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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Populist Frames in Climate Discourse: How Right-Wing Politics Rewrites the Narrative on Climate Change	110
On Care, Opposition, and River World Dynamics: The Nu River Anti-dam Campaign (2003−2016) in China	78
Combatting Climate Disinformation: Comparing the Effectiveness of Correction Placement and Type	51
“We Need to Build Carbon-Neutral Houses” – Discourses of Responsible Expertise in Finnish Professional Media	48
An Experimental Study of the Impact of Greenwashing on Attitudes toward Fossil Fuel Corporations’ Sustainability Initiatives	47
The Role of Choice and Descriptive Norms in Attenuating Reactance to BPA Risk Messages: A Conceptual Replication	41
The Need for Seed: News Framing of the Pandemic Gardening Boom	39
Digital Climate Rhetoric and the Corrupted Scientist Archetype	36
Between Impact, Politics, and Action: Frames of Climate Change in Indonesian Print and Online Media	34
Shifting Social Representations of Orcas: Content and Prototypical Analysis	32
Communities of Care for Air Pollution Policies in Pakistan: An Integrated Approach to Public Engagement and Policy Implementation	32
A Review of CLT-based Empirical Research on Climate Change Communication from 2010 to 2021	31
Perfect as the Enemy of Good: How the Seeds of Solutions Journalism for Environmental Reporting Take Root In Canadian Alternative Media	26
Criminalizing Care: Environmental Justice Under Political and Police Repression	23
“ Climate Change is Real, but I Don't Wanna Talk About It ”: Unraveling Spiral of Silence Effects Regarding Climate Change Among Midwestern American Farm	23
The Anthropocene of Weather and Climate: Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate	20
Stockholm and The Rise of Global Environmental Governance, The Human Environment	20
The Art of Environmental Activism in Indonesia: Shifting Horizons	20
Exploring Languaging and Communication in Ecological Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Environment Relationships	19
Epistemological Negotiation in Environmental Localization: World Englishes Framing of “Biodiversity” in WWF Kenya and China	19
Cleaning up greenwash: corporate environmental crime and the crisis of capitalism	19
Life cycle assessment: future challenges	19
Down to Extract with Zac Efron and Ewan McGregor: How Streaming Travel Docuseries and Sustainability Discourses Map Racial Geographies in Central America	19
Displacements of Care in Climate Crisis: The Case of Tipping Points	18
Environmental or Ecological Communication? Lessons (too late) from the Great Barrier Reef	18

Correction	17
Water for Fire: Framing Water Governance Debates During the 2025 Los Angeles Fires	16
Examining Sourcing Practices in Environmental Reporting Across Arab Media: Patterns and Implications	16
Imagination, Identification, Intensification: Rhetorical Strategies for Climate Fiction on Television	16
The “Truth” About NGOs: How the Brazilian Media Frames the Attempt to Criminalize Socio-environmental Organizations	16
Media Use, Environmental Mediators, and Pro-environmental Behaviors across and within Countries	16
Flotation Devices Re-stor(y)ing Haunted South African Ocean Herstories through Mending as a Decolonial Love Language	15
Corporate Masking: (In)visibility, Petro-nationalism, and Role Play in the Line 3 Pipeline Battle	15
Caring for Water, Plastics, and Trees: Community Radio and Digital Media in Kenya’s Environmental Movements	14
Dissensus Rhetoric in Youth Climate Justice Activism	14
Exploring Pathways Connecting Climate Change, Health, and Livelihood Loss among Coastal Communities: A Preliminary Qualitative Study from Sierra Leone	14
Analyzing the Role of Localized Cultural Narratives in Addressing Global Environmental Challenges	14
Community-Based Disaster Mitigation for Building Flood Resilience in Malaka-Timor, Indonesia	14
Rethinking Environmental Sciences and Social Media from the Global South: Rural and Indigenous Communication and Audiovisual Communication in Social Media	14
Implementing environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles for sustainable businesses: a practical guide in sustainability management	13
Communicating Ecological Values Through Resource Bricolage: Environmental Narratives of Tourism-supporting SMEs in Yogyakarta, Indonesia	13
“This is Part of Everything that is Wrong with the World” – A Comparative Analysis of Sustainability Framing in Social Media Discussions About Food in Five Countries	13
Africa's Propensity for a Net Zero Energy Transition	13
When Scientists Speak Up: Trustworthiness in Advocacy Contexts	13
The Power of Moral Words in Politicized Climate Change Communication	13
Earth Detox: How and Why We Must Clean Up Our Planet	13
ESG reporting in Corporate Communication	13
Communicating the Climate Crisis New Directions for Facing What Lies Ahead	12
Promoting Ecoliteracy through Communication: How Language Can Shape Our Relationship with the More-than-Human World	12
Settler Ecofascism, Fossil Capitalism, and Democratic Crisis	11
Compassion and Climate Change Advocacy: A Computational Analysis of U.S. Environmental NGOs’ Social Media Campaigns	11
