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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Risk communication and Covid-19 through the lens of anonymous sources	41
Charting the global rise of the modern plug-in electric vehicle (PEV)	25
Energy transitioning: why bother with uncertainty and why does risk tolerance really matter?	22
Fear during crises: the roles of perceived risk, appraisal support and identity resilience	21
Values as causes of emotions and acceptability in the digital risk context: an extension of the values scale with privacy	20
Twenty-five years of the Journal of Risk Research: a bibliometric overview	19
Possible harms of artificial intelligence and the EU AI act: fundamental rights and risk	16
Should we use natural gas in our homes? Risk perceptions from the U.S	16
An information network analysis approach to assessing the processes of issuing evacuation instructions: a study of evacuation cases in Japan	16
Risk governance approach to migration: a viable alternative to precautionary management	15
Risk and uncertainty: what it means for the Dutch energy transition and how a tolerability of risk approach could help	15
On how to characterize and confront misinformation in a risk context	15
Risk guidance and anti-corruption language: evidence from corporate codes of conduct	13
Introducing forecast-based public health warnings to promote engagement with air quality risk: a survey of citizens’ attitudes in Cork, Ireland	13
‘I need to be convinced that I need to become smart’: older adults views on consumer products with internet connectivity	12
Consumer responses to plant viruses in the context of an emerging agri-food risk: a cross-country comparison	11
Foxes caught in the same snare: a methodological review of social radon studies	11
Commentary on ‘Risk communication, uncertainty and the dutch energy transition’ by Ragnar Lofstedt and Frederic Bouder	11
Between doubt and deference: trust and harm in the risk society	11
When information security depends on font size: how the saliency of warnings affects protection behavior	11
Climate change risk and terror management theory	10
Consistency and local adaptation in use of ecological and eco-cultural indicators: assessing risk from contamination	10
Facing nonscalability: are risks still ‘risks’ when compound and catastrophic?	10
Climate change and safety in high-risk industries	10
Fake news and risk management: a systematic literature review	10

COVID-19 vaccine rollout management and communication in Europe: one year on	10
Public perceptions of hydrogen hubs in Southwestern Pennsylvania	10
Exploring the effects of information insufficiency on residents’ intention to seek information about waste-to-energy incineration projects	10
The mediated amplification of societal risk and risk governance of artificial intelligence: technological risk frames on YouTube and their impact before and after ChatGPT	9
Foolproof: why we fall for misinformation and how to build immunity by Sander Van Der Linden book review	8
Dynamics of COVID-19 risk perception and predictors in South Korea: a two-year longitudinal study from the pandemic’s beginning (2020–2021)	8
The co-evolution of government risk communication practice and context for environmental health emergencies	8
Managing uncertainty: psychological issues are critical for risk policy	8
Embodied Uncertainty and COVID-19: Social identity, stigma, trust and coping through the pandemic	7
How ChatGPT defines risk?	7
Mechanisms behind COVID-19 scepticism among socially marginalised individuals in Europe	7
Growing utopia – undoing risk through self-sufficiency and urban gardening?	7
Understanding threat appraisal and protective action concerning forest fires in low-exposure regions: an application of the protective action decision model	7
Understanding Chinese mobile social media users’ communication behaviors during public health emergencies	7
The risk of seeing suffering and reproducing inequality	6
A longitudinal process from media to climate change knowledge: a multigroup comparison of cognitive mediation model based on risk perception	6
Microplastics in food and drink: perceptions of the risks, challenges, and solutions among individuals in the ‘farm-to-fork’ food chain	6
Stronger together? Redefining social cohesion role in building disaster-resilient communities	6
English-language news representations of the Fukushima nuclear-treated-water discharge at the initial phase in Japan and neighbouring countries	6
Commentary on ‘psychological harm: what is it and how does it apply to consumer products with internet connectivity?’ by Magda Osman	6
Comparing social constructions of wildfire risk across media, government, and participatory discourse in a Colorado fireshed	6
How states deal with long-term destabilizing risks	6
Adoption of coping behaviours: public response to data security risks of intelligent connected vehicles in China	6
Are you getting it? Integrating theories to explain intentions to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Spain	6
Global public concerns about climate change: the role of education, direct experience, and indirect experience	5
Communicating radon risks: the impact of different risk formulations on risk perception and protection intention	5
An archaeology of risk: a bibliometric analysis of risk research	5
Assessing public opinion about controversial risks: the effects of allowing an escape hatch on internal consistency and validity	5
Mixed and worried? Examining the association between locality type and worrying about social phenomena in Arab citizens of Israel	5
How is counterfactual thinking integrated in organizational risk and resilience practices?	5
The risk-related tone from the top: evidence from German regional banks	5
The color of money: green business practices in a transition economy	5
Trust, distrust and radioactive waste management in contemporary Russia	5
Lost in translation: inadequate non-technical risk assessment within major project teams in mining	5
Understanding discourse and language of risk	5
Connecting risk, management and organisational goals: integrating risk with organisations’ systems to enhance performance and competitive advantage	5
Exploring perspectives on COVID-19 risk, protective behavior and control measures	4
The role of knowledge and trust in developing risk perceptions of autonomous vehicles: a moderated mediation model	4
Information seeking and information avoidance about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination: knowledge, personal control, or affect?	4
Revisiting the primary bias: the role of innumeracy in the misperception of prevalence of chronic illnesses	4
What entails risk management maturity in public organisations?	4
Combining uncertainty information with AI recommendations supports calibration with domain knowledge	4
Addressing “beyond control”: nuclear safety goals in the age of risk governance	4
Rallying around the vaccine: how state-level risk perceptions and nationalism motivate public acceptance of immunization program	4
Contrasting perspectives on the risks of intensive livestock farming in The Netherlands: a survey study	4
Multilateral governance of technological risks; editors’ overview¹	4
Using artificial intelligence (AI)? Risk and opportunity perception of AI predict people’s willingness to use AI	4
COVID-19 skepticism and the perception of risk	4
Development and validation of the Design-for-Safety (DfS) climate measurement tool	4
How news consumption in modern media landscapes relates to threats perceptions and fears in public spaces. A scoping review	4

Government trust in turbulence: how do natural disasters affect public risk perception in China？