OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Risk Research 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Risk communication and Covid-19 through the lens of anonymous sources	37
Participatory versus analytic approaches for understanding risk perceptions: a comparison of three case studies from the field of biotechnology	25
Twenty-five years of the Journal of Risk Research: a bibliometric overview	24
Charting the global rise of the modern plug-in electric vehicle (PEV)	20
Impact of risk experience and personal exposure on coastal flooding and coastal erosion risk perception and coping strategies	20
The effectiveness of risk assessments in risk workshops: the role of calculative cultures	19
Lost in translation: inadequate non-technical risk assessment within major project teams in mining	15
A micro-place evaluation of the relationship between ‘risky places’ and risk perceptions	14
Using artificial intelligence (AI)? Risk and opportunity perception of AI predict people’s willingness to use AI	13
Information seeking and information avoidance about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination: knowledge, personal control, or affect?	13
Communicating radon risks: the impact of different risk formulations on risk perception and protection intention	12
The relationships between citizens’ perceptions of corporate political activity and their health risk perception	12
Addressing “beyond control”: nuclear safety goals in the age of risk governance	12
Risk identification in Japanese consumer product injury data throughout an ontology-based knowledge base	12
COVID-19 skepticism and the perception of risk	11
Exploring perspectives on COVID-19 risk, protective behavior and control measures	11
Systemic risks and solar climate engineering research. Integrating technology ethics into the governance of systemic risks	10
Stakeholder safety communication: patient and family reports on safety risks in hospitals	10
Exploring the antecedents of mobile social media subscribers’ unfollowing intention during natural disasters	10
The risk-related tone from the top: evidence from German regional banks	9
Discourse dynamics and mass media’s influence on social media narratives: Twitter analysis of the Great East Japan earthquake’s 10th anniversary	9
Modelling social risk amplification, harmful products, and product recall as the basis of a risk assessment procedure	9
Shared responsibility or not? A responsibility messages experiment during a cyber crisis in designing for risk communication	9
Risk assessment without the risk? A controversy about security and risk in Norway	8
Factors influencing the adoption of pre-commitment devices for online gambling	8

Who is to blame for the terrorist attack? Comparison of content analysis and survey data as sources of responsibility ascriptions	8
Combining uncertainty information with AI recommendations supports calibration with domain knowledge	8
Introduction to the special issue “Trust, mistrust, distrust, and trust-building in the nuclear sector: historical and comparative experience from Europe”	8
Motivating sustainable behaviors by framing biodiversity loss as a public health risk	8
Development and validation of the Design-for-Safety (DfS) climate measurement tool	7
The drivers and barriers of wearing a facemask during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Switzerland	6
Commentary: risk, uncertainty and innovation: what does this mean for the Dutch energy transition?	6
Procedural fairness and safety in the acceptance of nuclear waste disposal in Germany: an empirical study	6
Values as causes of emotions and acceptability in the digital risk context: an extension of the values scale with privacy	6
Trust, mistrust and distrust as blind spots of Social Licence to Operate: illustration via three forerunner countries in nuclear waste management	6
Possible harms of artificial intelligence and the EU AI act: fundamental rights and risk	6
The many faces of uncertainty: a comment to Lofstedt and Bouder	6
A comparative study of Chinese and American public perceptions of shale gas development	6
Energy transitioning: communicating risk to decision-makers	6
Energy transitioning: why bother with uncertainty and why does risk tolerance really matter?	6
Multilateral governance of technological risks; editors’ overview¹	5
A risk science perspective on some fundamental issues in climate change research	5
COVID-19 risk perception measures: factoring and prediction of behavioral intentions and policy support	5
Making risk communication in practice: dimensions of professional logics in risk and vulnerability assessments	5
Should we use natural gas in our homes? Risk perceptions from the U.S	5
How news consumption in modern media landscapes relates to threats perceptions and fears in public spaces. A scoping review	5
The color of money: green business practices in a transition economy	5
How is counterfactual thinking integrated in organizational risk and resilience practices?	5
Defensive pessimism-like thinking in practice: the (dys)functional strategy for coping with risk uncertainty in the offshore oilfield?	5
Utilizing MRBQ to investigate risky rider behavior in Chinese young riders: combining the effect of Big Five personality and sensation seeking	5
