Most cited papers in Environmental Education and Sustainability
What are the most cited papers in Environmental Education and Sustainability?
The most cited paper in Environmental Education and Sustainability is "Mind the Gap: Why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior?" (Anja Kollmuss, Julian Agyeman, 2002), with 8,791 citations. Next come "A focus theory of normative conduct: Recycling the concept of norms to reduce littering in public places." (5,740) and "New Trends in Measuring Environmental Attitudes: Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale" (5,678).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,210 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mind the Gap: Why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior? Anja Kollmuss, Julian Agyeman · Environmental Education Research | Aug 2002 | 8,791 |
| 2 | A focus theory of normative conduct: Recycling the concept of norms to reduce littering in public places. Robert B. Cialdini, Raymond R. Reno, Carl A. Kallgren · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Jun 1990 | 5,740 |
| 3 | New Trends in Measuring Environmental Attitudes: Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale Riley E. Dunlap, Kent D. Van Liere, Angela G. Mertig et al. · Journal of Social Issues | 2000 | 5,678 |
| 4 | Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour: An integrative review and research agenda Linda Steg, Charles A. J. Vlek · Journal of Environmental Psychology | 20 Nov 2008 | 5,063 |
| 5 | Twenty years after Hines, Hungerford, and Tomera: A new meta-analysis of psycho-social determinants of pro-environmental behaviour Sebastian Bamberg, Guido Möser · Journal of Environmental Psychology | 30 Dec 2006 | 4,093 |
| 6 | The Constructive, Destructive, and Reconstructive Power of Social Norms P. Wesley Schultz, Jessica M. Nolan, Robert B. Cialdini et al. · Psychological Science | May 2007 | 3,714 |
| 7 | Analysis and Synthesis of Research on Responsible Environmental Behavior: A Meta-Analysis Jody Maria Hines, Harold R. Hungerford, Audrey N. Tomera · The Journal of Environmental Education | 1987 | 3,392 |
| 8 | A Room with a Viewpoint: Using Social Norms to Motivate Environmental Conservation in Hotels Noah J. Goldstein, Robert B. Cialdini, Vladas Griskevicius · Journal of Consumer Research | 3 Mar 2008 | 3,228 |
| 9 | Attitudes towards science: A review of the literature and its implications Jonathan Osborne, Shirley Simon, Sue Collins · International Journal of Science Education | Sep 2003 | 3,152 |
| 10 | Social acceptance of renewable energy innovation: An introduction to the concept Rolf Wüstenhagen, Maarten Wolsink, Mary Jean Bürer · Energy Policy | 27 Feb 2007 | 3,027 |
| 11 | The connectedness to nature scale: A measure of individuals’ feeling in community with nature F. Stephan Mayer, Cynthia McPherson Frantz · Journal of Environmental Psychology | Dec 2004 | 3,022 |
| 12 | Targeting consumers who are willing to pay more for environmentally friendly products Michel Laroche, Jasmin Bergeron, Guido Barbaro‐Forleo · Journal of Consumer Marketing | Nov 2001 | 2,969 |
| 13 | The “New Environmental Paradigm” Riley E. Dunlap, Kent D. Van Liere · The Journal of Environmental Education | Jul 1978 | 2,767 |
| 14 | Social norms and energy conservation Hunt Allcott · Journal of Public Economics | 21 Apr 2011 | 2,706 |
| 15 | A review of intervention studies aimed at household energy conservation Wokje Abrahamse, Linda Steg, Charles A. J. Vlek et al. · Journal of Environmental Psychology | Sep 2005 | 2,686 |
| 16 | The use of focus group discussion methodology: Insights from two decades of application in conservation Tobias Ochieng Nyumba, Kerrie A. Wilson, Christina J. Derrick et al. · Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2018 | 2,660 |
| 17 | Green Human Resource Management: A Review and Research Agenda* Douglas Renwick, Tom Redman, Stuart Maguire · International Journal of Management Reviews | 10 Jan 2012 | 2,545 |
| 18 | Sustainable Food Consumption: Exploring the Consumer “Attitude – Behavioral Intention” Gap Iris Vermeir, Wim Verbeke · Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | Apr 2006 | 2,505 |
| 19 | Beyond the ABC: Climate Change Policy and Theories of Social Change Elizabeth Shove · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space | Jun 2010 | 2,411 |
| 20 | The Politicization of Climate Change and Polarization in the American Public's Views of Global Warming, 2001–2010 Aaron M. McCright, Riley E. Dunlap · Sociological Quarterly | 18 Apr 2011 | 2,349 |
| 21 | The Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks Donald Braman, Dan M. Kahan, Ellen M. Peters et al. · Scholarly Commons - George Washington University Law School (George Washington University) | 2012 | 2,335 |
| 22 | Protection motivation and self-efficacy: A revised theory of fear appeals and attitude change James E. Maddux, Ronald W. Rogers · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | Sep 1983 | 2,327 |
