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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
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“You can't make me do it!” A model of consumer compliance	48
The ethics of nudging: Using moral foundations theory to understand consumers' approval of nudges	42
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	41
Centering transgender consumers in conceptualizations of marketplace marginalization and digital spaces	36
Is music piracy over? Comparing music piracy attitudes and behaviors between young generations	31
Financial self‐efficacy, financial literacy, and gender: A review	30
Perceived access, fear, and preventative behavior: Key relationships for positive outcomes during the COVID‐19 health crisis	29
Losing privacy versus losing choice: How consumers react to different costs of personalization	26
Extending the diversity conversation: Fashion consumption experiences of underrepresented and underserved women	26
The coronavirus pandemic: A window of opportunity for sustainable consumption or a time of turning away?	25
Have you found what you are looking for? How values orientations affect pro‐social change after transformative service experiences	25
Is Social Media the New Retirement Advisor? Assessing the Impact of Social Media Influence on Retirement Planning	23
Mindfulness through agency in health consumption: Empirical evidence from committed dietary supplement consumers	21
Improving the effectiveness of financial education programs. A targeting approach	20
Understanding consumer stockpiling: Insights provided during the COVID‐19 pandemic	20
The effect of religiosity on customer's response to service failure: Belief‐in‐fate, forgiveness, and emotional wellbeing	19
In Memoriam: Monroe P. Friedman	19
What My Parents Did for Me: Parental Financial Sacrifice, Money Scripts, and Financial Behaviors Among Hong Kong Youths in Low‐SES Households	17
Treat yourself: Food delivery apps and the interplay between justification for use and food well‐being	16
Online Shopping and Financial Literacy Among the Elderly	15
Becoming Competent Consumers: Exploring the Dynamics of the Consumer Socialization Process Between Parents and Their Adolescents	15
The role of financial literacy in reducing financial distress: What if consumers were perfectly financially literate?	14
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Mitigating the detrimental effect of skeuomorphism on gambling behavior	13
Bank compliance with national transaction account standards: Evidence from a mid‐western metropolitan area	13
Does financial knowledge affect borrower discouragement among various social categories? Evidence from the United States	13
Parents' perceptions of the sensitivity of their children's personal information and willingness to share with social media marketers: Implications for sharenting	12
Addressing difficulties with abstract thinking for low‐literate, low‐income consumers through marketplace literacy: A bottom‐up approach to consumer and marketing education	12
Marketing's contribution to consumer welfare: A research agenda	11
Utilization of Alternative Financial Services and the Role of Financial Capability	11
The Negative Effects of Tipping Suggestions From Non‐Human Agents: Consumer Dislike of Manipulative Intent Perceptions	10
School and family environments promote adolescents' financial confidence: Indirect paths to financial literacy skills in Finnish PISA 2018	10
Digital exchange compromises: Teetering priorities of consumers and organizations at the iron triangle	10
Mindfully aware and open: Mitigating subjective and objective financial vulnerability via mindfulness practices	10
The relationships of financial literacy with both financial behavior and financial well‐being: Meta‐analyses based on the selective literature review	10
Financial literacy in the digital age—A research agenda	9
Prevention, resolution, or counseling: Testing three approaches to reducing debt payment delinquencies in a large‐scale field experiment	9
Are You Willing to Share Your DNA With Us? An Exploratory Insight Into the Privacy Calculus of Direct‐To‐Consumer Genetic Testing	9
E. Thomas Garman in memoriam	9
Vulnerable consumer experiences of (dis)empowerment with consumer protection regulations	9
The catharsis of male consumption: Reimagining masculinity in India	9
How consumer networks contribute to sustainable mindful consumption and well‐being	8
Erratum	8
The Hedonic Penalty in Supporting Low‐Income Consumers' Needs	8
Factors and Determinants of Financial Behaviors That Undermine Financial Well‐Being: A Qualitative Study	8
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Influence of information on pesticide use during fruit and vegetable cultivation through labeling at the point of purchase: Insights from a French study	8
The psychology of attraction to multi‐level marketing	8
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Household Financial Wellbeing During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: An Instrumental Variable Approach	7
Recipients of 2023 American Council on Consumer Interests Best Paper Awards	7
Moving gender across, between and beyond the binaries: In conversation with Shona Bettany, Olimpia Burchiellaro and Rohan Venkatraman	7
How different religiosity facets affect materialism, hedonistic shopping values, and compulsive buying: Toward mediation‐moderation effects	7
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Reducing information asymmetry and increasing health value co‐creation in a rural healthcare context	7
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Income disclosure and consumer judgment in a multilevel marketing experiment	7
Pandemics and consumer well‐being from the Global South	7
Unraveling the Threads of Marketplace Diversity	7
Against the odds: Unveiling the racial dynamics of financial resilience in post‐apartheid South Africa	7
