Journal of Communication

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Communication is 21. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”116
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation97
Correction to: Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries53
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–201942
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media39
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic38
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama37
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity36
Formation mechanisms of intra-organizational membership overlap: a longitudinal network analysis of membership data from the International Communication Association32
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework32
A longitudinal test of relational turbulence theory and serial arguments in romantic relationships31
What should I believe? A conjoint analysis of the influence of message characteristics on belief in, perceived credibility of, and intent to share political posts31
Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries30
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: a cross-cultural meta-analysis28
The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication Wm. L. Benoit & Andrew C. Billings26
The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz? Alternative Health Media Consumption and Vaccine Views in the United States26
Testing relational turbulence theory in daily life using dynamic structural equation modeling24
Digital Contention in a Divided Society: Social Media, Parades and Protests in Northern Ireland24
Questionable and Open Research Practices: Attitudes and Perceptions among Quantitative Communication Researchers23
Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health21
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue21
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