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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	208
Is music piracy over? Comparing music piracy attitudes and behaviors between young generations	62
Centering transgender consumers in conceptualizations of marketplace marginalization and digital spaces	58
Losing privacy versus losing choice: How consumers react to different costs of personalization	50
Have you found what you are looking for? How values orientations affect pro‐social change after transformative service experiences	49
“Just Do It?” Not So Fast: Why Trust in AI Needs an Interdisciplinary Theoretical Reboot	44
Extending the diversity conversation: Fashion consumption experiences of underrepresented and underserved women	33
Mindfulness through agency in health consumption: Empirical evidence from committed dietary supplement consumers	27
What My Parents Did for Me: Parental Financial Sacrifice, Money Scripts, and Financial Behaviors Among Hong Kong Youths in Low‐SES Households	26
In Memoriam: Monroe P. Friedman	25
Is Social Media the New Retirement Advisor? Assessing the Impact of Social Media Influence on Retirement Planning	24
Improving the effectiveness of financial education programs. A targeting approach	21
Beyond the Drug Label: Regulatory‐Induced Complexities in Health Information	21
The Dark Side of AI in Insurance: A Systematic Review of Mechanisms Linking AI Design Features to	19
Treat yourself: Food delivery apps and the interplay between justification for use and food well‐being	19
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Online Shopping and Financial Literacy Among the Elderly	17
Measuring Crypto Literacy	16
Becoming Competent Consumers: Exploring the Dynamics of the Consumer Socialization Process Between Parents and Their Adolescents	15
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The role of financial literacy in reducing financial distress: What if consumers were perfectly financially literate?	13
Designing Eco‐Friendly Message Sidedness for Consumer Happiness: How Inference of Motivation Shapes Affective Consumer Welfare	13
Issue Information	13
Does financial knowledge affect borrower discouragement among various social categories? Evidence from the United States	13
Marketing's contribution to consumer welfare: A research agenda	12

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

Health shocks and mortgage debt payoff among American homeowners over age 50: A survival analysis	5
Blind Spots in Product Design: Utilitarian–Hedonic Choices, Psychological Processes and Retail Strategy Interplay for Visually Impaired Consumers	5
The effect of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness in driving altruistic food choices	5
Next‐generation mindfulness: A mindfulness matrix to extend the transformative potential of mindfulness for consumer, organizational, and societal wellbeing	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
Issue Information	5
Expanding consumer mindfulness for collective sustainable well‐being: Overview of the special issue and future research directions	5
A National Risk Aversion Perspective on Pension Contributions and Benefits Paid: Insights From OECD Countries	5
Social traps and the wicked problem of single‐use plastics: A marketing, policy, and consumer‐citizen perspective	5
Issue Information	5
The impact of payday alternative loans on credit union performance and loan quality	5
Exploring the Impact of Consumer Traits and IT Availability on Purchase Intention in Live E‐Commerce: A Two‐Phase Analysis Using	5
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Youth in individualistic countries have higher financial literacy: Evidence from PISA	5
W. Keith Bryant in Memoriam	4
Consuming intimate apparel: A Brazilian transgender discourse	4
To wear or not to wear? The influence of regulatory focus and individual cultural orientation on face mask wearing	4
Consumer engagement with preventive health technologies: A double‐edged sword for consumer wellbeing	4
Exploring Consumption Stigma: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda	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
Issue Information	4
Law and order? Associations between payday lending prohibition and alternative financial services use by degree of enforcement	4
The platformed money ecosystem: Digital financial platforms, datafication, and reimagining financial well‐being	4
Twenty‐five years of consumer vulnerability research: Critical insights and future directions	4
Issue Information	3
Income predictability and budgeting	3
Enhancing Financial Knowledge Through High School Education: The Effect of Mandated Economics and Personal Finance Courses	3
Understanding the gender gap in financial literacy: The role of culture	3
Incentivizing or Disincentivizing? How Perceived Social Mobility Affects Consumers' Risk Preference	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
Exploratory Factor Analysis of Financial Services and Products Indicators: The Dimensionality of Financial Access	3
It's never too late to be financially literate: Evaluating a financial education intervention for adults in Italy	3
Financial socialization and financial distress: The role of cognitive and noncognitive abilities	3
From self‐quantification to self‐objectification? Framework and research agenda on consequences for well‐being	3
Effectiveness of Sales Promotions on Vegetable Consumption Among Heterogeneous Consumer Groups: A Causal Forest Approach	3
Health Halos or Drinkability? Evaluating What Is Behind Hard Seltzer's Meteoric Growth	3
Building financial capability among low‐income older Asian immigrants: The roles of financial access and locus of control	3
The effect of natural disasters on household economic hardship during a pandemic	3
The Determinants of Student Loan Repayment Worry	3
Correction to “Financial Literacy Among Autistic Adults”	3
Perceived Gift Value and Subjective Well‐Being of Chinese Older Adults: A Self‐Concept–Based Framework Informed by Zhongyong Thinking	3
Examining Consumers' Illusion of Control and Impulsive Acquisition of Companion Animals: Effects on Future Distress and Abandonment Intention	3
Modernizing standards of identity for juice: Evidence from consumer acceptance of orange juice blend	3
Confronting the deep problem of consumption: Why individual responsibility for mindful consumption matters	3
Sharenting in an evolving digital world: Increasing online connection and consumer vulnerability	2
The role of social psychological factors in vulnerability to financial hardship	2
The effect of subjective well‐being on consumption behavior	2
Mobile App Runtime Permissions and the Privacy Paradox: Hot‐State Decisions, Digital Literacy, and Consumer Consent	2
Issue Information	2
(Un)conditional consumer protections in high‐cost lending regulation: Impacts on local lending geographies	2
Rethinking Emotional Labor: AI 's Role in Shaping Consumer and Worker Well‐Being	2
A typology of Jordanian consumers after Covid‐19: The rational, the suspicious, and the cautious consumer	2
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Perception versus the reality of financial situation: The role of personality traits in the United States	2
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A systematic review of consumer empowerment research trends: Evidence from esteemed consumer studies journals	2
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Non‐drinking 101: How non‐drinkers navigate the drinking culture on a college campus	2