Journal of Rural Health

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Rural Health is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Use of electronic health records to manage tobacco screening and treatment in rural primary care146
Individual‐ and environmental‐level determinants of fruit and vegetable intakes in rural Georgia78
An updated model of rural hospital financial distress61
Cancer disparities in Appalachian Kentucky60
Rural/urban differences in access to paid sick leave among full‐time workers45
Changes in access to community health services among rural areas affected and unaffected by hospital closures between 2006 and 2018: A comparative interrupted time series study44
“Live your life cuz everybody's terminal”: Describing emotions and coping behaviors of rural advanced cancer patients37
Higher prevalence of hysterectomy among rural women than urban women: Implications for measures of disparities in uterine and cervical cancers33
Rural disparities in end‐of‐life care for patients with heart failure: Are they due to geography or socioeconomic disparity?29
Who produces and funds rural health research?21
The Journal of Rural Health Reviewers, July 2020‐June 202120
Farm vehicle crashes on public roads: Analysis of farm‐level factors20
Nurse practitioner scope of practice and the prevention of foot complications in rural diabetes patients18
Rural‐urban differences in social and emotional protective factors and their association with child health and flourishing17
Urban–rural differences in cancer mortality: Operationalizing rurality17
Communities with an anchor institution have higher coronavirus vaccination rates17
Changes in transmucosal buprenorphine utilization for opioid use disorder treatment during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Kentucky16
Evaluation of treatment access and scope of a multistate hepatitis C virus Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes telehealth service in the US Indian Health System, 2017‐202116
Travel burden in a rural primary care behavioral weight loss randomized trial: Impact on visit attendance and weight loss16
Effect of residence in nonmetropolitan counties on stage and tumor size at diagnosis in patients with breast cancer: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results analysis16
Medicare accountable care organization characteristics associated with participation in 2‐sided risk15
Issue Information14
Medical education for African American communities in the rural South: A focus group approach to identify fundamental considerations14
Efforts by critical access hospitals to increase health equity through greater engagement with social determinants of health13
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Farm Dinner Theater: Testing an innovative health and safety intervention among older farmers and their families12
Development and initial validity and reliability of the Rural Practice Awareness and Skills Scale12
Drug disposal deserts: An assessment of receptacle availability in Kentucky community pharmacies12
An assessment of the rural‐urban differences in the crash response time and county‐level crash fatalities in the United States11
Medication treatment for opioid use disorder among rural primary care patients11
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Availability of hospital‐based cancer services before and after rural hospital closure, 2008‐201710
The role of digital health technology in rural cancer care delivery: A systematic review10
Factors associated with quality of life, depressive symptoms, and perceived stress among rural older adults living with HIV in the United States10
Rural/urban differences in the prevalence of stroke risk factors: A cross‐sectional analysis from the REGARDS study10
Health‐related quality of life in head and neck cancer survivors: Evaluating the rural disadvantage9
Improving colorectal cancer screening in rural primary care: Preliminary effectiveness and implementation of a collaborative mailed fecal immunochemical test pilot9
Rural‐urban differences in informal caregiving and health‐related quality of life9
Association between the geographic accessibility of PrEP and PrEP use among MSM in nonurban areas9
Telephone veteran peer coaching for mental health treatment engagement among rural veterans: The importance of secondary outcomes and qualitative data in a randomized controlled trial9
Rural Veterans with HIV and Alcohol Use Disorder receive less video telehealth than urban Veterans9
Tracking the geographic distribution and growth of clinicians with a DEA waiver to prescribe buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder9
Clinical outcomes and profitability following rural hospital mergers and acquisitions9
Geographic disparities in late HIV diagnoses in Tennessee: Opportunities for interventions in the rural Southeast8
Comparative effectiveness of two interventions to increase colorectal cancer screening among females living in the rural Midwest8
Community responses and adaptations following the closure of a rural pharmacy and primary care facility8
Patient reports of cancer care coordination in rural Hawaii8
Rural‐specific identity and associations with lifestyle behaviors and well‐being among rural cancer survivors8
Rural‐urban differences in uptake of diabetes self‐management education among Medicare beneficiaries: Results from the 2016 to 2018 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey8
Racial and gender differences in relapse potential and treatment acceptance among rural residents in a substance use disorder treatment program8
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Rural residency as a risk factor for severe maternal morbidity7
Medicare Advantage and rural hospital profitability7
State health disparities research in Rural America: Gaps and future directions in an era of COVID‐197
