Most cited papers in Rural development and sustainability
What are the most cited papers in Rural development and sustainability?
The most cited paper in Rural development and sustainability is "Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things" (Mark Jackson, 2010), with 4,757 citations. Next come "WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE IN REGIONAL SCIENCE?" (3,417) and "The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal" (2,523).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 431 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things Mark Jackson · Emotion, space and society | 20 Nov 2010 | 4,757 |
| 2 | WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE IN REGIONAL SCIENCE? Torsten Hägerstraand · Papers of the Regional Science Association | 1970 | 3,417 |
| 3 | The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal Robert Chambers · World Development | Jul 1994 | 2,523 |
| 4 | Situating knowledges: positionality, reflexivities and other tactics Gillian Rose · Progress in Human Geography | Jun 1997 | 2,387 |
| 5 | Scale and Cross-Scale Dynamics: Governance and Information in a Multilevel World David W. Cash, William Neil Adger, Fikret Berkes et al. · Ecology and Society | 2006 | 2,252 |
| 6 | Agricultural abandonment in mountain areas of Europe: Environmental consequences and policy response David Whyte Macdonald, Jason Crabtree, Georg Wiesinger et al. · Journal of Environmental Management | May 2000 | 2,039 |
| 7 | Understanding Alternative Food Networks: Exploring the Role of Short Food Supply Chains in Rural Development H. Renting, Terry Marsden, Jo Ann Banks · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space | Mar 2003 | 1,980 |
| 8 | Livelihoods perspectives and rural development Ian Scoones · The Journal of Peasant Studies | 2009 | 1,873 |
| 9 | Modeling the Spatial Dynamics of Regional Land Use: The CLUE-S Model Peter H. Verburg, W. Soepboer, A. Veldkamp et al. · Environmental Management | Sep 2002 | 1,560 |
| 10 | Sampling-Based Approaches to Calculating Marginal Densities Alan E. Gelfand, A. F. M. Smith · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Jun 1990 | 1,535 |
| 11 | Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders David J. Pannell, Graham R. Marshall, Neil Barr et al. · Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture | 9 Oct 2006 | 1,478 |
| 12 | Rural development: putting the last first Terence J. Byres · International Affairs | 1984 | 1,345 |
| 13 | Progress in Human Geography RJ Johnston, P Dicken, S Smith et al. · Progress in Human Geography | Dec 2001 | 1,298 |
| 14 | Revitalize the world’s countryside Yansui Liu, Yuheng Li · Nature | 14 Aug 2017 | 1,288 |
| 15 | The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration Neil Brenner · Progress in Human Geography | Dec 2001 | 1,259 |
| 16 | AGRICULTURE AND THE STATE SYSTEM: The rise and decline of national agricultures, 1870 to the present HARRIET FRIEDMA, Philip McMichael · Sociologia Ruralis | Aug 1989 | 1,243 |
| 17 | Measuring Social Capital in Five Communities Jenny Onyx, Paul Bullen · The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science | Mar 2000 | 1,218 |
| 18 | Food Supply Chain Approaches: Exploring their Role in Rural Development Terry Marsden, Jo Ann Banks, Gillian Bristow · Sociologia Ruralis | Oct 2000 | 1,202 |
| 19 | Evaluating Qualitative Research in Social Geography: Establishing ‘Rigour’ in Interview Analysis Jamie Baxter, John D. Eyles · Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | Dec 1997 | 1,173 |
| 20 | Migration and the Search for a Better Way of Life: A Critical Exploration of Lifestyle Migration Michaela Caroline Benson, Karen O’Reilly · The Sociological Review | 19 Oct 2009 | 1,132 |
| 21 | The practice and politics of food system localization C. Clare Hinrichs · Journal of Rural Studies | 2003 | 1,108 |
| 22 | Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship Linda M. A. Stone · American Ethnologist | Aug 2001 | 1,076 |
| 23 | Rural Development: From Practices and Policies towards Theory J.D. van der Ploeg, H. Renting, Gianluca Brunori et al. · Sociologia Ruralis | Oct 2000 | 1,033 |
| 24 | Planning Theory's Emerging Paradigm: Communicative Action and Interactive Practice Judith E. Innes · Journal of Planning Education and Research | Apr 1995 | 945 |
| 25 | Embeddedness, the new food economy and defensive localism Michael M. Winter · Journal of Rural Studies | 2003 | 912 |
