OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of China Agricultural Economic Review is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Homestead reduction, economic agglomeration and rural economic development: evidence from Shanghai, China	129
Book review	96
The influence of clan social capital on collective biogas investment	63
Five-year plan and agricultural productivity in China	55
Has financial access improved agricultural technical efficiency? – evidence from two family farm demonstration zones in China	49
The impact of social network and resource endowment of smallholders on sustainable apple production	47
Agricultural production agglomeration and total factor carbon productivity: based on NDDF–MML index analysis	39
Food demand and the nutrient intake of households in underdeveloped rural regions of China: an instrumental variable approach	39
The environmental performance of agricultural production trusteeship from the perspective of planting carbon emissions	36
Psychological capital and the entrepreneurial performance of migrant workers: intermediary role of entrepreneurial opportunity identification	27
Loss of organic cattle to the conventional value chains in Ireland: what are the economic and environmental impacts?	26
Evolutionary dynamics of agricultural trade in Central Asia under the Belt and Road Initiative	24
Can rural e-commerce narrow the urban–rural income gap? Evidence from coverage of Taobao villages in China	24
Liquidity of China’s agricultural futures market: measurement and cross-market dependence	22
The effect of grassland transfer on herders' livestock production and grazing intensity in Inner Mongolia and Gansu, China	22
Capital assets and poverty transitions in rural China	21
Climate legislation and green agricultural production: impacts, transmission mechanisms and heterogeneities	21
Mutual proximity and heterogeneity in peer effects of farmers' technology adoption: evidence from China's soil testing and formulated fertilization program	20
Storage losses, market development and household maize-selling decisions in China	20
Surplus manure and barren croplands: strategies for recycling livestock manure to rebuild crop-livestock linkages beyond the farm level	18
Identification of urban-rural integration types in China – an unsupervised machine learning approach	17
Editorial: Prediction, pattern recognition and machine learning in agricultural economics	17
Disasters, harvests and grain prices during the pre-industrial era in Pearl River Delta of China	16
Can regional polycentric spatial structure narrow the urban–rural income gap? Evidence from China	15
Dissecting the provincial relative poverty dynamics in China: a new four-dimensional decomposition approach	15

E-commerce participation, digital finance and farmers' income	14
Monetary policy and overshooting of agricultural prices in China: in a supply chain perspective	13
Tripartite evolutionary game analysis of government reward and punishment mechanisms and agricultural resilience under a dual carbon context	13
Does firm's philanthropy lead to more missions: theory and evidence	12
Missing data estimates related to soybean production in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, from 1990 to 2018	12
Climate change adaptation and upland rice yield: evidence from a farm survey in Yunnan, China	11
Process decomposition of expanded rural housing at the rural–urban fringe: evidence from 27,034 buildings in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China	11
Media coverage of food safety and expenditures for food away from home: empirical evidence from China’s family panel studies	10
The differential effect of tariffs and non-tariff changes on agricultural exports: evidence from China’s RTAs	10
Unlocking the efficiency and potential of China’s agricultural exports to RCEP member countries: perspectives on the entire agricultural industry chain	10
The synergy effect of agricultural dual-scale management on farmers' income: evidence from rural China	9
Impact of technology adoption on livestock production efficiency incorporating grassland productivity	9
Farmers’ policy cognition, psychological constructs and behavior of land transfer: empirical analysis based on household surveys in Beijing	9
Path to sustainable development of livestock: does environmental protection tax matter in livestock green total factor productivity?	9
Nudge research in agricultural economics: two-decade retrospective of empirical evidence	8
The impact of China’s OFDI on host countries’ food security: empirical study based on panel data from 46 countries	8
The effect of rising food prices on nutrient intake among rural–urban migrants in China	8
The impacts of foreign direct investment on total factor productivity: an empirical study of agricultural enterprises	8
Spatial governance of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration towards low-carbon transition	8
Off-farm work and rural residential energy transition: a farm-household model and empirical evidence from China	7
Place-based rural development programs and the labor allocation of farm households	7
Comparing the determinants of household carbon footprints between rural and urban: evidence from China household survey data	7
Economic-environmental assessment of emission tax policy in developing countries: evidence from Iran	7
Effect of education on crop insurance knowledge: evidence from a RCT in China	7
Sidestepping the heat waves and cold snaps: how does extreme climate influence agricultural labor reallocation in China	7
How do digital media strengthen the role of social networks in promoting farmers' adoption of climate change mitigation measures?	6
How agricultural economists are using big data: a review	6
African swine fever, consumer confidence and pork consumption behaviours in China: a case study in Shanghai	6
Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on rural energy poverty: evidence and mechanisms	6
Evolution of the rural social security system in a large country over 35 years: institutional transformation and the Chinese experience	6
A systematic review of rural resilience	6
Evaluating anti-poverty policy efficiencies in China: meta-frontier analysis using the two-stage data envelopment analysis model	6
Is e-commerce widening or narrowing the income distribution gap among Chinese households?	6
Can we design food taxes to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in China? A perspective from animal protein intake of low-income populations	6
Can China’s rural revitalisation policies be an example for other countries aligning with sustainable development goals (SDGs)-1, 2 and 12?	5
New forms of employment: development of take-away delivery and urban–rural wage inequality	5
The wings of digitalization: rural digital governance and subjective well-being	5
Do geographical indications of agricultural products promote county-level economic growth?	5
Off-farm employment experience triggers heterogeneity of exiting part-time farming in rural China	5
Disparate changes of living standard in China: perspective from Engel's coefficient	5
Do climate disasters make farmers more willing to cooperate? Evidence from rural communities in southern China	5
Marketing contracts and technical efficiency of citrus production	5
The impact of improving element quality on the comprehensive production capacity of grain: evidence from high-standard farmland construction	5
Would consumers help achieve sustainable development in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau with a forage–livestock balance certification label?	5
Factor-biased agricultural productivity improvement and industrialization: evidence from the Belt and Road Countries	4
Leveraging genetic data for predicting consumer choices of alcoholic products	4
Internet access and irrigation adoption in China	4
Trade and energy efficiency: theory and evidence	4
Farmers' willingness to pay for smart farming technologies: evidence from a smart drip irrigation technology in North China	4
Effect of agriculture–tourism integration on in situ urbanization of rural residents: evidence from 1868 counties in China	4

The impact of digital agricultural insurance on farmers’ fertilizer reduction technology adoption: evidence from China	4
Impact of interactions within online village-affair communities on farmers’ straw return behavior in China	3
Book review	3
Determinants of consumer purchase decisions of plant-based milk alternatives: the role of preferences for product attributes	3
Rurbanomics for common prosperity: new approach to integrated urban-rural development	3
What does it take to revolutionize Chinese diets: evidence from a choice experiment on urban Chinese consumers	3
Digital inclusive finance and rural consumption structure – evidence from Peking University digital inclusive financial index and China household finance survey	3
The impact of land certification on cropland abandonment: evidence from rural China	3
Fuel adoption in rural heating: a field study on northern China	3
How does platform certification affect the marketing performance of sellers in food e-commerce? Interaction with reputation mechanisms	3
Grain price support policy and the distortion of market price	3
Classification-based forest management program and farmers' income: evidence from collective forest area in southern China	3
Dual carbon goals and the impact on future agricultural development in China: a general equilibrium analysis	3
Digital economy and China's agricultural exports: based on trade cost and market competition effect	3