OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Between Eco-Anxiety and Solastalgia: Aspirational and Exiled Astronaut Eco-Imaginaries	61
Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene	52
Conceptualizing Black Humanity Through Geopoetic Intimacy and Resistance: Memory Making-with Geologic Materials	45
Latino Intergenerational Communication and Attitudes Regarding Climate Change	38
Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action	35
The Presence and Portrayal of Climate Change and Other Environmental Problems in Popular Films: A Quantitative Content Analysis	32
Exploring Environmental Communication in the U.S. Indigenous Diaspora	32
#Greenfluencing. The Impact of Parasocial Relationships with Social Media Influencers on Advertising Effectiveness and Followers’ Pro-environmental Intentions	30
“A Primordial Situation”: Metonymical Linkages in US Newspaper Coverage of Wet Markets	29
Storylines of Geoengineering in the Australian Media: An Analysis of Online Coverage 2006–2018	29
The Environmental Agenda in Exceptional and Not-So-Exceptional Times in Russia	28
Exploring Human-Nonhuman Relationships: A Study of Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts in Fiction	27
Protecting Biodiversity Amidst Deforestation: A Review of REDD+ Policies in Indonesia	27
Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Crisis Towards a Greener Screen	27
Malaysia’s Media Framing of Plastic Pollution: The Case of Imported Plastic Waste	26
United Nations Environment Programme Initiatives for Communicating Environmental Big Data: Considering DEAL and WESR	24
Something Very Fishy: An Informal STEAM Project Making a Case for Ocean Conservation and Climate Change	24
Articulating a Loss and Damage Fund: How the Global South is Rethinking Agency and Justice in an Age of Climate Disasters	22
Are “Climate Deniers” Rational Actors? Applying Weberian Rationalities to Advance Climate Policymaking	21
The Role of Choice and Descriptive Norms in Attenuating Reactance to BPA Risk Messages: A Conceptual Replication	21
Divergent Views and Common Values: Comparing Sustainability Understandings Across News Media, Businesses, and Consumers	19
Using Trusted Intermediaries to Communicate Environmental Issues Across Security Forces	19
Place-Based Arts Engagement and Learning Histories: An Effective Tool for Climate Action	17
Populist Frames in Climate Discourse: How Right-Wing Politics Rewrites the Narrative on Climate Change	17
What Do Extreme Weather Events Say About Climate Change? Comparing Politicization and Climate Policy in U.S. Wildfire and Hurricane News Coverage	17

A Reflection on Imperialism in Nature Conservation from African Conceptions of Care	16
Combatting Climate Disinformation: Comparing the Effectiveness of Correction Placement and Type	16
On Care, Opposition, and River World Dynamics: The Nu River Anti-dam Campaign (2003−2016) in China	16
Dear Tampa Bay : Creating and Leveraging a Climate Resilience Documentary Film Using Story-Telling for Citizen Engagement	16
Cultivating Care through Culture and Education	15
Ecomedia Literacy’s El Buen Vivir/Sumak Kawsay: The Practice of Care in Media Education in Latin America	13
Increasing Challenges and Shrinking Roles of Environmental Journalists in Nepal	13
Climate Change-related Counter-attitudinal Fake News Exposure and its Effects on Search and Selection Behavior	13
A Review of CLT-based Empirical Research on Climate Change Communication from 2010 to 2021	13
Combatting Climate Change Misinformation: Current Strategies and Future Directions	13
One Day When We Were Young: Nostalgia Brings Climate Change Temporally Closer	13
The Need for Seed: News Framing of the Pandemic Gardening Boom	13
Communities of Care for Air Pollution Policies in Pakistan: An Integrated Approach to Public Engagement and Policy Implementation	13
“Meat” Me in the Middle: The Potential of a Social Norm Feedback Intervention in the Context of Meat Consumption – A Conceptual Replication	12
Ecological Civilization: A Blindspot in Global Media Coverage of China’s Environmental Governance	12
Promising a Greener Paris: Anne Hidalgo’s Framing of Environmental Issues in Her Mayoral Campaigns	12
Digital Climate Rhetoric and the Corrupted Scientist Archetype	10
Hydropower in the News: how Journalists do (not) Cover the Environmental and Socioeconomic Costs of Dams in Brazil	10
Mapping the Field of Climate Change Communication 1993–2018: Geographically Biased, Theoretically Narrow, and Methodologically Limited	10
Ecocritical Readings of Academy Award-Winning Animated Shorts	10
Practicing Care Through Creative and Collaborative Climate Communication	10
Shifting Social Representations of Orcas: Content and Prototypical Analysis	10
COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity or Challenge: Applying Psychological Distance Theory and the Co-Benefit Frame to Promote Public Support for Climate Change Mitigation on Social Media	10
Saving the World by Your Self: Comparing the Effects of Self-Assessment and Self-Improvement Message Strategies on Pro-Environmental Information Selection and Persuasive Outcomes	9
Measuring Americans’ Support for Adapting to ‘Climate Change’ or ‘Extreme Weather’	9
Between Impact, Politics, and Action: Frames of Climate Change in Indonesian Print and Online Media	9
Framing Waste Classification among Chinese Young People: The Moderating Effect of Consideration of Future Consequences	9
Protest Under Uncertainty: Evidence from a Survey Experiment	9
Affective Oceanic Seaswimming and Encounters for Care-Full Environmental Communication	9
The Worth of Nature: Valuations of Glaciers in Alaskan and Norwegian Media Discourse	8