Well‐being interventions for rural health professionals: A scoping review7
Ambulatory care utilization in the first 24 months’ postpartum by rurality and pregnancy‐related conditions: A prospective cohort study from Maine6
A new model‐based approach for estimating rural hospital markets6
Empowering our people: Predictors of retention in an STI risk reduction program among rural Native Americans with binge substance use6
Erratum6
Trends in and factors associated with family physician‐performed screening colonoscopies in the United States: 2016‐20216
Is being there enough? Postgraduate nurse practitioner residencies in rural primary care6
Associations of tobacco use and consumption with rurality among patients with psychiatric disorders: Does smoke‐free policy matter?6
Association of rurality with utilization of palliative care and hospice among Medicare beneficiaries who died from pancreatic cancer: A cohort study6
Interstates of Infection: Preliminary Investigations of Human Mobility Patterns in the COVID‐19 Pandemic6
Supporting Critical Access Hospital operational and financial improvement through the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program6
Telehealth among substance using justice‐involved persons on community supervision: Benefits, challenges, and suggestions for future use6
Anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, and professional quality of life among the hospital workforce during a global health pandemic6
A cross‐sectional study of alcohol, opioid use, and anxiety in agriculturally based occupations5
Understanding opioid use within a Southwestern American Indian Reservation Community: A qualitative study5
Nursing turnover in a large, rural health system5
Perspectives of cancer prevention and control resources from stakeholders in rural southern Illinois5
Heightened interest in rural health: The Journal of Rural Health moves into the top 10 ranked health policy and services publications5
Going the distance: Associations between adverse birth outcomes and obstetric provider distances for adolescent pregnancies in South Carolina5
Exploring COVID‐19 census burdens by US hospital characteristics: Implications of quality reporting at rural and critical access hospitals5
SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and long COVID among California farmworkers5
Pain management: A deeper look at rural and urban nurses’ perceptions and experiences5
Rural/urban differences in receipt of governmental rental assistance: Relationship to health and disability5
Farmer Suicide in Wisconsin: A Qualitative Analysis5
Understanding rural‐urban differences in veterans’ internet access, use and patient preferences for telemedicine5
Issue Information5
Assessing the relationship between census tract rurality and severe maternal morbidity in California (1997‐2018)5
Stress and suicidal ideation among first‐generation farmers: A cross‐sectional study with 1,288 farmers in Georgia5
Rural‐urban differences in health care unaffordability5
Impact of higher payments for rural home health episodes on rehospitalizations5
Rural health and rural industries: Opportunities for partnership and action5
The struggles that are faced with a rural cancer diagnosis: My personal story5
Rural disparities in the quality of clinical care are notable and larger for males5
Rural‐urban differences in hospitalizations for opioid use‐associated infective endocarditis in Kentucky, 2016‐20195
The impact of patient–provider relationships on choosing between VA and VA‐purchased care: A qualitative study of health care decision‐making among rural veterans5
We are all in this together: Rurality, Social cohesion, and COVID‐19 prevention behaviors5
Substance use disorders in the farming population: Scoping review5
The effect of broadband access on electronic patient engagement activities: Assessment of urban‐rural differences4
Rural‐urban divide in risk perception of LSD: Implications for psychedelic‐assisted therapy4
Incidental sun exposures as a source of sunburn among rural compared to urban residents in the United States4
Geographic differences in contraception provision and utilization among federally funded family planning clinics in South Carolina and Alabama4
Interventions to address cancer‐related financial toxicity: Recommendations from the field4
Syringe services programs in the Bluegrass: Evidence of population health benefits using Kentucky Medicaid data4
Urban‐rural disparities in childhood obesogenic environments in the United States: Application of differing rural definitions4
Prenatal substance use in the rural and Appalachian state: Project WATCH study 2020‐20224
Broadband access within Medically Underserved Areas and its implication for telehealth utilization4
The influence of rurality on self‐reported physical therapy utilization among patients with severe chronic back pain in the United States4
Correction to “Rural–urban disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality vary by poverty level and region”4
The Association of Social Determinants of Health With COVID‐19 Mortality in Rural and Urban Counties4
Trends in patient perceptions of care toward rural and urban hospitals in the United States: 2014‐20194
Attitudes toward pharmacy‐based HCV/HIV testing among people who use drugs in rural Kentucky4
I offer “Ambulatory Surgical Center‐as‐Collaborator” to expand availability of colonoscopy with family physicians4
Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on rural and urban cancer patients' experiences, health behaviors, and perceptions4
Sleep disorders among rural Veterans: Relative prevalence, comorbidities, and comparisons with urban Veterans4
Rural‐urban trends in health care utilization, treatment, and mortality among US veterans with congestive heart failure: A retrospective cohort study4
