OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture is 6. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Populist Frames in Climate Discourse: How Right-Wing Politics Rewrites the Narrative on Climate Change	112
On Care, Opposition, and River World Dynamics: The Nu River Anti-dam Campaign (2003−2016) in China	78
The Role of Choice and Descriptive Norms in Attenuating Reactance to BPA Risk Messages: A Conceptual Replication	53
Between Impact, Politics, and Action: Frames of Climate Change in Indonesian Print and Online Media	51
“We Need to Build Carbon-Neutral Houses” – Discourses of Responsible Expertise in Finnish Professional Media	48
Digital Climate Rhetoric and the Corrupted Scientist Archetype	44
Shifting Social Representations of Orcas: Content and Prototypical Analysis	40
A Review of CLT-based Empirical Research on Climate Change Communication from 2010 to 2021	38
Communities of Care for Air Pollution Policies in Pakistan: An Integrated Approach to Public Engagement and Policy Implementation	35
An Experimental Study of the Impact of Greenwashing on Attitudes toward Fossil Fuel Corporations’ Sustainability Initiatives	35
Combatting Climate Disinformation: Comparing the Effectiveness of Correction Placement and Type	33
“ Climate Change is Real, but I Don't Wanna Talk About It ”: Unraveling Spiral of Silence Effects Regarding Climate Change Among Midwestern American Farm	32
The Anthropocene of Weather and Climate: Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate	31
The Art of Environmental Activism in Indonesia: Shifting Horizons	24
Stockholm and The Rise of Global Environmental Governance, The Human Environment	23
Exploring Languaging and Communication in Ecological Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Environment Relationships	21
Life cycle assessment: future challenges	21
Down to Extract with Zac Efron and Ewan McGregor: How Streaming Travel Docuseries and Sustainability Discourses Map Racial Geographies in Central America	20
Environmental or Ecological Communication? Lessons (too late) from the Great Barrier Reef	20
Cleaning up greenwash: corporate environmental crime and the crisis of capitalism	20
Epistemological Negotiation in Environmental Localization: World Englishes Framing of “Biodiversity” in WWF Kenya and China	20
Displacements of Care in Climate Crisis: The Case of Tipping Points	19
Correction	19
The “Truth” About NGOs: How the Brazilian Media Frames the Attempt to Criminalize Socio-environmental Organizations	19
Examining Sourcing Practices in Environmental Reporting Across Arab Media: Patterns and Implications	19

Media Use, Environmental Mediators, and Pro-environmental Behaviors across and within Countries	18
Picture a Forest: A Mixed-methods Exploration of How We Talk and Think About the Places Where Wild Animals Live	18
Perfect as the Enemy of Good: How the Seeds of Solutions Journalism for Environmental Reporting Take Root In Canadian Alternative Media	17
Criminalizing Care: Environmental Justice Under Political and Police Repression	17
Water for Fire: Framing Water Governance Debates During the 2025 Los Angeles Fires	16
Dissensus Rhetoric in Youth Climate Justice Activism	16
Imagination, Identification, Intensification: Rhetorical Strategies for Climate Fiction on Television	16
Corporate Masking: (In)visibility, Petro-nationalism, and Role Play in the Line 3 Pipeline Battle	16
Strategic Frame Differentiation in Environmental Communication: Evidence from China Daily's Bilingual Climate Change Reporting	16
Flotation Devices Re-stor(y)ing Haunted South African Ocean Herstories through Mending as a Decolonial Love Language	15
Analyzing the Role of Localized Cultural Narratives in Addressing Global Environmental Challenges	15
Rethinking Environmental Sciences and Social Media from the Global South: Rural and Indigenous Communication and Audiovisual Communication in Social Media	15
Exploring Pathways Connecting Climate Change, Health, and Livelihood Loss among Coastal Communities: A Preliminary Qualitative Study from Sierra Leone	14
Community-Based Disaster Mitigation for Building Flood Resilience in Malaka-Timor, Indonesia	14
Africa's Propensity for a Net Zero Energy Transition	14
The Power of Moral Words in Politicized Climate Change Communication	14
Caring for Water, Plastics, and Trees: Community Radio and Digital Media in Kenya’s Environmental Movements	14
Implementing environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles for sustainable businesses: a practical guide in sustainability management	14
“This is Part of Everything that is Wrong with the World” – A Comparative Analysis of Sustainability Framing in Social Media Discussions About Food in Five Countries	14
Communicating Ecological Values Through Resource Bricolage: Environmental Narratives of Tourism-supporting SMEs in Yogyakarta, Indonesia	13
ESG reporting in Corporate Communication	13
Earth Detox: How and Why We Must Clean Up Our Planet	13
When Scientists Speak Up: Trustworthiness in Advocacy Contexts	12
Compassion and Climate Change Advocacy: A Computational Analysis of U.S. Environmental NGOs’ Social Media Campaigns	11
Mind the Gap: How Zhongyong Thinking Affects the Effectiveness of Media Use on Pro-Environmental Behaviours in China	11
Promoting Ecoliteracy through Communication: How Language Can Shape Our Relationship with the More-than-Human World	11
Settler Ecofascism, Fossil Capitalism, and Democratic Crisis	11
