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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Covid‐19 pandemic and consumer‐employee‐organization wellbeing: A dynamic capability theory approach	82
Financial knowledge and trust in financial institutions	33
Impact of consumer animosity, boycott participation, boycott motivation, and product judgment on purchase readiness or aversion of Kurdish consumers in Iraq	26
Is it godly to waste food? How understanding consumers' religion can help reduce consumer food waste	26
Digital redlining and the fintech marketplace: Evidence from US zip codes	24
“The greedy I that gives”—The paradox of egocentrism and altruism: Terror management and system justification perspectives on the interrelationship between mortality salience and charitable donations	23
Gender differences in financial knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors: Accounting for socioeconomic disparities and psychological traits	22
Instagram and body image: Motivation to conform to the “Instabod” and consequences on young male wellbeing	22
Do good things come in pairs? How personality traits help explain individuals' simultaneous pursuit of a healthy lifestyle and financially responsible behavior	21
Religion's influence on the financial well‐being of consumers: A conceptual framework and research agenda	21
The role of national culture in financial literacy: Cross‐country evidence	21
An item response theory approach to constructing and evaluating brief and in‐depth financial literacy scales	19
Five decades of the Journal of Consumer Affairs: A bibliometric analysis	19
Social media and mindfulness: From the fear of missing out (FOMO) to the joy of missing out (JOMO)	18
From anxiety to control: Mask‐wearing, perceived marketplace influence, and emotional well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic	17
Identifying consumer segments based on COVID‐19 pandemic perceptions and responses	17
Financial capability of student loan holders who are college students, graduates, or dropouts	16
Illusion of safety: How consumers underestimate manipulation and deception in online (vs. offline) shopping contexts	15
Why did (some) consumers buy toilet papers? A cross‐cultural examination of panic buying as a maladaptive coping response to COVID‐19	15
Impacts of Covid‐19 pandemic on consumer behavior in Turkey: A qualitative study	15
Financial literacy and household asset allocation: Evidence from micro‐data in China	15
Twenty‐five years of consumer vulnerability research: Critical insights and future directions	13
Perceived access, fear, and preventative behavior: Key relationships for positive outcomes during the COVID‐19 health crisis	13
Financial capability and wellbeing of vulnerable consumers	13
Financial literacy in the digital age—A research agenda	13

Understanding consumer stockpiling: Insights provided during the COVID‐19 pandemic	13
An analysis of the relationship between risk perceptions and willingness‐to‐pay for commodities during the COVID‐19 pandemic	13
Good credit, bad credit: The differential role of the sources of debt in life satisfaction	12
Financial self‐efficacy, financial literacy, and gender: A review	12
Web workouts and consumer well‐being: The role of digital‐physical activity during the UK COVID‐19 lockdown	12
Unequal but essential: How subsistence consumer–entrepreneurs negotiate unprecedented shock with extraordinary resilience during COVID‐19	12
Chinese Millenials' happiness and materialism: Explanations from two life‐course theories, self‐esteem, and money‐attitudes	11
Quality‐of‐life as chronotopefication and futurization: Subsistence consumer experiences in India	11
Impact of environmental and health consciousness on ecological consumption intention: The moderating effects of haze and self‐competence	10
The shifting landscape of cannabis legalization: Potential benefits and regulatory perspectives	10
Either you control social media or social media controls you: Understanding the impact of self‐control on excessive social media use from the dual‐system perspective	10
Give mind to the gap: Measuring gender differences in financial knowledge	10
Measurement error in research on financial literacy: How much error is there and how does it influence effect size estimates?	10
Energy‐related financial literacy and electricity consumption: Survey‐based evidence from Finland	9
In search of well‐being: Factors influencing the movement toward and away from maladaptive consumption	9
House price expectations, mortgages, and subjective well‐being in urban China	9
Pandemics and consumers' mental well‐being	9
Parents' employment, income, and finances before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic	9
Immigrants, Financial Knowledge, and Financial Behavior	9
The new world of philanthropy: How changing financial behavior, public policies, and COVID‐19 affect nonprofit fundraising and marketing	9
Pandemic 101	9
The effects of online consumer credit on household consumption level and structure: Evidence from China	9
Motivating sustainable behaviors: The role of religiosity in a cross‐cultural context	8