| 26 | Urban land teleconnections and sustainability Karen C. Seto, Anette Reenberg, Christopher G. Boone et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | May 2012 | 905 |
| 27 | Seeing Through the ‘Good Farmer's’ Eyes: Towards Developing an Understanding of the Social Symbolic Value of ‘Productivist’ Behaviour Rob J.F. Burton · Sociologia Ruralis | 19 Mar 2004 | 893 |
| 28 | Accelerated restructuring in rural China fueled by ‘increasing vs. decreasing balance’ land-use policy for dealing with hollowed villages Hualou Long, Yurui Li, Yansui Liu et al. · Land Use Policy | 24 May 2011 | 883 |
| 29 | Discipline and punishment: The birth of prison P Benoit, o̊Manhattan Borough Director · Journal of Criminal Justice | 1980 | 858 |
| 30 | Participatory rural appraisal (PRA): Challenges, potentials and paradigm Robert Chambers · World Development | Oct 1994 | 853 |
| 31 | Why some rural areas decline while some others not: An overview of rural evolution in the world Yuheng Li, Hans Westlund, Yansui Liu · Journal of Rural Studies | 16 Mar 2019 | 850 |
| 32 | The second Silent Spring? John Richard Krebs, Jeremy D. Wilson, Richard B. Bradbury et al. · Nature | Aug 1999 | 834 |
| 33 | Engaging the global countryside: globalization, hybridity and the reconstitution of rural place Michael Woods · Progress in Human Geography | Aug 2007 | 826 |
| 34 | Multifunctional peri-urban agriculture—A review of societal demands and the provision of goods and services by farming Ingo Zasada · Land Use Policy | 15 Feb 2011 | 722 |
| 35 | Displacement or Succession? Lance Freeman · Urban Affairs Review | 25 Jan 2005 | 718 |
| 36 | New-Build ‘Gentrification’ and London's Riverside Renaissance Mark Davidson, Loretta Lees · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space | Jul 2005 | 715 |
| 37 | From productivism to post‐productivism … and back again? Exploring the (un)changed natural and mental landscapes of European agriculture Geoff A. Wilson · Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | Mar 2001 | 709 |
| 38 | Globalization of land use: distant drivers of land change and geographic displacement of land use Patrick Meyfroidt, Éric F. Lambin, Karl‐Heinz Erb et al. · Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 28 Apr 2013 | 695 |
| 39 | Revitalizing traditional villages through rural tourism: A case study of Yuanjia Village, Shaanxi Province, China Jing Peng Gao, Bihu Wu · Tourism Management | 28 Jun 2017 | 674 |
| 40 | The Intra-Urban Migration Process: a Perspective Lawrence A. Brown, Eric G. Moore · Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography | Apr 1970 | 674 |
| 41 | Region and place: regional identity in question Anssi Paasi · Progress in Human Geography | Aug 2003 | 656 |
| 42 | Developing a science of land change: Challenges and methodological issues Ronald R. Rindfuss, Stephen Joseph Walsh, Billie Lee Turner et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 21 Sep 2004 | 652 |
| 43 | Migration from rural areas of poor countries: The impact on rural productivity and income distribution Michael Lipton · World Development | 1980 | 637 |
| 44 | Amenity migration: diverse conceptualizations of drivers, socioeconomic dimensions, and emerging challenges Hannah Gosnell, Jesse Abrams · GeoJournal | 7 Jul 2009 | 636 |
| 45 | Feminist Visualization: Re-envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research Mei‐Po Kwan · Annals of the Association of American Geographers | Dec 2002 | 632 |
| 46 | Evolving Themes in Rural Development 1950s‐2000s Frank B. Ellis, Stephen Biggs · Development Policy Review | Dec 2001 | 620 |
| 47 | The allocation and management of critical resources in rural China under restructuring: Problems and prospects Hualou Long, Shuangshuang Tu, Dazhuan Ge et al. · Journal of Rural Studies | 31 Mar 2016 | 619 |
| 48 | A reappraisal of gentrification: towards a ‘geography of gentrification’ Loretta Lees · Progress in Human Geography | Sep 2000 | 618 |
| 49 | Unpacking “Participation” in the Adaptive Management of Social–ecological Systems: a Critical Review Lindsay Carman Stringer, Andrew J. Dougill, Evan Fraser et al. · Ecology and Society | 2006 | 612 |
| 50 | Human choice and climate change Sonja A Boehmer-Christiansen, Derek J. Spooner, Tim J. Bellerby et al. · Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning | May 1999 | 606 |
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