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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Animal Agriculture and Climate Change in the US and UK Elite Media: Volume, Responsibilities, Causes and Solutions	41
The Mobilizing Power of Influencers for Pro-Environmental Behavior Intentions and Political Participation	36
Engaging People on Climate Change: The Role of Emotional Responses	35
Environmental Literature as Persuasion: An Experimental Test of the Effects of Reading Climate Fiction	33
Did the Blue Planet set the Agenda for Plastic Pollution? An Explorative Study on the Influence of a Documentary on the Public, Media and Political Agendas	33
Stimulating Sustainable Food Choices Using Virtual Reality: Taking an Environmental vs Health Communication Perspective on Enhancing Response Efficacy Beliefs	32
#sustainablefashion – A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Fashion Discourse on Twitter	26
A Research Agenda for Climate Change Communication and Public Opinion: The Role of Scientific Consensus Messaging and Beyond	26
#fighteverycrisis: Pandemic Shifts in Fridays for Future’s Protest Communication Frames	25
Changing the World One Meme at a Time: The Effects of Climate Change Memes on Civic Engagement Intentions	25
Competing Crises? Media Coverage and Framing of Climate Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic	25
Pro-Environmental Behavior Predicted by Media Exposure, SNS Involvement, and Cognitive and Normative Factors	24
The Importance of Influencer-Message Congruence When Employing Greenfluencers to Promote Pro-Environmental Behavior	23
Food for Thought: Investigating Communication Strategies to Counteract Moral Disengagement Regarding Meat Consumption	22
How COVID-19 Displaced Climate Change: Mediated Climate Change Activism and Issue Attention in the Swiss Media and Online Sphere	21
Societal Debates About Emerging Genetic Technologies: Toward a Science of Public Engagement	21
Place-based Climate Change Communication and Engagement in Canada’s Provincial North: Lessons Learned from Climate Champions	21
Mapping the Field of Climate Change Communication 1993–2018: Geographically Biased, Theoretically Narrow, and Methodologically Limited	20
Individualism, Structuralism, and Climate Change	20
China’s Pathway to Climate Sustainability: A Diachronic Framing Analysis of People’s Daily’s Coverage of Climate Change (1995–2018)	19
Who Sets the Agenda? the Dynamic Agenda Setting of the Wildlife Issue on Social Media	18
Increasing Advertising Literacy to Unveil Disinformation in Green Advertising	17
A Call to Arms for Climate Change? How Military Service Member Concern About Climate Change Can Inform Effective Climate Communication	17
#PlasticFreeJuly – Analyzing a Worldwide Campaign to Reduce Single-use Plastic Consumption with Twitter	17
Is This Safe? Addressing Societal Concerns About CRISPR-Edited Foods Without Reinforcing GMO Framing	17

Climate Change Consensus Messages Cause Reactance	16
What is Public Engagement and How Does it Help to Address Climate Change? A Review of Climate Communication Research	16
Sustainability in CSR Messages on Social Media: How Emotional Framing and Efficacy Affect Emotional Response, Memory and Persuasion	14
Refining the Application of Construal Level Theory: Egocentric and Nonegocentric Psychological Distances in Climate Change Visual Communication	14
Agenda-Setting Effects of Climate Change Litigation: Interrelations Across Issue Levels, Media, and Politics in the Case of Urgenda Against the Dutch Government	13
Ecological Civilization: A Blindspot in Global Media Coverage of China’s Environmental Governance	13
How Solutions Journalism Shapes Support for Collective Climate Change Adaptation	13
The Effect of Consumer Concern for the Environment, Self-Regulatory Focus and Message Framing on Green Advertising Effectiveness: An Eye Tracking Study	13
Effects of Conspiracy Rhetoric on Views About the Consequences of Climate Change and Support for Direct Carbon Capture	12
Understanding Public Willingness to Pay More for Plant-based Meat: Environmental and Health Consciousness as Precursors to the Influence of Presumed Media Influence Model	12
The Six Australias: Concern About Climate Change (and Global Warming) is Rising	12
#Greenfluencing. The Impact of Parasocial Relationships with Social Media Influencers on Advertising Effectiveness and Followers’ Pro-environmental Intentions	12
A Qualitative Exploration of Individual Experiences of Environmental Virtual Reality Through the Lens of Psychological Distance	12
Construing Climate Change: Psychological Distance, Individual Difference, and Construal Level of Climate Change	11
Building Consensus? The Production of a Water Conservation Discourse Through Twitter: The Water use it Wisely Campaign in Arizona	11
