OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Consumer Affairs is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	164
“You can't make me do it!” A model of consumer compliance	55
Centering transgender consumers in conceptualizations of marketplace marginalization and digital spaces	48
Is music piracy over? Comparing music piracy attitudes and behaviors between young generations	44
Either you control social media or social media controls you: Understanding the impact of self‐control on excessive social media use from the dual‐system perspective	42
Have you found what you are looking for? How values orientations affect pro‐social change after transformative service experiences	34
Losing privacy versus losing choice: How consumers react to different costs of personalization	34
Extending the diversity conversation: Fashion consumption experiences of underrepresented and underserved women	30
Financial self‐efficacy, financial literacy, and gender: A review	29
Perceived access, fear, and preventative behavior: Key relationships for positive outcomes during the COVID‐19 health crisis	23
Mindfulness through agency in health consumption: Empirical evidence from committed dietary supplement consumers	22
Improving the effectiveness of financial education programs. A targeting approach	21
What My Parents Did for Me: Parental Financial Sacrifice, Money Scripts, and Financial Behaviors Among Hong Kong Youths in Low‐SES Households	20
The effect of religiosity on customer's response to service failure: Belief‐in‐fate, forgiveness, and emotional wellbeing	18
In Memoriam: Monroe P. Friedman	18
Is Social Media the New Retirement Advisor? Assessing the Impact of Social Media Influence on Retirement Planning	17
Treat yourself: Food delivery apps and the interplay between justification for use and food well‐being	16
Online Shopping and Financial Literacy Among the Elderly	16
The Dark Side of AI in Insurance: A Systematic Review of Mechanisms Linking AI Design Features to	16
Measuring Crypto Literacy	16
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Becoming Competent Consumers: Exploring the Dynamics of the Consumer Socialization Process Between Parents and Their Adolescents	15
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Addressing difficulties with abstract thinking for low‐literate, low‐income consumers through marketplace literacy: A bottom‐up approach to consumer and marketing education	14
Issue Information	14

The role of financial literacy in reducing financial distress: What if consumers were perfectly financially literate?	13
Does financial knowledge affect borrower discouragement among various social categories? Evidence from the United States	12
Parents' perceptions of the sensitivity of their children's personal information and willingness to share with social media marketers: Implications for sharenting	12
Utilization of Alternative Financial Services and the Role of Financial Capability	11
Marketing's contribution to consumer welfare: A research agenda	11
School and family environments promote adolescents' financial confidence: Indirect paths to financial literacy skills in Finnish PISA 2018	11
The Negative Effects of Tipping Suggestions From Non‐Human Agents: Consumer Dislike of Manipulative Intent Perceptions	10
The relationships of financial literacy with both financial behavior and financial well‐being: Meta‐analyses based on the selective literature review	10
Digital exchange compromises: Teetering priorities of consumers and organizations at the iron triangle	10
Financial literacy in the digital age—A research agenda	10
Mindfully aware and open: Mitigating subjective and objective financial vulnerability via mindfulness practices	10
The catharsis of male consumption: Reimagining masculinity in India	9
E. Thomas Garman in memoriam	9
Are You Willing to Share Your DNA With Us? An Exploratory Insight Into the Privacy Calculus of Direct‐To‐Consumer Genetic Testing	9
Impact of Information Overload on Consumer Decision‐Making in the Agri‐Food Sector: A Stimulus‐Organism‐Response Theory Perspective	9
The Hedonic Penalty in Supporting Low‐Income Consumers' Needs	9
Prevention, resolution, or counseling: Testing three approaches to reducing debt payment delinquencies in a large‐scale field experiment	9
Issue Information	8
Erratum	8
The psychology of attraction to multi‐level marketing	8
Factors and Determinants of Financial Behaviors That Undermine Financial Well‐Being: A Qualitative Study	8
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Vulnerable consumer experiences of (dis)empowerment with consumer protection regulations	8
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED : The Effect of California's Proposition 65 Warning on Consumer Perceptions and Evaluations	8
Influence of information on pesticide use during fruit and vegetable cultivation through labeling at the point of purchase: Insights from a French study	8
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How consumer networks contribute to sustainable mindful consumption and well‐being	8
Issue Information	8
Against the odds: Unveiling the racial dynamics of financial resilience in post‐apartheid South Africa	7
Social institutions as enablers and inhibitors of environmental activism: A cross‐cultural perspective	7
Issue Information	7
Reducing information asymmetry and increasing health value co‐creation in a rural healthcare context	7
Income disclosure and consumer judgment in a multilevel marketing experiment	7
Pandemics and consumer well‐being from the Global South	7
Pandemics and consumers' mental well‐being	7
Moving gender across, between and beyond the binaries: In conversation with Shona Bettany, Olimpia Burchiellaro and Rohan Venkatraman	7
How different religiosity facets affect materialism, hedonistic shopping values, and compulsive buying: Toward mediation‐moderation effects	7
Recipients of 2023 American Council on Consumer Interests Best Paper Awards	6
Explaining consumers' progress through life insurance decision states: The role of personal values and consumer characteristics	6
