OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Risk Research is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Energy transitioning: why bother with uncertainty and why does risk tolerance really matter?	28
Risk communication and Covid-19 through the lens of anonymous sources	26
Possible harms of artificial intelligence and the EU AI act: fundamental rights and risk	22
Fear during crises: the roles of perceived risk, appraisal support and identity resilience	21
Twenty-five years of the Journal of Risk Research: a bibliometric overview	19
On how to characterize and confront misinformation in a risk context	18
Values as causes of emotions and acceptability in the digital risk context: an extension of the values scale with privacy	18
Should we use natural gas in our homes? Risk perceptions from the U.S	18
Risk and uncertainty: what it means for the Dutch energy transition and how a tolerability of risk approach could help	16
An information network analysis approach to assessing the processes of issuing evacuation instructions: a study of evacuation cases in Japan	15
Risk governance approach to migration: a viable alternative to precautionary management	13
Introducing forecast-based public health warnings to promote engagement with air quality risk: a survey of citizens’ attitudes in Cork, Ireland	12
Foxes caught in the same snare: a methodological review of social radon studies	12
Risk guidance and anti-corruption language: evidence from corporate codes of conduct	12
When information security depends on font size: how the saliency of warnings affects protection behavior	12
Between doubt and deference: trust and harm in the risk society	12
Commentary on ‘Risk communication, uncertainty and the dutch energy transition’ by Ragnar Lofstedt and Frederic Bouder	11
‘I need to be convinced that I need to become smart’: older adults views on consumer products with internet connectivity	11
Consumer responses to plant viruses in the context of an emerging agri-food risk: a cross-country comparison	11
Climate change risk and terror management theory	10
Facing nonscalability: are risks still ‘risks’ when compound and catastrophic?	10
Fake news and risk management: a systematic literature review	10
The mediated amplification of societal risk and risk governance of artificial intelligence: technological risk frames on YouTube and their impact before and after ChatGPT	10
Climate change and safety in high-risk industries	10
COVID-19 vaccine rollout management and communication in Europe: one year on	9

Consistency and local adaptation in use of ecological and eco-cultural indicators: assessing risk from contamination	9
Foolproof: why we fall for misinformation and how to build immunity by Sander Van Der Linden book review	8
Public perceptions of hydrogen hubs in Southwestern Pennsylvania	8
The co-evolution of government risk communication practice and context for environmental health emergencies	8
Exploring the effects of information insufficiency on residents’ intention to seek information about waste-to-energy incineration projects	8
Managing uncertainty: psychological issues are critical for risk policy	7
Dynamics of COVID-19 risk perception and predictors in South Korea: a two-year longitudinal study from the pandemic’s beginning (2020–2021)	7
How ChatGPT defines risk?	7
Understanding Chinese mobile social media users’ communication behaviors during public health emergencies	7
Growing utopia – undoing risk through self-sufficiency and urban gardening?	7
Understanding threat appraisal and protective action concerning forest fires in low-exposure regions: an application of the protective action decision model	7
The risk of seeing suffering and reproducing inequality	6
Adoption of coping behaviours: public response to data security risks of intelligent connected vehicles in China	6
Trust, distrust and radioactive waste management in contemporary Russia	6
A longitudinal process from media to climate change knowledge: a multigroup comparison of cognitive mediation model based on risk perception	6
Embodied Uncertainty and COVID-19: Social identity, stigma, trust and coping through the pandemic	6
Are you getting it? Integrating theories to explain intentions to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Spain	6
Mixed and worried? Examining the association between locality type and worrying about social phenomena in Arab citizens of Israel	6
Mechanisms behind COVID-19 scepticism among socially marginalised individuals in Europe	6
English-language news representations of the Fukushima nuclear-treated-water discharge at the initial phase in Japan and neighbouring countries	6
Comparing social constructions of wildfire risk across media, government, and participatory discourse in a Colorado fireshed	6
Commentary on ‘psychological harm: what is it and how does it apply to consumer products with internet connectivity?’ by Magda Osman	6
Understanding discourse and language of risk	5
How states deal with long-term destabilizing risks	5
Lost in translation: inadequate non-technical risk assessment within major project teams in mining	5
Connecting risk, management and organisational goals: integrating risk with organisations’ systems to enhance performance and competitive advantage	5
Environmental Health and Occupational Safety	5
Global public concerns about climate change: the role of education, direct experience, and indirect experience	5
An archaeology of risk: a bibliometric analysis of risk research	5
Combining uncertainty information with AI recommendations supports calibration with domain knowledge	5
Stronger together? Redefining social cohesion role in building disaster-resilient communities	5
Microplastics in food and drink: perceptions of the risks, challenges, and solutions among individuals in the ‘farm-to-fork’ food chain	5
The risk-related tone from the top: evidence from German regional banks	5
Communicating radon risks: the impact of different risk formulations on risk perception and protection intention	5
The color of money: green business practices in a transition economy	4
Assessing public opinion about controversial risks: the effects of allowing an escape hatch on internal consistency and validity	4
How is counterfactual thinking integrated in organizational risk and resilience practices?	4
How news consumption in modern media landscapes relates to threats perceptions and fears in public spaces. A scoping review	4
Government trust in turbulence: how do natural disasters affect public risk perception in China？	4
The role of knowledge and trust in developing risk perceptions of autonomous vehicles: a moderated mediation model	4
Information seeking and information avoidance about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination: knowledge, personal control, or affect?	4
Addressing “beyond control”: nuclear safety goals in the age of risk governance	4
Revisiting the primary bias: the role of innumeracy in the misperception of prevalence of chronic illnesses	4
Framing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) risk: assessing the influence of message content and source on concern about emerging contaminants	4
Development and validation of the Design-for-Safety (DfS) climate measurement tool	4
COVID-19 skepticism and the perception of risk	4
Multilateral governance of technological risks; editors’ overview¹	4
Contrasting perspectives on the risks of intensive livestock farming in The Netherlands: a survey study	4
Using artificial intelligence (AI)? Risk and opportunity perception of AI predict people’s willingness to use AI	4