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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”	84
Correction to: Evidence of balance theory as a predictive framework for character interdependence	72
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media	72
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity	66
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic	55
Dataveillance inhibits legitimate communication: causal evidence for chilling effects	52
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama	38
Authenticity as discursive gaze: a critical review of social media research on authenticity	35
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019	34
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation	33
Modes of dialogic communication, modes of reality	32
Formation mechanisms of intra-organizational membership overlap: a longitudinal network analysis of membership data from the International Communication Association	32
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	31
A longitudinal test of relational turbulence theory and serial arguments in romantic relationships	30
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework	30
Response to the 2025 ICA Presidential Address: Whose cosmopolitan imagination? African reflections on Silvio Waisbord’s call for global communication studies	28
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue	28
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: a cross-cultural meta-analysis	26
Techno-refusal as a generative orientation to the future	25
Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health	25
Partisan news users in the United States and India on either side seldom use fact checkers	24
Measurement invariance of core communication constructs across race, nationality, and age	22