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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline150
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside146
Recognising the value of volunteers in performing and supporting leadership in rural communities131
Smallholder rice farming practices across livelihood strategies: A case study of the Poyang Lake Plain, China110
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya109
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”103
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden100
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland90
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level:A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China85
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia84
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England72
Translocal livelihoods research and the household in the Global South – A gendered perspective72
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment71
The out-migration of young people from a region of the “Empty Spain”: Between a constant slump cycle and a pending innovation spiral71
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience69
Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China65
Volunteer tourism in rural France: Examining power dynamics, labour practices, and community interactions65
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa64
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations63
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium62
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture61
Consuming the earth? Terroir and rural sustainability60
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro60
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia59
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality56
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)56
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities55
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities55
Understanding rural system with a social-ecological framework: Evaluating sustainability of rural evolution in Jiangsu province, South China54
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-1953
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience53
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa53
Between on-site and the clouds: Socio-cyber-physical assemblages in on-farm diversification52
Popular education, youth and peasant agroecology in Brazil51
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France49
Family labour organization for dairy farming in western Mexico. Between the search for productivity and wellbeing49
Rurality and latent precarity: Growing older in a small rural New Zealand town49
Economic and environmental upgrading after a policy reform: The case of timber value chain in Myanmar48
Coal seam gas extraction and related landscape changes in the agricultural production area of Western Downs (Queensland, Australia)48
Symbolic economy of bike rentals in rural and suburban Hong Kong: Capital conversion in competitiveness of traditional and innovative firms47
Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America47
Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition46
Learning, adaptation and resilience: The rise and fall of local food networks in Denmark45
LEADER and rural development policy - What's the problem represented to be?44
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‘It's cheaper than a dead cow’: Understanding veterinary medicine use on dairy farms43
Integrated food policies in south-western France: Insights from local policy-making outside major urban areas42
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Local institutions and artisanal mining: Governance forms in the goldfields of Madagascar42
Post-pandemic developments in lifestyle migration in Japan: From back-to-the-land to urbanrural?42
Attending to nature: Understanding care and caring relations in forest management in the UK41
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms41
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada41
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–198240
Migrants in the economy of European rural and mountain areas. A cross-national investigation of their economic integration40
Rethinking the near collapse of certification programmes in commodity value chains: A temporal myopia perspective39
Unmaking capitalism through community empowerment: Findings from Italian agricultural experiences39
(Dis)connections between youth migration and food security in a rural community of the Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz, Mexico38
Farmer technology adoption in Cambodia: The impact of climate change, risk aversion, and crop type38
Exploring state pension provision policy for the farming community37
The geography of poverty: Review and research prospects37
Entwined ruralities: Seasonality, simultaneity and precarity among transnational migrant workers in the wild berry industry37
Medical assistance in dying in rural communities: A review of Canadian policies and guidelines37
Rural co-working: New network spaces and new opportunities for a smart countryside37
Gender difference in time-use of off-farm employment in rural Sichuan, China36
Farm stress and the production of rural sacrifice zones36
Watermelon production as the driver of community resilience: More-than-human agency and the transforming rural assemblage36
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong36
‘What we'd like is a CSA in every town.’ Scaling community supported agriculture across the UK36
Historical transitions of seed breeding in China: From socialist cooperation to joint research35
Media framing of migrant labour in UK fruit and vegetable production: An analysis of reporting in UK farming and mainstream print press35
Gender as an entangled force: Gendered mining entanglements, labor organization and leadership structure in artisanal and small-scale mining35
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Identifying new social enterprise models in the Italian municipalities34
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Post-socialist generation change in Hungarian farming34
