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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Energy transitioning: why bother with uncertainty and why does risk tolerance really matter?	29
Risk communication and Covid-19 through the lens of anonymous sources	26
Possible harms of artificial intelligence and the EU AI act: fundamental rights and risk	23
Fear during crises: the roles of perceived risk, appraisal support and identity resilience	19
Twenty-five years of the Journal of Risk Research: a bibliometric overview	18
Values as causes of emotions and acceptability in the digital risk context: an extension of the values scale with privacy	18
On how to characterize and confront misinformation in a risk context	16
Should we use natural gas in our homes? Risk perceptions from the U.S	15
Risk and uncertainty: what it means for the Dutch energy transition and how a tolerability of risk approach could help	14
An information network analysis approach to assessing the processes of issuing evacuation instructions: a study of evacuation cases in Japan	12
Risk guidance and anti-corruption language: evidence from corporate codes of conduct	12
Introducing forecast-based public health warnings to promote engagement with air quality risk: a survey of citizens’ attitudes in Cork, Ireland	12
When information security depends on font size: how the saliency of warnings affects protection behavior	12
Between doubt and deference: trust and harm in the risk society	11
Commentary on ‘Risk communication, uncertainty and the dutch energy transition’ by Ragnar Lofstedt and Frederic Bouder	11
Foxes caught in the same snare: a methodological review of social radon studies	11
‘I need to be convinced that I need to become smart’: older adults views on consumer products with internet connectivity	11
Consumer responses to plant viruses in the context of an emerging agri-food risk: a cross-country comparison	10
Fake news and risk management: a systematic literature review	10
Climate change risk and terror management theory	9
Climate change and safety in high-risk industries	9
Facing nonscalability: are risks still ‘risks’ when compound and catastrophic?	9
COVID-19 vaccine rollout management and communication in Europe: one year on	8
Consistency and local adaptation in use of ecological and eco-cultural indicators: assessing risk from contamination	8
The mediated amplification of societal risk and risk governance of artificial intelligence: technological risk frames on YouTube and their impact before and after ChatGPT	8

Public perceptions of hydrogen hubs in Southwestern Pennsylvania	7
Managing uncertainty: psychological issues are critical for risk policy	7
Exploring the effects of information insufficiency on residents’ intention to seek information about waste-to-energy incineration projects	7
How ChatGPT defines risk?	7
Foolproof: why we fall for misinformation and how to build immunity by Sander Van Der Linden book review	7
Dynamics of COVID-19 risk perception and predictors in South Korea: a two-year longitudinal study from the pandemic’s beginning (2020–2021)	7
The co-evolution of government risk communication practice and context for environmental health emergencies	7
Growing utopia – undoing risk through self-sufficiency and urban gardening?	6
Understanding Chinese mobile social media users’ communication behaviors during public health emergencies	6
Environmental Health and Occupational Safety	6
Understanding threat appraisal and protective action concerning forest fires in low-exposure regions: an application of the protective action decision model	6
Embodied Uncertainty and COVID-19: Social identity, stigma, trust and coping through the pandemic	6
Stronger together? Redefining social cohesion role in building disaster-resilient communities	6
Mechanisms behind COVID-19 scepticism among socially marginalised individuals in Europe	6
A longitudinal process from media to climate change knowledge: a multigroup comparison of cognitive mediation model based on risk perception	6
The risk of seeing suffering and reproducing inequality	6
Trust, distrust and radioactive waste management in contemporary Russia	5
Microplastics in food and drink: perceptions of the risks, challenges, and solutions among individuals in the ‘farm-to-fork’ food chain	5
Understanding discourse and language of risk	5
Adoption of coping behaviours: public response to data security risks of intelligent connected vehicles in China	5
Mixed and worried? Examining the association between locality type and worrying about social phenomena in Arab citizens of Israel	5
Lost in translation: inadequate non-technical risk assessment within major project teams in mining	5
How states deal with long-term destabilizing risks	5
Commentary on ‘psychological harm: what is it and how does it apply to consumer products with internet connectivity?’ by Magda Osman	5
English-language news representations of the Fukushima nuclear-treated-water discharge at the initial phase in Japan and neighbouring countries	5
