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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	144
Is music piracy over? Comparing music piracy attitudes and behaviors between young generations	51
The ethics of nudging: Using moral foundations theory to understand consumers' approval of nudges	45
“You can't make me do it!” A model of consumer compliance	42
Centering transgender consumers in conceptualizations of marketplace marginalization and digital spaces	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	33
Extending the diversity conversation: Fashion consumption experiences of underrepresented and underserved women	32
Losing privacy versus losing choice: How consumers react to different costs of personalization	28
Have you found what you are looking for? How values orientations affect pro‐social change after transformative service experiences	27
Financial self‐efficacy, financial literacy, and gender: A review	26
Perceived access, fear, and preventative behavior: Key relationships for positive outcomes during the COVID‐19 health crisis	25
The coronavirus pandemic: A window of opportunity for sustainable consumption or a time of turning away?	25
Mindfulness through agency in health consumption: Empirical evidence from committed dietary supplement consumers	21
In Memoriam: Monroe P. Friedman	20
Improving the effectiveness of financial education programs. A targeting approach	20
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
Understanding consumer stockpiling: Insights provided during the COVID‐19 pandemic	17
Becoming Competent Consumers: Exploring the Dynamics of the Consumer Socialization Process Between Parents and Their Adolescents	16
Is Social Media the New Retirement Advisor? Assessing the Impact of Social Media Influence on Retirement Planning	16
Online Shopping and Financial Literacy Among the Elderly	15
Treat yourself: Food delivery apps and the interplay between justification for use and food well‐being	15
Measuring Crypto Literacy	14
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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
Does financial knowledge affect borrower discouragement among various social categories? Evidence from the United States	13
Mitigating the detrimental effect of skeuomorphism on gambling behavior	13
Bank compliance with national transaction account standards: Evidence from a mid‐western metropolitan area	13
The role of financial literacy in reducing financial distress: What if consumers were perfectly financially literate?	12
Parents' perceptions of the sensitivity of their children's personal information and willingness to share with social media marketers: Implications for sharenting	11
The relationships of financial literacy with both financial behavior and financial well‐being: Meta‐analyses based on the selective literature review	11
Marketing's contribution to consumer welfare: A research agenda	11
Mindfully aware and open: Mitigating subjective and objective financial vulnerability via mindfulness practices	10
Utilization of Alternative Financial Services and the Role of Financial Capability	10
School and family environments promote adolescents' financial confidence: Indirect paths to financial literacy skills in Finnish PISA 2018	10
The Negative Effects of Tipping Suggestions From Non‐Human Agents: Consumer Dislike of Manipulative Intent Perceptions	10
Digital exchange compromises: Teetering priorities of consumers and organizations at the iron triangle	9
The Hedonic Penalty in Supporting Low‐Income Consumers' Needs	9
Financial literacy in the digital age—A research agenda	9
The catharsis of male consumption: Reimagining masculinity in India	9
Are You Willing to Share Your DNA With Us? An Exploratory Insight Into the Privacy Calculus of Direct‐To‐Consumer Genetic Testing	9
Issue Information	9
Prevention, resolution, or counseling: Testing three approaches to reducing debt payment delinquencies in a large‐scale field experiment	8
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The psychology of attraction to multi‐level marketing	8
Moving gender across, between and beyond the binaries: In conversation with Shona Bettany, Olimpia Burchiellaro and Rohan Venkatraman	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
Erratum	8
How consumer networks contribute to sustainable mindful consumption and well‐being	8
Pandemics and consumers' mental well‐being	8
E. Thomas Garman in memoriam	8
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Vulnerable consumer experiences of (dis)empowerment with consumer protection regulations	8
Issue Information	8
Factors and Determinants of Financial Behaviors That Undermine Financial Well‐Being: A Qualitative Study	8
Pandemics and consumer well‐being from the Global South	7
Explaining consumers' progress through life insurance decision states: The role of personal values and consumer characteristics	7
The impact of Chinese public expenditures on household investment in risky financial assets: Evidence from a national survey	7
How different religiosity facets affect materialism, hedonistic shopping values, and compulsive buying: Toward mediation‐moderation effects	7
Income disclosure and consumer judgment in a multilevel marketing experiment	7
Issue Information	7
Against the odds: Unveiling the racial dynamics of financial resilience in post‐apartheid South Africa	7
Reducing information asymmetry and increasing health value co‐creation in a rural healthcare context	7
Social institutions as enablers and inhibitors of environmental activism: A cross‐cultural perspective	7
Recipients of 2023 American Council on Consumer Interests Best Paper Awards	7