| 23 | Sustainable development: mapping different approaches Bill Hopwood, Mary Mellor, Geoff O’Brien · Sustainable Development | 2005 | 2,309 |
| 24 | The dragons of inaction: Psychological barriers that limit climate change mitigation and adaptation. Robert Gifford · American Psychologist | 2011 | 2,298 |
| 25 | The Value Basis of Environmental Concern Paul C. Stern, Thomas M. Dietz · Journal of Social Issues | Oct 1994 | 2,240 |
| 26 | Climate Change Risk Perception and Policy Preferences: The Role of Affect, Imagery, and Values Anthony Leiserowitz · Climatic Change | 19 Jul 2006 | 2,220 |
| 27 | Predicting green product consumption using theory of planned behavior and reasoned action Justin Paul, Ashwin Govindbhai Modi, Jayesh D. Patel · Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services | 7 Dec 2015 | 2,173 |
| 28 | Value Orientations, Gender, and Environmental Concern Paul C. Stern, Thomas M. Dietz, Linda Kalof · Environment and Behavior | Sep 1993 | 2,169 |
| 29 | Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey Caroline Hickman, Elizabeth Marks, Panu Pihkala et al. · The Lancet Planetary Health | Dec 2021 | 2,148 |
| 30 | Changing Learner Behavior Through Environmental Education Harold R. Hungerford, Trudi L. Volk · The Journal of Environmental Education | Mar 1990 | 2,123 |
| 31 | Green innovation and environmental performance: The role of green transformational leadership and green human resource management Sanjay Kumar Singh, Manlio Del Giudice, Roberto Chierici et al. · Technological Forecasting and Social Change | Nov 2019 | 2,100 |
| 32 | Cross-Cultural Research Methods Richard W. Brislin | 1980 | 2,070 |
| 33 | Reflections on Past Behavior: A Self‐Report Index of Habit Strength 1 Bas Verplanken, Sheina Orbell · Journal of Applied Social Psychology | Jun 2003 | 2,054 |
| 34 | Barriers perceived to engaging with climate change among the UK public and their policy implications Irene Lorenzoni, Sophie A. Nicholson-Cole, Lorraine E. Whitmarsh · Global Environmental Change | 7 Apr 2007 | 2,035 |
| 35 | Gorilla in our midst: An online behavioral experiment builder Alexander Leslie Anwyl-Irvine, Jessica Massonnié, Adam Flitton et al. · Behavior Research Methods | 23 Apr 2019 | 2,014 |
| 36 | Personal and social factors that influence pro-environmental concern and behaviour: A review Robert Gifford, Andréas Nilsson · International Journal of Psychology | 2014 | 1,967 |
| 37 | The environmental price of fast fashion Kirsi Niinimäki, Gregory M Peters, Helena Dahlbo et al. · Nature Reviews Earth & Environment | 7 Apr 2020 | 1,965 |
| 38 | jsPsych: A JavaScript library for creating behavioral experiments in a Web browser Joshua R. de Leeuw · Behavior Research Methods | 28 Mar 2014 | 1,963 |
| 39 | The Nature Relatedness Scale Elizabeth K. L. Nisbet, John M. Zelenski, Steven A. Murphy · Environment and Behavior | Aug 2008 | 1,949 |
| 40 | THE STRUCTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN: CONCERN FOR SELF, OTHER PEOPLE, AND THE BIOSPHERE P. Wesley Schultz · Journal of Environmental Psychology | Dec 2001 | 1,922 |
| 41 | Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior to green hotel choice: Testing the effect of environmental friendly activities Heesup Han, Li-Tzang Jane Hsu, Chwen Sheu · Tourism Management | 29 Apr 2009 | 1,914 |
| 42 | New Ways of Thinking about Environmentalism: Elaborating on Gender Differences in Environmentalism Lynnette C. Zelezny, Poh‐Pheng Chua, Christina Aldrich · Journal of Social Issues | 2000 | 1,814 |
| 43 | Normative Social Influence is Underdetected Jessica M. Nolan, P. Wesley Schultz, Robert B. Cialdini et al. · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin | 9 May 2008 | 1,799 |
| 44 | Extinction of experience: the loss of human–nature interactions Masashi Soga, Kevin J. Gaston · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | Mar 2016 | 1,786 |
| 45 | Social Capital and the Environment Jules Pretty, Hugh Ward · World Development | Feb 2001 | 1,771 |
| 46 | Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment Kai M. A. Chan, Patricia Balvanera, Karina Benessaiah et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 9 Feb 2016 | 1,767 |
| 47 | Grassroots innovations for sustainable development: Towards a new research and policy agenda Gill Seyfang, Adrian Smith · Environmental Politics | 17 Jul 2007 | 1,767 |
| 48 | A comprehensive model of the psychology of environmental behaviour—A meta-analysis Christian Andreas Klöckner · Global Environmental Change | 25 Jun 2013 | 1,766 |
| 49 | Green identity, green living? The role of pro-environmental self-identity in determining consistency across diverse pro-environmental behaviours Lorraine E. Whitmarsh, Saffron J. O’Neill · Journal of Environmental Psychology | 26 Jan 2010 | 1,721 |
| 50 | Can socio-demographics still play a role in profiling green consumers? A review of the evidence and an empirical investigation Adamantios Diamantopoulos, Bodo B. Schlegelmilch, Rudolf R. Sinkovics et al. · Journal of Business Research | 25 Mar 2003 | 1,692 |
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