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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Is music piracy over? Comparing music piracy attitudes and behaviors between young generations	105
Issue Information	86
The ethics of nudging: Using moral foundations theory to understand consumers' approval of nudges	38
“You can't make me do it!” A model of consumer compliance	36
The effects of online consumer credit on household consumption level and structure: Evidence from China	33
Centering transgender consumers in conceptualizations of marketplace marginalization and digital spaces	33
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	31
Losing privacy versus losing choice: How consumers react to different costs of personalization	27
Have you found what you are looking for? How values orientations affect pro‐social change after transformative service experiences	25
Extending the diversity conversation: Fashion consumption experiences of underrepresented and underserved women	24
Financial self‐efficacy, financial literacy, and gender: A review	23
The coronavirus pandemic: A window of opportunity for sustainable consumption or a time of turning away?	23
Perceived access, fear, and preventative behavior: Key relationships for positive outcomes during the COVID‐19 health crisis	23
Understanding consumer stockpiling: Insights provided during the COVID‐19 pandemic	22
Toward a “human being to commodity model” as an explanation for men's violent, sexual consumption of women	21
Chinese Millenials' happiness and materialism: Explanations from two life‐course theories, self‐esteem, and money‐attitudes	20
Is Social Media the New Retirement Advisor? Assessing the Impact of Social Media Influence on Retirement Planning	20
Mindfulness through agency in health consumption: Empirical evidence from committed dietary supplement consumers	20
The effect of religiosity on customer's response to service failure: Belief‐in‐fate, forgiveness, and emotional wellbeing	20
In Memoriam: Monroe P. Friedman	20
Improving the effectiveness of financial education programs. A targeting approach	19
Treat yourself: Food delivery apps and the interplay between justification for use and food well‐being	18
Becoming Competent Consumers: Exploring the Dynamics of the Consumer Socialization Process Between Parents and Their Adolescents	18
Supermarket competence in emergent markets: Conceptualization, measurement, effects, and policy implications	18
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Addressing difficulties with abstract thinking for low‐literate, low‐income consumers through marketplace literacy: A bottom‐up approach to consumer and marketing education	17
Mitigating the detrimental effect of skeuomorphism on gambling behavior	17
Does financial knowledge affect borrower discouragement among various social categories? Evidence from the United States	16
The role of financial literacy in reducing financial distress: What if consumers were perfectly financially literate?	16
Issue Information	15
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Financial institution objectives and auto loan pricing: Evidence from the survey of consumer finances	14
Bank compliance with national transaction account standards: Evidence from a mid‐western metropolitan area	14
Parents' perceptions of the sensitivity of their children's personal information and willingness to share with social media marketers: Implications for sharenting	14
Marketing's contribution to consumer welfare: A research agenda	13
School and family environments promote adolescents' financial confidence: Indirect paths to financial literacy skills in Finnish PISA 2018	12
Motivating sustainable behaviors: The role of religiosity in a cross‐cultural context	12
Utilization of Alternative Financial Services and the Role of Financial Capability	11
Digital exchange compromises: Teetering priorities of consumers and organizations at the iron triangle	11
When taking action means accepting responsibility: Omission bias predicts parents' reluctance to vaccinate due to greater anticipated culpability for negative side effects	11
The relationships of financial literacy with both financial behavior and financial well‐being: Meta‐analyses based on the selective literature review	11
Web workouts and consumer well‐being: The role of digital‐physical activity during the UK COVID‐19 lockdown	11
Influence of information on pesticide use during fruit and vegetable cultivation through labeling at the point of purchase: Insights from a French study	10
The Negative Effects of Tipping Suggestions From Non‐Human Agents: Consumer Dislike of Manipulative Intent Perceptions	10
The catharsis of male consumption: Reimagining masculinity in India	10
Mindfully aware and open: Mitigating subjective and objective financial vulnerability via mindfulness practices	10
Prevention, resolution, or counseling: Testing three approaches to reducing debt payment delinquencies in a large‐scale field experiment	10
Financial literacy in the digital age—A research agenda	10
Are You Willing to Share Your DNA With Us? An Exploratory Insight Into the Privacy Calculus of Direct‐To‐Consumer Genetic Testing	9
Vulnerable consumer experiences of (dis)empowerment with consumer protection regulations	9
An analysis of the relationship between risk perceptions and willingness‐to‐pay for commodities during the COVID‐19 pandemic	9
E. Thomas Garman in memoriam	9
Erratum	8
Moving gender across, between and beyond the binaries: In conversation with Shona Bettany, Olimpia Burchiellaro and Rohan Venkatraman	8
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How consumer networks contribute to sustainable mindful consumption and well‐being	8
No longer green with envy: Objectifying and destroying negative consumer emotions	8
The psychology of attraction to multi‐level marketing	8
Income disclosure and consumer judgment in a multilevel marketing experiment	7
Pandemics and consumer well‐being from the Global South	7
Social institutions as enablers and inhibitors of environmental activism: A cross‐cultural perspective	7
Reducing information asymmetry and increasing health value co‐creation in a rural healthcare context	7
Soft landings: Extending the cushion hypothesis to financial well‐being in collectivistic cultures	7
