| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Is It Really Just a Social Construction?: The Contribution of the Physical Environment to Sense of Place | Society and Natural Resources | 2003 | 819 |
| 2 | Risk Perceptions, General Environmental Beliefs, and Willingness to Address Climate Change | Risk Analysis | 1999 | 679 |
| 3 | The production of social capital in US counties | Journal of Socio-Economics | 2006 | 631 |
| 4 | A comparative analysis of predictors of sense of place dimensions: Attachment to, dependence on, and identification with lakeshore properties | Journal of Environmental Management | 2006 | 404 |
| 5 | Voluntary corporate environmental initiatives and shareholder wealth | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 2011 | 246 |
| 6 | The Relative Efficiency of Agricultural Source Water Pollution Control Policies | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 1986 | 180 |
| 7 | Toward an interactional approach to sustainable community development | Journal of Rural Studies | 1999 | 160 |
| 8 | Protest Bidders in Contingent Valuation | Agricultural and Resource Economics Review | 1992 | 158 |
| 9 | Close enough but not too far: Assessing the effects of university–industry research relationships and the rise of academic capitalism | Research Policy | 2008 | 151 |
| 10 | Electricity shortages and firm productivity: Evidence from China's industrial firms | Journal of Development Economics | 2015 | 144 |
| 11 | Reforming Agricultural Nonpoint Pollution Policy in an Increasingly Budget-Constrained Environment | Environmental Science & Technology | 2012 | 131 |
| 12 | Moving local food through conventional food system infrastructure: Value chain framework comparisons and insights | Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems | 2011 | 121 |
| 13 | Valuing open space in a residential sorting model of the Twin Cities | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 2010 | 119 |
| 14 | The Amenity and Disamenity Impacts of Agriculture: Estimates from a Hedonic Pricing Model | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 2005 | 108 |
| 15 | Benefit Transfer in Europe: How Reliable Are Transfers between Countries? | Environmental and Resource Economics | 2004 | 106 |
| 16 | Community agency and sustainable tourism development: the case of La Fortuna, Costa Rica | Journal of Sustainable Tourism | 2010 | 106 |
| 17 | Why Farmers Quit: A County‐Level Analysis | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 2001 | 104 |
| 18 | The Demand for Food Quality in Rural China | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 2009 | 103 |
| 19 | Income Inequality and Mortality in US Counties: Does Minority Racial Concentration Matter? | American Journal of Public Health | 2002 | 101 |
| 20 | Ambient Taxes When Polluters Have Multiple Choices | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 1998 | 98 |
| 21 | The Association of Outdoor Recreation and Environmental Concern: Reexamining the Dunlap‐Heffernan Thesis1 | Rural Sociology | 1998 | 98 |
| 22 | Informal Work in Nonmetropolitan Pennsylvania1 | Rural Sociology | 1995 | 98 |
| 23 | The Drop-Off/Pick-Up Method For Household Survey Research | Journal of the Community Development Society | 2001 | 96 |
| 24 | International benefit transfer: Methods and validity tests | Ecological Economics | 2006 | 95 |
| 25 | Dynamic Efficiency Measurement: Theory and Application | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 2007 | 93 |
| 26 | Food Deserts and Overweight Schoolchildren: Evidence from Pennsylvania* | Rural Sociology | 2009 | 91 |
| 27 | Nonparametric Dynamic Production Analysis and the Theory of Cost | Journal of Productivity Analysis | 2003 | 89 |
| 28 | Environmental Reviews and Case Studies: Marcellus Shale Gas Development and New Boomtown Research: Views of New York and Pennsylvania Residents | Environmental Practice | 2012 | 89 |
| 29 | Selective Patronage and Social Justice: Local Food Consumer Campaigns in Historical Context | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 2008 | 86 |
| 30 | Hunting and Rural Socialization: Contingent Effects of the Rural Setting on Hunting Participation | Rural Sociology | 2001 | 86 |
| 31 | Resource Dependence and Community Well-Being in Rural Canada* | Rural Sociology | 2004 | 85 |
| 32 | Agricultural education: Gender identity and knowledge exchange | Journal of Rural Studies | 2008 | 83 |
| 33 | Factors Influencing the Adoption of Insect Management Technology | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 1990 | 81 |
| 34 | Research Issues in Nonpoint Pollution Control | Environmental and Resource Economics | 1998 | 80 |
| 35 | Adolescent and Adult Leisure Patterns: A Reassessment | Journal of Leisure Research | 1998 | 80 |
| 36 | Social Landscapes of the Inter‐Mountain West: A Comparison of ‘Old West’ and ‘New West’ Communities* | Rural Sociology | 2007 | 80 |
| 37 | “Our market is our community”: women farmers and civic agriculture in Pennsylvania, USA | Agriculture and Human Values | 2010 | 80 |
| 38 | Exploring rural community agency differences in Ireland and Pennsylvania | Journal of Rural Studies | 2007 | 77 |
| 39 | Adolescent and adult leisure patterns: A 37‐year follow‐up study | Leisure Sciences | 1989 | 76 |
| 40 | The emergence and framing of farm-to-school initiatives: civic engagement, health and local agriculture | Agriculture and Human Values | 2009 | 75 |
| 41 | Water quality trading with asymmetric information, uncertainty and transaction costs: A stochastic agent-based simulation | Resources and Energy Economics | 2013 | 75 |
| 42 | Dynamic Measures of Scope and Scale Economies: An Application to German Agriculture | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 1992 | 72 |
| 43 | Economic Restructuring and the Retreat from Marriage | Social Science Research | 2002 | 71 |
| 44 | Relative Deprivation and Migration in an Agricultural Setting of Nepal | Population and Environment | 2003 | 70 |
| 45 | Use of a Rolled-rye Cover Crop for Weed Suppression in No-Till Soybeans | Weed Technology | 2010 | 69 |
| 46 | Hope and skepticism: Farmer and local community views on the socio-economic benefits of agricultural bioenergy | Biomass and Bioenergy | 2011 | 68 |
| 47 | Multifunctionality, Agricultural Policy, and Environmental Policy | Agricultural and Resource Economics Review | 2004 | 67 |
| 48 | Beggar‐Thy‐Neighbor Advertising: Theory and Application to Generic Commodity Promotion Programs | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 2001 | 66 |
| 49 | Place, Community Development, and Social Capital | Community Development | 2006 | 62 |
| 50 | The agrarian myth and policy responses to farm safety. | American Journal of Public Health | 1994 | 61 |
