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

Article	Citations
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Centering transgender consumers in conceptualizations of marketplace marginalization and digital spaces	43
Is music piracy over? Comparing music piracy attitudes and behaviors between young generations	37
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	36
“You can't make me do it!” A model of consumer compliance	29
The ethics of nudging: Using moral foundations theory to understand consumers' approval of nudges	29
The coronavirus pandemic: A window of opportunity for sustainable consumption or a time of turning away?	28
Extending the diversity conversation: Fashion consumption experiences of underrepresented and underserved women	28
Losing privacy versus losing choice: How consumers react to different costs of personalization	26
Perceived access, fear, and preventative behavior: Key relationships for positive outcomes during the COVID‐19 health crisis	26
Mindfulness through agency in health consumption: Empirical evidence from committed dietary supplement consumers	23
Have you found what you are looking for? How values orientations affect pro‐social change after transformative service experiences	23
Financial self‐efficacy, financial literacy, and gender: A review	23
Improving the effectiveness of financial education programs. A targeting approach	22
In Memoriam: Monroe P. Friedman	22
The effect of religiosity on customer's response to service failure: Belief‐in‐fate, forgiveness, and emotional wellbeing	21
Understanding consumer stockpiling: Insights provided during the COVID‐19 pandemic	21
Is Social Media the New Retirement Advisor? Assessing the Impact of Social Media Influence on Retirement Planning	20
Treat yourself: Food delivery apps and the interplay between justification for use and food well‐being	20
Becoming Competent Consumers: Exploring the Dynamics of the Consumer Socialization Process Between Parents and Their Adolescents	18
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The role of financial literacy in reducing financial distress: What if consumers were perfectly financially literate?	17
Parents' perceptions of the sensitivity of their children's personal information and willingness to share with social media marketers: Implications for sharenting	17
Addressing difficulties with abstract thinking for low‐literate, low‐income consumers through marketplace literacy: A bottom‐up approach to consumer and marketing education	15
Mitigating the detrimental effect of skeuomorphism on gambling behavior	15

Bank compliance with national transaction account standards: Evidence from a mid‐western metropolitan area	15
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Marketing's contribution to consumer welfare: A research agenda	13
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School and family environments promote adolescents' financial confidence: Indirect paths to financial literacy skills in Finnish PISA 2018	13
Does financial knowledge affect borrower discouragement among various social categories? Evidence from the United States	13
Utilization of Alternative Financial Services and the Role of Financial Capability	12
The relationships of financial literacy with both financial behavior and financial well‐being: Meta‐analyses based on the selective literature review	12
Mindfully aware and open: Mitigating subjective and objective financial vulnerability via mindfulness practices	12
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	11
Digital exchange compromises: Teetering priorities of consumers and organizations at the iron triangle	11
Vulnerable consumer experiences of (dis)empowerment with consumer protection regulations	10
An analysis of the relationship between risk perceptions and willingness‐to‐pay for commodities during the COVID‐19 pandemic	10
The catharsis of male consumption: Reimagining masculinity in India	10
E. Thomas Garman in memoriam	10
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Prevention, resolution, or counseling: Testing three approaches to reducing debt payment delinquencies in a large‐scale field experiment	9
Are You Willing to Share Your DNA With Us? An Exploratory Insight Into the Privacy Calculus of Direct‐To‐Consumer Genetic Testing	9
Influence of information on pesticide use during fruit and vegetable cultivation through labeling at the point of purchase: Insights from a French study	9
The psychology of attraction to multi‐level marketing	8
Erratum	8
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Moving gender across, between and beyond the binaries: In conversation with Shona Bettany, Olimpia Burchiellaro and Rohan Venkatraman	7
Issue Information	7
Social institutions as enablers and inhibitors of environmental activism: A cross‐cultural perspective	7
Soft landings: Extending the cushion hypothesis to financial well‐being in collectivistic cultures	7
Explaining consumers' progress through life insurance decision states: The role of personal values and consumer characteristics	7
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Pandemics and consumers' mental well‐being	7
Have I saved enough to social distance? The role of household financial preparedness in public health response	7
How different religiosity facets affect materialism, hedonistic shopping values, and compulsive buying: Toward mediation‐moderation effects	7
Repeat use of short‐term credit: The case of deposit advance products	7
Against the odds: Unveiling the racial dynamics of financial resilience in post‐apartheid South Africa	7
How consumer networks contribute to sustainable mindful consumption and well‐being	7
Reducing information asymmetry and increasing health value co‐creation in a rural healthcare context	7
Pandemics and consumer well‐being from the Global South	7
Income disclosure and consumer judgment in a multilevel marketing experiment	7
Unraveling the Threads of Marketplace Diversity	6
Issue Information	6
Recipients of 2023 American Council on Consumer Interests Best Paper Awards	6
Health shocks and mortgage debt payoff among American homeowners over age 50: A survival analysis	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	6
Household Financial Wellbeing During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: An Instrumental Variable Approach	6
Journal of Consumer Affairs Best Article and Best Reviewer Awards	6
Job loss during COVID‐19 on early retirement withdrawals: A moderated‐mediation analysis	6
The missing role of moral values in anti‐vaping messaging	6
The impact of payday alternative loans on credit union performance and loan quality	6
The impact of Chinese public expenditures on household investment in risky financial assets: Evidence from a national survey	6
Skating on Thin Ice: New Evidence on Financial Fragility	6