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on subsistence consumers' well‐being and coping strategies: Insights from India and Bangladesh	8
Resilience and well‐being production among vulnerable consumers facing systematic constraints	8
Consumer well‐being and social responsibility of subsistence entrepreneurs in subsistence marketplace	8
Household savings and subjective wellbeing: Evidence from China	8
Effective finance to increase financial well‐being for low‐income families: Empirical examination and policy implications	7
Validation of Consumer Styles Inventory for consumer decision making styles	7
Want to make me happy? Tell me about your experiences but not your objects	7
Financial institution objectives and auto loan pricing: Evidence from the survey of consumer finances	7
Racial/ethnic differences in holding a retirement saving motive: A decomposition analysis	7
The healing effect of cute elements	7
Are Indian professional women financially literate and prepared for retirement?	7
Social media use and subjective well‐being among middle‐aged consumers in Korea: Mediation model of social capital moderated by disability	7
From wheel of fortune to wheel of misfortune: Financial crises, cycles, and consumer predation	7
Privacy and the quantified self: A review of U.S. health information policy limitations related to wearable technologies	7
The effect of subjective well‐being on consumption behavior	7
Vanity and food waste: Empirical evidence from China	6
Serial coping to anxiety under a pandemic and subsequent regulation of vice food and beverage consumption among young adults	6
The effects of physical activity calorie equivalent labeling on dieters' food consumption and post‐consumption physical activity	6
Stockpiling intentions and customer well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Online but unlawful sales of unapproved and misbranded prescription drugs: Internet pharmacy compliance with Food and Drug Administration warning letters	6
Sharenting in an evolving digital world: Increasing online connection and consumer vulnerability	6
The coronavirus pandemic: A window of opportunity for sustainable consumption or a time of turning away?	6
Confronting the deep problem of consumption: Why individual responsibility for mindful consumption matters	6
Sustained credit card borrowing	6
Financial inclusion and food insecurity: Examining linkages and potential pathways	6
Envisioning a community‐centric approach to impact assessments in subsistence marketplaces	6
Pandemics and consumer well‐being: Provenance and research priorities	6

The impact of state earned income tax credit increases on material and medical hardship	6
Does history really matter: Investigating historical branded executions' effects on contemporary consumer attitudes	6
Extreme exclusion and relative deprivation in subsistence marketplaces: A study in a refugee settlement in Nakivale, Uganda	6
Soft landings: Extending the cushion hypothesis to financial well‐being in collectivistic cultures	6
Recipients' happiness in prosocial spending: The role of social ties	6
Racialization of peer‐to‐peer transactions: Inequality and barriers to legitimacy	5
Cannabis packaging: An opportunity for facilitating informed decisions	5
“Generally, I live a lie”: Transgender consumer experiences and responses to symbolic violence	5
Understanding digital consumers' well‐being in Asia: The moderating roles of digital natives and privacy concerns	5
Effects of art consumption on consumer well‐being	5
Market segmentation strategies can be used to overcome COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy and other health crises	5
Mindfully aware and open: Mitigating subjective and objective financial vulnerability via mindfulness practices	5
Marketing's contribution to consumer welfare: A research agenda	5
The institutional work of a social enterprise operating in a subsistence marketplace: Using the business model as a market‐shaping tool	5
Why art matters: Artistic consumer‐entrepreneurship in subsistence marketplaces	5
The effect of religiosity on customer's response to service failure: Belief‐in‐fate, forgiveness, and emotional wellbeing	5
The relationships of financial literacy with both financial behavior and financial well‐being: Meta‐analyses based on the selective literature review	5
A model of consumer life‐satisfaction amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence and policy implications	5
Let your past define your future? How recalling successful financial experiences can increase beliefs of self‐efficacy in financial planning	5
Consumer resource integration in the subsistence marketplace: A comparative study of urban and rural consumers	4
Acquisition mode and credit card overspending behavior: An empirical analysis of the credit card industry	4
Connecting with the future: The role of science fiction movies in helping consumers understand privacy‐technology trade‐offs	4
Consumers' knowledge of cashless payments: Development, validation, and usability of a measurement scale	4
The missing role of moral values in anti‐vaping messaging	4
