OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Consumer Affairs is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	198
Is music piracy over? Comparing music piracy attitudes and behaviors between young generations	59
Centering transgender consumers in conceptualizations of marketplace marginalization and digital spaces	58
Losing privacy versus losing choice: How consumers react to different costs of personalization	48
Extending the diversity conversation: Fashion consumption experiences of underrepresented and underserved women	47
Have you found what you are looking for? How values orientations affect pro‐social change after transformative service experiences	44
Improving the effectiveness of financial education programs. A targeting approach	31
What My Parents Did for Me: Parental Financial Sacrifice, Money Scripts, and Financial Behaviors Among Hong Kong Youths in Low‐SES Households	26
In Memoriam: Monroe P. Friedman	26
Is Social Media the New Retirement Advisor? Assessing the Impact of Social Media Influence on Retirement Planning	25
Mindfulness through agency in health consumption: Empirical evidence from committed dietary supplement consumers	24
Treat yourself: Food delivery apps and the interplay between justification for use and food well‐being	21
Beyond the Drug Label: Regulatory‐Induced Complexities in Health Information	21
The Dark Side of AI in Insurance: A Systematic Review of Mechanisms Linking AI Design Features to	17
Online Shopping and Financial Literacy Among the Elderly	17
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Becoming Competent Consumers: Exploring the Dynamics of the Consumer Socialization Process Between Parents and Their Adolescents	15
Measuring Crypto Literacy	15
Issue Information	14
Addressing difficulties with abstract thinking for low‐literate, low‐income consumers through marketplace literacy: A bottom‐up approach to consumer and marketing education	13
Time Will Tell—A Longitudinal Study of Consideration of Future Consequences and Financial Behavior in Young Adults	13
Designing Eco‐Friendly Message Sidedness for Consumer Happiness: How Inference of Motivation Shapes Affective Consumer Welfare	13
Does financial knowledge affect borrower discouragement among various social categories? Evidence from the United States	12
Marketing's contribution to consumer welfare: A research agenda	12

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	12
School and family environments promote adolescents' financial confidence: Indirect paths to financial literacy skills in Finnish PISA 2018	11
Issue Information	11
Financial literacy in the digital age—A research agenda	10
Are You Willing to Share Your DNA With Us? An Exploratory Insight Into the Privacy Calculus of Direct‐To‐Consumer Genetic Testing	10
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
Digital exchange compromises: Teetering priorities of consumers and organizations at the iron triangle	10
The relationships of financial literacy with both financial behavior and financial well‐being: Meta‐analyses based on the selective literature review	10
The Negative Effects of Tipping Suggestions From Non‐Human Agents: Consumer Dislike of Manipulative Intent Perceptions	10
The catharsis of male consumption: Reimagining masculinity in India	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 Hedonic Penalty in Supporting Low‐Income Consumers' Needs	9
Vulnerable consumer experiences of (dis)empowerment with consumer protection regulations	9
Prevention, resolution, or counseling: Testing three approaches to reducing debt payment delinquencies in a large‐scale field experiment	9
Issue Information	9
E. Thomas Garman in memoriam	9
Impact of Information Overload on Consumer Decision‐Making in the Agri‐Food Sector: A Stimulus‐Organism‐Response Theory Perspective	8
Erratum	8
How consumer networks contribute to sustainable mindful consumption and well‐being	8
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Issue Information	8
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED : The Effect of California's Proposition 65 Warning on Consumer Perceptions and Evaluations	8
Factors and Determinants of Financial Behaviors That Undermine Financial Well‐Being: A Qualitative Study	8
The psychology of attraction to multi‐level marketing	8
Unraveling the Threads of Marketplace Diversity	7
Income disclosure and consumer judgment in a multilevel marketing experiment	7
Skating on Thin Ice: New Evidence on Financial Fragility	7
Household Financial Wellbeing During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: An Instrumental Variable Approach	7
Repeat use of short‐term credit: The case of deposit advance products	7
Recipients of 2023 American Council on Consumer Interests Best Paper Awards	7
How different religiosity facets affect materialism, hedonistic shopping values, and compulsive buying: Toward mediation‐moderation effects	7
Social institutions as enablers and inhibitors of environmental activism: A cross‐cultural perspective	7