Household Financial Wellbeing During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: An Instrumental Variable Approach	6
2023 American Council on Consumer Interests (ACCI) Distinguished Fellow: Irene Ellis Leech	6
Issue Information	6
The impact of Chinese public expenditures on household investment in risky financial assets: Evidence from a national survey	6
Repeat use of short‐term credit: The case of deposit advance products	6
How violence among consumers alters the expected benefits of participation in a consumer collective	6
Job loss during COVID‐19 on early retirement withdrawals: A moderated‐mediation analysis	6
Skating on Thin Ice: New Evidence on Financial Fragility	6
Unraveling the Threads of Marketplace Diversity	6
Journal of Consumer Affairs Best Article and Best Reviewer Awards	6
Revisiting Algorithmic Bounded Rationality With Potential Solutions: How Recommendation Systems Amplify Cognitive Biases in Consumer Decision‐Making	6

The effect size and nonlinearity of the relationship between cannabis consumption and consumer self‐perceived mental health: A study based on eight national surveys in Canada	5
The impact of payday alternative loans on credit union performance and loan quality	5
Health shocks and mortgage debt payoff among American homeowners over age 50: A survival analysis	5
Issue Information	5
Parents' employment, income, and finances before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Issue Information	5
A National Risk Aversion Perspective on Pension Contributions and Benefits Paid: Insights From OECD Countries	5
Expanding consumer mindfulness for collective sustainable well‐being: Overview of the special issue and future research directions	5
Reducing Food Waste Behavior for Sustainable Consumption: The Effect of Food Consumption Values on Food Waste	5
The platformed money ecosystem: Digital financial platforms, datafication, and reimagining financial well‐being	4
W. Keith Bryant in Memoriam	4
To wear or not to wear? The influence of regulatory focus and individual cultural orientation on face mask wearing	4
The effect of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness in driving altruistic food choices	4
Twenty‐five years of consumer vulnerability research: Critical insights and future directions	4
Income predictability and budgeting	4
When the bridge is not human: Algorithmic interference in forming social relationships through the manipulation of weak ties	4
Youth in individualistic countries have higher financial literacy: Evidence from PISA	4
Social traps and the wicked problem of single‐use plastics: A marketing, policy, and consumer‐citizen perspective	4
Issue Information	4
Next‐generation mindfulness: A mindfulness matrix to extend the transformative potential of mindfulness for consumer, organizational, and societal wellbeing	4
Consuming intimate apparel: A Brazilian transgender discourse	4
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Consumer engagement with preventive health technologies: A double‐edged sword for consumer wellbeing	4
Enhancing Financial Knowledge Through High School Education: The Effect of Mandated Economics and Personal Finance Courses	3
The Determinants of Student Loan Repayment Worry	3
Exploratory Factor Analysis of Financial Services and Products Indicators: The Dimensionality of Financial Access	3
Health Halos or Drinkability? Evaluating What Is Behind Hard Seltzer's Meteoric Growth	3
Financial stress among college students: New data about student loan debt, lack of emergency savings, social and personal resources	3
Understanding the gender gap in financial literacy: The role of culture	3
Law and order? Associations between payday lending prohibition and alternative financial services use by degree of enforcement	3
From self‐quantification to self‐objectification? Framework and research agenda on consequences for well‐being	3
Correction to “Financial Literacy Among Autistic Adults”	3
It's never too late to be financially literate: Evaluating a financial education intervention for adults in Italy	3
Incentivizing or Disincentivizing? How Perceived Social Mobility Affects Consumers' Risk Preference	3
Sowing seeds: The impact of financial socialization on the financial understanding of young children and preschoolers	3
Exploring Consumption Stigma: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda	3
Financial socialization and financial distress: The role of cognitive and noncognitive abilities	3
The effect of natural disasters on household economic hardship during a pandemic	3
Examining Consumers' Illusion of Control and Impulsive Acquisition of Companion Animals: Effects on Future Distress and Abandonment Intention	3
Modernizing standards of identity for juice: Evidence from consumer acceptance of orange juice blend	3
Building financial capability among low‐income older Asian immigrants: The roles of financial access and locus of control	3
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Sharenting in an evolving digital world: Increasing online connection and consumer vulnerability	2
Confronting the deep problem of consumption: Why individual responsibility for mindful consumption matters	2
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Non‐drinking 101: How non‐drinkers navigate the drinking culture on a college campus	2
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The role of social psychological factors in vulnerability to financial hardship	2
A typology of Jordanian consumers after Covid‐19: The rational, the suspicious, and the cautious consumer	2
Issue Information	2
A systematic review of consumer empowerment research trends: Evidence from esteemed consumer studies journals	2
Perception versus the reality of financial situation: The role of personality traits in the United States	2
(Un)conditional consumer protections in high‐cost lending regulation: Impacts on local lending geographies	2
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on subsistence consumers' well‐being and coping strategies: Insights from India and Bangladesh	2
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The effect of subjective well‐being on consumption behavior	2