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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Inequities of race, place, and gender among the communication citation elite, 2000–2019	106
Response to “The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children”	84
A comprehensive experimental test of the affective disposition theory of drama	48
Misperceptions in sociopolitical context: belief sensitivity’s relationship with battleground state status and partisan segregation	45
Why we fight: investigating the moral appeals in terrorist propaganda, their predictors, and their association with attack severity	36
Race and gender intertwined: why intersecting identities matter for perceptions of incivility and content moderation on social media	34
Correction to: Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	33
A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic	32
Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries	28
Formation mechanisms of intra-organizational membership overlap: a longitudinal network analysis of membership data from the International Communication Association	28
Resilience organizing: a multilevel communication framework	28
A longitudinal test of relational turbulence theory and serial arguments in romantic relationships	27
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	27
Democratic Consequences of Incidental Exposure to Political Information: A Meta-Analysis	24
The Influence of affective and cognitive appeals on persuasion outcomes: a cross-cultural meta-analysis	23
Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health	22
Testing relational turbulence theory in daily life using dynamic structural equation modeling	21
Questionable and Open Research Practices: Attitudes and Perceptions among Quantitative Communication Researchers	21
Digital Contention in a Divided Society: Social Media, Parades and Protests in Northern Ireland	20
The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication Wm. L. Benoit & Andrew C. Billings	20
The Great and Powerful Dr. Oz? Alternative Health Media Consumption and Vaccine Views in the United States	19
Theorizing Chemical Rhetoric: Toward an Articulation of Chemistry as a Public Vocabulary	19
Digital inequality in disconnection practices: voluntary nonuse during COVID-19	17
Two faces of message repetition: audience favorability as a determinant of the explanatory capacities of processing fluency and message fatigue	17
Journalism as historical repair work: addressing present injustice through the second draft of history	17

Corrigendum to: Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: Linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation	17
Revisiting community and media: an affordance analysis of digital media platforms used by gay communities in China	14
Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment Stuart Cunningham and David Craig (eds.)	14
The queer vanguard: how television streaming platforms promoted intersectional LGBTQ+ content to establish their brands	13
Shared struggles, divergent paths: a comparison of grassroots and professional feminist advocates’ communication for social change in Argentina and the United States	13
Integrating Qualitative Methods and Open Science: Five Principles for More Trustworthy Research*	13
Persuasive Message Pretesting Using Non-Behavioral Outcomes: Differences in Attitudinal and Intention Effects as Diagnostic of Differences in Behavioral Effects	13
Resilience as a predictor for why some marital relationships flourished and others struggled during the initial months of COVID-19	13
Media stereotypes, prejudice, and preference-based reinforcement: toward the dynamic of self-reinforcing effects by integrating audience selectivity	12
Open Science, Closed Doors? Countering Marginalization through an Agenda for Ethical, Inclusive Research in Communication	12
On the psychophysiological and defensive nature of psychological reactance theory	12
The social factors and functions of media use	12
The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity	12
At the nexus of technology, identity, and norms	11
Inflation of crisis coverage? Tracking and explaining the changes in crisis labeling and crisis news wave salience 1785–2020	11
Communication-based strategies to curb the overuse of low-value cancer screening	11
Opening a Conversation on Open Communication Research	11
Ten Observations: The 2021 ICA Presidential Address	11
The effect of social approval on perceptions following social media message sharing applied to fake news	10
The communicative constitution of atomization: online prepper communities and the crisis of collective action	10
Transfiguring Theaters for Disrespectable Leisure: An Ethnography on Black Womxn’s Ratchet Performances in Movie Showings ofGirls Trip	10
Partisan Bias of Perceived Incivility and its Political Consequences: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Hong Kong	10
Can AI tell good stories? Narrative transportation and persuasion with ChatGPT	10
A Dynamic Dyadic Systems Approach to Interpersonal Communication	9
Publish and perish: mental health among communication and media scholars	9
Flexible and Modular Brain Network Dynamics Characterize Flow Experiences During Media Use: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study	9
The concept of normalization in the production of LGBTIQ+ media imaginaries: the scriptwriters’ conceptions	9
A sonic space of our own? Three authors explore the relationship between sound, industry practices, and collective identity	8
The Ubiquitous President: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times	8
Silenced on social media: the gatekeeping functions of shadowbans in the American Twitterverse	8
Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty Pablo J. Boczkowski	8
Is communication a dependent or involuted discipline? A citation analysis of communication publications from 2010 to 2020	8
How iconic news images travel: republishing and reframing historic photographs in Israeli newspapers	7
