OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Using Trusted Intermediaries to Communicate Environmental Issues Across Security Forces	65
Digital Climate Rhetoric and the Corrupted Scientist Archetype	53
Between Impact, Politics, and Action: Frames of Climate Change in Indonesian Print and Online Media	46
Shifting Social Representations of Orcas: Content and Prototypical Analysis	39
Populist Frames in Climate Discourse: How Right-Wing Politics Rewrites the Narrative on Climate Change	36
Communities of Care for Air Pollution Policies in Pakistan: An Integrated Approach to Public Engagement and Policy Implementation	35
On Care, Opposition, and River World Dynamics: The Nu River Anti-dam Campaign (2003−2016) in China	32
The Need for Seed: News Framing of the Pandemic Gardening Boom	30
An Experimental Study of the Impact of Greenwashing on Attitudes toward Fossil Fuel Corporations’ Sustainability Initiatives	29
“We Need to Build Carbon-Neutral Houses” – Discourses of Responsible Expertise in Finnish Professional Media	28
A Review of CLT-based Empirical Research on Climate Change Communication from 2010 to 2021	28
Combatting Climate Disinformation: Comparing the Effectiveness of Correction Placement and Type	28
The Role of Choice and Descriptive Norms in Attenuating Reactance to BPA Risk Messages: A Conceptual Replication	27
Displacements of Care in Climate Crisis: The Case of Tipping Points	23
Exploring Languaging and Communication in Ecological Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Environment Relationships	23
Life cycle assessment: future challenges	22
Perfect as the Enemy of Good: How the Seeds of Solutions Journalism for Environmental Reporting Take Root In Canadian Alternative Media	22
The Art of Environmental Activism in Indonesia: Shifting Horizons	19
The Anthropocene of Weather and Climate: Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate	19
Media Use, Environmental Mediators, and Pro-environmental Behaviors across and within Countries	17
Cleaning up greenwash: corporate environmental crime and the crisis of capitalism	17
Criminalizing Care: Environmental Justice Under Political and Police Repression	17
Young Adults’ Reactions and Engagement with Short-form Videos on Sea Level Rise	17
“ Climate Change is Real, but I Don't Wanna Talk About It ”: Unraveling Spiral of Silence Effects Regarding Climate Change Among Midwestern American Farmers	16
Rethinking Environmental Sciences and Social Media from the Global South: Rural and Indigenous Communication and Audiovisual Communication in Social Media	16

Stockholm and The Rise of Global Environmental Governance, The Human Environment	16
Pro-Environmental Behavior Predicted by Media Exposure, SNS Involvement, and Cognitive and Normative Factors	16
“Hello, garden eel here:” insights from emerging humanature relations at the aquarium during COVID-19	15
Imagination, Identification, Intensification: Rhetorical Strategies for Climate Fiction on Television	15
Flotation Devices Re-stor(y)ing Haunted South African Ocean Herstories through Mending as a Decolonial Love Language	15
Dissensus Rhetoric in Youth Climate Justice Activism	15
The Power of Moral Words in Politicized Climate Change Communication	14
“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	14
Caring for Water, Plastics, and Trees: Community Radio and Digital Media in Kenya’s Environmental Movements	14
Thunberg’s Way in the Climate Debate: Making Sense of Climate Action and Actors, Constructing Environmental Citizenship	14
Community-Based Disaster Mitigation for Building Flood Resilience in Malaka-Timor, Indonesia	13
Promoting Ecoliteracy through Communication: How Language Can Shape Our Relationship with the More-than-Human World	13
Analyzing the Role of Localized Cultural Narratives in Addressing Global Environmental Challenges	13
The Six Australias: Concern About Climate Change (and Global Warming) is Rising	13
Communicating the Climate Crisis New Directions for Facing What Lies Ahead	12
ESG reporting in Corporate Communication	12
Earth Detox: How and Why We Must Clean Up Our Planet	12
Africa's Propensity for a Net Zero Energy Transition	11
News Consumption, Partisanship, and Energy Preferences in Brazil and the United States	10
12 Years Left: How a Climate Change Action Deadline Influences Perceptions and Engagement	10
Reflecting on Care within an African Relational Framework for Environmental Communication	10
#PlasticFreeJuly – Analyzing a Worldwide Campaign to Reduce Single-use Plastic Consumption with Twitter	10
Mind the Gap: How Zhongyong Thinking Affects the Effectiveness of Media Use on Pro-Environmental Behaviours in China	10
Protest Under Uncertainty: Evidence from a Survey Experiment	10
Beyond Individualized Responsibility Attributions? How Eco Influencers Communicate Sustainability on TikTok	10
Implementing environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles for sustainable businesses: a practical guide in sustainability management	10
Combatting Climate Change Misinformation: Current Strategies and Future Directions	9
