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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Values as causes of emotions and acceptability in the digital risk context: an extension of the values scale with privacy	37
Twenty-five years of the Journal of Risk Research: a bibliometric overview	28
Fear during crises: the roles of perceived risk, appraisal support and identity resilience	28
Intelligent conversational agent as an active strategy for school safety management	28
Risk communication and Covid-19 through the lens of anonymous sources	23
Taking risk seriously: a comprehensive approach to ethical risk analysis in synthetic biology	23
Energy transitioning: why bother with uncertainty and why does risk tolerance really matter?	22
Risk guidance and anti-corruption language: evidence from corporate codes of conduct	19
Possible harms of artificial intelligence and the EU AI act: fundamental rights and risk	19
How is artificial intelligence shaping crisis communication? A systematic review and future research agenda	17
An information network analysis approach to assessing the processes of issuing evacuation instructions: a study of evacuation cases in Japan	14
On how to characterize and confront misinformation in a risk context	14
Risk and uncertainty: what it means for the Dutch energy transition and how a tolerability of risk approach could help	13
Public support for and reactive behavior toward technological risk interventions: an extension of secondary risk theory	13
Introducing forecast-based public health warnings to promote engagement with air quality risk: a survey of citizens’ attitudes in Cork, Ireland	12
Should we use natural gas in our homes? Risk perceptions from the U.S	12
Analysis of food safety data and its importance in risk assessment	12
The strategic role of risk culture in enhancing innovation and non-financial performance: evidence from the insurance sector	11
AI scientists’ and lay publics’ views of AI’s social impacts: segmentation analyses on risk and benefit perceptions	11
Between doubt and deference: trust and harm in the risk society	10
Foxes caught in the same snare: a methodological review of social radon studies	10
‘I need to be convinced that I need to become smart’: older adults views on consumer products with internet connectivity	10
Consumer responses to plant viruses in the context of an emerging agri-food risk: a cross-country comparison	9
When information security depends on font size: how the saliency of warnings affects protection behavior	9
Commentary on ‘Risk communication, uncertainty and the dutch energy transition’ by Ragnar Lofstedt and Frederic Bouder	9

Climate change and safety in high-risk industries	8
Two-sided messages in GM food news: the role of argument order and deference toward scientific authority	8
Fake news and risk management: a systematic literature review	8
The mediated amplification of societal risk and risk governance of artificial intelligence: technological risk frames on YouTube and their impact before and after ChatGPT	8
Facing nonscalability: are risks still ‘risks’ when compound and catastrophic?	8
Climate change risk and terror management theory	8
Consistency and local adaptation in use of ecological and eco-cultural indicators: assessing risk from contamination	8
Public perceptions of hydrogen hubs in Southwestern Pennsylvania	7
Growing utopia – undoing risk through self-sufficiency and urban gardening?	7
Embodied Uncertainty and COVID-19: Social identity, stigma, trust and coping through the pandemic	7
Managing uncertainty: psychological issues are critical for risk policy	7
The co-evolution of government risk communication practice and context for environmental health emergencies	7
Mechanisms behind COVID-19 scepticism among socially marginalised individuals in Europe	7
Exploring the effects of information insufficiency on residents’ intention to seek information about waste-to-energy incineration projects	7
Foolproof: why we fall for misinformation and how to build immunity by Sander Van Der Linden book review	7
How ChatGPT defines risk?	7
Understanding threat appraisal and protective action concerning forest fires in low-exposure regions: an application of the protective action decision model	7
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
The risk of seeing suffering and reproducing inequality	6
How is cybersecurity discussed across media channels? Exploratory analyses of Twitter content and news reporting	6
Commentary on ‘psychological harm: what is it and how does it apply to consumer products with internet connectivity?’ by Magda Osman	6
Regulating risk for growth: the many faces of janus	6
Dynamics of COVID-19 risk perception and predictors in South Korea: a two-year longitudinal study from the pandemic’s beginning (2020–2021)	6
Global public concerns about climate change: the role of education, direct experience, and indirect experience	6
Evaluating risk analyst views on uncertainty and knowledge aspects for risk characterization approaches	6
Understanding Chinese mobile social media users’ communication behaviors during public health emergencies	6
English-language news representations of the Fukushima nuclear-treated-water discharge at the initial phase in Japan and neighbouring countries	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
Development and validation of the Design-for-Safety (DfS) climate measurement tool	5
Environmental Health and Occupational Safety	5
A longitudinal process from media to climate change knowledge: a multigroup comparison of cognitive mediation model based on risk perception	5
Microplastics in food and drink: perceptions of the risks, challenges, and solutions among individuals in the ‘farm-to-fork’ food chain	5
Addressing “beyond control”: nuclear safety goals in the age of risk governance	5
An archaeology of risk: a bibliometric analysis of risk research	5
Understanding discourse and language of risk	5
Stronger together? Redefining social cohesion role in building disaster-resilient communities	5
The color of money: green business practices in a transition economy	5
Assessing public opinion about controversial risks: the effects of allowing an escape hatch on internal consistency and validity	5
Mixed and worried? Examining the association between locality type and worrying about social phenomena in Arab citizens of Israel	5
Combining uncertainty information with AI recommendations supports calibration with domain knowledge	4
The risk-related tone from the top: evidence from German regional banks	4
Multilateral governance of technological risks; editors’ overview¹	4
Defining and assessing risk analysis quality: insights from applications of the SRA risk analysis quality test	4
Government trust in turbulence: how do natural disasters affect public risk perception in China？	4
Correction	4
Communicating radon risks: the impact of different risk formulations on risk perception and protection intention	4
The role of knowledge and trust in developing risk perceptions of autonomous vehicles: a moderated mediation model	4
Revisiting the primary bias: the role of innumeracy in the misperception of prevalence of chronic illnesses	4

Is targeting the solution? Evidence from an experiment on radon risk communication	4
What entails risk management maturity in public organisations?	4
Using artificial intelligence (AI)? Risk and opportunity perception of AI predict people’s willingness to use AI	4
COVID-19 skepticism and the perception of risk	4
Information seeking and information avoidance about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination: knowledge, personal control, or affect?	4
How news consumption in modern media landscapes relates to threats perceptions and fears in public spaces. A scoping review	4
Contrasting perspectives on the risks of intensive livestock farming in The Netherlands: a survey study	4
A note on psychological harm as a policy instrument	4
COVID-19 has illuminated the need for clearer AI-based risk management strategies	4
How is counterfactual thinking integrated in organizational risk and resilience practices?	4
Connecting risk, management and organisational goals: integrating risk with organisations’ systems to enhance performance and competitive advantage	4