OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Communication is 22. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”	114
Correction to: Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	69
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media	56
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity	56
Correction to: Evidence of balance theory as a predictive framework for character interdependence	52
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic	45
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama	43
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019	43
Authenticity as discursive gaze: a critical review of social media research on authenticity	42
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation	38
A longitudinal test of relational turbulence theory and serial arguments in romantic relationships	33
Formation mechanisms of intra-organizational membership overlap: a longitudinal network analysis of membership data from the International Communication Association	30
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework	30
What should I believe? A conjoint analysis of the influence of message characteristics on belief in, perceived credibility of, and intent to share political posts	28
Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	28
Measurement invariance of core communication constructs across race, nationality, and age	26
Partisan news users in the United States and India on either side seldom use fact checkers	25
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue	24
The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz? Alternative Health Media Consumption and Vaccine Views in the United States	23
Democratic Consequences of Incidental Exposure to Political Information: A Meta-Analysis	23
Testing relational turbulence theory in daily life using dynamic structural equation modeling	23
Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health	22