OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Making Meat, Better: The Metaphors of Plant-Based and Cell-Based Meat Innovation	55
An Inconvenient Joke? A Review of Humor in Climate Change Communication	34
Did the Blue Planet set the Agenda for Plastic Pollution? An Explorative Study on the Influence of a Documentary on the Public, Media and Political Agendas	33
Animal Agriculture and Climate Change in the US and UK Elite Media: Volume, Responsibilities, Causes and Solutions	33
Engaging People on Climate Change: The Role of Emotional Responses	32
Environmental Literature as Persuasion: An Experimental Test of the Effects of Reading Climate Fiction	30
The Mobilizing Power of Influencers for Pro-Environmental Behavior Intentions and Political Participation	29
Stimulating Sustainable Food Choices Using Virtual Reality: Taking an Environmental vs Health Communication Perspective on Enhancing Response Efficacy Beliefs	23
A Research Agenda for Climate Change Communication and Public Opinion: The Role of Scientific Consensus Messaging and Beyond	22
Changing the World One Meme at a Time: The Effects of Climate Change Memes on Civic Engagement Intentions	21
#fighteverycrisis: Pandemic Shifts in Fridays for Future’s Protest Communication Frames	21
Societal Debates About Emerging Genetic Technologies: Toward a Science of Public Engagement	20
Food for Thought: Investigating Communication Strategies to Counteract Moral Disengagement Regarding Meat Consumption	19
#sustainablefashion – A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Fashion Discourse on Twitter	19
China’s Pathway to Climate Sustainability: A Diachronic Framing Analysis of People’s Daily’s Coverage of Climate Change (1995–2018)	19
Competing Crises? Media Coverage and Framing of Climate Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic	19
Pro-Environmental Behavior Predicted by Media Exposure, SNS Involvement, and Cognitive and Normative Factors	19
Individualism, Structuralism, and Climate Change	19
How COVID-19 Displaced Climate Change: Mediated Climate Change Activism and Issue Attention in the Swiss Media and Online Sphere	19
Mapping the Field of Climate Change Communication 1993–2018: Geographically Biased, Theoretically Narrow, and Methodologically Limited	19
Critical, Engaged and Change-oriented Scholarship in Environmental Communication. Six Methodological Dilemmas to Think With	18
Place-based Climate Change Communication and Engagement in Canada’s Provincial North: Lessons Learned from Climate Champions	18
Is This Safe? Addressing Societal Concerns About CRISPR-Edited Foods Without Reinforcing GMO Framing	16
Science, God, and Nature: A Textual and Frequency Analysis of Facebook Comments on News Articles About Agricultural and Environmental Gene Editing	16
Green Light for Climate-friendly Food Transitions? Communicating Legal Innovation Increases Consumer Support for Meat Curtailment Policies	15

Getting their Voice Heard: Chinese Environmental NGO’s Weibo Activity and Information Sharing	14
#PlasticFreeJuly – Analyzing a Worldwide Campaign to Reduce Single-use Plastic Consumption with Twitter	14
Increasing Advertising Literacy to Unveil Disinformation in Green Advertising	14
Open Questions in Scientific Consensus Messaging Research	14
Centering Culture in Public Engagement on Climate Change	14
A Call to Arms for Climate Change? How Military Service Member Concern About Climate Change Can Inform Effective Climate Communication	14
Climate Change Consensus Messages Cause Reactance	14
Who Sets the Agenda? the Dynamic Agenda Setting of the Wildlife Issue on Social Media	13
The Role of Scientific Source Credibility and Goodwill in Public Skepticism Toward GM Foods	13
The Effect of Consumer Concern for the Environment, Self-Regulatory Focus and Message Framing on Green Advertising Effectiveness: An Eye Tracking Study	12
“We are a Bit Blind About it”: A Qualitative Analysis of Climate Change-Related Perceptions and Communication Across South African Communities	12
Persistence of Scepticism in Media Reporting on Climate Change: The Case of British Newspapers	11
Building Consensus? The Production of a Water Conservation Discourse Through Twitter: The Water use it Wisely Campaign in Arizona	11
Ecological Civilization: A Blindspot in Global Media Coverage of China’s Environmental Governance	11
How Solutions Journalism Shapes Support for Collective Climate Change Adaptation	11
Sustainability in CSR Messages on Social Media: How Emotional Framing and Efficacy Affect Emotional Response, Memory and Persuasion	11