Non-metropolitan settlement and integration outcomes of humanitarian migrants in Australia: Combining spatial, multidimensional and longitudinal perspectives34
The rural development trilemma34
Ensuring milk quality: Contextualizing the knowledge of Kenyan small-scale milk traders who connect farmers with low-income consumers33
Elaborating decent work for agriculture: Job experiences and workforce retention in the Australian orchard industry32
Regional variations in automation job risk and labour market thickness to agricultural employment32
Farmers’ adaptive behaviors towards wildlife incidents regarding national park management: The role of informal institutions32
Advancing AKIS with assemblage thinking31
Europe's orchard: The role of irrigation on the Spanish agricultural production31
Social innovation in rural governance: A comparative case study across the marginalised rural EU31
Agricultural value chain transformations: A comparative analysis of milling segment upgrading in the rice value chains in Ghana and Ivory Coast31
Anticipating farmer outcomes of three genetically modified staple crops in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from farming systems research31
Newcomers and rural crisis: Beyond the demographic challenge. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)31
Public transport-disadvantaged rural areas in relation to daily accessibility of regional centre: Case study from Slovakia30
It doesn't bother me: An intersectional analysis of discrimination among white women farmers in the US Corn Belt30
Alternative measures of Family Farm Viability – Incorporating gap measures30
Farmers’ limited perceptions of the role of ecological processes in crop production, a potential obstacle to agroecological transition30
Producing an ideal village: Imagined rurality, tourism and rural gentrification in China29
An analytical framework to consider social justice issues in farmland preservation on the urban fringe. Insights from three French cases29
Designing precision livestock farming system innovations: A farmer perspective29
Financial subjectivities in the agricultural sector: A comparative analysis of relations between farmers and banks in Latvia, Denmark and the UK29
Praised, prized, yet penalised: A critical examination of low-wage hiring queues in the global strawberry industry29
Who are to support the aged in rural China? The study of people's willingness to purchase socialized care service and its influencing factors29
Beyond nostalgia: Older people's perspectives on informal care in rural Flanders28
Does the democratization level of village governance affect perceptions of security and integrity of land rights? -An analysis from the perspective of social network abundance28
Maintaining emergency services in rural areas. Recruitment, retention and resignation of non-career firefighters in Sweden28
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A comparison of the mental health impacts and resilience of healthcare workers in rural Manitoba during the COVID-19 pandemic28
The elements of intuition in decision-making: A multidimensional framework based on Finnish regenerative farmers’ experiences28
What influences the development of wine-producing regions? New economic opportunities in the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountains in China28
Out of balance? Understanding resident-municipality relations in rural peripheries through ascriptions of responsibility28
The unruly complexity of conservation arrangements with Mexican rural communities: Who really funds the game?28
Community Co-creation through knowledge (Co)Production: The engagement of universities in promoting rural revitalization in China27
Antecedents and consequences of sustainable development in agriculture and the moderator role of the barriers: Proposal and test of a structural model27
Requalifying markets of basic food commodities? An examination of the Round Table on Responsible Soy's implementation in Córdoba, Argentina27
The green transformation and gender equality in agricultural entrepreneurship: Insights from the European Union27
From Fisher wives to fish vendors: Gendered livelihood transitions in a fishing village in Egypt26
The potential of local online shopping platforms for villages and small and medium-sized towns26
The “White middle-class farming woman”: Instagram and settler colonialism in contemporary rural Australia26
Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of relational and planetary rurality26
Marginalisation through the eyes of the othered: Young adults choosing to live in rural Northern Sweden26
Beef as a socio-cultural identity: Rural and urban consumers' attitudes from Rio Grande do sul, Brazil, facing cultured beef26
Smart farming in mountain areas: Investigating livestock farmers’ technophobia and technophilia and their perception of innovation26
Shifting forest landownership interests over the life-course of female forest landowners in rural Georgia, United States25
Spatially explicit restructuring of rural settlements: A dual-scale coupling approach25
Place-based rural development: A role for complex adaptive region assemblages?25
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
The role of government interventions in household climate adaptation on the Tibetan Plateau25
Intermediate levels of socio-ecological disturbance drive higher biodiversity in naturally regenerating forests: A case study from Nepal25
What affects farmers' intention to learn about sustainability in online settings? An application of the extended theory of planned behaviour in Slovenia25
Who will benefit from big data? Farmers’ perspective on willingness to share farm data25
Analysis of rural economic restructuring driven by e-commerce based on the space of flows: The case of Xiaying village in central China25
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Residential migration among veterans with experience of housing instability25
Heritage places and the place attachment of adolescents: The case of the Castelo of Vila Nova de Cerveira (Portugal)25
