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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

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	164
What drives pro-environmental activism of young people? A survey study on the Fridays For Future movement	148
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	142
Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries	128
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	86
The use of virtual reality in environment experiences and the importance of realism	85
Listen to others or yourself? The role of personal norms on the effectiveness of social norm interventions to change pro-environmental behavior	73
“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	67
Measuring place attachment with the Abbreviated Place Attachment Scale (APAS)	65
Pride and guilt predict pro-environmental behavior: A meta-analysis of correlational and experimental evidence	63
The case for impact-focused environmental psychology	62
Measuring pro-environmental behavior using the carbon emission task	60
Changing environmental behaviour from the bottom up: The formation of pro-environmental social identities	58
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	55
Does environmental education benefit environmental outcomes in children and adolescents? A meta-analysis	54
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
Development and validation of a climate change perceptions scale	51
Biophilic office design: Exploring the impact of a multisensory approach on human well-being	51
Fear for the future: Eco-anxiety and health implications, a systematic review	51
Why do youth participate in climate activism? A mixed-methods investigation of the #FridaysForFuture climate protests.	50

Collective responses to global challenges: The social psychology of pro-environmental action	45
Evaluating the impacts of color, graphics, and architectural features on wayfinding in healthcare settings using EEG data and virtual response testing	44
Impacts of nature and built acoustic-visual environments on human’s multidimensional mood states: A cross-continent experiment	44
Greener Than Thou: People who protect the environment are more cooperative, compete to be environmental, and benefit from reputation	43
The role of national identity in collective pro-environmental action	42
Emotion recognition changes in a confinement situation due to COVID-19	42
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
The cross-cultural challenges of integrating personal norms into the Theory of Planned Behavior: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) approach	41
More green than gray? Toward a sustainable overview of environmental spillover effects: A Bayesian meta-analysis	41
Effects of COVID-19-related stay-at-home order on neuropsychophysiological response to urban spaces: Beneficial role of exposure to nature?	40
Psychological well-being and demographic factors can mediate soundscape pleasantness and eventfulness: A large sample study	40
Climate change anxiety in China, India, Japan, and the United States	40
Nature promotes self-transcendence and prosocial behavior	38