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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline171
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa156
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden155
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”138
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities132
Punitive attitudes in Australia: Investigating the rural-urban divide121
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia117
Volunteer tourism in rural France: Examining power dynamics, labour practices, and community interactions113
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture96
The impact of Brexit on SME lending in the UK95
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa89
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience87
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations83
Factors influencing farmer participation in bottom-up collaborative agri-environment-climate measures83
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England78
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland76
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia76
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside73
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)72
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level:A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China70
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality70
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya69
Smallholder rice farming practices across livelihood strategies: A case study of the Poyang Lake Plain, China68
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-1967
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities67
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment66
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro65
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium64
Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China64
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience61
Symbolic economy of bike rentals in rural and suburban Hong Kong: Capital conversion in competitiveness of traditional and innovative firms60
Coal seam gas extraction and related landscape changes in the agricultural production area of Western Downs (Queensland, Australia)59
Editorial Board59
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France58
LEADER and rural development policy - What's the problem represented to be?57
Integrated food policies in south-western France: Insights from local policy-making outside major urban areas55
(Dis)connections between youth migration and food security in a rural community of the Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz, Mexico55
The impact of mental health on the technical efficiency of Chinese arable farmers53
Farmer technology adoption in Cambodia: The impact of climate change, risk aversion, and crop type53
Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America52
Value chains for sustainable mountain development: a qualitative understanding of 23 European cases52
Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition51
Post-pandemic developments in lifestyle migration in Japan: From back-to-the-land to urbanrural?50
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–198248
Family labour organization for dairy farming in western Mexico. Between the search for productivity and wellbeing48
Medical assistance in dying in rural communities: A review of Canadian policies and guidelines47
Rurality and latent precarity: Growing older in a small rural New Zealand town47
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada47
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms46
Getting money in the country: Is there a liability of rurality facing SMEs?46
Between on-site and the clouds: Socio-cyber-physical assemblages in on-farm diversification46
Farmers' perceived values in intercropping: An application of the means end chain framework in Swedish agriculture45
Economic and environmental upgrading after a policy reform: The case of timber value chain in Myanmar45
Unmaking capitalism through community empowerment: Findings from Italian agricultural experiences43
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong42
Local institutions and artisanal mining: Governance forms in the goldfields of Madagascar42
Rethinking the near collapse of certification programmes in commodity value chains: A temporal myopia perspective42
Farm stress and the production of rural sacrifice zones41
Entwined ruralities: Seasonality, simultaneity and precarity among transnational migrant workers in the wild berry industry41
Migrants in the economy of European rural and mountain areas. A cross-national investigation of their economic integration41
Learning, adaptation and resilience: The rise and fall of local food networks in Denmark40
The geography of poverty: Review and research prospects40
Rural co-working: New network spaces and new opportunities for a smart countryside40
‘What we'd like is a CSA in every town.’ Scaling community supported agriculture across the UK39
Identifying new social enterprise models in the Italian municipalities39
Ensuring milk quality: Contextualizing the knowledge of Kenyan small-scale milk traders who connect farmers with low-income consumers39
Non-metropolitan settlement and integration outcomes of humanitarian migrants in Australia: Combining spatial, multidimensional and longitudinal perspectives39
Communities of practice and rural women's empowerment: Insights from a case study of grassroots cooperative in Turkey39
Editorial Board39
Regional variations in automation job risk and labour market thickness to agricultural employment39
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Farmers’ limited perceptions of the role of ecological processes in crop production, a potential obstacle to agroecological transition37
Alternative measures of Family Farm Viability – Incorporating gap measures36
Tourism and coexistence between branded and natural wines: the case of Calonge i Sant Antoni36
Gender difference in time-use of off-farm employment in rural Sichuan, China36