The Breast‐Imaging Operations, Practices and Systems Inventory: A framework to examine mammography facility effects on screening in rural communities4
Improving cancer care locally: Study of a hospital affiliate network model4
Cross‐sectional survey study of primary care clinics on evidence‐based colorectal cancer screening intervention use4
Higher hospitalization and mortality rates among SARS‐CoV‐2‐infected persons in rural America4
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among Medicare beneficiaries aged ≥ 65 years in rural America, by Census region and select demographic characteristics: 20203
Characteristics of rural registered nurses and the implications for workforce policy3
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How rural is All of Us? Comparing characteristics of rural participants in the National Institute of Health's All of Us Research Program to other national data sources3
Understanding the relationship between social capital, health, and well‐being in a southern rural population3
The uneven impact of Medicaid expansion on rural and urban Black, Latino/a, and White mortality3
A qualitative study of end‐stage liver disease and liver transplant referral practices among primary care providers in nonurban America3
Health care access barriers among metropolitan and nonmetropolitan populations of eight geographically diverse states, 20183
Barriers and facilitators to HIV care engagement: Recommendations from people with HIV in rural Arkansas3
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Psychometric properties of the Telepsych User Experience Scale (TUES)3
Research‐practice partnerships: Adapting a care coordination intervention for rural Veterans over 3 years at multiple sites3
Expanding the opioid use disorder medication treatment workforce in rural communities through the RCORP initiative3
An examination of telehealth policy impacts on initial rural opioid use disorder treatment patterns during the COVID‐19 pandemic3
Provider‐to‐provider telemedicine for sepsis is used less frequently in communities with high social vulnerability3
Drive time to care and retention in HIV care: Rural–urban differences among Medicaid enrollees in the United States South3
Missed opportunities for human papillomavirus vaccination using Iowa's Immunization Registry Information System3
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The aging general surgeon of rural America3
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The impact of rural structural and community health factors on postmastectomy complications among south central Appalachian breast cancer patients3
Antibiotic prescribing to Kentucky Medicaid children, 2012‐2017: Prescribing is higher in rural areas3
Rural and Urban Differences in COVID‐19 Prevention Behaviors3
Adult perceptions of mental health access barriers facing youth in rural Washington State: A group concept mapping study3
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Functional status in rural and urban adults: The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging3
Non‐operating revenue is an important source of funding for rural hospitals, especially those that are government‐owned2
Positive yet problematic: Lived experiences of racial and ethnic minority medical students during rural and urban underserved clinical rotations2
Effects of rurality and distance to care on perinatal outcomes over a 1‐year period during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Intergenerational transfer of occupational risks on family farms2
Explaining behavioral health differences in urban and rural sexual minority adolescents2
Rural mistrust of public health interventions in the United States: A call for taking the long view to improve adoption2
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Left behind again: Rural home health services in a Medicaid pediatric accountable care organization2
Randomized Community Trial Comparing Telephone versus Clinic‐Based Behavioral Health Counseling for People Living with HIV in a Rural Setting2
Contraceptive care service provision via telehealth early in the COVID‐19 pandemic at rural and urban federally qualified health centers in 2 southeastern states2
Integrated care models for co‐occurring alcohol use disorders and alcohol‐associated liver disease in rural communities: Telehealth considerations and opportunities2
The implications of long COVID for rural communities2
The impact of rural general hospital closures on communities—A systematic review of the literature2
Implementation strategies to improve posttraumatic stress disorder care in rural veterans2
Excess deaths associated with COVID‐19 by rurality and demographic factors in the United States2
Geographic differences in community oncology provider and practice location characteristics in the central United States2
The association between hospital care transition planning and timely primary care follow‐up2
Postmortem screening of opioids, benzodiazepines, and alcohol among rural and urban suicide decedents2
Similarities and differences across the underlying dimensions of social functioning in rural and nonrural cancer survivors: A mixed‐methods study2
Transactional sex among rural, justice‐involved Appalachian women who use drugs2
Factors associated with perceived ease of access to syringes in Appalachian North Carolina2
Broadband internet subscription rates and opioid prescribing via telemedicine during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Mental health at the COVID‐19 frontline: An assessment of distress, fear, and coping among staff and attendees at screening clinics of rural/regional settings of Victoria, Australia2
Modernizing payment to critical access hospitals: A proposal for the next iteration of the Flex Program2
Variations in antibiotic prescribing among children enrolled in North Carolina Medicaid, 2013‐20192