Job loss during COVID‐19 on early retirement withdrawals: A moderated‐mediation analysis	6
Unraveling the Threads of Marketplace Diversity	6
Journal of Consumer Affairs Best Article and Best Reviewer Awards	6
How violence among consumers alters the expected benefits of participation in a consumer collective	6
A National Risk Aversion Perspective on Pension Contributions and Benefits Paid: Insights From OECD Countries	6
Skating on Thin Ice: New Evidence on Financial Fragility	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
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

The impact of payday alternative loans on credit union performance and loan quality	6
Repeat use of short‐term credit: The case of deposit advance products	6
Issue Information	6
Health shocks and mortgage debt payoff among American homeowners over age 50: A survival analysis	6
Issue Information	6
When the bridge is not human: Algorithmic interference in forming social relationships through the manipulation of weak ties	5
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To wear or not to wear? The influence of regulatory focus and individual cultural orientation on face mask wearing	5
Issue Information	5
Reducing Food Waste Behavior for Sustainable Consumption: The Effect of Food Consumption Values on Food Waste	5
The effect of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness in driving altruistic food choices	5
Parents' employment, income, and finances before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Social traps and the wicked problem of single‐use plastics: A marketing, policy, and consumer‐citizen perspective	5
Consumer engagement with preventive health technologies: A double‐edged sword for consumer wellbeing	5
Next‐generation mindfulness: A mindfulness matrix to extend the transformative potential of mindfulness for consumer, organizational, and societal wellbeing	5
The platformed money ecosystem: Digital financial platforms, datafication, and reimagining financial well‐being	5
Expanding consumer mindfulness for collective sustainable well‐being: Overview of the special issue and future research directions	5
Youth in individualistic countries have higher financial literacy: Evidence from PISA	4
W. Keith Bryant in Memoriam	4
Income predictability and budgeting	4
Law and order? Associations between payday lending prohibition and alternative financial services use by degree of enforcement	4
Issue Information	4
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Exploring Consumption Stigma: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda	4
Twenty‐five years of consumer vulnerability research: Critical insights and future directions	4
From self‐quantification to self‐objectification? Framework and research agenda on consequences for well‐being	4
Consuming intimate apparel: A Brazilian transgender discourse	4
Enhancing Financial Knowledge Through High School Education: The Effect of Mandated Economics and Personal Finance Courses	4
Understanding the gender gap in financial literacy: The role of culture	3
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Issue Information	3
The effect of natural disasters on household economic hardship during a pandemic	3
The Determinants of Student Loan Repayment Worry	3
Financial socialization and financial distress: The role of cognitive and noncognitive abilities	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
A systematic review of consumer empowerment research trends: Evidence from esteemed consumer studies journals	3
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on subsistence consumers' well‐being and coping strategies: Insights from India and Bangladesh	3
Building financial capability among low‐income older Asian immigrants: The roles of financial access and locus of control	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
Correction to “Financial Literacy Among Autistic Adults”	3
Financial stress among college students: New data about student loan debt, lack of emergency savings, social and personal resources	3
A typology of Jordanian consumers after Covid‐19: The rational, the suspicious, and the cautious consumer	3
Issue Information	3
It's never too late to be financially literate: Evaluating a financial education intervention for adults in Italy	3
Prosocial responses to global crises: Key influences of religiosity and perceived control	3
Issue Information	3
Modernizing standards of identity for juice: Evidence from consumer acceptance of orange juice blend	3
Non‐drinking 101: How non‐drinkers navigate the drinking culture on a college campus	2
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The effect of subjective well‐being on consumption behavior	2
Financial resilience of two‐worker households from a health perspective	2
Sharenting in an evolving digital world: Increasing online connection and consumer vulnerability	2
Issue Information	2
Perception versus the reality of financial situation: The role of personality traits in the United States	2
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Sugar coating cartoons for girls: Gender stereotypical themes and the use of food in toy‐tied media	2
The role of social psychological factors in vulnerability to financial hardship	2
Issue Information	2
(Un)conditional consumer protections in high‐cost lending regulation: Impacts on local lending geographies	2
Childhood experience of parental affection and financial well‐being in later life: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study	2
Liminal (trans)formative spaces: A temporary escape from intersectionality	2