Social institutions as enablers and inhibitors of environmental activism: A cross‐cultural perspective	7
Pandemics and consumers' mental well‐being	7
Journal of Consumer Affairs Best Article and Best Reviewer Awards	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
Issue Information	6
Job loss during COVID‐19 on early retirement withdrawals: A moderated‐mediation analysis	6
The impact of Chinese public expenditures on household investment in risky financial assets: Evidence from a national survey	6
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How violence among consumers alters the expected benefits of participation in a consumer collective	6
A National Risk Aversion Perspective on Pension Contributions and Benefits Paid: Insights From OECD Countries	6
Skating on Thin Ice: New Evidence on Financial Fragility	6
2023 American Council on Consumer Interests (ACCI) Distinguished Fellow: Irene Ellis Leech	6

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	6
Health shocks and mortgage debt payoff among American homeowners over age 50: A survival analysis	6
Issue Information	5
The platformed money ecosystem: Digital financial platforms, datafication, and reimagining financial well‐being	5
Next‐generation mindfulness: A mindfulness matrix to extend the transformative potential of mindfulness for consumer, organizational, and societal wellbeing	5
Expanding consumer mindfulness for collective sustainable well‐being: Overview of the special issue and future research directions	5
Consumer engagement with preventive health technologies: A double‐edged sword for consumer wellbeing	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	5
Parents' employment, income, and finances before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Social traps and the wicked problem of single‐use plastics: A marketing, policy, and consumer‐citizen perspective	5
When the bridge is not human: Algorithmic interference in forming social relationships through the manipulation of weak ties	5
The impact of payday alternative loans on credit union performance and loan quality	5
Reducing Food Waste Behavior for Sustainable Consumption: The Effect of Food Consumption Values on Food Waste	5
Income predictability and budgeting	4
Consuming intimate apparel: A Brazilian transgender discourse	4
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From self‐quantification to self‐objectification? Framework and research agenda on consequences for well‐being	4
Law and order? Associations between payday lending prohibition and alternative financial services use by degree of enforcement	4
Exploring Consumption Stigma: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda	4
Financial socialization and financial distress: The role of cognitive and noncognitive abilities	4
Twenty‐five years of consumer vulnerability research: Critical insights and future directions	4
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W. Keith Bryant in Memoriam	4
Enhancing Financial Knowledge Through High School Education: The Effect of Mandated Economics and Personal Finance Courses	4
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The effect of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness in driving altruistic food choices	4
Prosocial responses to global crises: Key influences of religiosity and perceived control	3
The Determinants of Student Loan Repayment Worry	3
Health Halos or Drinkability? Evaluating What Is Behind Hard Seltzer's Meteoric Growth	3
Confronting the deep problem of consumption: Why individual responsibility for mindful consumption matters	3
A typology of Jordanian consumers after Covid‐19: The rational, the suspicious, and the cautious consumer	3
Exploratory Factor Analysis of Financial Services and Products Indicators: The Dimensionality of Financial Access	3
The effect of natural disasters on household economic hardship during a pandemic	3
Understanding the gender gap in financial literacy: The role of culture	3
Financial stress among college students: New data about student loan debt, lack of emergency savings, social and personal resources	3
Sowing seeds: The impact of financial socialization on the financial understanding of young children and preschoolers	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
Building financial capability among low‐income older Asian immigrants: The roles of financial access and locus of control	3
Modernizing standards of identity for juice: Evidence from consumer acceptance of orange juice blend	3
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The role of social psychological factors in vulnerability to financial hardship	2
Perception versus the reality of financial situation: The role of personality traits in the United States	2
Sugar coating cartoons for girls: Gender stereotypical themes and the use of food in toy‐tied media	2
A systematic review of consumer empowerment research trends: Evidence from esteemed consumer studies journals	2
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on subsistence consumers' well‐being and coping strategies: Insights from India and Bangladesh	2
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Sharenting in an evolving digital world: Increasing online connection and consumer vulnerability	2
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Financial resilience of two‐worker households from a health perspective	2
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The effect of subjective well‐being on consumption behavior	2
(Un)conditional consumer protections in high‐cost lending regulation: Impacts on local lending geographies	2
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Liminal (trans)formative spaces: A temporary escape from intersectionality	2
Non‐drinking 101: How non‐drinkers navigate the drinking culture on a college campus	2
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