OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Using Trusted Intermediaries to Communicate Environmental Issues Across Security Forces	65
Digital Climate Rhetoric and the Corrupted Scientist Archetype	53
Between Impact, Politics, and Action: Frames of Climate Change in Indonesian Print and Online Media	46
Shifting Social Representations of Orcas: Content and Prototypical Analysis	39
Populist Frames in Climate Discourse: How Right-Wing Politics Rewrites the Narrative on Climate Change	36
Communities of Care for Air Pollution Policies in Pakistan: An Integrated Approach to Public Engagement and Policy Implementation	35
On Care, Opposition, and River World Dynamics: The Nu River Anti-dam Campaign (2003−2016) in China	32
The Need for Seed: News Framing of the Pandemic Gardening Boom	30
An Experimental Study of the Impact of Greenwashing on Attitudes toward Fossil Fuel Corporations’ Sustainability Initiatives	29
A Review of CLT-based Empirical Research on Climate Change Communication from 2010 to 2021	28
Combatting Climate Disinformation: Comparing the Effectiveness of Correction Placement and Type	28
“We Need to Build Carbon-Neutral Houses” – Discourses of Responsible Expertise in Finnish Professional Media	28
The Role of Choice and Descriptive Norms in Attenuating Reactance to BPA Risk Messages: A Conceptual Replication	27
Exploring Languaging and Communication in Ecological Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Environment Relationships	23
Displacements of Care in Climate Crisis: The Case of Tipping Points	23
Perfect as the Enemy of Good: How the Seeds of Solutions Journalism for Environmental Reporting Take Root In Canadian Alternative Media	22
Life cycle assessment: future challenges	22
The Art of Environmental Activism in Indonesia: Shifting Horizons	19
The Anthropocene of Weather and Climate: Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate	19
Criminalizing Care: Environmental Justice Under Political and Police Repression	17
Young Adults’ Reactions and Engagement with Short-form Videos on Sea Level Rise	17
Media Use, Environmental Mediators, and Pro-environmental Behaviors across and within Countries	17
Cleaning up greenwash: corporate environmental crime and the crisis of capitalism	17
“ Climate Change is Real, but I Don't Wanna Talk About It ”: Unraveling Spiral of Silence Effects Regarding Climate Change Among Midwestern American Farmers	16
Rethinking Environmental Sciences and Social Media from the Global South: Rural and Indigenous Communication and Audiovisual Communication in Social Media	16

Stockholm and The Rise of Global Environmental Governance, The Human Environment	16
Pro-Environmental Behavior Predicted by Media Exposure, SNS Involvement, and Cognitive and Normative Factors	16
Flotation Devices Re-stor(y)ing Haunted South African Ocean Herstories through Mending as a Decolonial Love Language	15
Dissensus Rhetoric in Youth Climate Justice Activism	15
“Hello, garden eel here:” insights from emerging humanature relations at the aquarium during COVID-19	15
Imagination, Identification, Intensification: Rhetorical Strategies for Climate Fiction on Television	15
“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
Caring for Water, Plastics, and Trees: Community Radio and Digital Media in Kenya’s Environmental Movements	14
Thunberg’s Way in the Climate Debate: Making Sense of Climate Action and Actors, Constructing Environmental Citizenship	14
The Power of Moral Words in Politicized Climate Change Communication	14
Promoting Ecoliteracy through Communication: How Language Can Shape Our Relationship with the More-than-Human World	13
Analyzing the Role of Localized Cultural Narratives in Addressing Global Environmental Challenges	13
The Six Australias: Concern About Climate Change (and Global Warming) is Rising	13
Community-Based Disaster Mitigation for Building Flood Resilience in Malaka-Timor, Indonesia	13
ESG reporting in Corporate Communication	12
Earth Detox: How and Why We Must Clean Up Our Planet	12
Communicating the Climate Crisis New Directions for Facing What Lies Ahead	12
Africa's Propensity for a Net Zero Energy Transition	11
Reflecting on Care within an African Relational Framework for Environmental Communication	10
#PlasticFreeJuly – Analyzing a Worldwide Campaign to Reduce Single-use Plastic Consumption with Twitter	10
Mind the Gap: How Zhongyong Thinking Affects the Effectiveness of Media Use on Pro-Environmental Behaviours in China	10
Protest Under Uncertainty: Evidence from a Survey Experiment	10
Beyond Individualized Responsibility Attributions? How Eco Influencers Communicate Sustainability on TikTok	10
Implementing environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles for sustainable businesses: a practical guide in sustainability management	10
News Consumption, Partisanship, and Energy Preferences in Brazil and the United States	10
12 Years Left: How a Climate Change Action Deadline Influences Perceptions and Engagement	10