Motivating Children to Become Green Kids: The Role of Victim Framing, Moral Emotions, and Responsibility on Children’s Pro-Environmental Behavioral Intent	11
Echo Chamber Effects in the Climate Change Blogosphere	10
Unveiling High Mountain Communities’ Perception of Climate Change Impact on Lives and Livelihoods in Gilgit-Baltistan: Evidence from People-Centric Approach	10
Targeted Change: Using Behavioral Segmentation to Identify and Understand Plastic Consumers and How They Respond to Media Communications	9
Media Framing of Climate Change Action in Carbon Locked-in Developing Countries: Adaptation or Mitigation?	9
Narrative Risk Communication as a Lingua Franca for Environmental Hazard Preparation	9
Protective Behaviors Against Particulate Air Pollution: Self-construal, Risk Perception, and Direct Experience in the Theory of Planned Behavior	9
Gene Editing Communication Must Center Marginalized Communities	9
Discussion of Climate Change on Reddit: Polarized Discourse or Deliberative Debate?	9
Climate Change Consensus Messages May Cause Reactance in Conservatives, But There is No Meta-Analytic Evidence That They Backfire	8
Constructing the Millennial “Other” in United States Press Coverage of the Green New Deal	8
News Media Framing of Grassroots Innovations in Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden	8
Global Climate Change or National Climate Changes? An Analysis of the Performance of Online Issue Publics in Integrating Global Issues	8
More Plastic than Fish: Partisan Responses to an Advocacy Video Opposing Single-Use Plastics	8
Adding Dynamic Norm to Environmental Information in Messages Promoting the Reduction of Meat Consumption	8
Effects of Responsibility Appeals for Pro-Environmental Ads: When Do They Empower or Generate Reactance?	8
Plastics in Mass Media. A Content Analysis of German Media Coverage of Plastic-Associated Risks and Sustainable Alternatives to Plastics	8
Communicating Climate Change to a Local but Diverse Audience: On the Positive Impact of Locality Framing	8
Thunberg’s Way in the Climate Debate: Making Sense of Climate Action and Actors, Constructing Environmental Citizenship	8
Measuring Americans’ Support for Adapting to ‘Climate Change’ or ‘Extreme Weather’	8
The Swedish Media Debate on GMO Between 1994 and 2018: What Attention was Given to Farmers’ Perspectives?	7
What Do Extreme Weather Events Say About Climate Change? Comparing Politicization and Climate Policy in U.S. Wildfire and Hurricane News Coverage	7
The Communication of Value Judgements and its Effects on Climate Scientists’ Perceived Trustworthiness	7
Beyond Individualized Responsibility Attributions? How Eco Influencers Communicate Sustainability on TikTok	7
Categorizing Professionals’ Perspectives on Environmental Communication with Implications for Graduate Education	7
Framing Waste Classification among Chinese Young People: The Moderating Effect of Consideration of Future Consequences	7
Does 360-degree Video Enhance Engagement with Global Warming?: The Mediating Role of Spatial Presence and Emotions	7
“We’re Going Under”: The Role of Local News Media in Dislocating Climate Change Adaptation	7
Framing Messages on the Economic Impact of Climate Change Policies: Effects on Climate Believers and Climate Skeptics	7
Media Diets of Vegetarians. How News Consumption, Social Media Use and Communicating with One’s Social Environment are Associated with a Vegetarian Diet	7
Are You Threatening Me? Identity Threat, Resistance to Persuasion, and Boomerang Effects in Environmental Communication	7
Cripping Environmental Communication: A Review of Eco-Ableism, Eco-Normativity, and Climate Justice Futurities	7
Framing the Circular Bioeconomy in Ireland’s Broadsheet Media, 2004–2019	7
An Examination of Expertise, Caring and Salient Value Similarity as Source Factors that Garner Support for Advocated Climate Policies	7
Incendiary Humor: Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Politics in Wildfire Cartoons	6

The Impact of Message Valence on Climate Change Attitudes: A Longitudinal Experiment	6
We Are (Not) the Virus: Competing Online Discourses of Human-Environment Interaction in the Era of COVID-19	6
The Loop Trail “Quest”: Use of a Choice-based Digital Simulation, An Interactive Video, and a Booklet to Communicate and Analyze Decision-making of Park Visitors	6
The Rise of the Fourth Estate: The Media, Environmental Policy, and the Fight against Illegal Mining in Ghana	6
Young Adults’ Reactions and Engagement with Short-form Videos on Sea Level Rise	6
The Moderating Role of Descriptive Norms on Construal-Level Fit: An Examination in the Context of “Less Plastic” Campaigns	6
Gene-Edited Foods and the Public: The First Representative Survey Study of the United States	6
Fight or Flight: How Advertising for Air Travel Triggers Moral Disengagement	6
Delineating Antecedents and Outcomes of Information Seeking Upon Exposure to an Environmental Video Opposing Single-Use Plastics	6