OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Risk Research is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Risk communication and Covid-19 through the lens of anonymous sources	168
Participatory versus analytic approaches for understanding risk perceptions: a comparison of three case studies from the field of biotechnology	49
Twenty-five years of the Journal of Risk Research: a bibliometric overview	38
Procedural fairness and safety in the acceptance of nuclear waste disposal in Germany: an empirical study	29
Risk assessment without the risk? A controversy about security and risk in Norway	28
Charting the global rise of the modern plug-in electric vehicle (PEV)	24
Introduction to the special issue “Trust, mistrust, distrust, and trust-building in the nuclear sector: historical and comparative experience from Europe”	24
Lost in translation: inadequate non-technical risk assessment within major project teams in mining	19
A micro-place evaluation of the relationship between ‘risky places’ and risk perceptions	19
Keep the status quo: randomization-based security checks might reduce crime deterrence at airports	17
Who is to blame for the terrorist attack? Comparison of content analysis and survey data as sources of responsibility ascriptions	14
The role of knowledge and trust in developing risk perceptions of autonomous vehicles: a moderated mediation model	14
How is counterfactual thinking integrated in organizational risk and resilience practices?	13
Impact of risk experience and personal exposure on coastal flooding and coastal erosion risk perception and coping strategies	13
Using artificial intelligence (AI)? Risk and opportunity perception of AI predict people’s willingness to use AI	13
Risk identification in Japanese consumer product injury data throughout an ontology-based knowledge base	12
Information seeking and information avoidance about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination: knowledge, personal control, or affect?	12
The relationships between citizens’ perceptions of corporate political activity and their health risk perception	11
Communicating radon risks: the impact of different risk formulations on risk perception and protection intention	11
COVID-19 skepticism and the perception of risk	10
Mapping and characterising changes to risk amplification within the British Press: 1985–2017	10
How the COVID-19 pandemic influences judgments of risk and benefit: the role of negative emotions	10
Shared responsibility or not? A responsibility messages experiment during a cyber crisis in designing for risk communication	10
Addressing “beyond control”: nuclear safety goals in the age of risk governance	9
Exploring perspectives on COVID-19 risk, protective behavior and control measures	9

Development and validation of the Design-for-Safety (DfS) climate measurement tool	9
The effectiveness of risk assessments in risk workshops: the role of calculative cultures	9
Factors influencing the adoption of pre-commitment devices for online gambling	8
Possible harms of artificial intelligence and the EU AI act: fundamental rights and risk	8
Stakeholder safety communication: patient and family reports on safety risks in hospitals	8
Systemic risks and solar climate engineering research. Integrating technology ethics into the governance of systemic risks	8
Risk in discourses around fracking: a discourse linguistic perspective on the UK, the USA and Germany	8
The risk-related tone from the top: evidence from German regional banks	6
Trust, mistrust and distrust as blind spots of Social Licence to Operate: illustration via three forerunner countries in nuclear waste management	6
Combining uncertainty information with AI recommendations supports calibration with domain knowledge	6
Motivating sustainable behaviors by framing biodiversity loss as a public health risk	6
Discourse dynamics and mass media’s influence on social media narratives: Twitter analysis of the Great East Japan earthquake’s 10th anniversary	6
The drivers and barriers of wearing a facemask during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Switzerland	6
Militarisation, masculinisation and organisational exclusion in the crisis preparedness sector	6
Modelling social risk amplification, harmful products, and product recall as the basis of a risk assessment procedure	6
Values as causes of emotions and acceptability in the digital risk context: an extension of the values scale with privacy	6
A comparative study of Chinese and American public perceptions of shale gas development	6
The many faces of uncertainty: a comment to Lofstedt and Bouder	5
Warning dissemination and public response in China’s new warning system: evidence from a strong convective event in Qingdao City	5
Energy transitioning: communicating risk to decision-makers	5
Commentary: risk, uncertainty and innovation: what does this mean for the Dutch energy transition?	5