News Consumption, Partisanship, and Energy Preferences in Brazil and the United States	10
Mind the Gap: How Zhongyong Thinking Affects the Effectiveness of Media Use on Pro-Environmental Behaviours in China	10
Connecting the Dots: How Communication Strategies Shape Climate Response Behaviors among Smallholder Maize Farmers in Bongo District, Ghana	10
Portraying Animals in Disasters: News Media Representations of the Portuguese Wildfires of 2017	10
Beyond Individualized Responsibility Attributions? How Eco Influencers Communicate Sustainability on TikTok	9
Conceptualizing Black Humanity Through Geopoetic Intimacy and Resistance: Memory Making-with Geologic Materials	9
Between Eco-Anxiety and Solastalgia: Aspirational and Exiled Astronaut Eco-Imaginaries	9
Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene	9
Exploring Human-Nonhuman Relationships: A Study of Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts in Fiction	9
Latino Intergenerational Communication and Attitudes Regarding Climate Change	9
Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action	9
Reflecting on Care within an African Relational Framework for Environmental Communication	9
Blame and Responsibility Assignments in Fast Fashion-Triggered Environmental Injustice: A Case Study of Eco-Documentaries	8
The Chemistry and Communication of Microplastic Pollution: Bridging Science, Policy, and Public Awareness	8
Combatting Climate Change Misinformation: Current Strategies and Future Directions	8
Exploring Virtual Reality as a Potential Care Technology	8
Artificial Intelligence and New Voices in Environmental Campaigning	8
Visualizing environmental change as inevitable, manageable, and deconstructive	8
The Art of Narrative Constellations: Advocating for Inclusive Science Stories	8
Cultivating Interest in Science Through Humor: Mirth as a Leveler of Gaps in Science Engagement	8
Researching Indigenous Resistance to Nuclear Colonization and Practicing Decolonial Environmental Justice	8
Narrating Vulnerability and Reshaping Resilience: Media Discourse and Political Coalitions on Jakarta Flooding	8
Climate Solutions and Climate Attribution in Extreme Heat Press Coverage: The July 2022 UK Heatwaves	8
Toxic Trash or Economic Treasure: An Analysis of How E-waste is Framed in the Ghanaian Media	8

Provoking Gut-Level Reactions: A Study on Journalistic Framing During the 2020 Meatpacking Crisis	8
Localizing (or Not) Climate Change in Spanish-Language Newspapers in the United States	8
Storytelling Science for Sustainability – Using Storytelling to Communicate the Science of Sustainable Food Systems	8
The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science Denial	8
Climate Scenarios and the Documentary Mediation of National Security	8
One Day When We Were Young: Nostalgia Brings Climate Change Temporally Closer	8
Rising Seas: Representations of Antarctica, Climate Change, And Sea Level Rise in U.S. Newspaper Coverage	7
“The Ocean is Our Legacy:” Values of Care and Reciprocity	7
Blue Planet Law the Ecology of Our Economic and Technological World	7
The Role of Emotion in Climate Change Communication	7
How Solutions Journalism Shapes Support for Collective Climate Change Adaptation	7
Extreme Weather Events as Teachable Moments: Catalyzing Climate Change Learning and Action Through Conversation	7
More Than Just an Audience: The New Approach to Public Engagement with Climate Change Communication on Chinese Knowledge-Sharing Networks	7
From Virtual Trees to Real Forests: The Impact of Gamification Affordances on Green Consumption Behaviors in Ant Forest	7
Whose Expertise and Whose Knowledge Matter? Influencing Wind Power Decisions in Norway	7
Farming the Revolution , Nishtha Jain, Raintree Films, Little Big Story, Piraya Film, 2024, https://www.nishthajain.com/farming-the-revolution	7
Representing Environmental Advocacy: Ecopedagogy via Melodrama	7
Shaping Ecological Futures: Digital Worldbuilding and Environmental Readiness in the Anthropocene	7
Exploring Transition Tensions in Public Opinion on the COP26 Coal Phase-out Deal for South Africa as Expressed on Facebook	7
On Separating Data from People: Reflections on Indigenous Digital Exhaust, Transparency, and Constitutive Relationality	7
Role Perceptions in Climate Science Communication	7
Climate Information Exposure on Social Media and Climate-Related Political Participation: The Mediating Roles of Environmental Discussion and Risk Perception	7
How Can Storytelling Help Restore Mires? Applying Place-lore Fieldwork Methodology in Ecological Restoration	7
Wildlife in Vernacular as a Means for an Inclusive Environmental Sector and Community Engagement in South Africa	6
Communicating Climate Change in the Era of Anxiety: Testing a Double-Moderated-Mediation Model	6
Climate Change Discourse and Coastal Erosion in New Caledonia: an Analysis of Press Coverage in Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes	6
The Renewable Energy Transition and “the People” – Exploring the Intersections of Right-wing Populism and the Renewable Energy Transition in Portuguese Media Discourses	6
The Global Landscape of Environmental Communication: Navigating Emerging Trends	6
Experiencing Climate Change Virtually: The Effects of Virtual Reality on Climate Change Related Cognitions, Emotions, and Behavior	6