Social innovation in rural governance: A comparative case study across the marginalised rural EU35
Women empowering rural Spain: A study of entrepreneurial career satisfaction35
Public transport-disadvantaged rural areas in relation to daily accessibility of regional centre: Case study from Slovakia34
Farmers’ adaptive behaviors towards wildlife incidents regarding national park management: The role of informal institutions34
Gender as an entangled force: Gendered mining entanglements, labor organization and leadership structure in artisanal and small-scale mining34
The rural development trilemma34
Europe's orchard: The role of irrigation on the Spanish agricultural production33
It doesn't bother me: An intersectional analysis of discrimination among white women farmers in the US Corn Belt33
The European Green Deal and the peasant cause: Class frustration, cultural backlash and right-wing nationalist populism in farmers’ protests in Poland33
Producing an ideal village: Imagined rurality, tourism and rural gentrification in China33
Praised, prized, yet penalised: A critical examination of low-wage hiring queues in the global strawberry industry33
Anticipating farmer outcomes of three genetically modified staple crops in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from farming systems research32
Agricultural value chain transformations: A comparative analysis of milling segment upgrading in the rice value chains in Ghana and Ivory Coast32
Who are to support the aged in rural China? The study of people's willingness to purchase socialized care service and its influencing factors32
Historical transitions of seed breeding in China: From socialist cooperation to joint research32
The long-term impact of land certification on factor reallocation and household welfare in rural China32
Newcomers and rural crisis: Beyond the demographic challenge. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)32
Social innovation and their legitimation processes within rural developments in east Germany32
Designing precision livestock farming system innovations: A farmer perspective31
Elaborating decent work for agriculture: Job experiences and workforce retention in the Australian orchard industry31
Post-socialist generation change in Hungarian farming31
Advancing AKIS with assemblage thinking31
An analytical framework to consider social justice issues in farmland preservation on the urban fringe. Insights from three French cases31
Wellbeing dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial perspective across territorial typologies31
Media framing of migrant labour in UK fruit and vegetable production: An analysis of reporting in UK farming and mainstream print press31
Marginalisation through the eyes of the othered: Young adults choosing to live in rural Northern Sweden30
How can rural e-commerce promote green production on family farms in China? Evidence from Hunan Province30
Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of relational and planetary rurality30
Localized practices of rural tourism makers from a resilience perspective: A comparative study in China30
Who will benefit from big data? Farmers’ perspective on willingness to share farm data30
Do organic farming initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa improve the sustainability of smallholder farmers? Evidence from five case studies in Ghana and Kenya30
A comparison of the mental health impacts and resilience of healthcare workers in rural Manitoba during the COVID-19 pandemic30
The elements of intuition in decision-making: A multidimensional framework based on Finnish regenerative farmers’ experiences30
What affects farmers' intention to learn about sustainability in online settings? An application of the extended theory of planned behaviour in Slovenia29
What influences the development of wine-producing regions? New economic opportunities in the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountains in China29
Technical knowledge acquisition modes and environmental sustainability in Spanish organic farms29
The “White middle-class farming woman”: Instagram and settler colonialism in contemporary rural Australia29
Experiences of dementia in farming communities: A scoping review29
The potential of local online shopping platforms for villages and small and medium-sized towns29
Under-capacitated and over-powered? Rural austerity and asymmetrical negotiating relationships in US wind energy development29
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
Shifting forest landownership interests over the life-course of female forest landowners in rural Georgia, United States28
Requalifying markets of basic food commodities? An examination of the Round Table on Responsible Soy's implementation in Córdoba, Argentina28
Between institutional reform and building popular movements: The political articulation of agroecology in Brazil28
From Fisher wives to fish vendors: Gendered livelihood transitions in a fishing village in Egypt28
Maintaining emergency services in rural areas. Recruitment, retention and resignation of non-career firefighters in Sweden28
Community Co-creation through knowledge (Co)Production: The engagement of universities in promoting rural revitalization in China28
Place-based rural development: A role for complex adaptive region assemblages?28
Beef as a socio-cultural identity: Rural and urban consumers' attitudes from Rio Grande do sul, Brazil, facing cultured beef28
Analysis of rural economic restructuring driven by e-commerce based on the space of flows: The case of Xiaying village in central China28
Editorial Board28
The green transformation and gender equality in agricultural entrepreneurship: Insights from the European Union28
Spatially explicit restructuring of rural settlements: A dual-scale coupling approach28
Out of balance? Understanding resident-municipality relations in rural peripheries through ascriptions of responsibility28
Residential migration among veterans with experience of housing instability27
Land dispossession, rural gentrification and displacement: Blurring the rural-urban boundary in Chengdu, China27