Understanding farmers’ barriers to health and mental health‐related help‐seeking: The development, factor structure, and reliability of the Farmer Help‐Seeking Scale2
Cross‐sectional population‐based estimates of a rural‐urban disparity in prevalence of long COVID among Michigan adults with polymerase chain reaction‐confirmed COVID‐19, 2020‐20222
Differences in chronic pain care receipt among veterans from differing racialized groups and the impact of rural versus urban residence2
Rural depopulation and the rural‐urban gap in cognitive functioning among older adults2
Geographic isolation predicts tobacco product use among youth: A latent class analysis2
Rural reticence to inform physicians of cannabis use2
Rural US residents recognize anxiety better than urbanites and suburbanites but hold similar stigma2
Disparities in Prenatal Immunization Rates in Rural and Urban US Areas by Indicators of Access to Care2
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Associations between COVID‐19 therapies and outcomes in rural and urban America: A multisite, temporal analysis from the Alpha to Omicron SARS‐CoV‐2 variants1
Qualitative analysis of cancer care experiences among rural cancer survivors and caregivers1
Rural–urban disparities and trends in utilization of palliative care services among US patients with metastatic breast cancer1
Rural and racial disparities in colorectal cancer incidence and mortality in South Carolina, 1996 – 20161
Impact of rurality on health care utilization among Australian residents from 2009 to 20211
The association of crash response times and deaths at the crash scene: A cross‐sectional analysis using the 2019 National Emergency Medical Service Information System1
What happens to rural hospitals during a ransomware attack? Evidence from Medicare data1
Policy implications of fixed‐to‐total‐cost ratio variation across rural and urban hospitals1
Coordinating women's preventive health care for rural veterans1
Psychometric properties of the 7‐item version of the Concise Health Risk Tracking Self‐Report Scale for rural adults enrolled in an Internet‐delivered self‐help program for depression1
Social disorganization and new HIV diagnoses, 2013‐2017, Florida: Rural‐urban differences1
Twenty‐five years of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program: The past as prologue1
The urban–rural gap in older Americans’ healthy life expectancy1
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A descriptive examination of rurality in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes Cohort: Implications, illustrations, and future directions1
Feasibility of delivering survivorship care via lay health educators: A pilot randomized controlled trial among rural cancer survivors1
Community sociodemographics and rural hospital survival1
Video brochures in a mailed fecal immunochemical test outreach program provide cancer screening information in a user‐friendly format for rural Appalachian community members1
A thematic analysis of the personal factors influencing mental health help‐seeking in farmers1
Video versus audio telehealth in safety net clinic patients: Changes by rurality and time1
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Not enough: Medicaid expansion, medical debt, and cost avoidance in rural American Indian and Alaska Native households1
Examining the relationship between rural residents’ satisfaction with local hospital's COVID‐19 response and intention to use the hospital1
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HIV pre‐exposure prophylaxis awareness, practices, and comfort among urban and rural family medicine physicians1
A qualitative analysis of rural syringe service program fidelity in Appalachian Kentucky: Staff and participant perspectives1
The charm of country life? Impact of rural childhood residence on physical and mental health in later life1
Geographic, racial/ethnic, and socioeconomic inequities in broadband access1
Impact of mandatory COVID‐19 shelter‐in‐place order on controlled substance use among rural versus urban communities in the United States1
Access and attitudinal barriers to engagement in integrated primary care mental health treatment for rural populations1
Incremental cost analysis of pediatric hospice care in rural and urban Appalachia1
Factors associated with early sexual onset and delaying sex in rural middle school youth1
Facilitators and barriers to implementing the Diabetes Prevention Program in rural church settings: A qualitative study using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research1
Association of psychological distress with reasons for delay in seeking medical care in rural patients with worsening heart failure symptoms1
The Indian Health Service can meet its goals for hepatitis C virus treatment through telehealth expansion1
Social determinants of contraception use among rural adolescents: Implications for addressing disparities1
Addressing substance use disorder‐related stigma in rural communities using Community Conversations1
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Medicaid expansion and access to naloxone in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas1
Telemedicine to improve reproductive health care for rural Coloradans: Perceptions of interest and access1
Barriers to participation in clinical trials of rural older adult cancer survivors: A qualitative study1
Federal telehealth policy changes during the COVID‐19 public health emergency: Associations with telemental health use among rural and urban Medicare beneficiaries1
Geographic distance to Commission on Cancer‐accredited and nonaccredited hospitals in the United States1
Characterizing rural families’ experiences receiving pediatric surgical care: A qualitative study1
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