“We left the crop there lying in the field”: Agricultural worker experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic in a rural US-Mexico border region25
Between institutional reform and building popular movements: The political articulation of agroecology in Brazil25
How digitalisation interacts with ecologisation? Perspectives from actors of the French Agricultural Innovation System25
Do organic farming initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa improve the sustainability of smallholder farmers? Evidence from five case studies in Ghana and Kenya25
Technical knowledge acquisition modes and environmental sustainability in Spanish organic farms25
(Re)enclosure, structural violence and commoning in marine fisheries in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar25
Inter- and intra-annual changes in food consumption among rural households in East China25
Navigating industrial decline: A case study of place attachment and social capital in economic transition –Valemount, British Columbia25
Contingent communality and community-based adaptation to climate change: Insights from a Pacific rural atoll24
“The ground beneath our feet is still holding strong”: Physical and symbolic capital in the rural youth movements crisis in Israel24
Role of soil perception and soil variability by smallholder farmers in the low adoption rates of extension packages in Central America24
The global cotton trade network reveals a shift in the cotton import center to the global south from 1986 to 202024
Increase of fear of crime in rural Brazil and police legitimacy24
Challenges and opportunities for the rural Cop in Trinidad and Tobago24
State-led commodification of rural China and the sustainable provision of public goods in question: A case study of Tangjiajia, Nanjing23
Has farmer welfare improved after rural residential land circulation?23
“A lender should not know where you live”: Financial precarity, debt, and everyday life in rural Malawi and Tanzania23
Factors influencing the decision of young adults to remain in their rural environment: Social origin, education and gender23
Understanding the barriers and enablers to agroforestry adoption in Ireland through an innovation systems approach23
“You sleep with your eyes open”: Understanding rural crime and its implications for community well-being23
Black Ecologies, subaquatic life, and the Jim Crow enclosure of the tidewater23
Impact of farmer differentiation on farmland abandonment: Evidence from Fujian's hilly mountains, China23
Building the plane in the air: Articulating neo-endogenous rural development from the ground up23
A relational approach to pesticide use: Farmers, herbicides, nutsedge, and the weedy path to pesticide use reduction objectives22
Deliberative assembling: Tinkering and farmer agency in precision agriculture implementation22
Imagining an agrarian future in rural Rwanda: Evidence from Congolese refugees at Mahama camp22
Tackling poverty and social isolation using a smart rural development initiative22
Land dispossession, rural gentrification and displacement: Blurring the rural-urban boundary in Chengdu, China22
Does planning production expansion have its intended effect in reality? Evidence from the dairy sector in Poland22
Creative assets, people, and places: Rural art action practices of US nonprofit organizations22
Understanding the cultural potential of rural festivals: A conceptual framework of cultural capital development22
Rural transition in the loess hilly and gully region: From the perspective of “flowing” cropland22
‘The making of Hoepertingen’: Debating change in a village in Haspengouw (Belgium)22
Promotional campaigns in the agri-food sector aimed at reducing meat consumption: A promising leverage for action22
>Intersectional knowledge as rural social innovation21
Investments are more than money: Emerging investment rationales and farmers in the Danish agri-food system21
Smog and Air Pollution: Journalistic Criticism and Environmental Accountability in China21
What makes peripheral places matter? Applying the concept of political capital within a multiple capital framework21
New pathways for women’s empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania21
Policy and politics: How specialist farming media frame climate action21
At the intersection of urbanisation and counterurbanisation in rural space: Microurbanisation in Northern Iceland21
Scaling up mechanisms in citizen farming initiatives: Lessons learned from a citizen-led and collective agroecological farm21
Soil-based carbon farming: Opportunities for collaboration21
Family farming and gender in a valley in northern Spain21
Migration, class and intra-distinctions of whiteness in the making of inland rural Victoria21
Understanding the impact of identity and socio-economic factors on the adoption of soil conservation practices: Empirical evidence from Australia21
Exploration of values and agency in place-based food systems21
Different sales channels for different farmers: Local and mainstream marketing of organic fruits and vegetables in Norway21
Farmers and their data: Evaluating the swiss conception of data sharing through the lens of digital farming21
How mega events redefine rurality? CunBA and the (re)production of rurality in China21
Wine grape grower perceptions and attitudes about soil health20
Prefiguring the counter-hegemony of open cooperativism: The case of Open Food Network20
Spatial association of coastal towns and villages in Funing District, Qinhuangdao: A study using social network analysis20
Deciphering how promoting land consolidation for village revitalization in rural China: A comparison study20
Resettlement, intergenerational memory, place attachment, and place identity in Roșia Jiu coal mine - Gorj County, Romania20
Unveiling the role of early child development in preventing poverty transmission in deep poverty-stricken areas of RuralChina20
An urban-rural divide (or not?): Small firm location and the use of digital technologies20
Navigating spatial justice: Exploring municipal planners’ logics in differentiated village planning20
Farmland titling, farmland adjustment and rural collective action: Application of institutional analysis and development framework using evidence from China's irrigation commons20