Are You Threatening Me? Identity Threat, Resistance to Persuasion, and Boomerang Effects in Environmental Communication	8
Does 360-degree Video Enhance Engagement with Global Warming?: The Mediating Role of Spatial Presence and Emotions	8
An Experimental Study of the Impact of Greenwashing on Attitudes toward Fossil Fuel Corporations’ Sustainability Initiatives	8
Reflecting on Care within an African Relational Framework for Environmental Communication	8
Civil Disobedience by Environmental Scientists: An Experimental Study of its Influence on the Impact and Credibility of Climate Change Research*	8
Media and Social Norms: Exploring the Relationship between Media and Plastic Avoidance Social Norms	8
Examining Factors Influencing Public Knowledge, Risk Perception, and Policy Support for Waste Classification: A Multigroup Comparison of the Cognitive Mediation Model Based on Gender Differences	8
(Un)believably Green: The Role of Information Credibility in Green Food Product Communications	8
From Risk to Legislative Innovation: The Trajectory of Marine Submersion Through the French Media	8
Refining the Application of Construal Level Theory: Egocentric and Nonegocentric Psychological Distances in Climate Change Visual Communication	8
Text, Short Video, or Long Video? Effects of Attention to Various Types of Social Media on Public Knowledge of Dual Carbon: A Multigroup Comparison Based on Environmental Concern Levels	8
Stockholm and The Rise of Global Environmental Governance, The Human Environment	7
Life cycle assessment: future challenges	7
Human and Non-human Co-existence in the Urban Dystopia: Review of the Documentary All that Breathes	7
Communicating Climate Change on TikTok During the Climate Summits: From the Environmental Issues to the Politicization of Discourse	7
Connective Action, Digital Engagement and Network-Building: A Year in the Life of Canadian Climate Facebook	7
“We Need to Build Carbon-Neutral Houses” – Discourses of Responsible Expertise in Finnish Professional Media	7
The Anthropocene of Weather and Climate: Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate	7
The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science Denial	7
“Not a Big Climate Change Guy” Semiotic Gradients and Climate Discourse	7

This Land is Our Land: Protesting to Protect Places on the Margin	7
The Art of Environmental Activism in Indonesia: Shifting Horizons	7
“ Climate Change is Real, but I Don't Wanna Talk About It ”: Unraveling Spiral of Silence Effects Regarding Climate Change Among Midwestern American Farmers	7
From Ecological Grief toGelassenheit: Rhetorics of Sentiment and Science inHemlock	6
“Take Extinction off Your Plate”: How International Environmental Campaigns Connect Food, Farming, and Fishing to Wildlife Extinction	6
Coming to Terms with Waste	6
Delineating Antecedents and Outcomes of Information Seeking Upon Exposure to an Environmental Video Opposing Single-Use Plastics	6
Researching Indigenous Resistance to Nuclear Colonization and Practicing Decolonial Environmental Justice	6
Young Adults’ Reactions and Engagement with Short-form Videos on Sea Level Rise	6
When Environmental Claims are Empty Promises: How Greenwashing Affects Corporate Reputation and Credibility	6
Climate change, education, and technology	6
“They Want to Kill Our Cows. That Means You're Next:” White Masculine Victimhood and the Green New Deal’s War on Hamburgers	6
Localizing (or Not) Climate Change in Spanish-Language Newspapers in the United States	5
“An Emotional Cycle”: Excitement, Worry, and Joy in a Citizen Science Biodiversity Project Using Bee Hotels	5
Consumer Willingness to Pay for Sustainable Products	5
Youth Activism and Climate Policy: Exploring the Groundswell and Direct Approaches in Speaking Youth to Power	5
Whose Authority Drives the Narrative?: Framing the Spread of Mountain Pine Beetle in Canadian News Media	5
Media Use, Environmental Mediators, and Pro-environmental Behaviors across and within Countries	5
Mediated Fire and Distant Suffering: The Global Spectacle of Australian Bushfires in Nature 2.0	5
Communicating Transformation in Food and Agricultural Ecologies	5
Solidarity Versus Security: Exploring Perspectives on Climate Induced Migration in UN and EU Policy	4
Exploring Languaging and Communication in Ecological Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Environment Relationships	4
The Four Rs, Ecology, and Academic Kinship: Anticolonial Turns for Rhetorical Studies	4
English and Regional Media Coverage of the 2022 Heatwave in India	4
Increasing Advertising Literacy to Unveil Disinformation in Green Advertising	4
The Art of Narrative Constellations: Advocating for Inclusive Science Stories	4
Cleaning up greenwash: corporate environmental crime and the crisis of capitalism	4
Framing Climate Solutions: An Exploratory Quantitative Content Analysis	4
An Experimental Study of Climate Change Messages: Who and How Many to Feature?	4
Major Media Outlets and Climate Change Action: Comparing US Media Coverage of the Green New Deal	4
Blame and Responsibility Assignments in Fast Fashion-Triggered Environmental Injustice: A Case Study of Eco-Documentaries	4
Provoking Gut-Level Reactions: A Study on Journalistic Framing During the 2020 Meatpacking Crisis	4
Exploring the Role of Immersive Media Technologies in Environmental Communication: A Case Study of Underwater Earth Projects	4
Biochar in the UK Print News Media: Issue Frames and Their Implications for Opening up Debate About Land-based Greenhouse Gas Removal	4
Narrating Vulnerability and Reshaping Resilience: Media Discourse and Political Coalitions on Jakarta Flooding	4