Communicating the Climate Crisis New Directions for Facing What Lies Ahead	11
Connecting the Dots: How Communication Strategies Shape Climate Response Behaviors among Smallholder Maize Farmers in Bongo District, Ghana	10
News Consumption, Partisanship, and Energy Preferences in Brazil and the United States	10
Beyond Individualized Responsibility Attributions? How Eco Influencers Communicate Sustainability on TikTok	10
Portraying Animals in Disasters: News Media Representations of the Portuguese Wildfires of 2017	10
Between Eco-Anxiety and Solastalgia: Aspirational and Exiled Astronaut Eco-Imaginaries	9
The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science Denial	9
Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene	9
Conceptualizing Black Humanity Through Geopoetic Intimacy and Resistance: Memory Making-with Geologic Materials	9
Latino Intergenerational Communication and Attitudes Regarding Climate Change	9
One Day When We Were Young: Nostalgia Brings Climate Change Temporally Closer	9
Storytelling Science for Sustainability – Using Storytelling to Communicate the Science of Sustainable Food Systems	9
Exploring Human-Nonhuman Relationships: A Study of Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts in Fiction	9
Reflecting on Care within an African Relational Framework for Environmental Communication	9
Visualizing the Amazon: Data-Driven Storytelling, Mapping and Audience for Environmental Journalism	9
Exploring Virtual Reality as a Potential Care Technology	9
Researching Indigenous Resistance to Nuclear Colonization and Practicing Decolonial Environmental Justice	9
Combatting Climate Change Misinformation: Current Strategies and Future Directions	9
Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action	9
Vacuuming the Sky? Metaphorical Framing in News Coverage of Carbon Dioxide Removal Methods	9
Climate Scenarios and the Documentary Mediation of National Security	8
Localizing (or Not) Climate Change in Spanish-Language Newspapers in the United States	8
Narrating Vulnerability and Reshaping Resilience: Media Discourse and Political Coalitions on Jakarta Flooding	8

More Than Just an Audience: The New Approach to Public Engagement with Climate Change Communication on Chinese Knowledge-Sharing Networks	8
Provoking Gut-Level Reactions: A Study on Journalistic Framing During the 2020 Meatpacking Crisis	8
The Art of Narrative Constellations: Advocating for Inclusive Science Stories	8
Artificial Intelligence and New Voices in Environmental Campaigning	8
Climate Solutions and Climate Attribution in Extreme Heat Press Coverage: The July 2022 UK Heatwaves	8
Visualizing environmental change as inevitable, manageable, and deconstructive	8
Toxic Trash or Economic Treasure: An Analysis of How E-waste is Framed in the Ghanaian Media	8
Blame and Responsibility Assignments in Fast Fashion-Triggered Environmental Injustice: A Case Study of Eco-Documentaries	8
Rising Seas: Representations of Antarctica, Climate Change, And Sea Level Rise in U.S. Newspaper Coverage	8
Whose Expertise and Whose Knowledge Matter? Influencing Wind Power Decisions in Norway	7
On Separating Data from People: Reflections on Indigenous Digital Exhaust, Transparency, and Constitutive Relationality	7
Extreme Weather Events as Teachable Moments: Catalyzing Climate Change Learning and Action Through Conversation	7
Shaping Ecological Futures: Digital Worldbuilding and Environmental Readiness in the Anthropocene	7
Representing Environmental Advocacy: Ecopedagogy via Melodrama	7
Climate Information Exposure on Social Media and Climate-Related Political Participation: The Mediating Roles of Environmental Discussion and Risk Perception	7
Exploring Transition Tensions in Public Opinion on the COP26 Coal Phase-out Deal for South Africa as Expressed on Facebook	7
Cultivating Interest in Science Through Humor: Mirth as a Leveler of Gaps in Science Engagement	7
The Chemistry and Communication of Microplastic Pollution: Bridging Science, Policy, and Public Awareness	7
Communicating Climate Change in the Era of Anxiety: Testing a Double-Moderated-Mediation Model	7
Blue Planet Law the Ecology of Our Economic and Technological World	7
“The Ocean is Our Legacy:” Values of Care and Reciprocity	7
From Virtual Trees to Real Forests: The Impact of Gamification Affordances on Green Consumption Behaviors in Ant Forest	7
Role Perceptions in Climate Science Communication	7
Farming the Revolution , Nishtha Jain, Raintree Films, Little Big Story, Piraya Film, 2024, https://www.nishthajain.com/farming-the-revolution	7
How Can Storytelling Help Restore Mires? Applying Place-lore Fieldwork Methodology in Ecological Restoration	6
Experiencing Climate Change Virtually: The Effects of Virtual Reality on Climate Change Related Cognitions, Emotions, and Behavior	6
How Solutions Journalism Shapes Support for Collective Climate Change Adaptation	6
The Renewable Energy Transition and “the People” – Exploring the Intersections of Right-wing Populism and the Renewable Energy Transition in Portuguese Media Discourses	6
Wildlife in Vernacular as a Means for an Inclusive Environmental Sector and Community Engagement in South Africa	6
Climate Change Discourse and Coastal Erosion in New Caledonia: an Analysis of Press Coverage in Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes	6
The Role of Emotion in Climate Change Communication	6
The Global Landscape of Environmental Communication: Navigating Emerging Trends	6