Urban-rural mobilities: The case of China's rural tourism makers20
Contesting rural Australia in the time of accelerating climate change20
Assessing the effect of soil testing on chemical fertilizer use intensity: An empirical analysis of phosphorus fertilizer demand by Irish dairy farmers20
Are landholders willing to collaborate under ELMs? Promoting collaborative conservation on a landscape scale in the UK20
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where?20
Farmers’ empowerment and learning processes in accountability practices: An assemblage perspective20
Seaweed aquaculture through the lens of gender: Participation, roles, pay and empowerment in Bantayan, Philippines20
Trans in Arcadia: Transgender lives in the countryside and expanding Philo's ‘rural others’ beyond the cis20
Investigating the Slow Food - Place relation: An empirical study of dairy communities in Abruzzo19
No farmer no food, assessing farmers climate change mitigation, and adaptation behaviors in farm production19
How does reverse entrepreneurship facilitate community transformation in rural China: Evidence from the Yellow Revier19
Attachment to land and its downfalls: Can policy encourage land mobility?19
Pathways of displacement: A pan-Canadian perspective on the nature and dynamics of rural and remote homelessness19
Rural innovation and the green transition: The role of further education colleges19
Interventions to reduce loneliness and social isolation in rural settings: A mixed-methods review19
Banditry as rural crime?19
Food transfers and translocal livelihoods in rural Africa – Longitudinal perspectives from six countries19
Rural gentrification, touristification, and displacement: Analysing evidence from Mexico19
Role of the interaction space in shaping innovation for sustainable agriculture: Empirical insights from African case studies19
Real estate 4.0 – Experiences from the rural19
The gap between administration and migrants: Terminologies and experiences of urban-rural migration in Japan19
Conservation agriculture in new alluvial agro-ecology: Differential perception and adoption19
Ageing in place in a rural town in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Deweyan transactional perspective19
Innovation systems and affordances in climate smart agriculture19
‘The day I killed my cows was the day I walked away’: Mycoplasma bovis, moral economy and moral capital19
Ways of (un)knowing landscapes: Tracing more-than-human relations in regenerative agriculture18
Is small beautiful? Techinical efficiency and environmental sustainability of small-scale family farms under the conditions of agricultural policy support18
Village leadership, social networks and collective actions in indigenous communities: Case of Hani rice terrace social-ecological system in Southwest China18
Local governance of a field in transition: The food policy council movement18
Water in the West: Analyzing the disconnect between farmers' and policymakers’ perceptions of Colorado River Basin shortages in Arizona18
Policy discourses on homecare services for rural older people in Ireland: Spatial and age-based drivers of narratives and absences18
Drivers of the peasant households’ part-time farming behavior in China18
Determinants of returnees’ entrepreneurship in rural marginal China18
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The propensity for negative media reporting of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in Australia18
Relating the management difficulty to the abandonment rate of traditional mountain vineyards18
Landscapes of care for dementia in rural South Africa18
County town shrinkage in China: Identification, spatiotemporal variations and the heterogeneity of influencing factors18
Production and reconstruction mechanism of consumption spaces in urban fringe areas under capital intervention: Evidence from Guangming town in Shenzhen18
Elementary school closures in Sweden over two decades: Geographical characteristics and the role of distance18
“It all depends on what you value”: Value hierarchies as barriers to native biodiversity on dairy farms18
Growing together – How institutional structures influence communal agricultural prosumption types and their potential for continuity18
Crossing Frozen Ground: Tiebout, local public goods, place amenities, and rural-to-rural migration in the Arctic17
The “dreaded” daughter-in-law in Australian farm business succession17
Activating rural infrastructures in regional communities: Cultural funding, silo art works and the challenge of local benefit17
Looking for the local ‘grant-grabbers’: Cattle farmers' criticisms and emerging environmental subjectivities in southwestern France17
Quantifying the influence of sociocognitive factors on land use changes in agricultural regions: Application of the social cognitive theory17
How tourists change farms: The impact of agritourism on organic farming adoption and local community interaction in the Tyrol-Trentino mountain region17
Grassroots innovation: Scenario, policy and governance17
Explaining farmers’ pro-environmental behaviors in rural China: A perspective of appraisal theory of emotions17
Differing perceptions and tensions among tourists and locals concerning a national park region in Norway17
City region thinking, a zombie idea in regional and rural development? Scotland and Finland compared17
Rural outmigration in Northeast Brazil: Evidence from shared socioeconomic pathways and climate change scenarios17
Rural businesses and levelling up: A rural-urban analysis of business innovation and exporting in England's north and midlands17
Unpacking the narrative of agricultural innovations as the sine qua non of sustainable rural livelihoods in Southern Africa17
Finnish dairy farmers’ perceptions of justice in the transition to carbon-neutral farming17
How rural financial credit affects family farm operating performance: An empirical investigation from rural China17
Governing the rural: The case of Izmir (Turkey) in the Post-2000 era17
Performing traceability: Unpacking the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) trade circuit in Peru16
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