Transparency beyond information disclosure: strategies of the Scandinavian public health authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
COVID-19 risk perception measures: factoring and prediction of behavioral intentions and policy support	5
Energy transitioning: why bother with uncertainty and why does risk tolerance really matter?	5
It’s a dry heat: professional perspectives on extreme heat risk in Utah	5
The debut, travels and future of intersectionality in HIV prevention and treatment interventions	4
Effect of COVID-19 vaccine allocation strategies on vaccination refusal: a national survey	4
Introducing forecast-based public health warnings to promote engagement with air quality risk: a survey of citizens’ attitudes in Cork, Ireland	4
A new perspective for the integration of intelligence and risk management in a customs and border control context	4
The risk of relocation: risk perceptions and communication surrounding the tradeoffs between floods and economic opportunities in Iquitos, Peru	4
Institutional constraints on ‘nudge-style’ risk rating systems: explaining why food hygiene barometers were rolled-out in the UK but abandoned in Germany	4
Regulating through disclosure: the case of food hygiene barometer ratings in China	4
No heat, no electricity, no water, oh no!: an IDEA model experiment in instructional risk communication	4
Bibliometric analysis of risk science from 1996 to 2021: insights and implications	4
Community preparedness for natural hazards in two Chilean coastal cities	4
Confidence gap or timid trust building? The role of trust in the evolution of the nuclear waste governance in Germany	4
COVID-19 has illuminated the need for clearer AI-based risk management strategies	4
What entails risk management maturity in public organisations?	4
Multilateral governance of technological risks; editors’ overview¹	4
Risk analysis versus risk governance: the case study of the Ebola Virus Disease	4
The utility of social practice theory in risk research	4
The relationship between risk perception and risk management: a systematic literature review	4
Defensive pessimism-like thinking in practice: the (dys)functional strategy for coping with risk uncertainty in the offshore oilfield?	4
Understanding collective flight responses to (mis)perceived hostile threats in Britain 2010-2019: a systematic review of ten years of false alarms in crowded spaces	3
Utilizing MRBQ to investigate risky rider behavior in Chinese young riders: combining the effect of Big Five personality and sensation seeking	3
Information seeking, personal experiences, and their association with COVID-19 risk perceptions: demographic and occupational inequalities	3
Mapping the knowledge frontiers of public risk communication in disaster risk management	3
Is targeting the solution? Evidence from an experiment on radon risk communication	3
Contrasting perspectives on the risks of intensive livestock farming in The Netherlands: a survey study	3
Grasping the nettle? Considering the contemporary challenges of risk assessment	3

The influence of COVID-19 Mortality Rate Formats on Emotional Reactions, Risk perception, and self-protective Behavioral Intentions	3
The fish scales of justice: the influence of perceived justice on social license to operate for aquaculture development	3
Making risk communication in practice: dimensions of professional logics in risk and vulnerability assessments	3
How news consumption in modern media landscapes relates to threats perceptions and fears in public spaces. A scoping review	3
Risk communication and COVID-19 in Europe: lessons for future public health crises	3
Drivers of Chinese public attitudes towards agri-food applications based on synthetic biology: the results of qualitative exploratory research	3
On how to characterize and confront misinformation in a risk context	3
Revisiting the primary bias: the role of innumeracy in the misperception of prevalence of chronic illnesses	3
Aligning redundancy and flexibility for supply chain resilience: a literature synthesis	3
Rallying around the vaccine: how state-level risk perceptions and nationalism motivate public acceptance of immunization program	3
Descriptive social norms, social support, and behavioral response to climate-related and co-occurring health hazards	3
Risk governance approach to migration: a viable alternative to precautionary management	3
When to dismiss an alternative hypothesis or theory? A risk and uncertainty perspective	3
Public involvement in risk governance in the internet era: impact of new rules of building trust and credibility	3
Defining and assessing risk analysis quality: insights from applications of the SRA risk analysis quality test	3
Should we use natural gas in our homes? Risk perceptions from the U.S	3
Bibliometric analysis of vaccine hesitancy research from behavioural perspectives (2015–2022)	3