The role of knowledge and trust in developing risk perceptions of autonomous vehicles: a moderated mediation model	5
Fear during crises: the roles of perceived risk, appraisal support and identity resilience	5
The debut, travels and future of intersectionality in HIV prevention and treatment interventions	4
When to dismiss an alternative hypothesis or theory? A risk and uncertainty perspective	4
Reflection on ‘risk analysis and uncertainty: what does this mean for the Dutch energy transition’ by Frederic Bouder and Ragnar Lofstedt	4
Defining and assessing risk analysis quality: insights from applications of the SRA risk analysis quality test	4
Risk and uncertainty: what it means for the Dutch energy transition and how a tolerability of risk approach could help	4
Introducing forecast-based public health warnings to promote engagement with air quality risk: a survey of citizens’ attitudes in Cork, Ireland	4
The relationship between risk perception and risk management: a systematic literature review	4
Uncertainty, risk and the Dutch energy transition. A commentary	4
Risk communication and COVID-19 in Europe: lessons for future public health crises	4
The utility of social practice theory in risk research	4
COVID-19 has illuminated the need for clearer AI-based risk management strategies	4
The risk of relocation: risk perceptions and communication surrounding the tradeoffs between floods and economic opportunities in Iquitos, Peru	4
Risk analysis versus risk governance: the case study of the Ebola Virus Disease	4
Drivers of Chinese public attitudes towards agri-food applications based on synthetic biology: the results of qualitative exploratory research	4
On how to characterize and confront misinformation in a risk context	4
Bibliometric analysis of risk science from 1996 to 2021: insights and implications	3
Contrasting perspectives on the risks of intensive livestock farming in The Netherlands: a survey study	3
What entails risk management maturity in public organisations?	3
Risk perception and communication factors in aviation: Insights from safety investigators	3
Effect of COVID-19 vaccine allocation strategies on vaccination refusal: a national survey	3
Risk perception and trust in autonomous vehicles: a case study of ground handling employees at an international airport	3
Information seeking, personal experiences, and their association with COVID-19 risk perceptions: demographic and occupational inequalities	3
Bibliometric analysis of vaccine hesitancy research from behavioural perspectives (2015–2022)	3

Community preparedness for natural hazards in two Chilean coastal cities	3
Is targeting the solution? Evidence from an experiment on radon risk communication	3
Rallying around the vaccine: how state-level risk perceptions and nationalism motivate public acceptance of immunization program	3
Mapping the knowledge frontiers of public risk communication in disaster risk management	3
Impact of perceived risk on epidemic information seeking during the outbreak of COVID-19 in China	3
Revisiting the primary bias: the role of innumeracy in the misperception of prevalence of chronic illnesses	3
The use of risk language in migration discourse. A comparative exploration of German and Italian newspapers	3
Anthropogenic risk creation: understanding and addressing the challenges via a conceptual model	3
An information network analysis approach to assessing the processes of issuing evacuation instructions: a study of evacuation cases in Japan	3
The fish scales of justice: the influence of perceived justice on social license to operate for aquaculture development	3
Regulating through disclosure: the case of food hygiene barometer ratings in China	3
No heat, no electricity, no water, oh no!: an IDEA model experiment in instructional risk communication	3
Knowledge of majority scientific agreement on anthropogenic climate change predicts perceived global risk better than perceived personal risk	3
Risk guidance and anti-corruption language: evidence from corporate codes of conduct	3
Descriptive social norms, social support, and behavioral response to climate-related and co-occurring health hazards	3
Risk targets: to what extent does ‘who’ is at risk influence risk perception?	3
Government trust in turbulence: how do natural disasters affect public risk perception in China？	3
A new perspective for the integration of intelligence and risk management in a customs and border control context	3
Managing complexity during dual crises: social media messaging of hurricane preparedness during COVID-19	2
To trust or not to trust? Structures, practices and discourses of transboundary trust around the Swedish nuclear power plant Barsebäck near Copenhagen	2
Foxes caught in the same snare: a methodological review of social radon studies	2
Risk governance approach to migration: a viable alternative to precautionary management	2
Confidence gap or timid trust building? The role of trust in the evolution of the nuclear waste governance in Germany	2
Attitudes toward possible food radiation contamination following the Fukushima nuclear accident: a nine-year, ten-wave panel survey	2
Combating pandemic: an exploration of social media users’ risk information seeking during the COVID-19 outbreak	2
Technical and organizational challenges in the risk management of road infrastructures	2
When information security depends on font size: how the saliency of warnings affects protection behavior	2
