OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Risk Research is 6. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Risk perceptions of COVID-19 around the world	1089
Fact-checking as risk communication: the multi-layered risk of misinformation in times of COVID-19	190
Resilience in the face of uncertainty: early lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	173
The paradox of trust: perceived risk and public compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore	170
COVID-19 risk perception: a longitudinal analysis of its predictors and associations with health protective behaviours in the United Kingdom	144
COVID-19: Reflections on trust, tradeoffs, and preparedness	131
Managing the Covid-19 pandemic through individual responsibility: the consequences of a world risk society and enhanced ethopolitics	85
Mismanagement of Covid-19: lessons learned from Italy	69
COVID-19 risk governance: drivers, responses and lessons to be learned	67
Survival at the expense of the weakest? Managing modern slavery risks in supply chains during COVID-19	66
The COVID-19 pandemic: how can risk science help?	61
Pandemic democracy: elections and COVID-19	49
Identity change, uncertainty and mistrust in relation to fear and risk of COVID-19	47
Did the world overlook the media’s early warning of COVID-19?	43
COVID-19 protective model: the role of threat perceptions and informational cues in influencing behavior	43
Recalibrating pandemic risk leadership: Thirteen crisis ready strategies for COVID-19	42
COVID-19: the winter lockdown strategy in five European nations	35
‘A monstrous threat’: how a state of exception turns into a ‘new normal’	35
Engaging publics about environmental and technology risks: frames, values and deliberation	34
COVID-19 infection and death rates: the need to incorporate causal explanations for the data and avoid bias in testing	33
COVID-19 vaccine rollout risk communication strategies in Europe: a rapid response	33
New challenges for risk analysis: systemic risks	30
Extending a broadly applicable measure of risk perception: the case for susceptibility	28
COVID-19 information disorder: six types of harmful information during the pandemic in Europe	27
From the periphery and toward a centralized model for trust in government risk and disaster communication	27

Risk communication and COVID-19 in Europe: lessons for future public health crises	23
Information seeking, personal experiences, and their association with COVID-19 risk perceptions: demographic and occupational inequalities	23
A quantitative bow-tie cyber risk classification and assessment framework	23
Understanding crisis communication on social media with CERC: topic model analysis of tweets about Hurricane Maria	20
Bayesian network analysis of Covid-19 data reveals higher infection prevalence rates and lower fatality rates than widely reported	18
Technical and organizational challenges in the risk management of road infrastructures	18
The climate change beliefs fallacy: the influence of climate change beliefs on the perceived consequences of climate change	17
Understanding the cultural orientations of fear appeal variables: a cross-cultural comparison of pandemic risk perceptions, efficacy perceptions, and behaviors	16
Public understanding of risk and risk governance	15
Safety leadership and safety voices: exploring the mediation role of proactive motivations	14
The influence of cultural worldviews on people’s responses to hurricane risks and threat information	14
GIS-based vulnerability analysis of the United States to COVID-19 occurrence	13
Comparative risk science for the coronavirus pandemic	13
COVID-19: confronting a new world risk	13
Impact of perceived risk on epidemic information seeking during the outbreak of COVID-19 in China	13
Risk perception as a double-edged sword in policy compliance in COVID-19 pandemic? A two-phase evaluation from Hong Kong	12
What drives risk perceptions? Revisiting public perceptions of food hazards associated with production and consumption	12
Transparency beyond information disclosure: strategies of the Scandinavian public health authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
The effect of culture in containing a pandemic: the case of COVID-19	10
COVID-19 vaccine rollout management and communication in Europe: one year on	10
Rethinking the implementation of enterprise risk management (ERM) as a socio-technical challenge	10
Understanding Chinese mobile social media users’ communication behaviors during public health emergencies	10
The mediation of news framing between public trust and nuclear risk reactions in post-Fukushima China: A case study	10
Risk assessment without the risk? A controversy about security and risk in Norway	10
Using large text news archives for the analysis of climate change discourse: some methodological observations	10
Seeing is believing: examining self-efficacy and trait hope as moderators of youths’ positive risk-taking intention	10
Ignorance and the regulation of artificial intelligence	9
No heat, no electricity, no water, oh no!: an IDEA model experiment in instructional risk communication	9
The utility of social practice theory in risk research	9
Outbreak! Socio-cognitive motivators of risk information sharing during the 2018 South Korean MERS-CoV epidemic	9
Social sciences and radioactive waste management: acceptance, acceptability, and a persisting socio-technical divide	9
Fear and responsibility: discourses of obesity and risk in the UK press	9
Automated vehicle driving: background and deduction of governance needs	9
The emergence of mistrustful civic vigilance in Finnish, French, German and Spanish nuclear policies: ideological trust and (de)politicization	8
The drivers and barriers of wearing a facemask during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Switzerland	8
How the risk science can help us establish a good safety culture	8
Risk-taking attitudes and behaviors in the Norwegian population: the influence of personality and background factors	8
Trust, mistrust and distrust as blind spots of Social Licence to Operate: illustration via three forerunner countries in nuclear waste management	8
The emotional engagement of climate experts is related to their climate change perceptions and coping strategies	7
‘The day everything changed’: Australians’ COVID-19 risk narratives	7
Combating pandemic: an exploration of social media users’ risk information seeking during the COVID-19 outbreak	7
Effect of COVID-19 vaccine allocation strategies on vaccination refusal: a national survey	7
Are you getting it? Integrating theories to explain intentions to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Spain	7
Experimental support for a trust heuristic	7
Beyond party lines: the roles of compassionate goals, affect heuristic, and risk perception on Americans’ support for coronavirus response measures	7
Implementation through collaborative crisis management and contingency planning: the case of dam failure in Sweden	7
Unpacking the idea of democratic community consent-based siting for energy infrastructure	7
Be alarmed. Some reflections about the COVID-19 risk communication in Germany	7
Mapping the knowledge frontiers of public risk communication in disaster risk management	7
Amplification without the event: the rise of the flexitarian	6

Communicating uncertainty in risk descriptions: the consequences of presenting imprecise probabilities in time critical decision-making situations	6
Drawing from the ‘bank of credibility’: perspectives of health officials and the public on media handling of the H1N1 pandemic	6
Risking Munch. The art of balancing accessibility and security in museums	6
Developing a framework of institutional risk culture for strategic decision-making	6
The paradoxical effects of institutional trust on risk perception and risk management in the Covid-19 pandemic: evidence from three societies	6
Does the COVID-19 pandemic refute probability neglect?	6
How the COVID-19 pandemic influences judgments of risk and benefit: the role of negative emotions	6