Maria Ojala

5.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
45 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Maria Ojala is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Maria Ojala has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 25 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 14 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Maria Ojala's work include Environmental Education and Sustainability (32 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (23 papers) and Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research (14 papers). Maria Ojala is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Education and Sustainability (32 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (23 papers) and Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research (14 papers). Maria Ojala collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and Finland. Maria Ojala's co-authors include Charles A. Ogunbode, Jacqueline Middleton, Ashlee Cunsolo, Hans Bengtsson, Rolf Lidskog, Marlis Wullenkord, Eva Gustavsson, Monika Berg, Karin Gustafsson and Erik Hysing and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Climatic Change and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Maria Ojala

42 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Hope and climate change: the importance of hope for environmental engagement among young people
    2012 535 citations Maria Ojala Environmental Education Research profile →
  2. Anxiety, Worry, and Grief in a Time of Environmental and Climate Crisis: A Narrative Review
    2021 341 citations Maria Ojala, Ashlee Cunsolo et al. Annual Review of Environment and Resources profile →
  3. Conditions for Transformative Learning for Sustainable Development: A Theoretical Review and Approach
    2018 179 citations Maria Ojala et al. Sustainability profile →
  4. Hope and climate-change engagement from a psychological perspective
    2022 95 citations Maria Ojala Current Opinion in Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Maria Ojala Sweden 23 1.9k 1.8k 633 526 476 45 3.1k
Kim‐Pong Tam Hong Kong 30 1.3k 0.7× 1.7k 0.9× 159 0.3× 467 0.9× 1.5k 3.1× 84 3.7k
Panu Pihkala Finland 16 824 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 141 0.2× 332 0.6× 287 0.6× 46 1.8k
Kathryn T. Stevenson United States 26 1.3k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 391 0.6× 134 0.3× 564 1.2× 76 2.4k
Peter Schmuck Germany 10 986 0.5× 894 0.5× 142 0.2× 553 1.1× 1.1k 2.2× 17 2.6k
Cynthia McPherson Frantz United States 14 1.7k 0.9× 1.3k 0.7× 245 0.4× 439 0.8× 1.6k 3.3× 26 4.0k
Valdiney Velôso Gouveia Brazil 30 981 0.5× 1.4k 0.8× 239 0.4× 505 1.0× 1.7k 3.5× 257 4.1k
Lynnette Zelezny United States 11 2.5k 1.3× 1.4k 0.8× 240 0.4× 344 0.7× 555 1.2× 12 3.4k
Gerhard Reese Germany 30 1.3k 0.7× 1.7k 0.9× 70 0.1× 535 1.0× 696 1.5× 79 2.9k
Paul G. Bain Australia 27 1.0k 0.5× 2.4k 1.3× 128 0.2× 333 0.6× 1.4k 3.0× 49 4.0k
F. Stephan Mayer United States 11 1.6k 0.9× 1.0k 0.5× 223 0.4× 386 0.7× 1.3k 2.8× 14 3.5k

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All Works

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Ojala, Maria, et al.. (2024). Media exposure to climate change information and pro-environmental behavior: the role of climate change risk judgment. BMC Psychology. 12(1). 262–262. 9 indexed citations
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Ojala, Maria. (2022). Hope and climate-change engagement from a psychological perspective. Current Opinion in Psychology. 49. 101514–101514. 95 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ojala, Maria, Ashlee Cunsolo, Charles A. Ogunbode, & Jacqueline Middleton. (2021). Anxiety, Worry, and Grief in a Time of Environmental and Climate Crisis: A Narrative Review. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 46(1). 35–58. 341 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ojala, Maria, et al.. (2020). Parental Reasoning on Choosing the Mobile Preschool: Enabling Sustainable Development or Adjusting to a Neoliberal Society?. Early Childhood Education Journal. 49(3). 539–551. 5 indexed citations
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Ojala, Maria. (2020). When young people worry about climate change. Örebro University Library (Örebro University). 1 indexed citations
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Ojala, Maria. (2020). To trust or not to trust? Young people’s trust in climate change science and implications for climate change engagement. Children s Geographies. 19(3). 284–290. 32 indexed citations
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Ojala, Maria & Hans Bengtsson. (2018). Young People’s Coping Strategies Concerning Climate Change: Relations to Perceived Communication With Parents and Friends and Proenvironmental Behavior. Environment and Behavior. 51(8). 907–935. 106 indexed citations
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Ojala, Maria. (2016). Facing anxiety in climate change education : from therapeutic practice to hopeful transgressive learning. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 21. 41–56. 112 indexed citations
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Ojala, Maria. (2016). Hope and anticipation in education for a sustainable future. Futures. 94. 76–84. 141 indexed citations
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Ojala, Maria. (2013). Coping with Climate Change among Adolescents: Implications for Subjective Well-Being and Environmental Engagement. Sustainability. 5(5). 2191–2209. 151 indexed citations
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Ojala, Maria. (2012). Regulating worry, promoting hope: How do children, adolescents, and young adults cope with climate change?. The International Journal of Environmental and Science Education. 7(4). 537–561. 169 indexed citations
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Ojala, Maria. (2012). How do children cope with global climate change? Coping strategies, engagement, and well-being. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 32(3). 225–233. 222 indexed citations
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Ojala, Maria. (2012). Hope and climate change: the importance of hope for environmental engagement among young people. Environmental Education Research. 18(5). 625–642. 535 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ojala, Maria. (2007). Hope and worry : exploring young people's values, emotions, and behavior regarding global environmental problems. Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin. 21(13). 50–2. 42 indexed citations
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