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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Mobilizing Power of Influencers for Pro-Environmental Behavior Intentions and Political Participation	51
Engaging People on Climate Change: The Role of Emotional Responses	37
The Importance of Influencer-Message Congruence When Employing Greenfluencers to Promote Pro-Environmental Behavior	35
Stimulating Sustainable Food Choices Using Virtual Reality: Taking an Environmental vs Health Communication Perspective on Enhancing Response Efficacy Beliefs	35
Competing Crises? Media Coverage and Framing of Climate Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic	31
#fighteverycrisis: Pandemic Shifts in Fridays for Future’s Protest Communication Frames	28
Changing the World One Meme at a Time: The Effects of Climate Change Memes on Civic Engagement Intentions	27
Pro-Environmental Behavior Predicted by Media Exposure, SNS Involvement, and Cognitive and Normative Factors	26
How COVID-19 Displaced Climate Change: Mediated Climate Change Activism and Issue Attention in the Swiss Media and Online Sphere	25
Individualism, Structuralism, and Climate Change	25
Mapping the Field of Climate Change Communication 1993–2018: Geographically Biased, Theoretically Narrow, and Methodologically Limited	24
Place-based Climate Change Communication and Engagement in Canada’s Provincial North: Lessons Learned from Climate Champions	23
#Greenfluencing. The Impact of Parasocial Relationships with Social Media Influencers on Advertising Effectiveness and Followers’ Pro-environmental Intentions	21
What is Public Engagement and How Does it Help to Address Climate Change? A Review of Climate Communication Research	20
Who Sets the Agenda? the Dynamic Agenda Setting of the Wildlife Issue on Social Media	19
China’s Pathway to Climate Sustainability: A Diachronic Framing Analysis of People’s Daily’s Coverage of Climate Change (1995–2018)	19
The Effect of Consumer Concern for the Environment, Self-Regulatory Focus and Message Framing on Green Advertising Effectiveness: An Eye Tracking Study	18
Climate Change Consensus Messages Cause Reactance	18
#PlasticFreeJuly – Analyzing a Worldwide Campaign to Reduce Single-use Plastic Consumption with Twitter	17
Increasing Advertising Literacy to Unveil Disinformation in Green Advertising	17
Agenda-Setting Effects of Climate Change Litigation: Interrelations Across Issue Levels, Media, and Politics in the Case of Urgenda Against the Dutch Government	17
Ecological Civilization: A Blindspot in Global Media Coverage of China’s Environmental Governance	17
Sustainability in CSR Messages on Social Media: How Emotional Framing and Efficacy Affect Emotional Response, Memory and Persuasion	16
Refining the Application of Construal Level Theory: Egocentric and Nonegocentric Psychological Distances in Climate Change Visual Communication	15
The Six Australias: Concern About Climate Change (and Global Warming) is Rising	15

How Solutions Journalism Shapes Support for Collective Climate Change Adaptation	15
Construing Climate Change: Psychological Distance, Individual Difference, and Construal Level of Climate Change	14
Effects of Conspiracy Rhetoric on Views About the Consequences of Climate Change and Support for Direct Carbon Capture	14
Understanding Public Willingness to Pay More for Plant-based Meat: Environmental and Health Consciousness as Precursors to the Influence of Presumed Media Influence Model	13
Media Framing of Climate Change Action in Carbon Locked-in Developing Countries: Adaptation or Mitigation?	13
Motivating Children to Become Green Kids: The Role of Victim Framing, Moral Emotions, and Responsibility on Children’s Pro-Environmental Behavioral Intent	12
Discussion of Climate Change on Reddit: Polarized Discourse or Deliberative Debate?	12
A Qualitative Exploration of Individual Experiences of Environmental Virtual Reality Through the Lens of Psychological Distance	12
Adding Dynamic Norm to Environmental Information in Messages Promoting the Reduction of Meat Consumption	12
Unveiling High Mountain Communities’ Perception of Climate Change Impact on Lives and Livelihoods in Gilgit-Baltistan: Evidence from People-Centric Approach	11
Protective Behaviors Against Particulate Air Pollution: Self-construal, Risk Perception, and Direct Experience in the Theory of Planned Behavior	11
Echo Chamber Effects in the Climate Change Blogosphere	11
Media Discourse on Sustainable Consumption in Europe	10
Effects of Responsibility Appeals for Pro-Environmental Ads: When Do They Empower or Generate Reactance?	10
From Virtual Trees to Real Forests: The Impact of Gamification Affordances on Green Consumption Behaviors in Ant Forest	10
Narrative Risk Communication as a Lingua Franca for Environmental Hazard Preparation	10
