OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Environmental Psychology is 42. 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
Editorial Board	309
Landmark-based guidance and cognitive saliency: Age-related benefits in spatial performance	252
How exposure to natural scenes can promote weight control behaviors: A replication experiment	161
Environmental framing and left-wing political orientation promote sustainability in a US-based common-pool resource dilemma	156
Political differences in climate change knowledge and their association with climate attitudes, behavior, and policy support	154
#Fighteverycrisis: A psychological perspective on motivators of the support of mitigation measures in the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic	143
The impact of war-induced relocation on sense of place: Examining its moderating role between event severity and psychological symptomatology	131
How self-efficacy and response efficacy change with risk and adaptation behaviors during tropical cyclones	115
Psychometric properties of the climate change anxiety scale	101
Synthesising psychometric evidence for the Climate Anxiety Scale and Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale	81
Does exposure to pictures of nature boost attentional control in the Stroop task?	81
Self-transcendent emotion dispositions: Greater connections with nature and more sustainable behavior	77
Can we do more than “bounce back”? Transilience in the face of climate change risks	72
What types of nature exposure are associated with hedonic, eudaimonic and evaluative wellbeing? An 18-country study	68
Microplastics in food and drink: Predictors of public risk perceptions and support for plastic-reducing policies based on a climate change framework	68
Caring about one's legacy relates to constructive coping with climate change	65
Characteristics of physical environments that enhance learning: A systematic review of EEG-Based empirical studies	64
Measuring pro-environmental orientation: Testing and building scales	64
Exposure to nature in immersive virtual reality increases connectedness to nature among people with low nature affinity	64
Moving beyond meat: Perceived unnaturalness and disgust across cultured foods	63
Electromagnetic and climatic foundations of human aggression	56
Exploring psychophysical measurement in landscape aesthetics: Validity, reliability and signal detection via single-versus opposing-construct rating scales, with or without zeros	56
The role of switching frequency, task variety and motivation in activity-based working: When does the switch fit?	51
Editorial Board	50
Chaotic or crowded? The role of physical household environment in children's learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	49

Evaluating children's preferences of the orphanages' outdoor spaces: Integrated multi-method ‘Jourchin’ approach	49
Spillover from general and specific pro-environmental behavior to climate-friendly choices and policy Acceptance: The mediating role of psychological engagement	49
The effect of water sound level in virtual reality: A study of restorative benefits in young adults through immersive natural environments	48
Nature and patient waiting: Mediating effects of anxiety and perceived wait time on the association between nature and service perception	48
Predictors of hurricane evacuation decisions: A meta-analysis	47
From distress to action? – A three-wave longitudinal study of climate change distress, pro-environmental behavior, and coping strategies among Finnish adolescents	46
Man or bear? How gender affects experiences of natural environments with varying levels of vegetation density and different danger threats	46
Green or greenwashed? Examining consumers' ability to identify greenwashing	46
What does sustainability sound like? Crafting soundscapes that reflect environmental and social sustainability dimensions	46
General deterrent effects of environmental law enforcement: Evidence from a survey experiment on recycling	45
Understanding slow progress on urban climate adaptation: An empirical analysis of behavioural dynamics in Dutch policymaking	45
Re-examining feelings of responsibility as a predictor of climate belief and worry: A replication across 31 countries	45
The influence of physical office environments on physiological stress: A PRISMA systematic scoping review	44
Worry's Clout: Concern, not positive affectivity, drives climate activism	44
Sniffing the distance: Scents can make objects appear closer	43
School greenspace is associated with enhanced benefits of academic interventions on annual reading improvement for children of color in California	43
Toward conceptualizing “place immersion” as a spatial neuropsychosocial phenomenon: A multidisciplinary meta-review and -synthesis	42
Household crowding during the COVID-19 lockdown fosters anti-democracy even after 17 months: A 5-wave latent growth curve study	42
The climate activist’s dilemma: Extreme protests reduce movement support but raise climate concern and intentions	42
Greater perceived access to green spaces near homes: Safer and more satisfied residents	42
Time perception in naturalistic and urban immersive virtual reality environments	42