(Re)enclosure, structural violence and commoning in marine fisheries in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar27
A relational approach to pesticide use: Farmers, herbicides, nutsedge, and the weedy path to pesticide use reduction objectives27
Role of soil perception and soil variability by smallholder farmers in the low adoption rates of extension packages in Central America27
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State-led commodification of rural China and the sustainable provision of public goods in question: A case study of Tangjiajia, Nanjing26
Learning from the past and embracing future opportunities: Perceptions of new Environmental Land Management Schemes and private nature markets26
Increase of fear of crime in rural Brazil and police legitimacy26
Building the plane in the air: Articulating neo-endogenous rural development from the ground up26
The humans behind the herd: are alternative livestock farms agroecological from a socioeconomic perspective?26
Factors influencing the decision of young adults to remain in their rural environment: Social origin, education and gender26
Rebalancing healthcare utilization: Rural-urban health insurance integration and health-seeking behavior of rural residents in China26
Community-supported agriculture and allotment gardens as collective forms of food production – Investigating the effect of social capital on perceived benefits26
Identifying the specific features, determinants, and suitability of green homestay inn distribution in rural China26
Inter- and intra-annual changes in food consumption among rural households in East China25
Black Ecologies, subaquatic life, and the Jim Crow enclosure of the tidewater25
“The ground beneath our feet is still holding strong”: Physical and symbolic capital in the rural youth movements crisis in Israel25
The global cotton trade network reveals a shift in the cotton import center to the global south from 1986 to 202025
Challenges and opportunities for the rural Cop in Trinidad and Tobago25
Rural transition in the loess hilly and gully region: From the perspective of “flowing” cropland25
The role of government interventions in household climate adaptation on the Tibetan Plateau25
Heritage places and the place attachment of adolescents: The case of the Castelo of Vila Nova de Cerveira (Portugal)25
“You sleep with your eyes open”: Understanding rural crime and its implications for community well-being25
Tackling poverty and social isolation using a smart rural development initiative25
Understanding the barriers and enablers to agroforestry adoption in Ireland through an innovation systems approach24
Has farmer welfare improved after rural residential land circulation?24
“We left the crop there lying in the field”: Agricultural worker experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic in a rural US-Mexico border region24
Impact of farmer differentiation on farmland abandonment: Evidence from Fujian's hilly mountains, China24
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 areas24
Intermediate levels of socio-ecological disturbance drive higher biodiversity in naturally regenerating forests: A case study from Nepal24
Navigating industrial decline: A case study of place attachment and social capital in economic transition –Valemount, British Columbia24
Policy and politics: How specialist farming media frame climate action23
Spatial association of coastal towns and villages in Funing District, Qinhuangdao: A study using social network analysis23
Does planning production expansion have its intended effect in reality? Evidence from the dairy sector in Poland23
“A lender should not know where you live”: Financial precarity, debt, and everyday life in rural Malawi and Tanzania23
Creative assets, people, and places: Rural art action practices of US nonprofit organizations23
Promotional campaigns in the agri-food sector aimed at reducing meat consumption: A promising leverage for action23
Investments are more than money: Emerging investment rationales and farmers in the Danish agri-food system23
Deliberative assembling: Tinkering and farmer agency in precision agriculture implementation23
Scaling up mechanisms in citizen farming initiatives: Lessons learned from a citizen-led and collective agroecological farm23
What makes peripheral places matter? Applying the concept of political capital within a multiple capital framework23
Imagining an agrarian future in rural Rwanda: Evidence from Congolese refugees at Mahama camp23
Migration, class and intra-distinctions of whiteness in the making of inland rural Victoria22
Navigating spatial justice: Exploring municipal planners’ logics in differentiated village planning22
Fisheries area-based partnerships in European multilevel governance: understanding embeddedness in organisational environments22
A narrative study of why young people go ‘back-to-the-land’: Interpretation from the perspective of self-identity theory22
Angling for change? A study of a Swedish public-private partnership for sustainable rural fisheries tourism22
Editorial Board22
Farmers and their data: Evaluating the swiss conception of data sharing through the lens of digital farming22
Gender (in)equity and the adoption of farm machinery: Opportunities and trade-offs in Bangladesh livestock systems22
How mega events redefine rurality? CunBA and the (re)production of rurality in China22
Understanding the impact of identity and socio-economic factors on the adoption of soil conservation practices: Empirical evidence from Australia22
Are landholders willing to collaborate under ELMs? Promoting collaborative conservation on a landscape scale in the UK22
Seaweed aquaculture through the lens of gender: Participation, roles, pay and empowerment in Bantayan, Philippines22
Soil-based carbon farming: Opportunities for collaboration21
Assessing the effect of soil testing on chemical fertilizer use intensity: An empirical analysis of phosphorus fertilizer demand by Irish dairy farmers21
New pathways for women’s empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania21
>Intersectional knowledge as rural social innovation21
