OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Consumer Affairs is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	230
Centering transgender consumers in conceptualizations of marketplace marginalization and digital spaces	71
Losing privacy versus losing choice: How consumers react to different costs of personalization	70
Extending the diversity conversation: Fashion consumption experiences of underrepresented and underserved women	58
“Just Do It?” Not So Fast: Why Trust in AI Needs an Interdisciplinary Theoretical Reboot	54
Mindfulness through agency in health consumption: Empirical evidence from committed dietary supplement consumers	46
Is Social Media the New Retirement Advisor? Assessing the Impact of Social Media Influence on Retirement Planning	27
In Memoriam: Monroe P. Friedman	27
Improving the effectiveness of financial education programs. A targeting approach	26
Beyond the Drug Label: Regulatory‐Induced Complexities in Health Information	24
What My Parents Did for Me: Parental Financial Sacrifice, Money Scripts, and Financial Behaviors Among Hong Kong Youths in Low‐ SES Households	21
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The Dark Side of AI in Insurance: A Systematic Review of Mechanisms Linking AI Design Features to	18
Measuring Crypto Literacy	18
Treat yourself: Food delivery apps and the interplay between justification for use and food well‐being	17
Issue Information	17
Becoming Competent Consumers: Exploring the Dynamics of the Consumer Socialization Process Between Parents and Their Adolescents	17
Issue Information	15
Online Shopping and Financial Literacy Among the Elderly	15
Parents' perceptions of the sensitivity of their children's personal information and willingness to share with social media marketers: Implications for sharenting	14
The role of financial literacy in reducing financial distress: What if consumers were perfectly financially literate?	14
Addressing difficulties with abstract thinking for low‐literate, low‐income consumers through marketplace literacy: A bottom‐up approach to consumer and marketing education	13
Designing Eco‐Friendly Message Sidedness for Consumer Happiness: How Inference of Motivation Shapes Affective Consumer Welfare	13
Does financial knowledge affect borrower discouragement among various social categories? Evidence from the United States	13
Time Will Tell—A Longitudinal Study of Consideration of Future Consequences and Financial Behavior in Young Adults	13

Utilization of Alternative Financial Services and the Role of Financial Capability	12
The relationships of financial literacy with both financial behavior and financial well‐being: Meta‐analyses based on the selective literature review	12
Issue Information	12
Calling All Fraud Fighters! Evidence From a Counter‐Marketing Campaign to Prevent Repeat Fraud Victimization	12
Marketing's contribution to consumer welfare: A research agenda	12
School and family environments promote adolescents' financial confidence: Indirect paths to financial literacy skills in Finnish PISA 2018	12
The Negative Effects of Tipping Suggestions From Non‐Human Agents: Consumer Dislike of Manipulative Intent Perceptions	11
Unequal Contributions in the Climate Transition: Income and Household Differences in Food‐Related Carbon Emissions in South Korea	11
Are You Willing to Share Your DNA With Us? An Exploratory Insight Into the Privacy Calculus of Direct‐To‐Consumer Genetic Testing	10
Financial literacy in the digital age—A research agenda	10
Prevention, resolution, or counseling: Testing three approaches to reducing debt payment delinquencies in a large‐scale field experiment	10
E. Thomas Garman in memoriam	10
Mindfully aware and open: Mitigating subjective and objective financial vulnerability via mindfulness practices	10
Impact of Information Overload on Consumer Decision‐Making in the Agri‐Food Sector: A Stimulus‐Organism‐Response Theory Perspective	10
Influence of information on pesticide use during fruit and vegetable cultivation through labeling at the point of purchase: Insights from a French study	10
Design‐Mediated Affective Accountability: How Artificial Intelligence's Emotional Design Shapes Responsible Use	10
The catharsis of male consumption: Reimagining masculinity in India	10
Issue Information	10
Vulnerable consumer experiences of (dis)empowerment with consumer protection regulations	9
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The Hedonic Penalty in Supporting Low‐Income Consumers' Needs	9
The psychology of attraction to multi‐level marketing	9
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YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED : The Effect of California's Proposition 65 Warning on Consumer Perceptions and Evaluations	9
Income disclosure and consumer judgment in a multilevel marketing experiment	8
Issue Information	8
How different religiosity facets affect materialism, hedonistic shopping values, and compulsive buying: Toward mediation‐moderation effects	8
Factors and Determinants of Financial Behaviors That Undermine Financial Well‐Being: A Qualitative Study	8
Social institutions as enablers and inhibitors of environmental activism: A cross‐cultural perspective	8
How consumer networks contribute to sustainable mindful consumption and well‐being	8
Issue Information	7
Household Financial Wellbeing During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: An Instrumental Variable Approach	7
Moving gender across, between and beyond the binaries: In conversation with Shona Bettany, Olimpia Burchiellaro and Rohan Venkatraman	7
Against the odds: Unveiling the racial dynamics of financial resilience in post‐apartheid South Africa	7
Recipients of 2023 American Council on Consumer Interests Best Paper Awards	7
Skating on Thin Ice: New Evidence on Financial Fragility	7
Unraveling the Threads of Marketplace Diversity	6
Journal of Consumer Affairs Best Article and Best Reviewer Awards	6
Job loss during COVID‐19 on early retirement withdrawals: A moderated‐mediation analysis	6
