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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Populist Frames in Climate Discourse: How Right-Wing Politics Rewrites the Narrative on Climate Change	122
On Care, Opposition, and River World Dynamics: The Nu River Anti-dam Campaign (2003−2016) in China	87
The Role of Choice and Descriptive Norms in Attenuating Reactance to BPA Risk Messages: A Conceptual Replication	56
Between Impact, Politics, and Action: Frames of Climate Change in Indonesian Print and Online Media	54
“We Need to Build Carbon-Neutral Houses” – Discourses of Responsible Expertise in Finnish Professional Media	49
Digital Climate Rhetoric and the Corrupted Scientist Archetype	49
Shifting Social Representations of Orcas: Content and Prototypical Analysis	44
Communities of Care for Air Pollution Policies in Pakistan: An Integrated Approach to Public Engagement and Policy Implementation	40
Combatting Climate Disinformation: Comparing the Effectiveness of Correction Placement and Type	40
A Review of CLT-based Empirical Research on Climate Change Communication from 2010 to 2021	35
An Experimental Study of the Impact of Greenwashing on Attitudes toward Fossil Fuel Corporations’ Sustainability Initiatives	35
The Anthropocene of Weather and Climate: Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate	35
The Art of Environmental Activism in Indonesia: Shifting Horizons	34
Stockholm and The Rise of Global Environmental Governance, The Human Environment	25
Life cycle assessment: future challenges	24
Exploring Languaging and Communication in Ecological Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Environment Relationships	24
Cleaning up greenwash: corporate environmental crime and the crisis of capitalism	23
Down to Extract with Zac Efron and Ewan McGregor: How Streaming Travel Docuseries and Sustainability Discourses Map Racial Geographies in Central America	22
Correction	21
Environmental or Ecological Communication? Lessons (too late) from the Great Barrier Reef	21
Examining Sourcing Practices in Environmental Reporting Across Arab Media: Patterns and Implications	21
Epistemological Negotiation in Environmental Localization: World Englishes Framing of “Biodiversity” in WWF Kenya and China	21
The “Truth” About NGOs: How the Brazilian Media Frames the Attempt to Criminalize Socio-environmental Organizations	21
Media Use, Environmental Mediators, and Pro-environmental Behaviors across and within Countries	20
Criminalizing Care: Environmental Justice Under Political and Police Repression	20

Picture a Forest: A Mixed-methods Exploration of How We Talk and Think About the Places Where Wild Animals Live	20
“ Climate Change is Real, but I Don't Wanna Talk About It ”: Unraveling Spiral of Silence Effects Regarding Climate Change Among Midwestern American Farm	19
Digital sermons and divine warnings: Bangladeshi Islamic preachers’ framing of the 2025 Southern California Wildfires	19
Perfect as the Enemy of Good: How the Seeds of Solutions Journalism for Environmental Reporting Take Root In Canadian Alternative Media	19
Displacements of Care in Climate Crisis: The Case of Tipping Points	18
Strategic Frame Differentiation in Environmental Communication: Evidence from China Daily's Bilingual Climate Change Reporting	17
Imagination, Identification, Intensification: Rhetorical Strategies for Climate Fiction on Television	17
Flotation Devices Re-stor(y)ing Haunted South African Ocean Herstories through Mending as a Decolonial Love Language	17
Corporate Masking: (In)visibility, Petro-nationalism, and Role Play in the Line 3 Pipeline Battle	17
Dissensus Rhetoric in Youth Climate Justice Activism	16
Rethinking Environmental Sciences and Social Media from the Global South: Rural and Indigenous Communication and Audiovisual Communication in Social Media	16
Water for Fire: Framing Water Governance Debates During the 2025 Los Angeles Fires	16
Caring for Water, Plastics, and Trees: Community Radio and Digital Media in Kenya’s Environmental Movements	15
Analyzing the Role of Localized Cultural Narratives in Addressing Global Environmental Challenges	15
Community-Based Disaster Mitigation for Building Flood Resilience in Malaka-Timor, Indonesia	15
Climate Obstruction in the Digital Far-Right: Mapping the Climate Countermovement in German-, Danish-, and Swedish-Speaking Digital Information Environments	15
Portraying Animals in Disasters: News Media Representations of the Portuguese Wildfires of 2017	14
The Power of Moral Words in Politicized Climate Change Communication	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
Exploring Pathways Connecting Climate Change, Health, and Livelihood Loss among Coastal Communities: A Preliminary Qualitative Study from Sierra Leone	14
The Digital Representation of Greta Thunberg in Internet Memes: Gender, Ideology, and Digital Violence	14
Africa's Propensity for a Net Zero Energy Transition	13
Implementing environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles for sustainable businesses: a practical guide in sustainability management	13
ESG reporting in Corporate Communication	12
Climate Change Advocacy in Libraries: Practices, Challenges and Future Research Directions	11
Communicating the Climate Crisis New Directions for Facing What Lies Ahead	11
Settler Ecofascism, Fossil Capitalism, and Democratic Crisis	11
Communicating Ecological Values Through Resource Bricolage: Environmental Narratives of Tourism-supporting SMEs in Yogyakarta, Indonesia	11
Communicating Climate Change in Africa: Role Perception and Role Shifting among Environmental Journalists in Nigeria	11
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
