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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	106
The ethics of nudging: Using moral foundations theory to understand consumers' approval of nudges	96
The effects of online consumer credit on household consumption level and structure: Evidence from China	39
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	38
Is music piracy over? Comparing music piracy attitudes and behaviors between young generations	34
Centering transgender consumers in conceptualizations of marketplace marginalization and digital spaces	32
“You can't make me do it!” A model of consumer compliance	29
The coronavirus pandemic: A window of opportunity for sustainable consumption or a time of turning away?	27
Have you found what you are looking for? How values orientations affect pro‐social change after transformative service experiences	26
Losing privacy versus losing choice: How consumers react to different costs of personalization	25
Perceived access, fear, and preventative behavior: Key relationships for positive outcomes during the COVID‐19 health crisis	25
Financial self‐efficacy, financial literacy, and gender: A review	23
Toward a “human being to commodity model” as an explanation for men's violent, sexual consumption of women	22
Extending the diversity conversation: Fashion consumption experiences of underrepresented and underserved women	22
Mindfulness through agency in health consumption: Empirical evidence from committed dietary supplement consumers	21
Improving the effectiveness of financial education programs. A targeting approach	21
Understanding consumer stockpiling: Insights provided during the COVID‐19 pandemic	21
In Memoriam: Monroe P. Friedman	20
The effect of religiosity on customer's response to service failure: Belief‐in‐fate, forgiveness, and emotional wellbeing	20
Is Social Media the New Retirement Advisor? Assessing the Impact of Social Media Influence on Retirement Planning	20
Becoming Competent Consumers: Exploring the Dynamics of the Consumer Socialization Process Between Parents and Their Adolescents	20
Treat yourself: Food delivery apps and the interplay between justification for use and food well‐being	19
Supermarket competence in emergent markets: Conceptualization, measurement, effects, and policy implications	18
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The role of financial literacy in reducing financial distress: What if consumers were perfectly financially literate?	17

Does financial knowledge affect borrower discouragement among various social categories? Evidence from the United States	17
Issue Information	16
Addressing difficulties with abstract thinking for low‐literate, low‐income consumers through marketplace literacy: A bottom‐up approach to consumer and marketing education	15
Bank compliance with national transaction account standards: Evidence from a mid‐western metropolitan area	14
Parents' perceptions of the sensitivity of their children's personal information and willingness to share with social media marketers: Implications for sharenting	14
Mitigating the detrimental effect of skeuomorphism on gambling behavior	14
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Financial institution objectives and auto loan pricing: Evidence from the survey of consumer finances	12
School and family environments promote adolescents' financial confidence: Indirect paths to financial literacy skills in Finnish PISA 2018	12
Marketing's contribution to consumer welfare: A research agenda	12
The relationships of financial literacy with both financial behavior and financial well‐being: Meta‐analyses based on the selective literature review	12
Utilization of Alternative Financial Services and the Role of Financial Capability	12
When taking action means accepting responsibility: Omission bias predicts parents' reluctance to vaccinate due to greater anticipated culpability for negative side effects	12
Digital exchange compromises: Teetering priorities of consumers and organizations at the iron triangle	11
Mindfully aware and open: Mitigating subjective and objective financial vulnerability via mindfulness practices	11
The Negative Effects of Tipping Suggestions From Non‐Human Agents: Consumer Dislike of Manipulative Intent Perceptions	11
Financial literacy in the digital age—A research agenda	10
E. Thomas Garman in memoriam	10
The catharsis of male consumption: Reimagining masculinity in India	10
Prevention, resolution, or counseling: Testing three approaches to reducing debt payment delinquencies in a large‐scale field experiment	10
Vulnerable consumer experiences of (dis)empowerment with consumer protection regulations	10
Are You Willing to Share Your DNA With Us? An Exploratory Insight Into the Privacy Calculus of Direct‐To‐Consumer Genetic Testing	9
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An analysis of the relationship between risk perceptions and willingness‐to‐pay for commodities during the COVID‐19 pandemic	9
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Influence of information on pesticide use during fruit and vegetable cultivation through labeling at the point of purchase: Insights from a French study	9
How consumer networks contribute to sustainable mindful consumption and well‐being	8
Issue Information	8
Erratum	8
The psychology of attraction to multi‐level marketing	8
No longer green with envy: Objectifying and destroying negative consumer emotions	8
How different religiosity facets affect materialism, hedonistic shopping values, and compulsive buying: Toward mediation‐moderation effects	8
Soft landings: Extending the cushion hypothesis to financial well‐being in collectivistic cultures	7
Pandemics and consumers' mental well‐being	7
Pandemics and consumer well‐being from the Global South	7
Social institutions as enablers and inhibitors of environmental activism: A cross‐cultural perspective	7
Covid‐19 pandemic and consumer‐employee‐organization wellbeing: A dynamic capability theory approach	7
Moving gender across, between and beyond the binaries: In conversation with Shona Bettany, Olimpia Burchiellaro and Rohan Venkatraman	7
Income disclosure and consumer judgment in a multilevel marketing experiment	7
Reducing information asymmetry and increasing health value co‐creation in a rural healthcare context	7
Have I saved enough to social distance? The role of household financial preparedness in public health response	7
Issue Information	7