Organizational communication for social change on social media: NPOs’ social media strategies based on their perception of three stakeholder networks in collective and connective action	7
Metrics in action: how social media metrics shape news production on Facebook	7
“I love this photo, I can feel their hearts!” How users across the world evaluate social media portraiture	7
Concentration without cumulative advantage: the distribution of news source attention in online communities	7
Watching Turkish television dramas in Argentina: entangled proximities and resigned agency in global media flows	7
A forum for books	7
Social media use in the context of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework	6
Pornography, identification, alcohol, and condomless sex	6
The effect of animated Sci-Fi characters’ racial presentation on narrative engagement, wishful identification, and physical activity intention among children	6
Engagement with partisan Russian troll tweets during the 2016 U.S. presidential election: a social identity perspective	6
Erratum to: Partisan Bias of Perceived Incivility and its Political Consequences: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Hong Kong	6
Civil Society Networks and Malaysian Government Reform: Considering Issue Homophily in Interorganizational Relationships	6
When “meaningless” means more: biographic resonance and audience appreciation of popular entertainment	5
An asymmetrical reinforcing spiral? Disentangling the longitudinal dynamics of media use and mainstream media trust	5
Response to “Gender Diversity at Academic Conferences—The Case of the International Communication Association (ICA)”	5
A Latent Profile Analysis of Undocumented College Students’ Protection-Oriented Family Communication and Strengths-Based Psychological Coping	5
Why we should rethink the third-person effect: disentangling bias and earned confidence using behavioral data	5

Self- and Response Efficacy Information in Fear Appeals: A Meta-Analysis	5
Netflix, library analysis, and globalization: rethinking mass media flows	4
Whose media freedom is being defended? Norm contestation in international media freedom campaigns	4
The Effects of Tobacco Coverage in the Public Communication Environment on Young People’s Decisions to Smoke Combustible Cigarettes	4
Assessing the consistency of fact-checking in political debates	4
Policing the Digital Divide: Institutional Gate-keeping & Criminalizing Digital Inclusion	4
Computationally modeling mood management theory: a drift-diffusion model of people’s preferential choice for valence and arousal in media	4
Exploring how cultural and structural elements relate to communal coping for separated Latina/o/x immigrant families	4
On digital media history	3
Practicing deliberation in challenging speech cultures: the role of metadiscourse	3
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of Environmentalism, Melissa Aronczyk & Maria I. Espinoza	3
Tracing the Adoption and Effects of Open Science in Communication Research*	3
Engaged interorganizational networks and resilience in the humanitarian sector	3
In-person, video conference, or audio conference? Examining individual and dyadic information processing as a function of communication system	3
Navigating the seas of inclusivity: a collaborative voyage at the helm of a communication flagship journal	3
Correction to: A longitudinal examination of collaboration diversity among communication scholars: 1990–2023	3
Addressing Whiteness in communication scholar composition and collaboration across seven decades of ICA journals (1951–2022)	3
Is artificial intelligence more persuasive than humans? A meta-analysis	3
Partisan Blocking: Biased Responses to Shared Misinformation Contribute to Network Polarization on Social Media	3
Mediated risks through rose-tinted glasses? Exploring barriers and boosters to critical deconstructions of mediated risk behavior by Dutch adolescents	3
Science fiction and self-transcendence: evidence from retrospective, experimental, and longitudinal studies	3
Media consolidation and news content quality	3
Towards an Inclusive Agenda of Open Science for Communication Research: A Latin American approach	3
Why we stopped listening to the other side: how partisan cues in news coverage undermine the deliberative foundations of democracy	3
“What do you want to do?”: expertise tension and authority negotiation in emergency nurse–physician interactions	2
Creating Understanding: How Communicating Aligns Minds Jessica Gasiorek and R. Kelly Aune	2
Advances in discourse analysis of translation and interpreting: Linking linguistic approaches with socio-cultural interpretation B. Wang and J. Munday (Eds)	2
Correction to: Social media use in the context of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework	2
Reporting after removal: the effects of journalist expulsion on foreign news coverage	2
What Does #Freedom Look Like? Instagram and the Visual Imagination of Values	2
The madness of misperceptions: evaluating the ways anger contributes to misinformed beliefs	2
Networked privacy and its broader implications	2
Motivations underlying Latino Americans’ group-based social media engagement	2
Meta-theorizing framing in communication research (1992–2022): toward academic silos or professionalized specialization?	2
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	2
Toward Open Research: A Narrative Review of the Challenges and Opportunities for Open Humanities	2
The professional backstaging of diversity in journalism	2
Diffusion as translation: transediting and the diffusion of social movement discourses across linguistic borders in the age of globalization	2
To Misspecify Is Common, to Probe Misspecification Scientific: Common “Confounds” in Pornography Research May Actually Be Predictors	2
The journalistic preference for extreme exemplars: educational socialization, psychological biases, or editorial policy?	2
Talking about problems in online health communities: examining verbal rumination over time and in conjunction with co-rumination	2
Gender diversity at academic conferences—the case of the International Communication Association	2