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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”	83
Correction to: Evidence of balance theory as a predictive framework for character interdependence	77
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity	69
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation	60
Authenticity as discursive gaze: a critical review of social media research on authenticity	47
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama	41
Dataveillance inhibits legitimate communication: causal evidence for chilling effects	38
Modes of dialogic communication, modes of reality	35
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media	35
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic	35
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	33
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019	33
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework	33
Techno-refusal as a generative orientation to the future	31
Testing relational turbulence theory in daily life using dynamic structural equation modeling	30
Partisan news users in the United States and India on either side seldom use fact checkers	29
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue	26
Response to the 2025 ICA Presidential Address: Whose cosmopolitan imagination? African reflections on Silvio Waisbord’s call for global communication studies	25
Measurement invariance of core communication constructs across race, nationality, and age	23
Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health	23
Undocumented college students’ career-related communication with their parents and the ecological vocational anticipatory socialization model	22
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: a cross-cultural meta-analysis	22