OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Society & Animals is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
“I Actually Eat That Much Meat”: Unsuccessful Replication of Women’s Situational Underreporting of Meat Consumption	9
Whale-Stranding Images Produced by Artists of the North Sea Countries Between 1563–1848	9
Validation of New Measures of Empathy Toward Nonhuman Animals for Preschool and Elementary Grades	8
No Animals Were Harmed in the Playing of This Game: Hunting Ethics in Virtual Space	7
The Dogs of a Post-human World Can Teach Us a Lot Today	7
Investigating Human-Animal Interactions in Homes of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: a Mixed-Methods Approach	7
Jingle Bells: How Do Bells Affect the Wellbeing, Safety, and Identity of Guide Dog Teams?	7
Animal Abuse and Bullying/Victimization in a Community Sample of School-Age Children	6
La Vieja: The Fires of a Conscious Re-Awakening	6
A Competing Harvester, Stakeholder, and Environmental Threat: Positioning Reindeer in Metla Forestry Research	5
“Pet Revolution”: Another Human-Centric Revolution?	5
Canine-Assisted Intervention Reduces Anxiety and Stress in Higher Education Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial	5
Convictions and Penalties among Rescue and Non-rescue Nonhuman-Animal Hoarders	5
Influence of Legislation on Public Attitude towards Animal Welfare in Taiwan	4
Shameless Dogs: Cynics and Nonhuman Animal Ethics	4
Effects of a Canine-Assisted Intervention in Perceived and Physiological Stress of Spanish University Students	4
Coyote Killing: Where Species and Identities Collide	4
Ecuadorian Children’s Willingness to Protect Endangered Species – Identifying Behavioral Predictors in a Biodiversity Hotspot	3
Schopenhauer, Judicial Compassion, and the Case of Cecilia the Chimpanzee	3
Anthropomorphizing Animals: Foxhunting Stories and the Nature Faker Controversy	3
Pets of Precarity: The Agency of Excessively Cutified Companion Animals	3
Infection as Multispecies Mediator in Stephen King’s Cujo and Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time Series	3
Becoming Bovine and Being Haunted: Herder-Bovine Relationships in South India	3
Ethical Ideology and Public Attitudes Towards Marine Life in China	3
License to Cull: A Research Agenda for Investigating the Necropolitics of Countryside Culling and Urban Pest Control	3

Celebrating 30 Years of Society & Animals: Third Round	3
Personality Effect on Individuals’ Dog Breed Choices: The Case of Turkish Dog Keepers	2
Being with Donkeys: Insights into the Valuing and Wellbeing of Donkeys in Central Ethiopia	2
The Gospel According to Ah Meng: Conservation, Celebrity, and the Singapore Story	2
Estimates of Domestic Cats in Urban Areas Using Interdisciplinary Science: The Washington D.C. Cat Count	2
Back matter	2
Psychological Benefits of Companion Animals: Exploring the Distinction Between Ownership and Online Animal Watching	2
What Do Scientists Mean When They Talk About Research Animals “Volunteering”?	2
Can Mosquitoes be Kin? Conservation, Conviviality, and Enmity Among “Pests” From Myanmar to Singapore	2
Visitors’ Feelings toward Moose and Coyote in a Wildlife Sanctuary: Transcendent Feelings of Animal Valuation Scale	2
Unapologetically Black: a Liberatory Theory of Anti-Racist Vegan Intersectionality	2
Fear of the Wolf: Are Human-Wildlife Conflicts Actually Human-Human Feuds?	1
Landscapes as Multispecies Matters: the Mushing Landscape in the Making in Finnish Lapland	1
Advancing Veganism in a “Post-Vegan Society”: A Review of Veganism: Politics, Practice, and Theory	1
Publications Trends in Society & Animals from 2009–2019: A Bibliometric Analysis	1
A New Interpretation of Animal Ethics	1
Effectively Affective: A Call for Animal-Centered Anthropomorphism	1
Books Received	1
Do Species Meet? Antagonizing Interspecies Relationality Through Textual “Encounters”	1
[RETRACTED] Can a Conservation Workshop Improve Knowledge, Perception, and Behavior of Children Toward Felids in Mexico?	1
Comparative Analysis of Knowledge of Concepts of Pollination and Bee Pollinators Among Elementary School Students	1
A Goethean Discussion of Nine Species	1
“A Trade Like Any Other”? Social and Moral Taint in Animal Dirty Work	1
Fearsome Game, Popular Meat, Symbolic Wealth: Human-Pig Relations in Pre-Islamic Java	1
Toward Inclusive Health and Environmental Policy	1
Conservation, Animal Wellbeing, and Indigenous Participation at an Elephant Sanctuary in Mondulkiri, Cambodia	1
Captive Elephant Care in Nepal and Beyond	1
All Fun and Games? Relationships between Finnish Police Dogs and Their Handlers	1
A Flock of One’s Own: Nordic Human-Mountain Cattle Kinship-Making Practices	1
Teaching Human-Animal Studies Courses: Exploring Student Characteristics Across Three Universities	1
Uncivilized Behaviors: How Humans Wield “Feral” to Assert Power (and Control) over Other Species	1
The Relationships Between Law-Breaking and Law-Abiding Ideological Animal Rights Activists and Their Parents and Spouses	1
Editor’s Note: Announcing the Third Society & Animals Early Career Research Prize	1
The Silence of the Woodworms	1
Equine-Assisted Services for Veterans with PTSD: a Meta-Analysis	1
Examining Interspecies Complexity and Conflict in the Anthropocene	1
Seeing is Believing: Repeated Exposure to Animals in Anthropomorphic Contexts Promotes Desire for Exotic Pets	1
A Mixed-Methods Social Psychology Application Evaluating the Role of Citizen Science in Mitigating Human-Wildlife Conflict	1
How to Be Animal: A New History of What it Means to Be Human	1
Announcing the Fifth Society & Animals Early Career Research Prize	1
Interspecies Modes of Relating	1
My Octopus Teacher, directed by Pippa Ehrlich & James Reed	1
Motivational Interviewing in an Animal Shelter – A Pilot Study	1