OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Environmental Psychology is 38. 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
Nature contact, nature connectedness and associations with health, wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviours	354
Development and validation of a measure of climate change anxiety	326
Home garden use during COVID-19: Associations with physical and mental wellbeing in older adults	152
On the nature of eco-anxiety: How constructive or unconstructive is habitual worry about global warming?	123
Predicting climate change mitigation and adaptation behaviors in agricultural production: A comparison of the theory of planned behavior and the Value-Belief-Norm Theory	123
What drives pro-environmental activism of young people? A survey study on the Fridays For Future movement	118
What is the best way of delivering virtual nature for improving mood? An experimental comparison of high definition TV, 360° video, and computer generated virtual reality	118
The role of climate change risk perception, response efficacy, and psychological adaptation in pro-environmental behavior: A two nation study	111
Towards cross-cultural environmental psychology: A state-of-the-art review and recommendations	102
The role of trust for climate change mitigation and adaptation behaviour: A meta-analysis	88
Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries	70
The value of what others value: When perceived biospheric group values influence individuals’ pro-environmental engagement	64
Combatting climate change misinformation: Evidence for longevity of inoculation and consensus messaging effects	61
“Re-placed” - Reconsidering relationships with place and lessons from a pandemic	59
Climate anxiety: What predicts it and how is it related to climate action?	58
The use of virtual reality in environment experiences and the importance of realism	58
When and how pro-environmental attitudes turn into behavior: The role of costs, benefits, and self-control	57
Connectedness with nature and the decline of pro-environmental behavior in adolescence: A comparison of Canada and China	52
Social identity as a key concept for connecting transformative societal change with individual environmental activism	51
Listen to others or yourself? The role of personal norms on the effectiveness of social norm interventions to change pro-environmental behavior	50
Experienced guilt, but not pride, mediates the effect of feedback on pro-environmental behavior	49
The case for impact-focused environmental psychology	49
Being moved by protest: Collective efficacy beliefs and injustice appraisals enhance collective action intentions for forest protection via positive and negative emotions	49
Changing environmental behaviour from the bottom up: The formation of pro-environmental social identities	48
Applying an attitude network approach to consumer behaviour towards plastic	47

Measuring place attachment with the Abbreviated Place Attachment Scale (APAS)	47
Influencing climate change attitudes in the United States: A systematic review and meta-analysis	45
Measuring pro-environmental behavior using the carbon emission task	44
Distant from others, but close to home: The relationship between home attachment and mental health during COVID-19	43
Pride and guilt predict pro-environmental behavior: A meta-analysis of correlational and experimental evidence	43
The affective benefits of nature exposure: What's nature got to do with it?	43
When do values promote pro-environmental behaviors? Multilevel evidence on the self-expression hypothesis	42
Why going green feels good	42
Nature can get it out of your mind: The rumination reducing effects of contact with nature and the mediating role of awe and mood	42
Messaging for environmental action: The role of moral framing and message source	41
Emotion recognition changes in a confinement situation due to COVID-19	41
How much distance do humans keep toward robots? Literature review, meta-analysis, and theoretical considerations on personal space in human-robot interaction	39
Greener Than Thou: People who protect the environment are more cooperative, compete to be environmental, and benefit from reputation	38
Why do youth participate in climate activism? A mixed-methods investigation of the #FridaysForFuture climate protests.	38
What counts as an “environmental” issue? Differences in issue conceptualization by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status	38