OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Environmental Psychology is 39. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Initial evidence for a systematic link between core values and emotional experiences in environmental situations	192
The influence of environmental context on spatial learning. Openness of the environment and spatial mental representations in the city of Venice	184
The restorative effects of mental imagery of nature: A study on subjective and physiological responses	165
Editorial Board	115
Evidence gap: Data from clinical contexts needed to better support youth experiencing the mental health impacts of climate change	114
Experience or attribution? Exploring the relationship between personal experience, political affiliation, and subjective attributions with mitigation behavioural intentions and COVID-19 recovery polic	101
Relationship between housing damage and serum cortisol among survivors of the 2011 tsunami disaster	96
Children's preferences on the move: Establishing the characteristics of unofficial paths and their benefits for children's physical play in Australian primary school grounds	88
The roots of ecological dominance orientation: Assessing individual preferences for an anthropocentric and hierarchically organized world	84
Ocean imagery relates to an individual's cognitions and pro-environmental behaviours	80
Doing laundry with biodegradable soap nuts: Can rare and novel behaviors break bad habitual patterns?	78
Navigation ability in young, middle-aged and older adults: Different domains of knowledge and their relationship with visuospatial factors	76
Acute stress effects of impulsive noise during mental work	75
The role of switching frequency, task variety and motivation in activity-based working: When does the switch fit?	74
Polarization within consensus? An audience segmentation model of politically dependent climate attitudes in Denmark	74
#Fighteverycrisis: A psychological perspective on motivators of the support of mitigation measures in the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic	72
Measuring pro-environmental orientation: Testing and building scales	64
Landmark-based navigation instructions improve incidental spatial knowledge acquisition in real-world environments	57
Clarifying longitudinal relations between individuals' support for human rights and climate change beliefs	56
Does exposure to pictures of nature boost attentional control in the Stroop task?	56
Finding the shortest path in a familiar environment: A comparison between describing and walking a path after accounting for the role of individual factors	55
Social influence and reduction of animal protein consumption among young adults: Insights from a socio-psychological model	54
Spatial generalization in sketch maps: A systematic classification	52
Place attachment buffers against the effect of perceived discrimination on psychological distress in Chinese migrant children: A two-wave longitudinal study	51
Pro-environmental behavior in a common-resource dilemma: The role of beliefs	50

Evaluating children's preferences of the orphanages' outdoor spaces: Integrated multi-method ‘Jourchin’ approach	49
Short virtual nature breaks in the office environment can restore stress: An experimental study	49
Effects of conventional and high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on driving abilities: A tDCS-driving simulator study	47
Determining social-psychological drivers of Texas Gulf Coast homeowners’ intention to implement private green infrastructure practices	46
On how natural and urban soundscapes alter brain activity during cognitive performance	46
The relations between mental health and psychological wellbeing and living with environmental contamination: A systematic review and conceptual framework	45
Perceived distributive fairness and public acceptance of a policy mandating on-site wastewater treatment and reuse	45
Anthropause appreciation, biophilia, and ecophilosophical contemplations amidst a global pandemic	44
How exposure to natural scenes can promote weight control behaviors: A replication experiment	44
Route learning in patients with schizophrenia: The role of the forward testing effect	43
Perceived carbon pricing effectiveness impacts its perceived fairness – Applying and extending a theoretical framework	42
Nature experiences and pro-environmental behavior: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial	41
Caring about one's legacy relates to constructive coping with climate change	41
Examining the (non-linear) relationships between climate change anxiety, information seeking, and pro-environmental behavioral intentions	40
What psychology can tell us about the cultural effects of climate change	39