraisal theory of emotions18
Local governance of a field in transition: The food policy council movement18
Quantifying the influence of sociocognitive factors on land use changes in agricultural regions: Application of the social cognitive theory18
Conservation agriculture in new alluvial agro-ecology: Differential perception and adoption18
Drivers of the peasant households’ part-time farming behavior in China18
Elementary school closures in Sweden over two decades: Geographical characteristics and the role of distance18
Using a perception matrix to elicit farmers‘ perceptions towards stakeholders in the context of biodiversity-friendly farming18
Relating the management difficulty to the abandonment rate of traditional mountain vineyards18
Water in the West: Analyzing the disconnect between farmers' and policymakers’ perceptions of Colorado River Basin shortages in Arizona18
“It's such a big ask for a volunteer”: Community transport as a sticking plaster solution to rural transport poverty18
“It all depends on what you value”: Value hierarchies as barriers to native biodiversity on dairy farms17
Lingering social infrastructure: A study of Apennine villages and their postal offices17
Grassroots innovation: Scenario, policy and governance17
Governing the rural: The case of Izmir (Turkey) in the Post-2000 era17
Understanding food (In) security through land and livelihoods: Evidence from longitudinal household data17
Mobilizing capitals, forging terroir: Lifestyle migration and envisioning a “better rural landscape”17
Activating rural infrastructures in regional communities: Cultural funding, silo art works and the challenge of local benefit17
Differing perceptions and tensions among tourists and locals concerning a national park region in Norway17
Running to stand still? Finding levers to address population shrinking in the Northern Territory of Australia17
Crossing Frozen Ground: Tiebout, local public goods, place amenities, and rural-to-rural migration in the Arctic17
Stay in dairy? Exploring the relationship between farmer wellbeing and farm exit intentions17
Editorial Board17
Rural outmigration in Northeast Brazil: Evidence from shared socioeconomic pathways and climate change scenarios16
How tourists change farms: The impact of agritourism on organic farming adoption and local community interaction in the Tyrol-Trentino mountain region16
Migrant resettlement in rural China: Homemaking and sense of belonging after domicide16
Finnish dairy farmers’ perceptions of justice in the transition to carbon-neutral farming16
Corrigendum to ‘The “dreaded” daughter-in-law in Australian farm business succession’ [J. Rural Stud., 109 (2024) 103324]16
Farmers’ perceived effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and its relationship to preparedness and risk perception16
Participation in individual and collective agri-environmental schemes: A synthesis using the Theory of Planned Behaviour16
Looking for the local ‘grant-grabbers’: Cattle farmers' criticisms and emerging environmental subjectivities in southwestern France16
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