Global public concerns about climate change: the role of education, direct experience, and indirect experience	5
Government trust in turbulence: how do natural disasters affect public risk perception in China？	4
Development and validation of the Design-for-Safety (DfS) climate measurement tool	4
Addressing “beyond control”: nuclear safety goals in the age of risk governance	4
Connecting risk, management and organisational goals: integrating risk with organisations’ systems to enhance performance and competitive advantage	4
Assessing public opinion about controversial risks: the effects of allowing an escape hatch on internal consistency and validity	4
How is counterfactual thinking integrated in organizational risk and resilience practices?	4
Revisiting the primary bias: the role of innumeracy in the misperception of prevalence of chronic illnesses	4
Information seeking and information avoidance about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination: knowledge, personal control, or affect?	4
Communicating radon risks: the impact of different risk formulations on risk perception and protection intention	4
An archaeology of risk: a bibliometric analysis of risk research	4
Combining uncertainty information with AI recommendations supports calibration with domain knowledge	4
Using artificial intelligence (AI)? Risk and opportunity perception of AI predict people’s willingness to use AI	4
Multilateral governance of technological risks; editors’ overview¹	4
Contrasting perspectives on the risks of intensive livestock farming in The Netherlands: a survey study	4
The color of money: green business practices in a transition economy	4
The risk-related tone from the top: evidence from German regional banks	4
COVID-19 skepticism and the perception of risk	4
The role of knowledge and trust in developing risk perceptions of autonomous vehicles: a moderated mediation model	4
How news consumption in modern media landscapes relates to threats perceptions and fears in public spaces. A scoping review	4
‘It’s really embarrassing […] to ask for help:’ navigating invisible and intersecting inequities in barriers to getting vaccinated	3
COVID-19 has illuminated the need for clearer AI-based risk management strategies	3
Striving for technical consensus by agreeing to disagree: the case of monitoring underground nuclear waste disposal facilities	3
Framing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) risk: assessing the influence of message content and source on concern about emerging contaminants	3
Can ERM ratings explain the performance and risk of EMEA insurance companies?	3

Influences of PM2.5 pollution on the public’s negative emotions, risk perceptions, and coping behaviors: a cross-national study in China and Korea	3
The risk of artificial intelligence displacing human interpreters: insights from academic and industry perspectives	3
Competing institutional logics in hospital management during the COVID-19 pandemic – lessons for the future	3
Employee perspectives on risk management in a construction company	3
Risk perception of the COVID-19 vaccines: revisiting the psychometric paradigm	3
Risk perception and communication factors in aviation: Insights from safety investigators	3
Defining and assessing risk analysis quality: insights from applications of the SRA risk analysis quality test	3
Risk in transit: a case study of the introduction of a new risk definition for risk management in the Norwegian petroleum industry	3
A note on psychological harm as a policy instrument	3
Assessing climate change scenarios in the Amazon Basin: a risk governance model	3
Mapping mental models of parents’ risk perceptions of autonomous public transport use by young children: a social representations theory approach	3
The multidimensional structure of risk: how dread and controllability shape attitudes toward artificial intelligence	3
How social media amplifies HPV risk: applying the influence of presumed media influence model to the risk amplification framework	3
What entails risk management maturity in public organisations?	3
Rallying around the vaccine: how state-level risk perceptions and nationalism motivate public acceptance of immunization program	3
Stated-preference tradeoffs between regulatory costs and benefits: testing unit asking and double framing effects	3
Is targeting the solution? Evidence from an experiment on radon risk communication	3
Robotics uncharted: When hazardous-duty robots met the Fukushima nuclear disaster (2011–2015)	3
Developing a battery of measures for unobtrusive indicators of organisational culture: a research note	3
Artificial intelligence in construction risk management: a decade of developments, challenges, and integration pathways	3
Sliding scales for assessing and communicating human and ecological risks and complexities for restoration, remediation crises, and decisions	3
Bibliometric analysis of vaccine hesitancy research from behavioural perspectives (2015–2022)	3
Assessing explanatory variables of perceived stress to disaster: implications for risk research	3