Exploring Human-Nonhuman Relationships: A Study of Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts in Fiction	9
Between Eco-Anxiety and Solastalgia: Aspirational and Exiled Astronaut Eco-Imaginaries	9
Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action	9
Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene	9
One Day When We Were Young: Nostalgia Brings Climate Change Temporally Closer	9
Conceptualizing Black Humanity Through Geopoetic Intimacy and Resistance: Memory Making-with Geologic Materials	9
Climate Solutions and Climate Attribution in Extreme Heat Press Coverage: The July 2022 UK Heatwaves	8
Blame and Responsibility Assignments in Fast Fashion-Triggered Environmental Injustice: A Case Study of Eco-Documentaries	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
Latino Intergenerational Communication and Attitudes Regarding Climate Change	8
The Art of Narrative Constellations: Advocating for Inclusive Science Stories	8
Narrating Vulnerability and Reshaping Resilience: Media Discourse and Political Coalitions on Jakarta Flooding	8
Researching Indigenous Resistance to Nuclear Colonization and Practicing Decolonial Environmental Justice	8
From Risk to Legislative Innovation: The Trajectory of Marine Submersion Through the French Media	8
The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science Denial	8
Exploring Virtual Reality as a Potential Care Technology	8
Visualizing environmental change as inevitable, manageable, and deconstructive	8
On Separating Data from People: Reflections on Indigenous Digital Exhaust, Transparency, and Constitutive Relationality	7
Cultivating Interest in Science Through Humor: Mirth as a Leveler of Gaps in Science Engagement	7
Media Diets of Vegetarians. How News Consumption, Social Media Use and Communicating with One’s Social Environment are Associated with a Vegetarian Diet	7
“The Ocean is Our Legacy:” Values of Care and Reciprocity	7
Extreme Weather Events as Teachable Moments: Catalyzing Climate Change Learning and Action Through Conversation	7

The Chemistry and Communication of Microplastic Pollution: Bridging Science, Policy, and Public Awareness	7
Exploring Transition Tensions in Public Opinion on the COP26 Coal Phase-out Deal for South Africa as Expressed on Facebook	7
More Than Just an Audience: The New Approach to Public Engagement with Climate Change Communication on Chinese Knowledge-Sharing Networks	7
Farming the Revolution , Nishtha Jain, Raintree Films, Little Big Story, Piraya Film, 2024, https://www.nishthajain.com/farming-the-revolution	6
Representing Environmental Advocacy: Ecopedagogy via Melodrama	6
Adding Dynamic Norm to Environmental Information in Messages Promoting the Reduction of Meat Consumption	6
Whose Expertise and Whose Knowledge Matter? Influencing Wind Power Decisions in Norway	6
Communicating Climate Change in the Era of Anxiety: Testing a Double-Moderated-Mediation Model	6
Shaping Ecological Futures: Digital Worldbuilding and Environmental Readiness in the Anthropocene	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
Climate Information Exposure on Social Media and Climate-Related Political Participation: The Mediating Roles of Environmental Discussion and Risk Perception	6
Role Perceptions in Climate Science Communication	6
Experiencing Climate Change Virtually: The Effects of Virtual Reality on Climate Change Related Cognitions, Emotions, and Behavior	6
From Virtual Trees to Real Forests: The Impact of Gamification Affordances on Green Consumption Behaviors in Ant Forest	6
How environment-focused communities discuss COVID-19 online: an analysis of social (risk) amplification and ripple effects on Reddit	6
Communicating Climate Change to a Local but Diverse Audience: On the Positive Impact of Locality Framing	6
Frack-Off: Social Media Fights Against Fracking in Argentina	5
FutureCoast: A Playful Way to Assess Public Perceptions for Better Climate Change Communication	5
How Solutions Journalism Shapes Support for Collective Climate Change Adaptation	5
Climate Change Versus Economic Growth: Quantifying, Identifying and Comparing Articulations in News Media Using Dynamic Topic Modeling	5
Race/Ethnicity and Climate Change Reporting: Perceptions and Interests of News Personnel's Interest to Cover Climate Change based on Race	5
#fighteverycrisis: Pandemic Shifts in Fridays for Future’s Protest Communication Frames	5
Blue Planet Law the Ecology of Our Economic and Technological World	5
Fish Prisons and Bluehouses: Perceived Risks and Benefits of Land-based Aquaculture in Four US Communities	5
Wildlife in Vernacular as a Means for an Inclusive Environmental Sector and Community Engagement in South Africa	5
Promoting Environmental Communication and Policy Formation: A Utilization-Focused Evaluation Approach	5
How Can Storytelling Help Restore Mires? Applying Place-lore Fieldwork Methodology in Ecological Restoration	5
The Role of Late-Night Infotainment Comedy in Communicating Climate Change Consensus	5