OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Communication is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump Jennifer Mercieca	106
Policing the Digital Divide: Institutional Gate-keeping & Criminalizing Digital Inclusion	92
Communication-based strategies to curb the overuse of low-value cancer screening	71
Correction to: Social media use in the context of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework	50
Mental health among higher education faculty, administrators, and graduate students, Teresa Heinz Housel	36
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: Linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation B. Wang and J. Munday (Eds)	36
Curbing the decline of local news by building relationships with the audience	32
On human and technological boundaries	25
Correction to: Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	24
Black issue publics online: securing political knowledge through selective exposure	23
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity	22
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama	21
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media	21
Exploring how cultural and structural elements relate to communal coping for separated Latina/o/x immigrant families	21
Whose media freedom is being defended? Norm contestation in international media freedom campaigns	21
Translated knowledge: the production of marginalization of the Roma during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
Reporting after removal: the effects of journalist expulsion on foreign news coverage	20
The Science of Open (Communication) Science: Toward an Evidence-Driven Understanding of Quality Criteria in Communication Research	19
Opening a Conversation on Open Communication Research	19
The Effects of Person-Centered Social Support Messages on Recipient Distress Over Time within a Conversation	19
The journalistic preference for extreme exemplars: educational socialization, psychological biases, or editorial policy?	18
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”	18
A Methodological Framework for Analyzing the Appearance and Duration of Media Effects	17
Disability athwart communication	17
Computationally modeling mood management theory: a drift-diffusion model of people’s preferential choice for valence and arousal in media	16

Streaming giants and the global shift: building value chains and remapping trade flows	16
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019	14
The Effects of Tobacco Coverage in the Public Communication Environment on Young People’s Decisions to Smoke Combustible Cigarettes	14
How to Capture Reciprocal Communication Dynamics: Comparing Longitudinal Statistical Approaches in Order to Analyze Within- and Between-Person Effects	14
Inflation of crisis coverage? Tracking and explaining the changes in crisis labeling and crisis news wave salience 1785–2020	13
Dual Process Models and Information Engagement: Testing Effects of Seeking, Scanning, and Trust in Sources on Attitudes Toward Marijuana	13
Assessing the consistency of fact-checking in political debates	13
Is artificial intelligence more persuasive than humans? A meta-analysis	11
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation	11
Can AI tell good stories? Narrative transportation and persuasion with ChatGPT	10
Thematic Co-occurrence Analysis: Advancing a Theory and Qualitative Method to Illuminate Ambivalent Experiences	10
Tweeting the Holocaust: social media discourse between reverence, exploitation, and simulacra	10
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Stories Collectively Engage Listeners’ Brains: Enhanced Intersubject Correlations during Reception of Personal Narratives	10
In-person, video conference, or audio conference? Examining individual and dyadic information processing as a function of communication system	9
The communicative constitution of atomization: online prepper communities and the crisis of collective action	9
“Dando las Gracias a Mis Papás”: Analyzing the Enactment of Callings across Generations of Latinx Immigrants	9
The visual nature of information warfare: the construction of partisan claims on truth and evidence in the context of wars in Ukraine and Israel/Palestine	9
Transfiguring Theaters for Disrespectable Leisure: An Ethnography on Black Womxn’s Ratchet Performances in Movie Showings ofGirls Trip	9
Assembling the Networks and Audiences of Disinformation: How Successful Russian IRA Twitter Accounts Built Their Followings, 2015–2017	9
A longitudinal test of relational turbulence theory and serial arguments in romantic relationships	8
Tweeting is Leading: How Senators Communicate and Represent in the Age of Twitter Annelise Russell	8
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Approach to Interpersonal Communication	8
Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	8
Do New Romantic Couples Use More Similar Language Over Time? Evidence from Intensive Longitudinal Text Messages	8
Publish and perish: mental health among communication and media scholars	7
Cross-cutting families: how parent politics shape political communication and socialization practices	7
Gender diversity at academic conferences—the case of the International Communication Association	7
On digital media history	7
