Marlis Wullenkord

839 total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 442 citations indexed

About

Marlis Wullenkord is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marlis Wullenkord has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 442 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in Marlis Wullenkord's work include Environmental Education and Sustainability (12 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (8 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (6 papers). Marlis Wullenkord is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Education and Sustainability (12 papers), Climate Change Communication and Perception (8 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (6 papers). Marlis Wullenkord collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and Netherlands. Marlis Wullenkord's co-authors include Gerhard Reese, Karen Hamann, Josephine Tröger, Laura S. Loy, Martijn van Zomeren, Maria Ojala, Lea Marie Heidbreder, Claudia Menzel, Maria Johansson and Peter Krämer and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Personality and Individual Differences and Climatic Change.

In The Last Decade

Marlis Wullenkord

13 papers receiving 421 citations

Hit Papers

Anxiety and climate chang... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2023 50 100 150
What are hit papers?

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. Anxiety and climate change: a validation of the Climate Anxiety Scale in a German-speaking quota sample and an investigation of psychological correlates
    2021 157 citations Marlis Wullenkord, Josephine Tröger et al. Climatic Change profile →
  2. Believing That We Can Change Our World for the Better: A Triple-A (Agent-Action-Aim) Framework of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in the Context of Collective Social and Ecological Aims
    2023 62 citations Karen Hamann, Marlis Wullenkord et al. Personality and Social Psychology Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marlis Wullenkord Germany 10 283 226 107 85 77 15 442
Teaghan L. Hogg Australia 7 453 1.6× 396 1.8× 223 2.1× 163 1.9× 152 2.0× 8 683
Stylianos Syropoulos United States 13 217 0.8× 128 0.6× 70 0.7× 30 0.4× 58 0.8× 54 410
Yumiko Coffey Australia 4 173 0.6× 131 0.6× 71 0.7× 82 1.0× 56 0.7× 6 292
Andrea Dúll Hungary 6 149 0.5× 107 0.5× 59 0.6× 65 0.8× 29 0.4× 51 308
Clare Watsford Australia 9 162 0.6× 144 0.6× 99 0.9× 56 0.7× 61 0.8× 17 353
Lois Player United Kingdom 4 143 0.5× 118 0.5× 58 0.5× 67 0.8× 51 0.7× 7 251
Andreas Stolberg Germany 5 185 0.7× 244 1.1× 103 1.0× 34 0.4× 39 0.5× 5 356
Jacqueline Middleton Canada 6 307 1.1× 184 0.8× 100 0.9× 172 2.0× 77 1.0× 9 556
Caroline Hickman United Kingdom 7 206 0.7× 138 0.6× 44 0.4× 89 1.0× 44 0.6× 13 344
Michael L. Lengieza United States 10 202 0.7× 140 0.6× 43 0.4× 101 1.2× 16 0.2× 19 388

Countries citing papers authored by Marlis Wullenkord

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marlis Wullenkord

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marlis Wullenkord

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All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Wullenkord, Marlis, Jörg B. Schulz, & Sonja M. Geiger. (2025). Climate anxiety - impairment and/or activation? Exploring the roles of mindfulness and emotion regulation. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 105. 102664–102664.
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Loy, Laura S., et al.. (2024). How dare we? The relation between language use, global identity, and climate activism. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 4 indexed citations
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Wullenkord, Marlis, Maria Johansson, Laura S. Loy, Claudia Menzel, & Gerhard Reese. (2024). Go out or stress out? Exploring nature connectedness and cumulative stressors as resilience and vulnerability factors in different manifestations of climate anxiety. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 95. 102278–102278. 12 indexed citations
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Κube, Tobias, et al.. (2023). How people update their beliefs about climate change: An experimental investigation of the optimistic update bias and how to reduce it. Political Psychology. 45(1). 175–192. 4 indexed citations
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Wullenkord, Marlis & Maria Ojala. (2023). Climate-change worry among two cohorts of late adolescents: Exploring macro and micro worries, coping, and relations to climate engagement, pessimism, and well-being. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 90. 102093–102093. 28 indexed citations
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Hamann, Karen, Marlis Wullenkord, Gerhard Reese, & Martijn van Zomeren. (2023). Believing That We Can Change Our World for the Better: A Triple-A (Agent-Action-Aim) Framework of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in the Context of Collective Social and Ecological Aims. Personality and Social Psychology Review. 28(1). 11–53. 62 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tröger, Josephine & Marlis Wullenkord. (2022). Was ist genug?. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 45(2). 44–59. 1 indexed citations
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Wullenkord, Marlis. (2022). From denial of facts to rationalization and avoidance: Ideology, needs, and gender predict the spectrum of climate denial. Personality and Individual Differences. 193. 111616–111616. 13 indexed citations
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Wullenkord, Marlis & Karen Hamann. (2021). We Need to Change: Integrating Psychological Perspectives Into the Multilevel Perspective on Socio-Ecological Transformations. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 655352–655352. 19 indexed citations
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Wullenkord, Marlis & Gerhard Reese. (2021). Avoidance, rationalization, and denial: Defensive self-protection in the face of climate change negatively predicts pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 77. 101683–101683. 53 indexed citations
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Wullenkord, Marlis, Josephine Tröger, Karen Hamann, Laura S. Loy, & Gerhard Reese. (2021). Anxiety and climate change: a validation of the Climate Anxiety Scale in a German-speaking quota sample and an investigation of psychological correlates. Climatic Change. 168(3-4). 157 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wullenkord, Marlis, Lea Marie Heidbreder, & Gerhard Reese. (2020). Reactions to Environmental Changes: Place Attachment Predicts Interest in Earth Observation Data. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 1442–1442. 18 indexed citations
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Reese, Gerhard, Karen Hamann, Lea Marie Heidbreder, et al.. (2020). SARS-Cov-2 and environmental protection: A collective psychology agenda for environmental psychology research. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 70. 101444–101444. 47 indexed citations

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