Explaining consumers' progress through life insurance decision states: The role of personal values and consumer characteristics	6
Repeat use of short‐term credit: The case of deposit advance products	6
2023 American Council on Consumer Interests (ACCI) Distinguished Fellow: Irene Ellis Leech	6
Issue Information	6
The impact of Chinese public expenditures on household investment in risky financial assets: Evidence from a national survey	6
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Revisiting Algorithmic Bounded Rationality With Potential Solutions: How Recommendation Systems Amplify Cognitive Biases in Consumer Decision‐Making	6
Blind Spots in Product Design: Utilitarian–Hedonic Choices, Psychological Processes and Retail Strategy Interplay for Visually Impaired Consumers	5
The impact of payday alternative loans on credit union performance and loan quality	5
Issue Information	5
Expanding consumer mindfulness for collective sustainable well‐being: Overview of the special issue and future research directions	5

Exploring the Impact of Consumer Traits and IT Availability on Purchase Intention in Live E‐Commerce: A Two‐Phase Analysis Using	5
The effect size and nonlinearity of the relationship between cannabis consumption and consumer self‐perceived mental health: A study based on eight national surveys in Canada	5
Consumer engagement with preventive health technologies: A double‐edged sword for consumer wellbeing	5
How violence among consumers alters the expected benefits of participation in a consumer collective	5
Health shocks and mortgage debt payoff among American homeowners over age 50: A survival analysis	5
A National Risk Aversion Perspective on Pension Contributions and Benefits Paid: Insights From OECD Countries	5
Youth in individualistic countries have higher financial literacy: Evidence from PISA	5
To wear or not to wear? The influence of regulatory focus and individual cultural orientation on face mask wearing	4
Social traps and the wicked problem of single‐use plastics: A marketing, policy, and consumer‐citizen perspective	4
The effect of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness in driving altruistic food choices	4
W. Keith Bryant in Memoriam	4
Next‐generation mindfulness: A mindfulness matrix to extend the transformative potential of mindfulness for consumer, organizational, and societal wellbeing	4
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Issue Information	4
Law and order? Associations between payday lending prohibition and alternative financial services use by degree of enforcement	4
When the bridge is not human: Algorithmic interference in forming social relationships through the manipulation of weak ties	4
Reducing Food Waste Behavior for Sustainable Consumption: The Effect of Food Consumption Values on Food Waste	4
Twenty‐five years of consumer vulnerability research: Critical insights and future directions	4
Income predictability and budgeting	4
Bank on It: How Bank Account Access Enhances the Effectiveness of Financial Literacy Programs in Pakistan: A Quasi‐Experimental Evaluation	3
Consuming intimate apparel: A Brazilian transgender discourse	3
The Determinants of Student Loan Repayment Worry	3
Exploratory Factor Analysis of Financial Services and Products Indicators: The Dimensionality of Financial Access	3
Perceived Gift Value and Subjective Well‐Being of Chinese Older Adults: A Self‐Concept–Based Framework Informed by Zhongyong Thinking	3
Incentivizing or Disincentivizing? How Perceived Social Mobility Affects Consumers' Risk Preference	3
Financial socialization and financial distress: The role of cognitive and noncognitive abilities	3
Exploring Consumption Stigma: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda	3
It's never too late to be financially literate: Evaluating a financial education intervention for adults in Italy	3
Correction to “Financial Literacy Among Autistic Adults”	3
Effectiveness of Sales Promotions on Vegetable Consumption Among Heterogeneous Consumer Groups: A Causal Forest Approach	3
From self‐quantification to self‐objectification? Framework and research agenda on consequences for well‐being	3
Enhancing Financial Knowledge Through High School Education: The Effect of Mandated Economics and Personal Finance Courses	3
The effect of natural disasters on household economic hardship during a pandemic	3
Issue Information	3
Examining Consumers' Illusion of Control and Impulsive Acquisition of Companion Animals: Effects on Future Distress and Abandonment Intention	3
Confronting the deep problem of consumption: Why individual responsibility for mindful consumption matters	2
Understanding the gender gap in financial literacy: The role of culture	2
Health Halos or Drinkability? Evaluating What Is Behind Hard Seltzer's Meteoric Growth	2
A systematic review of consumer empowerment research trends: Evidence from esteemed consumer studies journals	2
Issue Information	2
Modernizing standards of identity for juice: Evidence from consumer acceptance of orange juice blend	2
Financial stress among college students: New data about student loan debt, lack of emergency savings, social and personal resources	2
A typology of Jordanian consumers after Covid‐19: The rational, the suspicious, and the cautious consumer	2
Mobile App Runtime Permissions and the Privacy Paradox: Hot‐State Decisions, Digital Literacy, and Consumer Consent	2
Issue Information	2
Building financial capability among low‐income older Asian immigrants: The roles of financial access and locus of control	2
Sowing seeds: The impact of financial socialization on the financial understanding of young children and preschoolers	2
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Intergenerational Transmission of Money Attitudes and Financial Wellbeing: Evidence From Parent–Child Dyads in an Emerging Country	2
Positive Technology for Consumer Well‐Being: The Role of Blockchain‐Based Digital Product Passports in Mitigating Consumer Stress	2