The concept of normalization in the production of LGBTIQ+ media imaginaries: the scriptwriters’ conceptions	7
Talking about problems in online health communities: examining verbal rumination over time and in conjunction with co-rumination	7
Toward Open Research: A Narrative Review of the Challenges and Opportunities for Open Humanities	7
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	7
Nosotros los vencidos (We the defeated people)	6
Flexible and Modular Brain Network Dynamics Characterize Flow Experiences During Media Use: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study	6
Navigating the seas of inclusivity: a collaborative voyage at the helm of a communication flagship journal	6
Formation mechanisms of intra-organizational membership overlap: a longitudinal network analysis of membership data from the International Communication Association	6
Partisan Blocking: Biased Responses to Shared Misinformation Contribute to Network Polarization on Social Media	6
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework	5
Effects of the news finds me perception on algorithmic news attitudes and social media political homophily	5
Examining the Effect of Message Style in Esteem Support Interactions: A Laboratory Investigation*	5
The effect of social approval on perceptions following social media message sharing applied to fake news	5
Communicating the Climate Crisis: New Directions for Facing What Lies Ahead Julia B. Corbett	5
Gendered times: how gendered contexts shape campaign messages of female candidates	5
Developing and Validating the Communication Resilience Processes Scale	5
Partisan Bias of Perceived Incivility and its Political Consequences: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Hong Kong	5
(Mal)adaptive sibling self and other communicative resilience in the context of parental substance use	5
Generational Change in Chinese Journalism: Developing Mannheim’s Theory of Generations for Contemporary Social Conditions	4
Why we stopped listening to the other side: how partisan cues in news coverage undermine the deliberative foundations of democracy	4
Creating and Disrupting Othering During Policymaking in a Polarized Context	4

The Global Trust Deficit Disorder: A Communications Perspective on Trust in the Time of Global Pandemics	4
Testing relational turbulence theory in daily life using dynamic structural equation modeling	4
Metrics in action: how social media metrics shape news production on Facebook	4
The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication Wm. L. Benoit & Andrew C. Billings	4
Introduction to the special issue of social media: the good, the bad, and the ugly	4
Digital Contention in a Divided Society: Social Media, Parades and Protests in Northern Ireland	4
Conversational dynamics of joint attention and shared emotion predict outcomes in interpersonal influence situations: an interaction ritual perspective	3
Questionable and Open Research Practices: Attitudes and Perceptions among Quantitative Communication Researchers	3
Silenced on social media: the gatekeeping functions of shadowbans in the American Twitterverse	3
Networked corporate advocacy in a polarized public arena: analyzing discourse networks of U.S. Fortune 500 companies on controversial issues	3
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: a cross-cultural meta-analysis	3
Theorizing Chemical Rhetoric: Toward an Articulation of Chemistry as a Public Vocabulary	3
Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty Pablo J. Boczkowski	3
#GirlGamers, Soldiers, and Public Relations: Analyzing Gender Representation in U.S. Army Esports	3
The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz? Alternative Health Media Consumption and Vaccine Views in the United States	3
Is communication a dependent or involuted discipline? A citation analysis of communication publications from 2010 to 2020	3
The Ubiquitous President: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times	3
Practicing deliberation in challenging speech cultures: the role of metadiscourse	2
Theory of communicative (dis)enfranchisement: introduction, explication, and application	2
Correction to: A longitudinal examination of collaboration diversity among communication scholars: 1990–2023	2
How shared ties and journalistic cultures shape global news coverage of disruptive media events: the case of the 9/11 terror attacks	2
Engaged interorganizational networks and resilience in the humanitarian sector	2
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue	2
Democratic Consequences of Incidental Exposure to Political Information: A Meta-Analysis	2
Politics, Ethnicity and the Postcolonial Nation: A Critical Analysis of Political Discourse in the Caribbean Eleonora Esposito	2
What Does #Freedom Look Like? Instagram and the Visual Imagination of Values	2
Mediated risks through rose-tinted glasses? Exploring barriers and boosters to critical deconstructions of mediated risk behavior by Dutch adolescents	2
Broadcast information diffusion processes on social media networks: exogenous events lead to more integrated public discourse	2
A sonic space of our own? Three authors explore the relationship between sound, industry practices, and collective identity	2
Science fiction and self-transcendence: evidence from retrospective, experimental, and longitudinal studies	2