OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Environmental Psychology is 41. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
On the nature of eco-anxiety: How constructive or unconstructive is habitual worry about global warming?	166
Home garden use during COVID-19: Associations with physical and mental wellbeing in older adults	162
What drives pro-environmental activism of young people? A survey study on the Fridays For Future movement	146
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	139
Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries	119
Towards cross-cultural environmental psychology: A state-of-the-art review and recommendations	119
Climate anxiety: What predicts it and how is it related to climate action?	93
When and how pro-environmental attitudes turn into behavior: The role of costs, benefits, and self-control	85
The use of virtual reality in environment experiences and the importance of realism	83
Listen to others or yourself? The role of personal norms on the effectiveness of social norm interventions to change pro-environmental behavior	72
The value of what others value: When perceived biospheric group values influence individuals’ pro-environmental engagement	70
“Re-placed” - Reconsidering relationships with place and lessons from a pandemic	69
Social identity as a key concept for connecting transformative societal change with individual environmental activism	66
Measuring place attachment with the Abbreviated Place Attachment Scale (APAS)	65
Being moved by protest: Collective efficacy beliefs and injustice appraisals enhance collective action intentions for forest protection via positive and negative emotions	64
The case for impact-focused environmental psychology	61
Experienced guilt, but not pride, mediates the effect of feedback on pro-environmental behavior	59
Connectedness with nature and the decline of pro-environmental behavior in adolescence: A comparison of Canada and China	59
Pride and guilt predict pro-environmental behavior: A meta-analysis of correlational and experimental evidence	58
Changing environmental behaviour from the bottom up: The formation of pro-environmental social identities	57
Influencing climate change attitudes in the United States: A systematic review and meta-analysis	57
Virtual immersion in nature and psychological well-being: A systematic literature review	54
Measuring pro-environmental behavior using the carbon emission task	53
Distant from others, but close to home: The relationship between home attachment and mental health during COVID-19	52
The affective benefits of nature exposure: What's nature got to do with it?	52

Does environmental education benefit environmental outcomes in children and adolescents? A meta-analysis	51
When do values promote pro-environmental behaviors? Multilevel evidence on the self-expression hypothesis	51
Why do youth participate in climate activism? A mixed-methods investigation of the #FridaysForFuture climate protests.	50
Nature can get it out of your mind: The rumination reducing effects of contact with nature and the mediating role of awe and mood	50
Development and validation of a climate change perceptions scale	49
Biophilic office design: Exploring the impact of a multisensory approach on human well-being	48
Fear for the future: Eco-anxiety and health implications, a systematic review	48
Why going green feels good	47
Collective responses to global challenges: The social psychology of pro-environmental action	44
Evaluating the impacts of color, graphics, and architectural features on wayfinding in healthcare settings using EEG data and virtual response testing	43
Impacts of nature and built acoustic-visual environments on human’s multidimensional mood states: A cross-continent experiment	43
Greener Than Thou: People who protect the environment are more cooperative, compete to be environmental, and benefit from reputation	43
More green than gray? Toward a sustainable overview of environmental spillover effects: A Bayesian meta-analysis	41
The role of national identity in collective pro-environmental action	41
Exploring how climate change subjective attribution, personal experience with extremes, concern, and subjective knowledge relate to pro-environmental attitudes and behavioral intentions in the United	41
Emotion recognition changes in a confinement situation due to COVID-19	41