Economic hardship and neighborhood diversity: Influences on consumer well‐being	4
Examining gender differences in predictors of financial satisfaction: Evidence from Taiwan	4
Pandemics and consumer well‐being from the Global South	4
What retailers need to understand about website inaccessibility and disabled consumers: Challenges and opportunities	4
Stronger together: Developing research partnerships with social impact organizations	4
Payday lending, crime, and bankruptcy: Is there a connection?	4
The role of vending channels in marketing: A systematic review and taxonomy of studies	4
Physical risk messaging enhances favorable attitudes toward mask wearing	4
Bank compliance with national transaction account standards: Evidence from a mid‐western metropolitan area	4
The paradoxes of smartphone use: Understanding the user experience in today's connected world	4
Life lessons: Leaving home and financial capability of young adults	4
(Un)conditional consumer protections in high‐cost lending regulation: Impacts on local lending geographies	4
Financial capability and investment management of Chinese households: An application of hybrid item response theory	4
Determinants of financial worry	4
What accounts for racial and ethnic differences in credit use?	3
How thoughts of death and intrinsic/extrinsic goal orientation affect well‐being during the pandemic	3
Dreaming in Black: Middle‐class Blacks' aspirational consumption	3
Effects of perceived scarcity on COVID‐19 consumer stimulus spending: The roles of ontological insecurity and mutability in predicting prosocial outcomes	3
Who has a cushion? The interactive effect of social exclusion and gender on fixed savings	3
Mindfulness through agency in health consumption: Empirical evidence from committed dietary supplement consumers	3
Building toward a solid foundation: The effect of thinking concretely about the future	3
Understanding the gender gap in financial literacy: The role of culture	3
Reducing information asymmetry and increasing health value co‐creation in a rural healthcare context	3
Prosocial responses to global crises: Key influences of religiosity and perceived control	3
Vaping and dynamic risk construction: Toward a model of adolescentrisk‐relatedschema development	3
Consumer wellbeing in Asia: Introduction to the special issue	3
When taking action means accepting responsibility: Omission bias predicts parents' reluctance to vaccinate due to greater anticipated culpability for negative side effects	3
Having less: A personal project taxonomy of consumers' decluttering orientations, motives and emotions	3
Deriving happiness through extraordinary or ordinary brand experiences in times of COVID‐19 threat	3
Anti‐black currents in consumer affairs: An introduction to the special issue	3
Identifying and selecting effective graphic health warnings to prevent perceptual wearout on tobacco packaging and in advertising	3
Gettingrealabout consumer poverty: Deep processes for transformative action	2
Supermarket competence in emergent markets: Conceptualization, measurement, effects, and policy implications	2
Childhood experience of parental affection and financial well‐being in later life: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study	2
Toward a “human being to commodity model” as an explanation for men's violent, sexual consumption of women	2
On the association of debt attitudes with socioeconomic characteristics and financial behaviors	2
The effect of brief mindfulness‐based intervention on patient satisfaction and loyalty after waiting	2
Introduction to the special section on subsistence marketplaces	2
Whole grain claims: Do they matter?	2
Religion and informational influence: Evidence from individual tax behavior in the U.S.	2
Social service provider's perceptions of financial education for adults with mental illness and/or cognitive impairments	2
Estimation of price and income elasticity of residential water demand in the Czech Republic over three decades	2
Reimagining the Global South: Consumer welfare and public policy insights from the United States' Gulf Coast	2
Digital exchange compromises: Teetering priorities of consumers and organizations at the iron triangle	2
Health insurance coverage during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of Medicaid expansion	2
The importance of language: A comparison of consumer and academic definitions of mindfulness	2
Have I saved enough to social distance? The role of household financial preparedness in public health response	2
Balancing evolutionary impulses: Effects of mindfulness on virtue food preference	2
The role of social psychological factors in vulnerability to financial hardship	2
The platformed money ecosystem: Digital financial platforms, datafication, and reimagining financial well‐being	2
Beyond radical affordability in the base of the pyramid: The role of consumer self‐confidence in product acceptance	2
Factors associated with the financial strain of transgender and gender diverse college students	2
The role of wisdom in navigating social media paradoxes: Implications for consumers, firms, and public policy	2