Against the odds: Unveiling the racial dynamics of financial resilience in post‐apartheid South Africa	7
Explaining consumers' progress through life insurance decision states: The role of personal values and consumer characteristics	7
Moving gender across, between and beyond the binaries: In conversation with Shona Bettany, Olimpia Burchiellaro and Rohan Venkatraman	7
Issue Information	7
The impact of Chinese public expenditures on household investment in risky financial assets: Evidence from a national survey	7
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
Revisiting Algorithmic Bounded Rationality With Potential Solutions: How Recommendation Systems Amplify Cognitive Biases in Consumer Decision‐Making	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
Issue Information	6
How violence among consumers alters the expected benefits of participation in a consumer collective	6
Issue Information	6
Health shocks and mortgage debt payoff among American homeowners over age 50: A survival analysis	5
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Consumer engagement with preventive health technologies: A double‐edged sword for consumer wellbeing	5
When the bridge is not human: Algorithmic interference in forming social relationships through the manipulation of weak ties	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
Social traps and the wicked problem of single‐use plastics: A marketing, policy, and consumer‐citizen perspective	5
Reducing Food Waste Behavior for Sustainable Consumption: The Effect of Food Consumption Values on Food Waste	5
Youth in individualistic countries have higher financial literacy: Evidence from PISA	5
The impact of payday alternative loans on credit union performance and loan quality	5
Issue Information	5
The effect of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness in driving altruistic food choices	5
Next‐generation mindfulness: A mindfulness matrix to extend the transformative potential of mindfulness for consumer, organizational, and societal wellbeing	5
The Determinants of Student Loan Repayment Worry	4
Twenty‐five years of consumer vulnerability research: Critical insights and future directions	4
Consuming intimate apparel: A Brazilian transgender discourse	4
From self‐quantification to self‐objectification? Framework and research agenda on consequences for well‐being	4
The platformed money ecosystem: Digital financial platforms, datafication, and reimagining financial well‐being	4
Issue Information	4
Enhancing Financial Knowledge Through High School Education: The Effect of Mandated Economics and Personal Finance Courses	4
Income predictability and budgeting	4
Law and order? Associations between payday lending prohibition and alternative financial services use by degree of enforcement	4
To wear or not to wear? The influence of regulatory focus and individual cultural orientation on face mask wearing	4
W. Keith Bryant in Memoriam	4
Financial socialization and financial distress: The role of cognitive and noncognitive abilities	4
Exploring Consumption Stigma: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda	4
Exploratory Factor Analysis of Financial Services and Products Indicators: The Dimensionality of Financial Access	3
Examining Consumers' Illusion of Control and Impulsive Acquisition of Companion Animals: Effects on Future Distress and Abandonment Intention	3
Issue Information	3
Effectiveness of Sales Promotions on Vegetable Consumption Among Heterogeneous Consumer Groups: A Causal Forest Approach	3
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Sowing seeds: The impact of financial socialization on the financial understanding of young children and preschoolers	3
Modernizing standards of identity for juice: Evidence from consumer acceptance of orange juice blend	3
Correction to “Financial Literacy Among Autistic Adults”	3
Issue Information	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
A systematic review of consumer empowerment research trends: Evidence from esteemed consumer studies journals	3
Incentivizing or Disincentivizing? How Perceived Social Mobility Affects Consumers' Risk Preference	3
The effect of natural disasters on household economic hardship during a pandemic	3
It's never too late to be financially literate: Evaluating a financial education intervention for adults in Italy	3
Financial stress among college students: New data about student loan debt, lack of emergency savings, social and personal resources	3
Building financial capability among low‐income older Asian immigrants: The roles of financial access and locus of control	3
A typology of Jordanian consumers after Covid‐19: The rational, the suspicious, and the cautious consumer	3
Mobile App Runtime Permissions and the Privacy Paradox: Hot‐State Decisions, Digital Literacy, and Consumer Consent	3
Health Halos or Drinkability? Evaluating What Is Behind Hard Seltzer's Meteoric Growth	3