2023 American Council on Consumer Interests (ACCI) Distinguished Fellow: Irene Ellis Leech	6
Expanding consumer mindfulness for collective sustainable well‐being: Overview of the special issue and future research directions	6
How violence among consumers alters the expected benefits of participation in a consumer collective	6
Next‐generation mindfulness: A mindfulness matrix to extend the transformative potential of mindfulness for consumer, organizational, and societal wellbeing	5
The effect of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness in driving altruistic food choices	5
Issue Information	5
Parents' employment, income, and finances before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Youth in individualistic countries have higher financial literacy: Evidence from PISA	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
Social traps and the wicked problem of single‐use plastics: A marketing, policy, and consumer‐citizen perspective	5
Issue Information	5
To wear or not to wear? The influence of regulatory focus and individual cultural orientation on face mask wearing	5
Twenty‐five years of consumer vulnerability research: Critical insights and future directions	5
The platformed money ecosystem: Digital financial platforms, datafication, and reimagining financial well‐being	5
Reducing Food Waste Behavior for Sustainable Consumption: The Effect of Food Consumption Values on Food Waste	4
From self‐quantification to self‐objectification? Framework and research agenda on consequences for well‐being	4
Consumer marketplaces and self‐sufficiency: Meeting consumption needs in community	4
W. Keith Bryant in Memoriam	4
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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
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Income predictability and budgeting	4
Consuming intimate apparel: A Brazilian transgender discourse	4
Household savings and subjective wellbeing: Evidence from China	4
Prosocial responses to global crises: Key influences of religiosity and perceived control	4
Exploratory Factor Analysis of Financial Services and Products Indicators: The Dimensionality of Financial Access	3
Financial stress among college students: New data about student loan debt, lack of emergency savings, social and personal resources	3
Sowing seeds: The impact of financial socialization on the financial understanding of young children and preschoolers	3
Health Halos or Drinkability? Evaluating What Is Behind Hard Seltzer's Meteoric Growth	3
Correction to “Financial Literacy Among Autistic Adults”	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
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The effect of natural disasters on household economic hardship during a pandemic	3
The Determinants of Student Loan Repayment Worry	3
Understanding the gender gap in financial literacy: The role of culture	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
A systematic review of consumer empowerment research trends: Evidence from esteemed consumer studies journals	2
The effect of subjective well‐being on consumption behavior	2
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Sharenting in an evolving digital world: Increasing online connection and consumer vulnerability	2
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Financial resilience of two‐worker households from a health perspective	2
Non‐drinking 101: How non‐drinkers navigate the drinking culture on a college campus	2
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The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on subsistence consumers' well‐being and coping strategies: Insights from India and Bangladesh	2
Perception versus the reality of financial situation: The role of personality traits in the United States	2
The role of social psychological factors in vulnerability to financial hardship	2
Childhood experience of parental affection and financial well‐being in later life: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study	2
A typology of Jordanian consumers after Covid‐19: The rational, the suspicious, and the cautious consumer	2
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(Un)conditional consumer protections in high‐cost lending regulation: Impacts on local lending geographies	2
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Liminal (trans)formative spaces: A temporary escape from intersectionality	2