Different sales channels for different farmers: Local and mainstream marketing of organic fruits and vegetables in Norway21
Wine grape grower perceptions and attitudes about soil health21
An urban-rural divide (or not?): Small firm location and the use of digital technologies21
Deciphering how promoting land consolidation for village revitalization in rural China: A comparison study21
Prefiguring the counter-hegemony of open cooperativism: The case of Open Food Network21
Farmland titling, farmland adjustment and rural collective action: Application of institutional analysis and development framework using evidence from China's irrigation commons21
Exploration of values and agency in place-based food systems21
Family farming and gender in a valley in northern Spain21
Contesting rural Australia in the time of accelerating climate change21
Urban-rural mobilities: The case of China's rural tourism makers21
Smog and Air Pollution: Journalistic Criticism and Environmental Accountability in China21
Rural innovation and the green transition: The role of further education colleges20
Growing together – How institutional structures influence communal agricultural prosumption types and their potential for continuity20
Formative influences: How capital shapes rural students’ college-going intentions20
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where?20
Policy discourses on homecare services for rural older people in Ireland: Spatial and age-based drivers of narratives and absences20
Production and reconstruction mechanism of consumption spaces in urban fringe areas under capital intervention: Evidence from Guangming town in Shenzhen20
Banditry as rural crime?20
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
Landscapes of care for dementia in rural South Africa20
Role of the interaction space in shaping innovation for sustainable agriculture: Empirical insights from African case studies19
From drought to recovery: How extreme drought drives adaptive behaviour and grain production efficiency in Sichuan and Chongqing, China19
Trans in Arcadia: Transgender lives in the countryside and expanding Philo's ‘rural others’ beyond the cis19
Drivers of the peasant households’ part-time farming behavior in China19
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
Unveiling the role of early child development in preventing poverty transmission in deep poverty-stricken areas of RuralChina19
Food transfers and translocal livelihoods in rural Africa – Longitudinal perspectives from six countries19
The gap between administration and migrants: Terminologies and experiences of urban-rural migration in Japan19
‘The day I killed my cows was the day I walked away’: Mycoplasma bovis, moral economy and moral capital19
Conservation agriculture in new alluvial agro-ecology: Differential perception and adoption19
“It's such a big ask for a volunteer”: Community transport as a sticking plaster solution to rural transport poverty19
Ageing in place in a rural town in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Deweyan transactional perspective19
Is small beautiful? Techinical efficiency and environmental sustainability of small-scale family farms under the conditions of agricultural policy support19
Elementary school closures in Sweden over two decades: Geographical characteristics and the role of distance18
The propensity for negative media reporting of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in Australia18
County town shrinkage in China: Identification, spatiotemporal variations and the heterogeneity of influencing factors18
Village leadership, social networks and collective actions in indigenous communities: Case of Hani rice terrace social-ecological system in Southwest China18
Determinants of returnees’ entrepreneurship in rural marginal China18
Quantifying the influence of sociocognitive factors on land use changes in agricultural regions: Application of the social cognitive theory18
No farmer no food, assessing farmers climate change mitigation, and adaptation behaviors in farm production18
How does reverse entrepreneurship facilitate community transformation in rural China: Evidence from the Yellow Revier18
Performative planning? Evaluating coexistence and procedural justice in Queensland's gas–agriculture interface18
Ways of (un)knowing landscapes: Tracing more-than-human relations in regenerative agriculture18
Interventions to reduce loneliness and social isolation in rural settings: A mixed-methods review18
Water in the West: Analyzing the disconnect between farmers' and policymakers’ perceptions of Colorado River Basin shortages in Arizona17
Understanding food (In) security through land and livelihoods: Evidence from longitudinal household data17
Editorial Board17
Differing perceptions and tensions among tourists and locals concerning a national park region in Norway17
Governing the rural: The case of Izmir (Turkey) in the Post-2000 era17
Relating the management difficulty to the abandonment rate of traditional mountain vineyards17
Running to stand still? Finding levers to address population shrinking in the Northern Territory of Australia17
How tourists change farms: The impact of agritourism on organic farming adoption and local community interaction in the Tyrol-Trentino mountain region17
Lingering social infrastructure: A study of Apennine villages and their postal offices17
Activating rural infrastructures in regional communities: Cultural funding, silo art works and the challenge of local benefit17
Rural outmigration in Northeast Brazil: Evidence from shared socioeconomic pathways and climate change scenarios17
“It all depends on what you value”: Value hierarchies as barriers to native biodiversity on dairy farms17
Mobilizing capitals, forging terroir: Lifestyle migration and envisioning a “better rural landscape”17
Looking for the local ‘grant-grabbers’: Cattle farmers' criticisms and emerging environmental subjectivities in southwestern France17
Stay in dairy? Exploring the relationship between farmer wellbeing and farm exit intentions17
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