OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Environmental Psychology is 42. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	460
Political differences in climate change knowledge and their association with climate attitudes, behavior, and policy support	341
The impact of war-induced relocation on sense of place: Examining its moderating role between event severity and psychological symptomatology	258
Electromagnetic and climatic foundations of human aggression	133
Editorial Board	116
Evaluating children's preferences of the orphanages' outdoor spaces: Integrated multi-method ‘Jourchin’ approach	116
Development and psychometric testing of the Healthcare Garden Assessment Tool for Evaluators (GATE)	91
Chaotic or crowded? The role of physical household environment in children's learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	91
The role of switching frequency, task variety and motivation in activity-based working: When does the switch fit?	90
#Fighteverycrisis: A psychological perspective on motivators of the support of mitigation measures in the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic	82
Of sunsets, stars, and rainbows: Embracing the sky in restoration research	74
How perceived campus environments influence college students’ mental health: Mediating roles of campus life experiences	73
Microplastics in food and drink: Predictors of public risk perceptions and support for plastic-reducing policies based on a climate change framework	71
Environmental framing and left-wing political orientation promote sustainability in a US-based common-pool resource dilemma	68
How exposure to natural scenes can promote weight control behaviors: A replication experiment	68
Landmark-based guidance and cognitive saliency: Age-related benefits in spatial performance	67
How climate justice beliefs motivate youth climate action: Distinct longitudinal emotional pathways and qualitative evidence from a climate-vulnerable and non-Western context	66
Does decarbonisation lead to psychological De-territorialisation? An emerging challenge for a just transition in coal and carbon-intensive regions across EU countries	66
Spillover from general and specific pro-environmental behavior to climate-friendly choices and policy Acceptance: The mediating role of psychological engagement	66
What types of nature exposure are associated with hedonic, eudaimonic and evaluative wellbeing? An 18-country study	62
Caring about one's legacy relates to constructive coping with climate change	60
Nature and patient waiting: Mediating effects of anxiety and perceived wait time on the association between nature and service perception	58
Moving beyond meat: Perceived unnaturalness and disgust across cultured foods	56
Synthesising psychometric evidence for the Climate Anxiety Scale and Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale	55
How self-efficacy and response efficacy change with risk and adaptation behaviors during tropical cyclones	53

Psychometric properties of the climate change anxiety scale	53
Does exposure to pictures of nature boost attentional control in the Stroop task?	51
Can we do more than “bounce back”? Transilience in the face of climate change risks	51
The effect of water sound level in virtual reality: A study of restorative benefits in young adults through immersive natural environments	49
Exploring psychophysical measurement in landscape aesthetics: Validity, reliability and signal detection via single-versus opposing-construct rating scales, with or without zeros	48
Exposure to nature in immersive virtual reality increases connectedness to nature among people with low nature affinity	48
Green or greenwashed? Examining consumers' ability to identify greenwashing	48
Characteristics of physical environments that enhance learning: A systematic review of EEG-Based empirical studies	47
The influence of the residential environment on well-being and personal projects: Perspectives of young people living in public housing	45
School greenspace is associated with enhanced benefits of academic interventions on annual reading improvement for children of color in California	45
General deterrent effects of environmental law enforcement: Evidence from a survey experiment on recycling	45
The impact of a novel multisensory environment on depression, agitation, stress, and sleep among older adults diagnosed with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia	44
Recalling Innocence: The cultural significance of childhood memories and moral purity for pro-environmental behavior	44
A call for robust evaluations of the impacts of serious games for climate change mitigation: The Climate Fresk as a global case study	43
Man or bear? How gender affects experiences of natural environments with varying levels of vegetation density and different danger threats	43
When the means are no dead end: Effects of witnessing direct collective action for traffic transformation	43
Mental health and subjective environmental awareness: Individual behavioral, spillover, and intergenerational effects	43
The impact of nature in challenging times: Comparing direct and mediated nature experiences for well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic and in palliative care	42