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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Populist Frames in Climate Discourse: How Right-Wing Politics Rewrites the Narrative on Climate Change	75
Between Impact, Politics, and Action: Frames of Climate Change in Indonesian Print and Online Media	63
On Care, Opposition, and River World Dynamics: The Nu River Anti-dam Campaign (2003−2016) in China	51
The Need for Seed: News Framing of the Pandemic Gardening Boom	44
An Experimental Study of the Impact of Greenwashing on Attitudes toward Fossil Fuel Corporations’ Sustainability Initiatives	39
The Role of Choice and Descriptive Norms in Attenuating Reactance to BPA Risk Messages: A Conceptual Replication	38
“We Need to Build Carbon-Neutral Houses” – Discourses of Responsible Expertise in Finnish Professional Media	37
Communities of Care for Air Pollution Policies in Pakistan: An Integrated Approach to Public Engagement and Policy Implementation	35
Using Trusted Intermediaries to Communicate Environmental Issues Across Security Forces	34
Digital Climate Rhetoric and the Corrupted Scientist Archetype	34
Shifting Social Representations of Orcas: Content and Prototypical Analysis	33
A Review of CLT-based Empirical Research on Climate Change Communication from 2010 to 2021	26
Displacements of Care in Climate Crisis: The Case of Tipping Points	24
Combatting Climate Disinformation: Comparing the Effectiveness of Correction Placement and Type	24
Exploring Languaging and Communication in Ecological Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Environment Relationships	22
Perfect as the Enemy of Good: How the Seeds of Solutions Journalism for Environmental Reporting Take Root In Canadian Alternative Media	21
Life cycle assessment: future challenges	20
Media Use, Environmental Mediators, and Pro-environmental Behaviors across and within Countries	19
The Art of Environmental Activism in Indonesia: Shifting Horizons	19
Criminalizing Care: Environmental Justice Under Political and Police Repression	19
The Anthropocene of Weather and Climate: Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate	19
Correction	18
Stockholm and The Rise of Global Environmental Governance, The Human Environment	18
Young Adults’ Reactions and Engagement with Short-form Videos on Sea Level Rise	18
Cleaning up greenwash: corporate environmental crime and the crisis of capitalism	18

“ Climate Change is Real, but I Don't Wanna Talk About It ”: Unraveling Spiral of Silence Effects Regarding Climate Change Among Midwestern American Farmers	18
Dissensus Rhetoric in Youth Climate Justice Activism	17
Flotation Devices Re-stor(y)ing Haunted South African Ocean Herstories through Mending as a Decolonial Love Language	17
Down to Extract with Zac Efron and Ewan McGregor: How Streaming Travel Docuseries and Sustainability Discourses Map Racial Geographies in Central America	17
“Hello, garden eel here:” insights from emerging humanature relations at the aquarium during COVID-19	16
Thunberg’s Way in the Climate Debate: Making Sense of Climate Action and Actors, Constructing Environmental Citizenship	16
Rethinking Environmental Sciences and Social Media from the Global South: Rural and Indigenous Communication and Audiovisual Communication in Social Media	16
Imagination, Identification, Intensification: Rhetorical Strategies for Climate Fiction on Television	15
Caring for Water, Plastics, and Trees: Community Radio and Digital Media in Kenya’s Environmental Movements	15
The Power of Moral Words in Politicized Climate Change Communication	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	13
Community-Based Disaster Mitigation for Building Flood Resilience in Malaka-Timor, Indonesia	13
The Six Australias: Concern About Climate Change (and Global Warming) is Rising	13
Analyzing the Role of Localized Cultural Narratives in Addressing Global Environmental Challenges	13
Africa's Propensity for a Net Zero Energy Transition	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
ESG reporting in Corporate Communication	12
Mind the Gap: How Zhongyong Thinking Affects the Effectiveness of Media Use on Pro-Environmental Behaviours in China	12
Promoting Ecoliteracy through Communication: How Language Can Shape Our Relationship with the More-than-Human World	11
Implementing environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles for sustainable businesses: a practical guide in sustainability management	11
Connecting the Dots: How Communication Strategies Shape Climate Response Behaviors among Smallholder Maize Farmers in Bongo District, Ghana	11
12 Years Left: How a Climate Change Action Deadline Influences Perceptions and Engagement	11
News Consumption, Partisanship, and Energy Preferences in Brazil and the United States	11
Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene	10
Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action	10
Protest Under Uncertainty: Evidence from a Survey Experiment	10
Exploring Human-Nonhuman Relationships: A Study of Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts in Fiction	10
Beyond Individualized Responsibility Attributions? How Eco Influencers Communicate Sustainability on TikTok	10
Storytelling Science for Sustainability – Using Storytelling to Communicate the Science of Sustainable Food Systems	9
Reflecting on Care within an African Relational Framework for Environmental Communication	9
Climate Solutions and Climate Attribution in Extreme Heat Press Coverage: The July 2022 UK Heatwaves	9
From Risk to Legislative Innovation: The Trajectory of Marine Submersion Through the French Media	9
One Day When We Were Young: Nostalgia Brings Climate Change Temporally Closer	9
Latino Intergenerational Communication and Attitudes Regarding Climate Change	9
Exploring Virtual Reality as a Potential Care Technology	9
Conceptualizing Black Humanity Through Geopoetic Intimacy and Resistance: Memory Making-with Geologic Materials	9
Between Eco-Anxiety and Solastalgia: Aspirational and Exiled Astronaut Eco-Imaginaries	9
Combatting Climate Change Misinformation: Current Strategies and Future Directions	9
The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science Denial	9
Researching Indigenous Resistance to Nuclear Colonization and Practicing Decolonial Environmental Justice	8
Visualizing environmental change as inevitable, manageable, and deconstructive	8
Provoking Gut-Level Reactions: A Study on Journalistic Framing During the 2020 Meatpacking Crisis	8
Blame and Responsibility Assignments in Fast Fashion-Triggered Environmental Injustice: A Case Study of Eco-Documentaries	8
Localizing (or Not) Climate Change in Spanish-Language Newspapers in the United States	8
Climate Scenarios and the Documentary Mediation of National Security	8
Narrating Vulnerability and Reshaping Resilience: Media Discourse and Political Coalitions on Jakarta Flooding	8
The Art of Narrative Constellations: Advocating for Inclusive Science Stories	8
On Separating Data from People: Reflections on Indigenous Digital Exhaust, Transparency, and Constitutive Relationality	7
From Virtual Trees to Real Forests: The Impact of Gamification Affordances on Green Consumption Behaviors in Ant Forest	7

The Chemistry and Communication of Microplastic Pollution: Bridging Science, Policy, and Public Awareness	7
Rising Seas: Representations of Antarctica, Climate Change, And Sea Level Rise in U.S. Newspaper Coverage	7
Cultivating Interest in Science Through Humor: Mirth as a Leveler of Gaps in Science Engagement	7
Farming the Revolution , Nishtha Jain, Raintree Films, Little Big Story, Piraya Film, 2024, https://www.nishthajain.com/farming-the-revolution	7
Exploring Transition Tensions in Public Opinion on the COP26 Coal Phase-out Deal for South Africa as Expressed on Facebook	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
Role Perceptions in Climate Science Communication	7
“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
More Than Just an Audience: The New Approach to Public Engagement with Climate Change Communication on Chinese Knowledge-Sharing Networks	7
Adding Dynamic Norm to Environmental Information in Messages Promoting the Reduction of Meat Consumption	7
Blue Planet Law the Ecology of Our Economic and Technological World	6
Experiencing Climate Change Virtually: The Effects of Virtual Reality on Climate Change Related Cognitions, Emotions, and Behavior	6
Climate Information Exposure on Social Media and Climate-Related Political Participation: The Mediating Roles of Environmental Discussion and Risk Perception	6
Representing Environmental Advocacy: Ecopedagogy via Melodrama	6
Climate Change Versus Economic Growth: Quantifying, Identifying and Comparing Articulations in News Media Using Dynamic Topic Modeling	6
Correction	6
How Can Storytelling Help Restore Mires? Applying Place-lore Fieldwork Methodology in Ecological Restoration	6
Climate Change Discourse and Coastal Erosion in New Caledonia: an Analysis of Press Coverage in Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes	6
Whose Expertise and Whose Knowledge Matter? Influencing Wind Power Decisions in Norway	6
Communicating Climate Change to a Local but Diverse Audience: On the Positive Impact of Locality Framing	6
Shaping Ecological Futures: Digital Worldbuilding and Environmental Readiness in the Anthropocene	6
Communicating Climate Change in the Era of Anxiety: Testing a Double-Moderated-Mediation Model	6
How Solutions Journalism Shapes Support for Collective Climate Change Adaptation	6
How environment-focused communities discuss COVID-19 online: an analysis of social (risk) amplification and ripple effects on Reddit	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