European Countryside

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The Journal publishes articles on the European countryside, the rural areas of individual European countries or regions. ...

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Editor-in-chief

Milada Stastna, Mendel University in Brno, Czechia

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Issue 2 (June 2026)

Issue 1 (March 2026) - Crises and the Agricultural and Rural Sphere: Resilience, Adaptation, and Change

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Issue 4 (December 2025)

Issue 3 (September 2025)

Issue 2 (June 2025) - Arts and Culture for a Sustainable Future in Rural Areas

Issue 1 (March 2025)

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Issue 4 (December 2024) - Countryside and Gender in Europe

Issue 3 (September 2024)

Issue 2 (June 2024)

Issue 1 (March 2024)

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Issue 4 (December 2023) - New Challenges in Agricultural and Rural Development

Issue 3 (September 2023)

Issue 2 (June 2023)

Issue 1 (March 2023) - Special Issue: Short Supply Chains

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Issue 4 (December 2022)

Issue 3 (September 2022) - Special Issue: Social Farming

Issue 2 (June 2022)

Issue 1 (March 2022)

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Issue 4 (December 2021)

Issue 3 (September 2021)

Issue 2 (June 2021) - Special Issue: Sparsely populated rural areas

Issue 1 (March 2021)

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Issue 4 (December 2020)

Issue 3 (September 2020) - Special Issue: Cultural Tourism and Rural Development

Issue 2 (June 2020)

Issue 1 (March 2020)

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Issue 4 (December 2019) - Special Issue: Smart European Village

Issue 3 (September 2019)

Issue 2 (June 2019) - Special issue to the Centennial of the Mendel University in Brno

Issue 1 (March 2019)

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Issue 4 (December 2018)

Issue 3 (September 2018)

Issue 2 (June 2018)

Issue 1 (March 2018)

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Issue 4 (December 2017)

Issue 3 (September 2017) - Special Issue: Planning in the Rural Space Issue Editors: Antonín Vaishar, Hana Vavrouchová

Issue 2 (June 2017)

Issue 1 (March 2017) - Special Issue: Role of Water in the Rural Landscape. Special issue editors: Milada Šťastná, Andreas Panagopoulos, Zbyněk Kulhavý.

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Issue 4 (December 2016) - Special Issue: Small towns as centres of rural areas, Editors: Annett Steinführer, Antonín Vaishar, Jana Zapletalová

Issue 3 (September 2016)

Issue 2 (June 2016) - Special issue title: Sustainability of Rural Areas in Practice, Special editors: doc. Ing. Dr. Milada Šťastná, doc. RNDr. Antonín Vaishar, CSc.

Issue 1 (March 2016)

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Issue 4 (December 2015)

Issue 3 (September 2015)

Issue 2 (June 2015)

Issue 1 (March 2015)

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Issue 4 (December 2014)

Issue 3 (September 2014)

Issue 2 (June 2014)

Issue 1 (March 2014) - Demographic change, Issue Editors: Černič-Mali Barbara, Koch Andreas

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Issue 4 (December 2013) - Farm Tourism across Europe, Issue Editors: Irma Potočnik-Slavič, Serge Schmitz

Issue 3 (September 2013)

Issue 2 (June 2013) - Borders and borderlands in Central Europe, Issue Editors: Šťastná Milada, Vaishar Antonín

Issue 1 (March 2013)

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Issue 4 (October 2012)

Issue 3 (September 2012)

Issue 2 (June 2012) - Editors: Alexandra Kruse, Michael Roth and Anu Printsman

Issue 1 (March 2012) - Editors: John McDonagh and Michael Woods

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Issue 4 (December 2011)

Issue 3 (September 2011) - Editors: John McDonagh and Michael Woods

Issue 2 (June 2011)

Issue 1 (March 2011)

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Issue 4 (December 2010)

Issue 3 (September 2010)

Issue 2 (June 2010)

Issue 1 (March 2010)

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Issue 4 (December 2009)

Issue 3 (September 2009)

Issue 2 (June 2009)

Issue 1 (March 2009)

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Open Access

|Jun 2026

Beyond Tourism-Led Rural Development: Territorial Governance and Local Value Chains in Peripheral Rural Regions (Evidence from Albania)

Flora Gjoni and Dritan Rustja

Open Access

|Jun 2026

Agricultural Land Change and Rural Restructuring in Albania, 2000–2020: Patterns and Drivers

Fatmir Guri , Saimir Tollia and Oltjana Zoto

Open Access

|Jun 2026

Principles of Local Development and the European Leader Programme Applied to Fishing Areas: What are the Specific Features? Comparative Approach of Two Lags in France

Pascal Chevalier and Juan Gabriel Tirado Ballesteros

Open Access

|Jun 2026

Financial Training and Sustainable Financial Performance in Smallholder Agriculture: Evidence from Lushnja, Albania

Xhelentiona Mullaymeri , Albana Gjoni and Erisa Demiri

Open Access

|Jun 2026

Gender and Rurality in Spanish Geography: A Systematic Literature Review

María Egea-Hernández , Aida Pinos-Navarette and Juan Carlos Maroto-Martos

Open Access

|Jun 2026

Innovation in Sparse Environments: The Geographical Innovation Dilemma of The Swedish Food Industry

Thomas Blom and Svante Karlsson

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Impact Factor: 1,4
5-Year Impact Factor: 1,7
Journal Citation Indicator: 0,41
CiteScore: 2,4
SCImago Journal Rank: 0,395
Source Normalized Impact per Paper: 0,564
MEIN Index: 40
Google Scholar h5-index: 21
Google Scholar h5-median: 32

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European Countryside

The Journal of Mendel University in Brno

About the journal

Editor-in-chief

All volumes and issues in this journal

Volume 18 (2026)

Volume 17 (2025)

Volume 16 (2024)

Volume 15 (2023)

Volume 14 (2022)

Volume 13 (2021)

Volume 12 (2020)

Volume 11 (2019)

Volume 10 (2018)

Volume 9 (2017)

Volume 8 (2016)

Volume 7 (2015)

Volume 6 (2014)

Volume 5 (2013)

Volume 4 (2012)

Volume 3 (2011)

Volume 2 (2010)

Volume 1 (2009)

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