Connecting the Dots: How Communication Strategies Shape Climate Response Behaviors among Smallholder Maize Farmers in Bongo District, Ghana	11
News Consumption, Partisanship, and Energy Preferences in Brazil and the United States	11
Earth Detox: How and Why We Must Clean Up Our Planet	11
Promoting Ecoliteracy through Communication: How Language Can Shape Our Relationship with the More-than-Human World	11
When Scientists Speak Up: Trustworthiness in Advocacy Contexts	11
Exploring Human-Nonhuman Relationships: A Study of Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts in Fiction	10
Vacuuming the Sky? Metaphorical Framing in News Coverage of Carbon Dioxide Removal Methods	10
Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene	10
Environmental Communication From Latin America: Collective Reflections Through the Systematization of Experiences in the Academic Field	10
Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action	10
Beyond Individualized Responsibility Attributions? How Eco Influencers Communicate Sustainability on TikTok	10
Between Eco-Anxiety and Solastalgia: Aspirational and Exiled Astronaut Eco-Imaginaries	9
Visualizing the Amazon: Data-Driven Storytelling, Mapping and Audience for Environmental Journalism	9
Latino Intergenerational Communication and Attitudes Regarding Climate Change	9
Exploring Virtual Reality as a Potential Care Technology	9
Storytelling Science for Sustainability – Using Storytelling to Communicate the Science of Sustainable Food Systems	9
One Day When We Were Young: Nostalgia Brings Climate Change Temporally Closer	9
Researching Indigenous Resistance to Nuclear Colonization and Practicing Decolonial Environmental Justice	9
Visualizing environmental change as inevitable, manageable, and deconstructive	9

Conceptualizing Black Humanity Through Geopoetic Intimacy and Resistance: Memory Making-with Geologic Materials	9
Combatting Climate Change Misinformation: Current Strategies and Future Directions	9
Reflecting on Care within an African Relational Framework for Environmental Communication	9
The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science Denial	9
Localizing (or Not) Climate Change in Spanish-Language Newspapers in the United States	8
Artificial Intelligence and New Voices in Environmental Campaigning	8
Role Perceptions in Climate Science Communication	8
Climate Scenarios and the Documentary Mediation of National Security	8
Toxic Trash or Economic Treasure: An Analysis of How E-waste is Framed in the Ghanaian Media	8
The Art of Narrative Constellations: Advocating for Inclusive Science Stories	8
Rising Seas: Representations of Antarctica, Climate Change, And Sea Level Rise in U.S. Newspaper Coverage	8
The Chemistry and Communication of Microplastic Pollution: Bridging Science, Policy, and Public Awareness	8
Provoking Gut-Level Reactions: A Study on Journalistic Framing During the 2020 Meatpacking Crisis	8
Narrating Vulnerability and Reshaping Resilience: Media Discourse and Political Coalitions on Jakarta Flooding	8
Climate Solutions and Climate Attribution in Extreme Heat Press Coverage: The July 2022 UK Heatwaves	8
Exploring Transition Tensions in Public Opinion on the COP26 Coal Phase-out Deal for South Africa as Expressed on Facebook	8
Blame and Responsibility Assignments in Fast Fashion-Triggered Environmental Injustice: A Case Study of Eco-Documentaries	8
Extreme Weather Events as Teachable Moments: Catalyzing Climate Change Learning and Action Through Conversation	7
From Virtual Trees to Real Forests: The Impact of Gamification Affordances on Green Consumption Behaviors in Ant Forest	7
Cultivating Interest in Science Through Humor: Mirth as a Leveler of Gaps in Science Engagement	7
Representing Environmental Advocacy: Ecopedagogy via Melodrama	7
On Separating Data from People: Reflections on Indigenous Digital Exhaust, Transparency, and Constitutive Relationality	7
“The Ocean is Our Legacy:” Values of Care and Reciprocity	7
Whose Expertise and Whose Knowledge Matter? Influencing Wind Power Decisions in Norway	7
Farming the Revolution , Nishtha Jain, Raintree Films, Little Big Story, Piraya Film, 2024, https://www.nishthajain.com/farming-the-revolution	7
More Than Just an Audience: The New Approach to Public Engagement with Climate Change Communication on Chinese Knowledge-Sharing Networks	7
Blue Planet Law the Ecology of Our Economic and Technological World	7
Climate Information Exposure on Social Media and Climate-Related Political Participation: The Mediating Roles of Environmental Discussion and Risk Perception	7
Shaping Ecological Futures: Digital Worldbuilding and Environmental Readiness in the Anthropocene	7
How Can Storytelling Help Restore Mires? Applying Place-lore Fieldwork Methodology in Ecological Restoration	6
How Solutions Journalism Shapes Support for Collective Climate Change Adaptation	6
Media Portrayals of Net Zero: Stakeholders’ Perspectives and Climate Solutions Framing	6
Innovation and Sustainability in the Ocean Economy: A Critical Review of The Blue Compendium	6
Framing and Public Opinion on the Causes of Urban Wildfires in the United States	6
Climate Change Discourse and Coastal Erosion in New Caledonia: an Analysis of Press Coverage in Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes	6
Experiencing Climate Change Virtually: The Effects of Virtual Reality on Climate Change Related Cognitions, Emotions, and Behavior	6
Tarpuna: Embodied Engagement in Ecocultural Documentary Filmmaking	6
Communicating Climate Change in the Era of Anxiety: Testing a Double-Moderated-Mediation Model	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
The Global Landscape of Environmental Communication: Navigating Emerging Trends	6
The Role of Emotion in Climate Change Communication	6