Knowledge foundation in green purchase behaviour: Multidimensional scaling method

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Table 1. The most highly cited green purchase publications

Rank	Citations	Document
1	42	Ajzen, 1991, Organ Behav Hum Dec
2	40	Chan, 2001, Psychol Market
3	39	Kim & Choi, 2005, Adv Consum Res
4	37	Fornell & Larcker, 1981, J Marketing Res
5	35	Straughan & Roberts, 1999, J Consum Mark
6	32	Laroche et al., 2001, J Consum Mark
7	29	Roberts, 1996, J Bus Res
8	26	Ellen et al., 1991, J Public Policy Mark
9	22	Tanner & Kast, 2003, Psychol Market
10	21	Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980, Understanding Attitu
11	20	Kalafatis et al., 1999, J Consum Mark
12	20	Y. S. Chen & Chang, 2012, Manage Decis
13	19	Gleim et al., 2013, J Retailing
14	19	Lee, 2008, Mark Intell Plan
15	19	Chan & Lau, 2000, J Consum Mark
16	18	Pickett-Baker & Ozaki, 2008, J Consum Mark
17	17	Akehurst et al., 2012, Manage Decis
18	17	Diamantopoulos et al., 2003, J Bus Res
19	17	Stern, 2000, J Soc Issues
20	16	Paul et al., 2016, V29, P123, J Retail Consum Serv
21	16	Mostafa, 2007, Int J Consum Stud
22	15	Mostafa MM, 2007, Psychol Market
23	14	Bagozzi et al., 1999, J Acad Market Sci
24	14	Young et al., 2010, Sustain Dev
25	14	Mainieri et al., 1997, J Soc Psychol
26	14	Kinnear et al., 1974, J Marketing
27	14	Lee, 2009, J Consum Mark

Table 2. Recent highly cited green purchase research

Document Title	Author	Year	Citation per year
Determinants of Consumers’ Green Purchase Behavior in a Developing Nation: Applying and Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior	Yadav, Rambalak; Pathak, Govind S.	2017	10.67
Theory of planned behavior approach to understand the green purchasing behavior in the EU: A cross-cultural study	Liobikiene, Genovaite; Mandravickaite, Justina; Bernatoniene, Jurga	2016	9
Green marketing consumer-level theory review: A compendium of applied theories and further research directions	Groening, Christopher; Sarkis, Joseph; Zhu, Qingyun	2018	8.5
Examining green consumerism motivational drivers: does premium price and demographics matter to green purchasing?	Chekima, Brahim; Wafa, Syed Azizi Wafa Syed Khalid; Igau, Oswald Aisat; Chekima, Sohaib; Sondoh, Stephen Laison, Jr.	2016	7.5
Linking green skepticism to green purchase behavior	Goh, See Kwong; Balaji, M. S.	2016	5.25
Toward Sustainable Livelihoods: Investigating the Drivers of Purchase Behavior for Green Products	Wei, Chiou-Fong; Chiang, Chang-Tang; Kou, Tun-Chih; Lee, Bruce C. Y.	2017	3
Green public procurement implementation challenges in Australian public healthcare sector	Ahsan, Kamrul; Rahman, Shams	2017	3
Green purchasing behaviour: A conceptual framework and empirical investigation of Indian consumers	Jaiswal, Deepak; Kant, Rishi	2018	3
Sustainable consumption: the effects of knowledge, cultural values, environmental advertising, and demographics	Chekima, Brahim; Chekima, Sohaib; Wafa, Syed Azizi Wafa Syed Khalid; Igau, Oswald Aisat; Sondoh, Stephen Laison, Jr.	2016	2.75
Green purchase behavior of undergraduate students in Hong Kong	Lai, Carman K. M.; Cheng, Eddie W. L.	2016	2.5
Factors influencing green purchase behavior of millennials in India	Chaudhary, Richa; Bisai, Samrat	2018	2.5
The influence of cultural values on green purchase behaviour	The Ninh Nguyen; Lobo, Antonio; Greenland, Steven	2017	2.33
Predictors of young consumer’s green purchase behaviour	Joshi, Yatish; Rahman, Zillur	2016	2.25
Green competence framework: evidence from China	Subramanian, Nachiappan; Abdulrahman, Muhammad D.; Wu, Lin; Nath, Prithwiraj	2016	2
Environmentally friendly behaviour and green purchase in Austria and Lithuania	Liobikiene, Genovaite; Grincevicene, Svitrigaile; Bernatoniene, Jurga	2017	2
Causality analysis of media influence on environmental attitude, intention and behaviors leading to green purchasing	Wafa, Syed Azizi Wafa Syed Khalid; Igau, Oswald Aisat; Chekima, Sohaib; Sondoh, Stephen Laison, Jr.	2018	2

Figure 1. Green purchase knowledge structure.

Figure 2. A proposed framework for future green purchase research.

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