Between Eco-Anxiety and Solastalgia: Aspirational and Exiled Astronaut Eco-Imaginaries	9
Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action	9
Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene	9
One Day When We Were Young: Nostalgia Brings Climate Change Temporally Closer	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
Exploring Human-Nonhuman Relationships: A Study of Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts in Fiction	9
Latino Intergenerational Communication and Attitudes Regarding Climate Change	8
The Art of Narrative Constellations: Advocating for Inclusive Science Stories	8
Narrating Vulnerability and Reshaping Resilience: Media Discourse and Political Coalitions on Jakarta Flooding	8
Researching Indigenous Resistance to Nuclear Colonization and Practicing Decolonial Environmental Justice	8
From Risk to Legislative Innovation: The Trajectory of Marine Submersion Through the French Media	8
The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science Denial	8
Exploring Virtual Reality as a Potential Care Technology	8
Visualizing environmental change as inevitable, manageable, and deconstructive	8
Climate Solutions and Climate Attribution in Extreme Heat Press Coverage: The July 2022 UK Heatwaves	8
Blame and Responsibility Assignments in Fast Fashion-Triggered Environmental Injustice: A Case Study of Eco-Documentaries	8
Provoking Gut-Level Reactions: A Study on Journalistic Framing During the 2020 Meatpacking Crisis	8
Localizing (or Not) Climate Change in Spanish-Language Newspapers in the United States	8
“The Ocean is Our Legacy:” Values of Care and Reciprocity	7
Extreme Weather Events as Teachable Moments: Catalyzing Climate Change Learning and Action Through Conversation	7
The Chemistry and Communication of Microplastic Pollution: Bridging Science, Policy, and Public Awareness	7
Exploring Transition Tensions in Public Opinion on the COP26 Coal Phase-out Deal for South Africa as Expressed on Facebook	7
More Than Just an Audience: The New Approach to Public Engagement with Climate Change Communication on Chinese Knowledge-Sharing Networks	7

On Separating Data from People: Reflections on Indigenous Digital Exhaust, Transparency, and Constitutive Relationality	7
Cultivating Interest in Science Through Humor: Mirth as a Leveler of Gaps in Science Engagement	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
Communicating Climate Change in the Era of Anxiety: Testing a Double-Moderated-Mediation Model	6
Adding Dynamic Norm to Environmental Information in Messages Promoting the Reduction of Meat Consumption	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
Climate Information Exposure on Social Media and Climate-Related Political Participation: The Mediating Roles of Environmental Discussion and Risk Perception	6
Role Perceptions in Climate Science Communication	6
Shaping Ecological Futures: Digital Worldbuilding and Environmental Readiness in the Anthropocene	6
Experiencing Climate Change Virtually: The Effects of Virtual Reality on Climate Change Related Cognitions, Emotions, and Behavior	6
How environment-focused communities discuss COVID-19 online: an analysis of social (risk) amplification and ripple effects on Reddit	6
Communicating Climate Change to a Local but Diverse Audience: On the Positive Impact of Locality Framing	6
Farming the Revolution , Nishtha Jain, Raintree Films, Little Big Story, Piraya Film, 2024, https://www.nishthajain.com/farming-the-revolution	6
From Virtual Trees to Real Forests: The Impact of Gamification Affordances on Green Consumption Behaviors in Ant Forest	6
Representing Environmental Advocacy: Ecopedagogy via Melodrama	6
Whose Expertise and Whose Knowledge Matter? Influencing Wind Power Decisions in Norway	6
Frack-Off: Social Media Fights Against Fracking in Argentina	5
FutureCoast: A Playful Way to Assess Public Perceptions for Better Climate Change Communication	5
How Solutions Journalism Shapes Support for Collective Climate Change Adaptation	5
Climate Change Versus Economic Growth: Quantifying, Identifying and Comparing Articulations in News Media Using Dynamic Topic Modeling	5
Race/Ethnicity and Climate Change Reporting: Perceptions and Interests of News Personnel's Interest to Cover Climate Change based on Race	5
#fighteverycrisis: Pandemic Shifts in Fridays for Future’s Protest Communication Frames	5
Blue Planet Law the Ecology of Our Economic and Technological World	5
Fish Prisons and Bluehouses: Perceived Risks and Benefits of Land-based Aquaculture in Four US Communities	5
Wildlife in Vernacular as a Means for an Inclusive Environmental Sector and Community Engagement in South Africa	5
Promoting Environmental Communication and Policy Formation: A Utilization-Focused Evaluation Approach	5
How Can Storytelling Help Restore Mires? Applying Place-lore Fieldwork Methodology in Ecological Restoration	5
The Role of Late-Night Infotainment Comedy in Communicating Climate Change Consensus	5