Religion and informational influence: Evidence from individual tax behavior in the U.S.	7
Issue Information	7
Have I saved enough to social distance? The role of household financial preparedness in public health response	7
Pandemics and consumers' mental well‐being	7
Recipients of 2023 American Council on Consumer Interests Best Paper Awards	6
Issue Information	6
How different religiosity facets affect materialism, hedonistic shopping values, and compulsive buying: Toward mediation‐moderation effects	6
Against the odds: Unveiling the racial dynamics of financial resilience in post‐apartheid South Africa	6
The impact of Chinese public expenditures on household investment in risky financial assets: Evidence from a national survey	6
Does history really matter: Investigating historical branded executions' effects on contemporary consumer attitudes	6
Repeat use of short‐term credit: The case of deposit advance products	6

Covid‐19 pandemic and consumer‐employee‐organization wellbeing: A dynamic capability theory approach	6
Explaining consumers' progress through life insurance decision states: The role of personal values and consumer characteristics	5
Issue Information	5
How violence among consumers alters the expected benefits of participation in a consumer collective	5
Building relationships: Is this the answer to effective nutrition policy formulation?	5
“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	5
Unraveling the Threads of Marketplace Diversity	5
2023 American Council on Consumer Interests (ACCI) Distinguished Fellow: Irene Ellis Leech	5
The impact of payday alternative loans on credit union performance and loan quality	5
Expanding consumer mindfulness for collective sustainable well‐being: Overview of the special issue and future research directions	5
Job loss during COVID‐19 on early retirement withdrawals: A moderated‐mediation analysis	5
A model of consumer life‐satisfaction amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence and policy implications	5
Journal of Consumer Affairs Best Article and Best Reviewer Awards	5
On the association of debt attitudes with socioeconomic characteristics and financial behaviors	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
Next‐generation mindfulness: A mindfulness matrix to extend the transformative potential of mindfulness for consumer, organizational, and societal wellbeing	4
Issue Information	4
Consumer engagement with preventive health technologies: A double‐edged sword for consumer wellbeing	4
Twenty‐five years of consumer vulnerability research: Critical insights and future directions	4
The missing role of moral values in anti‐vaping messaging	4
To wear or not to wear? The influence of regulatory focus and individual cultural orientation on face mask wearing	4
Reducing Food Waste Behavior for Sustainable Consumption: The Effect of Food Consumption Values on Food Waste	4
Social traps and the wicked problem of single‐use plastics: A marketing, policy, and consumer‐citizen perspective	4
Youth in individualistic countries have higher financial literacy: Evidence from PISA	4
Health shocks and mortgage debt payoff among American homeowners over age 50: A survival analysis	4
Vanity and food waste: Empirical evidence from China	4
When the bridge is not human: Algorithmic interference in forming social relationships through the manipulation of weak ties	4
The effect of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness in driving altruistic food choices	4
The platformed money ecosystem: Digital financial platforms, datafication, and reimagining financial well‐being	4
Parents' employment, income, and finances before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Income predictability and budgeting	3
W. Keith Bryant in Memoriam	3
Financial socialization and financial distress: The role of cognitive and noncognitive abilities	3
Law and order? Associations between payday lending prohibition and alternative financial services use by degree of enforcement	3
It's never too late to be financially literate: Evaluating a financial education intervention for adults in Italy	3
Financial stress among college students: New data about student loan debt, lack of emergency savings, social and personal resources	3
Issue Information	3
Consuming intimate apparel: A Brazilian transgender discourse	3
From self‐quantification to self‐objectification? Framework and research agenda on consequences for well‐being	3
Household savings and subjective wellbeing: Evidence from China	3
Issue Information	3
Prosocial responses to global crises: Key influences of religiosity and perceived control	3
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Issue Information	3
Consumer marketplaces and self‐sufficiency: Meeting consumption needs in community	3
The effect of natural disasters on household economic hardship during a pandemic	3
The Determinants of Student Loan Repayment Worry	3
Sowing seeds: The impact of financial socialization on the financial understanding of young children and preschoolers	2
A typology of Jordanian consumers after Covid‐19: The rational, the suspicious, and the cautious consumer	2
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on subsistence consumers' well‐being and coping strategies: Insights from India and Bangladesh	2
Issue Information	2
Let your past define your future? How recalling successful financial experiences can increase beliefs of self‐efficacy in financial planning	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
Good credit, bad credit: The differential role of the sources of debt in life satisfaction	2
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Modernizing standards of identity for juice: Evidence from consumer acceptance of orange juice blend	2
Understanding the gender gap in financial literacy: The role of culture	2
The effect of subjective well‐being on consumption behavior	2
Issue Information	2
Physical risk messaging enhances favorable attitudes toward mask wearing	2
Building financial capability among low‐income older Asian immigrants: The roles of financial access and locus of control	2
Confronting the deep problem of consumption: Why individual responsibility for mindful consumption matters	2