Refining the Application of Construal Level Theory: Egocentric and Nonegocentric Psychological Distances in Climate Change Visual Communication	11
Effects of Conspiracy Rhetoric on Views About the Consequences of Climate Change and Support for Direct Carbon Capture	11
A Qualitative Exploration of Individual Experiences of Environmental Virtual Reality Through the Lens of Psychological Distance	11
The Importance of Influencer-Message Congruence When Employing Greenfluencers to Promote Pro-Environmental Behavior	11
The Six Australias: Concern About Climate Change (and Global Warming) is Rising	10
Agenda-Setting Effects of Climate Change Litigation: Interrelations Across Issue Levels, Media, and Politics in the Case of Urgenda Against the Dutch Government	10
What is Public Engagement and How Does it Help to Address Climate Change? A Review of Climate Communication Research	10
Echo Chamber Effects in the Climate Change Blogosphere	10
Understanding Public Willingness to Pay More for Plant-based Meat: Environmental and Health Consciousness as Precursors to the Influence of Presumed Media Influence Model	9
Motivating Children to Become Green Kids: The Role of Victim Framing, Moral Emotions, and Responsibility on Children’s Pro-Environmental Behavioral Intent	9
Climate Change Consensus Messages May Cause Reactance in Conservatives, But There is No Meta-Analytic Evidence That They Backfire	8
Media Framing of Climate Change Action in Carbon Locked-in Developing Countries: Adaptation or Mitigation?	8
Effects of Responsibility Appeals for Pro-Environmental Ads: When Do They Empower or Generate Reactance?	8
Gene Editing Communication Must Center Marginalized Communities	8
Countering Identity-protective Responses to Climate Change Data	8
Global Climate Change or National Climate Changes? An Analysis of the Performance of Online Issue Publics in Integrating Global Issues	8
More Plastic than Fish: Partisan Responses to an Advocacy Video Opposing Single-Use Plastics	8
News Media Framing of Grassroots Innovations in Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden	8
Framing the Circular Bioeconomy in Ireland’s Broadsheet Media, 2004–2019	7
Protective Behaviors Against Particulate Air Pollution: Self-construal, Risk Perception, and Direct Experience in the Theory of Planned Behavior	7
Measuring Americans’ Support for Adapting to ‘Climate Change’ or ‘Extreme Weather’	7
Narrative Risk Communication as a Lingua Franca for Environmental Hazard Preparation	7
Targeted Change: Using Behavioral Segmentation to Identify and Understand Plastic Consumers and How They Respond to Media Communications	7
Constructing the Millennial “Other” in United States Press Coverage of the Green New Deal	7
#Greenfluencing. The Impact of Parasocial Relationships with Social Media Influencers on Advertising Effectiveness and Followers’ Pro-environmental Intentions	7
“We’re Going Under”: The Role of Local News Media in Dislocating Climate Change Adaptation	7
Framing Messages on the Economic Impact of Climate Change Policies: Effects on Climate Believers and Climate Skeptics	7
Thunberg’s Way in the Climate Debate: Making Sense of Climate Action and Actors, Constructing Environmental Citizenship	7
Improving GM Consensus Acceptance Through Reduced Reactance and Climate Change-based Message Targeting	6
Discussion of Climate Change on Reddit: Polarized Discourse or Deliberative Debate?	6
Media Diets of Vegetarians. How News Consumption, Social Media Use and Communicating with One’s Social Environment are Associated with a Vegetarian Diet	6
Does 360-degree Video Enhance Engagement with Global Warming?: The Mediating Role of Spatial Presence and Emotions	6
Plastics in Mass Media. A Content Analysis of German Media Coverage of Plastic-Associated Risks and Sustainable Alternatives to Plastics	6
Unveiling High Mountain Communities’ Perception of Climate Change Impact on Lives and Livelihoods in Gilgit-Baltistan: Evidence from People-Centric Approach	6

Categorizing Professionals’ Perspectives on Environmental Communication with Implications for Graduate Education	6
We Are (Not) the Virus: Competing Online Discourses of Human-Environment Interaction in the Era of COVID-19	6
Gene-Edited Foods and the Public: The First Representative Survey Study of the United States	6
An Examination of Expertise, Caring and Salient Value Similarity as Source Factors that Garner Support for Advocated Climate Policies	6
Predictors of Environmental Policy Support: The Case of Inland Aquaculture in Wisconsin	6
The Moderating Role of Descriptive Norms on Construal-Level Fit: An Examination in the Context of “Less Plastic” Campaigns	6