Feeling COVID-19: intensity, clusters, and correlates of emotional responses to the pandemic	2
Digital methods of social science in food regulation: case studies from the Food Standards Agency	2
Aligning redundancy and flexibility for supply chain resilience: a literature synthesis	2
Transparency beyond information disclosure: strategies of the Scandinavian public health authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Factors influencing risk perceptions of genetically modified seafood: evidence from a specialist population	2
Risk perception, affect, and information avoidance during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election	2
Beyond the singular and linear risk approach	2
Plea for an inclusive approach to risk	2
Competing institutional logics in hospital management during the COVID-19 pandemic – lessons for the future	2
The influence of COVID-19 Mortality Rate Formats on Emotional Reactions, Risk perception, and self-protective Behavioral Intentions	2
Unveiling nature’s fury: Natech disasters for business – a continuous monitoring & reporting framework	2
Understanding collective flight responses to (mis)perceived hostile threats in Britain 2010-2019: a systematic review of ten years of false alarms in crowded spaces	2
Societal insights in risk communication planning – a structured approach	2
Risk perception of the COVID-19 vaccines: revisiting the psychometric paradigm	2
Energy transition and risk analysis: a commentary	2
The emergence of mistrustful civic vigilance in Finnish, French, German and Spanish nuclear policies: ideological trust and (de)politicization	1
Mapping mental models of parents’ risk perceptions of autonomous public transport use by young children: a social representations theory approach	1
Facing nonscalability: are risks still ‘risks’ when compound and catastrophic?	1
Community safety through mindfulness: a study on Chinese Grid Workers’ risk reporting behavior	1
The global research trends on health risk perception and communication: a bibliometric study and visualization analysis	1
‘It’s really embarrassing […] to ask for help:’ navigating invisible and intersecting inequities in barriers to getting vaccinated	1
Promoting voluntary risk detection behaviour: an intervention study based on trending social norms combined with emotional appeals	1
Zelensky’s most notable war instrument: the use of ‘reels’ on Instagram	1
How personal experiences shaped risk judgments during COVID-19	1
Americans’ COVID-19 risk perceptions and risk perception predictors changed over time	1
Assessing explanatory variables of perceived stress to disaster: implications for risk research	1
Boundary conditions for gender differences in risk taking	1
A naturalistic decision-making approach to managing non-routine fire incidents: evidence from expert firefighters	1
A framework for understanding risk based on the concepts of ontology and epistemology	1
Risk, religion, and reified camels: the past and the future of insurance in Iran	1
I don’t know my child’s asthma risk: evidence against satisficing as an explanation for ‘don’t know’ responses	1
A risk science perspective on the COVID-19 risk handling	1
20 years of studies of risk and intersectionality: a bibliometric overview	1
Thoughts about intersectionality and risk. Interviews with key scholars	1
Improving workplace safety through mindful organizing: participative safety self-efficacy as a mediational link between collective mindfulness and employees’ safety citizenship	1
The impact of uncertainty communication on emotional arousal and participation intention: the psychophysiological effects of uncertainties on experts	1
Employee perspectives on risk management in a construction company	1
Ignorance and the regulation of artificial intelligence	1
Consistency and local adaptation in use of ecological and eco-cultural indicators: assessing risk from contamination	1
COVID-19 vaccine rollout management and communication in Europe: one year on	1
Commentary on ‘Risk communication, uncertainty and the dutch energy transition’ by Ragnar Lofstedt and Frederic Bouder	1
Pro-environmental attitudes, altruism, and COVID-19 risk management behavior	1
Uncertainty in official statistics ¹	1
The social representation of nanotechnologies and its relationships with those of science and technology: Making familiar the unfamiliar between enthusiasm and caution	1
Terrorism-related worry in Sweden: the roles of gender and foreign background	1
Striving for technical consensus by agreeing to disagree: the case of monitoring underground nuclear waste disposal facilities	1
Risk perception as a double-edged sword in policy compliance in COVID-19 pandemic? A two-phase evaluation from Hong Kong	1
Effects of comparative information when communicating personalized risks of treatment outcomes: an experimental study	1
Message framing and trust as moderated mediating mechanisms for effective government response to uncertain risk messages	1
Exploring disaster preparedness: a scoping review of adult and continuing education approaches in international civil protection research	1
Examining the effectiveness and economic benefits of home fire safety visits	1
Crises social sensing: longitudinal monitoring of social perceptions of systemic risk during public health crisis	1