Against the odds: Unveiling the racial dynamics of financial resilience in post‐apartheid South Africa	6
2023 American Council on Consumer Interests (ACCI) Distinguished Fellow: Irene Ellis Leech	6
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
Issue Information	6
How violence among consumers alters the expected benefits of participation in a consumer collective	6
Unraveling the Threads of Marketplace Diversity	6
The impact of Chinese public expenditures on household investment in risky financial assets: Evidence from a national survey	6

Journal of Consumer Affairs Best Article and Best Reviewer Awards	6
A model of consumer life‐satisfaction amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence and policy implications	6
Repeat use of short‐term credit: The case of deposit advance products	6
Job loss during COVID‐19 on early retirement withdrawals: A moderated‐mediation analysis	5
Expanding consumer mindfulness for collective sustainable well‐being: Overview of the special issue and future research directions	5
The effect of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness in driving altruistic food choices	5
The platformed money ecosystem: Digital financial platforms, datafication, and reimagining financial well‐being	5
On the association of debt attitudes with socioeconomic characteristics and financial behaviors	5
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
When the bridge is not human: Algorithmic interference in forming social relationships through the manipulation of weak ties	5
Consumer engagement with preventive health technologies: A double‐edged sword for consumer wellbeing	5
To wear or not to wear? The influence of regulatory focus and individual cultural orientation on face mask wearing	5
Parents' employment, income, and finances before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Building relationships: Is this the answer to effective nutrition policy formulation?	5
Health shocks and mortgage debt payoff among American homeowners over age 50: A survival analysis	5
The impact of payday alternative loans on credit union performance and loan quality	5
Reducing Food Waste Behavior for Sustainable Consumption: The Effect of Food Consumption Values on Food Waste	5
Social traps and the wicked problem of single‐use plastics: A marketing, policy, and consumer‐citizen perspective	5
Issue Information	5
The missing role of moral values in anti‐vaping messaging	5
Next‐generation mindfulness: A mindfulness matrix to extend the transformative potential of mindfulness for consumer, organizational, and societal wellbeing	4
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Household savings and subjective wellbeing: Evidence from China	4
Financial socialization and financial distress: The role of cognitive and noncognitive abilities	4
Law and order? Associations between payday lending prohibition and alternative financial services use by degree of enforcement	4
It's never too late to be financially literate: Evaluating a financial education intervention for adults in Italy	4
Youth in individualistic countries have higher financial literacy: Evidence from PISA	4
Issue Information	4
From self‐quantification to self‐objectification? Framework and research agenda on consequences for well‐being	4
Income predictability and budgeting	4
Consuming intimate apparel: A Brazilian transgender discourse	4
Issue Information	4
Twenty‐five years of consumer vulnerability research: Critical insights and future directions	4
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Issue Information	4
Consumer marketplaces and self‐sufficiency: Meeting consumption needs in community	4
W. Keith Bryant in Memoriam	4
The Determinants of Student Loan Repayment Worry	4
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
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A systematic review of consumer empowerment research trends: Evidence from esteemed consumer studies journals	3
The effect of natural disasters on household economic hardship during a pandemic	3
Sowing seeds: The impact of financial socialization on the financial understanding of young children and preschoolers	3
Confronting the deep problem of consumption: Why individual responsibility for mindful consumption matters	3
Physical risk messaging enhances favorable attitudes toward mask wearing	3
Building financial capability among low‐income older Asian immigrants: The roles of financial access and locus of control	3
Modernizing standards of identity for juice: Evidence from consumer acceptance of orange juice blend	3
Understanding the gender gap in financial literacy: The role of culture	3
A typology of Jordanian consumers after Covid‐19: The rational, the suspicious, and the cautious consumer	3
Prosocial responses to global crises: Key influences of religiosity and perceived control	3
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Good credit, bad credit: The differential role of the sources of debt in life satisfaction	2
Issue Information	2
The role of social psychological factors in vulnerability to financial hardship	2
Perception versus the reality of financial situation: The role of personality traits in the United States	2
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Liminal (trans)formative spaces: A temporary escape from intersectionality	2
Non‐drinking 101: How non‐drinkers navigate the drinking culture on a college campus	2
Issue Information	2
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The shifting landscape of cannabis legalization: Potential benefits and regulatory perspectives	2
Sharenting in an evolving digital world: Increasing online connection and consumer vulnerability	2
Financial resilience of two‐worker households from a health perspective	2
Does industry self‐regulation work to protect consumers? An evaluation of the children's food and beverage advertising initiative	2
Issue Information	2
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on subsistence consumers' well‐being and coping strategies: Insights from India and Bangladesh	2
The effect of subjective well‐being on consumption behavior	2
(Un)conditional consumer protections in high‐cost lending regulation: Impacts on local lending geographies	2
Sugar coating cartoons for girls: Gender stereotypical themes and the use of food in toy‐tied media	2
Childhood experience of parental affection and financial well‐being in later life: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study	2