OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Risk Research is 4. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 risk perception: a longitudinal analysis of its predictors and associations with health protective behaviours in the United Kingdom	157
Identity change, uncertainty and mistrust in relation to fear and risk of COVID-19	54
COVID-19 protective model: the role of threat perceptions and informational cues in influencing behavior	49
COVID-19: the winter lockdown strategy in five European nations	38
COVID-19 vaccine rollout risk communication strategies in Europe: a rapid response	37
COVID-19 information disorder: six types of harmful information during the pandemic in Europe	33
Risk communication and COVID-19 in Europe: lessons for future public health crises	29
Understanding crisis communication on social media with CERC: topic model analysis of tweets about Hurricane Maria	25
A quantitative bow-tie cyber risk classification and assessment framework	25
Information seeking, personal experiences, and their association with COVID-19 risk perceptions: demographic and occupational inequalities	24
Technical and organizational challenges in the risk management of road infrastructures	20
Impact of perceived risk on epidemic information seeking during the outbreak of COVID-19 in China	19
Understanding the cultural orientations of fear appeal variables: a cross-cultural comparison of pandemic risk perceptions, efficacy perceptions, and behaviors	19
Safety leadership and safety voices: exploring the mediation role of proactive motivations	18
What drives risk perceptions? Revisiting public perceptions of food hazards associated with production and consumption	17
Transparency beyond information disclosure: strategies of the Scandinavian public health authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Using large text news archives for the analysis of climate change discourse: some methodological observations	13
Fear and responsibility: discourses of obesity and risk in the UK press	13
GIS-based vulnerability analysis of the United States to COVID-19 occurrence	13
The utility of social practice theory in risk research	13
Risk perception as a double-edged sword in policy compliance in COVID-19 pandemic? A two-phase evaluation from Hong Kong	13
Understanding Chinese mobile social media users’ communication behaviors during public health emergencies	12
Ignorance and the regulation of artificial intelligence	12
Risk assessment without the risk? A controversy about security and risk in Norway	12
COVID-19 vaccine rollout management and communication in Europe: one year on	11

No heat, no electricity, no water, oh no!: an IDEA model experiment in instructional risk communication	11
The effect of culture in containing a pandemic: the case of COVID-19	10
Implementation through collaborative crisis management and contingency planning: the case of dam failure in Sweden	10
The paradoxical effects of institutional trust on risk perception and risk management in the Covid-19 pandemic: evidence from three societies	10
Combating pandemic: an exploration of social media users’ risk information seeking during the COVID-19 outbreak	10
Mapping the knowledge frontiers of public risk communication in disaster risk management	9
Social sciences and radioactive waste management: acceptance, acceptability, and a persisting socio-technical divide	9
How the risk science can help us establish a good safety culture	9
The emergence of mistrustful civic vigilance in Finnish, French, German and Spanish nuclear policies: ideological trust and (de)politicization	9
Trust, mistrust and distrust as blind spots of Social Licence to Operate: illustration via three forerunner countries in nuclear waste management	9
Experimental support for a trust heuristic	8
How the COVID-19 pandemic influences judgments of risk and benefit: the role of negative emotions	8
‘The day everything changed’: Australians’ COVID-19 risk narratives	8
Beyond party lines: the roles of compassionate goals, affect heuristic, and risk perception on Americans’ support for coronavirus response measures	8
Are you getting it? Integrating theories to explain intentions to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Spain	8
Paging Dr. JARVIS! Will people accept advice from artificial intelligence for consequential risk management decisions?	8
The drivers and barriers of wearing a facemask during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Switzerland	8
People’s understanding of the concept of misinformation	8
Social listening, modern slavery, and COVID-19	7
Unpacking the idea of democratic community consent-based siting for energy infrastructure	7
Understanding discourse and language of risk	6
Drawing from the ‘bank of credibility’: perspectives of health officials and the public on media handling of the H1N1 pandemic	6
Making cyber security more resilient: adding social considerations to technological fixes	6
Effect of COVID-19 vaccine allocation strategies on vaccination refusal: a national survey	6
Comparing social constructions of wildfire risk across media, government, and participatory discourse in a Colorado fireshed	6
Scientists advise, ministers decide? The role of scientific expertise in UK policymaking during the coronavirus pandemic	6
Americans’ COVID-19 risk perceptions and risk perception predictors changed over time	6
Stakeholder safety communication: patient and family reports on safety risks in hospitals	6
The measurements and performance of enterprise risk management: a comprehensive literature review	6
Understanding public support for smart meters: media attention, misperceptions, and knowledge	6
Confidence gap or timid trust building? The role of trust in the evolution of the nuclear waste governance in Germany	6
The Risks of the Mask	5
Misinformation and the Paradox of Trust during the covid-19 pandemic in the U.S.: pathways to Risk perception and compliance behaviors	5
Texas households’ expected responses to seasonal influenza	5
Software, risks, and liabilities: ongoing and emergent issues in 3D bioprinting	5
Rationales of risk and uncertainty and their epistemological foundation by new phenomenology	5
On how to characterize and confront misinformation in a risk context	5
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and ‘risk’ in the news	5
Effects of comparative information when communicating personalized risks of treatment outcomes: an experimental study	5
A new perspective for the integration of intelligence and risk management in a customs and border control context	5
Expert endorsement and the legitimacy of public policy. Evidence from Covid19 mitigation strategies	4
Risk governance approach to migration: a viable alternative to precautionary management	4
‘All we have to do is be uncertain’: assessing the ‘amplification of institutional incertitude’ in European food safety and risk governance	4
Can ERM ratings explain the performance and risk of EMEA insurance companies?	4
The spokesperson matters: evaluating the crisis communication styles of primary spokespersons when presenting COVID-19 modeling data across three jurisdictions in Canada	4
Risk governance in the transition towards sustainability, the case of bio-based plastic food packaging materials	4
Risk perception and communication factors in aviation: Insights from safety investigators	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
Deep borehole disposal of nuclear waste: trust, cost and social acceptability	4
Exploring public acceptance of nuclear waste in Taiwan, China: investigating the impact of perceived risks and benefits of nuclear energy	4

A naturalistic decision-making approach to managing non-routine fire incidents: evidence from expert firefighters	4
To trust or not to trust? Structures, practices and discourses of transboundary trust around the Swedish nuclear power plant Barsebäck near Copenhagen	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	4
Bibliometric analysis of risk science from 1996 to 2021: insights and implications	4
Expert and lay judgements of danger and recklessness in adventure sports	4
A framework for understanding risk based on the concepts of ontology and epistemology	4
Associations between COVID-19 risk perceptions and mental health, wellbeing, and risk behaviours	4