On Environmental Communication as a Care Discipline	10
Cripping Environmental Communication: A Review of Eco-Ableism, Eco-Normativity, and Climate Justice Futurities	9
Thunberg’s Way in the Climate Debate: Making Sense of Climate Action and Actors, Constructing Environmental Citizenship	9
Climate Change Consensus Messages May Cause Reactance in Conservatives, But There is No Meta-Analytic Evidence That They Backfire	9
Are You Threatening Me? Identity Threat, Resistance to Persuasion, and Boomerang Effects in Environmental Communication	9
Plastics in Mass Media. A Content Analysis of German Media Coverage of Plastic-Associated Risks and Sustainable Alternatives to Plastics	9
Targeted Change: Using Behavioral Segmentation to Identify and Understand Plastic Consumers and How They Respond to Media Communications	9
Beyond Individualized Responsibility Attributions? How Eco Influencers Communicate Sustainability on TikTok	8
Communicating Climate Change to a Local but Diverse Audience: On the Positive Impact of Locality Framing	8
Does 360-degree Video Enhance Engagement with Global Warming?: The Mediating Role of Spatial Presence and Emotions	8
The Communication of Value Judgements and its Effects on Climate Scientists’ Perceived Trustworthiness	8
The Role of Trust in Communicating Scientific Consensus and the Environmental Benefits of Genetically Engineered Crops: Experimental Evidence of a Backfire Effect	8
News Media Framing of Grassroots Innovations in Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden	8
What Do Extreme Weather Events Say About Climate Change? Comparing Politicization and Climate Policy in U.S. Wildfire and Hurricane News Coverage	8
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	8
An Examination of Expertise, Caring and Salient Value Similarity as Source Factors that Garner Support for Advocated Climate Policies	8
Measuring Americans’ Support for Adapting to ‘Climate Change’ or ‘Extreme Weather’	8
Framing Waste Classification among Chinese Young People: The Moderating Effect of Consideration of Future Consequences	7
“We’re Going Under”: The Role of Local News Media in Dislocating Climate Change Adaptation	7
Categorizing Professionals’ Perspectives on Environmental Communication with Implications for Graduate Education	7
The Swedish Media Debate on GMO Between 1994 and 2018: What Attention was Given to Farmers’ Perspectives?	7
Connective Action, Digital Engagement and Network-Building: A Year in the Life of Canadian Climate Facebook	7
Framing Messages on the Economic Impact of Climate Change Policies: Effects on Climate Believers and Climate Skeptics	7
Beliefs and Networks: Mapping the Indian Climate Policy Discourse Surrounding the Paris Climate Change Conference in 2015	7
The Impact of Message Valence on Climate Change Attitudes: A Longitudinal Experiment	7
Young Adults’ Reactions and Engagement with Short-form Videos on Sea Level Rise	7
Framing the Circular Bioeconomy in Ireland’s Broadsheet Media, 2004–2019	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
Fight or Flight: How Advertising for Air Travel Triggers Moral Disengagement	7
Framing Geothermal Energy in Indonesia: A Media Analysis in A Country with Huge Potential	7
Food System Innovations, Science Communication, and Deficit Model 2.0: Implications for Cellular Agriculture	6
A Sea Change for Climate Refugees in the South Pacific: How Social Media – Not Journalism – Tells Their Real Story	6
Disaster Militarism and Indigenous Responses to Super Typhoon Yutu in the Mariana Islands	6
We Are (Not) the Virus: Competing Online Discourses of Human-Environment Interaction in the Era of COVID-19	6

COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity or Challenge: Applying Psychological Distance Theory and the Co-Benefit Frame to Promote Public Support for Climate Change Mitigation on Social Media	6
12 Years Left: How a Climate Change Action Deadline Influences Perceptions and Engagement	6
Gene-Edited Foods and the Public: The First Representative Survey Study of the United States	6
When Environmental Claims are Empty Promises: How Greenwashing Affects Corporate Reputation and Credibility	6
Delineating Antecedents and Outcomes of Information Seeking Upon Exposure to an Environmental Video Opposing Single-Use Plastics	6
A Review of CLT-based Empirical Research on Climate Change Communication from 2010 to 2021	6
Risk Here vs. Risk There: Intention to Seek Information About Gulf Coastal Erosion	6
Incendiary Humor: Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Politics in Wildfire Cartoons	6
What do Consumers Read About Meat? An Analysis of Media Representations of the Meat-environment Relationship Found in Popular Online News Sites in the UK.	6
COVID-19 as a Framing Device for Environmental Protest: The ECOSYSTEM HEALTH Metaphor	6